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alphonze191
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[2008-06-26 08:24:59 +0000 UTC]
"We've been compromised"
(Australia)
# Statistics
Favourites: 402; Deviations: 55; Watchers: 28
Watching: 105; Pageviews: 12782; Comments Made: 1077; Friends: 105
# Interests
Favorite movies: Disney, Pixar and the MCUFavorite games: Kingdom Hearts, Phoenix Wright and Ni No Kuni
# Comments
Comments: 248
Wow, thank you!
Thanks for selling your awesome art
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... WHY DIDN'T I DISCOVER YOU EARLIER?!
(I love your art. |D)
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Thank you, I really appreciate it
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Dunno if you've seen this but...
[link]
It is GLORIOUS.
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Oh so glorious D:
You always show me the nicest things :3
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SNIPPY FOR PRESIDENT!
(Captain's already been the pope-thing.)
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It was a long time ago but I was the England at otakufest.
I meet BeeBee at the candle festival so she told me her account and yours.
^_^
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Yes, I remember
Did you enjoy the festival?
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Yay you remember me~
I was so anxious about posting a comment which is why I left it so late.
Yes it was heaps of fun XD
But now my cosplay is complete because I got a wig
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Ah, don't be anxious :3 I'm a nice Prussia
I'm glad you've finished your cosplay. Maybe next time there's an event here I'll get to see it ^_^
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I know you're nice!
You are like so awesome literely!!!
Mmm I hope so, my mum has a union jack t-shirt so I can do gakuen cosplay as well
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Ah, Thank you ^_^
Gakuen? Cool, I look forward to seeing it
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Pity theres not that many events here =3=
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It's ok, your art is gorgeous
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I am doing the History Assignment (just in case your wondering) And I am so stuck on what to say! He is soo hard to do!
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I value your opinion-like-things.
I need a new DI! I've updated what it says, but not the picture. Thoughts?
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HEY! Remember me? I was the oh-so-sexy America at the Hetalia shoot
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Of course
How could I forget >_>
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No problem, I really like what I've seen of your art
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Thank you very much for watching,dear.
So!Australia,huh. What's it like living at your place?
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No problem, your art is amazing
Cold and rainy at the moment, but it looks nice since we're going into Autumn.
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Oh,you...
Hmm,I see. (But doesn't Autumn mean it'll get even colder&rainier
Could I ask you a bit more about Australia?
/Sorry if I come off as nosy,I'm just very interested in other places. Never mind me,if you don't want to!
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Yes, but Autumn's one of my favourite seasons because of the colours and such.
No problem, are there any specific things you want to know?
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Ahh,yes that's true of course.
Hm,I'm interested in all sorts of information,basically.
Ideally it would be what differs it from, say, the U.S.A., like cultural differences and such. Other than that, all sorts of things,geography,religion,popular foods&drinks/music/sports,schoolsystem,peculiarities, what's currently working well,what isn't etc. And politics. Which party's currently ruling,who's president and what's the direction they're going.
Also which stereotypes are wrong and which aren't. And what's the relationship between Australia and other countries (neighbors,'mother-colonies' etc) like,both politically and,er,mood-wise?like.
Uhm,you don't have to answer all of these and can take as much time as you want to,of course.
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OK, well:
In Australia we believe we're more relaxed than America, or on a whole we're just a fairly relaxed country.
Australia's the smallest continent but the largest island. The East coast is beaches, cities and mountains. In the North its tropical and they have rainforests. The middle of Australia is all desert,and to the West is also desert. Our capital is Canberra, lots of people tend to think it's Sydney because its bigger, more entertaining and has the Opera House and Sydney Harbour Bridge. Canberra is more of a political city, like Washington.
We're a very diverse country so we have lots of different cultures. Because of that we have many different religions, but the dominating one is Christianity. But we have large synagogues in larger cities like Sydney.
Vegemite is something we grew up with so many Australians like it. We eat it on bread products mainly, but there are some strange variations. People from abroad don't tend to like it as a rule because of its salty taste. Because of our multiculturalism we eat lots of Asian and Italian style foods
We do have barbecues but not always on the beach with shrimp 
ACDC is our most famous band next to the Wiggles. We don't have a particular preference in music though. There's a lot of famous Australian poetry though from people like Banjo Patterson.
Australia's generally a sport fuelled country.People love a good game and sometimes we can get really competitive. Our favourite football is AFL (Aussie rules football) and we play a lot of cricket. We play a lot of different sport though - swimming, basketball, soccer, etc... The main one is AFL though. Unlike America we aren't big on Baseball, but we do have a team. There is a strong rivalry between the British colonies in sport (New Zealand, Pakistan, India, South Africa)and Engalnd, of course.
School systems are pretty much the same. Kids start school (Kindergarten) when they're 5, attend primary until they're 12 and go to high school until 18. University is for specialized subjects and people choose whether they want to go or not.
I wouldn't call them peculiarities, but we have a different accent and outside Australia people tend to ask if we are British.
Well, the Australian dollar is faring very well at the moment against the US dollar which is good for us. Things are generally cheaper for us if we order them from America instead of buying in the store. The state of origin (rugby league) is on at the moment and that divides most of the population into 'team groups'. There's a large competitiveness even with ourselves.
Politics - we have a Prime Minister instead of a President. It's compulsory to vote in Australia. We vote for members of the political party and not the leader. The political party that wins the election chooses the Prime Minister. Currently we have our first female PM in office - Julia Gillard.
She's part of the labour government which tends to be more socialist in nature. The liberals are more pro big business - more capitalist in nature.
Stereotypes - We don't always have barbecues, but we do have them. We say mate and g'day but it's just part of our language. We tend to nickname and abbreviate and use lots of slang. We call sandals thongs. Arvo = afternoon. Ankle biter = small child. Fair dinkum - fair go. The younger generation don't tend to use as much slang.
We have lots of wildlife and they do come into the cities. You have to be careful of crossing Kangaroos on the road in most places. Depending on where you live there can be lots of wildlife in the suburbs. In some butchers shops they sell game meat like kangaroo, crocodile, emu, etc...
We are still part of the commonwealth so the Queen is our monarch, but we get to make our own political choices. She doesn't have a great influence on us as people and leaves the running of the country to the PM. We get quite a few holidays because she's our monarch though
We have strong ties with other commonwealth countries like New Zealand. We tend to get along with most other countries. Australia tries to help with diplomatic solutions but we aren't a huge key player.
Hope that helps, I'm happy to answer anymore questions
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Thank you very much!
If I remember correctly it was the coasts that were the most populated, too, right? Because of their conditions.
Ah, like Canada's Toronto.
I see. Are there social tensions between different ethnicities or religions? If so, to what extent?
I didn't know about vegemite yet, but wikipedia, int it's wisdom, told me it's something similiar to marmite, which I at least heard of. But I'd like to try it, I hope it's sold around here somewhere, too.
Oh, now I finally know where that Hot Potato song is from. :'D
I just recently heard Waltzing Matilda in the radio actuall, what a coincidence. There was a report about the Australian female soccer team, I think, and afterwards the editor himself requested it. Something like that.
Over here it's basically soccer,soccer and soccer with a hint of handball every now and again.
Playful rivalry or SRS BSNS?
Because of your colonial history, I take it? Well,yes ...um, you know what I mean.
Sounds familiar, yes.
I'm sorry, is pecularities used in a pejorative way? I didn't want it to sound like that.
Australia had many British immigrants at some point, right? Maybe it's a British accent's evolved form.
Yeah, same with the Euro. Poor guys.:c
Also with soccer, people care so much about it it borders on obsession sometimes.
Ah. Do you think obligation is a good thing? We don't have it and the voter fatigue is a really big problem at times. But you never know, maybe it has it's disadvantages as well. If you have a female Prime Minister I suppose you are/became socially pretty open-minded?
Is there that much wildlife because of Austrlia's nature or are even developed areas that healthy that wildlife can survive? In my old home town/village there were barely a few foxes and herons...
I see. You're still on good terms with Britain, then?
I was about to ask when the last time you were at war was, but since you have those ties to the UK I suppose you send troops when they do, right? Please correct me if I'm wrong.
Again, thanks a lot for taking the time and effort to write all this.
It was very informative and interesting and I really appreciate it. 
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Dunno where you're up to in Dollhouse, but funfax! The guy who plays Victor has a twin who actually shows up in ther series at one point.
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Last three episodes >
Orly? That peaks my interest~
Is your mind utterly cunfuddled with fanservice with L change the world yet?
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YARLY. He's not actually an actor, I think he's in real estate, A little more stalking lead me to his facebook page. Prepare to have your mind blown: [link]
Yeah, I've finished it, but Scott doesn't want to shoulder the responsibility of bringing it back safely
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That is amazing.
I can say with confidence, my mind is blown.
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Indubitedly.
And remembering, if you haven't watched episode 13 of season 1, make sure you watch it before you watch the finale
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Kay, off to do that now. Wish me luck
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Good luck
Have a plush toy handy
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Finished.
I have nothing to say.....
'sits in corner.'
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I had much the same reaction...
Just ... think of happier times: [link] this made me giggle and was a little bit heartwarming, to boot
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