wholeworldwindow

So does this experience not give you a devine sense of superiority? Enjoy every moment of it! The thing I hated about UK was that everyone thought they knew everything, you were not allowed your own opinion and even the muppets had the brass to make you feel that you owed them one! Here at least most don't have the capacity to think beyond the moment = ingorance and bliss! Rather that that ive in a fustrated nation that feels it's not at the stage it should be in life and wants to take that out on the little people! I love the "go with the flowness" here!

thebears

Sounds like the girlfriend is going to get a big surprise

Is she at the vets???

Bert'n'Stella

yer probably! They were nice enuff folk, just it is a long enuff journey on the train without all that... it was the only time I took the train and it broke down as well - well technically we didn't break down. Another train broke down so they gave our engine to that one and we had to wait 3 hours so a pretty shite journey all round (+I was pretty ill at the time also).

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ClareW

And there are no idiots in the UK, or anywhere else in the world, I guess. People's the same all over the world, mate. Good & bad. Educated, uneducated. Naturally gifted, sadly lacking. I'm sure you could find similar examples in any community in the world....... have you been to Essex?

arkon

Yes but some places seem to just act like magnets to attract the chavs and I'm not just on about Oz. Come on people admit it, have you never been to holiday destinations that seem full of chavs and other destinations that seem a little more refined? No one can surely deny these places exist so why is it so hard to believe that Oz might be a chav magnet?

thebears

"Some seeds sprout but never bloom. Some bloom but never bear fruit." Confucius

ELLJAY

I once worked with a guy called Erik and he was from Norway.
Blond, nice-looking, about aged 23.

Hutch

I guess it isn't, since you're there.

arkon

Ah, but I'm leaving. Maybe this magnet repels the not-chavs?

Talking of chavs the other day when I went into town for food I caught a glance at a reflection of myself in a shop window and I was a bit shocked at how much of a chav I've turned into on the outside!! Then Looking around realised it was ok because I blended in so well. If my friends and colleagues back home saw how I dress to go into town they would have a fit I’m sure. Even the wifes best friend took her aside when we were home and asked her if everything was ok because she looked very rough and a bit chav like!!

Hutch

But consider the possibilites! You can educate your 'friends' and 'colleagues' - get them out of those stuffy old suits and top hats, tell them to cast off the Church's brogues and instead adopt the shorts, t-shirt and thongs of the Australians. Or better still - before you go - you could launch a campaign to get Australians into three piece suits - just the thing when the mercury's touching 45!

moneypenny20

Why? was her Burberry bikini showing her midriff and had she rings on every finger, and a pierced nose

BadgeIsBack

Have to admit, Gosford, the gateway to the Central Coast not 60k? from Sydney can be a tad feral at times.

I couldn't believe how bad it had become in a few years.