.... particularly when they are not ASIC.
By way of explanation, WA people often drop off the last letters of words because they are either indolent or lackadaisical or koalaful (which is the WA equivalent of slothful).
Therefore, they often just say that they are from W, and they all nod knowingly, whereas the Easterners say W ------ TF? ............ and ASIC, in West Australianeze means that you are asymptomatic to sickness.
But don't get me wrong, dear readers, particularly those of you from overseas (many of whom quote the NES as your prime reason to emigrate to our Great South Land), our colleagues from the W are sometimes lovely, worldly people, such as Rose Hancock, Dr. Twiggy Slight Amount of Bushyness, Marky Mark, & Prince Leonard, ........ and, of course, the W folk also like to have a good ......