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Re: the grass ain't greener!!!!!!
Originally Posted by iPom
My mum was a nurse in a hospital and one day, they had this girl in who needed an op after having a car accident... Anyway, they're cutting off her clothing to get her into theatre asap and my mum cuts off her underwear and lo and behold, her hair was bright green, with a tatoo saying 'KEEP OFF THE GRASS'.
:D OMG !!! oh well, each to their own i suppose :D |
Re: the grass ain't greener!!!!!!
Originally Posted by fraser
Here's mine, what do you think :eek:
Competition over I'd say :rolleyes: |
Re: the grass ain't greener!!!!!!
Originally Posted by cresta57
Looks like a council estate in Mexboro', post us one of your new place ;)
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Re: the grass ain't greener!!!!!!
Originally Posted by BenandPam
You need to get the gate sorted in that fence so you can use the pool next door. :D
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Re: the grass ain't greener!!!!!!
Originally Posted by fraser
That was after the electric ball valve popped out of our nearly full 2100 litre rain tank, when the wire attached to it was moved from across the path, 90 minutes of filling buckets up to get the water away from the house before I could seal it up again.
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Re: the grass ain't greener!!!!!!
Originally Posted by Jenna.M
wow,i cannot agree more
ive just found this site as i too am in aussie and want to go home so bad. i came here just over a year ago and it was easy as my husband is a chippy and we got in no problem, but i didn't really want to come. and now im really homesick. he loves it here and says everyone should come over,but i think like you the grass isnt greener. apart from the sun i dont think aussie has a lot to offer,and the men are very sexist and recist too. the other day i see a group of teenage kids calling this poor man a woggo just because he was black,aussie is very racist. i too am fed up with being called a pom,and i cant get a job although i am very good at my job in the uk. aussie will give the jobs to themselves. my husband has onlt got a job because it is in demand,not because hes a pom the drugs i smell in my street are as bad as in the uk,all the kids smoke pot including this boy who is about 10. ive read all of this one and i think a lot of you are kiding yourself,it isnt greener no way. im going to read some more posters Jenna :( i...came...it was easy...my husband is...no problem...i didn't really want to come...he loves it...says everyone should come...but i...like...grass i...think aussie has a lot...men...i...am fed up good...aussie will give the jobs to themselves. my husband not i smell in my street...im going... |
Re: the grass ain't greener!!!!!!
Originally Posted by Hutch
Yea, but let's look at the facts shall we.
Brand new poster, registered that day, with no other posts to their name, starts new thread about how shite Oz is. Having dropped said thread with carefully targeted pay-load, said poster then disappears off the face of the earth, never to reappear. Some five pages of bile later, a brand new poster, registered that day, with no other posts to their name, appears and makes 'Oh yes I totally agree, Australia is a shit-hole and all Australians are nasty oiks' post - then they too disappear off the face of the earth, never to reappear. Just because you happen to agree with the sentiment, doesn't make it any less likely to be someone posting deliberately to cause trouble. If the shoe was on the other foot, I wonder how such a post would be dealt with? My feelings about the post content are irrelevant - if the posters need to be banned for any identifiable reason, they will be. |
Re: the grass ain't greener!!!!!!
Originally Posted by Pollyana
My feelings about the post content are irrelevant - if the posters need to be banned for any identifiable reason, they will be.
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Re: the grass ain't greener!!!!!!
Originally Posted by gedge
Burn her! She's a witch!
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Re: the grass ain't greener!!!!!!
Originally Posted by gedge
Burn her! She's a witch!
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Re: the grass ain't greener!!!!!!
Originally Posted by cresta57
FWIW neither of the new posters shares an IP with any registered user, nor are the two IP's connected in any way. Just because both are singing from the same song sheet doesn't make them a single entity.They could easily be a couple of unhappy people as a couple of trolls
We can't ban people simply for expressing an opinion that's different from the majority. I think every point made in the OP is valid to a certain degree. If I have the time later I'll post my own experiences of each point, though I think anyone who's lived here a while already knows that what's been said is accurate albeit worded a trite inflammatory. There are things here that will really irk you after a while, there are the just as many in the U.K. I don't think it's an Aus versus U.K thing. Australia is just different you either "get it" and love it or you don't and wonder. Despite the drugs the racism the bigotry Australia has a lot to offer. I could say just the same for the U.K. Secondly, I didn't cry 'ban' - I merely pointed out that the posters, if they were genuine, would be far more likely to stick around to continue the thread. The fact that it happened twice in one thread makes it very suspect. No? Thirdly - the OP's experiences don't bear any resemblance to my own during my previous time in Australia, or this current emigration. It happens time and again on these forums - someone says 'Australia is shit because of x, y and z' but what they should say is 'Where I am in Australia is shit because of x, y and z'. If I moved to Bradford, for instance, I think I'd have a whole different set of problems to someone living in Chingford. If even Arkon can finally realise that problems can and do exist in some areas and not others, then the case is strong, no? But yea, I think it is a case of either 'getting it' or not. |
Re: the grass ain't greener!!!!!!
Originally Posted by Hutch
Fair enough, but a couple of points. The IP address is irrelevant - anyone with a passing knowledge of spoofed IPs can fake the IP for an Apache or MS server. Not saying that's the case here, just that it's a totally unaccurate was of discerning who someone is.
Secondly, I didn't cry 'ban' - I merely pointed out that the posters, if they were genuine, would be far more likely to stick around to continue the thread. The fact that it happened twice in one thread makes it very suspect. No? Thirdly - the OP's experiences don't bear any resemblance to my own during my previous time in Australia, or this current emigration. It happens time and again on these forums - someone says 'Australia is shit because of x, y and z' but what they should say is 'Where I am in Australia is shit because of x, y and z'. If I moved to Bradford, for instance, I think I'd have a whole different set of problems to someone living in Chingford. If even Arkon can finally realise that problems can and do exist in some areas and not others, then the case is strong, no? But yea, I think it is a case of either 'getting it' or not. |
Re: the grass ain't greener!!!!!!
Originally Posted by rossifumi
Nobody has directly suggested that you did 'cry ban'. It's been suggested that you cannot go around banning one and all for posting bad experiences about Australia.
Why not???? :confused: :D |
Re: the grass ain't greener!!!!!!
Originally Posted by Hels
Why not???? :confused:
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Re: the grass ain't greener!!!!!!
Originally Posted by gedge
Burn her! She's a witch!
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