whingers and whiners
Jun 10th 2010, 8:03 pm
#152
I'm Old Gregg!
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Jun 10th 2010, 9:33 pm
#154
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Re: whingers and whiners
Jun 11th 2010, 12:28 am
#161
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Jun 11th 2010, 12:35 am
#162
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Re: whingers and whiners
Bizarre.... you sound like someone who is dredging the bottom of all known (madeup) stereotypes which is typical of people who have returned. I've actually met far more conceited Europeans than I have ever met Australians. I find the louder and rougher (which is a 'typical' and oft-acused but not always true stereotype) the Australian the less conceited they are. They are too much the battler but strangely naive and innocent with it to be like that.
And even then that's only a certain part of society.
I was having my hair cut the other day and there was an Englishman next to me who was pretty vile, the way he was talking to the hairdresser. At one point she even told him he was going too far and he looked absolutely stumped for a moment. Then all he could go on about was his champagne breakfasts. I'd forgotten you got Englishmen like that. Now he was conceited. I've never met an Australian like that.
Never ceases to amaze me how people fabricate silly stereotypes on the back of other observable, and (possible criticisable), behaviour.
Last edited by BadgeIsBack; Jun 11th 2010 at 12:38 am.
Jun 11th 2010, 1:45 am
#163
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Jun 11th 2010, 1:49 am
#164
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Jun 11th 2010, 1:53 am
#165
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Re: whingers and whiners
Think that might have been self-deprecation me old mucker...
Bizarre.... you sound like someone who is dredging the bottom of all known (madeup) stereotypes which is typical of people who have returned. I've actually met far more conceited Europeans than I have ever met Australians. I find the louder and rougher (which is a 'typical' and oft-acused but not always true stereotype) the Australian the less conceited they are. They are too much the battler but strangely naive and innocent with it to be like that.
And even then that's only a certain part of society.
I was having my hair cut the other day and there was an Englishman next to me who was pretty vile, the way he was talking to the hairdresser. At one point she even told him he was going too far and he looked absolutely stumped for a moment. Then all he could go on about was his champagne breakfasts. I'd forgotten you got Englishmen like that. Now he was conceited. I've never met an Australian like that.
Never ceases to amaze me how people fabricate silly stereotypes on the back of other observable, and (possible criticisable), behaviour.
Bizarre.... you sound like someone who is dredging the bottom of all known (madeup) stereotypes which is typical of people who have returned. I've actually met far more conceited Europeans than I have ever met Australians. I find the louder and rougher (which is a 'typical' and oft-acused but not always true stereotype) the Australian the less conceited they are. They are too much the battler but strangely naive and innocent with it to be like that.
And even then that's only a certain part of society.
I was having my hair cut the other day and there was an Englishman next to me who was pretty vile, the way he was talking to the hairdresser. At one point she even told him he was going too far and he looked absolutely stumped for a moment. Then all he could go on about was his champagne breakfasts. I'd forgotten you got Englishmen like that. Now he was conceited. I've never met an Australian like that.
Never ceases to amaze me how people fabricate silly stereotypes on the back of other observable, and (possible criticisable), behaviour.
