Will you like Aus or not - let me tell you
Jun 2nd 2003, 10:35 am
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[QUOTE]Originally posted by badgersmount
badgers mate ,your sounding lower than a snakes ,a**hole , just let it flow, .................
MM
Originally posted by dotty
I am beginning to think Badgers Is PB sending evreyone up.
First Bdadgers is in the Outback then hes off to live in suburban Melbourne. Hes bragging about the Brothels near the mines, then hes off to pick up the Spouse Visa! Hes an IT consultant in the UK, then a agricultural pilot in OZ.
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I am just keeping my options open. It never seems to amaze me that just because you lived abit people don't believe you. I have stacks of mates that have lived similarly and they would think it fairly average. Now I'm embarassed admittedly for my over enthusiasm. I have squeezed a few things in to 30 odd years. I am not PB. there are a few people on this site who have met me in person who can vouch...
"Plus nobody from OZ uses phrases like Ridgey didge, fair dinkum, no worries unless they want to look like total Pratts."
I thought those phrases would have been archaic myself until I heard them in use in QLD and NSW, WA...most amused myself! My driller employer was one, my mate "Bruce" (yes!) was another. As for the boys on the farm...jesus..
No spouse visa - just a normal one. I never bragged about the brothels - just mentioned them in a reply to a post. I was living opposite two!!
remember guys most of you live in suburbia!!! as i said I'm just trying to give another perspective based on another aus which believe it or not is still out there......much to my surprise as well..amazing what happens when you leave the cities and the tourist trails..the people you meet and take you in..the aussies that are still very much aussie.
I enjoyed my time in Aus - and what a time!!! I can't help but feel I was luckly to meet aussies that defy all the stereotypes. ..funny...that's why I wrote a book when I came back which I have considered publishing here.. Some of you have seen it but I am now too bashful to print the URL. i dont like being too much of a 'celeb'..
cheers and thanks dotty, cheers to all on this site - its the characters that keep it alive - PB - keep it up mate. sorry I was a bit harsh. we all get emotive behind this internet thing. one of the beauties of it. it allows us to be.
Im not posting any more unless it is to answer a genuine question.
badgers
I am beginning to think Badgers Is PB sending evreyone up.
First Bdadgers is in the Outback then hes off to live in suburban Melbourne. Hes bragging about the Brothels near the mines, then hes off to pick up the Spouse Visa! Hes an IT consultant in the UK, then a agricultural pilot in OZ.
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I am just keeping my options open. It never seems to amaze me that just because you lived abit people don't believe you. I have stacks of mates that have lived similarly and they would think it fairly average. Now I'm embarassed admittedly for my over enthusiasm. I have squeezed a few things in to 30 odd years. I am not PB. there are a few people on this site who have met me in person who can vouch...
"Plus nobody from OZ uses phrases like Ridgey didge, fair dinkum, no worries unless they want to look like total Pratts."
I thought those phrases would have been archaic myself until I heard them in use in QLD and NSW, WA...most amused myself! My driller employer was one, my mate "Bruce" (yes!) was another. As for the boys on the farm...jesus..
No spouse visa - just a normal one. I never bragged about the brothels - just mentioned them in a reply to a post. I was living opposite two!!
remember guys most of you live in suburbia!!! as i said I'm just trying to give another perspective based on another aus which believe it or not is still out there......much to my surprise as well..amazing what happens when you leave the cities and the tourist trails..the people you meet and take you in..the aussies that are still very much aussie.
I enjoyed my time in Aus - and what a time!!! I can't help but feel I was luckly to meet aussies that defy all the stereotypes. ..funny...that's why I wrote a book when I came back which I have considered publishing here.. Some of you have seen it but I am now too bashful to print the URL. i dont like being too much of a 'celeb'..
cheers and thanks dotty, cheers to all on this site - its the characters that keep it alive - PB - keep it up mate. sorry I was a bit harsh. we all get emotive behind this internet thing. one of the beauties of it. it allows us to be.
Im not posting any more unless it is to answer a genuine question.
badgers
MM
Jun 2nd 2003, 10:53 am
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[QUOTE]Originally posted by badgersmount
C'mon Badger...don't be deterred...my old man still calls me cobber...my name could be "Bruce"...my non-urbanised mates still say fair dinkum, ridgey didge, and a heap of others...try the Kilcoy pub...Australia is much more than the narrow view described by the narrow-minded...and you seem to have that insightful open perspective...
Originally posted by dotty
I am beginning to think Badgers Is PB sending evreyone up.
First Bdadgers is in the Outback then hes off to live in suburban Melbourne. Hes bragging about the Brothels near the mines, then hes off to pick up the Spouse Visa! Hes an IT consultant in the UK, then a agricultural pilot in OZ.
QUOTE>
I am just keeping my options open. It never seems to amaze me that just because you lived abit people don't believe you. I have stacks of mates that have lived similarly and they would think it fairly average. Now I'm embarassed admittedly for my over enthusiasm. I have squeezed a few things in to 30 odd years. I am not PB. there are a few people on this site who have met me in person who can vouch...
"Plus nobody from OZ uses phrases like Ridgey didge, fair dinkum, no worries unless they want to look like total Pratts."
I thought those phrases would have been archaic myself until I heard them in use in QLD and NSW, WA...most amused myself! My driller employer was one, my mate "Bruce" (yes!) was another. As for the boys on the farm...jesus..
No spouse visa - just a normal one. I never bragged about the brothels - just mentioned them in a reply to a post. I was living opposite two!!
remember guys most of you live in suburbia!!! as i said I'm just trying to give another perspective based on another aus which believe it or not is still out there......much to my surprise as well..amazing what happens when you leave the cities and the tourist trails..the people you meet and take you in..the aussies that are still very much aussie.
I enjoyed my time in Aus - and what a time!!! I can't help but feel I was luckly to meet aussies that defy all the stereotypes. ..funny...that's why I wrote a book when I came back which I have considered publishing here.. Some of you have seen it but I am now too bashful to print the URL. i dont like being too much of a 'celeb'..
cheers and thanks dotty, cheers to all on this site - its the characters that keep it alive - PB - keep it up mate. sorry I was a bit harsh. we all get emotive behind this internet thing. one of the beauties of it. it allows us to be.
Im not posting any more unless it is to answer a genuine question.
badgers
I am beginning to think Badgers Is PB sending evreyone up.
First Bdadgers is in the Outback then hes off to live in suburban Melbourne. Hes bragging about the Brothels near the mines, then hes off to pick up the Spouse Visa! Hes an IT consultant in the UK, then a agricultural pilot in OZ.
QUOTE>
I am just keeping my options open. It never seems to amaze me that just because you lived abit people don't believe you. I have stacks of mates that have lived similarly and they would think it fairly average. Now I'm embarassed admittedly for my over enthusiasm. I have squeezed a few things in to 30 odd years. I am not PB. there are a few people on this site who have met me in person who can vouch...
"Plus nobody from OZ uses phrases like Ridgey didge, fair dinkum, no worries unless they want to look like total Pratts."
I thought those phrases would have been archaic myself until I heard them in use in QLD and NSW, WA...most amused myself! My driller employer was one, my mate "Bruce" (yes!) was another. As for the boys on the farm...jesus..
No spouse visa - just a normal one. I never bragged about the brothels - just mentioned them in a reply to a post. I was living opposite two!!
remember guys most of you live in suburbia!!! as i said I'm just trying to give another perspective based on another aus which believe it or not is still out there......much to my surprise as well..amazing what happens when you leave the cities and the tourist trails..the people you meet and take you in..the aussies that are still very much aussie.
I enjoyed my time in Aus - and what a time!!! I can't help but feel I was luckly to meet aussies that defy all the stereotypes. ..funny...that's why I wrote a book when I came back which I have considered publishing here.. Some of you have seen it but I am now too bashful to print the URL. i dont like being too much of a 'celeb'..
cheers and thanks dotty, cheers to all on this site - its the characters that keep it alive - PB - keep it up mate. sorry I was a bit harsh. we all get emotive behind this internet thing. one of the beauties of it. it allows us to be.
Im not posting any more unless it is to answer a genuine question.
badgers
Jun 2nd 2003, 11:16 am
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Originally posted by baldbutts
Well put about fitting in Badger (I had a mate called Badger,cos he only came out at night).
I'm in Oz to educate me and the family to Ozzy life.I won't be trawling bars looking for "English " beer-I like Guiness,but I'm prepared to make sacrifices living here-tho I know it's readily available.
I love to see all these British food and lolly shops packed full of migrants saying " oooh look,walnut whips/sherbert dips/texan bars etc etc."What about the juicy steaks,Iced cokes and all the other stuff the UK doesn't have.
Remember,when in Rome.........
I bet there's more opportunities in Oz to celebrate being British than the UK --who knows when St georges day is,and who did anything to celebrate it--not the BBC that's for sure.
BB-if I want a UK life,I'll go back to the UK
Well put about fitting in Badger (I had a mate called Badger,cos he only came out at night).
I'm in Oz to educate me and the family to Ozzy life.I won't be trawling bars looking for "English " beer-I like Guiness,but I'm prepared to make sacrifices living here-tho I know it's readily available.
I love to see all these British food and lolly shops packed full of migrants saying " oooh look,walnut whips/sherbert dips/texan bars etc etc."What about the juicy steaks,Iced cokes and all the other stuff the UK doesn't have.
Remember,when in Rome.........
I bet there's more opportunities in Oz to celebrate being British than the UK --who knows when St georges day is,and who did anything to celebrate it--not the BBC that's for sure.
BB-if I want a UK life,I'll go back to the UK
I'm planning on going to NZ, and if it works out(going with the attitude it will, cos we'll make it), I want my kids to be Kiwis not Brits brought up in NZ. I'm going to NZ and I'm going to try my hardest to fit in cos thats what emigrants should do. You don't go over there and start wingeing on about what you miss in UK, you must be prepared in the mind for the change.
For example, my boy(3) is a big lad and if he grew up to excel at Rugby then I'd be so proud if he ever represented the All Blacks.
BB, hope you enjoying your new life, it'll work out for you, you've got the mentallity for it
Jun 2nd 2003, 12:44 pm
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Who settles in well - from an Aussie
I'm an Aussie who has lived in the UK and NZ as well so I can give you a few impressions. My English husband and I moved from the UK to Sydney for a year a while back so I know how he found it too. In a couple of months we're all off to Melbourne for good!
Most of Oz is a bit like you see on TV. Like living in the UK but with better weather and more relaxed. Australians actually work quite hard (harder than you might think without so much of the 'world owes me a living' jobsworth stuff) but have a good social life too. Most migrants settle well and have a great life there.
It's true that up to 50% of British migrants to Oz come back again and there was an analysis done a few years ago of the reasons. The main ones I remember were distance, family and pubs. If you can come to grips with those before going you'll have a headstart.
DISTANCE = it's just FEELS so far from 'home'. News coverage mainly covers pacific/asian areas and even music has a lot of local bands you've never heard of. The comedians on TV are different, celebs in the news are different and so on. So your whole background cultural references (which you may not even realise permeate your life in the UK) are different. This makes it feel more foreign than you might expect. Not a problem as you will acclimatise quickly but just be prepared for it.
FAMILY = they're not around to help out. Everyone expects the obvious being away from family but those who are used to mum popping by to mind the kids for a few hours or family lunches at the weekends can really underestimate this. If you have a very close and helpful family who lives nearby in the UK think seriously before moving and plan ways around it. Arriving in a new country with kids when you don't know anyone takes time to adjust to - if you've never had the kids on your own all the time it can be really hard!
PUBS = no 'local' to meet people at. Pubs in Oz mainly fall into 3 camps: smelly dives mostly men only, backpackers outdoor drinking spots (near beaches with live music), gastropubs good for sunday family lunches. Aussies make friends at work and through clubs and family activities. Most socialising is done around the BBQ at home or outdoors with the whole family together. A much better lifestyle for families (I think) but anyone used to going down the local every night will have to make a real attempt to meet people in other ways.
The big thing mentioned elsewhere is to be happy to be there when you're in Oz. Australians are quite patriotic (like any country) so love anyone who loves their country and will be welcoming and friendly. 'Whinging poms' will be advised (regularly and with real Aussie directness!) they'd be better off to go home.
Good luck with your plans - hope to see you there!
Most of Oz is a bit like you see on TV. Like living in the UK but with better weather and more relaxed. Australians actually work quite hard (harder than you might think without so much of the 'world owes me a living' jobsworth stuff) but have a good social life too. Most migrants settle well and have a great life there.
It's true that up to 50% of British migrants to Oz come back again and there was an analysis done a few years ago of the reasons. The main ones I remember were distance, family and pubs. If you can come to grips with those before going you'll have a headstart.
DISTANCE = it's just FEELS so far from 'home'. News coverage mainly covers pacific/asian areas and even music has a lot of local bands you've never heard of. The comedians on TV are different, celebs in the news are different and so on. So your whole background cultural references (which you may not even realise permeate your life in the UK) are different. This makes it feel more foreign than you might expect. Not a problem as you will acclimatise quickly but just be prepared for it.
FAMILY = they're not around to help out. Everyone expects the obvious being away from family but those who are used to mum popping by to mind the kids for a few hours or family lunches at the weekends can really underestimate this. If you have a very close and helpful family who lives nearby in the UK think seriously before moving and plan ways around it. Arriving in a new country with kids when you don't know anyone takes time to adjust to - if you've never had the kids on your own all the time it can be really hard!
PUBS = no 'local' to meet people at. Pubs in Oz mainly fall into 3 camps: smelly dives mostly men only, backpackers outdoor drinking spots (near beaches with live music), gastropubs good for sunday family lunches. Aussies make friends at work and through clubs and family activities. Most socialising is done around the BBQ at home or outdoors with the whole family together. A much better lifestyle for families (I think) but anyone used to going down the local every night will have to make a real attempt to meet people in other ways.
The big thing mentioned elsewhere is to be happy to be there when you're in Oz. Australians are quite patriotic (like any country) so love anyone who loves their country and will be welcoming and friendly. 'Whinging poms' will be advised (regularly and with real Aussie directness!) they'd be better off to go home.
Good luck with your plans - hope to see you there!
Jun 2nd 2003, 12:50 pm
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Great reply jolyn
Love australia and you will find it easier.
I like badgersmount and I would like to see him contuing to post on this forum.
BooBoo
Love australia and you will find it easier.
I like badgersmount and I would like to see him contuing to post on this forum.
BooBoo
Jun 2nd 2003, 1:40 pm
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yeah great reply!!! agreed.
Aussies go to bars and "clubs" rather than "locals" but if you have the right attitude you should be able to make mates somewhere..
just don't expect perhaps the same "winebar" culture..outside CBDs anyhow..
I will continue to post - I'm just not going to open my big mouth that's all...it just gets me too much flak and we have another
"but there's a hole in my bucket dear lisa" round of posts..with all the wailin' and shoutin'
badgers
Aussies go to bars and "clubs" rather than "locals" but if you have the right attitude you should be able to make mates somewhere..
just don't expect perhaps the same "winebar" culture..outside CBDs anyhow..
I will continue to post - I'm just not going to open my big mouth that's all...it just gets me too much flak and we have another
"but there's a hole in my bucket dear lisa" round of posts..with all the wailin' and shoutin'
badgers
Jun 2nd 2003, 6:08 pm
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Originally posted by Megalania
Bully for you mate! I'm amazed that you have the strength of character to keep your composure. I can't be bothered keeping mine with this mob of useless boring bastards.
Bully for you mate! I'm amazed that you have the strength of character to keep your composure. I can't be bothered keeping mine with this mob of useless boring bastards.
I see you now started annoying members on another forum too.
Cheers - Don
Jun 2nd 2003, 10:58 pm
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Originally posted by pleasancefamily
Another nasty from Megabilgemouth, will he feel remorseful in the morning when he wakes up sober and come back as yet another new member Mr Clean? Are all 20,000 members 'useless boring bastards', Megabilgebreath?
I see you now started annoying members on another forum too.
Cheers - Don
Another nasty from Megabilgemouth, will he feel remorseful in the morning when he wakes up sober and come back as yet another new member Mr Clean? Are all 20,000 members 'useless boring bastards', Megabilgebreath?
I see you now started annoying members on another forum too.
Cheers - Don
20,000 members 'useless boring bastards'? Nah! Only the ones I've read so far - minus Badger to whom I'll give the benefit of doubt. Surpose I should include PB since he's not boring even if useless.
"Megabilgebreath"? Big names like that might succeeed in going to me head.
"annoying members on another forum too"? You mean Fools Paradise ? calcaria's useful isn't he. The others are largerly gas bags with little original thought and who love the sonorousness of their own voices.
Jun 2nd 2003, 11:41 pm
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Originally posted by dotty
want to look like total Pratts.
PB snuck in a line last Friday, that it may have been his last day at work, wonder if PB is still having fun being BB. Still somebodies got to keep up the entertainment.
want to look like total Pratts.
PB snuck in a line last Friday, that it may have been his last day at work, wonder if PB is still having fun being BB. Still somebodies got to keep up the entertainment.
Oh well,it was time to own up to that one sooner or later.
Besides,Grub was beginning to wonder why I was cutting up copies of the Western Australian and glueing articles to her wall.
Right,off to the OB to buy my alter ego a pint.
BB-I've heard it all now
Jun 3rd 2003, 2:36 am
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Re: Will you like Aus or not - let me tell you
Originally posted by badgersmount
Another long post from badgers!!
That was the day I realised I was 'Australian'!!!
yours aye badgers
PS Incidentally, if you answered YES to any of the questions
go to SPAIN..you'll love it there with the stacks of english people who have turned it in to little England living it LARGE on the costa del howsyoufather etc
cynical eh?
Another long post from badgers!!
That was the day I realised I was 'Australian'!!!
yours aye badgers
PS Incidentally, if you answered YES to any of the questions
go to SPAIN..you'll love it there with the stacks of english people who have turned it in to little England living it LARGE on the costa del howsyoufather etc
cynical eh?
A Pom is an Australian , put the flags out?
Jun 3rd 2003, 2:40 am
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Originally posted by Megalania
Come on Mr Peasant Family Man, why would I be remoseful when I can be relentless and have twice the fun?
20,000 members 'useless boring bastards'? Nah! Only the ones I've read so far - minus Badger to whom I'll give the benefit of doubt. Surpose I should include PB since he's not boring even if useless.
"Megabilgebreath"? Big names like that might succeeed in going to me head.
"annoying members on another forum too"? You mean Fools Paradise ? calcaria's useful isn't he. The others are largerly gas bags with little original thought and who love the sonorousness of their own voices.
Come on Mr Peasant Family Man, why would I be remoseful when I can be relentless and have twice the fun?
20,000 members 'useless boring bastards'? Nah! Only the ones I've read so far - minus Badger to whom I'll give the benefit of doubt. Surpose I should include PB since he's not boring even if useless.
"Megabilgebreath"? Big names like that might succeeed in going to me head.
"annoying members on another forum too"? You mean Fools Paradise ? calcaria's useful isn't he. The others are largerly gas bags with little original thought and who love the sonorousness of their own voices.
Thanks for that Mega , useless and paid for it, only in Australiia?
Jun 3rd 2003, 2:44 am
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Originally posted by Megalania
Come on Mr Peasant Family Man, why would I be remoseful when I can be relentless and have twice the fun?
20,000 members 'useless boring bastards'? Nah! Only the ones I've read so far - minus Badger to whom I'll give the benefit of doubt. Surpose I should include PB since he's not boring even if useless.
"Megabilgebreath"? Big names like that might succeeed in going to me head.
"annoying members on another forum too"? You mean Fools Paradise ? calcaria's useful isn't he. The others are largerly gas bags with little original thought and who love the sonorousness of their own voices.
Come on Mr Peasant Family Man, why would I be remoseful when I can be relentless and have twice the fun?
20,000 members 'useless boring bastards'? Nah! Only the ones I've read so far - minus Badger to whom I'll give the benefit of doubt. Surpose I should include PB since he's not boring even if useless.
"Megabilgebreath"? Big names like that might succeeed in going to me head.
"annoying members on another forum too"? You mean Fools Paradise ? calcaria's useful isn't he. The others are largerly gas bags with little original thought and who love the sonorousness of their own voices.
Cheers - Don
Jun 3rd 2003, 2:50 am
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Originally posted by paulf
The real diffrence between Football and Rugby is Football is about skill not just bulking up and kicking the crap out of your oppos, football fans are not all the way you portrait them I have two young boys 5 and 7 and I take them to Highbury regularly to see the Gunners and I assure you we don't have skin heads or have a lager lout mentality.
And what game were you watching when they had sex on the pitch?
I reckon you should stick to Tennis, far more gentile.
The real diffrence between Football and Rugby is Football is about skill not just bulking up and kicking the crap out of your oppos, football fans are not all the way you portrait them I have two young boys 5 and 7 and I take them to Highbury regularly to see the Gunners and I assure you we don't have skin heads or have a lager lout mentality.
And what game were you watching when they had sex on the pitch?
I reckon you should stick to Tennis, far more gentile.
Jun 3rd 2003, 2:54 am
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Originally posted by dotty
I am beginning to think Badgers Is PB sending evreyone up.
First Bdadgers is in the Outback then hes off to live in suburban Melbourne. Hes bragging about the Brothels near the mines, then hes off to pick up the Spouse Visa! Hes an IT consultant in the UK, then a agricultural pilot in OZ.
Plus nobody from OZ uses phrases like Ridgey didge, fair dinkum, no worries unless they want to look like total Pratts.
PB snuck in a line last Friday, that it may have been his last day at work, wonder if PB is still having fun being BB. Still somebodies got to keep up the entertainment.
I am beginning to think Badgers Is PB sending evreyone up.
First Bdadgers is in the Outback then hes off to live in suburban Melbourne. Hes bragging about the Brothels near the mines, then hes off to pick up the Spouse Visa! Hes an IT consultant in the UK, then a agricultural pilot in OZ.
Plus nobody from OZ uses phrases like Ridgey didge, fair dinkum, no worries unless they want to look like total Pratts.
PB snuck in a line last Friday, that it may have been his last day at work, wonder if PB is still having fun being BB. Still somebodies got to keep up the entertainment.
Sorry theres only one PB , been off since Friday but these guys are funnier?
Jun 3rd 2003, 6:12 am
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Originally posted by pommie bastard
Sorry theres only one PB , been off since Friday but these guys are funnier?
Sorry theres only one PB , been off since Friday but these guys are funnier?
I was just finding Badgers "James Bond" type adventures a little er hard to believe...
No doubt hes out there somewhere, absailing down Big Ben with 100 naked swedish backpackers waiting to catch him perhaps.
