I am proud to be Australian...with legitimate reasons why. (3130 hits)
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Submitted by Walsareck (View user info) at 2004-08-12 03:11:08 EDT
I'm proud to be an Aussie, true-blue and all the rest. Australia - the Great South Land. I am PROUD to be an Australian.
This is not the pride you get from seeing your newborn child take its first steps - this is something else altogether. I love our style of democracy, where it is compulsory to vote, so that EVERYONE gets a say.
I proud of the way we can badmouth ANYONE we want, provided the accussations are factual.
I proud of the way Australia murders less people than ANY OTHER NATION in the world, in propertion to population.
I am proud of our religious freedoms, and freedom to express any point of view we see is fit.
I am proud of our army, and how they have done us proud in the only 100 years of our history.
I am proud of the fact that we have RESTRICTIONS on guns, so that little to no children (if at all) shoot themselves in the heads each day.
I am proud that in Australia, we have a fair system of Government, where there are open forums to discuss ANYTHING that the people dislike.
I am proud that we have NO international debt.
I am proud that we forgive Third World debt with no epectations of anything in return.
Above all, I love the flag.
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Submitted by baking_Lady (user info) at 2005-04-18 03:41:31 EDT (#)
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Children shooting themselves is nature's way of population control.
Submitted by mrwolf (user info) at 2005-04-18 03:31:27 EDT (#)
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"I am proud of the fact that we have RESTRICTIONS on guns, so that little to no children (if at all) shoot themselves in the heads each day."
Ahahaha
Submitted by Tokerson (user info) at 2005-04-18 03:19:10 EDT (#)
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+2 for being proud of your nation with legitimate reasons and not American
Submitted by Danger_Ranger (user info) at 2005-04-18 03:17:43 EDT (#)
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I'm especially proud of how we've shafted the East Timorese outa their oil. And may I just reiterate how much I hate that fucking flag.
Submitted by r1nce (user info) at 2005-04-18 02:58:59 EDT (#)
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Too many things to reply to...
I love living in this country, but I'm not going to apologise for something done before I was born, and was in the best interests of the aboriginals anyway.
They stopped the program and now look at the state of their culture now... "Got a dolla mut? Giv a ciggy to a bruva."
Pah! Get a job, or go back to the bloody desert. After the 60,000-80,000 years of culture we're crediting them with nowadays.. you'd think they would have developed more than a stick that comes back when you throw it and a stick that doesn't come back when you throw it.
Vegemite rules. Aussie chicks are great in bed, and thank go we don't share a border with anyone!
Submitted by Wazza (user info) at 2005-04-18 02:52:02 EDT (#)
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Spose i have to agree with the general concept,after all we are the lucky country.Generally its all pretty laid back and easy going.
Submitted by Danger_Ranger (user info) at 2005-04-18 02:18:28 EDT (#)
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I HATE THAT FLAG!! AND I HATE AUSTRALIANS!!!... ... oh, wait..
Submitted by williamson (user info) at 2005-04-18 02:06:02 EDT (#)
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Some false facts there bud, but all in all I'd have to say of all the places on Earth I could live, Australia is number 1 on my list. The friendly, relaxed people are the key.
Submitted by shannzza (user info) at 2004-10-01 14:02:42 EDT (#)
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Whoever said that difference between Australia and yoghurt joke- that was a hit below the belt. There is still a major cultural cringe- if someone asks me what my culture was i wouldnt know what to say. All i could say was my mum is Australian and my dad is Irish. Is that good enough?
And i hate the union jack! Australia needs to break free of UK ties (sorry no offonce intended)and become a republic! Please! The Union Jack was not the flag of the hardy convicts. Settlers didn't come to Australia to live under the Union Jack. They came here to escape it. It was the hated emblem of their jailers. The Union Jack was not the flag above the miners fighting for their rights at the Eureka Stockade. It was the banner of those who came to crush them. It didn't fly above Ned Kelly's house, but certainly flew above his gallows.We need to change! Please! Next referendum vote republic!
I mean, I love living in this country- a lucky country but what disturbs me most about it is:
I hate our timidity - the feeling that we're not really a sovereign nation and that England or America or anywhere but here is more real.
I hate our guilty silence - no matter what our Prime Minister says, the crimes and pain of the dispossession of indigenous Australia have not been reconciled and the more that truth is denied the more defensive and selfishly aggressive we seem to become.
I hate the feeling that the most important value in our society is money.(not just our country im sure)
I hate that we keep wiping out our collective memory by pulling down our built environment and destroying the natural one - are we so frightened by the past?
I hate the wall that we're building around us.
We need to change...
Submitted by Freight_Train (user info) at 2004-08-18 11:48:10 EDT (#)
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You know that you can be PROUD of something you have ACHIEVED?? You havent done jack shit for your country. You havent contributed anything. By the way, pride is a mortal sin asshole.
Come back when you grow some pubes and serve in the military or something.
Submitted by Walsareck (user info) at 2004-08-14 06:46:30 EDT (#)
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Australia is spelt with an "S"...
n stuff.
Submitted by Walsareck (user info) at 2004-08-14 02:11:02 EDT (#)
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Australia RULES!!!!
Submitted by Smithstudd (user info) at 2004-08-14 01:48:59 EDT (#)
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No Comment
Submitted by Walsareck (user info) at 2004-08-14 01:46:21 EDT (#)
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I love Australia... AND HATE HACKERS!!!
Submitted by Punk-not-dead (user info) at 2004-08-14 01:30:29 EDT (#)
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hell yes
go australia
Submitted by SPECIALk (user info) at 2004-08-14 01:16:26 EDT (#)
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i can see why you're proud..the flag IS pretty snazzy
Submitted by hidden101 (user info) at 2004-08-14 00:55:25 EDT (#)
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GO AUSTRALIA WOO!!!
Submitted by stevostheking (user info) at 2004-08-14 00:41:43 EDT (#)
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I can proudly say I'm an Aussie and proud of it...
Submitted by Walsareck (user info) at 2004-08-13 02:56:51 EDT (#)
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Yeah, we were a Convict colony 200 years ago... But just think, withe the US crime rate going up like it is, they will be a convict colony HERE and NOW.
Submitted by Hairsphincter (user info) at 2004-08-13 02:55:01 EDT (#)
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A while ago I wrote "Why I am a proud Australian": http://www.ubersite.com/m/38145
Submitted by gibberish (user info) at 2004-08-13 02:53:08 EDT (#)
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I love the stars and stripes but I'll be the first to admit that the Australian flag is pretty badass.
Submitted by Walsareck (user info) at 2004-08-13 02:51:45 EDT (#)
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That one should give you +2's from all Aussies for life. But, unfortunatley, it doesn't work that way.
Submitted by Hairsphincter (user info) at 2004-08-13 02:51:17 EDT (#)
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Submitted by Kellio (user info) at 2004-08-13 02:43:22 (#)
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Well myself (Kellio), Walsareck and Circe are clearly Australians. But who else on Ubersite can call themselves an Aussie?
I am the first Uber Australian. St Kilda, Victoria.
another +2, 'cos i'm free.
Submitted by Hairsphincter (user info) at 2004-08-13 02:50:00 EDT (#)
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My Country
Dorothea McKellar
The love of field and coppice, of green and shaded lanes,
Of ordered woods and gardens is running in your veins.
Strong love of grey-blue distance, brown streams and soft, dim skies-
I know but cannot share it, my love is otherwise.
I love a sunburnt country, a land of sweeping plains,
Of ragged mountain ranges, of droughts and flooding rains.
I love her far horizons, I love her jewel-sea,
Her beauty and her terror- the wide brown land for me!
The stark white ring-barked forests, all tragic to the moon,
The sapphire-misted mountains, the hot gold hush of noon,
Green tangle of the brushes where lithe lianas coil,
And orchids deck the tree-tops, and ferns the warm dark soil.
Core of my heart, my country! Her pitiless blue sky,
When, sick at heart, around us we see the cattle die -
But then the grey clouds gather, and we can bless again
The drumming of an army, the steady soaking rain.
Core of my heart, my country! Land of the rainbow gold,
For flood and fire and famine she pays us back threefold.
Over the thirsty paddocks, watch, after many days,
The filmy veil of greenness that thickens as we gaze.
An opal-hearted country, a wilful, lavish land -
All you who have not loved her, you will not understand -
Though earth holds many splendours, wherever I may die,
I know to what brown country my homing thoughts will fly.
We still have a LOT of work to do with our indigenous people.
I say SORRY.
Submitted by Walsareck (user info) at 2004-08-13 02:45:58 EDT (#)
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Yes, we are one of the most livable countries in the world.
Submitted by Rob <Robnepal.at.hotmail.com> at 2004-08-13 02:43:40 EDT (#)
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Has anyone said that 83% of our state capitals are on the top 50 most liveable cities in the world list? If we can just get Tassie to secede it will be 100%!
Bob Hawke, ex Aussie prime minister holds the record for the fastest sculling of a yard glass. Mark Latham, leader of the federal opposition tackled a road raging taxi driver and broke his arm. He also called Johnnie 'Koala' Howard a "bloody arse licker".
Did I mention...
Elle Macpherson? http://w1.freehosting.net/elle/elle_02.jpg
Nikki Buckley? http://www.lizzard.karoo.net/nikkiV018.jpg
Jennifer 'Miss Universe' Hawkins? http://www.missuniverse.com/index2.html
Submitted by Kellio (user info) at 2004-08-13 02:43:22 EDT (#)
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Well myself (Kellio), Walsareck and Circe are clearly Australians. But who else on Ubersite can call themselves an Aussie?
Submitted by Walsareck (user info) at 2004-08-13 02:33:58 EDT (#)
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Well said - free health caree all the way!!!
Submitted by Kellio (user info) at 2004-08-13 02:32:27 EDT (#)
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Aussie, Aussie, Aussie, Oi, Oi, Oi!!!
I love this country of mine as well, and think that it is the greatest country on earth. We may not have the power that America has, but at least we have free health care!
Submitted by Walsareck (user info) at 2004-08-13 02:28:14 EDT (#)
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Well, it's difficult for a child to shoot himself if the gun is behind three padlocked doors, and that is if there is one at all.
Submitted by domenad (user info) at 2004-08-13 02:26:50 EDT (#)
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-2 for Yahoo Serious, though.
Submitted by domenad (user info) at 2004-08-13 02:26:02 EDT (#)
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How does having restrictions on guns prevent a child from shooting himself in the head?
Submitted by Walsareck (user info) at 2004-08-13 02:15:39 EDT (#)
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I still am not seeing the zeal for Australia that the Americans are getting for their nation...
Submitted by Circe (user info) at 2004-08-12 09:54:45 EDT (#)
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I have to +2 this, or I'm a traitor to my nation.
A few of your stats are wrong, though, and I can't help wondering why we haven't drowned Little Johnny in the ocean yet and said he 'disappeared', but meh. We're pretty fucking good.
Submitted by Walsareck (user info) at 2004-08-12 09:51:17 EDT (#)
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YEAH!!! VEGEMITE! Why the hell didn't I think of our little bitch of an invention?
Submitted by wazzawazzayo (user info) at 2004-08-12 09:47:58 EDT (#)
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Good on ya mate!
Vegemite Kukubarra Didgeridoo!
Submitted by Walsareck (user info) at 2004-08-12 09:42:15 EDT (#)
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firestarter's staetment about ebing able to sponsor Abos in Central Australia is, FOR SOME FUCKING UNKNOWN REASON, true. Holy cow, I didn't know it was that bad... Well, someone oughta' give CentreLink a call.
Submitted by Walsareck (user info) at 2004-08-12 09:36:31 EDT (#)
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This post was NOT designed for me to get into another debate - rather, for Aussies to discuss Australia. However, someone ALWAYS has to get into an argument with me...
Well, all I can say is that I don't really care what anyone thinks about me. So, have fun while it lasts.
Submitted by AlwaysAnEagle (user info) at 2004-08-12 09:32:30 EDT (#)
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I forgot to say...minus points for both having a disproportionate number of the world's most deadly snakes and for the movie "Quigley Down Under." Which may not have been your fault, but you certainly inspired it.
Submitted by AlwaysAnEagle (user info) at 2004-08-12 09:31:18 EDT (#)
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Won't you go a-waltzing matilda with me?
Australia...the number one Place I Want To Travel To. Check out Bill Bryson's book, "In A Sunburned Country," esp. the newer edition with an appendix about the terrific work done with the Sydney Olympics.
You also get bonus points for a.) electing Paul Keating to any public office whatsoever, and b.) losing Prime Minister Harold Holt. In the ocean. Because he decided to go swimming. And then memorializing him with a PUBLIC SWIMMING POOL.
I heart you guys.
Submitted by firestarter (user info) at 2004-08-12 09:16:29 EDT (#)
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Submitted by punchdrunk (user info) at 2004-08-12 06:59:56 (#)
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How much are you fined if you dont vote?
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I didn't vote in a state election a few years back, and in the voting pamphlets the fine was about $50 AUD, about 35-40$ USD these days, but only $25USD with the dollar as it was then. Then again, hardly anyone is actually fined, it is just a threat to encourage people to vote. It is like cheating on taxes, they only thoroughly audit 1 profession every year, so the odds are you will get away with it, but there is still a chance you will get in shit.
Also, there is no point comparing Aboriginals to African Americans. The aboriginal's situation is more like that of the American Indian's, ie: land stolen by British, etc. Technically we should be paying them rent for living in their country, so people shouldn't really bitch about how much the government gives to them, which isn't as much as people assume. World vision classifies parts of Aboriginal populated areas in Central Australia as third world, you can sponser a child there just as you would sponsor a starving child in Ethiopia.
Submitted by CountNoCount (user info) at 2004-08-12 09:08:45 EDT (#)
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Submitted by Walsareck (user info) at 2004-08-12 08:53:48 (#)
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OK, in the US, their ethnic minortiy groups are a lot worse off than ours. This is a clarification for CountNoCount... Although I have no idea wether or not that -2 is his IQ or his opinion of my post...
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The above statement only succeeded in further confusing my simple American mind. You're clarifying what was already a rather simple statement by restating the original statement? When someone clarifies a point, he usually does so by expounding upon said point, often by the use of anecdotes, examples, statistics, etc. I must reiterate that I did not dislike the post; I only disliked the glibness of the statement concerning race in America. That sort of thing irritates me.
Anyway, there's no need to retaliate - good post, yada yada yada. Here's a peace offering:
Traveling in a fried-out combie
On a hippie trail, head full of zombie
I met a strange lady, she made me nervous
She took me in and gave me breakfast
And she said,
"Do you come from a land down under?
Where women glow and men plunder?
Can't you hear, can't you hear the thunder?
You better run, you better take cover."
Buying bread from a man in Brussels
He was six foot four and full of muscles
I said, "Do you speak-a my language?"
He just smiled and gave me a vegemite sandwich
And he said,
"I come from a land down under
Where beer does flow and men chunder
Can't you hear, can't you hear the thunder?
You better run, you better take cover."
Lying in a den in Bombay
With a slack jaw, and not much to say
I said to the man, "Are you trying to tempt me
Because I come from the land of plenty?"
And he said,
"Oh! Do you come from a land down under? (oh yeah yeah)
Where women glow and men plunder?
Can't you hear, can't you hear the thunder?
You better run, you better take cover."
Submitted by Walsareck (user info) at 2004-08-12 08:53:48 EDT (#)
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OK, in the US, their ethnic minortiy groups are a lot worse off than ours. This is a clarification for CountNoCount... Although I have no idea wether or not that -2 is his IQ or his opinion of my post...
Submitted by CountNoCount (user info) at 2004-08-12 08:51:33 EDT (#)
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Submitted by Walsareck (user info) at 2004-08-12 08:34:38 (#)
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We treat Aboriginals BETTER than the US treats their Negro population. The problem is that most Aboriginals abuse what they are given.
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HAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHA
(pauses for adequate respiration)
HAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHHAHAHAHAHA
(dies)
The post was OK, but this comment got you a -2. BAM! Stop watching Hollywood bullshit.
Submitted by Walsareck (user info) at 2004-08-12 08:34:38 EDT (#)
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"It's like a $5 fine and a slap on the wrist if you don't vote" - quote from some ABC NEWS Radio dude.
We treat Aboriginals BETTER than the US treats their Negro population. The problem is that most Aboriginals abuse what they are given.
Yes, we DID lose money at the Sydney 2000 - but we aren't capitalist bastards, are we?
Submitted by The_taste_of_Monkeys (user info) at 2004-08-12 08:18:05 EDT (#)
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Submitted by Walsareck (user info) at 2004-08-12 03:35:57 (#)
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I forgot to mention the AWESOME job we did with the Sydney 2000 Olympics
I thought that you lost money on that deal?
Anyway,+2 Australia is the sweetnes.
Submitted by Nator (user info) at 2004-08-12 07:09:51 EDT (#)
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I'd make a post called 'I am proud to be a Dutchman', but then I realised I don't really feel proud for being born in Holland. It was a bit out of my control.
Submitted by Erry (user info) at 2004-08-12 07:05:08 EDT (#)
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Yeh, I particularily like the way you treat the aboriginals- past and present!-- not too disimilar to the americans on that one are you!?
Submitted by jimbo (user info) at 2004-08-12 07:00:51 EDT (#)
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I lived in Sydney for a year. Loved it.
I went cow tipping while I was there. Something I had never done in America, surprisingy enough.
Submitted by punchdrunk (user info) at 2004-08-12 06:59:56 EDT (#)
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How much are you fined if you dont vote?
Submitted by Dervel (user info) at 2004-08-12 06:38:21 EDT (#)
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Ah, bless 'em. They don't know any better do they.
Your shit stinks just like everyone elses.
Submitted by Walsareck (user info) at 2004-08-12 05:59:18 EDT (#)
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Yeah... The Union Jack. That little bastard shall NEVER go away... Stupid 1901 referendums...
Submitted by apollo88 (user info) at 2004-08-12 05:57:10 EDT (#)
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I like the top left hand corner of your flag.
Submitted by Walsareck (user info) at 2004-08-12 05:56:44 EDT (#)
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Howard has decreased international debt to zero, and if there is any debt remaining, it shall not be there any longer.
My source for my claim that Aus murders less people than any other nation is factual and comes from the ABC (www.abc.net.au).
Yes, you can badmouth a woman for being a woman - harassment is if the claims are untrue, or your intentions are malicious (I spoke to a lawyer).
I don't care how smart you are (or think you are), I don't care if I may have gotten a few minor technicalities wrong.
Oh yeah, before you try bitching off at me, PLEASE PLEASE PLEASE make sure your sources are NOT 2-year-old statistics! It makes you look stupid.
Submitted by Ed_0150 (user info) at 2004-08-12 05:41:36 EDT (#)
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By the way, the stat from the second claim came from
http://www.abs.gov.au/Ausstats/abs@.nsf/94713ad445ff1425ca25682000192af2/ba7a216a3bb26e88ca256cbf00172184!OpenDocument
and you are still stupid
Submitted by Ed_0150 (user info) at 2004-08-12 05:38:34 EDT (#)
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I am Australian, and proud of it to, but before you preach our country, learn about it you ignorant dumbass.
you said
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"I proud of the way Australia murders less people than ANY OTHER NATION in the world, in propertion to population."
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Firstly, you spelled proportion wrong.
This is not true, New Zealand has a lower homicide rate(per person).
(http://www.guncite.com/gun_control_gcgvinco.html)
Then you said
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"I am proud that we have NO international debt."
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This is also false, Australia has $329.8Billion foreign debt
finally you said
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"I proud of the way we can badmouth ANYONE we want, provided the accussations are factual."
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This is not true, you cant bad mouth a woman for being a woman, its a factual claim, but its harrasment.
Do some research before you go announcing something, you give false information, and you make us all look ignorant.
(and btw, Australia is a great country)
Submitted by hairycoo (user info) at 2004-08-12 05:37:01 EDT (#)
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last time I entered (with my Australian passport) the fuckers asked me why I was there. In retrospect, perhaps I shouldn't have told them it was none of their fucking business.
Compared to Europe, Australia really bores the hell out of me.
Submitted by Walsareck (user info) at 2004-08-12 04:53:30 EDT (#)
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Very funny :)
Submitted by Philst82 (user info) at 2004-08-12 04:51:09 EDT (#)
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I do like australia, but I can't help but think...
What's the difference between Australia and yoghurt? If you Leave yoghurt out in the sun it will eventually grow a culture.
Just kidding.
Submitted by tuesdaydelay (user info) at 2004-08-12 04:39:56 EDT (#)
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No Comment
Submitted by Walsareck (user info) at 2004-08-12 04:33:29 EDT (#)
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Yeah, I know Howard sucks upto Bush. It is really stupid. But then you must consider what Latham would get upto. Australia and US are allies.
Submitted by Quasiplasmohedron (user info) at 2004-08-12 04:27:05 EDT (#)
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Unfortunately, the Aussie PM is spinelessly bowing down to America's corporate-ass-kissing laws: http://news.com.com/Trade+deal+exports+DMCA+down+under/2100-1028_3-5291283.html?tag=nefd.top
Submitted by MOssiah (user info) at 2004-08-12 03:44:01 EDT (#)
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Wouldn't wanna live anywhere else.
Submitted by Walsareck (user info) at 2004-08-12 03:36:52 EDT (#)
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Australia has the ONLY wild camel population in the world.
Submitted by firestarter (user info) at 2004-08-12 03:36:12 EDT (#)
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I also like the fact that Australia has the largest wild Camel population in the world. The fucking Arabs buy them off us for fuck's sake.
Submitted by Walsareck (user info) at 2004-08-12 03:35:57 EDT (#)
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I forgot to mention the AWESOME job we did with the Sydney 2000 Olympics.
Submitted by firestarter (user info) at 2004-08-12 03:35:00 EDT (#)
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Yes, Australia is indeed much better structured than America. I love gun control. I like how you get fined if you don't vote in federal or state elections. I am proud that our dollar is murdering the US's. I am proud that the ABC and TripleJ are still around even though the ALP is in power.
What I hate about Australia is John Howard, who would jump off a bridge if Bush asked him to.
Also, they didn't enforce much censorship on the GTA series. The only difference in GTA3 was you couldn't get prostitutes into your car to restore your health. Meanwhile, the uncensored version was pretty easy to obtain, as was Postal II, which was supposedly completely banned here.
Submitted by Rob <Robnepal.at.hotmail.com> at 2004-08-12 03:31:32 EDT (#)
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How about the fact we are the land of sand? If you were given the job of counting all the grains of sand in Australia how much of a prick of a job would that be? You'd finish all the beaches and think "thank God that's done." Then you'd look inland and think "Hang on, the whole bloody country's full of fucken sand!"
Thanks tracks
2 words.
Elle Macpherson.
Submitted by A.D.I.D.A.S (user info) at 2004-08-12 03:26:55 EDT (#)
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here here mate.
Submitted by Walsareck (user info) at 2004-08-12 03:17:07 EDT (#)
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That was just GTA3, and for legitimate reasons (like parents attacking video game stores).
Submitted by Chroniclysm (user info) at 2004-08-12 03:15:14 EDT (#)
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Australia's always seemed pretty cool, but how can I trust a country that enforced censorship on the Grand Theft Auto series?