Clearing misconceptions about Australia/America

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Re: Clearing misconceptions about Australia/America

Post by DAVE101 » Fri Aug 02, 2013 9:08 pm

Let me help clarify

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The areas in blue have a higher concentration of uneducated city dwellers and petty criminals that throw around racial slurs as if it were the 1970s. They demand that other people pay for their rent and health care rather than work an honest job. I'm not going to pretend I'm all that much better, but I have enough perspective to know when I'm acting like a hypocrite.
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Re: Clearing misconceptions about Australia/America

Post by Fluffyumpkins » Fri Aug 02, 2013 9:13 pm

Let me help clarify

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Re: Clearing misconceptions about Australia/America

Post by Potter » Fri Aug 02, 2013 9:54 pm

let me help clarify
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Re: Clearing misconceptions about Australia/America

Post by JzN » Sun Aug 04, 2013 5:29 am

You guys are hilarious !

the only comment i'd like to make, is that metric is better than imperial. You know sooner or later, you will be adopting the metric system...

My personal opinion is that the imperial system was used because you could use common items to give reference to, such as foot, using one's foot. It seems like a very backwards way of doing things where as metric is specific for everythiung. Hell, there are even 2 imperial systems, british and US, which confuses us metric users when doing conversions.

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Re: Clearing misconceptions about Australia/America

Post by Pokebis » Sun Aug 04, 2013 11:02 am

I feel like certain things like lbs are more precise than kg.
Also inches are awesome.

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Re: Clearing misconceptions about Australia/America

Post by Fluffyumpkins » Sun Aug 04, 2013 11:27 am

I like having to guess if something weighs tons, tones, or tonnes.

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Re: Clearing misconceptions about Australia/America

Post by Potter » Sun Aug 04, 2013 8:04 pm

yo imperial is some wack bullshit
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Re: Clearing misconceptions about Australia/America

Post by JzN » Sun Aug 04, 2013 8:42 pm

Do they eat a lot of chicken wings in Australia?
In my opinion, Australians prefer boneless meats such as steaks, lamb chops and Chicken boobs.

Chicken wings, although popular, i wounldn't say we eat a lot of. Lamb and beef are our primary meats, especially our lamb cutlets.

We also have lots of pies and sausage rolls (minced meat in a pastry) and not many hot dog vendors. Come to think of it, only Wendy's (franchise) sells hotdogs and a few other specialy places...


Also, on the topic of censorship and patriotism, this site does give an insight to some key differences between the two nations.

http://convictcreations.com/culture/yankaussie.htm

If it's TL:DR, the basic summary is we practice patriotism in different ways due to our culture. I think we are a bit more easy going than the US.

An example they used was if someone wiped the AUS flag with their bum, we would find this hilarious or in the very least, not offensive, where as if you replaced the Aus flag with the US flag ... they may find them selves dead!

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Re: Clearing misconceptions about Australia/America

Post by DAVE101 » Sun Aug 04, 2013 10:54 pm

America comes first in the America/Australia relationship.
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Re: Clearing misconceptions about Australia/America

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Re: Clearing misconceptions about Australia/America

Post by Fluffyumpkins » Wed Nov 04, 2020 10:25 pm

Pokebis wrote:
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I also don't think you have much grounds discounting an entire political party as "uneducated religious zealots."
I realize America is far from not having these issues, but I don't understand why you're perpetuating stereotypes based on your own, apparently strong, biases.
I'd like to think 7 years after this post, Pokebis finally understands.

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Re: Clearing misconceptions about Australia/America

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