Nationalities - what breed are you ?

hi there lionel my first lot on my mothers side come out here in chains they were the kinky ones ahahahahahaha landedSydney in the early 1800. and on fathers sidewell he finished up here after the war from pomagolia and never went back so im a distant pom ( don't tell anyone)

ps im sure i married your wife's sister ahahahahahahahaha lucky us

................ len

Lets compair Aussies shellas with NEW ZULANDERS.

How to speak New Zulander
[For bist effict, Rid these out aloud]

Milburn - capital of Victoria

Peck - to fill a suitcase

bleep aside - chemical which kills weeds

Pigs - for hanging out the washing

Pug - animal with a curly tail

Nin tin dough - computer game

Munner stroney - soup

Min - male of the species

Mess Kara - eye makeup

McKennock - person who fixes cars

Mere - Mayor

Leather - foam proguced from soap

Lift - departed

Kiri Pecker - famous Australian

Kittle crusps - potato chips

Ken`s - Cairns

Jungle bells - Christmas carol

Inner me - Enemy

Guess - vapour

Fush - marine creatures

Fitter cheney - type of pasta

Ever cardeau - Avocado

Fear hear - Blond

Ear - mix of nitrogen and oxygen

Ear robucks - exercise at a gym

Duffy cult - not easy

Amejen - visual

Chuck - young poultry

Bug hut - popular recording

Bun button - stung by an insect

Beard - a place to sleep

Sucks peck - half a dozen beers

Ear New Zulland - an airline

Beers - savage animal in USA forests

Veerjun - mythical New Zealand maiden

One doze - computer program

Brudge - structure spanning a river

Sex - one less than sivven

Tin - one more than nine

Iggs Ecktly - precisely

Cuds - children

Pits - domestic animals

Cuttin - baby cat

Sivven Sucks Sivven - Boeing aircraft

Sivven Four Sivven - another Boeing aircraft

Earplane - flying machine

Beggage Chicken - place to leave your suitcases at the earport

Good thread, as a kiwi i can't get over how well our Aussie Bros have assimilated so many other races into their country and hopefully in the long term into their culture.
We had motor homed and travelled NZ extensively...so when a chance to move to Perth on either a working holiday or longer came up we took it and are still here 4 years alter.
We spent to years working in Perth and two years and 45,000km driving around the "block".
We started out as newbies on the road with an off road caravan....and two years later had marvelous places like Frazer island, Ooodnadatta track, Port Douglas etc etc under our belts.
We love Aussie and are now looking to change to a camper trailer and do the Gibb River, Tanimi Track and the Great Central Outback Highway.
We love Aussie..it's all been an adventure...the two things that I think WA needs to get into this century on are daylight saving and shopping hours. It's like small town NZ in the 1970's!
Cheers Gerard and Anne

G'day Lionel.

"I, however, will always wonder why Aussie shellas, as soon as they open their mouths, sound like freight trains with a jambed under-carriage....or is it just the one Im married to....hehehe. "

When she reads that, you're dead mate. You know that, don't you. :-)

OK, seeing we're letting skeletons out of the closet...

On my Dad's side of the family, we got here in 1788. My Dad reckoned we needed new blood after about 150 years, so went and kidnapped my Mum from the UK during the war. I arrived in what was then the recently nearly-Japanese province of Papua. As Dad kept getting transferred, we lived in both Papua and New Guinea, and finally came back to the mainland in time for me to go to high school. I think I counted up that I'd been to 9 schools in PNG & Oz. Anyone else from Ela Beach Primary (1952-ish) here?

As I've obviously got the travel bug from my parents, I decided to stop fighting it and get going, first in Oz, then overseas. I've lived and worked in Melbourne & Sydney, and in a number of Qld coastal towns (if you can classify Rocky as 'coastal'!) as well as Europe, the Middle East and the Pacific Islands.

I guess like attracts like, as while SWMBO was born in Sydney, she's lived and worked in some of the same places in Oz I have as well as Wellington, Japan, San Fran, New York, Montreal and London.

We have been very fortunate to have had the opportunity to visit all 7 continents. The world's a wonderful place and travel certainly broadens the mind. However, you've got to retire at some stage (well, you don't actually, but people stop wanting to employ you!) and our collective agreement is that, having seen a fair bit of the world, Oz is the best place to retire to. Not perfect by a long shot, but there's something about the place that kept bringing us home. Not just physically and geographically, but in the spirit and character of the people.

Having arrived back, we figure that it's time we started seeing the bits we haven't seen before - mainly the bit in the middle of the map of Australia.

So much to see;
So little time;
Not enough $$$!

Cheers,
Chris

1st generation Aussie on my dad's side (German migrants in the 50's) and 4th gen Aussie on my mum's side (Cornish miners).

My mum always said "our families came here because they wanted to, not because they were forced to".

But although he's of foreign birth my dad is as Australian as they come. As Rodney Rude once put it "compared to him Paul Hogan is from Lebanon".

Louie

Yet another Kiwi here, although my father's from Adelaide - so I'm really a mongrel Aussie (not many that aren't ;) )... Now married to an Aussie too.

Why I left the nest? Always wanted to live here - it's been in my head all my life, and when I got the chance (redundancy can be a good thing) I took it.Adelaide first, but work brought me to Sydney.

I think the thing that attracts me most about travel in Aus is the open spaces - so much different to NZ.

As for the Wallabies, "Who's wanta be a Walla-Wallaby?" ;)

What breed am I ???

Human

May as well be the first Pom to post in here! ;-)

Came to Oz 33 years ago as a teenager with my parents. Loved it from the very start, the weather, the wide open spaces and the people. Got citizenship as soon as I could and although I still view the old country with affection and visit occasionally I love Australia with a passion and wouldn't live anywhere else.

Not many other places on Earth you could hop in your vehicle and drive thousands of km through remote beautiful country in relative safety.

My Dad was Norwegian. Mum was born and bred in Perth.

What Breed am I ?


Aussie, Danish , Kiwi, a bit of Irish,( Often wondered about that one..lol), So you tell me!, One thing i know , i'm not opening any more closets!. lol.

Cheers Axle.

MONGREL

Born in New Zealand,Lived in Australia since i was two years old,i'm in my naughty forties now and loving it, and i also own a British Passport !





Cheers

Hi All

My fathers parents came from London and went to a little place called Anakie in Queensland,and set up a grocery store, they were
only in Australia 2 months, when he inlisted in the Light Horse when
WW1 started, got on another ship and didn't come back home for
another 5 years, when he did get back home my father was born
9-10 months later,one my mothers relatives also came from London,
she was a naughty girl and had a free cruise over here as well,
every body reckons I take after my mothers family.

Cheers
Daza

True AUSSIE through and through ....

On my mother's side: grandmother a Willams and Grandfather a McDonald - both bushies from way back.

Father's side: Grandfather was Mounted Constable in Charge Katherine Police Station - 1927

Born at Hindmarsh SA - funny, another bloke that looks just like me arrived at the same time :-) As soon as we were able to we both left home and went bush (mainly SA) and then both joined the army for the next 20/21 years. Been retired for ten years and don't know how I found time to go to work.

Still have the urge to get up and go, but Townsville is now home. (Nearly a local - been here 28 years) ;-)

Malcolm

Both parents Brits and I wos born there. Came out nearly 57 years ago when I was a pup.

Pure "Aussie"


Motherhen

9th Generation Aussie..

First direct ancestor born in Australia was Elizabeth Baker born 1788, Sydney Cove. Parents were William Baker, Marine, and Susannah Huffnell, convict, and possibly Governor Philip's first housekeeper.

My allegience lies with WA however, being a fifth generation Western Australian. John Anning was my first direct ancestor here, arriving at the Swan River Colony as a convict in 1851.

And proud of it :))

Cheers
Alan

Might as well 'fess up too.
Born and bred in South Wales (the old one) then recruited by the then Dept. of Civil Aviation to fly out to Melb'n to help keep Aussie pilots from driving their aircraft into 1. the ground, 2. high hills, and 3. each other.
Was quite successful at it for 16years.
However I got transferred West after 5 years, on a two year deployment and, thank goodness, they decided that they didn't want me back East after all.
Been around the place ever since except for a couple of extended o/s jaunts.
Can't call me a pom, 'cos I'm Welsh, nor a "ten pound tourist" 'cos the gummint paid my fare.
Plurry good move though.

Dutch/German Dads Parents Italian/Egyptian Mums Parents but i was born here in Victoria. An Aussie i'd say!!