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"Land Down Under."
It doesn't matter how it looks on the globe, Australia is no more "under" anything than any other part of the Earth. South is not down, because the Earth is in 3-dimensional space, and the only "down" when you're not on Earth is the direction of the strongest gravitational pull.
Man, what are we ever going to do if we master space travel? There are six cardinal directions you can move in, but they don't fit our definitions of north, south, east, west, up, or down.
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...S-North, S-South, and so on? With S standing for Space?
you're taking it far too seriously. It's just a term people use because it sounds funny.
IJBM is a place where we can bitch about anything we want, isn't it? Nothing is too silly or harmless to complain about here.
The real land down under is Tasmania.
It's also a place where I reserve the right to be annoyed at people who rant about what I call my country.
So ner. >:P
I just love how quickly this thread derailed into a discussion about naming cardinal directions along the Z axis. (Or the Y axis, depending on how you interpret "up" and "down".)
Speaking of which, is it really true that you Australians eat vegemite sandwiches everyday?
^^ Now I'm wondering. In space, what WOULD they use as directions? Just up, down, left, right, forward, and backward, while using coordinates for locations?
^^ Only in the countryside. At least in Victoria. The cities are much more metropolitan and globalised, but you still get stuff like kangaroo jousting a few hours out of Melbourne.
^ I imagine planets and other celestial bodies would be used for navigation.
Not really. I suppose some of us might, but it's just a sandwich spread that some Australians like to eat, the same as peanut butter.
Nova has to get out of the suburbs and city, I guess.
...I can't even remember the last time I saw anyone using vegemite. I think it's quickly becoming discredited as a symbol these days.
Says the Melbournefag >
yes, but due to our community being small, we're more than willing to mock each other, just like good friends do.
Man, I become more and more convinced that Victoria should break away into an island and becomes its own spearhead-like nation.
Then we could charge into, like, South America or something. They'd be all "aw shit, Australia is coming".
Now if only Victorians mattered at all :P
It'd be more like "Oh hey, another bunch of europeans to slaughter. Sweet. Send in the Cogui."
Fuschlatz,
...I can't even remember the last time I saw anyone using vegemite. I think it's quickly becoming discredited as a symbol these days.
I guess it makes sense that stuff like that would basically just be a stereotype and not actually reflect what a lot of people really do. It does seem kind of odd to me that a sandwich spread of all things would be what a country was known for anyway
I am interesting in hearing more about kangaroo jousting though.
^^^ > implying anything north or west of Victoria matters anyway
^^ And then kangaroo cavalry.
Well, it's not like it matters. It's more that we'd forget years of discrimination to give dinner to our indians. That's how much we love you, guys~
And then drop bears.
and then fucking pink dolphins, man.
Your dolphins won't help you against our jellyfish.
> Then we could charge into, like, South America or something. They'd be all "aw shit, Australia is coming".
I'm sorry, but there's no dotted line connecting anything from Oceania/Australia to South America.
That's after we install the navigation system and universal thrusters, silly.
Oh, Australians actually call it that? I'd always assumed it was an irritating name that Americans thought was funny. I guess it annoys me less if y'all actually say it, though.Also the Met at Work song has been playing in my head since the moment I saw the thread title, fuck
Some people do, others find it annoying, same as any other nickname.
Allow me to (ahem) "fix" that:
I read in the paper yesterday that the flute player on the Men at Work song has just died in suspicious circs. Apparently, the band got succesfully sued because the tune was a bit too much like "Kookuburra Sits In The Old Gum Tree" and he was depressed because he felt that would always overshadow his career.
RIP.