British Expats
Sep 3rd 2009, 2:27 am
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Re: British Expats
Because of the standard of the "journalism"?
Sep 3rd 2009, 2:29 am
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Re: British Expats
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.
How embarrassing.
Sep 3rd 2009, 2:33 am
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.....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! 
Sep 3rd 2009, 2:33 am
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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.
Be proud of you country but do you have to have a tattoo of your country's flag/emblem to prove it.
Sep 3rd 2009, 2:35 am
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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.
Unfortuntely there are lots of Daily Mail/Express reading expats over here. Complaining that they left the uk because of immigrants etc.
.....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!
Sep 3rd 2009, 4:14 am
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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?
Sep 3rd 2009, 4:17 am
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I have a "pompey down under" sticker on my car...are you embarassed?
Sep 3rd 2009, 4:26 am
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..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.
Sep 3rd 2009, 4:37 am
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Sep 3rd 2009, 5:05 am
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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.....
Sep 3rd 2009, 5:07 am
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I heard it was a Lada
Sep 3rd 2009, 5:13 am
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