Officer Dibble

What is it with all these ex-pat forums?

Perhaps not this one in particular but why are these forums getting so dry??

Could it be that Ex-pats are posing more questions about their new lives than anyone is capable of answering??

We're called whinging Poms for a reason and yet youre only allowed to be absolutely posimistic........................................ .:rof l:

Pollyana

Dry? There's a stunning amount of people that openly admit to having a tipple while posting.....myself included. Nowt dry around here

Sally Simpson

Officer Dibble

Yay! Thats one way of looking at it. I guess Im just a negative git but I dont feel like one.

Im pissed right now so best I dont go on!

Pollyana

So you're not dry either then!

Sally Simpson

We can all be pissed together then!

I like your new word, 'posimistic'

Somewhere between optimistic & pessimistic perhaps? Much like this forum

asprilla

Its because many of us have taken the expat journey already. We've been there, done that. We've started calling flip-flops "thongs" and we've stopped converting from $ to £. And now the thrill is gone.

iamthecreaturefromuranus

Never in a month of Sunday's will I call a flip-flop a thong.. its just all wrong.

Pollyana

Thats a good one I like it

I only do it when talking to my nieces back home - at 8 and 13, imagining someone "walking down the street showing off their new thongs" can still raise hysteria

scottishcelts

Agreed, the whole wearing thongs on your feet thing is a bit too much

ABCDiamond

What's wrong with Thongs ?

I have no problem watching the girls walk past in their thongs.



But to bring back some of that aforementioned dryness, they speak the Australian version of the language in Australia, not the British version


and then... why are these forums getting so dry??

Maybe the current economic climate is causing everyone to be a bit more concerned about things...

Bernieboy

Oh do go on,ya wimp

scottishcelts

Mm... interesting, my o.h is always asking me to show him my thongs!

Kim67

We get weird looks from the teachers here when I tell the kids not to forget to to wear their thongs when they have swimming lessons.