[Robinski]

QUOTE (buzbegone @ Sunday, Nov 6 2011, 14:40)

I can't trust the commercial channels which pump out shows like: the X Factor, Australia's Got Talent and Dancing With the Stars that get hammed up and frustrate the f*ck out of me.

I love how you guys are on literally the other side of the planet but still have the same sh*tty Saturday night telly as us.

[buzbegone]

QUOTE (Robinski @ Sunday, Nov 6 2011, 22:44)

QUOTE (buzbegone @ Sunday, Nov 6 2011, 14:40) I can't trust the commercial channels which pump out shows like: the X Factor, Australia's Got Talent and Dancing With the Stars that get hammed up and frustrate the f*ck out of me. I love how you guys are on literally the other side of the planet but still have the same sh*tty Saturday night telly as us.

Shows like that are Monday-Friday for us. Don't catch a break 'til Saturday when Doc Martin and Poirot are on

[Jay]

QUOTE (Piperka @ Monday, Nov 7 2011, 00:12)

Doesn't Australia contribute to less than 1% (or 3%) of total carbon in the atmosphere? I don't get why we have to have a carbon tax which will just make everything even more expensive than it already is here.

Well you gotta start small. The thinking is that if Australia is able to implement something which in the grand scheme of things is small scale, the model for which we use it can be applied elsewhere in the world.

It's just like when Ireland were the first country to ban smoking in pubs. Gotta start somewhere.

@Rob: you bet. We have our own versions of Buzzcocks and Mock The Week as well, but they're very tame.

[Vercetti27]

[Warlord.]

What are the living expenses like in Melbourne for a student? Are jobs easy to get and what's the average pay like?

[Jay]

Depending where you look, Melbourne is the most livable city in the world. If you live in or around the CBD (like a bunch of student accommodation is), it'll be great because you don't pay for transport during business hours, iirc ticket inspectors are on trams only after 6, or rarely otherwise.

[Stink_Fist]

What a stupid thread, come on you Aussies need to get over yourselves.

[avito coleone]

You PI's are welcome here to, I mean, just look at the guren transfers the pitch "war on new zealand" ad on youtube. We are looking at you guys for immigrant processing and for future reasons to have public holidays.

Onto the issue of carbon tax, I believe it is nessecary to implement a tax or other similiar stratergy to combat climate change. For to long have western nations controlled third world nation land use to offset our own carbon (save the rainforrests, save orrangotangs, save jungle3s etc) not allowing for those third world countries to develop into places of 'more' equality. (I say more as it is a touchy subject that has many sides and I believe no-one should govern how another country chooses to run its finances). As Australians we should lead the way for something to combat this damage, and while I do not agree with all of the policies I do believe something to that effect should be instated by us, after all we are ballsy cu*^s.

To the brits I am glad our beer tastes like piss, it means that our stratergy of pissing in beer and making you guys drinking is working, jokes on you brothers

I love melbourne. Its my favourite Australian city. I am currently up to final interviews for CFA and MFB and I really hope that they do give me a job so I can move there. On another note, I have added an english Australian joke on the first post, and was thinking of trying to get some sig banners for this topic made. What you guys think?

[Warlord.]

QUOTE (Jay @ Monday, Nov 7 2011, 13:12)

Depending where you look, Melbourne is the most livable city in the world. If you live in or around the CBD (like a bunch of student accommodation is), it'll be great because you don't pay for transport during business hours, iirc ticket inspectors are on trams only after 6, or rarely otherwise.

How would you say it compares against Adelaide? From what I've seen, Adelaide seems much cheaper to live in than Melbourne, but it just doesn't seem... as lively for some reason.

[Steven.]

QUOTE (Warlord. @ Sunday, Nov 6 2011, 19:05)

What are the living expenses like in Melbourne for a student? Are jobs easy to get and what's the average pay like?

Melbourne is a great city with opportunities and migration with private settlement is a bit of tough. There is no lack of Education & Employment in there. The food items are mind blowing.

[avito coleone]

and adelaide is a very boring city with half the oppitunities for employment and migration. Running joke here that adelaide is as about as exciting as watching tha paint dry

[Vercetti27]

can I ask a sincere questions please?

Is it true you guys walk upside down over there?! That must be seriously hard to do. I could never do it, lol I'd be to scared of falling! lol

[avito coleone]

I will leave this for someone with more tact and wit than I to answer

[billy james]

QUOTE (Vercetti27 @ Monday, Nov 7 2011, 09:53)

can I ask a sincere questions please? Is it true you guys walk upside down over there?! That must be seriously hard to do. I could never do it, lol I'd be to scared of falling! lol

No, let me ask you a question, Is it true you englishman don't know what a dentist is???

[Marlowe.]

QUOTE (avito coleone @ Monday, Nov 7 2011, 19:09)

and adelaide is a very boring city with half the oppitunities for employment and migration. Running joke here that adelaide is as about as exciting as watching tha paint dry

Yeah, paint on a church!
The only negative about Melbourne is the weather. Oh, God, the weather. There's hot, and there's cold - that's it. Hot is the worst. Right now it's so humid I'm suffocating.

[avito coleone]

And rain, dont forget rain! last time I was down there I remeber it going from about 15 to 25 in the space of an hour,

[Jay]

QUOTE (Warlord. @ Monday, Nov 7 2011, 18:21)

QUOTE (Jay @ Monday, Nov 7 2011, 13:12) Depending where you look, Melbourne is the most livable city in the world. If you live in or around the CBD (like a bunch of student accommodation is), it'll be great because you don't pay for transport during business hours, iirc ticket inspectors are on trams only after 6, or rarely otherwise. How would you say it compares against Adelaide? From what I've seen, Adelaide seems much cheaper to live in than Melbourne, but it just doesn't seem... as lively for some reason.

Well...

It's not Hobart!

Seriously though, Adelaide is great to raise kids and retire, nothing in between. I'd move to Melbs in a heartbeat as long as I could afford a place close to the CBD. Screw long commutes. That's one thing Adelaide has, not too much traffic.

Also Melbourne is a place where you can wander around on a Saturday night and have a fun time. Adelaide you really need to know where to go and what you're looking for.

[ThePinkFloydSound]

QUOTE (finn4life @ Sunday, Nov 6 2011, 13:00)

By the way, it still annoys me to this day how Australia was persecuted by other countries, particularly The US over the Hey Hey its saturday skit. Retards did not even know what it was concerning. --- One more thing, you kiwi's are god damn weird, who the f*ck eats meat pies with BBQ sauce?

I watched it and I don't see how it's racist. Which part is racist? I think some people take it too far and they try condemn people first because they think in this case black people would be offended. I don't know. How else would a cracker dress up the Jackson 5? Get yoself painted black, yo!

Also, meat pies and BBQ sauce sounds tasty as f*ck.

[chris]

QUOTE (ThePinkFloydSound @ Monday, Nov 7 2011, 13:04)

Also, meat pies and BBQ sauce sounds tasty as f*ck.

I'd like to introduce my tastebuds to this wonderfull combination also.

I plan on moving to Australia in the next couple of years, Perth to start off with.

[Jay]

Interesting stuff may or may not happen in Perth, but it takes days for news to reach anywhere of significance.

It's the most isolated metropolitan area in the world, iirc.

@pies/bbqsauce: if it's smokey bbq sauce, count me in!