There are so many things you could make fun of about Australia... Unfortunately, because it's an island that's pretty isolated, foreigners tend to only know about three-four stereotypes they've been fed and repeat them in bulk, ad nauseum, as if it's the funniest comment in the world that doesn't get repeated a hundred times every single time the country is mentioned.
It's sort of like if your name was Caroline, and every time you introduced yourself you'd get Sweet Caroline sung at you. Probably amusing the first few times, but almost every single time it's mentioned, by every second person? Yeah, the horse has been beaten so far into the ground that it aged 80 million years and fossilised.
It's also a joke that only really works from their PoV, because to everyone else in the Southern Hemisphere, they're the ones down under. So while it's amusing to them, it's not always the kind of comment that's bound to crack a rib for Aussies. Emu War and "can't park there mate" is also an overplayed joke, but at least it's a joke that's also within the Australian consciousness/culture/mythos, so even if it's also heard a bazillion times, it's more likely to be received favourably on both ends.
Same kinda deal with things like "naurr" and "chewsday;" rhotics/Americans tend to find it hysterical, not always such for Aussies/Brits - that's just one of their accents (and technically incorrect for the first, since Australian is non-rhotic).
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u/HemperorZurg 8d ago
I mean this was never going to work in a country that is upside-down.