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I'm moving, I think.
öde:
That's not the point! Our news used to matter! Now at regular intervals in the day you get the fucking gossip read out to you in Received Pronunciation.
Actually I don't know how true that is, I don't watch the news or look at most media.
Inlander:
--- Quote from: tommydski on 03 Jan 2008, 15:34 ---the binge drinking phenomena
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Oh Christ, I'd forgotten about that. One thing that gets really annoying as an Australian in Britain is that the attitudes of most people over there towards Australia are mired in cliches and stereotypes that largely stopped being accurate two or three decades ago. (No doubt this is not helped by the fact that most British people's exposure to Australia comes via the absurdly irrelevant depictions of it in Neighbours and Home and Away.) Of all the myths perpetuated by British people against Australians, the most hypocritical is the notion that Australians are big drinkers. There is no binge drinking culture in Australia that I'm aware of. There are some instances binge drinking, of course, but generally, while most nights out in Australia will revolve around alcohol to some extent, people here drink only to get drunk: drinking until you're unconscious is not generally a widespread cultural phenomenon in Australia. Whereas in Britain, from what I can tell, this approach to alcohol appears to be the norm. No country that I've ever been to has such an unhealthy drinking culture as Britain.
Johnny C:
And you fuckers scoffed at me.
OH HOW THE MIGHTY HAVE FALLEN
(I'm just taking the challenge piss.)
Caiphana:
Adding on what yelley said about finding out tuition...
Know that at my community college here in California, it's $22 a unit for California residents. For foreign peoples? Over $100 a unit. So, the class that costs me 66 bucks runs a foreigner back 300, not including books. I'll bet the situation is similar over 'dere, maybe even worse. Especially since the dollar is worth jack now.
a pack of wolves:
--- Quote from: tommydski on 03 Jan 2008, 15:34 ---The British are also the ugliest race in the world.
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Okay, now you're just getting silly.
The rest of the points raised on this page are incredibly correct though, I hate having to run the gauntlet of hammered students and LUFC hard nuts all equally bent on taking the lyrics to Annihilate This Week far too literally if I decide to go into the city centre on a weekend night. And then there's those friends who hit it too hard but you're not sure how you can talk them out of it since seemingly everyone's all smashed up all the time anyway and you can see them being the old wreck in the corner of the pub in a few years.
I can't watch the tv news anymore, it's too depressing. Not the subjects that are covered, it's the anglocentric position, obsession with celebrities and the terrifying fact that it seems to have been scripted by Chris Morris. In the BBC's defence The Today Programme on Radio 4 is still decent (if still prone to some of these problems) and From Our Own Correspondent is almost worth the license fee all on its own. The World Service has some fantastic programming too, its news programming is well worth listening to. It's just a shame that the same can't be said for any of the television news.
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