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Old Jun 25th 2007, 5:35 pm
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..."you must be feeling right at home with this rain".

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Old Jun 25th 2007, 5:40 pm
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Originally Posted by rossifumi
..."you must be feeling right at home with this rain".

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I have had worse than that..

I get "snows 6 months of year in UK doesn't it?"

Yeah right..it's really the North Pole
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Old Jun 25th 2007, 5:41 pm
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Originally Posted by rossifumi
..."you must be feeling right at home with this rain".

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"But Mackinnon (because my colleagues call me by my surname, honestly), you're from Scotland, surely you can't be cold here in Oz?"

:curse:

Then I dazzle & amaze them with my tales of gas-powered indoor liquid heating systems that raise the surrounding air temperature.
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Originally Posted by mackinnon
"But Mackinnon (because my colleagues call me by my surname, honestly), you're from Scotland, surely you can't be cold here in Oz?"

:curse:

Then I dazzle & amaze them with my tales of gas-powered indoor liquid heating systems that raise the surrounding air temperature.
:curse: that annoys me too !!!!! :curse:
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I have had worse than that..

I get "snows 6 months of year in UK doesn't it?"

Yeah right..it's really the North Pole
Mate that calls for both barrels!

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Originally Posted by rossifumi
..."you must be feeling right at home with this rain".

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know how you feel!!!!!
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Old Jun 25th 2007, 5:53 pm
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EXACTLY! I miss my central heating....roaming around mid winter, snow outside, with my shorts and t shirt on cause I have my CENTRAL HEATING on full blast!....Awww the memories

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Originally Posted by rossifumi
..."you must be feeling right at home with this rain".

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or "oooo you've brought this weather with you havent you"



"noooooooo its farkin winter mate and you live next to the antartic and
WE PREFER INSULATED WALLS AND FRIGGIN CENTRAL HEATING AS APPOSED TO SITTING WITH AN OLD PADDED LUMBERJACK SHIRT ON USING YOUR BEARD AS A SCARF"

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Brissie was 16 degrees, the paper is describing it as "frosty"
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Originally Posted by rossifumi
..."you must be feeling right at home with this rain".

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A few weeks ago when we had our 2 week british heatwave.....all i got was.

And your moving alll the way to Australia when you have this beautiful weather right on your door stop

FFS ......i am not moving for the weather
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Originally Posted by rossifumi
..."you must be feeling right at home with this rain".
You forgot the "England is just all grey isn't it?"

Yep, grey grass, grey houses even grey wildlife, FFS!

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Old Jun 26th 2007, 8:51 am
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I used to get people asking me if I had running water and electricity when I lived in South Africa.
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Old Jun 26th 2007, 8:53 am
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I used to get people asking me if I had running water and electricity when I lived in South Africa.
and did you?

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Old Jun 26th 2007, 8:59 am
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and did you?

ROFL

Yup! We also had lions and elephants in our back garden...
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Old Jun 26th 2007, 10:43 am
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pmsl

when i was bunged up with a cold a few weeks, back some ozzies said to me " you should be used to them your english" ??????? FFS whats that all about!???
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