| Sparrow | ... | 09-03-2008 @ 18:32 | |
always lookIng for the extra UT2 work. Member 9, 18279 posts SQ 255, BP 167.5, DL 330752.5 kgs @ 103kgs Eq | Can you get pie, chips and gravy in Australia though? | ||
| DMPM | ... | 09-03-2008 @ 18:35 | |
AUSTRALIA !!! AUSTRALIA !!! AUSTRALIA !!! Member 22, 452 posts SQ 250, BP 195, DL 250695.0 kgs @ 121kgs Eq | Of course. And I have to say, I think fish and chips are much better in Oz. None of this cooking the fish and leaving it under those heat lamps. Yuk! | ||
| DMPM | ... | 09-03-2008 @ 18:37 | |
AUSTRALIA !!! AUSTRALIA !!! AUSTRALIA !!! Member 22, 452 posts SQ 250, BP 195, DL 250695.0 kgs @ 121kgs Eq | One thing you can't seem to get though is black pudding, which pains me a little to be honest. | ||
| Sparrow | ... | 09-03-2008 @ 19:15 | |
always lookIng for the extra UT2 work. Member 9, 18279 posts SQ 255, BP 167.5, DL 330752.5 kgs @ 103kgs Eq | Australia is awesome. I've been twice and would love to go again. | ||
| DMPM | ... | 09-03-2008 @ 19:20 | |
AUSTRALIA !!! AUSTRALIA !!! AUSTRALIA !!! Member 22, 452 posts SQ 250, BP 195, DL 250695.0 kgs @ 121kgs Eq | Where did you go? The other good thing is the standard of lifting is crap, so I will qualify for the Nationals this year. | ||
| Boar | ... | 09-03-2008 @ 19:29 | |
Nothing left in the tank. Member 5, 25597 posts Administrator | LOL, well i just found the people to be a bit 'stuck in the 70's' the men treat the women like 2nd class citizens ,and then come the poor old 'abbo's' ,the weather was hot all the time, but it got so hot that people were scared to go out...sizzzle !! dont get me wrong , i had a ball the 7/8 months i was travelling but when i settled down for 3/4 months i soon remembered why britain is great (again to be fair, this was WA where everything is so far away it may aswell be a seperate country). | ||
| DMPM | ... | 09-03-2008 @ 19:47 | |
AUSTRALIA !!! AUSTRALIA !!! AUSTRALIA !!! Member 22, 452 posts SQ 250, BP 195, DL 250695.0 kgs @ 121kgs Eq | Boar said: LOL, well i just found the people to be a bit 'stuck in the 70's' the men treat the women like 2nd class citizens ,and then come the poor old 'abbo's' ,the weather was hot all the time, but it got so hot that people were scared to go out...sizzzle !! dont get me wrong , i had a ball the 7/8 months i was travelling but when i settled down for 3/4 months i soon remembered why britain is great (again to be fair, this was WA where everything is so far away it may aswell be a seperate country). Fair enough mate. Yeah, it can get stinking hot over in WA. Where were you, in Perth? I think perhaps West Australians and Queenslanders in particular can be quite redneckish, they're mainly people of British descent after all. Horses for courses as we say! | ||
| DMPM | ... | 09-03-2008 @ 19:49 | |
AUSTRALIA !!! AUSTRALIA !!! AUSTRALIA !!! Member 22, 452 posts SQ 250, BP 195, DL 250695.0 kgs @ 121kgs Eq | BTW, a lot of people, including my immigrant father have a lot of animosity towards the Aboriginals. Some of it warranted, some not. They got subjected to some truely terrible stuff at the hands of the British, but in a lot of people's minds, what done is done and people need to move on etc. But this is not the time and place for this sort of debate I guess. | ||
| DMPM | ... | 09-03-2008 @ 22:14 | |
AUSTRALIA !!! AUSTRALIA !!! AUSTRALIA !!! Member 22, 452 posts SQ 250, BP 195, DL 250695.0 kgs @ 121kgs Eq | Just for Boar!!! | ||
| Tannhauser | ... | 09-03-2008 @ 22:50 | |
fighting woo with woo Member 206, 1491 posts SQ 227.5, BP 165, DL 260652.5 kgs @ 100kgs UnEq | DMPM said: I can understand that a Brit going to Oz will miss their friends and family and won't get to see them much at all, but England has NOTHING on Australia in terms of lifestyle and I'm not being nationalistic. I'd had enough after 8 months of Perth and Sydney. I can't disagree with the many material advantages of living there you've cited, but ultimately I'd still take the UK any day. | ||
| DMPM | ... | 09-03-2008 @ 23:04 | |
AUSTRALIA !!! AUSTRALIA !!! AUSTRALIA !!! Member 22, 452 posts SQ 250, BP 195, DL 250695.0 kgs @ 121kgs Eq | But surely for you and Boar, that is due to you being English? Home is home no? | ||
| Sparrow | ... | 10-03-2008 @ 17:48 | |
always lookIng for the extra UT2 work. Member 9, 18279 posts SQ 255, BP 167.5, DL 330752.5 kgs @ 103kgs Eq | DMPM said: Where did you go? The other good thing is the standard of lifting is crap, so I will qualify for the Nationals this year. Sydney last time, then north of sydney (Wollongong?) the time before. I could easily move out there. | ||
| Rob | ... | 10-03-2008 @ 18:23 | |
Does f*ck all for SugdenBarbell.co.uk Member 1, 7174 posts SQ 182.5, BP 110, DL 205497.5 kgs @ 107kgs UnEq Administrator | Me too I loved it, stayed in Mooloolaba for a month with a mate. Sunshine Coast was ace. | ||
| Boar | ... | 10-03-2008 @ 21:49 | |
Nothing left in the tank. Member 5, 25597 posts Administrator | byron bay was my fave - not only did i scuba dive on / in /around (whatever it is you do) the great barrier reef , i shagged 2 birds in 1 night, my alltime record and one never to be broken. LOL, the only race the aussies seemed to hate more than the abbos was the pohm's !! i took an enourmous amout of s**t working in a 'local' great song joel !!! | ||
| Cuddles | ... | 11-03-2008 @ 08:37 | |
Eat.Cycle.Sleep.Win Member 2, 12511 posts SQ 190, BP 150, DL 280620.0 kgs @ 99kgs UnEq | I work wit ha lot of Aussies here and most of them LOVE Enlgnad, well they love London anyway. Most of these guys earn a hell of a lot more than they would in Oz though and so can live the London lifestyle. Like DP says though, home is home and so the ones that dont marry someone English will all go back im sure. | ||