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whathehell

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10. Can you describe the "Ugly Aussie"?
Fri Feb 10, 2012, 08:56 PM
Feb 2012

Is he something like the "ugly American"?...Ultra-nationalistic?..."loud"?.."We're number one", or something

along those lines?

The loud thing is interesting, because I remember being in Ireland once and having a woman tell me

that "Americans are loud"...She said "you can hear them in the pubs", over the voices of the locals.

This is like twenty something years ago, but I remember my husband getting a tad defensive

at the time and saying "Well, we're not the only ones who are loud...The Aussies are loud too"!

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