Interested

Its great that you are so ready to be assimilated into Australian culture, that'll go along way towards your happiness in your new country. However I disagree with your generalistaions about British people and Ozzies....its a bit rude and uneducated to tar everyone with the same brush!

Don

What brush is that, exactly?

Cheers - Don

Interested

The generalisation brush!

Badge

point taken completely...but thats just the way I see it..and every day in the pub in England I am reminded that I am kind of "right" - the conversations I overhear strewth(!!)

never fails to amaze me now how whingy a lot of English people are. never noticed until I went away and then came back. i first noticed it on the plane from Sydney back here . I went to chat with the stewardesses - as i would do in Australia - and then was momentarily puzzled when I got stiff upper lip expressions and cold eyes - realised I had a pommy crew!!

when i flew with aussie crews they couldn't do enough to be smiling, friendly, wise-cracking ec and people smile with their eyes as well as their mouths.

badgers

Don

Too right, Badgers! The words 'stuck up tarts' don't figure when it come to Qantas stewardesses. But they are an important part of the vocabulary with BA.

Cheers - Don

Badge

rugby is about bulking up because the guys are getting bigger and bigger. just one of those things. i am only 11 stone and play wing and still use skill to get round full backs etc twice my size.

there is more confrontation in soccer than in rugby. in rugby there is still an attitude where the ref is alway respected- we still call him 'Sir' believe it or not - on the rare occasions a punch drunk prop attacks a ref it is taken very seriously. whereas in soccer a player has only got to get caught "falling over" and he's at the ref yadda yadda ...hardly suprising they always get caught - when a rugby player goes down hurt he lies very still - when a soccer goes down for an oscar he writhes around like its going out of fashion!!

also the crowd noise does not relate to what is going on the field, probably because there is not a great deal going on, in rugbyu the noise goes up when someting happens. I was watching a soccer game the other day and I couldn't help but notice the continual animal noises from the crowd...

each to his own etc

badgers

Interested

Yeah, I think that rugby is actually a very skillful game and I really enjoy watching it and I have to say the crowds do seem to be more civilised!

karawara88

So a load of blokes running up and down a field jumping on each other teaches the value of team work. What a load of bollocks.

Also somtimes things dont work out due to circumstances not because people refuse to become Australianised or that they spend there time whinging.

Must be nice to be so self righteous that you are able to tell people "if they like Oz or not", as Interested wrote, its a bit rude and uneducated to tar everyone with the same brush! Maybe you spent far too long geting your brains bashed about on rugby pitch.

Don

Have to say unfortunately that I very occasionally liked playing it (mostly NOT but there was a skillful try or two from yours truly that will go down in the history books) but NEVER liked watching it, seem to remember some awful game on freebie with the company at Cardiff Arms Park, maybe Wales vs Japan, where the Welsh were running amok and the Japanese were thinking about hari-kiri, finished something like 72-0, best part of the day was the beer and that was crap too being Welsh.

Cheers - Don

BCBOY

Badgers mate what I'm about to say is going to annoy you, but what the hell....
You're in danger of turning into a PB!:scared: You obviously prefer life in Oz....fair play to you, to each their own and all that stuff. But whenever you post its......whinge whinge whinge life in the UK is crap......whinge whinge......life in Oz is fantastic, everything is great there......UK stinks whinge whinge ..etc etc
Does that remind you of anyone?
C'mon mate, fair play, lets show some perspective about life...

Badge

[QUOTE]Originally posted by karawara88
So a load of blokes running up and down a field jumping on each other teaches the value of team work. What a load of bollocks.

well in a scrum it's all team work. When you're knackered from sprinting 40 metres every phase or putting that tackle in (AGAIN)you need a lot of physical courage to keep going. BUT you still have a laugh and a beer with that bloke you "beat up" afterwards!! he's not just a see you next tuesday.

when i played soccer I always had plenty of energy left, and felt I was just cruising. maybe that's why they run amok after scoring goals - after a sprint down the pitch and a dive in to the corner flag you're too *****ed to jump and celebrate.

I scored 2 tries in 5 mins, and almost a hat trick for Luxembourg on my debut and loved the noise from the crowd when i run the length of the field. try of the season people were shouting!! Memory will stay with me for ever!!

cheers.

badgers

Don

Wow! What's this? You played for Lux?????

Cheers - Don

karawara88

Physical courage, my arse, its called stupidty. !!. When I was at school we used play Rugby in the winter, ground was rock hard, I soon learnt that when some bugger threw the ball at you the best form of action was run the other way, saved getting crushed and hurt.

To set the balance I hated football, cricket, basketball, tennis. The only sport I participted in was behind the bike sheds.

Choice, go freeze to death on Rugby pitch and get duffed, or hang out behind bike shed with nice blonde. Although despite all my "tries" I didnt score.

Badge

ok ok .

you've all noticed how f*kin delirious ive been since i was granted my visa. But every day I shake my head and wonder how I managed to live for 30 years in Europe. And was seriously worried I would never get back for good. Seriously worried! I would like to make a public apology.

FAIR DINKUM.

karawara88

No that was my mate, who is now a multi millionaire. I knew I went wrong somwhere