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The locals only like being dangerous when there is an unsuspecting tourist around to scare, they are too lazy to do anything except eat, sleep and drink the rest of the time.
I can skate circles around you on the hockey rink... backwards. 
Originally Posted by coalition:
AFL.
Best sport.
Holy Necro Batman!AFL.
Best sport.
But seriously, if anything has to Necro an incredibly old thread, it should be this post... very true.
A New South Welshman who prefers AFL to footy? What's the world coming to?
Originally Posted by Viking:
I herd Australia haz liek...dangerous animals.
The last government, eager to deter the hordes of strange unwashed furriners from coming here on leaky boats, actually made videos full of poisonous snakes, spiders, crocs, sharks, and other deadly creatures, and ran it in places like Indonesia, in order to get people to not come here. I thought it was hilarious, as if that would work! Always good to scare people off from coming here, since we I herd Australia haz liek...dangerous animals.
We need a new advertising campaign.
Instead of where the bloody hell are you, how about...
Australia's
hot, so get your arse the down here.
Or...
Australia is great, so why the arent you here
Instead of where the bloody hell are you, how about...
Australia's
hot, so get your arse the down here.Or...
Australia is great, so why the arent you here I believe pever is referring to this clip
Funny how the pom was the only one who approved.
Spoiler Alert, click show to read:
Funny how the pom was the only one who approved.
Yeah I didn't want to link it...
Originally Posted by miotas:
A New South Welshman who prefers AFL to footy? What's the world coming to?
Footy is just shocking. AFL requires so many more skills and I find is a much rougher sport (Though they have softened it a lot in the last 5 years).A New South Welshman who prefers AFL to footy? What's the world coming to?
Originally Posted by miotas:
I believe pever is referring to this clip
Funny how the pom was the only one who approved.
The greatest line - "You can keep one."I believe pever is referring to this clip
Spoiler Alert, click show to read:
Funny how the pom was the only one who approved.
Why is there no "New North Wales"?
Because the British empire never colonised any places resembling Wales to the north of Britain.
That would only make sense if it was "South New Wales" though. And parts of Canada are more North than Wales.
Bah! The area where Cook landed looked like Wales (apparently, I've never been to Wales) and it was in the southern hemisphere, happy now? And South New Wales would be the southern area of New Wales so 
Well it seems nobody was quick enough to say HAPPY AUSTRALIA DAY!
Hope all you other Aussies got out there and put a snagger on the barbie and maybe even jumped in the pool to celebrate our big day. I know I did, and I am definately gonna pay for it tomorrow at work. Pulling a sickie anyone?
(its 9:17pm herein WA so I still made it
)
Hope all you other Aussies got out there and put a snagger on the barbie and maybe even jumped in the pool to celebrate our big day. I know I did, and I am definately gonna pay for it tomorrow at work. Pulling a sickie anyone?
(its 9:17pm herein WA so I still made it
)Hope everyone had a good Australia day. Didn't stay too sober.
I had a steak and prawns on the bbq.
A friend of mines father got the Order of Australia for Medical service, etc. Which is pretty cool.
Originally Posted by Galain_Ironhide:
Hope all you other Aussies got out there and put a snagger on the barbie and maybe even jumped in the pool to celebrate our big day. I know I did, and I am definately gonna pay for it tomorrow at work. Pulling a sickie anyone?
Unfortunately my pool is green. The chemical balance is all out of whack. And well, I really need it, it's been so hot the last week or so.Hope all you other Aussies got out there and put a snagger on the barbie and maybe even jumped in the pool to celebrate our big day. I know I did, and I am definately gonna pay for it tomorrow at work. Pulling a sickie anyone?
I had a steak and prawns on the bbq.
A friend of mines father got the Order of Australia for Medical service, etc. Which is pretty cool.
Had a easy day.
Watched a few movies (including Gladiator, for the first time ever) then had family friends round for dinner.
Watched a few movies (including Gladiator, for the first time ever) then had family friends round for dinner.
Happy Self-Titled Day, Australia!
Hope all of you guys had fun.
Twas a grand day in Perth. Cooler than it has been recently so I could enjoy the beach with mates. IIRC, it was some ~40° last week.
Hope all of you guys had fun.
Twas a grand day in Perth. Cooler than it has been recently so I could enjoy the beach with mates. IIRC, it was some ~40° last week.
Worked for 9 hours, went to a mate's place at around 6:30 and kept drinking until 2am-ish. Good times
Hooray for nationalism!
I rather enjoyed my lazy Tuesday off. I think it's quite funny how 500,000 people also chucked a sickie on Monday off for a 4 day weekend. Cost the economy $250 million apparently
I rather enjoyed my lazy Tuesday off. I think it's quite funny how 500,000 people also chucked a sickie on Monday off for a 4 day weekend. Cost the economy $250 million apparently
Originally Posted by miotas:
I think it's quite funny how 500,000 people also chucked a sickie on Monday off for a 4 day weekend. Cost the economy $250 million apparently
I think it's quite funny how 500,000 people also chucked a sickie on Monday off for a 4 day weekend. Cost the economy $250 million apparently
It's like Brazil, when their national team play the whole country stops.
Something I always like watching is Sam Kekovich's address to the nation, this year however it was an address to the World, the video for those not living in Australia, because everyone here has already seen it of course 
Also, something that was on the radio on Monday, Hamish and Andy sung a tribute to all the Unaustralians. I am Unaustralian
Also, something that was on the radio on Monday, Hamish and Andy sung a tribute to all the Unaustralians. I am Unaustralian
Oh dear...
Australia to lose its National Anthem!!!
As it turns out, the anthem was plagiarised. More disturbingly, it is a girlie tune too, meant for campfire whistling by girl scouts.
Australia to lose its National Anthem!!!
As it turns out, the anthem was plagiarised. More disturbingly, it is a girlie tune too, meant for campfire whistling by girl scouts.
Originally Posted by :
Australian band Men at Work have lost a federal court case in Sydney, Australia, after being sued for plagiarism over their 1981 number one US and UK hit single 'Down Under.'
The band now face paying up to 60% of the song's income, after the court ruled the song copied its flute riff from a Girl Guides song called 'Kookaburra Sits in the Old Gum Tree.' The campfire song was originally written for the 1935 Girl Guides Jamboree, by the now-deceased Marion Sinclair.
http://www.spinner.com/2010/02/04/me...er-court-case/
Well this sheds new light to the meaning of the lyrics of 'Do you come from a land Down under...where the women glow and men plunder'.Australian band Men at Work have lost a federal court case in Sydney, Australia, after being sued for plagiarism over their 1981 number one US and UK hit single 'Down Under.'
The band now face paying up to 60% of the song's income, after the court ruled the song copied its flute riff from a Girl Guides song called 'Kookaburra Sits in the Old Gum Tree.' The campfire song was originally written for the 1935 Girl Guides Jamboree, by the now-deceased Marion Sinclair.
http://www.spinner.com/2010/02/04/me...er-court-case/
The whole thing is ridiculous because the Kookaburra tune is just a faster version of this welsh song.
This nonsense crops up every couple of years. Some ignorant jury hears a scratchy cassette that has 3 notes the same as a number 1 hit and votes to give the profits to some lowlife skimmer.
In 3 months a sensible judge will overturn this insanely ridiculous judgement.
Vote 1 the jury system: for truly surreal decisions on legal matters nothing beats 12 people being harangued by proffesional rhetors for a couple of days and then locked away until the all agree.
As for Australia, Pev and I and our fellow Antipodeans dwell in a beaut country on the best planet at the best time in history so far. That we know of.
In 3 months a sensible judge will overturn this insanely ridiculous judgement.
Vote 1 the jury system: for truly surreal decisions on legal matters nothing beats 12 people being harangued by proffesional rhetors for a couple of days and then locked away until the all agree.
As for Australia, Pev and I and our fellow Antipodeans dwell in a beaut country on the best planet at the best time in history so far. That we know of.
best football team - no
best cricket team - no
biggest rock - yes
a lot of beautiful women - only if you count the backpackers
biggest pies - maybe but the taste aweful
best rugby players - no
best rugby league - yes
good folk - yes
great language - yes
beautiful nature - yes
awesome surf - yes
8/10
best cricket team - no
biggest rock - yes
a lot of beautiful women - only if you count the backpackers
biggest pies - maybe but the taste aweful
best rugby players - no
best rugby league - yes
good folk - yes
great language - yes
beautiful nature - yes
awesome surf - yes
8/10
Originally Posted by The Stranger:
biggest pies - maybe but the taste aweful
You take that back...biggest pies - maybe but the taste aweful
no. not even when you force 10 pies down my troat.
Wigan has the best pies 
Shepherd's have the best pies 
Australia might not be the best country in the world, but there are certainly none better
Australia might not be the best country in the world, but there are certainly none better
It's a balmy 38C here, and I've got a lunchtime beer. 
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