Some Good reasons to visit Australia.

A lot of us don't drink the beer, god forbid someone drinks VB. Now, THAT is probably piss.

Corona or Asahi imports for me, thanks.

 

I noticed the word cunt isn't nearly as offensive over there.

A TV show from straya that gets shown here actually said cunt on tv and it had to be censored here i think.

works both ways though, "sick cunt" is a pretty good compliment, "sad cunt" etc not so much.

 

Haha. Not particularly surprised. Swearing and nudity is more or less permitted but we can't have gore or drug use (even fictional) shown on television.

I recall watching an airing of a special Good News Week episode where "Sandman" was ass-naked and "pulled" a car key out of his ass... All of this was aired on a public, national television channel in the evening as well. Good News Week even had a section called "The Swearing Bear" as well. (My parents are huge fans of political satire and enjoy watching comedy channel type stuff a great deal of the time).

Oddly enough with the drug use, you can still have people drinking beer and being completely smashed on public t.v. but more or less only stuff that gets shown earlier in the day will get censored for kids watching. Of course, that doesn't include when someone handling show programming screws up - some of the organizers purposely putting on the wrong show on during a kids' peak viewing time... Actually happened fairly recently when Foxtel/Austar screwed up and put Hannibal on during prime after-school viewing!

Though quite a few things crossed over, like Agro the puppet was both a children's show character and an adult comedy puppet... I ended up getting taken to a live recording when I was little and saw them do both a children's show episode and then go into the adult's only episode. Both times the puppeteer was harassing the female co-host by flipping her skirt up and the like. They cut the swearing from the kid's episode but it was all maintained in the later showing episode.

More or less ruined seeing Agro live as a kid, especially with some of the stuff being so vulgar - they even cut it during the adult's only evening show.

 

Agreed. Two of my favorites, actually. I wish Asahi Dry was more popular where I live.

Thanks for answering my questions! Really appreciate it. I've learned a lot from this thread. already

 

VB *is* piss. Boags on the other hand is a fine beer, previously only available in Tassie but it's slowly making it's way over. Don't get the premium, draught is where it's at.

 

Interesting to hear what other people think about Australia. I have lived here my whole life and never left, so everything just seems normal to me. Makes it hard to hard to give any fair comparisons.

 

Bogan Translations:
*clears throat *

Oi Mate = I don't like you

Oi Cunt = BFF

For more info on the native Australian Bogan (Boginiusvulgaris) Please watch this film..

 

bloody lebos

 

Have heard it said

"Australia where you call your friends cunt and a stranger mate"

 

Personally? I typically use mate when I don't know someone's name OR if I've forgotten their name. But older people may use mate and take offense at the other one for any of the Americans that for some reason want to come here.

 

Yeah, I wouldn't go around calling Australians 'cunts' based on something I read on a forum ;-)

 

Jebus, meant no offense.

Copy and paste what I said into google.....

Note facebook page and images.

Obviously you would suss who you could say it to and not in the office!

I must have had some rough mates bitd then lol!

Actually that is how we knew an old mate Ian had arrived, burst through the doors "hey cunts!" Usually return the insult. But it was all said with great affection.

 

Oi VB is alright. I don't know if that's because I'm older and grew up drinking Swan/Export but I like it. Makes PBR/Budweiser/Millers look like cordial or something.

This country is great but of course there are a lot of things wrong with it. We're still living in the past when it comes to stuff like equality or race, but shit, you should have seen it in the 60s/70s. A good rule is to never get into political discussion. If you do that things go south really quickly. Guess the same could be said of anywhere in the world but Aussies seem pretty passionate about their politics. Personally I just ignore it all now after spending time being involved in the late 90s/early 00s.

Don't know if I'd live anywhere else in the world. Maybe somewhere cooler where it rains occasionally would be nice. Miss the rain.

It's a free for all after 9:30 but the commercial stations are too scared to do it. Only with a big production like Underbelly or whatever. Allowed to show penises as long as they aren't erect, allowed to show vagina in a non-sexual context. Tits are fine. Drug use shouldn't be glorified unless there's a negative consequence. Violence you're fine with it seems as long as you've got a lot of money for a big production (bribes?). Generally it has to be "comical" violence or documenting a real event. Really weird the way it's done. It's been a few years since I read the guidelines and I only sorta skimmed - I should dig my copy out. I love that they can get away with saying "shit" during the nightly news. Not very often but people do say it. (Witnesses etc - if it's a court statement being read it'll usually be bleeped).

I do love the, hm, "subtlety" of our TV compared to the US though. That show "Who Do You Think You Are" for example. Guests on the Australian show usually shed a few tears and say "wow far out" and that's that. Tried to watch the American version and it's like "Woooooah omg omg this is where my ancestors stood WOOOOW I'm so emotional I mean I can't tell you what this even means" then cry for 15 minutes before erecting a statue in memoriam. Okay, maybe not the last part.

 

I was lucky enough to get AFL games broadcast to me for a while & I played a bit on a club team in college. I've always wanted to go to Australia, but now I want to see a game of Aussie rules.

I'm still amazed that there can be a draw in the Grand Final, and if there is they just replay the game the next week.

I met this drunk Australian guy once. He kept talking about how awesome Australian money was. He pulls a yellow bill out of his wallet, dips it in his beer, wipes it off and was so excited to show me that the beer just rolled off it & the bill was dry.

 

I recommend watching the 1992 & 1994 AFL grand finals Going to a game is great. You get screaming idiots/racists and whatever but it's easy enough to ignore them and just enjoy yourself.

Our money is great! There was a huge uproar when it got introduced but now everyone likes it. Saves a lot in printing costs too.

 

"ah bollocks, same time next week?, alright mate" *everybody clears off home and comes back next week*

I like the aussie attitude, everything is laid back.