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Lord_Farquar Sep 2nd 2009 2:05 pm
British Expats
 
Does anyone else find other British expats a little embarrasing at times?

kporte Sep 2nd 2009 2:06 pm
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Originally Posted by Lord_Farquar (Post 7898912)
Does anyone else find other British expats a little embarrasing at times?
Shut up, you're embarrassing

Lord_Farquar Sep 2nd 2009 2:10 pm
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Originally Posted by kporte (Post 7898916)
Shut up, you're embarrassing
Explain.

kporte Sep 2nd 2009 2:10 pm
Re: British Expats
 
Originally Posted by Lord_Farquar (Post 7898920)
Explain.
Don't want to, you'll just be embarrassed.

Officer Dibble Sep 2nd 2009 2:12 pm
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Originally Posted by Lord_Farquar (Post 7898912)
Does anyone else find other British expats a little embarrasing at times?

British Expat cringe you mean?

Yes!

Lord_Farquar Sep 2nd 2009 2:14 pm
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Originally Posted by Officer Dibble (Post 7898923)
British Expat cringe you mean?

Yes!
Exactly.

Dorothy Sep 2nd 2009 2:15 pm
Re: British Expats
 
Originally Posted by Lord_Farquar (Post 7898912)
Does anyone else find other British expats a little embarrasing at times?
Why would anyone be embarrassed by what someone else does?

scottishcelts Sep 2nd 2009 2:15 pm
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Erm.......who ya got in mind?

Officer Dibble Sep 2nd 2009 2:17 pm
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Originally Posted by scottishcelts (Post 7898928)
Erm.......who ya got in mind?
Yeah! We want details, names and addresses!

Lord_Farquar Sep 2nd 2009 2:17 pm
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Originally Posted by scottishcelts (Post 7898928)
Erm.......who ya got in mind?
No one on here. I meant in real life.

I find the ones most embarrasing with really thick regional accents who slag off the Uk at every opportunity, but whinge when they can't buy bisto.

scottishcelts Sep 2nd 2009 2:19 pm
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Originally Posted by Lord_Farquar (Post 7898933)
No one on here. I meant in real life.

I find the ones most embarrasing with really thick regional accents who slag off the Uk at every opportunity, but whinge when they can't buy bisto.
:rofl: - yeah i have some people in mind now.

Lord_Farquar Sep 2nd 2009 2:21 pm
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Originally Posted by scottishcelts (Post 7898936)
:rofl: - yeah i have some people in mind now.

You know the ones I mean. They are the ones on Australia Day dressed head to toe in Australian garb, completely drunk by 10.30 am.

They have usually lived in Australia for about 3 months.

Lord_Farquar Sep 2nd 2009 2:23 pm
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Originally Posted by Dorothy (Post 7898926)
Why would anyone be embarrassed by what someone else does?
Because I have self respect?

I don't want to be associated with some of my "fellow countrymen".

bcworld Sep 2nd 2009 2:26 pm
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Originally Posted by Dorothy (Post 7898926)
Why would anyone be embarrassed by what someone else does?
Not someone else, but I was in a cafe in Melbourne last weekend and found a copy of the international edition of the Daily Express - big union jack beaming on the front page. Reading it made me fairly embarrassed to be British - I hope noone else in there read it! :o

Officer Dibble Sep 2nd 2009 2:27 pm
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Originally Posted by Lord_Farquar (Post 7898933)
No one on here. I meant in real life.

I find the ones most embarrasing with really thick regional accents who slag off the Uk at every opportunity, but whinge when they can't buy bisto.
A couple of years ago my newly arrived, eldest brother threw a tantrum in front of the Telstra guy because he couldnt get wireless internet in his suburb. Unfortunately for my nob of a brother, nobody in Australia could give two shits that he thinks hes the Alan Sugar of Adelaide.

How embarrassing.

Lord_Farquar Sep 2nd 2009 2:27 pm
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Originally Posted by bcworld (Post 7898956)
Not someone else, but I was in a cafe in Melbourne last weekend and found a copy of the international edition of the Daily Express - big union jack beaming on the front page. Reading it made me fairly embarrassed to be British - I hope noone else in there read it! :o

Because of the standard of the "journalism"?

scottishcelts Sep 2nd 2009 2:29 pm
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Originally Posted by Officer Dibble (Post 7898959)
A couple of years ago my newly arrived, eldest brother threw a tantrum in front of the Telstra guy because he couldnt get wireless internet in his suburb. Unfortunately for my nob of a brother, nobody in Australia could give two shits that he thinks hes the Alan Sugar of Adelaide.

How embarrassing.
:eek::blink:

Officer Dibble Sep 2nd 2009 2:30 pm
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Originally Posted by Lord_Farquar (Post 7898960)
Because of the standard of the "journalism"?

Im pretty sure that 'sad rag' is printed here in Australia. - even more of a reason not to read it.

bcworld Sep 2nd 2009 2:33 pm
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Originally Posted by Lord_Farquar (Post 7898960)
Because of the standard of the "journalism"?
.....aye, it was horrible, really horrible...there's honestly nothing like it here, I had forgotten how awful it is! Just page after page of demonising some group in society who isn't white with 2 kids and lives in Guildford! Teenagers, muslims, bloody foreigners etc etc etc. Plenty of people on this site clearly lap it up though! :(

Lord_Farquar Sep 2nd 2009 2:33 pm
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I think I just find any over the top nationalism abit cringworthy.

Be proud of you country but do you have to have a tattoo of your country's flag/emblem to prove it.

Lord_Farquar Sep 2nd 2009 2:35 pm
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I agree.

Unfortuntely there are lots of Daily Mail/Express reading expats over here. Complaining that they left the uk because of immigrants etc.



Originally Posted by bcworld (Post 7898969)
.....aye, it was horrible, really horrible...there's honestly nothing like it here, I had forgotten how awful it is! Just page after page of demonising some group in society who isn't white with 2 kids and lives in Guildford! Teenagers, muslims, bloody foreigners etc etc etc. Plenty of people on this site clearly lap it up though! :(

jimbo_d Sep 2nd 2009 4:14 pm
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Originally Posted by Lord_Farquar (Post 7898970)
I think I just find any over the top nationalism abit cringworthy.

Be proud of you country but do you have to have a tattoo of your country's flag/emblem to prove it.
What is it with Scots having to display a sticker on their cars in Oz with the St Andrews, not having a go at Scots in general, just asking why they have to have a sticker on their car, no other nationality does that really apart from the odd bogan aussie?

pompeyblonde Sep 2nd 2009 4:17 pm
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I have a "pompey down under" sticker on my car...are you embarassed?

Lord_Farquar Sep 2nd 2009 4:20 pm
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No but you should be. ;)


Originally Posted by pompeyblonde (Post 7899113)
I have a "pompey down under" sticker on my car...are you embarassed?

scottishcelts Sep 2nd 2009 4:26 pm
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Originally Posted by jimbo_d (Post 7899105)
What is it with Scots having to display a sticker on their cars in Oz with the St Andrews, not having a go at Scots in general, just asking why they have to have a sticker on their car, no other nationality does that really apart from the odd bogan aussie?
That's utter pish - i've saw plenty of England car stickers around, along with loads of Man U, Chelsea and Arsenal.

..and yes, I am one of those Scots who has a St.Andrews sticker on my car, along with a Lion Rampant.

What's wrong with that? Hey, hey? People do that back home too.

seang Sep 2nd 2009 4:37 pm
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Originally Posted by pompeyblonde (Post 7899113)
I have a "pompey down under" sticker on my car...are you embarassed?
depends, what kind of car is it?

Lord_Farquar Sep 2nd 2009 4:38 pm
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Originally Posted by seang (Post 7899155)
depends, what kind of car is it?
I heard it was a Lada

kporte Sep 2nd 2009 5:05 pm
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Originally Posted by jimbo_d (Post 7899105)
What is it with Scots having to display a sticker on their cars in Oz with the St Andrews, not having a go at Scots in general, just asking why they have to have a sticker on their car, no other nationality does that really apart from the odd bogan aussie?
It is so people don't mistake us for English. We get a better reception where ever we go if this is made clear. This is not meant to be a dig at the English by the way, I love them, it's just the way it is.....

pompeyblonde Sep 2nd 2009 5:07 pm
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I heard it was a Lada
No its a classic Skyline

renth Sep 2nd 2009 5:13 pm
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Originally Posted by kporte (Post 7899197)
It is so people don't mistake us for English. We get a better reception where ever we go if this is made clear.
How do you know?

kporte Sep 2nd 2009 5:18 pm
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Originally Posted by renth (Post 7899213)
How do you know?
Personal experience. Same scenario for every Scot I have asked about it. In some countries it is more obvious than others, probably for logical reasons.
France for example, no need to explain that I presume. America, silly romantic ideas about what Scotland is.
Aus, they have an inferiority complex similar to the Scots regarding the English.

Officer Dibble Sep 2nd 2009 5:22 pm
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Originally Posted by kporte (Post 7899226)
Personal experience. Same scenario for every Scot I have asked about it. In some countries it is more obvious than others, probably for logical reasons.
France for example, no need to explain that I presume. America, silly romantic ideas about what Scotland is.
Aus, they have an inferiority complex similar to the Scots regarding the English.
:eek: At least your honest!

But do you find youre tail gated less than someone with no sticker on their car??

scottishcelts Sep 2nd 2009 5:31 pm
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Originally Posted by kporte (Post 7899197)
It is so people don't mistake us for English. We get a better reception where ever we go if this is made clear. This is not meant to be a dig at the English by the way, I love them, it's just the way it is.....
:rofl:

kporte Sep 2nd 2009 5:33 pm
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Originally Posted by Officer Dibble (Post 7899230)
:eek: At least your honest!

But do you find youre tail gated less than someone with no sticker on their car??
I don't actually have a sticker so I can't say. A guy ran up my ass a few weeks back and the old grill destroying towbar totalled his car and left my ute unscathed........

scottishcelts Sep 2nd 2009 5:34 pm
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Originally Posted by kporte (Post 7899226)
Personal experience. Same scenario for every Scot I have asked about it. In some countries it is more obvious than others, probably for logical reasons.
France for example, no need to explain that I presume. America, silly romantic ideas about what Scotland is.
Aus, they have a superiority complex similar to the Scots regarding the English.
Uh-hu

scottishcelts Sep 2nd 2009 5:36 pm
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Originally Posted by kporte (Post 7899247)
I don't actually have a sticker so I can't say. A guy ran up my ass a few weeks back and the old grill destroying towbar totalled his car and left my ute unscathed........
:thumbup:

petensue Sep 2nd 2009 5:38 pm
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To be honest most Aussies I have met could not care less where you are from as long as you fit in.Sue

Officer Dibble Sep 2nd 2009 5:39 pm
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Originally Posted by petensue (Post 7899264)
To be honest most Aussies I have met could not care less where you are from as long as you fit in.Sue
What does it mean to 'fit in'? :blink:

kporte Sep 2nd 2009 5:43 pm
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Originally Posted by Officer Dibble (Post 7899266)
What does it mean to 'fit in'? :blink:
Take the piss out of the English at BBQ'S

petensue Sep 2nd 2009 5:44 pm
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It means that you don't keep going on about how wonderful it was back in England or how horrible it is in Australia that is all.Sue.


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