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Posted: Thu Dec 07, 2006 2:27 am
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Posted: Thu Dec 07, 2006 1:29 pm
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Posted: Thu Dec 07, 2006 7:57 pm
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Posted: Fri Dec 08, 2006 3:29 am
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Posted: Fri Dec 08, 2006 5:26 am
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yeah this is doen to death, even for the OAG, even more done to death than my drunken rants around the place...
hey live with it... hell one day america will callapse, and then we an laugh at them, hell they gave us the bold and the beautiful, but we gave them neighbours.... at least there is some sort of spark, no matter how lost it is , in the B&B....
and yes soapies suck arse...
hell it wont take much to kill america, off its just they havent pissed the world off enough yet to cut off all its imported produce... lets see how long they will last then without any foodstuffs coming in...
but yeah, some day, the brits, dutch, chinese, and japanese will take over americas spot in the world... and we'll have the remains of antarctica...
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Posted: Fri Dec 08, 2006 7:52 am
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Posted: Sat Dec 09, 2006 1:28 pm
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Posted: Sun Dec 10, 2006 4:21 am
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Posted: Sun Dec 10, 2006 7:34 am
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WellzY Sleep Beauty @ WellzY - I know what you mean, but Australia as a whole is alot more Americanised compared to Europe. I have lived in Europe for a year and it is not as bad as in Australia. I hate you, but yes that doesn't surprise me. As a young nation with little cultural herritage compared to Europe, we quickly look for a role-model, and which better rolde-model than the US? It's just unfortunate that the good comes with the bad.
Yeah, I guess your right. But I am looking forward to coming home in January and to see our Australian (even though the are Americanized) ways.
@ bohemian - lol. I manage to confuse myself all the time. That book sounds familiar.
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Posted: Sun Dec 10, 2006 9:30 pm
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WellzY Sleep Beauty @ WellzY - I know what you mean, but Australia as a whole is alot more Americanised compared to Europe. I have lived in Europe for a year and it is not as bad as in Australia. I hate you, but yes that doesn't surprise me. As a young nation with little cultural herritage compared to Europe, we quickly look for a role-model, and which better rolde-model than the US? It's just unfortunate that the good comes with the bad.
I wish we would model our country more on the European (namely Scandenavian) countries rather than America, if we had to model someone. The culture, the history, the people, the attitudes and the governments, to me anyway, seem like a far better model.
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Posted: Mon Dec 11, 2006 12:31 am
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Frog Juice WellzY Sleep Beauty @ WellzY - I know what you mean, but Australia as a whole is alot more Americanised compared to Europe. I have lived in Europe for a year and it is not as bad as in Australia. I hate you, but yes that doesn't surprise me. As a young nation with little cultural herritage compared to Europe, we quickly look for a role-model, and which better rolde-model than the US? It's just unfortunate that the good comes with the bad. I wish we would model our country more on the European (namely Scandenavian) countries rather than America, if we had to model someone. The culture, the history, the people, the attitudes and the governments, to me anyway, seem like a far better model.
Yeah. I totally agree. This year I am living in Europe, its in Scandanavia. Denmark actually. And they have a really good goverment system.
Please Vote For Me In the Arena!
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Posted: Mon Dec 11, 2006 7:06 pm
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Sleep Beauty Frog Juice WellzY Sleep Beauty @ WellzY - I know what you mean, but Australia as a whole is alot more Americanised compared to Europe. I have lived in Europe for a year and it is not as bad as in Australia. I hate you, but yes that doesn't surprise me. As a young nation with little cultural herritage compared to Europe, we quickly look for a role-model, and which better rolde-model than the US? It's just unfortunate that the good comes with the bad. I wish we would model our country more on the European (namely Scandenavian) countries rather than America, if we had to model someone. The culture, the history, the people, the attitudes and the governments, to me anyway, seem like a far better model. Yeah. I totally agree. This year I am living in Europe, its in Scandanavia. Denmark actually. And they have a really good goverment system.
Please Vote For Me In the Arena!
I had a couple of friends who spent a year in Denmark on exchange and they said it was just amazing. It was better in the way the government was and the way the laws were. And peoples' attitudes were different and better. Another one went to Switzerland and loved it.
I'm so jealous of the fact that you're living there. I've always wanted to visit there.
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Posted: Tue Dec 12, 2006 2:08 am
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Frog Juice WellzY Sleep Beauty @ WellzY - I know what you mean, but Australia as a whole is alot more Americanised compared to Europe. I have lived in Europe for a year and it is not as bad as in Australia. I hate you, but yes that doesn't surprise me. As a young nation with little cultural herritage compared to Europe, we quickly look for a role-model, and which better rolde-model than the US? It's just unfortunate that the good comes with the bad. I wish we would model our country more on the European (namely Scandenavian) countries rather than America, if we had to model someone. The culture, the history, the people, the attitudes and the governments, to me anyway, seem like a far better model. I could not agree more. Their attitude in a lot of areas is always inspiring of something better.
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Posted: Wed Dec 13, 2006 3:04 am
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:] At the end of the day, we're only just over a hundred years old, in terms of federation. Most cities are only about a hundred and fifty. We're still finding our way amongst the western/first- world countries.
America is a useful ally, and the time will come when that comes in unbelievably handy. Yeah, the nation is fair ******** up now, and them dragging us into the Gaza Strip isn't helping any either.
But we don't have enough strength on the global scale to say no. We can't afford to say no, if we're gonna' have the national support we need to keep climbing the ladder. The best we can do is what we're already doing - strengthen and develop allies where we can (Timor, NZ, Japan, all those indian-pacific nations) and gradually maneuver ourselves into a position where we will be able to stand up.
America's a bully that is under the hand of a democratic system which doesn't work. It may be a superpower now, but in the next twenty to thirty years, their position is going to change significantly. They're pushing too hard on the rest of the world, and the other nations won't take it much longer. We might not be able to stand up, but others can - and when that happens? Australia will be ready to become a serious contender.
On a lighter note! XD
Their TV is crap, but really. It's not like we can produce much better. The entertainment industry out here isn't large enough; it also needs time to grow. They have hundreds of channels, PA TV (public access, think The Princess Diaries or the Simpson's episode with the Venus diMilo gummi), thousands of artists and scriptwriters and producers. We're the puddle to their swimming pool.
:] Gotta' grin and bear it, though it does suck incredibly. Give me British crime any day. Or sport. That's good too.
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Posted: Thu Dec 14, 2006 6:32 am
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