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    #32
    Zambia
    Closed Accounts Posts: 7,333 ✭✭✭Zambia


    catbear wrote: »
    Australia has a culture?

    Fair bit of culture today,


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    #33
    catbear
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    Zambia wrote: »
    Fair bit of culture today,
    Yes you're right, i overlooked the whole Bogan thing.


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    #34
    Zambia
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    catbear wrote: »
    Yes you're right, i overlooked the whole Bogan thing.

    Seriously are you calling the Melbourne cup a bogan event?


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    #35
    catbear
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    [IMG][/img]vpkmtl.png
    :D


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    #36
    Zambia
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    catbear wrote: »
    [IMG][/img]vpkmtl.png
    :D

    That's it one article from 2009.

    So what's your opinion of the festival. Have you been ? Have your mates been?


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    #37
    Rick Rod
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    seipeal1 wrote: »
    Thanks for the posts. I suppose the overriding feeling was one of being out of touch. When we first came to Adelaide, there was no Appreciable Irish 'culture'.

    Today, there is one that feels alien to us. Lots of people"passing through" and enjoying themselves to the utmost whilst doing it. Everything is temporary. Even though what we are living in is permanent?

    Making sense??

    No not really. Drunk much?


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    #38
    The Aussie
    Registered Users Posts: 2,440 ✭✭✭The Aussie


    catbear wrote: »
    Yes you're right, i overlooked the whole Bogan thing.

    The Melbourne Cup is like a Friady and Saturday night on O'Connell St, full of drunken wannabes ;)

    With out the punch ups every 50m :rolleyes:


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    #39
    first doyle
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    danotroy wrote: »
    I am not the proudest to be Irish when Australians talk about the antics of some of the Irish here in Australia. I am not suggesting the ozzies are angels but we are here in their country whether it be as temporary guests or fellow citizens and our behaviour should reflect this.

    What are you on about? A lot of the young folk who head over to Oz work hard to get there and spend a lot of their savings there aswel. It's not as though they're not contributing to the economy.

    Say what you like about the Irish but they're different from your average migrant worker who sends all his money back home.

    OP you're attitude is becoming in line with the Aussie one alright...a typical racist attitude.


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    #40
    Zambia
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    first doyle wrote: »
    What are you on about? A lot of the young folk who head over to Oz work hard to get there and spend a lot of their savings there aswel. It's not as though they're not contributing to the economy.

    Say what you like about the Irish but they're different from your average migrant worker who sends all his money back home.
    This is correct most of us drink it all here.


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    #41
    The Aussie
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    first doyle wrote: »

    OP you're attitude is becoming in line with the Aussie one alright...a typical racist attitude.








    :pac:......

    How can you be Racist against your own Race.

    Not like he is abducting Blonde Haired Roma Children now is he???


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    #42
    sparksfly
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    first doyle wrote: »
    What are you on about? A lot of the young folk who head over to Oz work hard to get there and spend a lot of their savings there aswel. It's not as though they're not contributing to the economy.

    Say what you like about the Irish but they're different from your average migrant worker who sends all his money back home.

    OP you're attitude is becoming in line with the Aussie one alright...a typical racist attitude.

    Not being proud of the minority of Irish that act the yobbo is not being typically racist. Saying that the Aussies have a typically racist attitude is however.
    How do you know what the "average migrant worker" does with his/her money and what business is it to anyone?


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    #43
    Xavi6
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    first doyle wrote: »
    OP you're attitude is becoming in line with the Aussie one alright...a typical racist attitude.

    extreme-ironing.jpg


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    #44
    mandrake04
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    first doyle wrote: »

    OP you're attitude is becoming in line with the Aussie one alright...a typical racist attitude.

    I love when people fall into that trap, it's as if we Irish are lily white when it comes to the old racism.

    The Irish are very racist, especially when it comes to travellers (I have no love of travellers myself but everyone knows what I'm talking about so it serves my purpose). The old story of Prams on buses and all that guff it's not as if it doesn't exist.

    Even to such TV shows like the Sons of Anarchy as of late, even though it's fiction makes out to some how Irish is racist. Hate the blacks...maybe only fiction but as the old saying goes mud sticks.

    No doubt plenty will disagree, but hey it's out there so no point in denying it.


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    #45
    AnonoBoy
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    To be honest I find the first post and this whole thread wholly believable.


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    #46
    danotroy
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    first doyle wrote: »
    What are you on about? A lot of the young folk who head over to Oz work hard to get there and spend a lot of their savings there aswel. It's not as though they're not contributing to the economy.

    Say what you like about the Irish but they're different from your average migrant worker who sends all his money back home.

    OP you're attitude is becoming in line with the Aussie one alright...a typical racist attitude.

    Your talking in sweeping generalisations. I said the antics of some of the Irish people here. I'm not talking about every single Irish person. However I do wish every single Irish person here would behave in a manner that reflects well on our society.

    The Irish are different how? Because we are great craic and have the banter? Spare me please.

    The average migrant sends all his money home? are you basing this on fact?

    A quick look around this forum will show currency fair threads and even one a few days back asking how to buy a property in Ireland while in Australia. Are those Irish posters less Irish because they send their money home?


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    #47
    TrueDub
    Moderators, Sports Moderators, Regional Abroad Moderators Posts: 2,646 Mod ✭✭✭✭TrueDub


    Folks, please keep it civil and remember the rule of attack the post, not the poster.

    Thanks


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    #48
    cloudatlas
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    catbear wrote: »
    Australia has a culture?

    Yes.


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    #49
    catbear
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    cloudatlas wrote: »
    Yes.
    I suppose post apocalyptic counts.


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    #50
    ifeelill
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    The Aussie wrote: »
    :pac:......

    How can you be Racist against your own Race.

    Like this


    http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=QmE2-FW_WzU


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    #51
    The Aussie
    Registered Users Posts: 2,440 ✭✭✭The Aussie


    ifeelill wrote: »
    Like this


    http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=QmE2-FW_WzU

    Can't watch the pootube there mate, my state of the art "Broardband" won't allow it.....


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    #52
    seipeal1
    Registered Users Posts: 182 ✭✭seipeal1


    first doyle wrote: »
    What are you on about? A lot of the young folk who head over to Oz work hard to get there and spend a lot of their savings there aswel. It's not as though they're not contributing to the economy.

    Say what you like about the Irish but they're different from your average migrant worker who sends all his money back home.

    OP you're attitude is becoming in line with the Aussie one alright...a typical racist attitude.


    I have to admit for the first time in my life, the accusation made against me is being racist............against the Irish!!!!!!
    Never thought I would have to defend myself against that
    Are Aussies racist? Compared to Irish people, I honestly believe they compare favorably. Aussies already live in a multi-cultural society, for all it's needs and wants. Ireland has struggled with the concept and continues to struggle with it to the present day, in my opinion. And that is what is important here, it is only my opinion.
    I initiated the thread to provoke debate about the changing nature of migration from Ireland over the last few years. I believe I was honest in my appraisal of what my thoughts were. They do not have to be correct, but they are my perception.
    I still struggle with the dilemma of leaving a parent who was and remains very ill and having to reconcile my own family's needs against his. Saying goodbye to a parent when you both believe you will not meet again was bloody hard.

    I consider myself very proud to be Irish. But I am also proud to have integrated into a new culture and society and one that has many positives, in my opinion.

    Thanks for all your comments, good and bad. I feel they are all important in making a contribution to who we feel we are and where we may be going.


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