whats the worse thing about living in australia
Feb 28th 2009 | 7:07 pm
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Re: whats the worse thing about living in australia
No I didn't miss the point. I just thought you were being selective.
Soccer 1863
Aussie Rules 1859
Sheffield Rules 1857
Geelong Rules 1856
But also. Sheffield Rules allowed people to take a mark (i.e. catch the ball with their hands). The ball may be pushed with the hand. A goal must be kicked (a bit like Aussie Rules). If you missed the goal but got it with the rogue flags you got a rogue. If the goals were equal at the end of the game then the rogues were used to determine the winner.
I don't know about you, but Sheffield Rules sounds more like Aussie Rules than Soccer.
Soccer 1863
Aussie Rules 1859
Sheffield Rules 1857
Geelong Rules 1856
But also. Sheffield Rules allowed people to take a mark (i.e. catch the ball with their hands). The ball may be pushed with the hand. A goal must be kicked (a bit like Aussie Rules). If you missed the goal but got it with the rogue flags you got a rogue. If the goals were equal at the end of the game then the rogues were used to determine the winner.
I don't know about you, but Sheffield Rules sounds more like Aussie Rules than Soccer.
Feb 28th 2009 | 7:14 pm
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Re: whats the worse thing about living in australia
No I didn't miss the point. I just thought you were being selective.
Soccer 1863
Aussie Rules 1859
Sheffield Rules 1857
Geelong Rules 1856
But also. Sheffield Rules allowed people to take a mark (i.e. catch the ball with their hands). The ball may be pushed with the hand. A goal must be kicked (a bit like Aussie Rules). If you missed the goal but got it with the rogue flags you got a rogue. If the goals were equal at the end of the game then the rogues were used to determine the winner.
I don't know about you, but Sheffield Rules sounds more like Aussie Rules than Soccer.
Soccer 1863
Aussie Rules 1859
Sheffield Rules 1857
Geelong Rules 1856
But also. Sheffield Rules allowed people to take a mark (i.e. catch the ball with their hands). The ball may be pushed with the hand. A goal must be kicked (a bit like Aussie Rules). If you missed the goal but got it with the rogue flags you got a rogue. If the goals were equal at the end of the game then the rogues were used to determine the winner.
I don't know about you, but Sheffield Rules sounds more like Aussie Rules than Soccer.
I thought that modern Aussie Rules didn't come into being until 1897?
Feb 28th 2009 | 7:57 pm
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Re: whats the worse thing about living in australia
Having to Mow the lawn in 33 deg + temp.
Can you guess what i have been doing today.:confused
Can you guess what i have been doing today.:confused
Feb 28th 2009 | 8:01 pm
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Re: whats the worse thing about living in australia
1) Being asked which part of Wales/England/Ireland I am from (I'm Scottish)
2) Clothes and shoes (oh dear!)
3) Public transport (worse than the UK, if you can believe that
Lots of great things though...
2) Clothes and shoes (oh dear!)
3) Public transport (worse than the UK, if you can believe that
Lots of great things though...
mm
Mar 3rd 2009 | 1:13 pm
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Mar 3rd 2009 | 3:13 pm
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It's all been said...but after 20 yrs in the UK, 20 in Canada and 2 in Oz, each country is pretty good really and be honest, they all have most of the faults everyone has listed here.
Its pretty funny to hear people in Oz moan about the mozzies though, they carry on as though the world had ended when just one or two show up. They should visit pretty well anywhere in Canada some early summer evening.
The worst thing here is probably the hideous driving. While all the other stuff can be annoying, driving here carres an unpleasantly high and real risk of killing you. The Perth roads are like dodgem runs. The number of bashed in and dented cars is unbelievable.
Back to Canada come September!
Rob
Its pretty funny to hear people in Oz moan about the mozzies though, they carry on as though the world had ended when just one or two show up. They should visit pretty well anywhere in Canada some early summer evening.
The worst thing here is probably the hideous driving. While all the other stuff can be annoying, driving here carres an unpleasantly high and real risk of killing you. The Perth roads are like dodgem runs. The number of bashed in and dented cars is unbelievable.
Back to Canada come September!
Rob
Mar 3rd 2009 | 4:01 pm
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Re: whats the worse thing about living in australia
I think you do have a strong point here. I find Australians are often highly patriotic and blindly so, in the sense that the things they think are great about Australia can actually be found elsewhere or, in some cases, aren't even accurate! I think they are every bit as patriotic as the Americans. Heck, the BBC's Australia correspondent, Nick Bryant, commented on his blog about how patrotic Australia is.
A little bit of patriotism is to be desired, but when it becomes thinking everything about Australia is totally bloody wonderful (perfect, even) and ''why would anyone want to live anywhere else" then it's just daft and only serves to make the perpetrators look decidely uneducated and untravelled.
My Australian mother-in-law was banging on about prices in the UK to me and my wife (her daughter), and saying how much cheaper the B&B's in the country here are compared to the one she and her husband stayed in the country in England. Totally forgetting of course that even when in the country in England you are still only an absolute maximum of an hour from a major city and about half an hour maximum from a big town. Here in Australia when you are in the country you are in the middle of bloody nowhere, hours and hours from a city. This is just a recent example from my own experience but I feel it illustrates how Aussies really believe everything is better here even when it actually is no different/the comparison is inaccurate.
This is, for me, ONE of the worst things in Australia. That and the crap TV, endless flatness (single storey buildings as far as the eye can see), having to shop at a horrible Westfield thing (no towns and high streets here), diminished range of products and services, obsession with sport (especially that awful AFL nonsense), constant self-congratulating (like getting excited that Hugh Jackman hosted the Oscars) and referring to ''diggers'', insular world-view, ugly buildings/poor architecture, no proper pubs, no green grass, long drives to everywhere etc etc etc.
A little bit of patriotism is to be desired, but when it becomes thinking everything about Australia is totally bloody wonderful (perfect, even) and ''why would anyone want to live anywhere else" then it's just daft and only serves to make the perpetrators look decidely uneducated and untravelled.
My Australian mother-in-law was banging on about prices in the UK to me and my wife (her daughter), and saying how much cheaper the B&B's in the country here are compared to the one she and her husband stayed in the country in England. Totally forgetting of course that even when in the country in England you are still only an absolute maximum of an hour from a major city and about half an hour maximum from a big town. Here in Australia when you are in the country you are in the middle of bloody nowhere, hours and hours from a city. This is just a recent example from my own experience but I feel it illustrates how Aussies really believe everything is better here even when it actually is no different/the comparison is inaccurate.
This is, for me, ONE of the worst things in Australia. That and the crap TV, endless flatness (single storey buildings as far as the eye can see), having to shop at a horrible Westfield thing (no towns and high streets here), diminished range of products and services, obsession with sport (especially that awful AFL nonsense), constant self-congratulating (like getting excited that Hugh Jackman hosted the Oscars) and referring to ''diggers'', insular world-view, ugly buildings/poor architecture, no proper pubs, no green grass, long drives to everywhere etc etc etc.
Mar 3rd 2009 | 4:07 pm
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Re: whats the worse thing about living in australia
He could have also been taking the mickey.
Mar 3rd 2009 | 4:08 pm
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He was deadly serious.
Mar 3rd 2009 | 4:10 pm
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hee hee - my work colleague couldn't believe we had sandy beaches in the UK I actually got a picture of Woolacombe Beach and she was shocked! She said she believed we just had grey rock that led to the sea!
Mar 3rd 2009 | 4:43 pm
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Mar 3rd 2009 | 5:20 pm
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Australian TV. Over the weekend I noticed that our baby son perks up when the ads come on, but loses focus when the programs re-start. It suddenly dawned on me that this is because the adverts make better viewing than the tv shows themselves....even the local ads.
Mar 3rd 2009 | 5:26 pm
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The local ads have accidental comedy value because they are so bad, which is good.
Its not the poor standard of the TV that annoys me, its the childishness of the broadcasters. If a series doesnt do well its moved around at different times every week, and if one channel has a popular sport on etc the other ones will cancel their decent stuff incase no-one watches it. Worst of all was the olympics being 90% adverts, 5% advertising upcoming shows on 7 and 5% olympic sport. Not sure why its not more regulated.
Its not the poor standard of the TV that annoys me, its the childishness of the broadcasters. If a series doesnt do well its moved around at different times every week, and if one channel has a popular sport on etc the other ones will cancel their decent stuff incase no-one watches it. Worst of all was the olympics being 90% adverts, 5% advertising upcoming shows on 7 and 5% olympic sport. Not sure why its not more regulated.
