Australia next the UK Forums.

Hahahahahaha!:lol: That was priceless!

 

Come on don't lie, of course it is...!

 

have you ever read anything from the australian forum? you are missing very little believe me.

besides i couldn't bear the beery breath of the brit forum all over the aussie forum.

 

Oh dear... she obviously didn't meet Paul!

Mate, I've never been to Liverpool, but even way down south we've heard it's a rough place!

 

Holy shit, nostalgia flashback! D'you remember when there was just a fucking HUGE list of forums, one after the other, with the UK forum about four fifths of the way down?

I liked that system. It had its own kind of "homegrown" charm. I thought Skip had actually programmed all that by hand for a while.

Not saying the vBulletin style is crap...the old style has grown around it over the years...just saying.

 

I still have some nostalgia for the pre-V bulletin format, it was quirky and cool and very homely....

 

Do you know whether Skip made the original forums himself, or created them from a template or a bit of both? I've always wondered. Might have to PM him myself to ask...

 

I have a feeling they were hand-made, but I could be wrong. Never seen any other forums like it....

 

Not those ones...it's hard to describe the one I'm talking about (and I think, as you say, there was one even before that where users didn't have to register before posting). The ones I mean were broken into categories, but bunches together and just had one or two words in the title (and no desxcription underneath). There was no vBulletin or other message board software mark on the bottom, which is part of what led me to think they were "homegrown"

 

Come on admit it you translated that directly from the Latin didn't you...

 

I was asking yself the same question...

 

Hmmm Australians arent really my cup of tea. They talk like nasally infected londoners and say "cobber" and "watcha" and are a bit nutty like Rolf Harris (sorry that should be NUTTY) and dame edna everidge.
Australians tend to be a bit mentally challenged as they spend too much time drinking and surfing and all that sea, beer, and sun kills their brain cells off.

 

yeah it must be the good weather and education system that makes them strange. don't forget all that good food - not that pigs swill thats usually served up in the uk.

don't get me wrong, australia is inflicting the same mortally wounding policies that the uk brought in a number of years ago, australia is a sinking ship but its still mostly above the waterline. at the moment any brit with two brain cells to rub together is trying to get out of the utopia of britain.

most brits i've encountered are usually snobs / alcoholics/ drug users/ illiterate/ innumerate who know little of their history or their own family. britain is a dog eat dog society reverting back to feudalism with the middleclass at the helm (the middle class left after margaret thatcher culled a heap of them).

these people were created by govenmental policy that couldn't be bothered to teach or support its own native people.

tax in britain is phenomenal 17.5 percent on everything!! that is astounding, no wonder not much happens, keep watching top gear its probably the only thing britain has got left.

 

The myth of the British having crap food mostly comes from what they were forced to make do with during rationing. Boiled bacon and dumplings aren't my idea of good food, but they were hard times.

I'm off downstairs now to enjoy Sunday dinner...mashed potatoes, assorted vegetables, Yorkshire puddings, some nice tender slices of beef, gravy...a little bit of Branston pickle on the side.

Enjoy your fried Kangaroo balls and dingo stew, cobber.



Also, tax is 17% now.

 

wow a whole half a percent , don't spend it all at once.

compared to europe british food is like ambrosia, food in australia is much better. i remember some welshman finding freshly cut pineapple too sweet to eat!! a lifetime of eating that rubberised crap in a can as found in the supermarkets no doubt.

kangaroo meat is something they tried marketing, mainly its served up to dogs but the meat is too lean you can't put on weight eating it.

the most horrifying thing about british supermarkets when you visit is the low quality of the vegetables.

the whole system is overtaxed , returning to britain would be like a prison sentence.

each to their own i suppose

 

As a vegan this is the most annoying thing about shopping in the UK (I suppose its annoying to anyone who wants to eat well!) We have to go all over, to farmers markets, specialist shops, just to get a decent bloody tomato or bell pepper. Also supermarket fruit is sometimes really weird...like freakishly huge and tasting like ass. We mostly just put up with it though Looking forward to being able to grow our own, assuming it doesnt rain constantly and we dont get flooded again
The food here really is quite shameful in comparison to a lot of other European countries

Overall, I really think youve summed Britain up unfortunately guy! The tax really is insane
Sadly not many members of the public seem that interested in talking about positive change. Theyd rather dig their heels in and say "well why dont you move away then!?" like kids with their egos wounded

Im not saying living here doesnt have some pretty big plus points, or I wouldnt be here. I just dont think theres any point in denying how much the system pinches

 

my first posting and it's in the middle of taxes verses vegies.
why didn't you start on the rugby and the cricket.ha ha.

 

ultimately it was margeret thatcher that drove the nail into the coffin lid. looking back on it, it was 1970 that marks the demise of britain, vat came in a bit later but 1970 seems to be the year they decided that the experiment going on to change society was pulled. manufacturing was destroyed, education was destroyed. when thatcher came along she broke everything that was left. her son mark is a weapons dealer with a penchant for arranging coups in foreign countries.

VAT is the thing single most damaging thing that britain experienced. the poor got whacked the rich just laughed. britain never recovered. nowadays it just does the bidding of foreign agents, right now the might of the british army marches around in the wastelands of the middle east whilst tony takes a good holiday.

britain is finished.

 

As an Aussie myself, I dont think the Aussis would go for that.