whats the worse thing about living in australia
Feb 26th 2009 | 10:34 pm
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Re: whats the worse thing about living in australia
I thought they had them everywhere in Australia. All the houses in NSW and QLD I have lived in have had them.
Feb 26th 2009 | 10:36 pm
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Re: whats the worse thing about living in australia
There's some seriously good ads on here (UK) too at the moment though (especially after enduring the Aussie ones for the last year!) Anyone else seen the one for the car insurance broker website, with the meerkats? The website is even better than the ad....
www.comparethemeerkat.com
www.comparethemeerkat.com
Feb 26th 2009 | 10:52 pm
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Re: whats the worse thing about living in australia
Cars with exhausts the size of a tunnel and their owners who think this racket is cool
Feb 26th 2009 | 11:11 pm
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Re: whats the worse thing about living in australia
AFL
the term "Aussie battler" referring to unemployed or someone who took a mortgage 9 times their salary and now cant pay it
For me sport in general, its like the sports in school i really couldnt be arsed with are all huge in Australia (cricket, rugby and swimming) but the AFL takes the cake
Melbourne summers when the temperature sits just over 40, day and night for up to a week, thats messy too.
Radio DJ's and Comedians who don't have a depth to their act.
Other than that she is a beautiful country, with lots of space and cool people.
the term "Aussie battler" referring to unemployed or someone who took a mortgage 9 times their salary and now cant pay it
For me sport in general, its like the sports in school i really couldnt be arsed with are all huge in Australia (cricket, rugby and swimming) but the AFL takes the cake
Melbourne summers when the temperature sits just over 40, day and night for up to a week, thats messy too.
Radio DJ's and Comedians who don't have a depth to their act.
Other than that she is a beautiful country, with lots of space and cool people.
Feb 26th 2009 | 11:13 pm
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Re: whats the worse thing about living in australia
Oh one more.
English and Indian people who migrate and all of a sudden think they are Aussies, and say things like. "We have fitted in really well and our kids are right little aussies", two weeks after arriving.
English and Indian people who migrate and all of a sudden think they are Aussies, and say things like. "We have fitted in really well and our kids are right little aussies", two weeks after arriving.
Feb 27th 2009 | 12:46 am
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Re: whats the worse thing about living in australia
You didn't edit it right.
Feb 27th 2009 | 9:36 am
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Re: whats the worse thing about living in australia
How about people having a go at people for using Australian words or phrases when those same words are also in use in London and the SE, or have equivalents elsewhere.
eg. Mate is as much as a London thing as it is an Australian thing. Amazes me when people don't like this. They're either from up North or have been living in a box.
I think when people say their kids are little Aussies they mean they're enjoying it and getting on with it (school and activities). Like someone taking to swimming like a fish to water. Even if they are not a fish. (eh?)
eg. Mate is as much as a London thing as it is an Australian thing. Amazes me when people don't like this. They're either from up North or have been living in a box.
I think when people say their kids are little Aussies they mean they're enjoying it and getting on with it (school and activities). Like someone taking to swimming like a fish to water. Even if they are not a fish. (eh?)
Feb 27th 2009 | 9:50 am
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Re: whats the worse thing about living in australia
How about people having a go at people for using Australian words or phrases when those same words are also in use in London and the SE, or have equivalents elsewhere.
eg. Mate is as much as a London thing as it is an Australian thing. Amazes me when people don't like this. They're either from up North or have been living in a box.
I think when people say their kids are little Aussies they mean they're enjoying it and getting on with it (school and activities). Like someone taking to swimming like a fish to water. Even if they are not a fish. (eh?)
eg. Mate is as much as a London thing as it is an Australian thing. Amazes me when people don't like this. They're either from up North or have been living in a box.
I think when people say their kids are little Aussies they mean they're enjoying it and getting on with it (school and activities). Like someone taking to swimming like a fish to water. Even if they are not a fish. (eh?)
It just shows you don't have to be smart to be ignorant.
Feb 27th 2009 | 10:55 am
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Re: whats the worse thing about living in australia
1. The fact that you could have lived (as I have been fortunate to have done) for a few years in some of the most amazing places in Australia, yet it seems to be an issue in Perth particularly that people ask you as soon as you speak, so, you're a pome then?. Pees me right off, as I am an Australian now actually.
The point I am making is this: no matter how long you have lived in Australia, and are an Australian citizen (just as much as others), you will never be considered to be 'Australian'! - if that makes sense.
2. The insular attitudes at times. Alice Springs interestingly enough had no insular attitude at all, where I found Perth to be horrendous on that front.
3. Australians who use cockney rhyming slang to represent the whole of the UK. For a start I never hear anyone speak like that now (apart from that silly aging and ugly prat on some insurance advert on Aussie TV). It's when they try and say it too - it really grates me. Just sooooo naff! I have lived in London (BEST city in the world is my own view). Aussies think they know everything and are the best - when they arrive in London they are like rabbits in the headlights!. They don't know what to think, and their front is down, so they all scarper to tacky walkabout theme bars!.
4. Aussie Pubs - CRAP!, no other word for them. Apart from some good ones in Melb and SYD.
5. Dress sense - NO IDEA at all!
6. My last one now! - and the worst one!. ...... STUCK UP THEIR OWN BACKSIDES AUSTRALIAN FEMALES with NO, NOT ONE BIT of HUMOUR AT ALL!. It is NOT a sexist thing by the way, before the PC brigade have a fit!. I have worked with them in the UK and Australia, and met some very nice females who I work with. But some of them have this attitude where they are out to prove something all the time! In London Aussies (both male & female) often in my own observations appear to fighting a huge inferiority complex and try too hard!
The point I am making is this: no matter how long you have lived in Australia, and are an Australian citizen (just as much as others), you will never be considered to be 'Australian'! - if that makes sense.
2. The insular attitudes at times. Alice Springs interestingly enough had no insular attitude at all, where I found Perth to be horrendous on that front.
3. Australians who use cockney rhyming slang to represent the whole of the UK. For a start I never hear anyone speak like that now (apart from that silly aging and ugly prat on some insurance advert on Aussie TV). It's when they try and say it too - it really grates me. Just sooooo naff! I have lived in London (BEST city in the world is my own view). Aussies think they know everything and are the best - when they arrive in London they are like rabbits in the headlights!. They don't know what to think, and their front is down, so they all scarper to tacky walkabout theme bars!.
4. Aussie Pubs - CRAP!, no other word for them. Apart from some good ones in Melb and SYD.
5. Dress sense - NO IDEA at all!
6. My last one now! - and the worst one!. ...... STUCK UP THEIR OWN BACKSIDES AUSTRALIAN FEMALES with NO, NOT ONE BIT of HUMOUR AT ALL!. It is NOT a sexist thing by the way, before the PC brigade have a fit!. I have worked with them in the UK and Australia, and met some very nice females who I work with. But some of them have this attitude where they are out to prove something all the time! In London Aussies (both male & female) often in my own observations appear to fighting a huge inferiority complex and try too hard!
Feb 27th 2009 | 10:58 am
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Re: whats the worse thing about living in australia
6. My last one now! - and the worst one!. ...... STUCK UP THEIR OWN BACKSIDES AUSTRALIAN FEMALES with NO, NOT ONE BIT of HUMOUR AT ALL!. It is NOT a sexist thing by the way, before the PC brigade have a fit!. I have worked with them in the UK and Australia, and met some very nice females who I work with. But some of them have this attitude where they are out to prove something all the time! In London Aussies (both male & female) often in my own observations appear to fighting a huge inferiority complex and try too hard!
Feb 27th 2009 | 10:59 am
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Feb 27th 2009 | 11:16 am
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Re: whats the worse thing about living in australia
1. The fact that you could have lived (as I have been fortunate to have done) for a few years in some of the most amazing places in Australia, yet it seems to be an issue in Perth particularly that people ask you as soon as you speak, so, you're a pome then?. Pees me right off, as I am an Australian now actually.
The point I am making is this: no matter how long you have lived in Australia, and are an Australian citizen (just as much as others), you will never be considered to be 'Australian'! - if that makes sense.
2. The insular attitudes at times. Alice Springs interestingly enough had no insular attitude at all, where I found Perth to be horrendous on that front.
3. Australians who use cockney rhyming slang to represent the whole of the UK. For a start I never hear anyone speak like that now (apart from that silly aging and ugly prat on some insurance advert on Aussie TV). It's when they try and say it too - it really grates me. Just sooooo naff! I have lived in London (BEST city in the world is my own view). Aussies think they know everything and are the best - when they arrive in London they are like rabbits in the headlights!. They don't know what to think, and their front is down, so they all scarper to tacky walkabout theme bars!.
4. Aussie Pubs - CRAP!, no other word for them. Apart from some good ones in Melb and SYD.
5. Dress sense - NO IDEA at all!
6. My last one now! - and the worst one!. ...... STUCK UP THEIR OWN BACKSIDES AUSTRALIAN FEMALES with NO, NOT ONE BIT of HUMOUR AT ALL!. It is NOT a sexist thing by the way, before the PC brigade have a fit!. I have worked with them in the UK and Australia, and met some very nice females who I work with. But some of them have this attitude where they are out to prove something all the time! In London Aussies (both male & female) often in my own observations appear to fighting a huge inferiority complex and try too hard!
The point I am making is this: no matter how long you have lived in Australia, and are an Australian citizen (just as much as others), you will never be considered to be 'Australian'! - if that makes sense.
2. The insular attitudes at times. Alice Springs interestingly enough had no insular attitude at all, where I found Perth to be horrendous on that front.
3. Australians who use cockney rhyming slang to represent the whole of the UK. For a start I never hear anyone speak like that now (apart from that silly aging and ugly prat on some insurance advert on Aussie TV). It's when they try and say it too - it really grates me. Just sooooo naff! I have lived in London (BEST city in the world is my own view). Aussies think they know everything and are the best - when they arrive in London they are like rabbits in the headlights!. They don't know what to think, and their front is down, so they all scarper to tacky walkabout theme bars!.
4. Aussie Pubs - CRAP!, no other word for them. Apart from some good ones in Melb and SYD.
5. Dress sense - NO IDEA at all!
6. My last one now! - and the worst one!. ...... STUCK UP THEIR OWN BACKSIDES AUSTRALIAN FEMALES with NO, NOT ONE BIT of HUMOUR AT ALL!. It is NOT a sexist thing by the way, before the PC brigade have a fit!. I have worked with them in the UK and Australia, and met some very nice females who I work with. But some of them have this attitude where they are out to prove something all the time! In London Aussies (both male & female) often in my own observations appear to fighting a huge inferiority complex and try too hard!
Feb 27th 2009 | 11:21 am
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Re: whats the worse thing about living in australia
Yep. When old English football split. One set of rules became Rugby Football and the other set of rules became Association Football (aka Soccer). Celtic (Gaelic) football is another spin off and Aussie Rules Football which was, bizarrely, codified a few years before Soccer.
