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Forum: The Barbie
Jan 30th 2013, 1:42 pm
Replies: 22
Views: 1,560
Posted By Shakmaty

Re: What is the scariest thing you have done?

I would have said emigrating to a country I'd never visited before.

However, sitting in a plane in Brisbane on Sunday evening as the Cyclone is raging around us, wondering whether the plane will...
Forum: Australia
Jan 30th 2013, 1:17 pm
Replies: 20
Views: 2,023
Posted By Shakmaty

Re: within 1 hour commute of St Kilda, Melbourne

Have you checked out McKinnon? Superb secondary school, but prices are rising because of this. Also it's just round the corner form St Kilda, but the roads can get very busy during rush hours...
Forum: The Barbie
Nov 8th 2011, 9:03 am
Replies: 64
Views: 5,876
Posted By Shakmaty

Re: Coburg and ethnicity

Doesn't it? I have never seen it open on a Saturday when I've been past:(

The cakes and pastries are amazing. I work at one of the Jewish schools and they often have a buffet supplied by AVIV :)
Forum: The Barbie
Nov 7th 2011, 11:21 am
Replies: 14
Views: 935
Posted By Shakmaty

Re: Free Kitten Coburg Area.

Nice one Eddie. We got 2 cats already or we'd have taken it :)
Forum: The Barbie
Nov 6th 2011, 5:11 am
Replies: 64
Views: 5,876
Posted By Shakmaty

Re: Coburg and ethnicity

AVIV does excellent cakes, but their coffee tastes like crap. Elwood Patisserie does excellent cakes, their coffee isn't great but is passable, and they do great bread and pastries too :)

Also I...
Forum: Australia
Nov 5th 2011, 7:07 am
Replies: 3
Views: 704
Posted By Shakmaty

Re: Noble park Melbourne

It's a dump with ethnic tensions running through it. However, it is very close to the Eastlink and Princes Highway so fairly easily navigable by car. The train is on the Dandenong line and can be...
Forum: The Barbie
Nov 5th 2011, 6:58 am
Replies: 64
Views: 5,876
Posted By Shakmaty

Re: Coburg and ethnicity

I pick up a morning coffee on the way to work from Artful Dodger, sometimes from Saloop in Gardenvale. When in Glenhuntley Road I go either to Artful Dodger or Rocleys but the cakes at the Elwod...
Forum: Australia
Nov 4th 2011, 11:07 am
Replies: 101
Views: 12,463
Posted By Shakmaty

Re: This article should be compulsory reading for anyone planning to emigrate

But Walsall has the Christmas Illuminations and a funny accent :)
Forum: Australia
Nov 4th 2011, 11:06 am
Replies: 101
Views: 12,463
Posted By Shakmaty

Re: This article should be compulsory reading for anyone planning to emigrate

Bizarre. You only have to read this forum for a while to realise how different the emigration experience is for people.

Why worry whether people will stay or move back? There is no black and...
Forum: The Barbie
Nov 4th 2011, 10:35 am
Replies: 64
Views: 5,876
Posted By Shakmaty

Re: Coburg and ethnicity

We have those too...Closing Down Sale, Last Day Today!!!! Again!!!
Forum: The Barbie
Nov 4th 2011, 10:31 am
Replies: 64
Views: 5,876
Posted By Shakmaty

Re: Coburg and ethnicity

Damn, I've got a tacky Carpet Call advert banging round my head now:frown:

"CALL, CALL, CARPET CALL, THE EXPERTS IN THE TRADE"

Why do they have to shout?:huh:
Forum: The Barbie
Nov 4th 2011, 10:24 am
Replies: 64
Views: 5,876
Posted By Shakmaty

Re: Coburg and ethnicity

Mostly (http://en.wiktionary.org/wiki/checkmate)

:D
Forum: The Barbie
Nov 4th 2011, 10:04 am
Replies: 64
Views: 5,876
Posted By Shakmaty

Re: Coburg and ethnicity

On the issue of ethnicity, you can take a walk down my main street, Glenhuntly Road, and listen to:

Russian
Polish
Israeli
Hebrew
Chinese
Vietnamese
German
French
Forum: The Barbie
Nov 4th 2011, 10:01 am
Replies: 64
Views: 5,876
Posted By Shakmaty

Re: Coburg and ethnicity

I've had some good coffee in Melbourne....in fact, I had an excellent coffee for a shockingly cheap $2 in that precinct that ozzie posted the photo of.

Here's some...
Forum: Australia
Oct 13th 2011, 11:27 pm
Replies: 25
Views: 3,895
Posted By Shakmaty

Re: Fed up of Melbourne. Seriously.

I took a couple of years off BE to have a life:lol:

Still in Elsternwick, still loving it:)
Forum: Australia
Oct 13th 2011, 12:26 pm
Replies: 25
Views: 3,895
Posted By Shakmaty

Re: Fed up of Melbourne. Seriously.

Also nearby walks along the Yarra at Warrandyte:)

Yarra Ranges close by.

Far enough away from Doncaster and Ringwood for them not to be a nuisance:lol:
Forum: Australia
Oct 13th 2011, 12:16 pm
Replies: 25
Views: 3,895
Posted By Shakmaty

Re: Fed up of Melbourne. Seriously.

An excellent hippy market every Saturday:)
Forum: Australia
Nov 3rd 2009, 9:58 pm
Replies: 19
Views: 1,746
Posted By Shakmaty

Re: Anyone got any positives???

I love Melbourne. Moved here nearly 5 years ago, have rented the whole time. I now live in Elsternwick, a fairly desirable suburb in the inner SE just inland from St Kilda. I couldn't afford to buy...
Forum: Australia
Nov 3rd 2009, 11:31 am
Replies: 714
Views: 65,789
Posted By Shakmaty

Re: I DON'T LIKE LIVING IN AUSTRALIA BECAUSE...

Which is probalbly why the next time I come back here won't be for another couple of months, and probably the same subjects will be replaying:D
Forum: Australia
Nov 3rd 2009, 11:29 am
Replies: 714
Views: 65,789
Posted By Shakmaty

Re: I DON'T LIKE LIVING IN AUSTRALIA BECAUSE...

Well, as a non believer, any association with God I find quite offensive.....I'll always consider myself an areligious rose tinted specs wearer:D
Forum: Australia
Nov 3rd 2009, 11:20 am
Replies: 714
Views: 65,789
Posted By Shakmaty

Re: I DON'T LIKE LIVING IN AUSTRALIA BECAUSE...

Well I've been away from BE for a while, and never heard the term Godzoner before tonight. I've been accused of having rose tinted specs, so I guess its just another name for that.

To be fair if...
Forum: Australia
Nov 3rd 2009, 11:07 am
Replies: 714
Views: 65,789
Posted By Shakmaty

Re: I DON'T LIKE LIVING IN AUSTRALIA BECAUSE...

:lol:

Godzoner = pathetic attempt to label and belittle someone who holds a certain view of things.

Troll = pathetic attempt to label and belittle someone who holds a certain view of things...
Forum: Australia
Nov 3rd 2009, 10:53 am
Replies: 714
Views: 65,789
Posted By Shakmaty

Re: I DON'T LIKE LIVING IN AUSTRALIA BECAUSE...

I don't really see the difference in this respect...you are saying that if your view of Australia is negative, then you are labelled a 'troll' in the Aus forums, but if you have a negative view of...
Forum: Australia
Nov 3rd 2009, 10:40 am
Replies: 714
Views: 65,789
Posted By Shakmaty

Re: I DON'T LIKE LIVING IN AUSTRALIA BECAUSE...

Would you therefore agree that 'troll' in this circumstance is Ausforumspeak for the equally pathetic MBTTUK term 'Godzoner'?
Forum: Australia
Nov 3rd 2009, 10:22 am
Replies: 714
Views: 65,789
Posted By Shakmaty

Re: I DON'T LIKE LIVING IN AUSTRALIA BECAUSE...

Perhaps you had to be there. But as I seem to remember, we were in the midst of someone shit stirring at the time, so trolling was high on the agenda.

Do you really think that the term trolling...
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