Is Australia an oversold country?
Jun 23rd 2009, 11:48 pm
#121
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Re: Is Australia an oversold country?
One minute with Google turned up the Townsville Choral Society, a cultural festival in Strand Park, a Townsville Baroque concert, Townsville Orchid Society, the Townsville Brass band (who give regular concerts in the park it would seem) and a local drumming circle who offer free drumming sessions. There's also a civic theatre with a full line up of plays, a regional art gallery (complete with annual arts awards ceremony), three further art galleries and a cineplex playing arty films like The Dancer Upstairs and Balzac & the Little Chinese Seamstress.
Jun 23rd 2009, 11:54 pm
#122
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Re: Is Australia an oversold country?
Yea - but you don't give a shit, because like all people who claim this country has no culture - you never engaged in any in the UK. Culture is just some buzzword to trot out when required, it was background noise in the UK and it's just as irrelevant to you here.
One minute with Google turned up the Townsville Choral Society, a cultural festival in Strand Park, a Townsville Baroque concert, Townsville Orchid Society, the Townsville Brass band (who give regular concerts in the park it would seem) and a local drumming circle who offer free drumming sessions. There's also a civic theatre with a full line up of plays, a regional art gallery (complete with annual arts awards ceremony), three further art galleries and a cineplex playing arty films like The Dancer Upstairs and Balzac & the Little Chinese Seamstress.
One minute with Google turned up the Townsville Choral Society, a cultural festival in Strand Park, a Townsville Baroque concert, Townsville Orchid Society, the Townsville Brass band (who give regular concerts in the park it would seem) and a local drumming circle who offer free drumming sessions. There's also a civic theatre with a full line up of plays, a regional art gallery (complete with annual arts awards ceremony), three further art galleries and a cineplex playing arty films like The Dancer Upstairs and Balzac & the Little Chinese Seamstress.
I'll be at the V8s, with a dagwood dog in hand. After I might pop to the museum or head out to the Island. I won't be going to the choral society though hahaha. What do you think i am!! Hahaha. Choral society!
Jun 24th 2009, 12:00 am
#124
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Re: Is Australia an oversold country?
Heyhey don't get arsey with me. I was being serious, trying to point out that culture isn't just a church (or choir....). Culture includes anything which is indicative of a countries history or "personality".
I'll be at the V8s, with a dagwood dog in hand. After I might pop to the museum or head out to the Island. I won't be going to the choral society though hahaha. What do you think i am!! Hahaha. Choral society!
I'll be at the V8s, with a dagwood dog in hand. After I might pop to the museum or head out to the Island. I won't be going to the choral society though hahaha. What do you think i am!! Hahaha. Choral society!
Jun 24th 2009, 12:00 am
#125
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Re: Is Australia an oversold country?
That is spot on. Australia as a whole is really too young to have developed it's own culture/identity and it's current "culture" (if you can call it that) is primarily Anglo based anyway.
Jun 24th 2009, 12:03 am
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Re: Is Australia an oversold country?
One minute with Google turned up the Townsville Choral Society, a cultural festival in Strand Park, a Townsville Baroque concert, Townsville Orchid Society, the Townsville Brass band (who give regular concerts in the park it would seem) and a local drumming circle who offer free drumming sessions. There's also a civic theatre with a full line up of plays, a regional art gallery (complete with annual arts awards ceremony), three further art galleries and a cineplex playing arty films like The Dancer Upstairs and Balzac & the Little Chinese Seamstress.
Jun 24th 2009, 3:06 am
#133
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Re: Is Australia an oversold country?
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 24th 2009, 12:35 pm
#134
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Re: Is Australia an oversold country?
haha Interesting read. I have to love the great source to.... answer.com.
Anyhow first time I have ever heard that term and its definately never verbally used. Also never even heard the use of the word Oceanians used for an Australian. I guess it sounds good in theory though. We obviously have a different sport that we call football on this side of the world, hence we dont call two of the same sports by the same name. Its just different period.
Anyhow first time I have ever heard that term and its definately never verbally used. Also never even heard the use of the word Oceanians used for an Australian. I guess it sounds good in theory though. We obviously have a different sport that we call football on this side of the world, hence we dont call two of the same sports by the same name. Its just different period.
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.
Jun 24th 2009, 12:39 pm
#135
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Re: Is Australia an oversold country?
Or the highlight of their life being how many Pints they can down and how many times they can be sick over their girl/boyfriend...........and the obligatory trip to Lanzarote/Tenerife/Ibiza etc with the fake tan included.