On reading this article and in particular the last para I wondered which brits had emigrated to Australia and have actually achieved anything. My point being that people who emigrate from this country are losers and that the people who come here are people of substance.
http://www.telegraph.co.uk/lifestyle...Australia.html
Anyway, while we have lost Leah Wood to Australia (and I must not forget Ben Elton, however hard I try), it is instructive to look at the people who have emigrated from Oz to the UK. Lette, Clive James, Germaine Greer, the latter of whom once described her native country as being like “a huge rest home”. I know where the bloody hell I’d rather be.
Then there are the subtle differences between our cultures. We may share a language, says Lette, but only just. “Basic survival guides: rugby is called football. Dinner is called tea. Romance is called a 'root’. A near-death-experience is called a 'fun run’. The Aussie version of foreplay is shearing. In Australia, formal wear is a pair of bikini bottoms.” Leah Wood will certainly miss all the dressing-up.
http://www.telegraph.co.uk/lifestyle...Australia.html
Anyway, while we have lost Leah Wood to Australia (and I must not forget Ben Elton, however hard I try), it is instructive to look at the people who have emigrated from Oz to the UK. Lette, Clive James, Germaine Greer, the latter of whom once described her native country as being like “a huge rest home”. I know where the bloody hell I’d rather be.
Then there are the subtle differences between our cultures. We may share a language, says Lette, but only just. “Basic survival guides: rugby is called football. Dinner is called tea. Romance is called a 'root’. A near-death-experience is called a 'fun run’. The Aussie version of foreplay is shearing. In Australia, formal wear is a pair of bikini bottoms.” Leah Wood will certainly miss all the dressing-up.
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