MrsB

Can you tell me where the house with the loos is? I have a collection of photos of weird ozzie houses - and that one sounds brilliant! I believe I live about 15 minutes away from you up in Bayside!! Have you seen the house on Beach Road that has a swimming pool as a balcony?

JoolsB

yes thats gorgeous!

alas cant recall which road loos are on but it's down in chelsea on one of the beach side streets that go off the nepean. As you drive down the road towards the beach it's on the left i think

MrsB

So if I'm driving from Parkdale end - it would be a street on my RHS - would it be before that long strip of shops in Chelsea - or after?

Have you seen the dentists which has a fence made out of Teeth? Not real ones of course!!

JoolsB

Yes on your right and if memory serves me after the shops.

Where is the tooth fence?

MrsB

I can't remember exactly but I know I always see it on the way back from Red Hill market - it could Aspendale or thereabouts......

Issie

FFS ....no wonder we get the name whinging POMS !

I reckon you need to go to Bunning......










Where you can buy some wood




build a bridge





and get over it !!!






What does it matter how they say things......we are in another country ...its not the UK !

northernbird

are you providing pizza and popcorn with that post bird

Ozzidoc

Why cant they visit you?

Notts_bloke

I agree, it doesn't matter how they say things, as it gives us all a good laugh at their expense.

caledonia

does scotland count too!!!??? i will definately not miss;

ozzies treating toddlers swimming like the olympics - "what level is he in?" they ask of my 5 year old - the level one up from the Belgrano ie he is just staying afloat.

same 40s, 50s, and 60s who go around without a shirt on on sunny days, exposing their enourmous, ugly, beer bellies - driving bright orange/lime green "supercars" with go faster cars and naff private number plates

my wife moaning that the shops are s**t, have nothing in them, have nothing that fits (all the "normal" sizes are sold out), are 5 years behind in fashion terms and then getting her bag searched on the way out when there is nothing worth nicking anyway

being walking distance from anything that is not nothing, if that makes sense - what I mean is, you can go for a walk, for fitness, just to enjoy fresh air etc, but you cant actually walk to anywhere you would want to go ie the pub, a coffee shop, a restaurant - at least where we live anyway

smug brits who love it here and go on and on about how great australia is but still live like its britain

the fact that the ozzies cannot comprehend that you might invite guests round and actually feed them and supply them with drinks. ditto being invited round for something to eat and being asked to "bring a plate"

being asked to say ........."edinburrrruah", "grrrrrrrrrate", "hull-oh", or anything else in my scottish accent.....I dont ask the asian fella at work to say chicken flied lice etc etc

s**t curries, chippies and chinese take aways

backagen

Sorry to say that you'll get plenty of bad drivers in the UK too. I really noticed it on my most recent visit.

Especially on the motorways, you can be doing 70mph and you'll nearly alway get some moron right up behind you flashing their lights and honking their horn, then when they get tired of doing that they change lanes suddenly and without indicating, and swerve right back into your lane, about a centimetre in front of you.

I often wish I was a traffic cop in an unmarked car, must be one of the easiest jobs in the world 'cos there's no shortage of unbelievably bad, downright dangerous drivers out there, here and in England, sadly!

backagen

Oh yes, that's one of the naffest things about this place for sure. I just cannot get my head around it!

Another similar one is at work if it's your birthday, in Australia it is often YOU that's expected to buy everyone else a cake, for some weird reason, when it's YOUR birthday!!! Can you figure that out? I can't!

Dave_Was

My wife's parents can't afford it and wont accept us paying.

My father can't take the long flights anymore and my mothers loathe to travel without him.

I wish that they would come out more but no matter what I try it hasn't worked.

Eric Hitchmo

Never understood that to be honest. English people listen to the convicts banging on about how fabulous Aus is, so they're encouraged to move there, and then when they see how crap it is, they rightly complain. Then they get called "whinging poms". It's not on. They should be called, "poms who tell it like it is".

Hello WA

OMGoodness! You lot are unbelievable!!! No wonder Britain is one of the most discontented countries in the world. I'm sure when you were all in Britain you moaned about eveything, from the weather to how much immigrants were taking over the UK; I'm almost certain you couldn't wait to get your milk bottle arms and legs out to sun yourselves on the beach, have barbies every weekend and do all the outdoorsy things that were imposible to do in the UK...But of ccourse being the whingiest country in the world, Oz and for that matter anywhere on this planet will nerver be good enough!!! Why should the ozzies say things the way we do? Do we own the universal rights to how things should be said? Britain is such a small country compared to Oz and yet there's a million and one regional accents. Why do the British think that wherever they go everything has to be like in Britain (even though they hate Britain, hence the British being amongst the top 5 in terms of migrating to greener pastures). It's alright for Britons to go to other countries and openly admit they went for a better standard of life, and then whinge when they get there, meanwhile migrants to Britain get called 'scroungers coming over to take our jobs'. Britons can pitch their tent in any part of the world with relative ease, as if the 'British Empire' still existed. Only the British could use somebody else's country as a spillover of their own prison system. Britain was not good enough for you whingers, that's why you went down under in the first place and I'm sure if you lot were given paradise on earth you'd moan that it was too perfect. Well I know of a place that you all may find very suitable, it's a place were you can do anything you want and not have to answer to anybody....Just dial 666 and ask for a Mr Lucifer. ps, I hear the atmosphere there is smokin'!