Originally Posted by saveme (Post 6274692)

How did a country so backward, stuck in the past, full of country bumpkins as the Aussies manage to put together an advertising campaign that fooled so many super intelligent, 21st century sophisticates?

On the other hand I suppose they would argue that an 80 per cent success rate is a pretty good average.

Originally Posted by starsun (Post 7284802)

Oh dear! I just read this post about my home town - Perth. Now I am all for pointing out Perth's faults and having lived there for 26 years before moving abroad and having lived away now for 5 years, I believe I am in a good position to comment in an unbiased manner. Since leaving Perth I have lived in New York, Washington DC, Sydney and now Moscow. But I guess I am still one of Perth's uneducated, unwordly, untravelled racist idiots right? Despite my Masters in International Law from one of the top law schools in the US? Yeah, all people from Perth are living in the 80's. My wardrobe is completely all from the 80s, absolutely. I have no fashion sense at all. Either do any of my friends who are from Perth and either still live there or live in London, Paris, Sydney or other parts of the world. Yep, we are all just unfashionable uneducated idiots.

You know what the funniest thing is - all the top law firms from the UK come over and try and recruit us to come and work for them. And then pay us lots of money to move over and do so. Guess they don't think we are all idiots.

I am well aware of Perth's flaws - the trading hours, the isolation, the small-town mentality, the god-awful suburbs. But there are some very very smart, cool people who live in Perth and there are some great suburbs, great restaurants and great cafes, if you know where to go. And I am sorry - the beaches are amazing. There is no denying that.

So obviously this guy has left Perth and I hope he is happy back in the UK - but if you are going to criticise, at least be balanced about it. I love having fish and chips down at Fremantle - on the water. I do it every time I am back. And having breakfast down at Cottesloe - also fantasic. Margaret River - gorgeous wineries, gorgeous beaches.

So knock Perth all you like - but lots of people love it, are happy there and it gave me everything I could hope for as a child growing up there. The universities are excellent (despite your claim people are uneducated idiots) and there are great companies there, offering excellent work opportunities.

I just couldn't let this post sit, without someone coming to Perth's defence.

:cool:

Originally Posted by Jumbo_Celcius (Post 6260001)

Did anyone watch the recent BBC series "Life On Mars"?
"My name is Jumbo Celcius. I fell asleep on a plane and woke up in 1973. Was I mad, or in a coma or just in Perth?


Well folks, below is my final rant on Perth, please read the disclaimer first

Disclaimer:
The information below is provided as a guide only and may not be used (TraceyW, I'm looking at you!) or disclosed except for the purpose for which it has been posted.
Any similarity to actual persons, living or dead, or to actual events is completely intended.......so sue me.
If you feel that you have been offended by any of this, then go call the Samaritans 'cos you won't get any sympathy here.

Come to Perth they said, it's beautiful and the lifestyle is fantastic, it has Australias best beaches (lies), the cost of living's cheaper (more lies), lovely cafe strips (supreme lies), plenty of nightlife (this is just getting completey ridiculous lies, bordering on delusional).

So I packed up my things, waved goodbye to the homeland and set off on the long haul to the planets bottom (literally).

Subiaco - where do I start - I'll tell you where you start. Head West out of the CBD along Hay St, when the building numbers reset to 1, you're in "Subi".
Cool, trendy Subi with it's "cosmopolitan cappuccino strip" and "fashionable boutiques". Were the tourist board smoking crack when they wrote this?
Watch out Paris, Subi is taking over. The Parisians would have a word for "Subi"........that word is "merde".
And now they're going to knock down two of the reasons I used to even bother going there (The Lords Sport centre and the "cinema") to build more sh!tty overpriced cardboard box flats so that those shallow idiots can buy one and say they live in "Subi".

Fremantle - See the bit above about "cosmopolitan cappuccino strip" it's like "Subi" but on the water. Try the "famous fish & chips" at the harbour....famous for being over priced crap. While you eat them you can gaze upon the pen!s extensions in the harbour.

Leederville - "Subi" wanna be, and if that's what it's aspiring to be I'm not even gonna waste my time writing about it.

Joondalup - There's passport control at the start of Grand Boulevard - if you don't have a British one you're not allowed in.

Rockingham - I felt like I needed a shower when I left there and there's been enough previous post about this already.

Mandurah - Did anyone go to the Crab Fest? What a complete and utter over rated steaming pile of cow's shee-ite.

Perth In General:
I have never had so many people trying to rip me off since I was in Nigeria, in a final insult, that fcuckers at Optus charged me a $170 disconnection fee for my phone!! Also pretending to be friendly when they're trying to screw you over, "don't call me mate, I'm not ur ****ing mate, if you don't stop patronising me we are going to become mortal enemies".

People getting annoyed when you tell them you're leaving and calling the UK a sh!thole. "The lifestyle" they cry in unison in an almost brainwashed like fashion. Trying to convince you that leaving a perfectly happy
life for less money, a worse house, more expensive, lower quality food and clothes in a isolated hick town will make you happy. I seriously fell out with one person over this before leaving and nearly lost if with a few more. My "leaving night" was hell, everybody went on the whole night about how I was making a mistake and "how could you not love this", another thing, why do people always hold their hands up gesturing at the surroundings when saying
"Look at it, how could you not love this".
All I see is tacky, dated buildings and graffitti, "Look at the weather though" they say.....screw the unbearable heat, Afghanistan is sunny, do you want to move there?
"Rachim, why do you want to go to the UK, it's a sh!thole, look at it here <holding arms up>, it's sunny!"

The abbreviations and slang they use..bikie, workie, garbo, servo, using it in the media and on the news too, could you imagine Trevor McDonald saying the some famous person was unable to attend an event because he's "crook"!!

Abo's asking for money all the time. Yes, they did get ****ed over but if they had their head screwed on they could seriously push for land & mineral rights etc and make some cash, then I could start asking them for $5 since they say it's their country therefore that's who I'm asking for a refund from.

Australia Day - I particularly liked it when they flew the big swastika...whoops, sorry I mean FLAG over the river from a helicoptor before the fireworks. I'm surprised there wasn't an announcement ordering everyone to bow in front of it!!

Over rated, over priced, over hyped restaurants. Every dish is "famous" when it's just a cheap, lower quality imitation from somewhere else in the world.

Kangaroos, at first I thought they were cool, after a while I just look at them hopping around and think, **** sake why are you jumping around in this heat, take a gentle stroll instead, it's not as if you're in a rush to get anywhere!!

In summary, it's the most socially & culturally backward, boring, over hyped dump with tacky buildings, grafitti and false internationally unaware racist idiots on the planet and all the sunshine and beaches in the world isn't going to make a difference


Thank you and goodnight.

Jimbo - Pioneer of truth and citizen of the world.

Originally Posted by Jumbo_Celcius (Post 6260001)

Did anyone watch the recent BBC series "Life On Mars"?
"My name is Jumbo Celcius. I fell asleep on a plane and woke up in 1973. Was I mad, or in a coma or just in Perth?


Well folks, below is my final rant on Perth, please read the disclaimer first

Disclaimer:
The information below is provided as a guide only and may not be used (TraceyW, I'm looking at you!) or disclosed except for the purpose for which it has been posted.
Any similarity to actual persons, living or dead, or to actual events is completely intended.......so sue me.
If you feel that you have been offended by any of this, then go call the Samaritans 'cos you won't get any sympathy here.

Come to Perth they said, it's beautiful and the lifestyle is fantastic, it has Australias best beaches (lies), the cost of living's cheaper (more lies), lovely cafe strips (supreme lies), plenty of nightlife (this is just getting completey ridiculous lies, bordering on delusional).

So I packed up my things, waved goodbye to the homeland and set off on the long haul to the planets bottom (literally).

Subiaco - where do I start - I'll tell you where you start. Head West out of the CBD along Hay St, when the building numbers reset to 1, you're in "Subi".
Cool, trendy Subi with it's "cosmopolitan cappuccino strip" and "fashionable boutiques". Were the tourist board smoking crack when they wrote this?
Watch out Paris, Subi is taking over. The Parisians would have a word for "Subi"........that word is "merde".
And now they're going to knock down two of the reasons I used to even bother going there (The Lords Sport centre and the "cinema") to build more sh!tty overpriced cardboard box flats so that those shallow idiots can buy one and say they live in "Subi".

Fremantle - See the bit above about "cosmopolitan cappuccino strip" it's like "Subi" but on the water. Try the "famous fish & chips" at the harbour....famous for being over priced crap. While you eat them you can gaze upon the pen!s extensions in the harbour.

Leederville - "Subi" wanna be, and if that's what it's aspiring to be I'm not even gonna waste my time writing about it.

Joondalup - There's passport control at the start of Grand Boulevard - if you don't have a British one you're not allowed in.

Rockingham - I felt like I needed a shower when I left there and there's been enough previous post about this already.

Mandurah - Did anyone go to the Crab Fest? What a complete and utter over rated steaming pile of cow's shee-ite.

Perth In General:
I have never had so many people trying to rip me off since I was in Nigeria, in a final insult, that fcuckers at Optus charged me a $170 disconnection fee for my phone!! Also pretending to be friendly when they're trying to screw you over, "don't call me mate, I'm not ur ****ing mate, if you don't stop patronising me we are going to become mortal enemies".

People getting annoyed when you tell them you're leaving and calling the UK a sh!thole. "The lifestyle" they cry in unison in an almost brainwashed like fashion. Trying to convince you that leaving a perfectly happy
life for less money, a worse house, more expensive, lower quality food and clothes in a isolated hick town will make you happy. I seriously fell out with one person over this before leaving and nearly lost if with a few more. My "leaving night" was hell, everybody went on the whole night about how I was making a mistake and "how could you not love this", another thing, why do people always hold their hands up gesturing at the surroundings when saying
"Look at it, how could you not love this".
All I see is tacky, dated buildings and graffitti, "Look at the weather though" they say.....screw the unbearable heat, Afghanistan is sunny, do you want to move there?
"Rachim, why do you want to go to the UK, it's a sh!thole, look at it here <holding arms up>, it's sunny!"

The abbreviations and slang they use..bikie, workie, garbo, servo, using it in the media and on the news too, could you imagine Trevor McDonald saying the some famous person was unable to attend an event because he's "crook"!!

Abo's asking for money all the time. Yes, they did get ****ed over but if they had their head screwed on they could seriously push for land & mineral rights etc and make some cash, then I could start asking them for $5 since they say it's their country therefore that's who I'm asking for a refund from.

Australia Day - I particularly liked it when they flew the big swastika...whoops, sorry I mean FLAG over the river from a helicoptor before the fireworks. I'm surprised there wasn't an announcement ordering everyone to bow in front of it!!

Over rated, over priced, over hyped restaurants. Every dish is "famous" when it's just a cheap, lower quality imitation from somewhere else in the world.

Kangaroos, at first I thought they were cool, after a while I just look at them hopping around and think, **** sake why are you jumping around in this heat, take a gentle stroll instead, it's not as if you're in a rush to get anywhere!!

In summary, it's the most socially & culturally backward, boring, over hyped dump with tacky buildings, grafitti and false internationally unaware racist idiots on the planet and all the sunshine and beaches in the world isn't going to make a difference


Thank you and goodnight.

Jimbo - Pioneer of truth and citizen of the world.

Originally Posted by cricket1 (Post 7289133)

Maybe it's me but what's the difference between Abo's and Pommes? As a reference to a race I mean?

Originally Posted by cricket1 (Post 7289133)

Maybe it's me but what's the difference between Abo's and Pommes? As a reference to a race I mean?

Originally Posted by DunRoaminTheUK (Post 7289135)

So 'Paki' is ok then by that same token? :rolleyes:

Originally Posted by camponotus (Post 7289136)

''Pommes'' is in a league all of its own as a term because the Aussies have decreed that they can say that as much as they like without ever being accused of using a rascist term.

That's all the difference you need, isn't it?

Originally Posted by DunRoaminTheUK (Post 7289135)

So 'Paki' is ok then by that same token? :rolleyes:

Originally Posted by starsun (Post 7284802)

Oh dear! I just read this post about my home town - Perth. Now I am all for pointing out Perth's faults and having lived there for 26 years before moving abroad and having lived away now for 5 years, I believe I am in a good position to comment in an unbiased manner. Since leaving Perth I have lived in New York, Washington DC, Sydney and now Moscow. But I guess I am still one of Perth's uneducated, unwordly, untravelled racist idiots right? Despite my Masters in International Law from one of the top law schools in the US? Yeah, all people from Perth are living in the 80's. My wardrobe is completely all from the 80s, absolutely. I have no fashion sense at all. Either do any of my friends who are from Perth and either still live there or live in London, Paris, Sydney or other parts of the world. Yep, we are all just unfashionable uneducated idiots.

You know what the funniest thing is - all the top law firms from the UK come over and try and recruit us to come and work for them. And then pay us lots of money to move over and do so. Guess they don't think we are all idiots.

I am well aware of Perth's flaws - the trading hours, the isolation, the small-town mentality, the god-awful suburbs. But there are some very very smart, cool people who live in Perth and there are some great suburbs, great restaurants and great cafes, if you know where to go. And I am sorry - the beaches are amazing. There is no denying that.

So obviously this guy has left Perth and I hope he is happy back in the UK - but if you are going to criticise, at least be balanced about it. I love having fish and chips down at Fremantle - on the water. I do it every time I am back. And having breakfast down at Cottesloe - also fantasic. Margaret River - gorgeous wineries, gorgeous beaches.

So knock Perth all you like - but lots of people love it, are happy there and it gave me everything I could hope for as a child growing up there. The universities are excellent (despite your claim people are uneducated idiots) and there are great companies there, offering excellent work opportunities.

I just couldn't let this post sit, without someone coming to Perth's defence.

:cool:

Originally Posted by DunRoaminTheUK (Post 7289135)

So 'Paki' is ok then by that same token? :rolleyes: