Is Australia an oversold country?
Jun 23rd 2009, 9:42 pm
#106
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Re: Is Australia an oversold country?
Cheers;
and that was a post from "The Australian Tourist Board".
This board is so one sided most of the time, its a wonder Mr Rudd is not the Honouree President begging cashed up Brits to call in for a year and waste a few hundred grand on one of his sheds on legs, oh by the way, he'll throw in $21k, i tell yeh, its a give away, its different this time?
and that was a post from "The Australian Tourist Board".
This board is so one sided most of the time, its a wonder Mr Rudd is not the Honouree President begging cashed up Brits to call in for a year and waste a few hundred grand on one of his sheds on legs, oh by the way, he'll throw in $21k, i tell yeh, its a give away, its different this time?
I think you should be allowed to be slightly racial.
Many uk/irish people would be still alive if the public information was not so politically correct
Jun 23rd 2009, 10:04 pm
#107
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Re: Is Australia an oversold country?
I do not know whether you are positive or negative, women or shemale, bloke or blokette, back or white, big nosed or flat nosed, f00k nose, i do not give two or three sh!tes. I have a black son and i am pink, i am an aeithest or whatever, and my missus loves the lord, a practicing Catholic, and i still don't give a sh1t.
But when i see, working class Chavs, blowing up their own arse, like i see on here, i feel sick, sick to the bone. My house is worth this, why can't i sell? Australia is the bestest, we won't see a recession, we are different we made the trip, we have a 4x4 a 4X2 and a boat, and an English shop in Thornlands. Brits in the Costa De Bayside, taking the p!ss out of themselves?
I am a Brit, we really embarass ourselves, for god sake, lets start being honest, why are we so bladdy plastic, give me the 60's any day in Britain, time were tough. but at least we had integrity?
Jun 23rd 2009, 10:51 pm
#108
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Re: Is Australia an oversold country?
Sort of sums it up CHAVOZ!
Not there yet? Give it time, the Ozzy's will always follow.
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Jun 23rd 2009, 11:03 pm
#109
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Re: Is Australia an oversold country?
Australia is great for holidaying, even one year working visa, but apart from the climate is it really worth moving the other side of the World just so you can be warm year round? (bearing in mind the huge problems Aus will have with global warming, droughts, 40s plus temps)
People who have low expectations of jobs, not into cultural things, non-university educated and who probably works in the trades, reads the Sun, smoke and drinks too much and typically holidays with other British people on the Costas will love Australia.
Those who do not fit the 'working class' stereotype outlined above will become very bored in a cultural wasteland after a while unless they have a lot of money to travel.
People who have low expectations of jobs, not into cultural things, non-university educated and who probably works in the trades, reads the Sun, smoke and drinks too much and typically holidays with other British people on the Costas will love Australia.
Those who do not fit the 'working class' stereotype outlined above will become very bored in a cultural wasteland after a while unless they have a lot of money to travel.
Jun 23rd 2009, 11:09 pm
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Re: Is Australia an oversold country?
Jun 23rd 2009, 11:16 pm
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Re: Is Australia an oversold country?
The media in Australia is dominated by tabloid gutter press, cultural experiences revolve around getting drunk at barbies and going out for dinner usually means a trip to Hungry Jacks! Like I said, many Brits will thrive in this environment.
Jun 23rd 2009, 11:17 pm
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Re: Is Australia an oversold country?
Australia is great for holidaying, even one year working visa, but apart from the climate is it really worth moving the other side of the World just so you can be warm year round? (bearing in mind the huge problems Aus will have with global warming, droughts, 40s plus temps)
People who have low expectations of jobs, not into cultural things, non-university educated and who probably works in the trades, reads the Sun, smoke and drinks too much and typically holidays with other British people on the Costas will love Australia.
Those who do not fit the 'working class' stereotype outlined above will become very bored in a cultural wasteland after a while unless they have a lot of money to travel.
People who have low expectations of jobs, not into cultural things, non-university educated and who probably works in the trades, reads the Sun, smoke and drinks too much and typically holidays with other British people on the Costas will love Australia.
Those who do not fit the 'working class' stereotype outlined above will become very bored in a cultural wasteland after a while unless they have a lot of money to travel.
Jun 23rd 2009, 11:19 pm
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Re: Is Australia an oversold country?
It is makes you bitter then perhaps at least a trip back to the UK to refresh your memory is overdue.
I prefer my cultural diversity in Asia. Malaysia, Indonesia, China, Japan all do a lot more for me than tired Europe. But each to their own.
An MSc educated bogon loving Australia.
I prefer my cultural diversity in Asia. Malaysia, Indonesia, China, Japan all do a lot more for me than tired Europe. But each to their own.
An MSc educated bogon loving Australia.
www.boganclothing.com.au/
Jun 23rd 2009, 11:32 pm
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Re: Is Australia an oversold country?
Those who would big themselves up and call themselves Americans.
When our representatives in General Congress, Assembled, on July 4, 1776, declared "That these United Colonies are, and of Right ought to be, Free and Independent States," the question immediately arose: What do you call the citizens of the newly named United States of America? Our answer was to shorten that mouthful to its last word and add n, a choice that has vexed our neighbors in Canada and Mexico ever since.
For are not they too Americans? But consider the alternatives. We could be called United Statesians, as Canadian and English writers have suggested. Our own citizens have proposed Usonians, Usans, Usarians, Ustatians, Unisians, Unitans, Fredonians, and Columbians. Columbia, in fact, was a serious possibility for the name of our country; it was already in use in 1775 by the poet Phyllis Wheatley, and it has been a favorite of poetic patriots ever since, as in the song "Columbia, the Gem of the Ocean." That name was taken so seriously that our nation's capital is located in the District of Columbia. But to this day nobody has improved on the flatly descriptive United States of America, and so its people have remained Americans.
http://www.answers.com/american
A bit like calling Soccer Football or Australians Oceanians.
When our representatives in General Congress, Assembled, on July 4, 1776, declared "That these United Colonies are, and of Right ought to be, Free and Independent States," the question immediately arose: What do you call the citizens of the newly named United States of America? Our answer was to shorten that mouthful to its last word and add n, a choice that has vexed our neighbors in Canada and Mexico ever since.
For are not they too Americans? But consider the alternatives. We could be called United Statesians, as Canadian and English writers have suggested. Our own citizens have proposed Usonians, Usans, Usarians, Ustatians, Unisians, Unitans, Fredonians, and Columbians. Columbia, in fact, was a serious possibility for the name of our country; it was already in use in 1775 by the poet Phyllis Wheatley, and it has been a favorite of poetic patriots ever since, as in the song "Columbia, the Gem of the Ocean." That name was taken so seriously that our nation's capital is located in the District of Columbia. But to this day nobody has improved on the flatly descriptive United States of America, and so its people have remained Americans.
http://www.answers.com/american
A bit like calling Soccer Football or Australians Oceanians.
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Jun 23rd 2009, 11:33 pm
#116
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Re: Is Australia an oversold country?
Australia is great for holidaying, even one year working visa, but apart from the climate is it really worth moving the other side of the World just so you can be warm year round? (bearing in mind the huge problems Aus will have with global warming, droughts, 40s plus temps)
People who have low expectations of jobs, not into cultural things, non-university educated and who probably works in the trades, reads the Sun, smoke and drinks too much and typically holidays with other British people on the Costas will love Australia.
Those who do not fit the 'working class' stereotype outlined above will become very bored in a cultural wasteland after a while unless they have a lot of money to travel.
People who have low expectations of jobs, not into cultural things, non-university educated and who probably works in the trades, reads the Sun, smoke and drinks too much and typically holidays with other British people on the Costas will love Australia.
Those who do not fit the 'working class' stereotype outlined above will become very bored in a cultural wasteland after a while unless they have a lot of money to travel.
So got any more useless generalisations you care to share with us? Oh - and for the record, could you please tell me what cultural activities you engaged in, in the yookay? It's just that from my experience (let's try this generalisation thing), the sort of people that claim there is no 'culture' in Oz are the kind of Daily Mail reading, Ready Meal eating, caravan-owning, chinless wonders who haven't been to a concert since Daniel O'Donnel played the local civic centre back in 1982.
Jun 23rd 2009, 11:34 pm
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Re: Is Australia an oversold country?
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Sort of sums it up CHAVOZ! Not there yet? Give it time, the Ozzy's will always follow.
Sort of sums it up CHAVOZ!
Not there yet? Give it time, the Ozzy's will always follow.The positioning of the countries abilities to ride out the storm, with a fiscal adjustment required of:
1.0% Canada
1.2% Australia
1.8% Germany
3.1% Spain
3.5% USA
4.5% France
4.8% Italy
5.3% Britain
You say that Australia always follows, but it doesn't !
Take the property crashes in the UK during 1995 as an example, Australia didn't follow that, and you can actually find many areas that Australia hasn't followed.
Obviously there will be some where they did, but to generalise and turn that into "always" is stretching it ... but then again.. that's what often happens to get a 'good' story...
Jun 23rd 2009, 11:37 pm
#118
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Re: Is Australia an oversold country?
The V8s are coming to Townsville. Complete with dancing semi naked chicks and dagwood dogs.
BAM. AUSSIE CULTURE!!
(I take it culture comes in all shapes and sizes?)
BAM. AUSSIE CULTURE!!
(I take it culture comes in all shapes and sizes?)
Jun 23rd 2009, 11:48 pm
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Re: Is Australia an oversold country?
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Sort of sums it up CHAVOZ! Not there yet? Give it time, the Ozzy's will always follow.
Sort of sums it up CHAVOZ!
Not there yet? Give it time, the Ozzy's will always follow.