Re: Australian Arrogance
 

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We're not arrogant; that's a fault you tend to find in other, inferior people.

:)

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Big country; diverse population.

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Where are the other Welsh - numbers are needed

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Yes, sorry, there was a Scottish family who also hangs out with us all in the compound and they tell us off for saying British instead of English.

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They are in the land of excess spittle. Llanllanllanllanspitllanlleth

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I did consider posting a neutral reply but thought that seeing as you seemed to be on your way out, I thought I'd post a kind of valedictory.

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I wouldn't call you an "ignorant tw@t", if I thought you were completely misinformed about something I would tell you and tell you why I thought so. Whether you choose to be rude and arrogant is a personal choice, but probably nothing to do with your race.

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It's no wonder that I don't find Australians rude/arrogant if all it amounts to is telling people you think they are wrong.

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Ghastly experience, an uncouth lot, savages the lot of them.

Chin music? Ankle music more like ... colonial pussies.

Chopper? Ah, I'll have him for breakfast ... I was more of a Grifter XL fan anyway ... chunky tyres and none of that fancy gear change nonsense.

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Have you been drinking paraffin again?

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I'm only on the Vim during daylight hours.

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That's not what it amounts too, but your question to me was about calling you an ignorant twat.

Australians for the most are proud of their country and we don't mind saying what a great place it is. For example, I live in the Middle East, the suns shines all year round, but you can't see the blue sky through the dust haze for nine months of the year. The English love it, think it's the best place on earth because they can lay out in the sun burning themselves to a crisp all year round - the permanent tan, an English persons dream. And I'm sure that's not all English people are like this, but certainly most of the one's that live in the Middle East. Yet we tell them the weather here isn't as good as Australia and to get a rashy and some boardies on their kids or risk them dying of skin cancer and we're being arrogant aussies. My kids go to a British school where Brits outnumber Australians, but I'm always hearing about how many Australians are at the school and how we must outnumber any other country. Not true, it only seems that way because we're hands on and like to get stuck in and participate in everything. At National Day recently, it was the Australian kids that got up and sung a number of Australian songs and sang the National Anthem (both verses because they all agreed that Beneath Our Radiant Southern Cross is the line that makes them feel most homesick). And before you ask, my kids also know the UAE National Anthem and can sing all of that in Arabic too.

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When I was in SE Asia living with hundreds of expats, in general terms the Australians were by far the loudest and least sensitive expat group. At office events they seemed to have no limits - food fights and extreme drunkeness were common. Can't remember the popular song that was corrupted so that "F*&k Off" (or was it "Get F*&%ed"?) was part of one line but the Aussies blasted it out with abandon - it didn't matter who was present.
I'm sure that this might be excused as high spirits but the local Muslim population found it (along with most Brits it seemed) extremely offensive.

My experience living with Australians was so negative that it coloured my judgement prior to moving here. As I said in an earlier post, my experience with Australians here has been very positive - most surprising given what happened in SE Asia.

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I like the Welsh, Gavin and Stacey wouldn't be the same without them. :rofl: