Wanna hear a good wan?

2 of my mates had a big going away party in Late November coz they were going to Australia for a year. They came back before Christmas (after 3 weeks) coz they didnt like it

 

Loads of people are sick of whats going on here and heading abroad for a change of life and to find work. Thats my take on it anyway.

 

 

Didn't like what?? The country? the people, none of it? Heard of this happening before, I think the only sensible solution is to revoke passports. Would not bode too well for those lads travelling in the future if they cant hack it in an English speaking country with great weather (Queensland aside), so they probably would have no need for passports anyway.

 

 

 

 

Didnt like the country. Havent had a chance to talk to them about it yet.

 

I'd love to hear what they didnt like about the place.

 

 

You would really wonder at times......Didn't like the country. All 2.9 square million miles of it. Roughly translated, that probably means they didn't like their hostel/cheap hotel, and both pubs they went to were kips.

 

And SGB, dont be so quick rushing in to defend them, I think yer getting yer excuses ready early

 

 

 

 

 

It probably is if you look at all the physical tangible benefits, its definitely a country I would love to go to a few a few months, maybe even a year, but this island of ours in the North Atlantic is home and despite the weather, the corrupt politicians, the recession, our lack of confidence in ourselves as a Nation, I would rather live no where else. They probably were just homesick. I went to Chicago for 3 months, had an absolute blast, but I was delighted to come home

 

 

 

 

 

 

Jaysus, Baldrick's not back is he  

haha. No. Theyre a couple. Went to brisbane and came straight home

I went for the year and I was delighted when I came back.

Does'nt mean that you abandon ship with 48 weeks to go

i may decide someday to leave travel, work but ill always return someday.

 

i love this country

born and bred in this country and

i intend to die in this country

 

deise316 wrote: Ah Walls, show me somebody homesick after 3 weeks and I'll show you somebody who hasn't been away from their Mammy for more than a long weekend

 

 

Nope fair point lads, I was being a bit on the serious side. I agree even if you are homesick if ya go all that way ya should stick it for a bit longer. I know I would stay just because I didnt want to hear all the abuse from the lads back home!!

Make breakfast, dinner etc

Wash or iron clothes

Clean up after themselves - basic things like a plate or cup.

All because their mammy use to do everything for this.

It's a typical Irish thing I reckon.

 

Im leaving because Im in a job I hate with no career prospects, cant see myself ever owning a house, the weather is sh*t, the depression of everyone else depresses me and I want to see the world. Ive lived in the States for a year and have the experience of living away so Im dying to go.

 

This country's fooked, financially, morally and so many other ways and though I bleed green and adore our culture, language, folk/ballad music and dancing and all that, there's an awful lot to not like about 2011 Ireland.

 

Thats bad alright. I previously lived away from home when going to college in Ireland and then moved to the UK 6 years ago to finish my degree. When I graduated I decided to hang around and experience the world before going home to settle down as I thought I might not get the chance again. Unfortunately the ar*e fell out of the economy before I managed to get home and am now stuck abroad. At least with Ryanair I'm able to get home 4 or 5 times a year, however I'm sending my CV this evening to OZ where I'm in with a shout for a job. To all those who feel home sickness when they leave they should remember the world is a much smaller place than it was in the 1980's and people have a lot of spare cash when working abroad therefore I know/hope I'll get home to the motherland some day. What state will I find it in....who cares?...we never did before.

 

It's a shame TJ that your friends decided to return home. It's something they'll regret.

   

Spot on Deise met a good few of these at one time or another the beans don't taste the same as the one's you get at home etc etc .

 

I had 3 trips of 15 months, 5 half years ,and two and a half years and at the end of each of them I was upset to be going home . Hey if you ever lived in Burnley you could undersatnd why

 

'For what suffer our patriots today....'

 

Which prison(s) were you in.....and what were the crimes?

 

Totally agree with you FW. I'm as patriotic as anyone and passionate about the rich language and culture that so many of our own people rate as backward, useless, dead etc etc and are all too ready to throw it all away via their misguided and ill informed perceptions of "sophistication".

 

But Australia is a fantastic country and they seem to run it properly over there. It was the best year of my life and I was broken hearted to have to come home as I would have happily stayed for a few years at least.

 

You need to give anything new a chance before you'll take to it and to come home after 3 weeks is pathetic. I remember seeing lads in a pub in Sydney at Christmas crying into their pints thru homesickness when the craic was all around them. Some people just arent grown up enough to handle or appreciate the opportunities presented to them.

 

However, the future of this fair country of ours has been squandered away in a cesspool of corruption, mismanagement, greed and immorality and the futures of its younger generations lie elsewhere so Thank God they have places like Australia to go to if they're lucky enough to get that chance and sensible enough to take it.

 

How did you rate Argentina the last year when you were there Baldie ????

 

Also I do see your point on Oz , the big thing for me is that you are a long way from well, anywhere really I have meet a good few over the years who got disenchanted with life in Oz after 5 or 6 years not sure why maybe missed home . A bit like London after two years you start to become negative about the place then it drains the soul out of you . I always said if you are going to move to a different country then you have to go the whole Hog and be a True Blue Aussie just like your mate next door .

 

�25 for a days entertainment aint bad,

did you have to ajust your �15 an hour mantra for your trip to Auz

Adam Goodes of the Sydney Swans is one of the best players to ever play Aussie Rules and an outspoken campaigner on issues affecting Indigenous Australians. A great player and a great guy who makes no apology for being proud of his identity.

A couple of years ago he was called "an ape" during a match by a 13 year old female Collingwood fan and immediately pointed her out in the crowd after hearing the comment. Despite saying he did not blame her personally for the comment due to her youth, but rather the overall culture in which she grew up, he was roundly criticised in the Aussie media for his reaction.

A couple of months ago, the AFL had their annual "Indigenous Round", in which the Swans played Carlton. Goodes kicked a goal and then celebrated with a kind of Indigenous war dance gesture. Since that he has been roundly booed at most grounds any time he touches the ball by opposition supporters. This booing is clearly as a direct result of Goodes' celebration. And yet a large amount of white Australians still deny there is any racist element to the booing. You'd actually laugh at the lameness and stupidity of the denials of racism coming from everywhere in white Australia, including the likes of Shane Warne, if they weren't so, well, racist. 

It's actually mental to see such obvious racism so widely defended in a so called civilised country.

I would hesitate to call anybody outright racists but the treatment of Goodes is astonishing. 

The attitude of many white Australians towards Indigeneous people is basically "Know your place. We'll tolerate you if you shut up, smile and don't say anything that might make us uncomfortable, but if you do or say anything that might remind us in any way of the reality of not just the history of white Australia's racism and oppression, but its present, you're going to suffer."

That is the mindset which has led to this situation.

David Hanly actually once said this on Morning Ireland about Clinton Morrison. 

Tweet from a former Brisbane Roar goalkeeper:

Some Aussies are great craic bit harsh on them, its like everywhere you'll always find a group, either racist or homophobic or both. South Africans are the worst I've ever encountered for racism, Americans towards Mexicans are just as bad.

Irish towards Travellers too.

Hadn't through about one Sid, travellers usually don't help themselves however. Shows like 'Big fat gypsy wedding' for example.

That's exactly the type of thing many white Australians would say about Indigenous Australians. 

Sid, I don't know what Indigenous Australians get up to Down Under. But I wonder if they randomly arrive on their doorsteps offering numerous services ranging from carpet to putting tarmac down never mind the shows, they're channel 4's best friends these days. That Paddy Doherty fella is now known throughout the land.

No in their homeland, what actives they get up to in and around the community.

I didn't say all travellers do sketchy stuff SD, I'm just stating they don't help themselves and point out examples. Those shows, and random blokes on your driveway take away from the decent travellers who are out there 

TJ.. Haven't you heard? There's a 'peace process' up here, not quite sure when this process ends however.

Captain? Ah stop, few years of that yet.. No grey hairs yet! 

You know what i meant, home to me is the North. I always refer back to it 

BOMBS? We didn't have bombs.... unless your Willie Frasier, in his eyes we probably have Nuclear bombs hidden in the Crossmaglen hills 

booing by opposition fans is part and parcel of any sport calling someone an ape has not and never should be.

    

Bloody abo's handbag mate.

She's also sh*t at maths.

I have heard the same about alcoholism but then I would hardly class that as them not doing themselves any favours. 

Yes the indigenous population have serious social issues that can make them undesirable to the mainstream white community. It's hardly amazing that a proud tribal people who had their homeland stolen, were victims of ethnic cleansing and were terrorized in unimaginable ways - all in the relatively recent past - are now struggling to be upstanding members of what the colonisers imagine to be polite society.

They have substance abuse issues as alcohol the same as most marginalised communities across the globe do. You treat a group of people as worthless and lower class citizens and see the damage that it does to their psyche. 

We, ourselves, were regarded as scum by some in the international community and only really started shaking off some of our insecurities in the late 80's. And the English treated us like f**king royalty in comparison to the sh1te dished out to the Aborigines.

  

The reality is that is a poxy state of affairs and there is no quick fix. The settlers caused this mess and the levels of inherent racism in Oz is absolutely disgusting.