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Old Oct 14th 2011, 12:34 am
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Originally Posted by randb
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What are the top 5 things that piss you off about Bermuda?
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Old Oct 14th 2011, 12:35 am
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I hate whinging Aussies, endless red tape, terrible drivers, lots of restrictive laws, comparative lack of choice.
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Old Oct 14th 2011, 12:40 am
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Originally Posted by randb
Oh no, are there many? As right now I am living on a UK colony territory and I simply can't handle them anymore, especially the one in my office ...
Look at the way hooray henry poms have ruined Barbados
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Default Re: what do you hate about Oz?

Originally Posted by Turban Explorer
What are the top 5 things that piss you off about Bermuda?
Top 5?
1 If you are not black, you have a second line for everything, also at the post office
2 If you are an expat you count less than a drunk homeless
3 The food it's all frozen, expired and taste shit. More than that, it's f...ing expensive. An apple 1.5 USD
4 Roaches everywhere, in the house, in the cabinets ... everywhere and they are immortal
5 The worst, expat that got married with locals and acquired status, so now they act racist against their original citizens ... most of them are europeans.
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Old Oct 14th 2011, 12:58 am
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Default Re: what do you hate about Oz?

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Top 5?
1 If you are not black, you have a second line for everything, also at the post office
2 If you are an expat you count less than a drunk homeless
3 The food it's all frozen, expired and taste shit. More than that, it's f...ing expensive. An apple 1.5 USD
4 Roaches everywhere, in the house, in the cabinets ... everywhere and they are immortal
5 The worst, expat that got married with locals and acquired status, so now they act racist against their original citizens ... most of them are europeans.
Aaah.... Expect to pay more for apples!
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Old Oct 14th 2011, 1:46 am
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Default Re: what do you hate about Oz?

I would say hate is too stronger word....but I feel I miss the cleverness of the English sense of humour....and (I must be mixing in the wrong circles here) the intellingence

and the heat/humidity in Summer doesn't score Brownie points with me either (but is compensated by airconditioning in shops and a credit card held in my sweaty mitts lol)

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2 and a half hours of digging later and I have a bigger hole to show for my trouble.

What did I miss? Hmmm ...
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I was watching some Monty Python clips on Youtube this morning and thinking that no-one can do humour like the British. It's like when the Aussies tried to do Top Gear, it just doesn't work.

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I would say hate is too stronger word....but I feel I miss the cleverness of the English sense of humour....and (I must be mixing in the wrong circles here) the intellingence

and the heat/humidity in Summer doesn't score Brownie points with me either (but is compensated by airconditioning in shops and a credit card held in my sweaty mitts lol)

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Old Oct 14th 2011, 4:33 am
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Default Re: what do you hate about Oz?

I considered writing a long a detailed explanation of all the things that bug me at the moment and how they could simply and easily be improved... but then I realised I'm Australian so just cant be arsed to do that....

....and its friday afternoon so its not all bad
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People who immigrate here and then bitch and moan because it's not "just like home". Same thing I hated in my home country, too.

No, I don't love everything about Australia but for as long as the good outweighs the bad I'll make do. If the dislike side of the list ever gets longer than the like I'll know it's time to move on.
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Originally Posted by Amazulu
Look at the way hooray henry poms have ruined Barbados
Look at the way the South Africans ruined South Africa
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Default Re: what do you hate about Oz?

Originally Posted by Grayling
Look at the way the South Africans ruined South Africa
I didn't know that you were a Hooray Henry G?
Tory Boy, yes but not a HH.

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Originally Posted by Amazulu
I didn't know that you were a Hooray Henry G?
Not me.....but the boys I went to school with were
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Originally Posted by DadAgain
I considered writing a long a detailed explanation of all the things that bug me at the moment and how they could simply and easily be improved... but then I realised I'm Australian so just cant be arsed to do that....

....and its friday afternoon so its not all bad
Do you not realise your lack of motivation may cause a prospective immigrant to make a poor lifestyle choice?

Or may prod a close-to-escapee into action?

You heartless sod.

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Originally Posted by Grayling
Not me.....but the boys I went to school with were
I think their Tory values rubbed off on you
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