The Rine in Spine faws minely on the Pline
 

*Australian" is pronounced with one syllable.
*You'd respect someone who speaks Japanese, Chinese or Indonesian-- but
you'd consider it their job to learn English, rather than vice versa. You are a
bit ambivalent about schools teaching Asian or Aboriginal languages-- kids
should learn good English first.
*You can't understand why overseas people who supposedly speak the same
language have great difficulty comprehending you.
*You'd be shocked by the idea of anyone wearing "thongs" on something
other than their feet.
*"Stubbies" are either short shorts or small beer bottles, a small car accident
is a "bingle", a "drongo" or a "mug" is an idiot, someone in trouble is
in "strife" and you're liable to burst out laughing whenever you hear of
Americans "rooting" for something. . .
*For some reason, -o is a popular ending for words: arvo, combo, garbo,
kero, lezzo, metho, milko, muso, rego, Salvos, servo, smoko, speedo, etc.
*Although you do say "g'day" and "mate", rarely would you ever say things
such as "sheila", "cobber" or "dry as a dead dingo's donger".

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can i just add that sayings such as bugger me and the little buggers are just little inoccent sayings and not insults

Let me guess...Queenslander? ;)

As a Victorian not far from Melbourne, I've rarely if ever heard the reference to Stubbie shorts by other Vics, thongs are strictly summer-only wear for practical reasons, and I can swear in Greek, Italian, Croatian, Serbian, Macedonian, Polish, Czech, Dutch and Mandarin.

I'm from Kansas and I am the anti-redneck. It actually pisses me off when I see a Kansan with a Confederate flag on their car, or person. Goddamnit we're the only state that had war over whether it was going to enter the Union as a Free or Slave state and the fucking Abolitionists won the war, the stars and bars are not our heritage. But an imaginary crimson, and blue bird is (Rock Chalk Jayhawk).

I know there is no R in wash the work creek contains no I, and I can say nuclear correctly.

I don't live on a farm, never have, and most likely never will.

I don't know Dorthy or Toto, but I have been to Liberal.

I loathe Fred Phelps and blame him for giving my state a bad name. I wish everyone everywhere would ignore him and maybe he and his whackjob family would go away.

Hell I'm not even sure what stereotypes people have about me and my state, besides the Toto, and farm thing. Someone please fill me in.

You might be from Illinois if…
 

You might be from Illinois if:

-people understand that, "smooth as an Illinois road," does not mean smooth
-becoming "cultured" means learning to Texas line dance
-natural planning means an annual rotation between planning corn, soybeans and letting the ground lay
-you can close your eyes in a car and feel when you cross the state line
-you think a national treasure was lost when US Route 66 became I-55 between Chicago and St Louis
-you know how to play ‘Pididle’
-you know that Illinois is basically Chicago with a giant farm attached to it (if you live near Chicago) or a giant farm with an abcess called Chicago if you live downstate (more than 50 miles from the city)
-you yell at people who pronounce the ‘S’
-you think that there are only two seasons and they often occur on the same day
-you and your friends take road trips to Sam's Club
-you know that you only get on the interstate if you are going to the city, the airports, or out of state
-night life dies when the grain elevators close
-landfills are how mountains are formed