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What's the general consensus here on the Aussies? I like them anyway and Australia is a great country as well. The only negatives for me are the climate, the dangerous animals and wildlife that inhabit the place, and the fact that it's just too far from Ireland. I also find the habit of subtitling irish accents on Australian tv to be annoying and kind of racist. It's a nice place to visit but i could never actually imagine myself living there.

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silliussoddius

https://www.boards.ie/discussion/comment/120496404#Comment_120496404

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.

Thelonious Monk

https://www.boards.ie/discussion/comment/120496404#Comment_120496404

No it isn't really but it's easy for us to judge them as Europeans who didn't have a completely different culture and way of living imposed on them in relatively recent years.

You sound like an Australian lol.

pgj2015

https://www.boards.ie/discussion/comment/120495817#Comment_120495817

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

Thelonious Monk

https://www.boards.ie/discussion/comment/120495745#Comment_120495745

well i mean they kind of just had this european society forced upon them and were supposed to adapt to our ways, not really fair on them. was the same in canada, all of the natives i'd see there were always drunk passed out on the streets and fighting etc.

Straight Talker

https://www.boards.ie/discussion/comment/120494541#Comment_120494541

Most of the aborigines are behind all the trouble in Alice Springs as well. Alice Springs is to all intents and purposes Australias version of Longford Town!

Straight Talker

https://www.boards.ie/discussion/comment/120493625#Comment_120493625

I've seen that one before.😂 The poor man just couldn't enjoy his succulent chinese meal in peace!😂

niallpatrick

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 ?)

HBC08

https://www.boards.ie/discussion/comment/120494541#Comment_120494541

Treated similarly from my experience.

However on here that's nasty Australian racists.

Thelonious Monk

https://www.boards.ie/discussion/comment/120494506#Comment_120494506

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.

Schnooks

https://www.boards.ie/discussion/comment/120494506#Comment_120494506

There's always one!🙄

osarusan

https://www.boards.ie/discussion/comment/120493100#Comment_120493100

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."

HBC08

https://www.boards.ie/discussion/comment/120493792#Comment_120493792

I wonder what an Australians perspective on Irish peoples views on travellers might look like?

pgj2015

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?

Schnooks

https://www.boards.ie/discussion/comment/120493795#Comment_120493795

That is exactly what my experience was, both in the large cities and even worse in the smaller places. And if anything, the women were even worse than the men with their openly racist comments, throwing the eyes up to heaven when Asian colleagues would walk into a bar, being rude and almost refusing to serve them etc.

It may be a great country for outdoor stuff etc, but plenty other places are too, including Ireland. I do want to visit NZ and spend about a month travelling around, as I have heard nothing but positive accounts of the people, sights to see etc.

But I will be bypassing Australia. Too many ignorant arseholes to be dealing with there.

sunshine2018

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

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I was there a few months ago & I found it an amazing place.

I would seriously consider moving there only I'm the wrong side of 30!

Piskin

https://www.boards.ie/discussion/comment/120493672#Comment_120493672

It's the convict in them in truth.

Piskin

I came across the best and the worst of people in Australia. Found most of them thick & obnoxious, akin to the redneck you will find in southern states in the US. The late Robin Williams called aussies rednecks with english accents. They have a serious identity crisis and they are obsessed with it, ie flags everywhere, media and in conversation with them it's not long before they bring up that they are australian etc. Great food, good nightlife and great beaches. Make friends with them and they are friends for life. There is an empty vibe due to that the people are not native to the land excepts the aboriginals. Loud and annoying and horrible obnoxious drunks. Aussie women will drop their knickers in a heartbeat and are mostly good company. Good place to get ahead but couldn't live there for the long term as it is bland & empty after a while, Kudos to them because they can run a country well and make the best of the outdoor lifestyle. In terms of running a country they are streets ahead of the inept stupid backward greedy corrupt powers that be in Ireland.

orourkeda1

https://www.boards.ie/discussion/comment/120492441#Comment_120492441

f*ck that

tastyt

I like the Aussies , they don’t apologise for who they are and don’t need to be loved or a pat on the head all the time and told how great they are by other countries. They make their rules for the good of the country and you abide by them of **** back to where you came from

A stunningly beautiful place too

silliussoddius

https://www.boards.ie/discussion/comment/120493792#Comment_120493792

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.

c.p.w.g.w

I was there for 4 months and in those four months I witnessed and experienced more racism than I have in my entire life(excluding that time)...

Openly being racist towards Asians and Pacific Islanders... absolutely disgusting, and it was very open and seemed to be accepted, i spent time in Sydney, Newcastle, Melbourne & Perth

con___manx1

https://www.boards.ie/discussion/comment/120492947#Comment_120492947

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.

silliussoddius

https://www.boards.ie/discussion/comment/120493144#Comment_120493144

And Wake in Fright.

chosen1

https://www.boards.ie/discussion/comment/120493005#Comment_120493005

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.

greencap

all i know is that they've been using a crafty new sophisticated plot to steal workers from various parts of the world.

something to do with a proper salary or some such wizardry.

Yurt2

I'll give them this: they don't go quietly into the good night when wrongfully arrested...

https://youtu.be/XebF2cgmFmU

kravmaga

Ive always found them a bit thick, spent a lot of time in Victoria State, Melbourne and Adelaide.

Potential-Monke

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!

Yurt2

Lacks cultural depth? Withdraw that comment immediately

https://youtu.be/tbkOZTSvrHs