Moving to Australia and tattoos

Doom · 06-01-2012 7:48pm #1

Whats the story with lads when they move down there, the hair gets bleached, pumping iron, next tattoos....acting all like they're the coolest fcukers ever, when infact they were nerds at home!!!:rolleyes:

I know about 6 lads like this, Aussies must be laughing their holes off

Micky Dolenz · 06-01-2012 7:48pm

Jealous much?

hondasam · 06-01-2012 7:50pm

Be happy for them, living the life in Australia while you are still here.

markesmith · 06-01-2012 7:57pm

What do you expect? Anyone from Ireland who goes to Australia is an unimaginative tool

Doctor Jimbob · 06-01-2012 7:57pm

Doom wrote: »

Whats the story with lads when they move down there, the hair gets bleached, pumping iron, next tattoos....acting all like they're the coolest fcukers ever, when infact they were nerds at home!!!:rolleyes:

I know about 6 lads like this, Aussies must be laughing their holes off

Probably because they're not being judged by people like you and can actually do what they want without being laughed at.

Doom · 06-01-2012 7:59pm

Doctor Jimbob wrote: »

Probably because they're not being judged by people like you and can actually do what they want without being laughed at.

I bet you're one of them.....go on admit it

Napper Hawkins · 06-01-2012 7:59pm

Doctor Jimbob wrote: »

Probably because they're not being judged by people like you and can actually do what they want without being laughed at.

Snap!

/thread!

Clareman · 06-01-2012 8:00pm

Ahhh, the lads that go to Sydney, drink Magners in O'Neil's in Kings Cross every weekend till they pass out for 11 months, then go to the Whit Islands for a month, come home to mammy for Christmas and go on about how they can't wait to go back to Oz

IrishJack89 · 06-01-2012 8:02pm

Ya they annoy me too but I'm just a jealous bast to be honest..! Would love to be down there!!

Clareman · 06-01-2012 8:08pm

I went there for a month's holiday once, I would love to head down there for an extended period of time, it really is a great country, it has a lot going for it, some of the Irish that go down there are more interested in just drinking in Irish bars

Micky Dolenz · 06-01-2012 8:11pm

Clareman wrote: »

Ahhh, the lads that go to Sydney, drink Magners in O'Neil's in Kings Cross every weekend till they pass out for 11 months, then go to the Whit Islands for a month, come home to mammy for Christmas and go on about how they can't wait to go back to Oz

Clareman wrote: »

I went there for a month's holiday once, I would love to head down there for an extended period of time, it really is a great country, it has a lot going for it, some of the Irish that go down there are more interested in just drinking in Irish bars

:pac:

RichieC · 06-01-2012 8:13pm

People have some cheek not conforming to your preordained stereotypes. follow them over and give em a beating.

kumate_champ07 · 06-01-2012 8:16pm

markesmith wrote: »

What do you expect? Anyone from Ireland who goes to Australia is an unimaginative tool

not all of them. some can earn alot over there but might not have a great lifestyle. some have a drinking lifestyle with all their Irish pals.

I'd say they have more imagination than someone who stays in Ireland with no job and spends all their time online and watching tv.

its also a great base if you want to do some travelling in Asia. work in Australia for a few months, go travelling, go back and work some more, travel..

kfallon · 06-01-2012 8:16pm

Clareman wrote: »

Ahhh, the lads that go to Sydney, drink Magners in O'Neil's in Kings Cross every weekend till they pass out for 11 months, then go to the Whit Islands for a month, come home to mammy for Christmas and go on about how they can't wait to go back to Oz

They pass out for 11 months??? :eek:

That's a waste of their year down there :P

WoollyRedHat · 06-01-2012 8:18pm

Do the toilets really flush backwards in Australia?

ThePower11 · 06-01-2012 8:19pm

It would be great if people who were in Australia didn't come home and go on about it for the next 6 months.

I don't give a fuck!

charlemont · 06-01-2012 8:29pm

Doom wrote: »

Whats the story with lads when they move down there, the hair gets bleached, pumping iron, next tattoos....acting all like they're the coolest fcukers ever, when infact they were nerds at home!!!:rolleyes:

I know about 6 lads like this, Aussies must be laughing their holes off

Small minded crappy bog hole...I doubt they miss it much, I'm sure they are the ones laughing...At people like you.....

Doom · 06-01-2012 8:30pm

I do my best to avoid them at Christmas, painful to listen to them.
Oz is a nice but do I need to hear about it for two fcuking weeks solid....no

Micky Dolenz · 06-01-2012 8:32pm

I did the whole year thing. It was over ten years ago now. I have no intention of ever returning and only spent two weeks in Sydney.

But.....It was the best craic ever. One of the most fun and wreakless years of my life. PM for a link to my blog where I retell it in every detail

.

ThePower11 · 06-01-2012 8:33pm

Micky Dolenz wrote: »

But.....It was the best craic ever. One of the most fun and wreakless years of my life. PM for a link to my blog where I retell it in every detail .

No thanks.

Stercus Accidit · 06-01-2012 8:34pm

Doom wrote: »

I do my best to avoid them at Christmas, painful to listen to them.
Oz is a nice but do I need to hear about it for two fcuking weeks solid....no

I'm glad you're not one of my friends, you sound like an awful miserable stereotype of Irish begrudgery.

Maybe the lads you are decrying have moved on from caring what the petty misery guts back home think?

Captain Darling · 06-01-2012 8:36pm

Don't forget about the beads. Nothing says 'ive been travelling' more then those gammy beads.

The Internet Explorer · 06-01-2012 8:38pm

The OP makes some fair points, all be it completely and unnecessarily rudely.

But I mean this from the bottom of my cold and lonely heart, who gives a **** what anybody else does ?

It is true that many Irish travel to Australia. It is true that their perspective on life may change and it is true that they might feel comfortable enough to change their appearance in a way which they would quite likely, or at the very least quite possibly, be judged on had they done the same here. We are all imperfect. We all have dreams. We all have hardships. Let us not cruelly generalise our fellow man.

Peace to all humans, animals and inanimate objects.

Micky Dolenz · 06-01-2012 8:38pm

ThePower11 wrote: »

No thanks.

PM sent

seanybiker · 06-01-2012 8:39pm

Probably had the tattoos all along but with our lovely weather they where just covered up. Or maybe Australia isn't arseways about people having tattoos

Jimoslimos · 06-01-2012 8:43pm

Micky Dolenz wrote: »

I did the whole year thing. It was over ten years ago now. I have no intention of ever returning and only spent two weeks in Sydney.

But.....It was the best craic ever. One of the most fun and wreakless years of my life. PM for a link to my blog where I retell it in every detail .

Q: How do you know if somebody's been to Australia?

A: They fcukin tell you.

On a completely unrelated point, when I was in Australia

, I noticed the Irish eejits in Sydney, aswell as the English and Aussies. When you get a large number of any nationality the fools tend to make themselves known.

Micky Dolenz · 06-01-2012 8:45pm

seanybiker wrote: »

Probably had the tattoos all along but with our lovely weather they where just covered up. Or maybe Australia isn't arseways about people having tattoos

No, it's not arseways for that reason.

kowloon · 06-01-2012 8:46pm

Place is too damn hot. For that reason alone I couldn't live there. Could go to Canada I suppose, but Canada is too damn cold.

Namlub · 06-01-2012 8:51pm

Jimoslimos wrote: »

Q: How do you know if somebody's been to Australia?

A: They fcukin tell you.

On a completely unrelated point, when I was in Australia , I noticed the Irish eejits in Sydney, aswell as the English and Aussies. When you get a large number of any nationality the fools tend to make themselves known.

Not to mention the amount of Australians. Place is full of them...

Clareman · 06-01-2012 8:55pm

Just call them convicts, they love that

Immaculate Pasta · 06-01-2012 9:09pm

kowloon wrote: »

Place is too damn hot. For that reason alone I couldn't live there. Could go to Canada I suppose, but Canada is too damn cold.

Is the temperature in Ireland just right for you then Goldlilocks?

kumate_champ07 · 06-01-2012 9:13pm

nicest place you could move to would be San Francisco, weather is beautiful, not too hot and it gets cool at night. people are nice, no aggressive hassle like you would see in most Irish towns at 3am on saturdays

San Diego is 2nd nicest for weather. big earthquake potential in that region tho in the foreseeable future, alot worse than anything thats happened recently in the world

mandrake04 · 06-01-2012 10:25pm

Clareman wrote: »

Ahhh, the lads that go to Sydney, drink Magners in O'Neil's in Kings Cross every weekend till they pass out for 11 months, then go to the Whit Islands for a month, come home to mammy for Christmas and go on about how they can't wait to go back to Oz

Think you are dreaming mate or you just made it up, there is no such Pub as O'Neil's in KX or Sydney.

membersonly · 06-01-2012 10:28pm

Some of the wacky feckers even go to the set of home and away and have their photo taken with alf stewart! haha! Mental!

ScumLord · 06-01-2012 10:33pm

WoollyRedHat wrote: »

Do the toilets really flush backwards in Australia?

Yes it's true, when you flush a toilet in Australia it spews **** and water out all over the floor. It's why everything and anything from Australia smells like ****.

Defiler Of The Coffin · 06-01-2012 10:33pm

mandrake04 wrote: »

Think you are dreaming mate or you just made it up, there is no such Pub as O'Neil's in KX or Sydney.

Perhaps he was talking about O'Malleys?

mfceiling · 06-01-2012 10:39pm

Micky Dolenz wrote: »

I did the whole year thing. It was over ten years ago now. I have no intention of ever returning and only spent two weeks in Sydney.

But.....It was the best craic ever. One of the most fun and wreakless years of my life. PM for a link to my blog where I retell it in every detail .

Jesus Micky give it up....it was over 10 years ago...it's time to move on.

I was there from 1999-2001 and you don't hear me sh!tting on about it....:D

*Heads to oz/nz forum to give out of date advice!!

mandrake04 · 06-01-2012 10:55pm

Defiler Of The Coffin wrote: »

Perhaps he was talking about O'Malleys?

Maybe as there is an O'Malleys but definitely no O'Neil's, I suppose if you are going to talk shite at least make sure its right.

Defiler Of The Coffin · 06-01-2012 10:57pm

mandrake04 wrote: »

Maybe as there is an O'Malleys but definitely no O'Neil's, I suppose if you are going to talk shite at least make sure its right.

It's hard to remember the names of all them pubs. They all have some diddly-irish name. All just blends into one after a few years...

DubPsycho · 06-01-2012 11:09pm

kfallon wrote: »

They pass out for 11 months??? :eek:

That's a waste of their year down there :P

A year wasted is NOT a wasted year;)

Peetrik · 06-01-2012 11:12pm

Doom wrote: »

Whats the story with lads when they move down there, the hair gets bleached, pumping iron, next tattoos....acting all like they're the coolest fcukers ever, when infact they were nerds at home!!!:rolleyes:

I know about 6 lads like this, Aussies must be laughing their holes off

If they knew how you felt I'm sure they'd tear up the qualification that they studied for that allowed them to travel over there and have their tattos and suntan lasered off. Infact lets have a whipround to see if we can pay for some kind of 'eternal sunshine of the spotless mind' treatment to erase the memories of their time away too. Would that make it all ok?

Father Damo · 06-01-2012 11:42pm

markesmith wrote: »

What do you expect? Anyone from Ireland who goes to Australia is an unimaginative tool

What in the fcuk have you ever done with your life, out of curiousity? Likely nothing, like most people stuck back home.

Clareman wrote: »

Ahhh, the lads that go to Sydney, drink Magners in O'Neil's in Kings Cross

Outside of the city centres the vast majority of suburban Aussie bars are sh1te. The busy- ish ones are full of old men wasting away their lives on poker machines. The quiet ones dont have anyone drinking in them at all. Barely any have live bands playing. Aussies under a certain age dont have a "local" the same way we do. Its hardly any wonder most Irish frequent places with a bit of live music, young crowd and where you can drink from a pint glass.

Del2005 · 07-01-2012 12:23am

Doom wrote: »

Whats the story with lads when they move down there, the hair gets bleached, pumping iron, next tattoos....acting all like they're the coolest fcukers ever, when infact they were nerds at home!!!:rolleyes:

I know about 6 lads like this, Aussies must be laughing their holes off

Because pasty white looks so cool.

Essien · 07-01-2012 2:32am

Doom wrote: »

Whats the story with lads when they move down there, the hair gets bleached, pumping iron, next tattoos....acting all like they're the coolest fcukers ever, when infact they were nerds at home!!!:rolleyes:

I know about 6 lads like this, Aussies must be laughing their holes off

I moved here and I haven't bleached my hair or got a tattoo, I go to the gym but I always did that at home anyway.

I was a nerd in Ireland and I'm still a nerd here only now I actually have a good job and what's looking like a decent career ahead of me. I wouldn't have that if I didn't move here. Normally I wouldn't go around pointing these things out but hey, you brought it up.

I'd safely say I've encountered thousands of Irish since I got here and for the record, I'd struggle to think of more than few who fit the description you've given.

It's pretty pathetic to be putting people down for trying to improve the quality of their lives.

cocoshovel · 07-01-2012 2:39am

markesmith wrote: »

What do you expect? Anyone from Ireland who goes to Australia is an unimaginative tool

The only unimaginative tool Im seeing is you.

ejmaztec · 07-01-2012 3:10am

I've got a kangaroo's scrotum.:cool:

CianRyan · 07-01-2012 4:22am

ejmaztec wrote: »

I've got a kangaroo's scrotum.:cool:

Was there with my parents in 2007, my dad picked one of these up and still uses it to carry around his change.
Still seems really weird to me.

old_aussie · 07-01-2012 4:32am

Clareman wrote: »

I went there for a month's holiday once, I would love to head down there for an extended period of time, it really is a great country, it has a lot going for it, some of the Irish that go down there are more interested in just drinking in Irish bars

Ah, you know those two chaps.

old_aussie · 07-01-2012 4:35am

kumate_champ07 wrote: »

San Diego is 2nd nicest for weather. big earthquake potential in that region tho in the foreseeable future, alot worse than anything thats happened recently in the world

Not heard of Christchurch NZ mate

http://tvnz.co.nz/national-news/christchurch-suburb-says-goodbye-4676386

RDM_83 again · 07-01-2012 5:38am

cocoshovel wrote: »

The only unimaginative tool Im seeing is you.

I wouldn't judge somebody for going to Australia, but FFS if people wanted to broaden their minds and experience a different culture they could travel a few hundred K to Europe going to Aus should be considered like going to London apart from further away.

ps never been to down under but I've disliked 95% of the Australians I've met (and I don't dislike Kiwi's, yanks or Canadians at all)

travelledpengy · 07-01-2012 6:06am

RDM_83 again wrote: »

I've disliked 95% of the Australians I've met (and I don't dislike Kiwi's, yanks or Canadians at all)

Me too

Moving to Australia and tattoos

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