Until Australia start treating their native citizens...THE ABORIGINALS, fairly...they don't get my vote. These are my ancestors FFS!
Yeh I have heard that Australians treat the aboriginals really badly. It is unacceptable and shocking. Australians should hang their heads in shame but aside from that, Britain and Australia have this unspoken bond. They are like our Soul mate.
We used to be down the bottom of the list with everyone else. But we're up here because we're not just a regional forum. We're not just the second largest national grouping on the forums, we're the largest, and perhaps only, real community here....
Maybe if we could merge with Australia. Have a hybrid forum of two closely related/linked nations with the same head of state and connections with history that have created a close bond with Australia. To see how close we are with Australia, is to see what side of the road we drive on.Just an idea.Australia and the Uk would still have independence from australian forum, but we would have a direct access link with Australia and going from one to another would be as simple as clicking on Uk random.
NO! Why should we? Japanese drive on the left...we don't have a direct link for them. As do Thais and infact, I think many Asian countries do.
Not all aussies are bad people, but like anything it only takes one rotten apple to spoil the cart I guess.
Nice one At last somebody recognises that Australia are not bad people. Well not all aussies anyway. Having a direct link to Australia through the uk forums I believe isn't such an insane idea. The votes speak for themselves that is why I started a poll in the first place. Maybe we could have a seven day trial period. If it don't work out, then we can officially denounce, crush or even liquify my innocent suggestion Additional: I bet Einstein's ideas were all dubbed stupid until years later, his theories were taken seriously.
If I'm reading it the right way, in that there'd be a link to access the Australia forum through the UK forum, wouldn't that cause as much offense as the current issue has? We may as well start a system where nobody is banned from Hipforums for offences in the UK forum, but instead they're banned from posting in the UK forum and can only post in the Australia forum. Actually, holy crap, that's an awesome idea.
I recommend banishing John to Australia for crimes against the UK forum. Australia - Population 2: Jorg and Nirvana Princess....
Pfft, I'll recommend banishing John to you in a minute if you're not careful sonny boy. Who was Jorg? I can't remember.
Thankyou for everyone who has taken part in the poll. Although the poll continues on, It is interesting to see people's opinions. I must stress that one should not crush a person's idea or suggestion just because we disagree. But more that we should nurture those with an idea that may actually turn out to be a good suggestion....if given the chance. Sure many might think, Australia belong down at the bottom as they are "Down Under". I was thinking that because our history is so interwoven, it might be an idea to merge or atleast create some direct link. Some Aussie was asking why UK and US got star treatment. I automatically disputed this claim but I decided that maybe a solution could be sought to make Australia more available.This idea may not be one of the best. But we all have to start somewhere. Even famous artists started out with crazy ideas. Given the chance, it can evolve into something quite constructive.
It belongs there because they're down under? That was me wasn't it? You realise I was joking, right? Hey, UK and US history is fairly close too. Why don't we merge those two forums together? And the UK held Hong Kong for a hundred years, which is now part of China, so let's chuck them together too. Not to mention that England was ruled by a French leader after 1066, so let's link France and the UK forums. Ooo, there are young hippies living in the UK. Let's put that foru...oh wait, that was renamed The Whiners? Well, there are lots of whiners in the UK so it still works. Not to mention that we're now part of the European Union...the Europe forum can come stay for a while too. Anyone who reads this, please pretend that I repeated the above formula for every single forum on Hipforums. I'm too fucking lazy to do it by hand. :tongue:
I don't have my hands around your kneck - I like your thoughts and opinions - don't give up on this dude.