JayDeee

Are you lot trying to tell me that I am not goin to get bitten on the butt by a redback lurking under the loo seat and be found there dead a week later

Bordy

If shes not coming out, the least you could do is invite Mike out for a week or two.

sjn2003

We're due to fly out to Sydney in a couple of months and I've just told my Gran that we are expecting a second baby (timing is everything, I know!).

'Oh that's a shame - you won't be able to go then' was the reply. Why not? 'Well you can't have a baby in Australia can you?' Why not ??? Apparently Gran doesn't think they have hospitals in Sydney !!

Disappointingly, I had a similar response from many people much younger. Think people in the UK watch too many episodes of The Flying Doctor

Badge

Bordy : that's the funniest thing I've read ALL YEAR.

Have to admit, if I ever met Mike in person, I'd probably buy him a beer....or two..

possoms

I said "Mother dear" well not like that - "Melbourne may get 40 degree days" - (I later had great pleasure in recounting this in email) but it gets effing cold in the winter..."

and it does - that's not a myth.

Ceri is right if you're cold, you're cold, if you're hot you're hot. I've never been a cold person or a hot person. Suited for Melbourne then..


BM[/QUOTE]

what is this "I'm cold" "no its not cold" thing all about me and my partner have this bloody argument all the time i say i'm cold he says its not and i say IF I'M COLD I'M BLOODY COLD NO MATTER WHAT YOU ARE GRRRRRRRR

sorry just had to get that off my chest anyway i went to perth for the first time last july i had asked over and over what is the weather like will it be warm even in winter they said yes you may need a light cardigan for the evenings so i packed my summer wardrobe with a "light cardigan" thrown in LOL it was freezing spent most of my money on jumpers socks and stuff and in the evening they all sat round the tv with dunnas wrapped round them (no form of heating in the place) people back home couldnt believe it when i told them i was cold in Australia

Badge

lol. I reckon differences like that can end in court proceedings.. I love parading around in a T-shirt when the Missus is 'freezing'; I act all innocent - "oh you're cold?, oh, shall I turn on the fire?"

just kidding, I'm not that bad.

Actually, I can be....even more

BM

possoms

hmmmm i have the name of a good laywer .. for me its a case of outback derbyshire village life in winter im sat in our cave watching corrie with ten jumpers six pairs of socks a balaclava on etc etc and my partners son is sat there in a t-shirt and shorts

CPW

Another weather myth, I'm afraid:

Some Australians seem to believe that southern England is regularly covered by a thick blanket of snow between November and March every year. I have several times been asked in Australia how I like 'not having a white Christmas'. When I reply that I'm from London, where it very rarely snows at all, let alone at Christmas, I am greeted with "hmm..." and a very sceptical look indeed.

mrsridge

so one day at work in Sydney it was winter - 12 degrees(ish) and this Irish temp says "it never gets this cold in Ireland" ....like the whole lunchroom looked at her like yup... she's definitely Irish

tonyk38

There's certainly plenty of urban myths about Aus in the UK. It's widely assumed to be infernally hot most, if not all of the year throughout the country, and to be so infested with dangerous wildlife, that you need to have your wits about you at all times. Otherwise spiders will bite you on the bum every time you go to the loo, snakes will attack you everytime you walk in the bush, and sharks will have you as hors d' oeuvres should you dare to venture more than 10 yards from land!

Anyhoo, I read somewhere that Aus has larger snowfields than Switzerland, and I can tell you right now that the coldest night of my life was spent camping in Aus, in midsummer!

Conversely, I found more than a few Aussies who believed that the UK was still mired in the economic mess of the late 70s with high unemployment, strikes everywhere etc. I suppose the news from abroad often focusses on the bad, so gives folks a distorted view of 'abroad'.

Also, what's with this thing that poms don't wash? Where on earth did that originate from?

Badge

Poms not 'tubbing' was one I heard from my best mate. I wondered too.

hevs

I had a very strange one when we had 2 trees removed from the garden (very big and very dangerous)

"oh we heard you poms don't like trees"!!! WTF!

PortJackson

Badge really said that to you

ABCDiamond

They do wash.
My Grandad used have his bath every Thursday, regular as clockwork. I even remember helping to pull the old tin tub into the living room in front of the fire for him to have his bath !

possoms

Also, what's with this thing that poms don't wash? Where on earth did that originate from? [/QUOTE]

well obviously some of us don't did you see that minger the other night on "too posh to wash" she had worn the same bra for 2 yrs without washing it even slept in her clothes blahhhhh