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Forum Index > Regional > Australia | >> Is our identity dying ??? | | |
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rider
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58/M/The first one, Australia
Join Date: Jun 2008 | vicki said:
I sure am. I not talking about regional news for a population of 207.
What we call Local news,ok |  | |
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rider
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58/M/The first one, Australia
Join Date: Jun 2008 | xTeddyx said:
I think its sad too Rider. I find it fascinating learning and listening to my friends from around the world tell and teach me new things
Strewth,ya wanna learn mi lingo ?????Stone tha Crows  | | | |
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jmo
Shakebar
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20/M/Edinburgh, United Kingdom
Join Date: May 2006 | rider said:
jmo,it's refreshing to go to place like Hay,Condobolin and other country towns,and here G'Day Mate,here in Sydeney they all say Hiiiii,sounding like a bunch of Pansies.I work with a Scotsman for many years,he was a Rangers fan,his accent in all that time never let up,it was just as thick the day he retired as it was the day I met him,and I worked with him for 20 yrs.
They are all Rangers fans these days.
Actually talking about culture that is something that annoys me. In my town just outside Aberdeen there are more Rangers and Celtic fans (both teams based on the other side of the country in Glasgow) than Aberdeen fans.
North East Scottish culture is dying.
When I went to Australia I noticed that when I was in the center of town there was very little of an accent or Australian slang, but the towns and suburbs outside were much stronger.
Stayed in a place in Melbourne called Frankston, everyone sounded very Australian there, but the center of Melbourne there where times when I forgot I was in Australia. | | | |
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rider
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58/M/The first one, Australia
Join Date: Jun 2008 | treebee said:
Is it a bad thing?
radharc is right we are going global, I do not think anything can stop it. I dont know if its a bad thing or a good thing. If we are all the same surely there will be less prejudice 
Maybe we are treebee,so what does your accent sound like??,Like you come from India,Africa the Sudan because there are so many of these people in England,but as for the prejudice bit,I honestly thick your wrong,we have here in Sydney place that have been deemed by other nationalities as No Go Zones for Aussies,so if that's not being prejudice against us,I'll be damned if I know what it is. | | | |
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retep
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65/M/, United Kingdom
Join Date: Jul 2009 | rider said:
Ere By Guum chum,you poms have won the ashes,G'donya,but remember this,we have a team of mostly unknowns at moment,that really haven't played much as a team,so their an unknown quantity even to themselves.Give them another year and let's see who has the ashes again.
Strewth,f***in Poms
Heh heh heh, You'l do mate.
Back when the world was young I did a bit of soldiering and it took me and three mates to Ausie one time.
It was to do with Sukarno taking a look at things he had no business taking a look at.
Twas up in Darwin Pre cyclone.
I remember the place had about four pubs one was I think called The Darwin Hotel.
We arived the day after native Australians could drink legally for the first time must have been around 1964 or thereabouts.
Asked a passing civy directions to any other pub and got told to go to The Spear Chuckers Arms.
We wandered all round Darwin asking for directions much to the amusement of everyone we asked.
Found it eventually, full of very pissed and very stroppy "native Australians"
One a huge woman demanded that one of my mates buy her a drink, and when he said no she wound up and delivered a huge punch just about taking his head off, and breaking his nose.
My other two mate and me couldnt stand for laughing, bloody magic.
Also remember getting taken to a place called Howard Springs for another piss up and a swim, fruit bats in the trees.
Fond memories of my short time in Australia,hope you dont change too much... arseholes that you are.
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rider
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58/M/The first one, Australia
Join Date: Jun 2008 | [
jmo said:
They are all Rangers fans these days.
Actually talking about culture that is something that annoys me. In my town just outside Aberdeen there are more Rangers and Celtic fans (both teams based on the other side of the country in Glasgow) than Aberdeen fans.
North East Scottish culture is dying.
When I went to Australia I noticed that when I was in the center of town there was very little of an accent or Australian slang, but the towns and suburbs outside were much stronger.
Stayed in a place in Melbourne called Frankston, everyone sounded very Australian there, but the center of Melbourne there where times when I forgot I was in Australia.
jmo,that cold hard fact about sports these days is,it's not about playing for the area you live in anymore,it's all about money,and how much they get paid to play for a team.Look at the Australian Team in the World Cup the players were taken from other teams all over the world.
Melbourne is just as bad as Sydney,except they have a bigger Greek community there,as I said it's not until you get right out of the city before you start talking to real Aussies again. | | | |
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rider
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58/M/The first one, Australia
Join Date: Jun 2008 | basha said:
I fear that we shall become some global race of mono beings with no history, no heritage and no personality!!
So many people are afraid to maintain their real selves because of what is percieved to be socially acceptably in society!
How boring....
Ohhhhh,Basha,you get my vote. | | | |
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Michael718
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16/M/Caprica City, United Kingdom
Join Date: May 2009 | rider said:
Micheal1718,thanks for the mindless comment,here a picture for you
Just sayin'. Also, no picture.
May i just ask why this is any more mindless than the generalsing that goes on in most racism threads?
Also, i have to agree that global uniculture seems the way of the future.
"I wish I could go back to the turn of the
century, and see things when they were truly
exotic and unique.... Not the homogenised
shopping mall the world is now." | | | |
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