How old were you when you found out that Australia isn't a real place?

[EveryDayIsPretzelDay]

This is kind of embarrassing, but I didn't realize Australia is made up until I was almost twelve years old.

It's pretty obvious, if you think about it. Australia supposedly has crocodiles the size of school busses, sharks the size of aircraft carriers, and two hundred pound rats with velociraptor claws, not to mention a giant hole in the ozone layer. No sane person would ever live in a place like that, if it actually existed. Plus, that one country very conveniently covers an entire continent. Sure it does, buddy, sure it does.

The history of the Australia hoax is actually fascinating. It started back in the 1980's, when a bunch of American marketing executives were trying to figure out how to unload several million gallons of past-the-sell-date Budweiser. So they put it in giant cans, called it Foster's Lager, and invented a fictional country it could be imported from.

How did you learn the truth about Australia? Did someone tell you, or did you figure it out for yourself?

[Anonymous]

Can state that Australia is real down here 🌏🦘

Just as much as the northern hemisphere up there for y'all is real :) 👀 with my own two eyes I see Australia 😅 daily

[KostasKouvalis]

Just now seeing this question

[RavVid]

Exactly. The forward defence perimeter of Great White sharks, the middle defence perimeter of salt water crocodiles and blue ringed octopuses that kill quicker than snakes and final line of coastal taipan snakes are just made up to discourage people from going to look for Australia.

If they did, They would just find ocean which would give the game away. So every summer stories are put out of tourists being taken by crocs.

You do have one thing wrong though. Australia wasn't invented by American execs because if it was I'd be writing defense instead of defence.

Australia was invented by English Cricketers who felt lonely cause no other country would play them cause no other country played cricket. So they simply invented a place maximally distant from London that played cricket so they could go on a six month cruise and play deck quoits instead of cricket. Deck quoits is a far better game as everybody knows.

[DryGermanGuy]

Jonesy, is that you? ! ?

[exitseven]

it was the platypus ducks that gave it away.

https://www.youtube.com/embed/vEkLy7A37T0

[Snakeyes7]

Australia no longer became a real place to me after Steve Irwin died. That place has been going down the toilet ever since.

[Abbycado]

Quite possibly the worse troll I’ve seen this month.

[NathanDavis]

but the dropbears are... real

[strateguy632]

I always had blind faith about that

[beefcakebradybatson]

Another MAGAN shows their ignorance !!!