View Poll Results: Is this being Nationalistic?
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1: Bring on the yanks, the more the merrier!
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2 Keep the seppos at home, this is an Aussie forum!
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3: People are people no matter where they are from
29 49.15% -
4: I am totally indifferent
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5: The Yanks are cool, but they don't understand Australian Woodies.
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6: Ryan, quit stirring the ****!
10 16.95%
Thread: Nationalistic feelings?
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3rd February 2005, 09:21 PM #16
that which we call a duckhead, by any other name would smell as sweet.
Or to put it another way, fulfil a stereotype, and this will quaintly be pointed out.Boring signature time again!
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3rd February 2005, 09:33 PM #17
duckhead? I never knew you were a Kiwi, Outback
Rocker
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3rd February 2005, 09:38 PM #18
For mine , what it comes down to, and this applies to everbody not just Americans, is that you reap what you sow.
For instance, one of the most respected members of this forum is a fella (guy) by the name of Bob Smalser, who apart from teaching most of us a thing or two is a yank.
I accept that sometiimes we Australians can come across as being boorish, but that's just because we are so evenly balanced.
That is, we have a chip on each shoulder.
Craig (who's really in the ***** now :eek: )
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3rd February 2005, 10:01 PM #19
"That is, we have a chip on each shoulder."
A chip -- Bluddy great lump of wood more likely
(self included)
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3rd February 2005, 10:22 PM #20
well, ive just been to Norway courtesy of simonc. lovely people. but not very good at giving directions.
I think the foily man was right, take everyone as they come and then label them. it makes no difference what nationality, color, race or religion we are, we all have good and bad qualities and its how we behave towards each other that matters.
beejay1
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3rd February 2005, 10:54 PM #21
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3rd February 2005, 11:26 PM #22
Damned Furriners, can't spell, can't talk English proper, eat queer tucker, what a buncha losers...... go back to bluddy Hobart where yers belong. :mad: :mad: :mad:
Seriously, leave nationality, religion, politics etc. out of this place. We all get on fine without all that stuff and that is what makes this a good place and keeps us all mates.
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3rd February 2005, 11:45 PM #23Deceased
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Originally Posted by echnidna
Are they chips or are they french fries?
Peter.
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4th February 2005, 12:04 AM #24
Bloody Heck..I can feel a verse of Kumbay Ahh coming in for chrissake...don't make me expose my emotions.
This type of things justa craka me ups.
The wogs I work with reckon there is no way I could be of fair dinkum true blue throughbred deportation stock originating "from the Governors pleasure" as I do earthworks, stonemasonry and work too hard to be an Aussie. I have been officially renamed Squizzovich. The senior partner in the company is the only other of pure bred convict stock and he is now known as Smithovich which is very appropriate because he also owns a vegie shop.
I wind the boys up all day, calling them bad speaking migrants and lamenting that I should get paid more for having to do translations and put up with Croation coffee and Slav jokes. The reply I get is something along the lines of "which would you rather, skilled migrants or criminals".. it a crack up really but the point is its one of those things about Australia, that sometimes the yanks don't get.
Merry Christmas and good lucks to yours FamiliesSquizzy
"It is better to be ignorant and ask a stupid question than to be plain Stupid and not ask at all" {screamed by maths teacher in Year 8}
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4th February 2005, 01:13 AM #25GOLD MEMBER
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I know a very well educated & well travelled citizen of the US of A - he claims to have only met one Australian he didn't like - turned out she was born & dragged up somewhere in the 'South' of the USofA & had married an Australian (poor SoB) - she was trying to tell him and his travelling companions off for something or other in an airport transit lounge - I think it was because they were 'Americans'.
Of course I know a small & select number of 'Australians' that I would not even urinate on if they were on fire. In fact I wouldn't throw petrol either, as it would speed their end.
Me? Let a grudge die? I'll paraphrase a popular US SF author & say I'll have them stuffed & mounted.
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Fixed!
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4th February 2005, 02:02 AM #27
Thanks !
Can't argue with the foreign policy thing. I wished i was Canadian after our president got reelected. Anyway, this thread is kinda fun as long as no one takes it too seriously.
-Ryan
there's no school like the old school.
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4th February 2005, 08:49 AM #28
I think Roy and HG summed it up best during the Olympics in Sydney.
Americans? Individually, we love 'em.... But en masse? Can't stand the bastards!!
"I don't practice what I preach because I'm not the kind of person I'm preaching to."
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4th February 2005, 09:18 AM #29
What's a country to do? If we can't poke fun at the Hystericans, then who can we poke fun at? I mean the sheep lovers....ooops farmers from across the pond have been done to death and the whinging poms are now starting to win rugby games so who else is left?
Rhino, you shouldn't take any Australian too seriously. This is the country that at their closing ceremony for THEIR olympic games wheeled out a giant thong carrying a girl wearing a thong!! Who could take a country like that seriously!!There was a young boy called Wyatt
Who was awfully quiet
And then one day
He faded away
Because he overused White
Floorsanding in Canberra and Albury.....
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4th February 2005, 09:35 AM #30
[QUOTE]Seriously, leave nationality, religion, politics etc. out of this place. We all get on fine without all that stuff and that is what makes this a good place and keeps us all mates.
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Christopha:
well said mate, a greenie for you (not the one off the end of my finger either)
just no more rubbishing us 2 heads