Australian/Canadian comparison

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Canadians and Australians are cousins so I knocked up this list.
Feel free to add to it.
Especially if you have no idea about either country (make something up, that would be funnier :-)
  • These countries are similar in that they are both big places, with few people living in the middle.
One is hot, the other cool :-)

  • Both have bears, though Australian ones have a novel way of reproducing, and are unlikely to rip your head from your body.
We have psychopaths cruising our dry interior in Land Cruisers to do that.

  • Both are members of the Commonwealth
Though you wouldn’t know it cause they have a cooler flag.

  • Both have neighbors that they have a love/hate relationship with.
We have New Zealand and they have THE UNITED STATES OF AMERICA!

  • Both have a fine appreciation of the ‘indi’ guitar band.
  • We are a member of ANZUS and they are a member of G8.
How the hell did they get into G8? We are as good as them…
oppps sorry, this wasn’t supposed to be a competitive piece :-)

  • We both have states that start with ‘Q’ that keep mumbling about seceding.
They have Quebec, we have Queensland.
Just between you and me, the rest of Oz wishes Queensland WOULD secede. Then we could invade them and slap some sense into them.

  • We have Kylie Minouge, and they have Averill Levine.
  • They export lots of brilliant Canadian actors. We export lots of brilliant New Zealand actors.



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