to wonder what, culturally speaking, australia has ever given the world?

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really.
apart from neighbours, peter carey and patrick white?
anything?

Lighten up, dejags!! It's a national pastime that cuts both ways

I agree dejags, and I think this thread proves that the OP is BU.

Yes Sir!

Wow mumsnet is becoming a haven for bossy, opinion adverse people lately.

Yawn.

It's given us some bloody great MN posters for one thing! Stop being so jingoistic!

Double yawn...

what does jingoistic mean?

Double yawn...

Sorry Desi - I am tired and cranky today.

Ignore my curt response.

Jingoism basically means, that your own country is best and all others are crud!

thanks

No doubt someone will correct me shortly and point out that I've said the OP is a weed sucking elephant or some such

As you were, dejags

Fish and chips
Bangers and mash
Football hooliganism
world record binge drinking
divorce by beheading
Ali G
Benny Hill

• or was that some other country

BTW OP - this is Uluru not that I think we can claim a lot of credit for it.

let's not forget puppetry of the penis

Flat whites.

Gosh most stuff has been said, I shall simply add the waifs. Australia isn't all Kylie and Delta Whatshername, they have some great folk traditions.

Aborigines and their underappreciated, undervalued, abused culture/heritage.

The Go Betweens

'And just to make the OP even more pointless, Steve Biddulph was born in Yorkshire of English parents. He's a naturalised Australian, but I don't think that counts from a cultural pov'

i take it all back. clearly yorkshire is to blame.

anyway, back to the aussies: actors do not count, neither do films. film directors get half points.

The lingo, you bunch of DAGS! (or, as Alf Stewart says, 'You flaming gullaaaaaahhhhh!').

Seriously, though - agree with spokette.

rofl mrsmattie.
lets take it that we all agree with spokette

Why don't films count? I can see the point about not counting actors, but a good film is a piece of art.

just the rules of this thread. which i am obviously making up as i go along.

they're getting quite a reputation when it comes to cooking/fine dining.

Quite a bit of asian influence and using a lot of fruit in main courses.

MElbourne has quite a few outstanding (on international scale) resturants. Don't know about other cities.

can't believe no-one has mentioned Hi-5!

olivia newton-john
...

and I'm prepared to cede Russell Crowe and Crowded House, but NOT The Piano - that's taking cultural annexation (of NZ) too far

Peter Carey one of dh's favourite authors (illywhacker, oscar and lucinda etc).

i hate him.

germaine greer!!!! germaine germaine germaine.

worth keeping oz just for her.