Wasn't disputing the facts just commenting on his education.

With the crap on the TV here I reckon this is my Soap fix. Forget 5 year old episodes of corrie, get expats, far more interesting anyway. Besides it can tick along while you work, click in click out, how the hell do you resist checking it out when the puter is on most of the day anyway, at least with booze you could throw it down the toilet.

Dotty addicted for 18 months now. :D

Re: are you ready for oz???
 

Been here 4 months, so far that hasn't happened to me. Maybe I mix in more mature company.
Aus tv is dire. If you're really into your tv in the UK and don't intend broadening your horizons, that Aus tv will drain your will to live.
This for me a plus. 1980s UK was a much nice place. Present day UK isn't a pretty picture. I hate seeing green fields getting converted into factories that'll close down as soon as the government grants that made them viable run out, while empty brownfield sites just rot. It's hard to find that green and pleasant land now.
All I can say is try another pub and if that doesn't work, try another pasttime. The pub isn't high on my priority list.

I think its great that Oz TV is rubbish and the pubs are useless and theyre living back in the 1980s. keeps you away from those things dosnt it. What good does sitting in front of the idiot box do for you or your kids. And pubs aint healthy places - waste of hard earned money and a waste of time. And what has modern technology really done for us anyway - got us hooked on forums, faster cars sitting in traffic jams, faster planes and long airport delays, computer games captured the minds of our kids, Mcdonalds, London smog, huge mortgages, high stress jobs......... Hey give me Oz back in the seventies any day.

Yes indeed i was Wilf, unfortunatly however Mr Daz here is'nt speaking his mind, hes just here on a wind-up mission, as has been confirmed by the PM's i had from him in my inbox this morning.

I was tired last night so maybe I should have just bitten my tongue (or my typing finger) and not replied until this morning, i may have given a more considered reply. However, now i find i don't need to, as Welshpom has taken the words from my very fingertips.

The only two points of Daz's that i will comment upon (becuase its the only one i feel to be unjust) are :
Now....i'll admit i don't like the pokies, but i found aussies to be very friendly, and had many a conversation with people i did'nt know. This comment seems to be from someone who had maybe one bad experience in a pub, so is tarring them all?
I was called a pom maybe 3 or 4 times when i was in aus, every time by my brother in law, who was doing it to goad me because I kept saying how crap aussies are at football (soccer). It was just a laugh.

Now....i would'nt be surprised if it happens from a more insulting kind of angle at some point of my life in aus, but hey, who cares? Sticks and stones etc. I've been called names (not pom though i hasten to add) plenty of times over here in the UK, so why the heck should pom bother me?

If Daz is relating to real experiences in this "informative" views (ones above) on oz, i would say he is in the minority.

Wilf. I would believe you. Can you tell me how being called a pom has affected you? Actually.....its quite an interesting subject....id been keen to get everyones view. I'll start a new thread, go look there.

Cheers

Pete.

All the 1970s 1950s stuff which Aus apparently is is all part of the charm in my view...and I found stacks of normal pubs!! There're not all pokies.

Apart from internet brodband etc I can't always see how 2000s are massively better than the 1970s...more crime, more pressure...the attraction of Aussie and to a greater extent NZ, is that they are precisely kind of naive/innocent (if I can say that) in a way that alot of would be parents are attracted to. There's no way I am bringing my kids up in Europe.

Dazuk should be allowed to be negative Wilf, he just said it in a "trolling" fashion guaranteed to get a rise..

Re: are you ready for oz???
 

Thank you, I will

ACE :)

Re: are you ready for oz???
 

oh yes i am ready for Oz, can't wait, new experiences, differing lifestyle, not stuck in front of the telly every night - great, stuck in the 1950's at least the outlook on life was better then, shite pubs - not alot of difference from here then!

rach
;)

Oh boo hoo, woe is me, I can't do exactly the same things I liked to do in England namely sit on my arse all day watching telly and shooting the shit at the pub with other piss pot social misfits. And they call me names to boot! WAAAAAAAA

For once I have to agree with the silly old sod. Daz is entitled to say whatever he wants however he wants. The fact that it is a load of old codswallop is neither here nor there. Besides, it gives me a chance to give him a verbal slapping....Bring it on Daz, and I will smite thee.

Are you ready for the UK?

endure the rat race london underground every morning/evening
come home with just enough time to cook & eat your tea watch beastbenders ingnore the wife for an hour or two cos your too fecked to talk and then go to bed cos you've got to get up early to do it all again.
Repeat for 1 week then attempt to negotiate your way into town on a Saturday with the rest of the UK to shop for food,the latest fashions/mobile phone ooh must look good at the trendy bar you always go to at the weekend,meet your mates who all moan about how shite their jobs/lives are,get pissed to forget the stressfull week you've had.
MMM weekend over not sure where that went oh well back to work must catch that train which will be on time the day I'm late for it.
Do this for rest of life.
NO THANKS

Have the guts to move to the other side of the world to try things a different way,perhaps learn about the important things in life instead of running with the herd.
I THINK I'LL RISK IT
After all if it doesnt work out I can always come back to UK and turn into a proper whinging pom at least I'll have something to whinge about.

Mr2blue
 

sums my way of thinking up! great post, only difference is i have no intention of going through this long stressful process to come back to the rat-race!
rach
;)

Think some people are sadly disilusioned with what they are coming to, or worse disilusioned about what they are leaving behind.

There is none so blind as those that dont want to see. :cool:

for me its not much different here (perth) to Manchester or Liverpool. Except that even Scousers can drive. !! Same old kack just a different place. Go to work (if you are lucky enough to have a job) go home, go to work, go home, weekend same old kack, cut the grass, sort the house, entertain the kids. Pay the mortgage, pay the bills, argue with the wife.

Have a great view of city from balcony, first two weeks, it was wow look at that, now I dont even notice it. !

Everyone has or will have there own experience so because Daz has a particular view it does not make him wrong, and what difference does it to make to how or where he was educated. An opinion is an opinion. Intelligence is not a boundary for experience good or bad. Some might say, lack of intelligence would be an advantage here. !!!

[QUOTE]Originally posted by karawara88
Think some people are sadly disilusioned with what they are coming to, or worse disilusioned about what they are leaving behind.

There is none so blind as those that dont want to see. :cool:

I am neither disilusioned or blind, all i know is that the time that we will be spending with our daughter will be worth what we are giving up! i don't own a pair of rose coloured glasses and dont intend on getting a pair, yes there will be times when things will be 'difficult' but we are determined to make this work, we wouldn't be emigrating if we weren't.
regards
rach:p

[QUOTE]Originally posted by nosuchluck


well said rach


does anybody in their right mind think that we would put ouirselves through this whole agonising process for the fun of it, a lot of us are leaving behind family, especially me with my elderly dad, am i ready for oz, if i wasnt then i would be in serious trouble now what with all the monies spent out so far



arlene