arkon

Yeh, looks great from the outside and it's not until you insert a finger and completely immerse yourself in it you find out what it really is.

BadgeIsBack

I'd have to smell for that one - having been a father of toddlers I am immune to feel.

Well my wife has just cooked some brownies..so on that thought...they smell right, they look right, I'll be relying on my taste buds.

Hino

L1A1 ? ...... I'll be sure to watch the evening news.

BadgeIsBack

The 7.62mm FN FAL,(a Belgian design) was called the SLR (Self Loading Rifle) in the UK and Australia, but officially designated the L1A1 rifle in GB.

So when you want to take a SLR to a bunch of bogans you might be saying you want to cull their numbers.....

spouse of scouse

My condolences to all those who despise Australia - it must be terrible to live in a place you hate so much

Pollyana

I really identify with what Arkon says - for some of us, who can't leave for various reasons, Australia does seem like a prison until you find ways of coping with it. I tolerate the place now, I can't afford to leave so I make the best of it by enjoying my job, and spending the rest of the time preparing for the trips home that all my wages go on
I used to say I hate the place but hating is really a waste of energy. Tolerating it is less stressful

MUST LEAVE UK

I bet not many folk know what an L1A1 is. Although I thought the Aussies bought the original FN version as well as M16's ???. It kicked like a mule and the susat was useless, but you could never break them. I was dark blue, so we still had the wooden butt ones in the early nineties !!.
Last I heard they were still using them to fire lines across decks for transfers at sea.

paulry

You say you can't afford to leave but isn't it a matter of saving up for a year or two (no holidays, etc) and then just biting the bullet and making it happen? Surely it's relatively easy when you only have yourself to consider?

dream on

Very well put
i know just where black cab is coming from,good on him for asking for advice
some of us are struggling all over the world and need support from these forums. we all have something to offer in some way.
thanks for helping him, i hope he hasnt given up.

Dorothy

Easier said than done, though. Some people (I'm thinking Pollyana here) have skills which are not transferrable back to UK. My Australian nursing degree would not be very helpful in Canada; I would have to go back to a Canadian university for 1 year in order to get a license there. Pretty difficult when there's only yourself with a wage.

paulry

It's tough choices but better to form a plan and make it happen than to be unhappy and stuck in a country that you don't want to be in. As with nearly everything, where there's a will there's a way.

BadgeIsBack

Then again, zen might have been talking about taking a camera....

arkon

Really? so I could just up and leave my 7 year old here?

Pollyana

Main reason for staying - its taken me 10 years to fight myself back up into a good career position with a good wage - starting again as junior admin at nearly 40 was bad enough, no chance of doing it now. No qualifications, its all hard fought on the job stuff to get where I am now. If I went home I would be back at the bottom, low wage, having to watch every penny and not having the job I love - they don't have storm and cyclone watchers & planners in the UK. My best hope would be emergency planning for a council but having friends in that field back home I know I have no chance of breaking into that small field with my lack of qualifications on paper.
here at least I enjoy my work and have a reasonable lifestyle. Back home I would struggle to get either.

Come retirement age I will have a rethink.....

Bernieboy

I like that

PS,and yer son will never be a saffer