What made you realise . Aaarrrggh! I need to get out of this place.What was it that made you feel that you were in a ehem! "strange country"
BTW I'm not a lower middle class Englishman.

There was no dramatic parting of the ways for me, more that I wanted to go home to be with F&F.
But on facebook the other day I did notice a couple of my Aussie mates had joined a "I'm awesome cos I live in Australia" group and that was cringeworthy!

Not in OZ but US.
This morning having coffee, I said something that only one of the 6 "friends" at the table got! (I can't even remember what I said) Then one I thought was a really good friend mumbles something that amounted to an eye roll, bloody foreigners type comment. I wanted to slap the woman I'm hoping she was having an off day. I'm ready to lock myself in the house.

The day i was having coffee in the mall and saw gaggle upon gaggle of "mature" women dressed up in sequin tops, gawdy high heels and dripping in bling just to do the shopping.
I was terrified i would end up like them

Someone summed it up beautifuly the other day, after a trip to the UK they couldnt face coming back to the mediocre and boring lifestyle that they realised they were getting used to. Thats it, to put up with it you just start to dumb down...

For me I just thought I would go stark raving mad if I had to live here the rest of my life

Look its a great place for a couple of years, but there really isnt that much to hold my attention for a lifetime.

I thought I would be decadent and have oysters and they returned deep fried.
Ads for the Good Guys,The big butcher etc.

The farmer wants a wife on telly.

That f****** dirge of a national anthem.

I guess for me (living in the Cayman Islands) it was listening to one too many local prats asking "do you know who I am? I am a CAYMANIAN".........

I just had this overwhelming urge to go "A what?" "A who?" "Oh you're a nobody"

Any man that appreciates well made clothes should never be allowed to languish in such a place so devoid of style.



That and the telly's crap.

The innocuous nature of them supporting a "footy" team,

One day they'll cheer on a Victorian team ,the next they shout for a Queensland team...And they're from NSW......What's that all about??

They don't get where they're from the poor souls.....get the banjos out!!

I do get rather sick of the news constantly starting with some aussie sport heroes wrapping their thighs round each other and gazing at each others butts.

Sometimes they even speak, this weeks news, er derm aussie public shocked hero punches his girlfiriend lights out Yeah what a hero


I know its boring 'ere but surely something more interesting than that happened today.

Or maybe it didnt

Australia, for me, is a loud arrogant knowitall adolescent and, now, with me being a mellow middleaged lady there is just nothing that we have in common any more. I dont know that there was a defining moment when the cringe factor started, it's always sort of been there but if you can stand back and look at it dispassionately with a mild snort of objective derision that's fine.

My son was asked "Ford or Holden?"

How about the AFL club songs? . Now I do get embarrased listening to them.

Oh God, where do you start with a question like this?

I was watching a couple of young Aussie blokes being interviewed by SBS news a number of years back. They had got into some sort of trouble at sea and had to be rescued.
When the interviewer asked one of them -"What helped you cope while you were waiting to be rescued?"
The young guy replied - 'Aawww, mate! Just being Ostrayaaaaan"

Ok so I've mentioned this before.

I remember posters on this site justifying Australia as a great country and mentioning that Leo Sayer,Hank Marvin and now the great Phil Spencer had emigrated to Oz.
I really thought I would piss my pants with that one.

Those sticks with numbers in restaurants make me cringe