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Search: Posts Made By: koalatea
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Forum: Australia
May 18th 2009, 1:15 am
Replies: 0
Views: 452
Posted By koalatea

Champions League Final in Melbourne

Any tips on the best place to watch it live?

They gave out champagne to the Man Utd fans at the casino last year apparently and I've heard Charles Dickens Tavern's pretty good. Any other...
Forum: Australia
Nov 20th 2008, 7:36 am
Replies: 83
Views: 5,600
Posted By koalatea

Re: Racism in Australia

There is a far greater level of latent racism in Australia than the UK, even if the extremes in both countries are probably at the same level. It's evident in small ways - terms used to describe...
Forum: Australia
Nov 20th 2008, 7:28 am
Replies: 19
Views: 3,150
Posted By koalatea

Re: We are moving to Townsville, can you help please.

If a man called Kevin offers you the chance to sail the coast for a few weeks in return for sharing the petrol costs think twice. Especially if he's a rotund old bronze chap wearing tiny Speedos. He...
Forum: Australia
Nov 3rd 2008, 8:42 am
Replies: 23
Views: 2,841
Posted By koalatea

Re: Nice places to live close to Melbourne

Rob a bank first and you'll be fine
Forum: Australia
Nov 3rd 2008, 8:40 am
Replies: 39
Views: 3,756
Posted By koalatea

Re: Perth, Adelaide or Melbourne

"Melbourne has the arts and culture and variety and shops and everything you could possibly want. It's not the world's most beautiful city, but after a while you need more than the superficial for a...
Forum: Australia
Oct 31st 2008, 4:20 am
Replies: 202
Views: 15,201
Posted By koalatea

Re: Basic differences between Aus and the UK

You couldn't call a cheese Coon in the UK
Forum: Australia
Oct 31st 2008, 3:16 am
Replies: 202
Views: 15,201
Posted By koalatea

Re: Basic differences between Aus and the UK

I may be imagining it, but I think the accent is a little different in Australia
Forum: The Barbie
Oct 23rd 2008, 7:29 am
Replies: 13
Views: 750
Posted By koalatea

Re: Hallelujah!

RIP x 2

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Forum: The Barbie
Oct 23rd 2008, 6:38 am
Replies: 13
Views: 750
Posted By koalatea

Re: Hallelujah!

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Forum: The Barbie
Oct 23rd 2008, 6:28 am
Replies: 13
Views: 750
Posted By koalatea

Re: Hallelujah!

I think perhaps my problem - and believe me, if we were to establish a Church of Rationality, he'd be near the top of my list for leaders - is that when he writes it's as if he, rather than He, is...
Forum: The Barbie
Oct 23rd 2008, 5:59 am
Replies: 13
Views: 750
Posted By koalatea

Re: Hallelujah!

Now, I'm all for reason over superstition (just ask my Catholic wife!), but don't you find Richard Dawkins as in your face and sanctimonious as the leaders of the major religions?

I couldn't get...
Forum: Australia
Oct 23rd 2008, 3:23 am
Replies: 13
Views: 1,185
Posted By koalatea

Re: How do you get started???

Nope. But if it's quaffing beer and scoffing parmas you're after.....
Forum: Australia
Oct 23rd 2008, 3:18 am
Replies: 19
Views: 1,813
Posted By koalatea

Re: Info about Melbourne sought?

I would agree with everything that's been said about Williamstown in terms of its attractiveness and would even add that every time I've been over there the weather seems to be great - even in the...
Forum: Australia
Oct 20th 2008, 8:40 am
Replies: 25
Views: 2,586
Posted By koalatea

Re: Is there any truth in this?

I see the original story was in the Daily Mail so, while there may have been a free food handout that people attended, perhaps a little scare-mongering was i order.

That or there weren't any...
Forum: The Barbie
Oct 11th 2008, 7:54 am
Replies: 27
Views: 1,812
Posted By koalatea

Re: warning nubie alert

The wife and I arrived here (Melbourne) in March with nowhere to live, no jobs and about 5k British in our accounts. She got teaching work pretty quickly, I've been a bit slower with my work, but...
Forum: Australia
Oct 10th 2008, 4:40 am
Replies: 6
Views: 567
Posted By koalatea

Re: Who is going to the australian rules game Ireland V Australia?

I reckon. Only managed seven games in my first season of AFL so best get another one in...

Took the MCG tour the other day and they guy doing it seemed pretty confident the Aussies would smash the...
Forum: Australia
Oct 10th 2008, 1:20 am
Replies: 231
Views: 31,466
Posted By koalatea

Re: who is sick of Australia?

Aye. he takes a long time making his point, but it's one worth making. If you like that, you'll probably like this too -

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He's not to everyone's taste, but should be!
Forum: Australia
Oct 10th 2008, 12:07 am
Replies: 231
Views: 31,466
Posted By koalatea

Re: who is sick of Australia?

Not just hard work, but a sense of perspective perhaps? A choice?

This chap seemed to think so... http://www.guardian.co.uk/books/2008/sep/20/fiction
Forum: Australia
Oct 10th 2008, 12:00 am
Replies: 231
Views: 31,466
Posted By koalatea

Re: who is sick of Australia?

Tameside?
Forum: Australia
Oct 9th 2008, 11:56 pm
Replies: 231
Views: 31,466
Posted By koalatea

Re: who is sick of Australia?

That's better.

But if you really felt that bad about your advantages, you'd surely pack it all in and go and fight on the frontlines in Darfur or volunteer in the wilds of Northern Peru. So would...
Forum: Australia
Oct 9th 2008, 11:44 pm
Replies: 231
Views: 31,466
Posted By koalatea

Re: who is sick of Australia?

Hmmm. Careful you don't spill your beer - looks like it's half empty already...

Have to disagree - been in Oz seven months.

My wife's been hospitalised with a serious ruptured appendix while in...
Forum: Australia
Oct 9th 2008, 11:11 pm
Replies: 231
Views: 31,466
Posted By koalatea

Re: who is sick of Australia?

Good choice. Melbourne's effin' great.
Forum: Australia
Oct 9th 2008, 10:39 pm
Replies: 231
Views: 31,466
Posted By koalatea

Re: who is sick of Australia?

What do you expect? America's been the dominant global power / economy for decades supporting some of the world's largest companies who have aggressively exported their culture / commodities /...
Forum: The Barbie
Oct 9th 2008, 10:13 pm
Replies: 14
Views: 1,889
Posted By koalatea

Re: Content insurance in Oz

I'd say keep shopping. Couldn't spot any rhyme or reason when we were looking for the place we moved into last month.

Asked our car insurers - GIO - and they quoted $60 a month (we only need...
Forum: The Barbie
Oct 9th 2008, 10:11 pm
Replies: 2
Views: 485
Posted By koalatea

Re: amazing

Sounds great. Just found out yesterday I'm going to be paid to go and swim with dolphins and seals in Port Phillip Bay. Think it could be a mite chilly, though...
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