Simone

Thanks, sometimes I wonder...

I agree. Because of these, IMO(and others) stupid generalisations, people just ignore you, the point is lost.
I've you'd just discuss the situation, without generalising, many more people would take you seriously.
Obviously, you're trying to get a point across: Oz isn't perfect. Well, I agree, but the way you're trying to get it across isn't working, is it????

OzTennis

A little pearl of wisdom someone once said that I have remembered - 'People like, people like themselves'. The antithesis of this is that people don't tend to like people unlike themselves.

It happens in every country of the world. 'We' find thousands of ways to distinguish ourselves from people who are not like us - colour of skin is the easiest way to readily distinguish a difference, then we have appearance, religion, team you support, politics, which music you like, clothes you wear ................................................ People in general find it hard to accept differences. It's nothing earth shattering to say that there are racists in any country and to try and argue whether they are more racist in one country than another is impossible and pointless and young_lad summed it up perfectly! 'My country's better than your's na, na, na, na, na, na' is the way it comes across!!

OzTennis

Pants

I reckon your mystic meg really aren't you G??ohhhhh warm is an understatement at the mo !!!
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seang

fear not now that peter Garrett is running for labor in Kingsford smith all will be well in the world

MrsDagboy

Wow Mike, when did God die & make you the all-seeing, all-knowing being?

DagBoy

Well, it is a good job I did not come out here to get away from arrogant, opinionated tosspots, because the beauty of the Internet is that I can get access to them in droves (mainly on this site)

Why did I leave the UK and come out here? Because I met a girl and fell in love and she happened to live here and it was easier for me to move than for her. I would have moved to be with her wherever she was*, so I did not really choose Australia, Australia chose me.

Cheers,

DagBoy

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* With the obvious exception of Germany or Wales
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WBB

same applies here.

young_lad

And MrsDagboy is okay about that?

DagBoy

LOL

OK - it should have said

Why did I leave the UK and come out here? Because I met and fell in love and married the gorgeous MrsDagBoy and she happened to live here.....

young_lad

I reckon this is MrsDagboy writing this stuff.

OzTennis

I know Peter can be very passionate about his causes but I'm sure Garrett will do a much better job than most politicians who don't belong to Midnight Oil, most belong to (preserve the) 'Status Quo'. (Midnight Oil announced their break up earlier this year, I know). How can we sleep while our beds are burning?

OzTennis

MrsDagboy

LOL, nope, not me, plenty of people to vouch that hes a seperate entity, he posts his own posts .

No way I would call myself gorgeous .

DagBoy

Shame he was not passionate enough to be on the electoral roll and vote in the last 10 years

story here

Cheers,

DagBoy

young_lad

Oh 'eck, upset the missus now .........



Just jesting of course

For what it's worth, it sounds like the two of you have got priorities right.

As for us (me and young_lass), we came out just because we wanted to - we didn't harbour hopes of finding cities without crime, perfect weather or even politicians with integrity(!). We just came to enjoy a different kind of life. We agreed we'd stay for 2 years and then we'll look at it again. We may go back, we may stay, who knows......

DagBoy

We certainly have, which is why I am going to stop reading (and posting) crap on here and go to bed