Brits rush at chance for Aussie life

[Provost Harrison]

And don't worry, if I am first at the bar tonight, I will buy you your usual pint of Fosters

Now, not even Australians will drink that piss, that's how bad it is.

[MikeH]

I guess you are both going out on Friday night so you don't miss Ant and Dec and Take Me Out on Saturday?

[Provost Harrison]

Well we already have one half of the duo. And I'm sure if we drink too much, one of us will hit the Dec as well

[Egbert]

And don't worry, if I am first at the bar tonight, I will buy you your usual pint of Fosters

Now, not even Australians will drink that piss, that's how bad it is.

Nonsense. They'll drink anything that pours.

Pisspots

[Provost Harrison]

Oooh, hit the Dec...that sounds tempting

[Egbert]

Given that I've been looking at hundreds of artworks held in Venetian churches over the last few days, I'm far too cultured to be considered an Aussie. *burp*.

True.

I would probably be bored senseless if I had to spend days tramping about the churches of Venice looking at hundreds of artworks.

[MikeH]

You'd rather spend the time drinking beer and watching sport?

*supporting evidence*

[Egbert]

I utterly loathe the taste of beer and I never watch sport, very Un-Australian, I should be ashamed.

[Provost Harrison]

Are you one of those homosexualists? (I suspect this is what most Australians will think you are )

[MOBIUS]

Oooh, hit the Dec...that sounds tempting

We all know you're 'prone' to hitting the deck in the nearest suitable doorway after a fair few bevvies...

[MikeH]

I utterly loathe the taste of beer and I never watch sport, very Un-Australian, I should be ashamed.

A woman!

[Asher]

Please refer to my earlier post, where I outlined what I think of your opinion of me.

I'm not sure why you seem to think I care what you think. I pass judgment on you not for your sake, but for the sake of others. You've every right to ignore what you don't want to hear. It explains a lot about you.

[Egbert]

Are you one of those homosexualists? (I suspect this is what most Australians will think you are )

A homosexual is somebody who likes girls more than beer and football.

IRL I therefore keep quiet about my utter disinterest in sport and my dislike of beer.

[molly bloom]

molly, why are you so argumentative,

Argumentative ? I don't think so.

adversarial

I was a teenager when Thatcher was first elected. It's good training for spotting lies, misinformation and prejudice.

and presuming of insults?

I have good eyesight and can read English:

It doesn't stop your country being a cultural backwater though...

From when Mobius incorrectly assumed I was an Australian, and thus part of a 'cultural backwater'.

The culture in your country is shrivelled and starved because it is, after all, populated by the descendants of our cast off criminals who continue to behave in the same brutish way to this very day.

From the same post, when Mobius showed his ignorance of Australian history- having not, I suspect, read 'The Fatal Shore' by Robert Hughes, and being unaware that not every state in the Commonwealth of Australia started life as a destination for transported felons from the U.K. . Even as a joke it wasn't accurate or funny.

I guess every now and again there's a mutation in the gene pool, which is probably why you like being a very large fish in an extremely tiny cultural pond..

Yes, it's the same post by Mobius, where to compound his general level of ignorance about Australian history and culture and my nationality, he goes on to attribute rather mean motives to me for my defence of Australian culture.

This perhaps says rather more about him than it does about me.

I do have a certain inimitable style, don't I?

Mobius

There's an answer to that, but it isn't 'yes' .

This is from one of Asher's posts in the same thread, where he tries in vain to be, well I'm not sure what ? Insulting, funny, accurate ? But just demonstrates an inability to read or comprehend English:

Fine Art is not a sign of intellectuality. It's typically more indicative of pretentiousness. I gather you are a tremendous fan of fine art.

Asher

This was in reply to my answer to this statement by Mobius (again):

The entire country is an over macho cultural and intellectual desert IMO

my answer starting:

As I lived there for five years, I can truly attest that this opinion is the equivalent of a load of wombat dung.
Cultural and intellectual desert ?

[molly bloom]

Dauphin. Are you an Aussie?

Molly. There really is no need to defend Australia. we are a very self satisfied lot.

I know there's no need, it's just I don't like to see well past their sell by date cliches offered as fact.