Australia Do What It Does Best

fontanalis · 10-01-2011 06:39PM

saywhatyousee wrote: »

what???

Apologies, I took your post about fighting at rag week the wrong way.

Up-n-atom! · 10-01-2011 06:41PM

"Drunkenness, fighting, destruction of property: are these really the qualities we associate with the Irish?"

ButtersSuki · 10-01-2011 06:48PM

Badgermonkey wrote: »

Were we watching a different video?

Mild enough stuff tbh.

If Irish nationals are screaming or causing nuisance they should be fined and warned.

If they're involved in assault or come to the attention of the police a second time they should be deported, common sense imo.

Didn't really think I needed to point out I was being sarcastic.....

ejmaztec · 10-01-2011 06:48PM

My name is URL wrote: »

You could turn that on its head too.. if it was happening here and Australian people were implicated as being the main cause of trouble you'd have people calling that a racist suggestion, but since the generalisation is about the Irish there's nothing at all wrong with that.

If Australians were implicated here as being responsible for causing trouble, only a few ignorant Australians would see the criticism as racism. One person in the Bondi clip said that most of the people were Irish, and that was the only mention. I don't see that as a generalisation.

El_Dangeroso · 10-01-2011 07:04PM

People, people, for those who have never lived in Australia, this is a program called 'A current affair' .

It is the most unintentionally hilarious tabloid 'chasing a pedophile down the street with a stick' lame excuse for journalism. I mean Australian TV on the whole is dross but this one takes the biscuit.

There was one story where a heavy man in an electric wheelchair rolled over a girls toe. They harassed the man in his home until he apologised, literally camping outside a disabled man's house. It was bizarre.

The only good thing about that show is that it gives The Chaser's War on Everything great fodder for comedy:

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=u8h8_BRi_Uo

CHealy · 10-01-2011 07:32PM

El_Dangeroso wrote: »

I mean Australian TV on the whole is dross but this one takes the biscuit.

That may be the case, but for anyone who's ever watched the series Underbelly will know that its one of the best crime series ever made (well for me anyway), especially series 1, I was hooked so credit where its due and all that.

Badgermonkey · 10-01-2011 07:44PM

ButtersSuki wrote: »

Didn't really think I needed to point out I was being sarcastic.....

Mea Culpa.

Read your post, didn't quite process it.:eek:

Thinky was taking some time off.

Dave! · 10-01-2011 08:08PM

lol JONJO

Killer Pigeon · 10-01-2011 08:18PM

White people in Australia are foreign too.

Fulton Crown · 10-01-2011 08:28PM

prinz wrote: »

Of course on boards no one ever criticises foreigners, say Spanish students, for acting the bollix.

Noooo ! ..don't criticise them.....just give them a stiff brogue in the cones...much more effective

sollar · 10-01-2011 09:03PM

ejmaztec wrote: »

If Australians were implicated here as being responsible for causing trouble, only a few ignorant Australians would see the criticism as racism. One person in the Bondi clip said that most of the people were Irish, and that was the only mention. I don't see that as a generalisation.

The diddly-ie music in the backround and the focusing in on the irish flag didn't help either

Gaudizeit · 10-01-2011 09:12PM

Sure the heat over there drives them loo laa. They all go troppo at one stage, and kill a kangaroo. Poor skip.

brendansmith · 10-01-2011 09:23PM

I wish those mulleted, singlet wearing, racist, bogan Australians would stop stereotyping me. When I visited there last year one of them threw the spoiler from a limo at me boomerang style, another one of them stuck my mates mohawk to a timber column with his throwing knife.

ejmaztec · 10-01-2011 09:44PM

sollar wrote: »

The diddly-ie music in the backround and the focusing in on the irish flag didn't help either

The flag must have been flying there because the place was full of Germans.

... and perhaps the Australians like traditional Irish music for historical reasons.

orourkeda · 10-01-2011 09:45PM

I've never been to Australia so can't make any comment on the validity of this particular report but it would not surprise me in the slightest it it turns out to be correct.

From my own experiences the number of times i've seen irish people abroad make a holy show of themselves while getting absolutely legless is staggering.

orourkeda · 10-01-2011 09:51PM

AnonoBoy wrote: »

I love the way they put music under it to sex up the violence.

it would be better if the put music to the violence in the sex

brendansmith · 10-01-2011 09:59PM

orourkeda wrote: »

it would be better if the put music to the violence in the sex

I plan to have violent sex with the hole in the CD that I burn that music on to.

Pighead · 10-01-2011 10:03PM

brendansmith wrote: »

I plan to have violent sex with the hole in the CD that I burn that music on to.

Think you'd be more at home with a floppy disc brenno. (Do you mind if Pighead calls you Brenno? And more to the bucking point do you mind if he insinuates you struggle to reach states of erectility?)

brendansmith · 10-01-2011 10:08PM

Pighead wrote: »

Think you'd be more at home with a floppy disc brenno. (Do you mind if Pighead calls you Brenno? And more to the bucking point do you mind if he insinuates you struggle to reach states of erectility?)

Not at all. Knock yourself out.

El Siglo · 10-01-2011 10:16PM

Perhaps these gurriers should get the boot?

Waestrel · 10-01-2011 10:39PM

i spent 2 years in oz and to be honest the Irish attracted to the Working holiday scheme are the very dregs of our society. There was a handful i knew you genuinely used it as an opportunity to go travelling, adventure, etc, but for most it was a year long beach holiday, boozin, drugs and fightin' away from the watchful eyes back home. Not only is it a total waste of a great opportunity, it does serious damage to our reputation there. Its got to the point where most "decent" educated irish i know have zero interest in going to oz, leaving it to the reprobates and wasters to represent us there.

thisguy · 10-01-2011 10:53PM

Jaysus lads Australia looks like some craic, cant wait to get out there!

donvito99 · 10-01-2011 11:11PM

Funny how the reporter is called Damian Murphy...

Jumpy · 10-01-2011 11:13PM

Ah Jonjo. You are just lucky I cant search back far enough to repost your comments about foreigners in Ireland.

Then again though, when you were in Australia you werent exactly "taking their jobs" were you.

Anyway, you made a bit of a mistake there, you quoted ACA. FFS Thats like believing in the Daily Mail.

Secondly, the Irish in Australia didnt follow this lads advice and get him to organise it for them.

Ah ACA at its best.

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=3-2pVsKRNX8

Jumpy · 10-01-2011 11:21PM

donvito99 wrote: »

Funny how the reporter is called Damian Murphy...

Is it?

citizen_p · 10-01-2011 11:38PM

first of all.....its not bloody racist, most aussies come from irish or english decent, so its not bloody racist, that word is mis used so much.

Terry · 10-01-2011 11:39PM

JONJO THE MISER wrote: »

Reporting sensationlist ignorant anti-foreign anti-Irish rubbish.
This was talked about on Joe Duffy, the Irish embassy has already made a complaint.
Once again it shows how ignorant and racist the vast majority of australians are.
http://aca.ninemsn.com.au/investigations/8194474/street-fight-central

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biko wrote: »

Foreigners caught doing a crime that will lead to jail time should be deported for at least 10 years, that goes for Irish in Australia too.

After they serve their time.

Killer Pigeon wrote: »

White people in Australia are foreign too.

No, they are not.

df1985 · 11-01-2011 12:25AM

Myself and 2 mates are going travelling in ausgust/september eneding up in Australia around xmas time. Our intention is to completely avoid bondi/coogee but we have friends over there who consistently say you get "sucked" into the irish bondi thing for various reasons-one being that its one of the few places near beaches that is affordable to live in (dunno how true that is). Part of me thinks they are being lazy and its the easy option.