What makes Australia such a shithole? Let us count the ways!

I say this on every Australia shithole thread, so I might as well say it again.

Racist, trashy, drunken redneck fools. And that accent! It makes my ears bleed.

Horrible, horrible people.

G'day Mate!!

We've never liked them.

Knock Knock

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I would move there HAPPILY.

In fact, I said that to someone yesterday.

95 percent of the country is uninhabitable wasteland.

The other 5% is a cultural wasteland.

That makes it a 100% garbage dump.

[quote] I would move there HAPPILY

Okay, bye!

Missing ozone layer.

Where would you live that you think is better?

Tasmanian Devils!!

They're all asleep right now, so keep ripping on them before they wake up!

It's almost 8am Saturday in Brisbane/Sydney/Melbourne now.

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I love Australian men! Handsome, sunny attitudes, big dicks, and great fucks.

Are you American? Sorry, you can find tons more disturbing stuff in the US or other countries.

If Net Neutrality is passed, and it will, you'll have slow internet if you're not with the right company.

They're awake.

Assholes didn't pass marriage equality until this year.

Millenia behind the rest of the civilized world!

Nicole Kidman never sleeps, R19.

She's a vampire.

The most beautiful country? get real.

Who needs these in the car?

Well I spent three weeks there and had a fabulous time. And it IS beautiful.

Why the shade?

Racism is a national pastime in Oz.

R6, I will never forgive them for Yahoo Serious.

It's basically what the British working and underclass would make if they were given their own country without middle and upper class people to add the gloss. It's a lot like the US in that respect, only with less money.

Don't they have health insurance for all their citizens? If so, that is saying something. The USA has done a poor job of providing health care for its citizens.

There are umpteen million things that can kill you?

[quote] There are umpteen million things that can kill you

Yeah, and most of them are in Australia.

Insinuated.

I'd need free health care after getting bitten by the crazy fauna of the place.

Sharks, spiders, crocs, deadly octopus, taipan, box jellyfish, irukandji jellyfish, giant centipede, paralysis ticks....even poisonous snails.

Fuck that.

Someone got dumped by an Australian.

Please...a shithole produced this voice?

You ungrateful cunts, after all we've given you.

Fuck you, Olivia!

Go look for your missing dead husband.

R37 Olivia Newton-John is BRITISH!

R8 Good work Kiwi, you can't even say your vowels like proper people.

Fush! Fush! Fush!

You've muddled your vowels just to appease the Maoris. Sad.

Muddling vowels to appease Maoris?

Could you expand on that?

[quote] Could you expand on that?

Ebsolyutelee wahn hahndreed perseeynt!

Melanie Lynskey is a perfect example of that atrocious Kiwi accent. Ugh.

R42 Okay, so the NZ accent is well known for mixing up its vowels. For example, fish and chips, spoken in Kiwi, becomes 'fush and chups'.

Where does this come from? When the British settled in New Zealand, and started teaching the Maoris English, the Maoris had difficulty with the vowels. So to make things easier for the Maoris, and to lead by example, exchanged the difficult vowels with what was less difficult for the Maoris. Hence, 'fish' was hard to say for the Maoris, and became 'fush' instead. And so, what became a way to integrate the Maoris, became the standard New Zealand English, which is still spoken to this day.

You call?

I'm with Muriel.

Interesting, r45.

I don’t approve of lowering standards for minorities.

[quote] I'm with Muriel.

It's MARIEL!

I lived in Sydney for two years. I LOVED it. Amazing city.

But Australia has never been quick with new technology. I heard they didn't even get color TV until the late 70s!

Kiwi and Australian accents are cute

R50 Australia didn't get cable in my town until the very late 1990s (shortly before I left).

Oh no, they've woken up ----> looking at R52 ---->

Really, OP?

Ugh, I used to work with a Kiwi in PACU. She would shout at the patients,

Hullo! Moy nime eeze SHAYrrin. Oim Share on! Shairrrrrun!

She was so loud it hurt my ears. She was also a near-midget. She had to use a step stool in order to be face-to-face with patients lying in stretchers.

Enough, R56!

This thread about why Australia is such a shithole.

Now back on track!

I hate Australian and Kiwi accents, they're ugly. South African accent is ugly too.

Everyone has skin cancer by the time they're six. You can't go outside without being covered in flies.

What's with the flies over there? Yuck.

[quote] Everyone has skin cancer by the time they're six

People from the British Isles were never meant to live in such a harsh and sunny climate.

Think about the original inhabitants of Australia - the Aborigines - and how dark their skin is. Then take some of the fairest people on the planet, and put them in that environment.

It just doesn't work.

Well r61, that's why it was a punishment.

[quote]Assholes didn't pass marriage equality until this year. Millenia behind the rest of the civilized world!

Israel is next.

R18, if net neutrality is repealed. Not "passed."

How is "no" two syllables?

So beautiful.

We prefer housosexual, R66.

Well they're way ahead of us in gun control and health care so...

Yes, it’s just awful here.

Please American friends, for your own sakes! - stay away.

Really, you’ll hate it. Best you vacation in Florida (again!) this year instead. Disneyworld his this world showcase thing so you can actually do a sampling of the best the whole planet had to offer - without ever having to use a passport!

It’s truly amazing. And the other people you’ll meet there are great people. The best.

Now that’s culture!

Aboriginals are so damn ugly. I feel sorry for them.

Agree, r70. The government should sponsor plastic surgery for them.

I’m not even kidding.

Lol R34

R70 Not all of them. Some are incredibly attractive, especially the Koori boys from the south, or the olive skinned peoples from tropical Broome. Many of the hot ones are also gay.

You cannot tell me that guy isn’t mixed with white, r73.

Get real.

Spectacular Aussie butt:

In action:

R74 He may be. His name is Casey Conway and is a rugby player, also gay. It doesn't always make much sense to say "mixed" in reference to Australian Aboriginal as they are very diverse, and have exchanged genes with Polynesians, Maori and Sri Lankans. Also Spanish, Dutch and English traders were shipwrecked off rocky the coasts over centuries, some survivors made it ashore and were adopted by the tribes where they had offspring with the women, some tribes are naturally lighter around these coastal areas.

I love Aussies, love the beauty of Australia with its great contrasts: The stunning outback starkness against lush, coastal regions. Love their esoteric, contemplative film and other arts, contrasted against an incredibly laid-back Aussie brand of humor. Australia also churns out hot pieces of masculine goodness year after year.

Another example of a good looking Aboriginal boy - Jason Collard from Perth.

All these "good-looking" abos are mixed.

I love AU. We spent two months there last winter and are returning for 2.5 months this year.

R80 the word that you used is just as offensive in Australia as the N word is in the States. The stupidity and racism on this board is getting out of hand.

Yeah, was just about to point that out R82. R80, please understand that what you wrote is very offensive in Australia. The racism in this thread by non-Australians is ironic and sad.

their dollar is crap

They have more vampires per capita than anyplace except New Zealand.

They are jealous of USA.

no one is jealous of the USA

especially not Australia

r87, lol sure. How's your economy doing ? How is your culture ?

The Philosophy Zone is a good show on Australian radio

With continuous economic expansion, quarter on quarter, since 1991, the Australian economy is doing rather well you idiot.

I’d try and explain “culture” to you, but you’re barely literate - “lol” indeed. What are you, twelve?

their dingoes take your babies (but luckily I got Cannes Best Actress for that)

With continuous economic expansion, quarter on quarter, since 1991, the Australian economy is doing rather well you idiot.

The Aussie dollar is way less than the USA dollar! fact you dumb kangaroo.

If their dollar is so bad, is it cheap to vacation there?

Goodness! This thread is a Fox News wreck! I'd rather travel halfway around the world to not get shot at a music fest,mall,church or school! Even if I did get shot at one of those places without health insurance in another country the cost of fixing me would not bankrupt my family! Dumbest thread ever!

R93 if you think that one precludes the other then you have no idea...

But you’re an American, so that fits!

This is crazy

Oh my god, 97 replies and not one single mention of Satan Himself, OLd Man Murdoch, destroyer of worlds?

He's the worst thing in the UNIVERSE, let alone Australia.

And Aus accents should be banned by Geneva Convention.

Jason Collard, R79 is octaroon. It's idiotic to pretend that he and Brenton Thwaites etc aren't because it does NO help to the GENUINE full-blooded Indigenous people such as myself

You are VERY out of date R98. That successful man, Murdoch, is a proud, American citizen.

OP = Evo Morales

R69 you don't have to sell us, no one wants to go to Australia and listen to the abortion of an accent you have there, or deal with 5ft wide spiders, venomous everything, and horrible hell like weather.

Oz is not a shithole so much as dead boring. As one Yank put it, twice as dead as a cemetery. A cultural blandness and sameness insuring that today was just like yesterday and tomorrow will be just like today. Bigotry and racism are rampant because there's no impetus to change and anyway, Aussies love the status quo. And the most annoying Aussie upspeak, ending every sentence with a questioning tone, because they're are so unsure and insecure, that constant validation is required.

I backpacked solo there for 4 months and it was an awesome. I rarely ran into other Americans which was odd but the Oz folk I met were cool af. One told me a funny self-deprecating joke-

What's the difference between Australia and a cup of yogurt?

The yogurt has more culture.

Australian's have had no choice but to celebrate their blandness. It has become the culture in itself.

^ I love Margaret. She is an Expressive Dancer.

And her husband is a hunk o'spunk

remember this?

[quote] Jason Collard, [R79] is octaroon. It's idiotic to pretend that he and Brenton Thwaites etc aren't because it does NO help to the GENUINE full-blooded Indigenous people such as myself

Sorry if that's offensive to you. True, full-blooded Australian Aborigines are quite rare in the capital cities. Except in the larger towns like Alice Springs. It's quite surprising to city folks when they see a true Aboriginal Elder visiting. They do stand out with a very royal quality, peaceful, noble.

Where I spent many years in inner city Australia they were always many, many unbelievably good looking "octaroon's" (A quadroon has 25 per cent Aboriginal 'blood' and an octaroon only 12). They were literally everywhere. Tall, hot, athletic, just like those guys. Mostly very friendly; but rather low-key. Not all over social media but that is starting to change.

[quote]It's quite surprising to city folks when they see a true Aboriginal Elder visiting. They do stand out with a very royal quality, peaceful, noble.

City Aussies ignore Koories just as they ignore stray cats and dogs. Country and Outback Aussies treat Koories like stray cats and dogs.

Exposing another enormous problem in the Aboriginal community: The HUGE amount of prejudice that exists between full-blooded and part-blooded.

Hey, hats off to the people who first invented the worlds first record of visual images:

Universal health care and we don’t have a fascist as head of state.

End of discussion.

Don't forget Our Girl Gina:

They have the best tennis Grand Slam of the four! I love Australia. Yes they mat be racists but no more than in the U.S. Or Great Britain.

Bloody love Aussie. Great bunch of lads. Would rather have them as a neighbour than any other country.

Slow internet? No worries, mate. Just take a chug of beer.

I've visited Australia a dozen times, it is far more racist than the UK. The cost of living is also appallingly high. The suburbs are ugly, and monotonous. Internet awful, television crappy.

Yeah but...

We didn’t elect Donald Trump to lead us.

/thread

The Australians I have met seem friendly and nice

Like Bob and Cheryl

OP sounds like a Ruskie troll who's desperately trying to turn the attention away from a real shithole.

The Aussies are incredibly patronising about the Brits, they still have a chip on their shoulder about transportation.

Life in Australia

What's not to like?

[quote]we don’t have a fascist as head of state.

Just a country full of fascists.

I'd rather New Zealand than Australia. At least their summers won't kill you.

But our earthquakes will.

Australia is shockingly expensive. I don't know how they get a reputation for drinking when alcohol is so costly here.

Remember Back in the 80s when Australia seemed quirky, exotic, and appealing? Now we know it's really boring, racist, and lame.

Melbourne has been ranked the world's #1 most livable city for seven years in a row now. Can't be THAT bad, right?

[quote]Can't be THAT bad, right?

Wrong! You can live, but you'll be bored to death and beyond.

Why are the Aborigines so chubby and scraggly while the Maoris are so beefy and handsome?

Beefy! Handsome?

BTW, there are no full-blood Maoris left in New Zealand. All are some degree of Pakeha.

[quote]while the Maoris are so beefy and handsome

word

R134 Interesting how the only aborigines and maoris that DL considers hot are the ones who are 95% white. DL's white supremacy shines through once again. Also to be seen on any thread on here about Asians.

R98, yes, but that shithole of a country gave us Murdoch, who went on to spread his Nazi worldview everywhere he went.

And r112, do NOT talk about fascism when your precious Murdoch started the fascist media wing of the new and improved Nazi party.

There is nothing exotic about Australia, you fly for a million hours and you land somewhere that could basically be America.

New Zealand is a better vacation, truly gorgeous in parts. Most of Aus is a desert.

Yes r138 everyone knows that NOW, but in the 80s the world was a bigger place and most Americans weren't familiar with Australia at all, so it seemed exotic. Those days are long gone.

R139 I think it's mystical and beautiful. Plus, The Hemsworths.

The Australians are causing all the problems.

R140 you must never have been there, go. You'll change your opinion quickly.

the most homophobic white country in the world!!!

Russia says hello, R143.

r144- Russia, Russia, Russia

It's true though. None of your flouncing will change that.

This is Russia for you! R145

They are more goat-like that the Arabs and Afghanis

Pauline Hanson t-shirts

I can't believe a country that gave us Helen Reddy and Germaine Greer also gave us that prejudiced old bat, R148.

Peter Weir has never gotten the appreciation I think he deserves. He's probably my favorite director. He has an incredible way of translating a emotional mood through actor performances that never seems contrived.

He can put you in a dream state feeling, a lost in time feeling, he's one of the few directors who has aced satire without delivering it with cynicism, he can communicate the mindset of people who are suicidal or making risky choices by translating their transported-out-of-the-moment state to the screen...he's excellent.

R151 "...[an] emotional mood..."

Talk about glass houses

[quote]There is nothing exotic about Australia, you fly for a million hours and you land somewhere that could basically be America.

Well, both countries, as they are today, were founded by transplanted Anglo-Saxons. But while one became a cultural wasteland, failing to produce any sort of original art form (no such thing as an original Australian music genre). The other created jazz, the blues, rock n roll, soul, rhythm and blues, gospel, country, rap/hip hop etc. Granted these art forms came about due to the marrying European and African cultures (worked elsewhere in the Americas as well with Salsa, Samba, Tango, Reggae, Calypso cultures) missing a key ingredient but still, lack of blacks isn't excuse enough for such a country where people went to achieve their dreams becoming so bland and unoriginal.

You are just ignorant because Australian has produced a lot of writers and quality filmmakers, too.

[Quote] Most of Aus is a desert.

Lol

R155 conveniently ignores the fact that Aussies only "made good" when they left Oz and went elsewhere. Tall poppy syndrome, don't you know.

Nope, not true. R157. The ones that went to the US made schlock.

Are there no good playing acting jobs down under... why do they have to keep sending their "talents" to US?!

Yeah, by blowing the Murdoch boys, r155

‘Weak scripts, depressing subject matter, art-house films.’ That’s the stereotype of an Australian film, right? For years, we’ve been told that Australian filmmakers’ obsession with failed comedies and “miserable, suicidal, preaching tragedies” — in which, say, a housing commission resident in Redfern gets an abortion, goes on methadone, and converts to Islam — is the problem with our film industry. We’ve repeated this mantra to ourselves and to each other, and read it in countless op-eds to the point where it’s barely questioned.

[quote]no one is jealous of the USA

[quote]especially not Australia

The whole Australia population = 24 million, around the population of Shanghai... No wonder they live in fear of the Chinese and the rest of Asia.

Australia is huge, but only 10% of it is even considered inhabitable.

IT’S one of the most remote cities on the planet, but it has become a hunting ground for serial killers with an awful death toll.

R164, their security has been underwritten since the 1930s by the US Pacific Fleet. In fact the Battle of the Coral Sea (a very bloody battle for the US Navy) was fought to prevent Japanese attacks on Australia.

The Australian Navy is less than 50 ships, 13 of which are patrol craft. That's not what has protected Australia's shores for decades. Australia has been protected by the 200+ ships of the US Pacific Fleet.

They know this, and know how important the US is to Australia. Look at their newspapers and even when our government is not off the rails (as it is currently) the US is all over the front page. When's the last time Australia was on the front page of US papers?

This explains the extreme vitriol that the US engenders in Australians. But the really fun part will be if and when the US withdraws from the Pacific and the Chinese move in to fill the vacuum. Just wait until the Australians get a load of the Chinese. Ask Hong Kong., mates .

Americans , sorry you cannot lecture anywhere else when it comes to serial killers. Or for that matter serial killers, spree killers, and mass murderers

R167 When Australia does something worth noting, it'll show up on the front page of overseas newspapers. Until then...

Quite right r168, I was about to post that myself. You don't read the news and see that an Australian has gunned down hundreds of people with a machine gun.

Although we certainly don't have a monopoly on serial killers.

The US Has Had The Western World's Worst Rate Of Homicide For At Least 60 Years

Americans are 10 times more likely to be killed by guns than people in other developed countries, a new study finds.

R167 Hong Kong is fine. It is being integrated back into China as it should be. Those who want to leave can go to Australia and be discriminated against.

In wealthy nations of the Western world, U.S. leads, by far, in gun homicides

[quote][R167] Hong Kong is fine.

It sends its love!

R176 HK was never a "free" or "democratic" under Colonial rule, but that's hard for some people to understand. It's tougher now for the anti-Communist people to operate, as it should be, since the PRC is in charge. People who don't like it should leave. That's what the 50 year adjustment period is for. There are still 30 years left.

R177 In fact, Australia is a prefect place for them to go to become second class citizens.

[quote]People who don't like it should leave.

Thank you, comrade.

R179 People have been leaving HK for decades. Many who leave get their green cards and come back to HK to make money. It's part of the HK culture. Guess some of them can't make a decent living in white democratic paradise.

Look at how triggered r180 is when it's pointed out that the thuggish one-party violence and totalitarianism of the PRC is gradually expanding to HK as well.

There are many reasons to hate America, such their current president, but the country that contributed such art to the world will always get a pass. Slightly above Kylie Minnogue.

[quote]There are many reasons to hate America,

That must be why America has a larger immigrant population than any other country on earth -- because it's such a terrible place. lol

Meanwhile, the number of people emigrating from Australia has doubled over the past five years.

Mind you, Trump is the norm in Oz. Everyone of their Prime Ministers, save perhaps Kevin Rudd, is cut from the same cloth.

[quote]You are just ignorant because Australian has produced a lot of writers and quality filmmakers, too.

Name one.

This is for you, R150:

Australia is essentially living off its natural resources, and doesn't have much else in terms of manufacturing or technological sectors, making its economy very vulnerable, especially to China. Considering it a developed country based on its high per capita GDP is giving it too much credit. They may feel haughty towards their developing Asian neighbors with lower per capita GDP, but they haven't built up a well-rounded economy themselves.

The broad Aussie accent makes one's ears bleed.

They're shockingly racist in some ways, such as selling those ghastly Golliwog dolls in places like post offices, airports, and hospital gift shops.

^ But those Golliwog dolls were made here and shipped to everyone of my colonies,

Australia has been ranked as the second-best country in the world for its quality of life by a UN report that assessed economic, education and life-expectancy data.

The nation's "Human Development Index" (HDI) was measured at 0.935 out of a maximum score of one, coming second to Norway and beating Switzerland, which has held on to third place in 2015's annual report.

R190 Until the bottom falls out of their economy.

Almost half of top US housing markets are 'overvalued'Almost half of top US housing markets are 'overvalued'

[R190] Until the bottom falls out of their economy.

This interesting (very long) article gives some insights into Australia's raw materials-driven economy.

The economy of Metropolitan NYC is almost as large as Australia's economy.

It's cute that R193 thinks pointing to other countries somehow absolves Australia of its failings.

Six Ways America Is Like a Third-World Country

Our society lags behind the rest of the developed world in education, health care, violence and more

Life expectancy in America rivals Third World

According to the World Health Organization, the U.S. lags far behind Canada, Australia and swaths of Western Europe

A global recession will take Australia down faster than any of the other developed countries.

Americans Who Can’t Afford Their Homes Up 146 Percent

[quote]A global recession will take Australia down faster than any of the other developed countries.

The United States would face more problems than Australia

You know you've lost the debate when all you can respond back with is "but America!"

No it wouldn't r202. Do keep up.

R202 The US can print money.

There is a reason why The Walking Dead was set in the US

You know you've lost the debate when you have to ignore all of the information on how the US is behind in education, health, life expectancy etc.

This is what you get when you vote for Democrats to run up taxes on everything: a third-world America.

R208 The deplorables are so bright, aren't they? LMAO

[quote] They have more vampires per capita than anyplace except New Zealand

And Nicole Kidman is their queen.

R199 Australia has weathered every global economic downturn since 1991 with quarter on quarter growth over 26 years, including through the GFC. The only other country to do so is the Netherlands (“Holland” for you clueless Americans).

Try again, but stick to something that you understand. In which case you’d better avoid subjects such as universal healthcare and effective gun control. Oh, and the popular election of racist, stupid, misogynistic, sexist, bullying, bankrupt fascists.

Australians are soooooooooooo funny when they get defensive.

Their dollar is shit! as is their culture and people.

[quote]The whole Australia population = 24 million, around the population of Shanghai... No wonder they live in fear of the Chinese and the rest of Asia.

Yeah, their population is less than half the size of of the small nation South Korea.

Well, they've just approved gay marriage.

Their military is a joke

The US has Kardashians.

I worry about the Australian biker gangs out there

"Remember the Knight Rider"

Australia is the safest place after a nuclear war? True or False?

Safe in a nuclear war is considered to be southern hemisphere places far away from America/Europe/Russia/Middle-east

So Australia fits (as does New Zealand of course). But so does Argentia. Or South Africa.

[quote]There is a reason why The Walking Dead was set in the US

I know, right? So that people would actually care about the story.

[quote]Their military is a joke

Incredibly tiny because they know the loathed Americans are protecting them.

[quote] This is what you get when you vote for Democrats to run up taxes on everything: a third-world America.

Funny how the same old men complaining about political correctness are the same ones who always voted for Democrats because they insisted more taxes would do the opposite of that.

[quote]Incredibly tiny because they know the loathed Americans are protecting them.

We're the world's gay uncle who bails out wayward nieces and nephews.

Well, r225, there's something in it for us as well, or at least the wealthy classes in America. Making all those aircraft carriers and helicopters and M4 rifles and billions of other things makes someone wealthy, and the US dominating the trade routes is doing the same thing.

But Australia is basically a client state of the US and that perhaps explains their resentment. Canada as well (Canada even more so).

R224 Less taxes is 100% not going to do anything for sure, given the way Americans are conditioned to spend their money on useless shit. If Americans were savers, then less taxes might still be okay, but that would depend on how the banks leverage their money. As it is, tax is a moot point in a country made up of corrupt rich people, idiotic middle class, and clueless poor. It's stupid all the way down.

They have to pay for $500 screwdrivers for the military industrial complex

Their accents are horrid.

That accent irritates them too. Current Australian Top 50 Singles Chart. Seems like they can't stand their own music acts down there.

Their accents are cute!

No, their accents are grating.

I'd be dead by now if I lived in the USA so I'll happily stay on in this shithole.

hanging out in Australia

Mel Gibson was only sexy when he was Australian, or pretending to be an Australian.

Mel is Australian because, like most of them, he's so unapologetically racist.

Nicole Kidman is one of few Trump defenders in Hollywood. Not a surprise.

[quote] Nicole Kidman is one of few Trump defenders in Hollywood

Gross. She always struck me as a racist.

Nicole KKKidman.

No, Mel is really American which is why he is crazy

He only became a hit and a sex symbol when he was spoke in Australian accent

R154 does make a really good point. And excellent choice linked by r182 that encapsulates true Americana and the starkness of the gulf. I’d like to hear an Australian’s take on their inability to create their own music.

It's amusing that Americans are so oblivious to irony they'll endlessly bleat about how racist people of other countries are, when their own wealth, health, education, and incarceration disparities between black and white are nothing to be proud of. I guess white Americans were too busy aping and claiming credit for the musical expression of their slaves & their descendants to come up with any musical genres of their own.

hip hop is a negative poison that has spread throughout the world

Americans have probably never heard of them, but the 'Chicko Roll' is the iconic Aussie trash food that fed a generation!

R241 that is correct. As I've said before, yes Australia has plenty of racists but no more than the U.S. It's just that Americans like to think they are morally superior to everyone and live by "do as I say, not as I do."

Worse than the Chiko. Tim Tam's grotesque cousin, the Iced Vovo.

Wow, there some rabid Americans on here that just hate Aus.

Did your residency get denied?

R246 Not me. I love Aussies and Australia. There seems to be a couple of pyromaniacs here who periodically start an "everybody hates Australia" once every couple of months for reasons unknown.

R247 '"...'everybody hates Australia' [thread] once..."

R154 I’d like to hear your take on how adding an apostrophe makes a word a plural. The plural of “Australian” is “Australians”, you fucking illiterate American.

There’s no such grammatical error at r154.

The Iced Vovo's inedible cousin the Vanilla Slice.

Nothing more vile than a chicko roll from the local fish/chips shop.

Chicko roll ingredients: Wheat flour, cabbage, water, cooked barley, carrot, beef, animal fat, wheat cereal, celery, onion, green beans, textured soy protein, salt, sugar, acidity regulator (450, sodium bicarbonate), hydrolysed vegetable protein, spices, emulsifier (471), colours (102, 110), flavour enhancer (635), antioxidant (320). No artificial flavours or preservatives.

[quote] hip hop is a negative poison that has spread throughout the world

Queen Latifah had some songs I wish my sisters had listened to instead of Beyoncé or Britney.

[quote] Nothing more vile than a chicko roll from the local fish/chips shop.

Hard to believe with the multi-cultural diet people accept nowdays, the pre-1980s diet downunder was incredibly homogenized and bland. Apart from chicko rolls, pies and fish n' chips, grilled lamb chops were the other food that made their way into almost every meal, including breakfast. The only exotic meals were sweet and sour, curry, and maybe Italian.

The most popular show downunder (then & now).

[quote]Apart from chicko rolls, pies and fish n' chips, grilled lamb chops were the other food that made their way into almost every meal, including breakfast.

And Vegemite!

[quote]The only exotic meals were sweet and sour, curry, and maybe Italian.

I remember Oz when spaghetti was considered "exotic". Curry and sweet and sour were much later.

R251 Yum!

Aussie cuisine? I’ve never heard of an Australian restaurant anywhere in the world.

They have no culture.

A lot of America's cultural exports came from its black population.

Massive great white shark sighted off Australian coast. I would never swim there.

[quote]hip hop PLUS RAP is a negative poison that has spread throughout the world.

Fixed that for ya, r242.

There is no finer taste than that of an Aussie dong. They have sexy italian, greeks, punjabis, maltese, vietnamese, aborgoinies, all here and fuck some delicious blonds.

Lived in Sydney for 8 years in the 90s. The crime rate was out of this world. Frequent "ram-raids" on high end stores in the middle of the night to steal jewellery, clothing etc. Around 1996, downtown Sydney banks starting hiring security to stand outside the banks as daytime bank robberies were so brazen.

Then, Ivan Milat (google this guy - they made a movie about him) and a few other killers reared their heads knocking off (typically) naive young British backpackers. It became a national sport. Every day practically you'd wake up to read " British back- packer found dead, found missing etc etc". Yet the "POMS" kept coming to Australia, travelling in the outback. And disappearing.

Then there was the guy running around a central park in Sydney decapitating people. Hyde Park - near the Opera House.

The crime got so bad, that the really rich started hiring security guards to protect themselves complete with booths at the entrances.

I was so relieved to get out of Australia by 1998. What was so amazing is that the level of crime is never reported - at that time anyway - outside the country. Even today, with the Internet, when I discuss crime in Australia, people are shocked, amazed! Disbelieving.

My last few months there in '98, I stopped jogging around Darling Harbour. I was really fed up, terrified. The crime was out of control.

Yup, shithole is putting it mildly. The crime was getting as bad as South Africa. And that's saying something.

R258 - Some extremely exclusive resorts on the Gold Coast will serve you crocodile. It's considered "haute cuisine". Catch is you have to marinate for hours on end before it's even edible. Have a go ya mug!

Because Australia is so isolated, they import a lot of food. An example is Mott's Clamato Juice. I wanted to make Bloody Caesars and was horrified to see the price - easily doubled what you'd pay in Canada. What would cost $4 or $5 for a large Cama to Juice was around $16 in Australia.

Very expensive housing too. Expensive in general.

*Clamato Juice......

Anyone who would admit drinking something called "Clamato Juice" is not in any position to judge the lack of taste of others.

Go back to your Vegemite, r268.

The accents are horrific

The accents are so bad; r270 that way back in the 50s, Australian TV announcers, newsreaders and whatnot spoke with posh BBC-type accents.

It was also a function (which continues to this day) of the Australian moneyed-elites trying to sound British. Cate Blanchett and Kidman - you'll notice don't have that awful broad nasily Aussie twang.

You forgot to mention drugs, R264. I also lived in Sydney in the late 1990s and pretty much everyone I knew had a story about being mugged, burgled or accosted by a drug user. I used to regularly come home to find needles in my doorway and then there was the generally aggressive vibe on the streets. Everyday it was like 'Got a cigarette?, 'No, sorry, I don't smoke', 'Well go fuck yourself then cunt'.

Dannii fucking Minogue. Send her back to the UK.

Clamato Juice!!!

That sounds bloody vile. Sorry but you guys can keep it and if you insist on bringing that muck to our fair land you can pay for the import costs.

That sounds like Vancouver, Canada, 272, though I bet the Vancouver drug problem is bigger. The US certainly has drug problems, too.

Aussie wannabe?

Sounds like they should have stuck to UK immigration, R264

R264's post got me interested, and guess what I found on today's Sydney Morning Herald:

Is the crime still bad in Sydney?

[quote]—Fancy some Australian?

How about these?

You stay in Deplorable USA and I will to go Australia and fuck some studs.

[quote]The only exotic meals were sweet and sour, curry, and maybe Italian.

When I was in Melbourne, I had spaghetti on toast and a glass of lemon squash.

Their dollar is in trouble.

They have a bottom shortage in Australia. Too many tops. Australian operatives are trolling Europe to kidnap able bodied men to come and be insatiable bottom sluts. Sydney will be the first city to have a stable of those Euro-bottom sluts. Canberra is 2nd in line and Hobart is 3rd.

The entire US is in trouble.

No grouping of gay men has ever had a bottom shortage r284

Another backpacker missing. Yet they still come.

R264 So you live in a city that, like other Western cities, had a heroin problem. I'm sure if you lived in Toronto during that same time, there would have been similar issues.

Vancouver, BC is the big heroin/drug city

I love those visitors who decide to rent in Darlinghurst!!! and complain about the drugs and crime.

What kind of area is Darlinghurst?

Wow if this is how you shit on your friends US, I would love to see how treat your enemies.

Australia is the only stupid country to fight in every one of your stupid wars.

As for multicultural Australia, we have a huge Greek population, Italian , Vietnamese , Indian , Irish and yes English.

You do yourselves no favours shitting on Australia, Canada, Britain and New Zealand. You may think they are all a joke , but a lot of the time you are the punch line and we are the ones that have your back, even though you think you are superior.

Darlinghurst - Red light district, bohemian, gay and junkie central. A mix of terrace houses, commercial buildings and older blocks of flats. It's an interesting place to live but lots of crime.

USA dollar vs Aus- we are superior in every area.

Damnit, I love Australia and Aussies. Stop picking on Australia, you catty hoes. Australia, you're fine. Ignore them.

OP is a Chines troll!

*Chinese

R278/r287 - that backpacker was found safe and well. Again, it's laughable that residents of a country with such horrific gun crime statistics would clutch their pearls over a couple of muggings in Sydney. I lived in inner-city Sydney in the mid-to-late 1990s and there was no crime wave. It probably had better crime stats than any comparable sized city in the US. However, there was indeed a glut of cheap heroin on the streets in the mid-1990s, and a wave of overdose deaths to go with it. Users (I may have been one of them) called it 'the flood'. Stricter customs/border controls and targeted policing in select areas quickly put an end to that. Nowadays, the unfortunates are all into meth (because criminal gangs can make it locally and don't have to try to import it).

R292 when I was an expat in Germany I dealt with some Australians who were relentless cunts to me because I’m American. They would go on and on about how shit the USA is and how stupid we all are, etc. I don’t know what their problem was but they had some massive chip on their shoulder that they decided to take out on me. I don’t judge other Australians for what dicks they were and maybe by and large you guys are more on our side. But trust me I got a lot worse from them than what people on this thread are saying.

That's awful 299. We do import US culture wholesale and our own culture is ignored mostly by the US but that's down to businesses and corporations making those decisions, not individual americans.

Those guys were dicks, but if I judged every country by a few jerks I’d hate everywhere including the US. Australia and NZ have had amazing music scenes. I think lots of indie and alternative stuff that happened in the UK and USA was happening in Australia first. The distance sucks though and so lots of people miss out. There used to be a record store in Hoboken NJ that had a massive singles section from Aus and NZ. It was twice the size of the rest, so that was fun. And I don’t know if this is something that will make you roll your eyes like someone telling an American they love Friends, but I’m currently watching and loving Rake.

So some of us see your virtues even if we’ve not been able to make it there in person.

Australia buys a lot of California's excess orange crop.

I'm sorry for the piling-on that's been happening in this thread. I haven't posted to it, but my apologies, Aussies.

Welcome to Australia, bitch!

^ a biologist on TV said the koalas were having some kind of male/female dominance play

Thank you, r292.

This thread is ridiculous. Australia and The US are so much alike that this thread is like two, angry fraternal twins throwing "Yo' Mama" shade at each other. It just 'aint right.

^ Yes This thread is ridiculous.

But I have to say that the Australia's Catholic/Socialist political party allowed in lots of crazy Jihadist Lebanese on so-called 'compassionate grounds' in the 1990s.

And they are killing the Australians in return.

No problems OP. I can fuck this group of lads myself..You stay at home and satisfy yourself with some orange lard

Aussie muso twink Flume I would nest my dong in

^ His boyfriend calls him Flooome

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The country has a perennial inferiority complex.

Australia should be praised for producing Instagram's toy-boy George Genesis

Link?

Sick, sick people, Australians. Seriously, most fucked up people on earth.

r182 = Perfection!

a SHITHOLE

When I first saw r316, I thought it was some kind of parody or black mockumentary. But it’s all true. Immoral is the only word I can come up with.

Why are we talking about this, again? I see someone necroed this nasty thread.

There dollar is collapsing. No one respects the Aussies.

Their

Everything that happens in America is big news there.

It must be some ingredients in Vegemite.