There are many things Aussies love about being, well, Aussie. The first things that come to mind are beaches, cricket, snags on the barbie, and of course a nice cold beer. While we do love all of the above, when the Herald Sun conducted a survey to see people's top three favourite things about being Australian, the most common word from 15,000 responses was 'freedom'.
The ususal suspects were also on the list, but it's nice to see that our bogan stereotype aside, what we value most is the important stuff that is too easy to take for granted. Here's a clever word-cloud they made up with the top ranswers.
Some years ago a small rural town in Italy twinned with a similar town in Greece.
The Mayor of the Greek town visited the Italian town. When he saw the palatialmansion belonging to the Italian mayor he wondered how he could afford such ahouse. The Italian said; "You see that bridge over there? The EU gave us agrant to build a two-lane bridge, but by building a single lane bridge withtraffic lights at either end, this house could be built".
The following year the Italian visited the Greek town. He was simply amazed atthe Greek Mayor's house, gold taps, marble floors, it was marvellous. When heasked how this could be afforded the Greek said; "You see that bridge overthere?"
The Italian replied; "No."
