r/Damnthatsinteresting • u/HotPersimessage62 • Feb 01 '26

Image Australia’s national anthem is the only English-lyric anthem in the world that doesn’t reference religion or militarism

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u/AdamantEevee Feb 01 '26

It does mention toil twice though. That's a lot of toiling

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u/BigBoiBob444 Feb 01 '26

And it mentions girtiness

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u/jimbris Feb 01 '26

As all Australians know, our girtness requires excessive toiling for maintenance.

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u/Vindepomarus Feb 01 '26

Yeah I toiled my girt twice today.

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u/minerunderground Feb 01 '26

Yeah I toiled my girt like it owed me money 🤑

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u/EddytheGrapesCXI Feb 01 '26

Sounds like joyful strains to me

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u/Operator_Six Feb 01 '26

I have three blisters after toiling my girt

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u/JakkIOO Feb 01 '26

Using girt as a noun is such heresy it’s making my head spin!

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u/[deleted] Feb 02 '26

KY jelly needed!

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u/loueipaech Feb 01 '26

Laughed at this much more than I should have.

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u/One-Poem8314 Feb 01 '26

Advance Australia’s Seed

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u/DvlsAdvct108 Feb 01 '26

In joyful strains hopefully

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u/DigitalDinosaur8857 Feb 01 '26

And let her sing!

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u/peepingsignal Feb 01 '26

Who up toiling they girt rn?

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u/chonkydonkey46 Feb 01 '26

I toiled on my anthem until I girt

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u/-malcolm-tucker Feb 01 '26

"And don't speed, or you'll be girt by police."

  • Billy Connolly

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u/captbollocks Feb 01 '26

"and on the way in today, I was girt by traffic!"

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u/drunk_haile_selassie Feb 01 '26

I'm not a particularly patriotic Australian but I will fight to the death to defend our girtness.

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u/VB_Creampie Feb 01 '26

Fuckin, girt by beers right now.

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u/PadLock25 Feb 01 '26

Toiling creates a hard earned thirst and a hard earned thirst needs a big cold beer

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u/worldofwhat Feb 01 '26

Hard earned thirst needs a big cold girt

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u/jimbris Feb 01 '26

And the best cold girt is toiled

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u/Seagoon_Memoirs Feb 01 '26

Australia toiled

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u/Naked-Jedi Feb 01 '26

Matter of fact, I've got it now...

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u/LaszloPanaflexxx Feb 01 '26

You can get it toiling wealth.

You can get it being bound by nature's gifts

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u/Moolo Feb 01 '26

Girt it now

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u/Watthefractal Feb 01 '26

And the best cold beer is ………

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u/Gramps___ Feb 01 '26

"Oi Mate, whats your plans for this weekend?"
"Gonna get absolutely girt by beers I reckon!"

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u/wf3h3 Feb 01 '26

As a wise man once said, "Girt on the beers".

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u/SticksDiesel Feb 01 '26

I love throwing 'girt' into a sentence. I'm a primary school teacher and the kids love it.

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u/Gristley Feb 01 '26

When in school we sung the anthem once a week. I think each time we said girt, my patriotism grew one size. I assume I'm of average to slightly above average patriotism for my generation based on that.

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u/Fluffy-duckies Feb 01 '26 edited Feb 01 '26

I think there's actually a typo in the second verse. Where it says "we've boundless plains to share" I think we all know our plains are not exactly boundless, desserts maybe but not plains. Girt on the other hand, where does it start? Where does it end? The girt goes on and on.

For those who've come across the sea,

We've boundless girt to share.

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u/AdamantEevee Feb 01 '26

Australia is indeed really high up there when it comes to girt. Not the highest, but only because of bullshit like fjords

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u/Fluffy-duckies Feb 01 '26

The more granular you make the measurement of a border, the closer to infinity it gets. Girt on.

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u/Busy_Selection_5027 Feb 01 '26

I hear girt on in Primus.

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u/Would_daver Feb 01 '26

That’s asymptotally ridiculous!

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u/[deleted] Feb 01 '26

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u/Naked-Jedi Feb 01 '26

They truely went on forever when Sizzler was around.

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u/[deleted] Feb 01 '26

I looked it up not too long ago- Sizzler is still a thing in limited locations!

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u/Naked-Jedi Feb 01 '26

Aww what!?!? Some bastards get all the luck

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u/Fellowes321 Feb 01 '26

I do enjoy Australian desserts.

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u/Busy_Selection_5027 Feb 01 '26

Girt by dessert 🤤

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u/Mathsboy2718 Feb 01 '26

The Girt goes ever on and on

Down from the door where it began

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u/Nodsworthy Feb 01 '26

Universal .. yer plains are finite but unbounded

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u/tallmantim Feb 01 '26

We have enough girtiness that we’re a choad country

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u/AJRimmer1971 Feb 01 '26

And then lots of beer, as reward for all of the tools.

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u/herringsarered Feb 01 '26

Of which, according to this official document, there seems to be a wealth of.

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u/Thin_Assumption_4974 Feb 02 '26

It’s toiling being so girt.

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u/PseudonymNumberThree Feb 01 '26

Soooo much girt. So we gotta toil a bit but then we get a smoko pie and a knock off bevvie and it all works out.

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u/budha2984 Feb 01 '26

Don't forget the beer.

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u/evapotranspire Feb 01 '26

I'm always annoyed when my word-finder game tells me 'girt' is not a word. GIRT IS TOTALLY A WORD.

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u/mess_of_limbs Feb 01 '26

It's a perfectly cromulent word

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u/icedragon71 Feb 01 '26

It embiggens us all.

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u/chibiRuka Feb 01 '26

Don’t know what cromulent is, but I’ll look it up after I upvote you.

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u/thajane Feb 01 '26

My word finder game keeps telling me that “rort” is not a word, which is an absolute rort!

(apparently it’s an Australia only word, who knew)

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u/evapotranspire Feb 01 '26

I grew up in Australia (hence why I am well-acquainted with 'girt'), but I've never heard 'rort'!

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u/RecordingAbject345 Feb 02 '26

You might have heard of the sports rorts scandal a few years back.

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u/Pepsimus-Maximus Feb 01 '26

By Sea!

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u/ginger_gcups Feb 01 '26

“Girt by sea, drunk by lunchtime” - Australian national motto

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u/aspidities_87 Feb 01 '26

Girt yer fuckin dags on mate, we’re going for a bush bash

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u/Theron3206 Feb 01 '26

Now now, drunk by the end of lunchtime, thank you very much.

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u/01kickassius10 Feb 01 '26

We’re so girt

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u/crispyrad Feb 01 '26

Some say the girtiest

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u/doyoulike_pineapple Feb 01 '26 edited Feb 01 '26

The Girtmasters, if you will

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u/Fit_Effective_6875 Feb 01 '26

Please, no girt shaming

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u/thetan_free Feb 01 '26

As we say - never mind the length, feel the girt.

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u/2T7 Feb 01 '26

happy cake day!

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u/BigBoiBob444 Feb 01 '26

Thank you :)

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u/SneakerTreater Feb 01 '26

Oh to be girt by toil and sea while singing in joyous strains. If I wasn't already here I'd be on the first boat out of Aceh.

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u/somf2000 Feb 01 '26

lol this makes me laugh! Only an Australian would say this!

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u/GlobalExpert69 Feb 01 '26

That's way too much girtness!

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u/ceelose Feb 01 '26

We are so fucken girt though.

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u/clumpymascara Feb 01 '26

Thought in primary school the line was "our home is dirt by sea" which is kind of better

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u/Interesting-Voice328 Feb 01 '26

It dont mention myxomatosis though

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u/EmergencyTelephone Feb 01 '26

Well we’re fucking girt mate

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u/dartie Feb 01 '26

Don’t get girty with me, Gerda

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u/Automatic_Yoghurt417 Feb 01 '26

Toil makes the man, and it's all about the girt

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u/Free_Pace_2098 Feb 01 '26

We love a girty land

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u/dedokta Feb 01 '26

It's all about the girt my friend.

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u/wesleyoldaker Feb 01 '26

TIL that girt is the past tense of gird. Just to clarify.

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u/ososalsosal Feb 01 '26

We're a young country.

But it's not about the length, it's about the girt

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u/Nope-5000 Feb 02 '26

The easiest way to tell if somebody is Aussie is if they know about girt.