Specifically how is Australia behind the UK ?
Dec 20th 2004, 1:51 am
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Re: Specifically how is Australia behind the UK ?
Originally Posted by OzTennis
There is a series on satellite TV here called Booze Britain. Binge drinking is another thing that the UK is well ahead of Australia at. The under 25's, girls in particular, proudly lead Europe at this.
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Dec 20th 2004, 1:53 am
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Re: Specifically how is Australia behind the UK ?
Originally Posted by MikeStanton
Oh yeah? Aus burglary rate is one of the highest (possibly the highest) in the OECD countries. Incidence of rape is much higher than in UK; as is often the case where countries have a backward attitude to women.
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Dec 20th 2004, 2:13 am
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Re: Specifically how is Australia behind the UK ?
Originally Posted by Wendy&Mike
Sorry, personal experience tells me the opposite. UK fudge figures for fun - unemployment is at an all time low yet dissability is at an all time high - burglary is at an all time low - break and entry an all time high!!
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Mike.
And no doubt you haven't been raped in Oz yet; so we can deduce it's not a problem Down Under.
Dec 20th 2004, 2:18 am
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Re: Specifically how is Australia behind the UK ?
Originally Posted by Deadmeat
Can you flush the bog paper though? Man, I'm sure Greek plumbing can't be THAT bad 
It's not so much bad drainage. It's just the way plumbing is installed & the materials used, that is years behind the times.
If there's a long winded, awkward, labour intensive way to do it, that's the way it's done here!!
Dec 20th 2004, 2:20 am
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Re: Specifically how is Australia behind the UK ?
Originally Posted by Wendy&Mike
Sorry, personal experience tells me the opposite. UK fudge figures for fun - unemployment is at an all time low yet dissability is at an all time high - burglary is at an all time low - break and entry an all time high!!
Mike.
Mike.
http://www.news.com.au/common/story_...E26462,00.html
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Dec 20th 2004, 2:24 am
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Re: Specifically how is Australia behind the UK ?
: And no doubt you haven't been raped in Oz yet; so we can deduce it's not a problem Down Under.[/QUOTE]
Even by your standards Mike, this is a crap thing to say.
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Even by your standards Mike, this is a crap thing to say.
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Dec 20th 2004, 2:28 am
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Re: Specifically how is Australia behind the UK ?
Originally Posted by MikeStanton
That really is the most ridiculous example, Teach. Most Aussies are born pi*sheads and proud of it. Even you know that.
The UK used to be a long way behind Australia in alcohol consumption per capita but after being neck and neck in 1995 the UK has just about hit the lead.
"Alcohol consumption per capita peaked in Australia and the United States in the early 1980's. However, it continues to rise in many countries, including the UK and Japan".
Drinking patterns have changed drastically with wine consumption booming in Oz and beer and spirits consumption falling. In the UK the rise of the binge drinker i.e. drinking to get drunk as quickly as possible is well documented. I'm not saying it doesn't happen in Australia too but surely not as bad as any UK town on a Friday or weekend? Even you know that!
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Dec 20th 2004, 2:52 am
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Re: Specifically how is Australia behind the UK ?
Originally Posted by OzTennis
Well you were taught by Nobel Prize winners and went to Imperial and Oxford so you must be right, I'm just an unsophisticated colonial
Dec 20th 2004, 3:31 am
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Re: Specifically how is Australia behind the UK ?
Well this is news to me... I always thought that Oz was 9-10 hours in front of the UK. Now you says it's 20 years behind 
Dec 20th 2004, 5:08 am
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Re: Specifically how is Australia behind the UK ?
Originally Posted by MikeStanton
Oh yeah? Aus burglary rate is one of the highest (possibly the highest) in the OECD countries. Incidence of rape is much higher than in UK; as is often the case where countries have a backward attitude to women.
Dec 20th 2004, 6:38 am
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Re: Specifically how is Australia behind the UK ?
Plenty of people in Oz have mullets, wear stone wash jeans and listen to ACDC. Problem is they think they never went out of fashion and have been doing the same stuff since the seventies.
In Britain the mullet had a horrible revival but soon died again.
As for the boozing - Sydney CBD at night is no different to your average English city at night, ie drunks everywhere.
In Britain the mullet had a horrible revival but soon died again.
As for the boozing - Sydney CBD at night is no different to your average English city at night, ie drunks everywhere.
Dec 20th 2004, 6:41 am
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Re: Specifically how is Australia behind the UK ?
Originally Posted by bondipom
Plenty of people in Oz have mullets, wear stone wash jeans and listen to ACDC. Problem is they think they never went out of fashion and have been doing the same stuff since the seventies.
In Britain the mullet had a horrible revival but soon died again.
As for the boozing - Sydney CBD at night is no different to your average English city at night, ie drunks everywhere.
In Britain the mullet had a horrible revival but soon died again.
As for the boozing - Sydney CBD at night is no different to your average English city at night, ie drunks everywhere.
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Dec 20th 2004, 7:02 am
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Re: Specifically how is Australia behind the UK ?
Originally Posted by Deadmeat
What's wrong with AC/DC?
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Dec 20th 2004, 7:29 am
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Re: Specifically how is Australia behind the UK ?
If you look at the statistics crime in OZ has fallen to record levels while it is rising in the UK. MIke Stanton who said sexual assaults and burglaries were higher in OZ would be interested to know that burglaries fell by 28% and sexual assualts by 20%.
Dec 20th 2004, 7:32 am
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Re: Specifically how is Australia behind the UK ?
Australia takes, all maintains some of the good things from the 70s.
And I also believe that there are parts of male society in the UK that are just as abusive to women. Australians may appear to play at being "sexist", but then they will back it up with good manners and a bit of charm which never goes missing with a woman, in my experience, even in these days of enlightenment. I was once chastised for not opening a beer for my wife - OK I got distracted... and it has only happened once.
In my semi-rural fire brigade, we are taught gender equality from Day 1 - the instructors soon stamp out sexist remarks (all from the teenagers).
Some of the good things about australia; state of the art stadiums, , BPAY, driver licenses and rego plates that get issued on the spot(!) This was the biggest surprise for me.
BM
And I also believe that there are parts of male society in the UK that are just as abusive to women. Australians may appear to play at being "sexist", but then they will back it up with good manners and a bit of charm which never goes missing with a woman, in my experience, even in these days of enlightenment. I was once chastised for not opening a beer for my wife - OK I got distracted...
and it has only happened once. In my semi-rural fire brigade, we are taught gender equality from Day 1 - the instructors soon stamp out sexist remarks (all from the teenagers).
Some of the good things about australia; state of the art stadiums, , BPAY, driver licenses and rego plates that get issued on the spot(!) This was the biggest surprise for me.
BM
