Society & Culture Things that Shit me part X- The Tenth edition!

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I'm the other way on this. I hate it when I ask someone their nationality and despite looking like something completely ethnic, they are like "I'm Australian". Yeh yeh I get it, you were born in Australia but what nationality are you?!!!!
Gough is being a little harsh but he(?) kind of has a point....

From that wonderful (yet at times slightly inaccurate) resource Wikipedia:
Nationality is the legal relationship between an individual human and a state.
An ethnic group is a group of people whose members are identified through a common trait.

You've already used the word in your post. If you want to know about someones heritage, ask about their ethnicity. If you keep saying nationality they will keep correctly answering 'Australian'.
 

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Gough is being a little harsh but he(?) kind of has a point....

From that wonderful (yet at times slightly inaccurate) resource Wikipedia:
Nationality is the legal relationship between an individual human and a state.
An ethnic group is a group of people whose members are identified through a common trait.

You've already used the word in your post. If you want to know about someones heritage, ask about their ethnicity. If you keep saying nationality they will keep correctly answering 'Australian'.
Surely common sense comes into play though. We if are all "Australian" and I am asking their nationality then obviously I am looking for an answer that says "I am Australian"
 

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The toxic fat ads, I've had a gut full of them.

When I'm innocently eating my way through a few KFC buckets and drinking a few slabs of VB while smoking a few packs of winnie reds, those bloody toxic fat ads are the last thing I want to see on my tv screen.

The most depressing ads ever and now they are hammering two of them into one f***ing ad break. GTFO.
 

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What's daylight savings?:p

That ad for not drinking while you're pregnant shits me. It's a man dressed as a woman right?? Why? Such an annoying ad.
Yeah those ads are annoying too, pretty sure it's a man dressed as a woman as no woman could be that ugly.
 

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I'm the other way on this. I hate it when I ask someone their nationality and despite looking like something completely ethnic, they are like "I'm Australian". Yeh yeh I get it, you were born in Australia but what nationality are you?!!!!
You can't really define what an Australian is in terms of ethnicity.

In future, just ask someone "what is your heritage?". A very low amount of people will answer 'Australian' (as in Indigenous Australian). Problem solved.
 
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