The Australians **Mod Warning in Post #129**

Irish people have a lie in on a day off.

Aussies get up earlier than normal and do stuff on a day off.

Racist (towards Chinese and Pacific Island colleagues, not me), extremely ignorant and literally quite stupid at times. Also they love to take the piss out of other countries but go mental when you do it back, generally not nice people at all in my fairly extensive experience of being there over the years with work etc.

As I have heard many people say - Australia would be a great country, if it wasn't full of Australians!

They weren't all bad of course and I did meet some good ones, but they had a fairly high proportion of complete w@nkers. Would never ask to go back there tbh, far better places to spend my time and money on.

How much time have you spent there?

The ones I've met here have been a bit brash. Maybe that's just the Aussies who travel.

no offence but you mustn't have many interests yourself if you find australia boring

Quite honestly I could do subtitles to understand some of my fellow Countrymen here in Ireland, Danny Healy Rae for example, so I ain't gonna hold it against the Australian TV networks.

Having spent time in Australia, I don't view all Aussies as a homogeneous group. There are native Australians and Irish Australians and Greek Australians and all sorts and they often have some of the national characteristics of their heritage, so like America, it's a melting pot.

But in the main, I like people who have grown up in Aussie, they're pretty direct, like a good time, work hard and play hard. And they make the best of the weather that they get.

But I've been in inland Queensland in 42 degrees surrounded by poisonous spiders and nothing but dry brush for a thousand kilometres and honestly I'd take my Irish Sunday hangover eating crisps and drinking Lucozade any day.

I enjoyed alot of my time there too, But could not get over the ignorance, the sheer stupidity and brainlessness, and the racism I encountered almost daily against colleagues. I am big and bold enough to throw any mocking about the Irish right back at them, except maybe I was a bit better at it than them. This they did not expect and hated it, and used to get really annoyed about it. But the others in my company were not as comfortable in those back and forth situations, it was probably a bit lost in translation on them, so maybe I jumped in a bit on their behalf from time to time.

Fully aware of some people in this country who are the exact same, as you decribed. No disagreement there, and no glass houses. We Irish can be an embarassment at times too, especially when abroad and drinking.

Don't know many Aussies, they seem grand but like any collection of stereotypical people they have their ups and downs.

The country itself is somewhere I will never go though. Everything, EVERYTHING, wants to kill you:

Killer spiders, killer snakes, killer octopus, killer jellyfish, killer fish (sharks, stonefish), killer reptiles, drop pandas, killer bees, killer shellfish, "pretty colour" killer snails, a fecking paralysis tick!, killer ants, killer insects in general, the most dangerous bird alive (cassowary), attack magpies, roos and wombats who like to fight, . Then we get to the weather, which can kill with its heat or cold, rip currents galore, heatwaves, 40ft waves...

Nah, I'll stick with the lovely rain in Ireland, thanks!

I toured around Eastern Australia for a couple of months a while back and I'd have to agree that the majority of men there would fit that category. There were of course some sound lads we encountered and the women tended to be friendly and outgoing.

This was especially true in smaller towns and there was an obnoxiousness among the men there that I've never experienced anywhere before. They were worse again with drink on them.

I likened them to the worst type of lout you'd come across in England and it might be fairly understandable, given the make up of the early settlers in the country.

I lived over in Australia for 2 years. Ireland is definitely not on the same scale as Australia in the racism category.

I seen it in city life but in the outback its just unreal.

The aboriginal people are not respected by a large part of Australian society.

Just as an example the mauroi people in newzeland.

The newzelanders have the highest respect for the natives. This just inst the case at all in Australia.

It's almost like the aborigines don't exist. I remember being in a lunch and someone brought up racism in the US. To paraphrase them: we don't have that problem here, apart from the abos.

f*ck that

It's the convict in them in truth.

Australia is a beautiful country - Sydney has a fair few ‘up themselves’ people

it’s gone very expensive

they are poor losers in sport ! Always moaning about the result - the ref etc

Why are they all up early on a Sunday doing out doors activities? do they not drink on Saturday nights? and if so, do they not drink that much? or are they still drunk/hungover while surfing/mountain biking etc?

Reminds me of a joke an australian told me:

"What's the difference between Australia and a tub of yoghurt?

Leave the yoghurt alone for a few hunderd years and it'll develop its own culture."

I found it to be similar, neither abs nor travs fit into modern irish/aussie society and no one wants anything to do with them.

It can't be all bad if Hugh Jackman is from Australia, the few interactions I've had with them were on line or in Dublin with one embarrassing experience an Aussie tourist taking over a tour group as a complete know it all, ignored he threw a hissy fit. On line Irish chat sites they're uber chucks when they find out you're from Belfast and expect a pat on the back 12,000 miles away.

One other bad interaction which was completely our fault sort off was on the bus down to Dublin coming up to I think it was Dundalk theres an AOH? anyway massive brawl outside of it a wedding party, two Aussie surfer types on the bus said something like 'fantastic a proper Irish smash up' Oh and I'm crap at giving directions, get fuddled so when an Aussie tourist stopped me in belfast town centre wanting directions to the nearest KFC I was all 'ahm umm, dunno mate sorry' then realized what the hell am I apologising for? 12,000 miles to Ireland to eat a KFC whats wrong with the local food?

The few interactions I've had don't speak for the entire sub continent, as for the weather native flora and fauna and the ingenious people it and they should be respected the same as ourselves when people come over, then again our largest native land predator is the ferocious stoat (I think ?)

Yeah well thats a great way to fight the system isn't it, just get hammered and start fights, that will really show them.

I think one of the issues is that they never had alcohol so it really hit them hard, plus trying to bred out of existence would dampen ones spirit. The film Rabbit Proof Fence is worth watching.

Yeah well im sure the Irish travellers had similar experiences but its time to wake up and join the rest of us in the 21 century and stop living like savages.