Is Aussie Aussie Aussie an Appropriate Call in 2024?

[AustSerbKor]

Flying home yesterday DOH-ADL on QR, and when we landed, someone called out, "Welcome to Australia, Aussie, Aussie, Aussie." Was this appropriate in 2024, or was it ever?
I was not impressed, but that could have resulted from 12 hours in an A350 Y seat tighter than the Y seat on the previous QR flight on an A320.

 

[Forg]

I don’t think that, in the context where it came to the attention of the public consciousness, ie. when viewing sportsball tournaments, it’s any less appropriate than it ever was.

But yelling out on a flight … not offensive, but pretty boganey & cringe. Actually I don’t know if what they said is so much a problem, yelling out pretty much anything is fairly “look at me” personality-disordery.

 

[SeatBackForward]

I never liked it, even back in 2000 when it was popularised at the Sydney Olympics (or perhaps that's just when I first noticed it as a thing)

 

[SCM]

Not really sure what can be inappropriate about it, many countries have a national call - eg. "allez le bleu" for French, "ole ole ole" for Spanish, etc. European countries are far from the most patriotic, but even they have these.

On the topic of whether to call it out on a plane, I am not sure what the relevance is, it's a bit of a "huh?" situation, but nothing to do with appropriateness.

 

[JohnK]

Like the Kop singing "Allez Allez Allez"?

I think I first heard "Aussie, Aussie, Aussie, oi, oi, oi" in 1994 Kontiki tour from a Broken Hill girl. Awful. Cringy. Something you'd only expect from a bogan and she was a country bogan.

 

[drron]

I certainly heard it in the 70s at sporting matches.
Heard something similiar at Soccer matches in the 60s but although from an Australian citizen he was a Scot through and through. He was my uncle who was 6foot 8 which back then made him an impressive figure. The Scots team in those days was Gladesville so i went with him to their home matches at Gladesville oval which is long gone. if the lads were doing well he would along with a few others yell out oggy. sometimes Oggy, oggy. can't say I remember him using it 3 times.

And in 2007 I was part of a Fanatics group that went to the Cricket World Cup in the West Indies. We usually had the Barmy Army on our left, The South Africans on the right and the Sri Lankans behind us. Oi,oi,oi wasn't out of place.

But not on an International flight.

 

[Happy Dude]

So which bit would you consider to be inappropriate? The patriotism, presumably because it excludes non-Australians or it's just cool to virtue signal about how embarrassing overt displays of patriotism are? Or is it the yelling in a confined space with seemingly little consideration for others?

 

[Himeno]

It's annoying in any context.

 

[jastel]

Would prefer that than the Welcome to Country BS....or monitors that have words on for cities you cant even pronounce let alone know where they are.

 

[DC3]

Flying home yesterday DOH-ADL on QR, and when we landed, someone called out, "Welcome to Australia, Aussie, Aussie, Aussie."

At least everyone discovered who was the biggest bogan on the flight

 

[MEL_Traveller]

Would prefer that than the Welcome to Country BS....or monitors that have words on for cities you cant even pronounce let alone know where they are.

On board it’s not a ‘welcome’ to country. It’s an acknowledgement of country. Big difference between the two!

 

[jastel]

I get "Welcomed"... the FA literally says "Welcome to (name nobody knows)" etc.
Then they acknowledge elders etc. as if they built the Airport.

I have literally had tourists asking me why we landed in (name nobody knows) I wanted to go to Brisbane...

 

[SCM]

Would prefer that than the Welcome to Country BS....or monitors that have words on for cities you cant even pronounce let alone know where they are.

Agree on this! Qantas makes it so cringe to fly on their services because of this nonsense - if anything is truly inappropriate, it is that.