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**Bugs ****ing Bunny** · July 4, 2005, 12:43

Originally posted by MikeH
Can you use culture in a sentence with Australian and not use the words devoid of somewhere in it?

Yes, but only when discussing bacteriology.

**Alexander's Horse** · July 4, 2005, 18:05

voices from a fallen empire

**Dracon II** · July 5, 2005, 00:09

My cultural tastes are British, American, French and Indian. Most Australians source a great deal of their culture from overseas... but that's not to say we don't have culture here. It's just, in my opinion, parochial and boring.

**Alexander's Horse** · July 5, 2005, 02:55

there's a very pronounced Australian culture and lifestyle

**Bugs ****ing Bunny** · July 5, 2005, 04:31

The high point of which appears to be getting a job as bar staff as far away from Australia as possible.

**ravagon** · July 5, 2005, 04:33

Re: How much do you know about Rugby League?

Well, it gives real rugby a bad name ...

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**Havak** · July 5, 2005, 05:48

And an Australian and a Soccer fan are telling me Union still has a problem with snobbery, is anti-Northern (lame PA, very lame) and deeply associated with Grammar schools?

Gentlemen you are living a quarter century in the past at the very least. Your comments are as anachronistic as a Union fan arguing that League is only watched by old men in flat caps!

Oh on a subsequent reading it appears PA meant that the media is snobbish - can't say I have noticed that as the BBC has endless League coverage when it has sod all Union on these days.

**MikeH** · July 5, 2005, 07:22

That will be because it's summer therefore league season? And it has had some stuff about the lions tour?

**Alexander's Horse** · July 5, 2005, 08:36

Originally posted by Lazarus and the Gimp
The high point of which appears to be getting a job as bar staff as far away from Australia as possible.

Brits can't get jobs as bar staff here - they don't work hard enough.

**MikeH** · July 5, 2005, 09:02

That's because bartending is for lower races like Australians, Kiwis and South Africans.

**Havak** · July 5, 2005, 10:40

And beer drinking is for Brits.

As a crowd drawing sport Union is entirely on subscription TV (Sky). The Lions bits on the Beeb are scraps cast off by Sky when they are finished with them.

Only bits of league are on Sky - the unvalued tournaments (e.g Challenge Cup) all get shown on the BBC.

League moved it's season to summer because it was dying trying to compete with Football and Union in the winter. Crowds are currently growing - but it isn't in the robust health PA might like you to believe.

Some of what League is doing is frankly a little laughable - witness the presence of Toulouse in the cup competition. It's an artificial team stacked with Aussies and Brits - so who are the League boys trying to fool?

**Dracon II** · July 5, 2005, 11:25

Look! A Frenchman!

*Dracon ducks out of view... hoping those insufferable poms will be fooled by his decoy Chirac cardboard cutout*

**Alexander's Horse** · July 5, 2005, 17:40

union - kick off - mall collapses - the play breaks down - scrum - play breaks down - someone kicks the ball out - play breaks down - stoppage while they line up - ball isn't thrown in straight - stoppage - do it again - everyone line up again - someone gets the ball and kicks it out again - start again after a stoppage..... that's the first 5 minutes and so on for 80 minutes.

**ravagon** · July 6, 2005, 00:46

Damian would be greatly saddened, I'm sure, to hear his dear old dad talk about his team like that ...

**MikeH** · July 6, 2005, 05:38

Horsie, I believe a mall is what Americans shop in.

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