A_Wanderer
ONE love, blood, life
*cough* AdelaideEarnie Shavers said:
Let's all just be thankful we don't live in Brisbane.
Sorry I just gagged at the very thought of their saline aftertaste chlorine smelling drinking water.
*cough* AdelaideEarnie Shavers said:
Let's all just be thankful we don't live in Brisbane.
Earnie Shavers said:Actually, Adelaide is a great place to visit/live if you don't pretend it's a capital city or go there with the expectation of that. If you go there with the expectations of visiting a massive regional centre, then it's excellent. Don't compare it to Sydney/Brisbane/Perth/Melbourne, compare it to Wollongong/Newcastle/Townsville/Canberra etc. I'm not trying to put Adelaide down by saying that. I do really like Adelaide and have been there a dozen times, but if you expect to go there finding even 1/10 of the options/events/activities/anything of Sydney, it's going to fail you. Go there and enjoy 10 times the life of Newcastle.
And this is where Brisbane falls short. That fucker is a big city. What is it's excuse??
Kieran McConville said:Brisbane's excuse is Joh. I know, he's dead, but he had twenty years with his mates to entrench their particular version of the good life. I guess things have changed, but slowly, change happens slowly.
A_Wanderer said:Anything in that bay is
Now open water, big waves and long sandy shores - thats a beach.
A_Wanderer said:Decrying Australian Racism is always coming from the same damn sources who have been bitching for years - only now they have an example that is less than 60 years old.
A_Wanderer said:Racism between mates = alright because its all in good fun.
Racism against strangers = not alright
Its my rule and im sticking too it
intedomine said:I'll say, elitist snobs is what Melbournians are, and they say things like bathers instead of swimmers, what the hell?
And the weather is totally schitzo and you have to drive two hours to get to a decent beach
intedomine said:
If you don't like it, leave. No one is forcing you to be here. Go to Sydney with all their b-grade sporting events and ridiculously expensive shops.
And the beach is only a mere 5 minute walk for many people, and what gorgeous natural beaches they are.
The elitist snobs, my friend, only reside in the inner-eastern suburbs, close to all the Pr(ar)vate schools...
No I do mean the commentariat who have been blasting contempary Australia as racist on the basis of an immigration policy that for all intensive purposes ended in the 1950's.whenhiphopdrovethebigcars said:
Ah you mean the damn PETA
So where would talking about "bloody asian drivers" in the company of a guy of Chinese extraction who says the same damn thing when he is driving sit, it is friendly banter between friends that if anything is mocking racist attitudes. In the context of greeting friends with "you bloody [insert ethnic slur here]" there is nothing at all wrong with it and I refuse to put it down on the same side as real racism.Imo racism between mates is not alright. When a friend of mine makes a racist joke, I will ask him if he´s lost his mind. When a person I know makes a racist comment, I will have to decide if to invest the time and power to argue about it or just to leave.
So I´d say racism between friends is not "alright", just like making chauvinist jokes is not "alright" per se (even when hanging out with mates - that doesn´t make the joke itself any less chauvi or any more right), but it is funny and not a serious matter at all - under certain circumstances.
It depends on the situation. If you were a hooligan in a pub, making racist jokes with your friends, it would disgust me. If you´re far from identifying with a violent, extremist group and mimick a foreign accent after having a couple of beers, nobody is going to complain.
whenhiphopdrovethebigcars said:
Now tell me dear Australians we are having some here who say Sydney and Bondi Beach are great and others who prefer Melbourne.
whenhiphopdrovethebigcars said:
I have heard that Adelaide has a vibrant youth scene and that one can get some good weed there, but you know, travel magazines,... is Adelaide worth visitng when you go to Australia?
whenhiphopdrovethebigcars said:
Where do slackers hang out in Sydney?
whenhiphopdrovethebigcars said:
What are the freakiest places? I´ve heard that if you go north from Perth, there´s a few little towns that kick ass.. true? Same if you go 1000 miles or so north of Sydney, there´s this hippie town... I forgot the name.. anyone?