Aussie Pride

22/11/2016

So I was reading the paper ( it was on-line so it still counts) and I came across a article where Ryan Reynolds disses Australia.  Yes I get that it i was supposed to be funny and especially as he tried so hard to get the Aussie accent down.  And yet as I watched it not only did I  A: get annoyed that another American has tried to do the accent and failed and sound pathetic but B: that a yank poked fun at a country who has stood shoulder to shoulder with America on many issues.
Now I don't normally get political because I think most politicians couldn't lie straight in bed and if they ever grew a spine and made a decision for themselves and actually acted on it the world would be a much better place.  Anyway I do digress, back to getting on my soapbox about jumped up actors who try the Aussie accent and look stupid, the thing that I find offensive most of all is the fact that he said Australia Day isn't a real thing, now to all Australians this is the day  no matter if we be overseas serving in combat, living in different countries or still on Aussie soil we remember how far we have come as a nation, how far we have come as people and how much we have contributed to the world.

For a country that was settled as a penal colony I am proud to say I am Australian, we have sent off from our shores the following great people: Kylie, INIXS, Dame Edna, Dame Joan Sutherland, Cate Blanchett, Geofforey Rush, Eric Bana, Liam and Chris Hemsworth, Portia De Rossi, Keith Urban, Sia, Nicole Kidman,Errol Flynn, Ian Thorpe, Mark Webber, Pat Cash,  Daniel Riccardo, Samantha Stosur, Evonne Gollagong- Crawley, Margaret Court, Curtis Stone, Dan Churchill  We have blessed the world with QUANTAS - which just happens to be the safest airline in the world, we invented the black box recorder that is now in every aircraft in the world ( and it is generally red not black), the ultrasound machine was invented here, the cochlear ear implant was invented here, Dr Fiona Wood invented spray on skin ( and she lives in Perth) , the electronic pacemaker was invented here ( 1926 in Sydney) and the most important of all The Winged Keel that took the Americas Cup in 1983 - the first time it has been taken out of America in 132 years.

Yes so we have turned getting rid of the PM into a national pastime, we have the worlds deadliest animals, we eat meat pies and sausage rolls, we love our sport, we call redheads bluey, call tall people shorty, shorten every name we can, give everything a nickname, spend winter watching footy, spend the summer watching the cricket, yeah we have a barbie ( not the doll it is a BBQ and no we don't have a shrimp on it they are called prawns and a shrimp is a short person) we spend Christmas in the middle of Summer under the aircon ( air conditioner), we have boxing day- when the Sydney to Hobart yacht race starts and the boxing day cricket test match starts when those who don't watch cricket head to the beach.
Myself I live in a state that would fit the UK 10 times over, is bigger than Texas, California ,Nevada , Montana, New Mexico,Nevada and Arizona all together. Western Australia is the biggest state in Australia, we have the biggest mineral deposits ( in Australia), amazing beaches, Albany was the first place settled in Western Australia the last piece of Australia that most of the troops that left for Gallipoli saw the first place to hold a Dawn Service, Perth is the most isolated city in the world.  Now with all of this one cannot but feel proud, and what makes us better than any country in the world - is the fact that no overseas actor has managed to ever do a passable Aussie accent without looking like a fool.
So Aussies everywhere stand up and be proud - AUSSIE AUSSIE AUSSIE