Magpies will try to peck your eyes out and NOBODY drinks Foster's: British woman reveals the 20 most surprising things she's learned living in Australia

  • Pom living in Australia lists 20 best things she has discovered Down Under
  • Birds make up three of the discoveries, with swooping magpies on the list
  • After two years in Australia, she never saw anyone drink Fosters beer 
  • She also learns a Golden Gaytime is an ice cream, not a bizarre sexual act

By Stephen Johnson For Daily Mail Australia

Published: 23:26 GMT, 6 November 2016 | Updated: 09:39 GMT, 10 November 2016

From living with the constant threat of magpie attacks to describing redheads as 'rangas' - a British expat has provided an insight into Australia's peculiar traits.

The behaviour of a certain black and white bird during nesting season had a place on her popular Reddit post, along with controversially-named Coon cheese, fairy bread, eating a sausage outside a hardware store and never drinking Foster's beer.

'Australian magpies swoop and try to peck out your eyes,' she said.

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A British woman living in Australia learnt a thing or two about how a swooping magpie (pictured) will try to peck out your eyes during the nesting season

She wrote Australians don't appear to think it strange how a popular ice cream, known as the Golden Gaytime (pictured), doesn't sound like a sexual act

No matter how popular it may be in the UK, Australians don't drink Foster's beer

Speaking of being annoyed, blogger 'Thirstyfortea' was amused at how Australians say it 'gives them the s***s'.

'Every time I take it literally and laugh,' she said.

Australia's taste in ice cream was another laughing matter, with the British woman discovering a Golden Gaytime is actually a toffee, cookie-coated treat and not a sexual act.

AUSTRALIA'S PECULIAR TRAITS, AS SEEN BY A POM

1. A Nigel has no friends in Australia while a Billy in UK is someone with no mates

2. When Australians are annoyed, something 'gives them the s***s'

 3. A Golden Gaytime is a popular ice cream, and no one thinks it strange it sounds like a sex act

4. A grass trimmer is a 'whipper snipper' not a garden strimmer as the English say

5. Fairy bread, with hundreds and thousands on white bread, is so strange and also a national treasure.

6. Second lowest fire rating is high and Sydneysiders go 'meh, bushfires'

7. Brush turkeys are wild and roam around

8. Magpies swoop and try to peck out your eyes

9. Cockatoos are like UK pigeons except they're massive and sound terrifying like dinosaurs when they fly over.

10. A sausage sizzle is basically a £1 BBQ outside every B and Q (hardware store). Amazing

11. Australia lost a prime minister Harold Holt who went for an ocean swim, disappeared and then they named an aquatic centre after him. Cruel

12. 'Ranga' is a ginger. 'Pom' is a Brit. Neither is offensive

13. Australians say 'heaps' in every single context. I'm heaps tired

14. Everything is abbreviated. Someone told me they shorten words because there's so much dust

15. Australians think it's weird how Brits have pancakes for dinner

16. The 'bush' is anything rural while 'bush' becomes 'outback' at some indeterminate inland point

17. British greetings don't go down well. 'Alright?' is more an expression of concern, getting looks of confusion

18.  Every now and then you go out and get smacked in the face by the kind of heat usually only felt when opening an oven

19.  Australians use terms that would be obscenely offensive in the UK. The term 'Wog' is thrown about, and 'Coon cheese' is a thing

20.  I've never seen anyone drink Foster's. Ever

Source: Reddit 

'Everyone loves Golden Gaytime ice cream and no one thinks it strange,' she said.

Drinking Fosters beer, however, would be considered strange in Australia, despite the beverage being a common sight in British pubs.

'I've never seen anyone drink Foster's. Ever,' she said.

Australians would also never call a grass cutter a garden strimmer, as the English say. 

It's a whipper snipper. 

A sausage sizzle in Australia is grabbing some barbecued meat outside a hardware store 

Nobody in Australia drinks Foster's beer, the British expat found. They are much more likely to be downing VB, like these sunbathers at Sydney's Coogee Beach

Australians also love having barbecued sausages outside hardware stores, she said, referencing a common British chain.

'Sausage sizzle is basically a £1 BBQ outside every B and Q. Amazing,' she said.

White bread with margarine and hundreds and thousands, known as 'fairy bread' is a national treasure.

'So strange,' she said. 

A particular cheese, which sounds like a derogatory term for a black person,  doesn't seem to have racist connotations.

'Australians use terms that would be obscenely expensive in the UK,' she said.

'The term ''wog'' is thrown about and ''Coon cheese'' is a thing.' 

On the subject of being unpopular, a Billy has no mates in England and a Nigel has no friends in Australia, she discovered.

Red heads in Australia are known as 'rangas' while a Brit is a 'Pom'.

'Neither is offensive,' she said. 

Birds made up three observations on the Reddit list, with roaming wild brush turkeys a surprise and native cockatoos likened to annoying pigeons in the United Kingdom.

'Except they're massive and sound like terrifying dinosaurs when a flock fly over,' she said.

Coon is a popular cheese in Australia, despite some derogatory and racist connotations 

White bread with margarine, topped with hundreds and thousands is known as 'fairy bread' (pictured) which the British woman found strange

A British expat in Australia was taken aback by fire warnings signs listing 'high' as the second lowest alert level

With summer approaching, bushfire season and the high temperatures were intriguing to the British woman.

'There are fire danger signs at the side of the road and the second lowest fire rating is high,' she said. 

'Sometimes Sydney is so smokey, and everyone's like "meh, bushfires" without a care.

'Every now and then you go out and get smacked in the face by the kind of heat usually only felt when opening an oven.'

The naming of a swimming pool in Melbourne after Harold Holt, the prime minister who drowned in 1967, was something the UK expat found 'cruel'.

A bushfire raging at Swan Bay near Port Stephens, north of Sydney, at the weekend

A petrol-powered grass cutter in Australia is known as a whipper snipper, not a garden strimmer as the English call it

Redheads like former Home and Away actress Isla Fisher (pictured) are referred to as 'rangas'

Native cockatoos (pictured) are likened to UK pigeons except 'they're massive and sound like terrifying dinosaurs when a flock fly over'

Australian prime minister Harold Holt (pictured) shortly before he drowned in 1967 at Victoria's Cheviot Beach. The Harold Holt Memorial Swimming Centre in Melbourne was named in his honour after the area's former local member. The UK expat found this strange

The British woman was intrigued at how wild brush turkeys (like the one pictured) roam around

A rural location is described as the 'bush' while a more remote area inland, like this spot in Australia South (pictured) would be referred to as the 'outback'