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Australia: Under Water?
Lunchbox:
Down Under and Oz are both awful terms. Use 'Australia,' it's lovely.
None of us are under water, Jodie has had a few scares but so far we know she is okay. The floods will continue for months though.
David_Dovey:
Basically you guys, a lot of Australians are uncomfortable with things like "Oz" or "Down Under" not because those terms themselves are inherently bad but because it tends to come wrapped up in a package with the whole range of incredibly annoying stuff that people associate with Australia, much to pretty much every Australian ever's chagrin e.g; Steve Irwin, Crocodile Dundee, the complete inability of anyone ever to credibly impersonate the Australian accent, and such and such.
Tom:
Australian's are deeply concerned with trying to appear respectable. The only thing we are ever drowning in are post-penal neuroses and aspirations of upper middle class respectability.
Jimmy the Squid:
And currently rising flood waters.
Inlander:
A very large and fairly heavily populated part of Australia is flooding, however it's by no means the entirety or even the majority of the country. Here's a handy map:
http://www.abc.net.au/news/infographics/qld-floods/default.htm
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