Seeing as there are none, I shall compose my own

[gemfyre]

You might be from Western Australia if...

- You had a plush Sunny Sandgroper when you were a kid.
- You know all the words to the "G'Day from W.A." jingle. (My cousin and I even recorded us singing it when we were kids!)
- It's quite possible for your neighbour to live 500km away.
- You live in Perth, and the next capital city is over 2000km away, and you think nothing of driving there once a year.
- You're constantly campaigning or protesting to save some area of rare and natural beauty from companies that just want to mine or commercialise it.
- You can go to beach, find a nice big spot to sit, and not have to worry too much about syringes and sewerage.
- You scoff at pie floaters and frog cakes.
- You scoff at the VFL and almost kill your spouse over the Derby outcome.
- In a day trip you can go surfing, climb a 60m tall tree, visit 4 caves and get drunk on local wines.
- People ask if you've been overseas and you reply "I've been to Rottnest, does that count?"
- You can drive 100km and find absolute wilderness.
- If you live any further than Lancelin, bulldust is just a part of life.
- You get used to your compass going haywire in the Newman area (all that iron ore!)
- Half your elderly male citizens are dying from mesothilioma after working at Wittenoom in the asbestos mines.

Can anyone think of some others. Maybe something a tad more funny or witty than mine.

Comments

[lotus79.livejournal.com]

- You scream at the TV when some eastern states "personality" pronounces the 'y' in 'Karrinyup'

Sorry, got no more--I'm at work, and creativity is thusly dead.

[arkem.livejournal.com]

...Or makes a quip about our locales such as Cockburn or Innaloo.

[gemfyre.livejournal.com]

Haha!

Or pronounces Mandurah as "Man-doo-ra".

[digital--faerie.livejournal.com]

you should see a group of americans taking a stab at how to say Cowaramup

[gemfyre.livejournal.com]

Even I have trouble with that one!

[gemfyre.livejournal.com]

Or the other one - prounouncing Albany as "Allbany".

[jakie-em.livejournal.com]

or upper swan

[jakie-em.livejournal.com]

or the e in wattleup or they say cud-gee instead of coo-gee for coogee

simple it is said as it is spelt

[thysanotus.livejournal.com]

- You know what people mean when they say they're going to town

[pooxs.livejournal.com]

*snorts* i love this one! its so funny when you have to explain what 'town' is to someone from overseas :D

[gemfyre.livejournal.com]

Haha yeah! My dad uses the phrase quite often. It could mean anything from going to Midland (he lives in Greenmount) to going to Perth from somewhere like Albany.

[tigernic.livejournal.com]

I've got an SA one that corresponds with your Rottnest one - Kangaroo Island! =)

[tigernic.livejournal.com]

I was also just thinking that we have the same thing in SA for scoffing at the VFL and almost killing your spouse at the local derby thing: everyone's either an Adelaide or Port supporter. Or you could be like me and absolutely despise both teams and follow a Victorian team such as the Tiges =)

[stawberi.livejournal.com]

Whenever you see chips/roast, etc, you say "what, no western potato?"

wait theres more

[(Anonymous)]

* You use such exact geographical locations as "up north", "down south" and "over east" and people know where you mean.

* You've never been to another capital city in Australia, but you do go to Bali every year.

* You think shopping for reasonably priced grocery's after 6pm is a fantasy. (well at least I do)

* You think nothing of taking a day trip to a location more than a 5hour drive away.

* You need a dictonary to explain forgien terms such as "milk bar", "legal brothel", "daylight savings" and "togs".

* You still think we should have succeded from the rest of the country.

I could go on, really I could.

-moonbug

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[gemfyre.livejournal.com]

I almost put the "up north", "down south", "over east" thing. :)

24 hour shopping. So awesome. In Adelaide in the middle of summer. 2am, stinking hot and we wanted fruit. So we wandered down the road to the local Bi-Lo and bought fruit!

My dad used to drive to Albany sometimes on day trips for buisness purposes.

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[jakie-em.livejournal.com]

yes, you needed to add the up north, down south thing.

and I can so relate to the rotto thing!!!

and yes we need to deregulate shopping hours and get a public transport system

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[jet-ski.livejournal.com]

hmmm, serious investment in public transport in a state that wholeheartedly believes in the inalienable right of the private motorist? even when it does happen (i.e the rail line south) they make a meal of it because there's too many compromises and pollies can only think within the frame of car-focused city development, parknrides and crappy bus connections forcing passengers to run up and down lifts and escalators in all the wrong places!

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[jakie-em.livejournal.com]

park and rides are just an admittance that the public transport system is ineffective

[jet-ski.livejournal.com]

the thing about not worrying about syringes on beaches isn't true... i think its because of our lack of disposal facilities...but i know at least two sandgropers who've been stuck, one in her local park, and another at the beach.