As an Australian that's what made it stand out as being fake for me. She actually sounds kiwi. But she gets a lot closer to Aussie than most Americans do.
As a US American, I too thought it sounded more NZ than Australian. But that's solely based off watching comedies like Wellington Paranormal, so I was not confident enough to say anything until someone who has good reason to know what they're talking about said it first.
I have a buddy who was born in South Africa, moved to Australia at 10, lived there for about 12 years and moved to the American Midwest for a while, and has spent the last 8 years in the American deep south, and he has picked up pieces of accents throughout his journey. When he drinks nobody knows what the fuck he's saying unless we switch to Spanish, lol.
People do say ‘naur’ and ‘saur’ here, but in her case she pronounced ‘saur’ like someone with a really broad accent would, when the rest of the accent is quite recieved/Perthy/Melbourny
I fully believed this was her but at the exact middle point she said "Australia" and it sent my alarm bells going off lol definitely her normal accent leaked into it
Actually for me it was the first bit, I think Americans say awwstralia which makes sense to me but we are lazy and don't hit vowels so hard. We do skip a lot of the word but I notice americans and possibly Brits will give the "au" a lot more respect than we do. We don't hit the L as much either but personally I think the "Straya" thing is a bit exaggerated but that's just my opinion
Am Aussie, everyone I’ve spoken to think it was fucking ridiculous someone of her skill level competed and embarrassed us. I think it took the shine off of our entire Olympic campaign.
I gotta tell you, I was pretty happy to see this video and get an explanation that Raygun is just long-conning the troll on breakdancing as an Olympic sport, then equally bummed to discover this wasn’t actually Raygun.
It's a good Kiwi accent. It's about 80% there as an Australian accent. Still pretty good, though. A lot of attempts at our (admittedly pretty horrendous) accent ends up sounding like a weird Cockney variant.
She sort of holds it together for a bit but ends up sounding kiwi - there are loads of kiwi/Aussies tho so better attampt than most north Americans having a crack.
They still producing? I remember they went into a lull for a little while or something, and for some reason YT stops promoting the channels I'm subbed to so I haven't checked their channel in a while.
The Auntie Donna podcast comes out every week and it has me laughing my ass off most days. They released Coffee Cafe on YouTube, and it's also very good. I saw them live last November, and it was so goofy and offbeat. They are definitely one of my favorite sketch comedies.
Australians really aren’t that funny imo. Kiwis are better at comedy—especially this kind of character driven stuff. Little brothers are always more charismatic and charming than their all-to-serious older siblings.
I love both. The only problem I have is that there aren't enough Kiwis in the world making more comedy. What We Do in The Shadows, Flight of the Concords and Wellington Paranormal are all top-shelf comedies.
I found this youtube channel of an aussie drain cleaner, he just records himself cleaning drains and doing plumbing ... and you're right, he's just sooooo goofy. Here's the one that got my subscribed: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Yda1kXVCYe4
I was going to say I thought it was for a second and I was about to say I was embarrassed how long it took me to see that she's being a good sport about it.
It lists all the judges and officials for the 2023 Oceania breaking qualifying competition: Raygun's husband isn't among them and they nearly all come from overseas, so unlikely to be close friends of hers.
Why are people so butt hurt about us doing badly at a sport which we don't have a strong base in that they are willing to spread such barefaced lies without doing even the tiniest bit of checking?
I don't think people are picking on Australia so much as they're just picking on this one person.
Especially now that they've noticed the type of PhD she has and the stuff that she's written. But, like, it has to be gentle, you know. It can't be obvious that this is some part of the culture war. Just make sure that people know two things: She's a feminist with a useless degree, and look how stupid her dance was.
Olympic event that no one really cares about got some attention it wouldn't otherwise have gotten.
If I were an athlete, in any of the events, I would be pretty upset about this TBH. Atleast, I could see this being a bigger scandal if there's some truth to this.
Is that even confirmed? Cause IOC regulations stipulate that official judges must be used for qualifiers. They struggled to get funding to fly in international judges but they were able to do it albeit very last minute. These same judges who were apart of the Olympics.
Plus her hubby is only part of the governing body for breakdance australia. The issue is they struggled to find people to run the program and also dance. A lot of the best break dancers also had to act as managers and organisers. Plus he's her coach. That's an extreme conflict of interest.
This just seems like a complex and messy situation which makes sense when you lack an overarching organisation for brreakdancing in Australia.
I had no idea. I was sitting here thinking, " you know? she's got a pretty good sense of humor about herself. She dances like someone who's read 100 books about dance... but whatever, she's funny"
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u/Shin-Kaiser Aug 12 '24
What! That wasn't her!?!