July 22, 2004

• well, i for one would like to say that i've always regarded australians as a lovely bunch. i've come to think of them as a happy, friendly people who live so far away from the rest of us, they're especially outgoing and cheerful when they finally get up to this side of the earth. and they get lots of vacation! which i envy. and i love their accents. hurray for aussies!
• *looks around for aussie monkeys*
• Good. Another one who doesn't want to move here. Fine by me.
• Between the lousy color scheme and the humorless humour (equal opportunity speller), both my eyes and my sense of hum**r are bleeding.
• Yeah, the Aussies are crap, too. But not as bad as the warmongering French.
• I thought his site was very funny. In the same vane as Maddox. And neither Aussies or the French have got shit on Canadians, what with their floppy heads and funny money. /kidding
• I envy the rest-of-the-world's money. The purples, the blues, etc. We've gotten into peach here, recently, but I'd like to see aqua or lavender, maybe even bright red.
• Hey, here's some more Aussie English! You're a complete cunt, mate, fuck off back to the miserable cabbage-stinking pasty-faced shithole you crawled out of!
• I'm thinking this is actually a piss-take of a piss-take? I mean, you couldn't actually claim that Australians drink Fosters and that they know nothing about Rugby?
• When Australia was built on a deserted island in 1984, they couldn't think of a name for it. Most people wanted to call it 'mate'... It's funny 'cos it's true.
• I like kangaroos. And those bears, you know, the stuffed ones.
• My favorite part of this site? The hate mail from people who think the author is American. I didn't take the time to peruse the site to see if there is any damning evidence to the author's nationality one way or another, but I wonder what percentage of people who write in to this guy assume he is American vs. Canadian vs. one that hails from the fair land of Qatar? It would be interesting to see the breakdown.
• I assumed he's Australian.
• Australians sit around all day guzzling down Fosters That's where I stopped reading. If it's not a parody, it's fairly sad...Australian's don't drink Fosters. It's a clever marketing ploy by Carlton Breweries and Paul Hogan to sell beer to Americans. (on preview...dj said it first) I actually assume he's English. Using the words 'wank' and 'bloke', complaining about Australian TV (which is mainly shown o/s in England), and so on. Plus after New Zealanders, the 'whinging poms' are the biggest target of Australian ire, so of course a couple want to strike back from their shrinking island empire. (plus there are as many annoying Aussie backpackers in London as there are annoying British backpackers in Sydney...) Angry e-mails are funny from any culture, though. Outraged people who think they're entitled to something are the funniest kind of all.
• I'm with cephalophile in suspecting that this drongo isn't an Aussie. Also, taking the piss out of Rolf Harris was pretty much covered by the Goodies back in the 70s, except they were actually funny.
• Australians call each other "mate" even if they're not mates. HEY-O! /Ed McMahon
• I thought it was kind of like the Simpsons episode where Bart rang the kid up to ask about which way the water went down the sink. I assumed they were playing it both ways - the people who thought that was what Australia was like could get a laugh and those who thought it was a joke about the caricatures of Australians that people believe could also get a laugh.
• I assumed he's Australian. Ditto (at first). But he could be English: "Australia is wank" sounds v. London expression to me. Anyways, I like this site, but I must represent - GET A BIG FUCKING DOG UP YA, MATE.
• [*stifles a shout of AUSSIE AUSSIE AUSSIE!*] I wouldn't be caught dead with a Fosters, I'd sooner drink Claytons or Passion Pop [*insert retching sound here*]. Aussie accents are the sexiest thing in the world if you're a home-sick Aussie.
• *stifles a response of OI OI OI*
• He appears to be Graham Firth from Leeds (or Yorkshire, anyway). It looks as if he put some facetious remarks about Australians on his site some years back and the big response encouraged him to develop it further. Of course, the sillier the content, the more response it evokes. Does this make him a troll?
• Oh.. heheh.. Yorkshire.. well that explains it. Hehe.
• Hmmm, if it was a choice between drinking Fosters and drinking XXXX, would you just go off and shoot yourself or collapse and die spontaneously. Fosters, it isn't Australian for much of anything. There's a reason it gets exported.
• Yeah, but it sells for about 25 cents a quart over here, and when it's a few days left until payday, it does the job. Just lie back and think of Sydney.
• My husband loves Fosters. A lot. To me, it's just one step up from Bud, though. Which does work when $$ is tight. I've always wanted to visit Australia. I mean, what a wonderful place - it's got the Great Barrier Reef, totally unique wildlife (a mammal that has poison in it's leg?!), the beautiful country... yeah, my kinda place! However, Mr. I Love Fosters won't go because of all the snakes & other poisonous critters. Sigh.
• middleclasstool, who's Sydney? I thought it was probably written by the producer of Outback Jack.
• So he's really a pompudding. Or do I mean trollypoly?
• minda25- I saw more snakes in 3 months in South Carolina than I saw in the previous 27 years (or so) in Australia. It's not that big a deal.
• Just lie back and think of Sydney. Fosters is from Melbourne.
• Minda25: So come by yourself! And if he insists on coming along, then come up to Broome - I know the local snakehandler ;o) Wendell: could be Bristow..? mm.. Sydney..
• Fosters is from Melbourne. I thought it was from Canada...
• I'll have to let him know, sarah & polychrome! I'm sure after some reassuring & sweet-talking, he'll give in :o)