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Forum: The Barbie
Feb 20th 2009, 3:32 pm
Replies: 43
Views: 2,845
Posted By camponotus

Re: Huge wave of homesickness

That's very much the case in my view. Things that are bad in Australia (and there are lots of them, like anywhere) are glossed over much of the time cos Australians tend to be too busy looking on...
Forum: Moving back or to the UK
Feb 19th 2009, 9:23 pm
Replies: 38
Views: 3,655
Posted By camponotus

Re: I'm feeling pretty bad

I've been here 3 and a half years now. I spent the first 2 trying very hard to settle in and telling myself it was great. I went back to the UK for Christmas in December 2007 and it was very,...
Forum: Moving back or to the UK
Feb 19th 2009, 9:21 pm
Replies: 38
Views: 3,655
Posted By camponotus

Re: I'm feeling pretty bad

I'd say this is totally true. It echoes my own remarks in my last post here.



Basically, this is how I feel. I don't like the idea of living here in Australia forevermore. I also don't like...
Forum: Moving back or to the UK
Feb 19th 2009, 9:16 pm
Replies: 38
Views: 3,655
Posted By camponotus

Re: I'm feeling pretty bad

It's difficult when one of you likes the place more than the other one does. It's especially likely to be that way when one of you is Australian, as my partner is. I'd like to go back to the UK if...
Forum: The Barbie
Feb 19th 2009, 3:14 pm
Replies: 75
Views: 5,732
Posted By camponotus

Re: The Official Thread For People In Australia Who Are Not 100% Happy Being There

I was/am trying to suggest that if a thread states that it is for those who aren't happy with being in Australia, and you happen to love the place like you gave birth to it personally, what have you...
Forum: The Barbie
Feb 19th 2009, 3:08 pm
Replies: 43
Views: 2,845
Posted By camponotus

Re: Huge wave of homesickness

I really think the whole 'the UK is f***ed/gone to the dogs' thinking is astonishingly simplistic. The reality is that most of the problems the UK has are occurring in many, many places in the...
Forum: The Barbie
Feb 19th 2009, 2:59 pm
Replies: 75
Views: 5,732
Posted By camponotus

Re: The Official Thread For People In Australia Who Are Not 100% Happy Being There

A bit like going on to a thread about people's favourite Melbourne beaches just to tell everyone on there that you don't like Melbourne at all cos you think Sydney's better and being sarcastic about...
Forum: The Barbie
Feb 19th 2009, 2:56 pm
Replies: 75
Views: 5,732
Posted By camponotus

Re: The Official Thread For People In Australia Who Are Not 100% Happy Being There

My point kporte was that if the title of a thread makes it clear that the only thing someone can contribute is sarcasm about the UK and those that miss it, plus impassioned defense of Australia, then...
Forum: The Barbie
Feb 19th 2009, 11:35 am
Replies: 75
Views: 5,732
Posted By camponotus

The Official Thread For People In Australia Who Are Not 100% Happy Being There

I am starting this thread specifically as a place for people who currently live in Australia but are not sure that they want to remain living there. This is distinct from the Moving Back To The...
Forum: The Barbie
Feb 19th 2009, 11:20 am
Replies: 43
Views: 2,845
Posted By camponotus

Re: Huge wave of homesickness

It's the nature of the beast that relatively 'minor' things will trigger homesickness. But perhaps they are not actually that minor; perhaps they are things that are important to you - that can...
Forum: The Barbie
Feb 18th 2009, 4:49 pm
Replies: 349
Views: 18,480
Posted By camponotus

Re: Coles Vs Tescos which is best?

I believe it is a reasonably fair thing to say, keeping in mind at all times that I naturally don't have a point at all when I suggest something might be better in the UK, that Tescos, like many...
Forum: The Barbie
Feb 15th 2009, 4:49 pm
Replies: 349
Views: 18,480
Posted By camponotus

Re: Coles Vs Tescos which is best?

Can I just state that it is not my view that you have to be simple to enjoy Australia. But I do think you have to become a little one-eyed about things to make out that Aus is a vastly better place...
Forum: The Barbie
Feb 15th 2009, 4:43 pm
Replies: 349
Views: 18,480
Posted By camponotus

Re: Coles Vs Tescos which is best?

Do you want to elaborate on that?
Forum: The Barbie
Feb 15th 2009, 4:42 pm
Replies: 349
Views: 18,480
Posted By camponotus

Re: Coles Vs Tescos which is best?

Meant as a joke. Nothing meant by it, mate!

It was arrogant, kporte, it was. I've been agreed with which I doubt I would have been if I had no point at all.
Forum: The Barbie
Feb 15th 2009, 4:36 pm
Replies: 349
Views: 18,480
Posted By camponotus

Re: Coles Vs Tescos which is best?

Employing good, descriptive English does not qualify as a rant where I come from. Perhaps it does in Scotland.
Forum: The Barbie
Feb 15th 2009, 4:30 pm
Replies: 349
Views: 18,480
Posted By camponotus

Re: Coles Vs Tescos which is best?

Errr, so the individual who suggested that you are more ''open-minded'' person if you prefer the smaller range in Coles as opposed to Tesco was not at fault in any way, then? Interesting.
Forum: The Barbie
Feb 15th 2009, 4:25 pm
Replies: 349
Views: 18,480
Posted By camponotus

Re: Coles Vs Tescos which is best?

Actually, I'd say that's a classic example of saying something for the sake of saying something.
Forum: The Barbie
Feb 15th 2009, 4:24 pm
Replies: 349
Views: 18,480
Posted By camponotus

Re: Coles Vs Tescos which is best?

I don't think I quite recall such a meaningless and childish post so thoroughly uncalled for and unwarranted. Slightly nasty too. Bully in school?
Forum: Moving back or to the UK
Feb 15th 2009, 4:22 pm
Replies: 88
Views: 7,583
Posted By camponotus

Re: The Final Rant

My point being that none of these terms are appropriate, but Aussies are allowed to get away with using ''pomme'' and ''pommie'' as much as they like, for some reason.

I find it indicative of...
Forum: Moving back or to the UK
Feb 15th 2009, 4:20 pm
Replies: 88
Views: 7,583
Posted By camponotus

Re: The Final Rant

''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...
Forum: The Barbie
Feb 15th 2009, 4:17 pm
Replies: 349
Views: 18,480
Posted By camponotus

Re: Coles Vs Tescos which is best?

I was responding quite reasonably to an unreasonable remark made by a moderator. That's an issue for you, is it?
Forum: The Barbie
Feb 15th 2009, 4:00 pm
Replies: 349
Views: 18,480
Posted By camponotus

Re: Coles Vs Tescos which is best?

Oh, and another thing. The ''big is better bollocks'' can be very easily applied to the Aussies and expats here that proudly tell you how many times you can fit the whole of the UK into Australia,...
Forum: The Barbie
Feb 15th 2009, 3:38 pm
Replies: 53
Views: 3,379
Posted By camponotus

Re: Unbelievable.. again!!! Closing Time thread

Well, that's sort of me. I married in an Aussie and her father very cleverly persuaded me that Australia would be the place for us to be for a variety of reasons supposedly beneficial to us. I...
Forum: The Barbie
Feb 15th 2009, 3:32 pm
Replies: 349
Views: 18,480
Posted By camponotus

Re: Coles Vs Tescos which is best?

There is something dispicably arrogant about implying that you are somehow a more ''open-minded' (and by implication ''better'') person for being happy/happier with less choice (an odd, nonsensical...
Forum: Moving back or to the UK
Feb 15th 2009, 2:26 pm
Replies: 88
Views: 7,583
Posted By camponotus

Re: The Final Rant

Wooah! Very brave of you to post your thoughts so honestly!

I can sympathise with your feeling of having been lied to. Someone on another thread said that I was obviously of the belief that...
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