well let me see... champ


who the **** cares... champ

Sunshine if you're going to live in australia you better get used to jokes that poke, often very cruel, fun at minorities or those that are simply the butt of everyones need to stick it up em...


You're not irish are ya

I don't need to do anything thanks. I've read the thread.

Na... you look sober, a sure give away you're not from around here.

Confusing name but I doubt those who still strongly identify as a Traveller are generally the one's who travel to Australia

...so...?

Yes, wny were they not served? It doesnt say in the article, hence its up to you to use your imagination. Until the facts are found, its just a sad story about an olympians family not getting served in a pub. What's your views on it? I'm guessing you have a view as you went to the bother of posting it.

What part do you disagree with?

There was no joke there.

And most definitely drunk

As anyone who has ever met me will testify! People have to be drunk to come near me, never mind propose to me

you asking me?

Yes.

I was told by someone in the state office of a VERY large Australian company that I shouldn't have Australia Day off since I'm not an Australian. When I pointed out I was a citizen I was told "a piece of paper doesn't make you one".

To be fair I did laugh it off but someone got wind of it and before I knew it HR, everyone and their dog wanted me to put a written complaint in. I declined snce it would just make it worse and I was only a sub-contractor who would have been onto another project a month later.

What really surprised me this wasn't some building site and the bloke involved had never said boo to me before.

Sure, to clarify though I was responding to "There's a pretty high tolerance of that rubbish in oz." rather than "there are no knobs to be found in australia"

Quoting, and some context, does make conversation easier

I'm trying to decipher the OP's connection between their original post about Irish trouble in Australia and their next post about trouble for a family in Ireland. Stuff that could happen anywhere, and the connection with one random event and trouble in Australia and point of it all is a bit lost on me but maybe I'm dim.

There certainly is. We have one person in our office whose nasty racist comments (towards poms, Irish, Kiwis and Philippinos) have been reported more than once yet the bosses don't want to rock the boat by doing more than having "a quick word".
I also got my first taste of it fairly recently, being singled out for racist abuse via a widespread email from senior management. The excuse - from my similarly horrified manager? "that staff member is under a bit of pressure in his personal life" Bully for him, that describes most of us. That was in May, still waiting for the apology.