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Old Jan 21st 2007, 8:15 am
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Why are there 145 of you lot on here posting instead of outside discovering "The lucky country"?
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Why are there 145 of you lot on here posting instead of outside discovering "The lucky country"?
Probably many dreamers here that will never step on Australian soil
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Old Jan 21st 2007, 8:22 am
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Probably many dreamers here that will never step on Australian soil
Cant be more than 10% of that 145 though surely?
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Probably plenty of people who are not there yet - the people who are there and happy tend to post less, for obvious reasons!

Plus there's all the people who just leave their computer turned on and logged in whilst they are away doing other things.

Besides, 145 is a fairly tiny proportion of all the people in Australia!!
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Why are there 145 of you lot on here posting instead of outside discovering "The lucky country"?
Because its something to do over a cup of coffee whilst I sit there in "the lucky country" by the pool with my laptop.

Besides, no prospective migrant should be left alone with the folks from the MBTUK forum - its a sense of duty I have to try to give hope that some of us love this place to those who would otherwise be dragged down into depression and dispair.
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Because its something to do over a cup of coffee whilst I sit there in "the lucky country" by the pool with my laptop.

Besides, no prospective migrant should be left alone with the folks from the MBTUK forum - its a sense of duty I have to try to give hope that some of us love this place to those who would otherwise be dragged down into depression and dispair.
ditto though I haven't got the pool
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Why are there 145 of you lot on here posting instead of outside discovering "The lucky country"?
more to the point what are you doing in the Oz forum?
bored of the septic tank?
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more to the point what are you doing in the Oz forum?
bored of the septic tank?
I make the occasional sortie into Dingoland when the septic forums abit dead...just to see what you lot are whining about...I just noticed that theres also about 3 to 4 times more people posting in this forum than the US one and was wondering why.

I was having a rare scientific moment.
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I make the occasional sortie into Dingoland when the septic forums abit dead...just to see what you lot are whining about...I just noticed that theres also about 3 to 4 times more people posting in this forum than the US one and was wondering why.

I was having a rare scientific moment.
Because Australia is the number one destination for expats from the UK and we still give people visa's here to migrate whereas the US has been closed migration wise to the vast majority of people for some years.
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I'm on this morning because I'm way too hungover to even attempt going anywhere
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If I owned a PC desktop I'd never be here.

It's a laptop with wireless connection that sits on the kitchen top and is left on all day. I also do a fair bit of babysitting.
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Originally Posted by Rushman
I make the occasional sortie into Dingoland when the septic forums abit dead...just to see what you lot are whining about...I just noticed that theres also about 3 to 4 times more people posting in this forum than the US one and was wondering why.

I was having a rare scientific moment.
sortie would imply an aggressive incursion rather than a friendly visit
very American of you
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sortie would imply an aggressive incursion rather than a friendly visit
very American of you
You're reading to much into it mate. I was using the french meaning of 'sortie" not the military version.
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You're reading to much into it mate. I was using the french meaning of 'sortie" not the military version.
meaning exit? ok goodbye
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Old Jan 21st 2007, 9:25 am
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meaning exit? ok goodbye
Er yeah, I was exiting the US/lounge forums..
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