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Every ejit going to Australia

  • 18-01-2013 12:59AM
    #1
    JDunphy
    Closed Accounts Posts: 36 ✭JDunphy


    It seems to me that every ejit is going to australia now because its the trendy thing to do.


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  • #2
    Celly Smunt
    Banned (with Prison Access) Posts: 9,463 ✭✭✭Celly Smunt


    If you have the money to emigrate (holiday visa ehem) you're not too bad off.


  • #3
    Birneybau
    Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 10,450 ✭✭✭✭Birneybau


    Where have you been for the last few years?

    Jeez.


  • #4
    PirateShampoo
    Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 4,404 ✭✭✭PirateShampoo


    Trendy = Better?


  • #5
    El Guapo!
    Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 12,450 ✭✭✭✭El Guapo!


    JDunphy wrote: »
    It seems to me that every ejit is going to australia now because its the trendy thing to do.
    Ok


  • #6
    Nodin
    Closed Accounts Posts: 46,938 ✭✭✭✭Nodin


    JDunphy wrote: »
    It seems to me that every ejit is going to australia now because its the trendy thing to do.

    If this was true, should ye not be glad of the great eejit exodus?


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  • #7
    Max Power
    Closed Accounts Posts: 2,072 ✭✭✭Max Power


    When you going OP?


  • #8
    Senna
    Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 8,800 ✭✭✭Senna


    If I was young free and single I would have left long before now, but I wouldn't choose Australia.


  • #9
    Latchy
    Closed Accounts Posts: 21,190 ✭✭✭✭Latchy


    So people have only traveled to Australia in the last few years , not for the last 5 decades or more ? Why would you even think somebody should have to make an excuse to go to Australia or any place :confused:


  • #10
    Chavways
    Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 1,904 ✭✭✭Chavways


    Or maybe because they're tired of being on the dole for the last 3 years and they want to go somewhere where they can get a decent paying job and a new life.


  • #11
    latenia
    Closed Accounts Posts: 1,996 ✭✭✭latenia


    I just don't get why they all want to go to Australia. If I was 22 and unemployed it would rank about 40th on the list of countries I'd choose to spend a year or two in.


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  • #12
    B.A._Baracus
    Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 11,309 ✭✭✭✭B.A._Baracus


    I personally think there are pro's and con's by moving to australia, canada etc:

    Pros:
    - get a job. make some money.
    - see the world.
    - experience life.

    Cons:
    - you have to come home after 1 or 2 years. Its not a long term solution to finding work.

    But added pro:
    what would you of been doing in those 1 to 2 years anyways?

    So if people want to go to australia or canada then so be it :) I dont think its for me. But hey, thats me.


  • #13
    martic
    Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 515 ✭✭✭martic


    JDunphy wrote: »
    It seems to me that every ejit is going to australia now because its the trendy thing to do.

    April 1791 all over again


  • #14
    Latchy
    Closed Accounts Posts: 21,190 ✭✭✭✭Latchy


    I wouldn't mind visiting Sydney and a few other places like Alice Springs and I might do yet but it would only be because it's on my list of places to visit for the last 20 odd years .I wouldn't give a **** if it was populated by young GAA , shirt wearing Irish people either .


  • #15
    tan11ie
    Closed Accounts Posts: 2,056 ✭✭✭tan11ie


    JDunphy wrote: »
    It seems to me that every ejit is going to australia now because its the trendy thing to do.


    Why do you consider them ejits?


  • #16
    Boombastic
    Closed Accounts Posts: 6,496 ✭✭✭Boombastic


    Oz is so last year, everyone's heading for canada now don't ya know?


  • #17
    JDunphy
    Closed Accounts Posts: 36 ✭JDunphy


    Going to australia is not really expeiering an new life and seeing the world though when you hang out with other irish people drinking beer in your gaa jersey.


  • #18
    Latchy
    Closed Accounts Posts: 21,190 ✭✭✭✭Latchy


    Boombastic wrote: »
    Oz is so last year, everyone's heading for canada now don't ya know?
    Yeah , my friend headed over to Canada in 1979 and never came back .


  • #19
    Boombastic
    Closed Accounts Posts: 6,496 ✭✭✭Boombastic


    Latchy wrote: »
    Yeah , my friend headed over to Canada in 1979 and never came back .

    Hipster alert:D


  • #20
    Where To
    Closed Accounts Posts: 5,455 ✭✭✭Where To


    Not every eejit is going. I'm staying where I am.


  • #21
    dd972
    Closed Accounts Posts: 2,563 ✭✭✭dd972


    I'd go to Oz time and money permitting for a look around, however I'd rather spend two hours on a plane and get off in Paris or Berlin as I find them infinitely more interesting than the anglosphere.


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  • #22
    Xavi6
    Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 41,159 ✭✭✭✭Xavi6


    The amount of eejits heading over is definitely on the increase so the OP is right in a sense.

    And the scumbags, they've also discovered the WHV now.


  • #23
    Latchy
    Closed Accounts Posts: 21,190 ✭✭✭✭Latchy


    Boombastic wrote: »
    Hipster alert:D
    Canadians (generally speaking ) were never as fashion conscious as we are over this part of the world ... even the Irish ones ;)


  • #24
    Skullsri
    Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 56 ✭✭Skullsri


    Some say ejit for going I say ejit for staying


  • #25
    Boombastic
    Closed Accounts Posts: 6,496 ✭✭✭Boombastic


    Latchy wrote: »
    Canadians (generally speaking ) were never as fashion conscious as we are over this part of the world ... even the Irish ones ;)

    Your friend is the hipster, he went before it was cool and mainstream:D


  • #26
    Cookie_Monster
    Registered Users, Registered Users 2, Paid Member Posts: 24,755 ✭✭✭✭Cookie_Monster


    B.A._Baracus wrote: »
    Cons:
    - you have to come home after 1 or 2 years. Its not a long term solution to finding work.

    only if you're lazy enough to only bother getting a temp visa, you could of course get a longer term one, or a permanent one...


  • #27
    Celly Smunt
    Banned (with Prison Access) Posts: 9,463 ✭✭✭Celly Smunt


    Cookie_Monster wrote: »
    only if you're lazy enough to only bother getting a temp visa, you could of course get a longer term one, or a permanent one...

    it's not exactly that easy.


  • #28
    tan11ie
    Closed Accounts Posts: 2,056 ✭✭✭tan11ie


    JDunphy wrote: »
    Going to australia is not really expeiering an new life and seeing the world though when you hang out with other irish people drinking beer in your gaa jersey.


    Sure they do that wherever...we have some inbuilt radar for Irish pubs.


  • #29
    Cookie_Monster
    Registered Users, Registered Users 2, Paid Member Posts: 24,755 ✭✭✭✭Cookie_Monster


    pmcmahon wrote: »
    it's not exactly that easy.

    took me less than 6 weeks. (NZ, not Aus)
    it's not difficult either, unless you've no qualifications of skills


  • #30
    javagal
    Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 2,240 ✭✭✭javagal


    From the shows I've seen about people my age going over.
    They go on giving out about how awful it is to live in Ireland on the dole and how great the money is in oz.
    Yet,still about 12 of them live in one house and they drink wine from boxes.
    No thank you!!
    Pikeys in the sun!


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  • #31
    Custardpi
    Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 2,807 ✭✭✭Custardpi


    Xavi6 wrote: »
    The amount of eejits heading over is definitely on the increase so the OP is right in a sense.

    And the scumbags, they've also discovered the WHV now.


    Hmm, I dunno about this. If that were true surely the amount of eejits & scumbags here in Ireland would see a corresponding decrease. Haven't noticed any change myself, there still seems to be as many of both about the place.


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