jad n rich

But it gives the ladies something to do, coffee, bake, needlework while waiting for the breadwinner to return, I mean with the kids bunged in free childcare what are they do do otherwise.


Disclaimer, one aussie bloke who does not treat wife like this.

janeyray

By Jove that came out big!!!!!!!!!!

Badge

lol Janeyray.

My missus paid over the odds for her tupperware at the Melbourne Home show. They must have seen her coming, meanwhile my wallet was a few grams lighter.

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Mercedes

Perth has always been behind the rest of Oz. I lived all over Oz in a 12 year period and never got invited to tupperware parties.........I'm not sure if I should cry or be thankful

Neil S

Like to throw a few observations of my own in:

- Average age of a used car here about 20 years
- The furniture in the shops looks like you get in the reruns of Columbo
- TV is all US Cop Shows here like you got in the UK in the mid 70's
- They sell animals in pet shops
- Average age of male presenter on lifestyle shows on TV about 55 years
- There is only one TV listings magazine called TV Week where half the progs listed don't get shown anyway
- Very few people seem to travel very far on their holiday's. Camping holidays are still really popular here.

heraldic

no homebred porn industry.

Grayling

Lots of imports though.

G

seang

You jest surely

MikeStanton

I don't and neither do you. But, let's try and look at the facts. The following is an extract from an international crime survey, http://www.civitas.org.uk/pubs/internatCrime.php (wombat42 get all your counting fingers and both thumbs out)


# People in England and Wales face the second highest risk of being a victim of crime. Australia was the worst with 30% of its people victims of crime in 2000, followed by England and Wales with 26.4%.

# England and Wales had the worst record for 'very serious' offences, scoring 18 for every hundred inhabitants, followed by Australia with 16.

# Contact crime, defined as robbery, sexual assault, and assault with force, was second highest in England and Wales (3.6% of those surveyed). The highest figure was for Australia, where it was 4.1%. The figure for the USA was 1.9% and for Japan, 0.4%.

And an Oz publication, http://www.aic.gov.au/publications/tandi/ti23.pdf, makes for interesting reading. Although a bit old (late 1980s) - it doesn't provide a great picture of Oz - with sexual assaults more than 5 (yes, five) times greater than in UK. And, in mega-macho Oz, I expect that excludes a lot of male rapes. I doubt if things have changed much over the past few years...

heraldic

I never felt that safe in sydney - always thought it was my own subjective perception. What is very common in Sydney are break-ins, even while you are at home-had three, never felt safe after that.

Badge

sounds like both countries have crime. Sometimes England cops it in a category, sometimes Australia cops it. I wouldn't even argue over it, or, even take my shoes off to continue counting on my toes.

BM

seang

Shoes !! shoes!!!
Jeez you need to embrace the Aussie culture more
shoes.....

new horizons

Too many people trying too hard to make one or the other country better! Reality is that each has advantages over the other. It is then purely a personal accounting to decide where the balance comes down. I miss parts of the UK (not the weather or the crappy beaches and beach lifestyles) and equally I would miss parts of Aussie if I were to return to the northern part of the globe.
If anyone can find Eutopia please let me know - the closest i have found to it so far is the Gold Coast and maybe parts of Portugal.

wombat42

Your Australian crime figure are from the late 1980's, a bit out of date don't you think, especially since the crime rates in OZ have been falling every year.
As for sexual assualts, they might appear higher in OZ because women over here are encouraged to report it ,while in the UK the cops probably say don't
bother theres not enough evidence for a conviction.

wombat42

Poor thing.
It must have been dreadful for you, your safe now back in Pommyland with Mummy to look after you far away from those beastly Aussie convicts.