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Forum: The Barbie
Jul 15th 2024, 8:31 pm
Replies: 23
Views: 5,243
Posted By abner

Re: Want to go to Australia, and various other countrie

And yet...your own response is as predictable, in opposition: "and sadly people still seem to believe its the Promised Land."

I do get that your own Australian experience didn't work out well,...
Forum: The Barbie
Apr 15th 2024, 8:56 pm
Replies: 63
Views: 19,640
Posted By abner

Re: Brittany Higgins and Grace Tame

Cute, but surely trumped as a summing up by Judge Lee's classic zinger: "Having escaped the lion's den, Mr Lehrmann made the mistake of coming back for his hat".
Forum: Australia
Mar 30th 2024, 1:37 am
Replies: 39
Views: 10,096
Posted By abner

Re: Wife changed her mind

Sometimes I think this forum should be titled Whingeing Poms rather than British *Expats*... ;-)

While I agree that the OP faces an uphill battle with his significant other, and will likely need...
Forum: The Barbie
Mar 14th 2024, 2:10 pm
Replies: 45
Views: 9,910
Posted By abner

Re: Australia's earliest settlers

So you'll be happy then when China starts encroaching on us, a step at a time?
Forum: The Barbie
Mar 14th 2024, 1:57 pm
Replies: 466
Views: 76,864
Posted By abner

Re: Shrimps On The Barbie

You do realise that the Leaf is just another electric car...?

It's not like he's had to go back to some ICE option to cope with his Tesla issues.
Forum: Philippines
Mar 8th 2024, 4:34 pm
Replies: 52
Views: 24,237
Posted By abner

Re: Daily Life Improvements

I love this thread. I bring it up every time my beloved mentions retirement to the Philippines.

The endless litany of "improvements" that don't actually turn out to improve anything, or which have...
Forum: Canada
Mar 6th 2024, 5:17 pm
Replies: 33
Views: 8,692
Posted By abner

Re: Should I move to Canada or Not?

So you're basically rootless. (Your OP describes transient connections to Ireland, London, with perhaps an interest in Canada as the next stop. No family ties or considerations described. And with...
Forum: The Barbie
Mar 5th 2024, 4:52 pm
Replies: 45
Views: 9,910
Posted By abner

Re: Australia's earliest settlers

WOW, what an echo-chamber of a political thread, and what an identity-denying manifesto for it, as quoted above.

No wonder BE is dying, particularly in the Australia country heading.
Forum: Australia
Mar 5th 2024, 4:12 pm
Replies: 7
Views: 1,560
Posted By abner

Re: Australian passport photos - will matt suffice?

I hear ya (I have a family of dual citizens to keep passports current for, and there always seem to be problems with one format vs the other). [Surely the image size could become an international...
Forum: Australia
Sep 25th 2023, 6:53 pm
Replies: 8
Views: 3,018
Posted By abner

Re: Moving to AUS from UK , general advice/pets?

I *have* to respond to this, if only to provide a countervailing view to Pollyanna's here. I generally greatly respect her posts, but this is overboard as a negative depiction of FNQ, frankly.

I...
Forum: The Barbie
Sep 25th 2023, 5:32 pm
Replies: 466
Views: 76,864
Posted By abner

Re: Shrimps On The Barbie

Gordon, it's just not that hard. It would seem polite just to ask them how they'd like to be addressed, don't you think?

I don't have any plans to visit there, nor do I correspond with anyone from...
Forum: The Barbie
Sep 25th 2023, 5:20 pm
Replies: 466
Views: 76,864
Posted By abner

Re: Shrimps On The Barbie

So might makes right, then. The big white fella transited through in 1770 and got to rename everything. Is that it?

***

Except he didn't: James Fraser didn't turn up to the area until 1836,...
Forum: The Barbie
Sep 12th 2023, 6:40 pm
Replies: 466
Views: 76,864
Posted By abner

Re: Shrimps On The Barbie

To whom?
In relation to what, exactly?
. Well that, at least, is pretty much always true, but who's provoking who with what is always subjective, IMHO

.

The transliteration of oral-tradition...
Forum: The Maple Leaf
Aug 30th 2023, 3:49 pm
Replies: 54
Views: 5,683
Posted By abner

Re: a recent Pearson experience

Almost not worth mentioning in relation to all the other (legitimate) complaints about Pearson, but...

It does seem that they have a special algorithm to route *all* landings (and return...
Forum: The Maple Leaf
Aug 30th 2023, 3:31 pm
Replies: 340
Views: 50,078
Posted By abner

Re: Life's Turning-Points

Awesome and delusional straw-man hypothetical there, Gordon.

The Ukrainians are defending their own territory (one branch of my own Ukrainian family is from the Donbass, and some managed to...
Forum: The Barbie
Aug 30th 2023, 2:53 pm
Replies: 466
Views: 76,864
Posted By abner

Re: Shrimps On The Barbie

All very mellow, Gordon, but what happened to a response to:

"Most times" it is virtue-signalling? What are the good exceptions then, in your view?

"Most times" it is "woke"? What does "woke"...
Forum: The Maple Leaf
Aug 29th 2023, 3:58 pm
Replies: 340
Views: 50,078
Posted By abner

Re: Life's Turning-Points

The damage is done. Your sympathies in that conflict -- the Russian unilateral invasion of Ukraine -- are now quite apparent, and frankly quite opposite to mine, and to those of most of the Western...
Forum: The Maple Leaf
Aug 27th 2023, 3:25 pm
Replies: 78
Views: 12,725
Posted By abner

Re: What happened to this place?

Well I'm a little surprised not to see an obvious explanation raised -- CoVID knocked legal immigration from and to nearly all countries on its head, for two years solid. And it has only partially...
Forum: The Barbie
Aug 27th 2023, 2:28 pm
Replies: 466
Views: 76,864
Posted By abner

Re: Shrimps On The Barbie

Gotta stop you right there.

"Most times" it is virtue-signalling? What are the good exceptions then, in your view?

"Most times" it is "woke"? What does "woke" actually mean to you, and why is...
Forum: The Barbie
Aug 24th 2023, 1:36 pm
Replies: 466
Views: 76,864
Posted By abner

Re: Shrimps On The Barbie

Oh, please, stop clutching your pearls, Gordon.

There is similar deference to traditional place-names in local, traditional languages, throughout the UK, whether in Wales, Scotland, or (far less...
Forum: The Barbie
Jun 10th 2023, 7:56 pm
Replies: 36
Views: 5,192
Posted By abner

Re: If China attacks Taiwan (off topic posts moved from finding a place to live)

Not really hard to understand at all. There is personal pride and status at stake, for Xi Jinping, who has committed to making "reunification" happen on his watch.

For a diehard Chinese (CCP)...
Forum: The Barbie
May 1st 2023, 11:24 am
Replies: 76
Views: 14,600
Posted By abner

Re: Will I Vote In The Referendum?

Yes
Forum: The Barbie
May 1st 2023, 10:26 am
Replies: 76
Views: 14,600
Posted By abner

Re: Will I Vote In The Referendum?

Yes, yes, and yes.

And long overdue.

If it passes, it won't create any wrenching, immediate change, for good or ill. It will be more like the Mabo case: ground-breaking, in the sense that Mabo...
Forum: Australia
Mar 22nd 2023, 7:03 pm
Replies: 24
Views: 4,370
Posted By abner

Re: Where to start?

This.

It's somewhat dependent on her exact qualifications / specialisations / experience level, but it is indeed likely she has the golden ticket when it comes to driving this move for your...
Forum: The Maple Leaf
Oct 28th 2022, 7:48 pm
Replies: 340
Views: 50,078
Posted By abner

Re: Life's Turning-Points

I remember those truly expensive overseas calls vividly. We had a favourite Aunt from the Canadian branch of the family who was the first to visit Australia, working from the Canadian High Consulate...
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