But you replied anyway.

really?
Haven't met this crowd both Brits or Aussies...
Have to admit, this site causes me to question, or initially be wary, around locals about this and they laugh..

invariably they are open to conversation...that people just get on in life...with a variety of life experiences...

I have a question..
when rebuked with a love it or leave it remark
what exactly are people saying..

Do they wait for a silence in the conversation, clear their throats, and start with:

'There is no post on Saturdays!'...(with a prufusion of glottal stops etc)..

if we discuss stuff it's just all part of a general chitchat...the stuff which people battle over the world over...

What complete and utter codswallop.

not lost for words then

Yeah, I know what you mean. And that kind of behavior applies in most countries ... Except for when everyone agrees that something is crap

I am not sure if we are talking about general stuff or serious stuff where tempers fray etc...you'd have to be a fly on the wall to know..and I would love to be a fly on the wall when migrants fall out with their groups...

I remember working in London for a company, in my teens then moving on to another company in the same industry with the same practises but there were slight differences (of course). I got absolutely caned for talking about how we did things in another place and mentioning the previous mob by name...I was rude and should have know better. I was taken to one side by a senior and it was politely pointed out. There are ways of talking about past experiences without naming (or shaming) an actual mob. It's easy.

The same applied when that experience was international. Having said that if anything, you get more slack with such an situation because people love hearing about differences in culture from one place to another.

My view is that anyone falling out with locals is either making a rod for their own back, outing their own brand of insular behaviour
(yet complaining about the insularity of others) themselves, or just need to move on.

I do know of an Englishman who cops it a bit, a few times a year, but he always manages to sound more provincial and insular himself the more he tries to criticise his wife who comes from an extremely capable family who know exactly what is what. And she has to hint all this which is why he sounds a bit silly..

Yes I think there is definitely an element of truth to that.

Yawn - in your little world maybe!
(Or rather the big world of Eng-Aus migrant misery, and strife!)

Honestly, if you've never come across a "love it or leave" slogan you maybe leading a blessedly sheltered existence.

Aussies don't like to hear their country (seriously) whinged about any more than Brits do.

That's a lot of whinging then - cos we never stop running the UK down over something

And no - not seen any of those slogans yet - but still a newbie really

Yep, absolutely.

There we go. Just corrected it for you. And in eight years, I've seen one of those stickers and I don't live a sheltered existence, blessed or otherwise.