Australia 'Similar but Different' to Britain
 

Hi

I find Australia 'Similar but Different' to Britain do you???

They have Starbucks but coffee costs less.

They have petrol but cost’s less but you travel further.

They have banks but they charge more.

They have TV but is it worth watching (matter of personnel choice, if you like home and away and neighbours you are fine).

They have radio and I think that’s fine.

They have more mobile speed cameras than Brit and they hide them (thought that was hard to do).

They have a fixation with shopping and lots of shops but a whole new set of brands so not always what you want.

They have thongs but not as we know them.

etc. etc. etc.

:D


What do you think???

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Sounds fair to me. Would add a few

They speak English, but sometimes I don't understand them and vise versa.

They have shopping centres but IMO vastly superior to UK ones (from someone who does not enjoy shopping)

Probably think of some more but cooking dinner and drinking beer :beer:

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They have lettuce; but it's expensive

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Is it? How much are you paying :zzz: ;)

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I'm sorry...it's passe, I know. Just bored out of my mind - youngest has been hit sideways by a bug and as a consequence I'm playing house husband for the day.

Thought I'd make a nuisance of myself on here!

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Beer there's another thing some as we know it and some as we don't and sometimes they will only give you a pint glass if you have guinness otherwise it's a scooner.

They have doctors for the kids with bugs but havent' a clue how you use them as the doctors seems so complicated (fingers crossed havent' been yet).

Dogs need injections like UK but then they get heart guard instead of just roundworm the there is the dreaded paralysis tick, I mean what is this thing???

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They have bras, but not as we know them.

I went to get one on the Gold Coast and she measure me.

I chose a nice style and she replied 'We dont have anything THAT big' and then guided me to a brown bra that looked like a vest and the straps looked like a girth of a saddle.

Take me to a place in Australia where the big bosems are celebrated and the bras can be feminine. :D :D

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MMM don't have that problem so can't help out but have you seen that advert for seamless boxes for men why don't they do them for women... :D .

And speaking of adverts they have tampons but not as we know them what's this with the multi coloured ones.

Oooohhhh!!! and have you seen the hot KY jelly advert how gross is that... :scared: :scared:

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They have multi coloured tampons???? and hot KY jelly?

Oh my days :D

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Do you get different adverts on the Gold Coast you def get those things on the North side of Brisbane maybe we have different feminine needs up here...LOL.

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My house !!!!!!

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It is a huge mass of land 12,000 miles away from a small island called Britain.

One similarity is the that here, we speak English......just like the Americans.

:D

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Come on Caroline that's taking it too far, I may not speak English like the Queen (being from the north east) but I def don't speak it like the Americans... :scared: .

Still can't join the big boobs conversation i'll never get that big... :( .

Another scary advert just been on about Vaginal Thrush and she takes the pill infront of everyone...Yuck. .. :eek: .

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It would have been worse to treat it in front of everyone before they brought out the pill ;)

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Nor can I re the boobs...just try to convince myself they are pert and won't droop to my knees :D

That advert is almost sick...honest, but sick :eek:

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:eek: :eek: :eek:

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Don't think I can manage pert either as 40 so pert long gone.... ;) .

Yes if it wasn't a tablet it could have been extra grose... :scared: .

Dominos new puff pastry base is just wrong as well fair enough gregs pasties but pizzas!!!

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No excuse woman..I'm 41 :rolleyes:

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I should have stopped son feeding at 1 not 11... :scared:

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LOL :D :scared:

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stopped at 11 months not 11 years although my friend was very 'Little Britain' and kept going till 3 yrs.... grose.

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Hot KY? Jalfrezzi or Madras?

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There was a prog on Ch4 last week.. with a woman who was still breast feeding her 8 year old... yes you did read that correctly 8 YEARS OLD!!!! That's got to be child abuse, hasn't it?!
*shudders*

Sonic x

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It would seem that a lot of pediatric professionals actually believe that this is quite natural and it's society and social conditioning that has taught us to believe that it is wrong.

Bittyyyy! Bittyyyyyyyyy!

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I thought when kids got teeth it was natures way of saying 'By eck lad, you can eat solids from now'

There is no way in heaven would I let anything with teeth near my knockers.

Bitty :D :p

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Shame....you're missing out on a lot of fun :p

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:p

I am afraid I cannot stand them being touched. :o

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as your hubby got false teeth then :rolleyes:

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Im afraid to say, it really really doesnt do it for me.

Im sorry, Im so not normal.

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They are :eek: I'm amazed they're bloody awful in my opinion.

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we av chips but theirs are hot

we av crisps but theirs are chips :eek:

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We have dim sims
you have scotch eggs...

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They've got a Prime Minister that's been around too long and a back stabbing Finance Minister and we've got a ...........oh

They've got their tongues up America's arse and we've got............oh..

They've got a public health care system that's totally underfunded and we've got a ......

OK.....try again..

They had Kylie, now we've got her.

Paul

Re: Australia 'Similar but Different' to Britain
 

In UK Kane West's golddigger aint messing with no broke broke.
In Oz Kane West's golddigger aint messing with no broke N*gger.

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We had storms Aus has mega storms and seems like there maybe another one on it's way tonight... :scared: :scared: :scared: .

And in answer to the earlier posts I thought the appearance of teeth was a very good point to call it a day.... its just wrong after that.

Don't know why we need hot KY could just use crushed chilli's and what do you need it for anyway the advert doesn't fully say???

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We had maps they have refadexs.

We had higher speed limits they have bigger cars... :cool: .

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i hope it is very different to uk.....

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That's the thing it is and it isn't but overall I think we made the correct move it's just some of the differences are often either the sort that make you want to rip your hair out or are quite humerous... :D .

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i agree. you have to laugh at what is thrown at you and not take it so seriously. I am sure when anyone moves away it is not until you have settled there that you realise what you miss. Silly small things. :beer:

best of luck

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Betty Crockers 3 min microwave yorkshire puddings... :D .

Oxo gravey granules.

The great British pub, Aus has them but they are not the same like pretend pubs... :beer: :beer: :beer: .