What Do You Like Most About Australia??
Oct 25th 2005, 1:36 pm
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What Do You Like Most About Australia??
hey
what do ya guys/girls like most about australia?
(APART FROM THE BLOODY SUN N WEATHER THATS OBVIOUS!!!)
i know we all live in different cities/towns in this great country,so tell us wat ya like best about your city.
oh yeh if ya could tell us what ya like about england (sorry gotta think hard on that one ay
lol)
what do ya guys/girls like most about australia?
(APART FROM THE BLOODY SUN N WEATHER THATS OBVIOUS!!!)
i know we all live in different cities/towns in this great country,so tell us wat ya like best about your city.
oh yeh if ya could tell us what ya like about england (sorry gotta think hard on that one ay
lol)
Oct 25th 2005, 2:05 pm
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Re: What Do You Like Most About Australia??
Originally Posted by raw15
hey
what do ya guys/girls like most about australia?
(APART FROM THE BLOODY SUN N WEATHER THATS OBVIOUS!!!)
i know we all live in different cities/towns in this great country,so tell us wat ya like best about your city.
oh yeh if ya could tell us what ya like about england (sorry gotta think hard on that one ay lol)
what do ya guys/girls like most about australia?
(APART FROM THE BLOODY SUN N WEATHER THATS OBVIOUS!!!)
i know we all live in different cities/towns in this great country,so tell us wat ya like best about your city.
oh yeh if ya could tell us what ya like about england (sorry gotta think hard on that one ay
lol)For the Uk - well, it has to be my family I guess!
Oct 25th 2005, 2:30 pm
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Re: What Do You Like Most About Australia??
Australia? Fit chicks.....
....everywhere
....everywhere
Oct 25th 2005, 2:34 pm
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Re: What Do You Like Most About Australia??
Marks & Spencers, and Tesco's on every corner.
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Oct 25th 2005, 7:15 pm
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Re: What Do You Like Most About Australia??
In Perth....
-the feel of the sun on my closed eyelids as I sit on the back patio
-the easy listening tunes from my Dad's stereo (94.5 or 96 fm)
-the train into Perth and the feel of the air cond
-the way the customs people say 'Welcome home' when I show them my aussie passport!
-Coffee Chill (icy cold)
-VB (icy cold)
-BBQ'd meat with nice crunchy salad!
-hearing my parents friends (old generation) say 'Welcome back limey' when I go into the pub (yet they are all english, with retained accents and we are sitting in an English style pub! go figure)
-Shopping malls!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!! Oh how I miss thee!
-The sound of the plane as it comes in to land at Perth. I can see the city, I can see the heat shimmering off the tarmac, I can feel the air cool down in the plane, I can hear the whining noise that means we are coming in to land. And then we are down, and I am passing all the 'just off the boat poms' who que to use the first loo they see! (whereas I know there are further ones up ahead where you don't need to que)
Then I am coming into arrivals and my Dad is there to greet me, and I can see the palm trees outside the airport and I know that I am home!
There is heaps more! But that is what I think about most, missing home as I do!
Right, England
-The fact that I sound as English as everyone else until I let my guard down and shock them with my Aussie accent!
-Good UK tv programmes! Am loving 'Afterlife' at the moment!
-Being able to get on a train and explore (haven't done too much of that, but intend to before I go back)
-The diversity of culture!
-The pubs!
-The pride I feel when I see the Union Jack - glad it's in the Aussie flag!
-JK Rowling! The girl has done us proud!!
-The greenery (when you get out of London)
-The frosty mornings, the smell of snow!
-Cold Christmas mornings
There are lots more!
I got a bit carried away! Sorry
Susan
-the feel of the sun on my closed eyelids as I sit on the back patio
-the easy listening tunes from my Dad's stereo (94.5 or 96 fm)
-the train into Perth and the feel of the air cond
-the way the customs people say 'Welcome home' when I show them my aussie passport!
-Coffee Chill (icy cold)
-VB (icy cold)
-BBQ'd meat with nice crunchy salad!
-hearing my parents friends (old generation) say 'Welcome back limey' when I go into the pub (yet they are all english, with retained accents and we are sitting in an English style pub! go figure)
-Shopping malls!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!! Oh how I miss thee!
-The sound of the plane as it comes in to land at Perth. I can see the city, I can see the heat shimmering off the tarmac, I can feel the air cool down in the plane, I can hear the whining noise that means we are coming in to land. And then we are down, and I am passing all the 'just off the boat poms' who que to use the first loo they see! (whereas I know there are further ones up ahead where you don't need to que)
Then I am coming into arrivals and my Dad is there to greet me, and I can see the palm trees outside the airport and I know that I am home! There is heaps more! But that is what I think about most, missing home as I do!
Right, England
-The fact that I sound as English as everyone else until I let my guard down and shock them with my Aussie accent!
-Good UK tv programmes! Am loving 'Afterlife' at the moment!
-Being able to get on a train and explore (haven't done too much of that, but intend to before I go back)
-The diversity of culture!
-The pubs!
-The pride I feel when I see the Union Jack - glad it's in the Aussie flag!
-JK Rowling! The girl has done us proud!!
-The greenery (when you get out of London)
-The frosty mornings, the smell of snow!
-Cold Christmas mornings
There are lots more!
I got a bit carried away! Sorry
Susan
Oct 25th 2005, 7:24 pm
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Re: What Do You Like Most About Australia??
House prices are so cheap
Opportunities are everywhere
No Immigrants
Great paid jobs
No Yobs
loads of nice weather
It's as far away from the UK as possible
Oh poop my rose tinted specs have just fallen off
Opportunities are everywhere
No Immigrants
Great paid jobs
No Yobs
loads of nice weather
It's as far away from the UK as possible
Oh poop my rose tinted specs have just fallen off
Oct 25th 2005, 7:25 pm
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Re: What Do You Like Most About Australia??
Right at this moment??
The departure lounge at Brisbane International
The departure lounge at Brisbane International
Oct 25th 2005, 8:30 pm
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Re: What Do You Like Most About Australia??
Any country that takes this Bl***y long to let a decent citizen such as myself to get in can only be good. No jumping on the back of a lorry in Singapore, claiming a home and benefits when I arrive!!!!
Genius!!
Huzza!
Genius!!
Huzza!
Oct 25th 2005, 9:53 pm
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Re: What Do You Like Most About Australia??
Originally Posted by Brisben
House prices are so cheap
Opportunities are everywhere
No Immigrants
Great paid jobs
No Yobs
loads of nice weather
It's as far away from the UK as possible
Oh poop my rose tinted specs have just fallen off
Opportunities are everywhere
No Immigrants
Great paid jobs
No Yobs
loads of nice weather
It's as far away from the UK as possible
Oh poop my rose tinted specs have just fallen off
Hate to point out the obvious don't you want to be an immigrant? Does Australia not have a migration program encouraging people onto its shores? Or are you just showing racist tendencies? Australia is very multicultural and will become more so over the next 50 years!
Oct 25th 2005, 9:56 pm
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Re: What Do You Like Most About Australia??
I love the easy going people, the fact that I can drive to where I need to go without getting held up, the weather, the scenery..........in fact there are lots of things I like
Oct 25th 2005, 10:25 pm
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Re: What Do You Like Most About Australia??
Originally Posted by Brisben
No Immigrants
Oct 25th 2005, 10:37 pm
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Re: What Do You Like Most About Australia??
this can't be right!!!
Originally Posted by ElshaUK
In Perth....
-VB (icy cold)
-VB (icy cold)
Oct 25th 2005, 10:38 pm
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Re: What Do You Like Most About Australia??
Originally Posted by Australia_bound?
Hate to point out the obvious don't you want to be an immigrant? Does Australia not have a migration program encouraging people onto its shores? Or are you just showing racist tendencies? Australia is very multicultural and will become more so over the next 50 years!
<that's the sound of Ben's sense of humour going way over your head>
Oct 25th 2005, 10:42 pm
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Re: What Do You Like Most About Australia??
Originally Posted by brisnick
this can't be right!!!
I mean, I like Caffreys, Kilkenny, Carling, Guinness but when you're at a BBQ or just sitting in the garden (oops backyard!) after a hard days work, nothing hits the spot like the cool refreshing taste of a Victorian Bitter straight out of the bar fridge!
Susan
Oct 25th 2005, 10:50 pm
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Re: What Do You Like Most About Australia??
i remember being in a pub in melbourne drinking VB, thinking (worryingly) that it was the best beer that australia had to offer. this aussie guy walks over, takes the VB out of my hands and pours it down the sink (at the bar), and orders me a james boag's. there's never been any looking back since.
i just cannot stand the standard beers here (VB, fourex, etc) but have quite a taste for boags, cascade, hahn.
BTW, your last part of the sentence sounds like it was taken straight out of the VB advert!!!
i just cannot stand the standard beers here (VB, fourex, etc) but have quite a taste for boags, cascade, hahn.
BTW, your last part of the sentence sounds like it was taken straight out of the VB advert!!!
Originally Posted by ElshaUK
What is wrong with VB?????
I mean, I like Caffreys, Kilkenny, Carling, Guinness but when you're at a BBQ or just sitting in the garden (oops backyard!) after a hard days work, nothing hits the spot like the cool refreshing taste of a Victorian Bitter straight out of the bar fridge!
Susan
I mean, I like Caffreys, Kilkenny, Carling, Guinness but when you're at a BBQ or just sitting in the garden (oops backyard!) after a hard days work, nothing hits the spot like the cool refreshing taste of a Victorian Bitter straight out of the bar fridge!
Susan