Aussies say "Average"
When they mean something isn't good.

It's gotten to the point where, if someone is rude or insulting or in some way, not a nice person in public, a bystander Aussie will say "Aaah, geez that's pretty average behaviour."

Really? Is it? Drown the lot of them in Lake Wobegon I say.
(theremin put the lotion in the basket on, Thu 8 Apr 2010, 15:23, 6 replies)

No, they don't;
they say 'air fridge'.
( Bob Todd whee, Thu 8 Apr 2010, 15:26, closed)

Without wishing to state the obvious, I would imagine that being rude or insulting was pretty average behaviour in Australia.
(Treacle Cock, Thu 8 Apr 2010, 15:32, closed)

Yeah, but...
After they've been rude, they'll buy a Coles economy chocolate bar, and it won't be very nice, and they'll tell you that the chocolate was "average".

And then they'll get in their car and back into a pole, and tell you that that was "average" too.

"Hello dear, how was your day?" - "Oh, you know, average." - "That's nice." - "YOU BASTARD!"
(theremin put the lotion in the basket on, Thu 8 Apr 2010, 15:43, closed)

So...
If an Australian lady says that I am of average size, what am I to think?
(Treacle Cock, Thu 8 Apr 2010, 16:31, closed)

Well.
If they said that you were "of average size", I'd guess they meant you were normal.
But.
If they said "his size was pretty average" then I'd guess they meant you were overly fat.
(theremin put the lotion in the basket on, Thu 8 Apr 2010, 23:06, closed)

I think
we like to balance out the big and brash parts of the country with the use of understatement and diminutive language.
(teff, Fri 9 Apr 2010, 17:15, closed)