Seriously though I am getting pretty fed up with the slang being used by our journalists and news presenters on nine and seven.
This morning I counted on the front page of news .com the word Aussie 14 times. Aussie house prices,Aussie fast bowlers,Aussie banks , Aussie nude scandal, aussies furious at Sydney flight delays and so forth.
Where does it stop !
We are not aussies we are Australians for gods sake.
What other countries denigrate themselves this way.
English don't call themselves Poms, French don't call themselves frenchies or frogs ,Americans don't call themselves Yanks .We call them that.
I will not even go on about the kindergarden ditti - Ozzie,Ozzie,Ozzie,Oi ,Oi and so on .A total disgrace, even 'Aussie' tennis commentators cringe these days.
Its no wonder everyone seems to say Stralyia they never use or read the word 'Australian'.
I blame the eighties with the likes of Barry McKenzie movies and that
Tennis player Newman for putting together that mob that follow the tennis players around the worth at whose expense! for how we portray ourselves .
We are a self delusional little fish in a big pond and it's about time we
started respecting ourselves . No one else does thesedays.