Australia is 20 years behind the UK.....and here's why...
May 16th 2007, 11:35 am
#16
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Re: Australia is 20 years behind the UK.....and here's why...
I wake up every morning thinking I am in some weird time zone.
I want a game of Pac Man with JR while Roland rat is rapping with Kevin the gerbil, meanwhile Holly Johnson would be fighting for his place on the stage and we are all spending £1 notes.
Arghhhh, i hated the eighties and here they are again in modern day Australia.
I want a game of Pac Man with JR while Roland rat is rapping with Kevin the gerbil, meanwhile Holly Johnson would be fighting for his place on the stage and we are all spending £1 notes.
Arghhhh, i hated the eighties and here they are again in modern day Australia.
This is here and that was then.
BTW, I like Asteroids
May 16th 2007, 12:00 pm
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Re: Australia is 20 years behind the UK.....and here's why...
Jeremy Clarkson in the Times Online wrote a funny comment on how crap real Brit pubs were anyhow.
How he'd rather go to a new gastro pub than be accosted by a darts player with his gut hanging over his belt in a old local.
For what's it worth, I'm with The Crow, we have pretty good country pubs here too.
How he'd rather go to a new gastro pub than be accosted by a darts player with his gut hanging over his belt in a old local.
For what's it worth, I'm with The Crow, we have pretty good country pubs here too.
May 16th 2007, 12:04 pm
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Re: Australia is 20 years behind the UK.....and here's why...
It does have a bit of a feel of Neil kinnock as far as politics is concerned, I watched the conference last week, well some of it and almost expected to see Michael Foot sleeping on the platform somewhere.
Fashion is fine if you are a twenty something and/or you don't mind dressing like Brad off neighbours.
Pubs are like community centres or bingo halls or something. There are no little nooks or corners where you can have a cosy chat, they have no heart or soul here, none at all.
Shopping in Coles is similar to kwik Save or some other corner shop, no choice and no quality. Woolworths is better but they have the monopoly.
Hooning is far far worse here, kids driving around in 4 litre jobbys screwing the tits out of them where their counterpart in blighty would be screwing a nova or mini, not quite the same eh?
The television is akin to 70's TV, bring back Knotts Landing or Howards Way.
Australia is not what it appears to be from the outside.
Fashion is fine if you are a twenty something and/or you don't mind dressing like Brad off neighbours.
Pubs are like community centres or bingo halls or something. There are no little nooks or corners where you can have a cosy chat, they have no heart or soul here, none at all.
Shopping in Coles is similar to kwik Save or some other corner shop, no choice and no quality. Woolworths is better but they have the monopoly.
Hooning is far far worse here, kids driving around in 4 litre jobbys screwing the tits out of them where their counterpart in blighty would be screwing a nova or mini, not quite the same eh?
The television is akin to 70's TV, bring back Knotts Landing or Howards Way.
Australia is not what it appears to be from the outside.
As for the Hooning I'm impressed that they use their own car which I much prefer to the British way as at least my own car is still there when I come out of work or the house.
Don't watch neighbors so can't comment but must agree the pubs need to lose the formica tables.
Politics Johnny is a little like a puppet no facial features that move, bring back Maggie never mind Michael and that would shake up the politics.
May 16th 2007, 12:18 pm
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Re: Australia is 20 years behind the UK.....and here's why...
It does have a bit of a feel of Neil kinnock as far as politics is concerned, I watched the conference last week, well some of it and almost expected to see Michael Foot sleeping on the platform somewhere.
Fashion is fine if you are a twenty something and/or you don't mind dressing like Brad off neighbours.
Pubs are like community centres or bingo halls or something. There are no little nooks or corners where you can have a cosy chat, they have no heart or soul here, none at all.
Shopping in Coles is similar to kwik Save or some other corner shop, no choice and no quality. Woolworths is better but they have the monopoly.
Hooning is far far worse here, kids driving around in 4 litre jobbys screwing the tits out of them where their counterpart in blighty would be screwing a nova or mini, not quite the same eh?
The television is akin to 70's TV, bring back Knotts Landing or Howards Way.
Australia is not what it appears to be from the outside.
Fashion is fine if you are a twenty something and/or you don't mind dressing like Brad off neighbours.
Pubs are like community centres or bingo halls or something. There are no little nooks or corners where you can have a cosy chat, they have no heart or soul here, none at all.
Shopping in Coles is similar to kwik Save or some other corner shop, no choice and no quality. Woolworths is better but they have the monopoly.
Hooning is far far worse here, kids driving around in 4 litre jobbys screwing the tits out of them where their counterpart in blighty would be screwing a nova or mini, not quite the same eh?
The television is akin to 70's TV, bring back Knotts Landing or Howards Way.
Australia is not what it appears to be from the outside.
May 16th 2007, 12:31 pm
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Re: Australia is 20 years behind the UK.....and here's why...
Having been back in England for a couple of weeks it is definitely more modern than Oz but I wouldn't say twenty years.
It's so much cheaper. You can get a mobile phone line for around £20 with 600 minutes anytime to all networks and get free broadband thrown in at 8megs.
It's so much cheaper. You can get a mobile phone line for around £20 with 600 minutes anytime to all networks and get free broadband thrown in at 8megs.
May 16th 2007, 1:03 pm
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Re: Australia is 20 years behind the UK.....and here's why...
Having been back in England for a couple of weeks it is definitely more modern than Oz but I wouldn't say twenty years.
It's so much cheaper. You can get a mobile phone line for around £20 with 600 minutes anytime to all networks and get free broadband thrown in at 8megs.
It's so much cheaper. You can get a mobile phone line for around £20 with 600 minutes anytime to all networks and get free broadband thrown in at 8megs.
Australia will catch up.....
in about 20 years
May 16th 2007, 1:15 pm
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Re: Australia is 20 years behind the UK.....and here's why...
I wake up every morning thinking I am in some weird time zone.
I want a game of Pac Man with JR while Roland rat is rapping with Kevin the gerbil, meanwhile Holly Johnson would be fighting for his place on the stage and we are all spending £1 notes.
Arghhhh, i hated the eighties and here they are again in modern day Australia.
I want a game of Pac Man with JR while Roland rat is rapping with Kevin the gerbil, meanwhile Holly Johnson would be fighting for his place on the stage and we are all spending £1 notes.
Arghhhh, i hated the eighties and here they are again in modern day Australia.
Galaxians are best...btw when are you moving back?
May 16th 2007, 1:29 pm
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Re: Australia is 20 years behind the UK.....and here's why...
Mate, if I could move back I would, the thing is you put down roots, kids, school, wife, job, contracts etc etc.
I am going to have to evac carefully, very carefully.
Missus loves it here and is here for the long haul.
If it comes to the choice I will choose.
I am going to have to evac carefully, very carefully.
Missus loves it here and is here for the long haul.
If it comes to the choice I will choose.
May 16th 2007, 1:35 pm
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Re: Australia is 20 years behind the UK.....and here's why...
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May 16th 2007, 1:51 pm
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Re: Australia is 20 years behind the UK.....and here's why...
Hmm, softly, softly and all that. Well we are not short of luvverly proper little pubs in West Dorset...and soon to be smoke free so I can actually use them rather than sit in the beer garden...oh yes!
May 16th 2007, 2:37 pm
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Re: Australia is 20 years behind the UK.....and here's why...
Jeremy Clarkson in the Times Online wrote a funny comment on how crap real Brit pubs were anyhow.
How he'd rather go to a new gastro pub than be accosted by a darts player with his gut hanging over his belt in a old local.
For what's it worth, I'm with The Crow, we have pretty good country pubs here too.
How he'd rather go to a new gastro pub than be accosted by a darts player with his gut hanging over his belt in a old local.
For what's it worth, I'm with The Crow, we have pretty good country pubs here too.
May 16th 2007, 5:37 pm
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Re: Australia is 20 years behind the UK.....and here's why...
Only a short list here, because there's just too much to mention...
20 years behind?
Suits me.
- Australian hospitals are not drowning in debt
- Australian hospitals have not been systematically closed and replaced with tiny little PFI hospitals incapable of providing adequate service (but still too expensive to run)
- Australia doesn't have a failed immigration policy
- Australia doesn't give away free council houses & welfare benefits to teenager mothers who compete to give birth below the age of 15 because they view pregnancy as a legitimate "career option"
20 years behind?
Suits me.
May 16th 2007, 5:48 pm
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Re: Australia is 20 years behind the UK.....and here's why...
great. Buy as much enron shares as you can. off load in about 12 years time. thank me later.