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Is Australia rough?

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  • #32
    JJLongford
    Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 65 ✭✭JJLongford


    Hidalgo wrote: »
    It's as much a fear that the country will be overran by Asian migrant workers as out and out racism. The amount of coverage that boat people trying to get into Australia is strange considering the few that try it.

    Border Control?? (its on TV3) is an excellent example of this fear of Asians, there's always a lot of Asians stopped in that show every week.

    I noticed that. I always wondered where the white people for deportation were hiding out. Nearly got me thinking the Asians were s*it at hide and seek!


  • #33
    Wee Willy Harris
    Site Banned Posts: 563 ✭✭✭Wee Willy Harris


    A_Sober_Paddy wrote: »
    There are a very racist bunch from my experience but only towards to indigenous people of the continent and Asians.

    it's called defending their much smaller population, with a view beyond themselves and their own mortality well into the future on an opportunistic island they should be seen to be doing so. Think japan, who have so little space left they'll all have to be stacked on top of each other anyhow. Thus invading japan, thus going mad for that wee rock

    Personally I do t want foreigners even gradually trickling in because I don't like racist incidents in my country and can see the bigger picture beyond my own lifetime, though anyone here I accept like my algerian descendant friend. my vitriol is toward authorites / us jew media influence who think indigenous ethnicities being done away with to make way for one big blurred cluster**** is the way forward


  • #34
    A_Sober_Paddy
    Closed Accounts Posts: 4,221 ✭✭✭A_Sober_Paddy


    Hidalgo wrote: »
    It's as much a fear that the country will be overran by Asian migrant workers as out and out racism. The amount of coverage that boat people trying to get into Australia is strange considering the few that try it.

    Border Control?? (its on TV3) is an excellent example of this fear of Asians, there's always a lot of Asians stopped in that show every week.

    Well openly abusing people because of the colour of their skin is disgusting...Its even worse when its done so openly and nobody cares...What kind of civilized country would allow this...suppose its not a surprise since the majority of none indigenous people are descended from criminals


  • #35
    Pottler
    Closed Accounts Posts: 5,073 ✭✭✭Pottler


    No, it's the opposite - full of rules, "do not..." signs, jobsworths and pen-pushers. In much the same way as America is not really "Glamorous and free". Aus is not carefree and relaxed, it's tightly policed and fairly nannyish.


  • #36
    Birroc
    Closed Accounts Posts: 1,070 ✭✭✭Birroc


    Ghandee wrote: »
    Is Norway rough?

    Yes those vikings were f*ckin divils!


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  • #37
    asherbassad
    Banned (with Prison Access) Posts: 1,869 ✭✭✭asherbassad


    JJLongford wrote: »
    Just wondering why it seems that there's a lot of brutal crime stories involving Irish in Oz. I can think of 3 really brutal attacks off the top of my head...

    1. Guy that was punched and died.
    2. Guy that was beaten with hammer recently.
    3. And now Jill Meagher.
    • Is it just that there's a lot of Irish there and chances are a few are unfortunately going to come across this? (But then again you don't hear of similar from the States, Canada or the U.K. where equally there are lots of Irish).
    • Is it that there's racism there towards Irish?
    • Or is it a rough place in general?
    Would love your experiences from Oz if you have any!

    The 3 aforementioned crimes are pretty much a weekly occurrence in Ireland.


  • #38
    Dr. Kenneth Noisewater
    Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 3,234 ✭✭✭Dr. Kenneth Noisewater


    madma wrote: »
    OP

    there are more irish people in australia than ireland

    No.


  • #39
    Da Shins Kelly
    Closed Accounts Posts: 6,047 ✭✭✭Da Shins Kelly


    asherbassad wrote: »
    The 3 aforementioned crimes are pretty much a weekly occurrence in Ireland.

    Women being raped and murdered and people being beaten to death with hammers are weekly occurrences in Ireland? News to me.


  • #40
    Hidalgo
    Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 2,845 ✭✭✭Hidalgo


    Pottler wrote: »
    No, it's the opposite - full of rules, "do not..." signs, jobsworths and pen-pushers. In much the same way as America is not really "Glamorous and free". Aus is not carefree and relaxed, it's tightly policed and fairly nannyish.

    More over policed than tightly policed imo.
    The law is the law and that's that over there


  • #41
    super_furry
    Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 27,387 ✭✭✭✭super_furry


    Wee Willy Harris wrote: »
    it's called defending their much smaller population, with a view beyond themselves and their own mortality well into the future on an opportunistic island they should be seen to be doing so. Think japan, who have so little space left they'll all have to be stacked on top of each other anyhow. Thus invading japan, thus going mad for that wee rock

    Personally I do t want foreigners even gradually trickling in because I don't like racist incidents in my country and can see the bigger picture beyond my own lifetime, though anyone here I accept like my algerian descendant friend. my vitriol is toward authorites / us jew media influence who think indigenous ethnicities being done away with to make way for one big blurred cluster**** is the way forward

    Stormfront.org would be more to your liking I reckon.


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  • #42
    Micky Dolenz
    Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 44,079 ✭✭✭✭Micky Dolenz


    steddyeddy wrote: »
    I will say that with some aussies racisim towards the first austrailians (aborigines) seems to be normal in their heads.


    No different to how many Irish people perceive the members of the traveling community, some people in Ireland think it's a perfectly acceptable form of racism but would never consider themselves racist. Always makes me laugh, and not in a good way.

    Spent a year in Australia and traveled a lot, never had an ounce of trouble. But like anywhere, no doubt I would have found it fast enough if I had looked.


  • #43
    asherbassad
    Banned (with Prison Access) Posts: 1,869 ✭✭✭asherbassad


    Da Shins Kelly wrote: »
    Women being raped and murdered and people being beaten to death with hammers are weekly occurrences in Ireland? News to me.

    Maybe you should read a fcukin newspaper then. A week doesn't go by when someone isn't in critical condition or has died of head injuries from being set upon outside some fcukin pub or club. Maybe the rapes aren't a weekly occurrence but vicious violent attacks certainly are. What bubble you been living in?


  • #44
    ejmaztec
    Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 24,369 ✭✭✭✭ejmaztec


    Da Shins Kelly wrote: »
    Women being raped and murdered and people being beaten to death with hammers are weekly occurrences in Ireland? News to me.

    You've obviously not seen TV3's "Ireland's Toughest Auctions" :eek:


  • #45
    Da Shins Kelly
    Closed Accounts Posts: 6,047 ✭✭✭Da Shins Kelly


    asherbassad wrote: »
    Maybe you should read a fcukin newspaper then. A week doesn't go by when someone isn't in critical condition or has died of head injuries from being set upon outside some fcukin pub or club. Maybe the rapes aren't a weekly occurrence but vicious violent attacks certainly are. What bubble you been living in?

    You just calm yourself down.

    Murders with hammers and women being raped and murdered are not weekly occurrences.


  • #46
    Toshchiy Imperatritsy Vselennoy
    Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 178 ✭✭Toshchiy Imperatritsy Vselennoy


    You cannot compare the two Austrailia has so much more the population. So obviously it seems like there is more crime. I don't think it works out any more per head. No they are no more racist than any other nation. They are extremely proud of Austrailia and are usually blunt and down to earth. They like to rib each other to bits but it is actually just the Aussie sense of humour. They rip their mates apart. They hate molly coddling of any kind. And they are strict and firm regarding laws. It is a no BS society basically but thats all. No one is ever meant to give the impression that they are above anyone or expect special treatment.

    They are generally pretty humble. And they are about 50/50 of British and Irish descent. They are not at all anti-Irish.

    But behaving badly as a foreigner or a guest in their country is considered extremely offensive.

    I think it is completely ignorant to assume anything about Austrailia based on this.

    One horrible incident. Think of all the Austrailians who are helping police etc think of those who are shocked.

    The language thing is simply Aussie Language and it pervades all levels of society they use slang ingeniously and it is used in society in a way that does not happen here. It means nothing disrespectful. It is a cultural thing and thats all. It says nothing about how people feel about these crimes or how Austrailian culture views them.

    They are good people.


  • #47
    Wee Willy Harris
    Site Banned Posts: 563 ✭✭✭Wee Willy Harris


    True enough with the aborigines, I guess but I don't know what the answer is for those. they don't have to live like that n I know their morale is low, due to repression but amenities are there n they don't have to live like that. Drinking petrol, for instance


  • #48
    AudreyHepburn
    Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 5,673 ✭✭✭AudreyHepburn


    No worse than anyway else I'd imagine.

    Lets not tar the whole country because of what that one scumbag did to Jill Meagher.


  • #49
    Slunk
    Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 2,556 ✭✭✭Slunk


    Spent a year there and never had any trouble with anybody or seen any trouble for that matter. My apartment was down a dark laneway and I always felt safe walking around. The abos dont really bother you. Same can't be said for Dublin. ****in scum everywhere.


  • #50
    asherbassad
    Banned (with Prison Access) Posts: 1,869 ✭✭✭asherbassad


    Da Shins Kelly wrote: »
    Women being raped and murdered and people being beaten to death with hammers are weekly occurrences in Ireland? News to me.

    65 murders in Ireland in 2005.
    67 the following year.

    52 weeks in a year. You do the math(s)


  • #51
    Pottler
    Closed Accounts Posts: 5,073 ✭✭✭Pottler


    Wee Willy Harris wrote: »
    True enough with the aborigines, I guess but I don't know what the answer is for those. they don't have to live like that n I know their morale is low, due to repression but amenities are there n they don't have to live like that. Drinking petrol, for instance
    Well, that's because it is so cheap, no, hold on. Nope. Everything you've posted there is tripe. And all your other posts. Utter, total, tripe. And that's coming from me! The tripe spewer. BTW, it's sniffing petrol, not drinking it, and they are sh4t upon beyond belief, hence the whole "despair" thing.


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  • #52
    Run_to_da_hills
    Closed Accounts Posts: 20,009 ✭✭✭✭Run_to_da_hills


    Was there on and off two years in the 90's great country and very tolerant people. The only hassle I ever had was a group of hoons (Australian Joyriders) turning up at a car park and doing hand break spins when I was trying to get some kip in my combi.


  • #53
    Rhys Essien
    Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 3,029 ✭✭✭Rhys Essien


    There was 5 people killed/murdered in Ireland in the last week.Does that make Ireland rough,OP?


  • #54
    Pottler
    Closed Accounts Posts: 5,073 ✭✭✭Pottler


    Rhys Essien wrote: »
    There was 5 people killed/murdered in Ireland in the last week.Does that make Ireland rough,OP?
    Yes, yes it does. And it seems to be getting rougher. I've a mate who lives in Finglas and evey day talking to him is like listening to a soap opera - anything happen last night bud? - "Yep, so and so shot so and so, there was a mini riot and two of me windows were put in.." etc etc. That might just be Finglas though.


  • #55
    JJLongford
    Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 65 ✭✭JJLongford


    Rhys Essien wrote: »
    There was 5 people killed/murdered in Ireland in the last week.Does that make Ireland rough,OP?
    I wouldn't count the drug scum in that figure.

    Give me the figure where attacked didn't know the attacker. I think that would be a more accurate litmus.


  • #56
    Stinicker
    Banned (with Prison Access) Posts: 7,098 ✭✭✭Stinicker


    I was in Australia for 3 weeks and I would say they are absolute thugs of animals with a drink problem and attitude to match. Racism is rife against Irish people too. Most people I met however were fine but there is an attitude problem there and I have also noticed it amongst the Australians I have met during my Asian travels.

    A good example of typical Australisn brutishness is how they carryon in the International Rules Series, they basically turn a game of football into a running pitch battle and then think this is OK? Australian women behaved normally but I think there is a small minority of Australian jackasses as sterotyped by Home and Away as "The Braxtons".


  • #57
    Boombastic
    Closed Accounts Posts: 6,496 ✭✭✭Boombastic


    Rough? Yes the outback has a rough and rugged terrain with mountains and rain forests. Not every 'road' in these parts will be tarmacked, if fact more often than not it will be a dirt road. The have the well known urban areas, but a lot of it remains unspoiled and rough


  • #58
    Slunk
    Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 2,556 ✭✭✭Slunk


    Pottler wrote: »
    Rhys Essien wrote: »
    There was 5 people killed/murdered in Ireland in the last week.Does that make Ireland rough,OP?
    Yes, yes it does. And it seems to be getting rougher. I've a mate who lives in Finglas and evey day talking to him is like listening to a soap opera - anything happen last night bud? - "Yep, so and so shot so and so, there was a mini riot and two of me windows were put in.." etc etc. That might just be Finglas though.

    Bollocks


  • #59
    Toshchiy Imperatritsy Vselennoy
    Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 178 ✭✭Toshchiy Imperatritsy Vselennoy


    JJLongford wrote: »
    I wouldn't count the drug scum in that figure.

    Give me the figure where attacked didn't know the attacker. I think that would be a more accurate litmus.

    It seems the Irish are the rough ones who don't respect life universally.


  • #60
    JJLongford
    Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 65 ✭✭JJLongford


    Toshchiy Imperatritsy Vselennoy wrote: »
    It seems the Irish are the rough ones who don't respect life universally.

    It's not that I don't value life but if one dabbles with mobs and kills a bloke in prison odds are it will come back at you. That's just the way those scumbags work it. You can be sure it will happen regularly.

    All the Irish reported lately, it seems, were attacked randomly and viciously. Obviously, this one wasn't of racist motivation that we know of. I'd say the man involved was more sexually motivated. But that still doesn't explain the number of Irish involved in these brutal attacks in a short period...


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  • #61
    Lapin
    Banned (with Prison Access) Posts: 18,183 ✭✭✭✭Lapin


    drunkmonkey wrote: »
    I think the Australians have as much respect for Rabbits as People.

    I should feckin hope so :eek:


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