Aussie Cringe
Aug 17th 2009, 6:07 am
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Re: Aussie Cringe
AFL players running through the paper banner at the beginning of a game always makes me cringe.
Bare filthy feet,
Bald top of the head, a mullet and goatee combined on one man are a nice look too LOL,
Men wearing really short shorts and worn down thongs. Very fetching, NOT.
Bare filthy feet,
Bald top of the head, a mullet and goatee combined on one man are a nice look too LOL,
Men wearing really short shorts and worn down thongs. Very fetching, NOT.
Aug 17th 2009, 7:08 pm
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Re: Aussie Cringe
My particular beef is the cringeworthiness of the about to be Aussies. Wanting to go to Oz - what the hell is it with the yellow brick road thing? it's Australia for heavens' sake - say Oz in Australia and the locals will look at you like you just stepped out of a pumpkin. Also, what is it with this Live the Dream type thing? - the fine line between dream and nightmare always makes me think people should be wholly awake before they set off for their "New Life". Hey, I dont know what they think a 24 hour plane ride will do to their lives! Make them all as rich as Donald Trump and look like Elle McPherson??? Give their kids brains that they didnt have in UK????
Heck, I dont know why even thinking about Australia and the image it promotes to the world, wants me cringe - and want to throw up!
OK vent over, I just needed to get that out of my system!
Heck, I dont know why even thinking about Australia and the image it promotes to the world, wants me cringe - and want to throw up!
OK vent over, I just needed to get that out of my system!
Last edited by 3 go mad in Adelaide; Aug 17th 2009 at 7:11 pm.
Aug 17th 2009, 7:11 pm
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Re: Aussie Cringe
i worked with a guy who was giving me a bit of verbal for being english so i gave it back twice as hard and he said "i know you blokes (english) have the bulldog spirit but over here we have "the cattle dog spirit" !! wtf! 
also the saying "have a teaspoon of concrete and harden up"
the words bogan and larikin
also the saying "have a teaspoon of concrete and harden up"
the words bogan and larikin
Aug 17th 2009, 9:59 pm
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Re: Aussie Cringe
Aug 18th 2009, 1:55 am
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Re: Aussie Cringe
First can I say I have read all of the 3 pages so far and I have had a really good chuckle...made my day!!! I just want to say "What made you realise"........all of the replies to this question are my answers...and a lot more....lol....great therapy.....this though really gets my goat.....Icon....and then Aussie Icon.......I have to breath very slowly when I read that....lol...now an Icon here can be an AFL player,Rugby Player....Movie Star...oh anything....and I get really fed up when I read "I love Australia and will move back one day to raise my kids....just here because of the work" this is usually said by actors,musicians being interviewed for an Australian Magazine (which I honestly only read if I have really,really nothing else to read)...what a load of ...well I will be polite..."tosh".....if your rich and famous you don't need to be overseas and also listening to Aussies in America..they have a slight American accent, Aussies in the U.K they are a slight English accent but low and behold when the same actoros are being interviewed in Australia they sound like Crocodile Dundee...what the.....oh one last thing...the AFL advert on Fox....(played with Irish music) "It's the Fastest, Toughest...biggest game on Earth"...now that is a down right lie...but what the heck the Aussies believe it and there in I end my case....wow do I feel better....
Aug 18th 2009, 6:45 am
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Re: Aussie Cringe
To be honest Vancouverites can also be a tad irritating with their constant, how wonderful is this place attitude.
Aug 18th 2009, 8:30 am
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Re: Aussie Cringe
the almost tribal/ third-world way many of them wander the streets/shops eg barefoot, shirtless, in pyjamas and slippers and leaving the swimming pool in dressing gowns rather than showering and drying off prior to getting in your car - and I am referring to adults in all of this not children. I will never go grocery shopping barefoot or in my nightie as long as i live (unless of course dementia sets in in which case i may!)
Aug 18th 2009, 3:04 pm
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Re: Aussie Cringe
was just speaking to my little brother on the phone earlier and something he said about his boss's wife gave me a flashback to a cringeworthy moment that was also a lightbulb moment.
It was on a lunch 'date' with a my relatively new social circle - mainly ex pat women but a few aussies. one of the regulars could not make it so basically the whole time was spent ripping into her - I couldnt believe how mean they were being to someone who was supposedly their friend. Not to sound like a brag, in the UK i enjoyed the company of clever women who had careers, proper hobbies and interests (not just seeing a private trainer once a week), something to say about current affairs etc. so there I am sitting in amongst these completely vacuous women and I am thinking.........."what am I doing here??? get me the flock out of here"
of course I may just have been unlucky and of course there are plenty of ex-pat women who are lovely (me for example LOL)but certain parts of australia do seem to breed these types. its probably just me, but i cringe when i think of how desperate i was just to make some friends.
It was on a lunch 'date' with a my relatively new social circle - mainly ex pat women but a few aussies. one of the regulars could not make it so basically the whole time was spent ripping into her - I couldnt believe how mean they were being to someone who was supposedly their friend. Not to sound like a brag, in the UK i enjoyed the company of clever women who had careers, proper hobbies and interests (not just seeing a private trainer once a week), something to say about current affairs etc. so there I am sitting in amongst these completely vacuous women and I am thinking.........."what am I doing here??? get me the flock out of here"
of course I may just have been unlucky and of course there are plenty of ex-pat women who are lovely (me for example LOL)but certain parts of australia do seem to breed these types. its probably just me, but i cringe when i think of how desperate i was just to make some friends.
Aug 18th 2009, 3:36 pm
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Re: Aussie Cringe
5 minutes later a female australian colleague who is around 42 ( i'm 36) took me to one side and expressed how horrified she was I had said that and that I should perhaps aplogies to him .....
That was one point when I just felt like screaming... how bloody small minded and outdated....
women know your place.... AGHHHHHHH I love being home!
Aug 19th 2009, 12:40 am
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Re: Aussie Cringe
Vancouverites aren't even on the same planet as your average "Ostaaaaya is Godzonecountrylittleozziebattlerwegrewhereyouflewh ere" brigade.
Aug 19th 2009, 5:17 am
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Re: Aussie Cringe
AFL players running through the paper banner at the beginning of a game always makes me cringe.
Bare filthy feet,
Bald top of the head, a mullet and goatee combined on one man are a nice look too LOL,
Men wearing really short shorts and worn down thongs. Very fetching, NOT.
Bare filthy feet,
Bald top of the head, a mullet and goatee combined on one man are a nice look too LOL,
Men wearing really short shorts and worn down thongs. Very fetching, NOT.
