wombat42

What is so humourous about it, all he says is that Australia is a hot desert, hellhole, full of venomous creatues, bushfires and racist rednecks that mistreat refuguees. If someone said something
similar and untrue about Britain on this site, such as everyone in the Uk is a racist soccer hooligan that goes around beating up refugees and ethnic minorities, would people like Mike Stanton and Kong find it funny.

MikeStanton

And your point is?

mick n cheryl

I don't believe it!!!!!

You mean people on this site DON'T bitch all day and night about the UK!!!

The original post IS funny you should post a poll on it and see how many find it humourous!!! as I said before:-

"WOMBAT.... CHILL OUT!!!!!

Whats your problem, read the thread name "Something to make you chuckle on your way home", and get a sense of humour transplant!!!."

Mick

wombat42

What's happened to your girlfriend ' Dotty ', she seems to have disappeared from the forum. l miss her constant whinging about Australia's hot weather and those she called ' Aussie witnesses'.

Megalania

You're right - must admire how the poor beggers put up with themselves.

MikeStanton

As a rule, Brits don't mind having the p*** taken out of them. But the Aussies hate it. They don't mind laughing at others, but not at themselves. Perhaps it's due to their own feelings of cultural inferiority...

Badge

I would say that plenty of Aussies take it as well as give it. If noone could take it, why would people bother giving it...it would get too one sided..

Maybe the only people who don't notice this are the people who maybe got TOO much and were too ill-equipped to give it back or, too upset to ignore.

Show me a particular type of person who often can't cope with Australia, (someone who got a REALLY hard time of it I mean, not you people) and I'll show you someone who I would say "Yup...knew they'd get it".

Cultural cringe went out years ago. Some people seem to have a cultural and intellectual superiority - they don't seem to have any of the abilities that made many countries great..

Still!! A VERY FUNNY, and obviously TONGUE IN CHEEK article. I enjoyed it too. Wombats posts could be edited as a tongue in cheek attack,if he was less upset, on the UK too, so its all swings and roundabouts. Unless he went off because it was one M Stanton that posted..;-)




BM

Megalania

Originally posted by MikeStanton
    > As a rule, Brits don't
mind having the p*** taken out of them. But the Aussies hate it. They
don't mind laughing at others, but not at themselves. Perhaps it's due
to their own feelings of cultural inferiority...
Oh
Mickey, it's nothing impersonal. Please have a good laugh at your own
expense for me.


--
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Megalania

Oh Mickey, it's nothing impersonal. Please have a good laugh at yourself at your own expense for me.

MikeStanton

Sure, Aussies can take ribbing about sports (not much, because they win most things) - but, can't stand being criticised about important things. The reaction by the Aussies to this thread is a classic example.

You think the cultural cringe is dead? And I mean cringe in its broadest sense.

Look around, badge. Up until recently, even TV adverts for cars, in Oz, used the line "fully imported" as an indicator of the better quality of non-Oz goods. Oz cultural cringe is alive and well.

Edit: have a look at the link provided by Meg, the I can't bladdy stand Australians - if you want to see what some folk really think of the Great Brown Land. Let's just say that they don't have your fondness for things Oz. Jeez, by comparison, I should be the Oz cultural attache....


And, badge, the next time you're discussing ball maneouvres in the shower with your rough, tough dinki di mates, you might like to bear/bare in mind, Oz has come first yet again. It's official...

...Australia 'world's gayest country'

HiddenPaw

you see, you know you love it in here! I'm sure Dotty'll be flattered to know you were asking after her. Still, go easy - she might think you're a stalker...last thing she wants is some Aussie crackpot on her case

wilko_1984

this has got to be the funniest site ever! I love it! it's even better than www.sheppeyscum.com

have a butcher's

Megalania

Well, would seem a bit silly advertising "fully exported" cars, wouldn't it?

Now, for the "Moving Back To the YUK", your favourite piss-take, if you please. I couldn't find one - but then it is a sombre topic, no?

Mercedes

Well this may even up the score then, lol.


DEPRESSED MAN DIAGNOSED AS "BRITISH"
George Farthing, an expatriate British man living in America, was recently diagnosed as clinically depressed, tanked up on anti-depressants and scheduled for controversial Shock Therapy when doctors realised he wasn't depressed at all - only British.

r Farthing, a British man whose characteristic pessimism and gloomy perspective were interpreted as serious clinical depression, was led on a nightmare journey through the American psychiatric system. Doctors described Farthing as suffering with Pervasive Negative Anticipation - a belief that everything will turn out for the worst, whether it's trains arriving late, England's chances at winning any international sports event or even his own prospects to get ahead in life and achieve his dreams. "The satisfaction Mr Farthing seemed to get from his pessimism seemed particularly pathological," reported the doctors.

"suicidal"
"They put me on everything - Lithium, Prozac, St John's Wort," said Mr Farthing. "They even told me to sit in front of a big light for an hour a day or I'd become suicidal. I kept telling them this was all pointless and they said that it was exactly that sort of attitude that got me here in the first place."

Running out of ideas, his doctors finally resorted to a course of "weapons grade MDMA", the only noticable effect of which was six hours of speedy repetitions of the phrases "mustn't grumble" and "not too bad, really". It was then that Mr Farthing was referred to a psychotherapist.

Dr Isaac Horney explored Mr Farthing's family history and couldn't believe his ears. "His story of a childhood growing up in a gray little town where it rained every day, treeless streets of identical houses and passionately backing a football team who never won seemed to be typical depressive ideation or false memory. Mr Farthing had six months of therapy but seemed to mainly want to talk about the weather - how miserable and cold it was in winter and later how difficult and hot it was in summer. I felt he wasn't responding to therapy at all and so I recommended drastic action - namely ECT or shock treatment".

"hopeless cases"
"I was all strapped down on the table and were about to put the rubber bit in my mouth when the psychiatric nurse picked up on my accent," said Mr Farthing. "I remember her saying 'Oh my God, I think we're making a terrible mistake'." Nurse Alice Sheen was a big fan of British comedy giving her an understanding of the British psyche. "Classic comedy characters like Tony Hancock, Albert Steptoe and Frank Spencer are all hopeless cases with no chance of ever doing well or escaping their circumstances," she explained to the baffled US medics. "That's funny in Britain and is not seen as pathological at all."

Identifying Mr Farthing as British changed his diagnosis from 'clinical depression' to 'rather quaint and charming' and he was immediately discharged from hospital, with a selection of brightly coloured leaflets and an "I love New York" T-shirt.

Megalania

Yes, what with the British enthrallment with being Bitten to Death by Nasty Mean Animules, this peels back the layers of pith to the pip of British culture.

But, regrettably, this story is off the mark - patently written by a non-Brit, the ending leaves a ray of hope.