Is Australia an oversold country?
Jun 25th 2009, 2:43 pm
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Back to the original thread, I think that some folk are deliberately trying to put others off going to Oz so that they can keep it for themselves!
Jun 25th 2009, 5:18 pm
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Back to the original thread, I think that some folk are deliberately trying to put others off going to Oz so that they can keep it for themselves!
Back to the original thread, I think that some folk are deliberately trying to put others off going to Oz so that they can keep it for themselves!
Jun 25th 2009, 9:54 pm
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Live and let live
Jun 25th 2009, 10:05 pm
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Maybe. But I think it's more likely that some folk are trying to put others off going to Aus to justify their own decision to return. It's a bit like those who denigrate the decision of others to have/not have a baby. Makes them feel more secure with their decision.
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I much prefer my weekends at Hamilton Island personally.
Funnily enough I am just back from a trip to Scotland and not once did I go to the opera or jet off to Europe
The whole Aus has no culture line is a funny one as I have done many more culturally stimulating things here than I ever did in Scotland. This could have much to do with the fact we earn more cash here and have more time off but I do believe that there is plenty culture here unless you only refer to culture in terms of history, which in my opinion is very blinkered. This would mean that for example, the UK has a dearth of culture compared to Rome or Egypt. Life is indeed what you make it.
Jun 26th 2009, 12:27 am
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If not - what a pile of SH1TE!!!
Jun 26th 2009, 12:45 am
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Now that is definitely one of the biggest Australian myths.
Methinks your definition of culture is limited. Australia hasn't been around around long enough to properly develop it's own culture and currently it's a bastardised version of the Anglo culture.
but I do believe that there is plenty culture here unless you only refer to culture in terms of history, which in my opinion is very blinkered. This would mean that for example, the UK has a dearth of culture compared to Rome or Egypt. Life is indeed what you make it.
Jun 26th 2009, 12:47 am
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Jun 26th 2009, 12:54 am
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Australia did exist prior to 1606.
Jun 26th 2009, 12:56 am
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My view of culture is not at all limited, completely the opposite. With your thought process london for example must be far behind Rome culturally?
Culture comes in many forms so maybe you should open your eyes to what culture really is and let yourself develop some vision and free thought instead of regurgitating this tired old argument.
God this subject is almost as boring as trawling around a mind numbing museum filled with old tat from a bygone age
Jun 26th 2009, 1:00 am
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Ah the great Jeremy Clarkson - politically just to the right of Genghis Kahn, but he does make me giggle. Here's what he has to say about the yookay.
Perhaps you’re saying that you’re proud to be British? But what does this mean exactly; what are you proud of? Our provincial town centres with their Styrofoam carpets or those pastry-faced people who work in petrol stations; our National Health Service, our trains, our cricket team, our roads, our government, our wobbly bridges, our Millennium Dome, Rover, our Hutton inquiry, the British Library, British Airways, Britart, our education system, Will Young — what?
Had we been around between 1850 and 1875, when Britain was the workshop and the engine of the world, then maybe you could wake up every morning and bask in the hope and the glory and the pomp and the circumstance. Maybe then you could have put a sign in your garden saying, “Support our troops and Lord Palmerston”.
But now? All we have is our world-renowned sense of humour and I’m sorry, good though it is, I’m not going to spend £500 on a flagpole to celebrate Richard Curtis’s dab hand with a metaphor.
Had we been around between 1850 and 1875, when Britain was the workshop and the engine of the world, then maybe you could wake up every morning and bask in the hope and the glory and the pomp and the circumstance. Maybe then you could have put a sign in your garden saying, “Support our troops and Lord Palmerston”.
But now? All we have is our world-renowned sense of humour and I’m sorry, good though it is, I’m not going to spend £500 on a flagpole to celebrate Richard Curtis’s dab hand with a metaphor.
Jun 26th 2009, 1:02 am
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Eh, no myth for me.
My view of culture is not at all limited, completely the opposite. With your thought process london for example must be far behind Rome culturally?
Culture comes in many forms so maybe you should open your eyes to what culture really is and let yourself develop some vision and free thought instead of regurgitating this tired old argument.
God this subject is almost as boring as trawling around a mind numbing museum filled with old tat from a bygone age
My view of culture is not at all limited, completely the opposite. With your thought process london for example must be far behind Rome culturally?
Culture comes in many forms so maybe you should open your eyes to what culture really is and let yourself develop some vision and free thought instead of regurgitating this tired old argument.
God this subject is almost as boring as trawling around a mind numbing museum filled with old tat from a bygone age
The view that unless it has English Origins it has zero cultural significance makes my blood boil.
Jun 26th 2009, 1:03 am
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Ah the great Jeremy Clarkson - politically just to the right of Genghis Kahn, but he does make me giggle. Here's what he has to say about the yookay.
Perhaps you’re saying that you’re proud to be British? But what does this mean exactly; what are you proud of? Our provincial town centres with their Styrofoam carpets or those pastry-faced people who work in petrol stations; our National Health Service, our trains, our cricket team, our roads, our government, our wobbly bridges, our Millennium Dome, Rover, our Hutton inquiry, the British Library, British Airways, Britart, our education system, Will Young — what?
Had we been around between 1850 and 1875, when Britain was the workshop and the engine of the world, then maybe you could wake up every morning and bask in the hope and the glory and the pomp and the circumstance. Maybe then you could have put a sign in your garden saying, “Support our troops and Lord Palmerston”.
But now? All we have is our world-renowned sense of humour and I’m sorry, good though it is, I’m not going to spend £500 on a flagpole to celebrate Richard Curtis’s dab hand with a metaphor.
Had we been around between 1850 and 1875, when Britain was the workshop and the engine of the world, then maybe you could wake up every morning and bask in the hope and the glory and the pomp and the circumstance. Maybe then you could have put a sign in your garden saying, “Support our troops and Lord Palmerston”.
But now? All we have is our world-renowned sense of humour and I’m sorry, good though it is, I’m not going to spend £500 on a flagpole to celebrate Richard Curtis’s dab hand with a metaphor.
Jun 26th 2009, 1:27 am
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That makes Australia a great place.
Jun 26th 2009, 2:18 am
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None. Nuff said. It's not a part of modern day Australian culture.
Australia did exist prior to 1606.
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Jun 26th 2009, 2:32 am
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What part of Australian indigenous culture do you see in Australia in everyday life?
None. Nuff said. It's not a part of modern day Australian culture.
Australia was colonised just over 200 years ago. Prior to that it wasn't known as Australia so, technically Australia didn't exist prior to to 1788. Obviously the island was there before that date.
None. Nuff said. It's not a part of modern day Australian culture.
Australia was colonised just over 200 years ago. Prior to that it wasn't known as Australia so, technically Australia didn't exist prior to to 1788. Obviously the island was there before that date.
Ask the many Aborignal or Torres Strait Islander people (approx. 450 000 people at the last census) if they agree with your statement regarding the fact that indigenous culture is not part of everyday life in Australia. A bit like saying because the Brits/Europeans colonised Africa that African culture is not alive and kicking. Ditto the sub-continent, in fact anywhere that has ever been colonised.
I can't even be bothered arguing with you. Yours statements are ill-informed and bigoted!