The Australians...

[blue John]

You have got to be a good boy

 

[jimharri]

That's me fucked then!

 

[scall11]

On one hand I love the Australians because after my visit there, I fell in love with them all. I'm still trying to adopt and Australian attitude to life, and can thank them for helping me chill out a bit.

Then on the other hand, I hate em because they live in Australia and I don't. But any nation who includes the word "girt" in their National Anthem deserves a bit of respect for the balls it shows!!! ha ha

In conclusion. I love Australia. Every Australia Day you'll find me in Walkabout drinking a Tooeys or Coopers.

 

[AyrshireBlue]

Men At Work..................(ok the lead singer was born in Glasgow)
Aussie Rules Footie.............sh!t game
Home & Away, Neighbours and all the other pish shows
Jason Donovan, Craig McLachlan
Walkabout pubs
Kenny the portaloo guy


All reasons to hate Oz...............

However thanks for Danni Minogue

 

[Wheelsy]

Oh god, you got Kenny as well. I apologise on behalf of the nation of Australia.

 

[johnmc]

 

[BingoBango]

I love Australia. I was lucky enough to decide to do my PhD research on the history of the place, and spent 10 months out there last year. Mind you, 8 months of that was in Hobart, so I'm not sure that counts (Wheelsy?) As soon as this thesis is out of the way, I'll be heading back I expect. Tasmania is such a lovely place, although a little bit too isolated for my liking.

Only downside was the odd bogan or two (picked up the lingo as well, as you can see); on the plus-side I was there when little Johnny Howard was booted out of office and lost his seat, and the apology was given in January. The latter was a beautiful moment, out on the lawn of Parliament House in Hobart.

Besides, any country which can come up with 'Keating! The Musical' is worthy of unlimited praise (though this will only really make sense/be funny to Australians):

<a class="postlink" href="http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=NTrHy1AyUf8" onclick="window.open(this.href);return false;">http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=NTrHy1AyUf8</a>
<a class="postlink" href="http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=g34TcESqsLw" onclick="window.open(this.href);return false;">http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=g34TcESqsLw</a>
<a class="postlink" href="http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=TPcml9_33to" onclick="window.open(this.href);return false;">http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=TPcml9_33to</a>
<a class="postlink" href="http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=y5s8HYGANEU" onclick="window.open(this.href);return false;">http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=y5s8HYGANEU</a>
<a class="postlink" href="http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=0KWOYb8u4rk" onclick="window.open(this.href);return false;">http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=0KWOYb8u4rk</a>
<a class="postlink" href="http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=7-yZHGEuBwY" onclick="window.open(this.href);return false;">http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=7-yZHGEuBwY</a>
<a class="postlink" href="http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=imXhCTImjnU" onclick="window.open(this.href);return false;">http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=imXhCTImjnU</a>

 

[MCFCTrick]

The Hoodoo Gurus

The Church

INXS (at a push)

Yellow Tail wine.

and, er.......

 

[Wheelsy]

Hobart?

I spent a week there... it's like the Newcastle of England.
Cold, kind of pretty, but the locals are mental.

 

[brooklandsblue]

They are ok but I prefer Americans, I find Australians a bit racist.

 

[BingoBango]

They are ok but I prefer Americans, I find Australians a bit racist.

North Tasmania, near Devonport and Burnie, is a scary fucking place for this kind of stuff.

 

[Wheelsy]

They are ok but I prefer Americans, I find Australians a bit racist.

Good one, America is one of the most racist countries in the Western world at least.

 

[brooklandsblue]

They are ok but I prefer Americans, I find Australians a bit racist.

Good one, America is one of the most racist countries in the Western world at least.

Look at Cronulla and some of the anti lebanese stuff flying around from aussies-a disgrace

 

[Wheelsy]

I'm not disputing there's a racist element, although Cronulla was almost three years ago.
But you're taking the piss if you think it's more racist here than in the US. "Obama is a moslim and a turrorist!" ring any bells?

 

[BingoBango]

They are ok but I prefer Americans, I find Australians a bit racist.

Good one, America is one of the most racist countries in the Western world at least.

Look at Cronulla and some of the anti lebanese stuff flying around from aussies-a disgrace

Despite your crude generalisation you have a slight point. You only have to look at the Cronulla riots, the rise of Hanson and One Nation, or the response in some quarters to the apology to the Stolen Generations (Wilson fucking Tuckey!) to see there is - in certain places - a nasty undercurrent to be found. Yet Johnny Howard's anti-Asian rhetoric in elections past came round to bite him on the arse in Bennelong last year.

However, the same can be said of America: the response in some quarters to Obama's election, comments throughout the campaign and so on. We could find examples in any given country of such attitudes - there are cretins with these views wherever we might care to look.

But like I said, stay away from Devonport!

 

[bluemike]

Can't think why Olivia Newton-John was never in Prisoner Cell Block H,
then again,

 

[jimharri]

Can't think why Olivia Newton-John was never in Prisoner Cell Block H,
then again,

Now you're talking Mike. I fancied her something rotten when I was a spotty teenager. Then again, didn't every spotty teenager back in the seventies?

 

[bluemike]

I still would.
Now trying to think of a fit Scottish bird from younger years for the other thread.

 

[andy h]

A lot of people in this country pooh-pooh Australian table wines. This is a pity as many fine Australian wines appeal not only to the Australian palate but also to the cognoscenti of Great Britain.

Black Stump Bordeaux is rightly praised as a peppermint flavored Burgundy, whilst a good Sydney Syrup can rank with any of the world's best sugary wines. Château Blue, too, has won many prizes; not least for its taste, and its lingering afterburn. Old Smokey 1968 has been compared favorably to a Welsh claret, whilst the Australian Wino Society thoroughly recommends a 1970 Coq du Rod Laver, which, believe me, has a kick on it like a mule. Eight bottles of this and you're really finished. At the opening of the Sydney Bridge Club, they were fishing them out of the main sewers every half an hour.

Of the sparkling wines, the most famous is Perth Pink. This is a bottle with a message in and the message is "beware". This is not a wine for drinking; this is a wine for laying down and avoiding.

Another good fighting wine is Melbourne Old & Yellow, which is particularly heavy and should be used only for hand-to-hand combat.

Quite the reverse is true of Château Chunder, which is an appellation contrôlée, specially grown for those keen on regurgitation; a fine wine which really opens up the sluices at both ends. Real emetic fans will also go for a Hobart Muddy and a prize winning Cuivre Reserve Château Bottled Nuit San Wogga Wogga, which has a bouquet like an aborigine's armpit

This 'ere is the wattle, the emblem of our land,
you can stick it in a bottle, or hold it in your hand......Amen

 

[NPBlue]

Giving us Dame Edna and Vegemite sandwiches.