Maybe you had to have grown up in the 80’s to appreciate this, but I reckon it’d get up if we had a referendum!

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Ok, so I will admit Aussie usage of the word ‘bastard’ can be a tad confusing to those of other cultures.

In a land where your best mate is a ‘real bastard’, it can be easy to misuse the word.

But if your car is a bastard (in the negative sense) then this is the product for you…

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Confused?…

Time for a touch of humour. If you’re an American then this will probably make absolutely no sense whatsoever!

You know you’re Australian if…..

1. You believe that stubbies can be either drunk or worn.

2. You think it’s normal to have a leader called Kevin.

3. When you hear that an American “roots for his team” you wonder how often and with whom.

4. You pronounce Melbourne as “Mel-bin”.

5. You believe it makes perfect sense for a nation to decorate its highways with large fibreglass bananas, prawns and sheep.

6. You call your best friend “a total bastard” but someone you really, truly despise is just “a bit of a bastard”.

7. You think “Woolloomooloo” is a perfectly reasonable name for a place.

8. You’re secretly proud of our killer wildlife.

9. You believe it makes sense for a country to have a $1 coin that’s twice as big as its $2 coin.

10. You understand that “Wagga Wagga” can be abbreviated to “Wagga” but “Woy Woy” can’t be called “Woy”.

11. You believe all famous Kiwis are actually Australian, until they stuff up, at which point they again become Kiwis.

12. You know that certain words must, by law, be shouted out during any rendition of the Angels’ song Am I Ever Gonna See Your Face Again.

13. You believe, as an article of faith, that the confectionary known as the Wagon Wheel has become smaller with every passing year.

14. You still don’t get why the “Labor” in “Australian Labor Party” is not spelt with a “u”.

15. You believe that the more you shorten someone’s name the more you like them.

16. You understand that “excuse me” can sound rude, while “scuse me” is always polite.

17. You understand that “you” has a plural and that it’s “youse”.

18. You know it’s not summer until the steering wheel is too hot to handle.

19. Your biggest family argument over the summer concerned the rules for beach cricket.

20. You still think of Kylie as “that girl off Neighbours”.

21. When returning home from overseas, you expect to be brutally strip-searched by Customs – just in case you’re trying to sneak in fruit.

22. You believe the phrase “smart casual” refers to a pair of black tracky-daks, suitably laundered. (Danelle would say this one is for me…)

23. You understand that all train timetables are works of fiction.

24. When working on a bar, you understand male customers will feel the need to offer an excuse whenever they order low-alcohol beer.

25. You get choked up with emotion by the first verse of the national anthem and then have trouble remembering the second.

26. You find yourself ignorant of nearly all the facts deemed essential in the government’s new test for migrants.

27. You know, whatever the tourist books say, that no one says “cobber”.

28. And you will immediately forward this list to other Australians, here and overseas, realising that only they will understand.

(from The Sydney Morning Herald , Australia Day, Jan 26, 2008).pinocchio divx download

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I sent my first ever facebook friend request today…

Will things ever be the same again?…

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In the spirit of the previous test here is another test to see if you are cooler now than you were in high school.

download wrinkle in time a divx free interview with the vampire the vampire chronicles What’s your theological worldview? created with QuizFarm.com

You scored as Evangelical Holiness/Wesleyan You are an evangelical in the Wesleyan tradition. You believe that God’s grace enables you to choose to believe in him, even though you yourself are totally depraved. The gift of the Holy Spirit gives you assurance of your salvation, and he also enables you to live the life of obedience to which God has called us. You are influenced heavly by John Wesley and the Methodists. Evangelical Holiness/Wesleyan 93% Emergent/Postmodern 71% Neo orthodox 64% Reformed Evangelical 43% Roman Catholic 39% Fundamentalist 32% Charismatic/Pentecostal 32% Classical Liberal 25% Modern Liberal 14%

Now I just need to work out what the heck they mean by all those catgeories…

I am happy to accept that I am totally depraved, but I might mean it in a more vernacular sense 🙂

On a more serious note, the doctrine of total depravity really does need some clarification as to your average punter it really doesn’t add up. Very few people I know are totally depraved (according to the common usage of those words), but – if I understand it right – total depravity refers to the idea that every part of our being is tainted by sin then that is different.

There is much goodness in the world from saint and sinner alike. Perhaps that is common grace. Perhaps it is the imago dei shining thru.

From Ben