What if you lived in Australia?

[billybunter]

Originally Posted by GreenSkull

What if you lived in Australia?


Hmmmmm , well i`d have one hell of a long commute to my job that`s for sure

You have a spaceship GS! We all know. Dancing girls and fine wine.

[billybunter]

The most dangerous creature in Ireland (apart from the missus) is the wasp When I was first downunder I went to bed shitting myself about creepy crawlies and snakes. And you can't snooze next to river incase a croc comes out!

[buttsie]

The mating rituals of the 4 wheel drive....scary

Just pray you dont run into shirty the slightly aggressive bear

Late Show - Shirty
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=qISVO...eature=related

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=IO6MEUyD5ks&NR=1

[MaxJoker]

Originally Posted by billybunter

You have a spaceship GS! We all know. Dancing girls and fine wine.

A deflated space hopper , demented girls and fine beers , more like

[billybunter]

Originally Posted by MaxJoker

A deflated space hopper , demented girls and fine beers , more like

It can fly though. 6000 mph. You will be eating Estreeters steak while he's having a piss Out he comes and GS is grinning with a steak in his mouth.

[buttsie]

Originally Posted by billybunter

My Aunt and Uncle emigrated to New Zealand in 1972, my uncle worked in a biscuit factory. Then He applied for a job in Australia as a bank clerk. We didn't find out to years later that they were so skint they lived in a caravan for years. I think my Aunt was worried what my grandparents might think. My Granda never liked them emigrating. The "troubles" were raging here in Ireland. I don't blame them for moving downunder. My cousins were only infants. They grew up in Australia and have the aussie accent. My aunt has a weird mix of Irish and Aussie, my uncle has never lost his accent. I found Australia a fabulous place. And would recommend you visit. But i'm a home bird. I love Ireland and won't leave. My brother lives in Berlin and he's staying. But someone has to keep the home fires burning!
It's a long journey to Australia! The first time I flew the whole way. The Plane BA stopped in singapore, and I had to wait for two hours for the quantas flight to Brisbane. I sat on the roof of singapore airport in a pub. I ordered a pint of carlsberg-it went hot in two minutes The heat was incredible. Thank god you aussies have aircon or BB would have died!!

Migration is a curious thing to me

I know of 1 British couple who I've been told about by my relations who know them well came out here from England in desperate times as tourists with every penny they had to their name,with the sole intention of over staying their visa,spent 19 years on the run,had 2 kids here and ended up,when caught,with the choice of being deported but their kids could stay

Life is tough but most of are shielded from this kind of worst case scenario

I think our world sadly is far too economically driven

[palo5]

Originally Posted by Norbert84

Why would anyone want to live there anyway?

Not many did at first

But when they discovered gold, everything changed and Englishmen begged to be deported

[Greenman]

It is a myth that the red back and funnel web spider or any number of snakes etc will kill you if you go to Australia. The fact is that more people end up in hospital due to the fact that one of those spiders hides in various places including the famous outback 'dunny' or toilet because they envariably panic and crash their cars or fall off places, bang their heads etc. Australia has more than enough vaccines to counter any spider or snake bite so it is not as fatal as myth would have it. You are just as likely to be in more danger of being bitten by Britain's only venomous snake the Adder, than a bite from a funnel web. Australia is perfectly safe, just don't challenge a kangaroo to a boxing match What might do you more harm is sunstroke from the heat or sunburn from the err sun. I went in 1993 to Perth & Melbourne and I never saw any spiders or snakes but was warned about them-if you were bitten, you will feel quite ill but it would be treatable as long as you got to hospital within a few days.
Source: QI-BBC1 2010. Wanna argue? Take it up with Stephen Fry

[Estreeter]

Originally Posted by begos

Well, that's good to know. But aside from Nicole Kidman, Olivia Newton-John, and Dame Edna Everage, apparently they're all named Sheila. What's up with that???

No different to saying
"Check out the broads"
"Check out those honey's"

We just say Sheilas

[palo5]

Originally Posted by Estreeter

Gulag's

America was a Gulag too, for a time. That's where the British sent their "baddies"

When America became independent, the British made Australia their new Gulag

Of course, Americans and Australians weren't responsible for these decisions. They are not guilty - so are Siberians for later Gulags