Australia - A Patriots guide
Pat McCrutch
This article is intended to teach the people of other countries about our proud nation. Since a picture tells a thousand words and I'm terrible at writing, it'll be mostly pictures.
Good Sportsmanship
Healthy Living
Lovely Weather
Free Press
Strong Opinions
I got nothing....
So there it is, my essay on Australia. Thank you for reading/only looking at the pictures. What did you think Nat? 🙂
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I can... we win hands down 🙂
I just cant wait for Abbott to start his cuts. It will be amusing listening to people bitch. I wonder if the casinos will be less crowded now.
Abbott was an unfortunate thing to happen to Australia.....but I'd take him over George Bush any day 😛
True true, but me being in America at the time i will never fully blame him, obviously he took the heat for the Dick C. etc.
I only went for Abbott because i found it insulting how Labor Party switched PM's just to save face. That was the most un-democratic thing i have seen in my life. That just showed me how unstable Australia really is with politics and im pretty sure the world. Behind the scenes that type of stuff hurts our pockets and company's.
At least we all know Abbott is a little ku-ku, so when he does something as dumb as GW Bush we wont be as surprised.
Icetek, you really need to keep rl America out of your game play. We are bigger and better, we don't need to prove it to a bunch of aussie school kids. They don't like us, never have, never will.
tony will make as much cuts as Rudd would. the only diferant's is rudd will blame the opposition and get away with it
ffs Icetek as if we didn't just go through 6 or 7 years of complete disaster and political take overs, incompetence, carbon tax sham etc.
You would be wrong to label us as politically unstable because you really have nothing to compare with us. to say we are unstable is to admit that all other nations are even more unstable. take italy, just count the prime ministers and leaders they have had since WWII. Julia Gillard is one of the few who have actually done any unstabilizing but she is gone and Rudd is a has been so the situation is already under repair. I don't know how Abbott will turn out at all but I am positive that he is not the ogre that the left tried to paint for us. I pretty much expect Abbott to run the country similar to how John Howard did it, after all, Abott was Howard's understudy and pretty sure he idolized Howard.
And Lanys, you are just bloody wrong, stop listening to what some dumb kids say and start listening to real Australians who have been around for a few decades. I don't label all Americans as idiot born again christians even though some Americans certainly are nuts and try to get science kicked out of schools (the quickest possible known way to impoverish a nation is to make it dumb and backward). I also kmow that there are many great Americans. You can become a great American too but please, you have to open up your mind a bit more. The vast majority of Australians simply love nearly all things American. In fact Australians and Americans are more alike than any other two nations so far apart geographically. All real Australians also know that none of us would have even been born if America didn't join WWII.. The Japanese would have swept my parents and grandparents from the face of the earth, American power saved the entire Pacific and for that we have always been eternally grateful ( of course that does not include those who preferred the Soviet Union to have been in control, but the wharfies are a minority).
Ah but don't twist my words, you misread. I said Australians politics LOOKED unstable because of that switch more so then others. I live here too you know, and i know better. But yea, seeing politicians argue so much is really nerve wrecking on the rest of us.
Nicely said greg. your 2nd comment. Not defending Lany or anything but like i said, i think she just came off the wrong way.
That makes me laugh that you say Australia is unstable :') To good.
There is NO comparison, Aussies are losers.
Try living here haha. Just get your hands on a Australian Ikea Catalog, i think it will explain it all.
get fucked then
Lany, that's really not a nice thing to say when you play in eAus.. :/
Australian's are losers? Yeah go invade a defenceless country tough guy's.
what the fuck are you talking about ?,, what defenceless country ??
Voted for images...mainly because I'm easily entertained \o/
Too much RL in these comments and too much hatred. Dr King still has much to teach us.
Last time I met a Dr King, he tried to check my prostate even though all I had was a bleeding toe.
I cannot understand why Americans want to come here if all they seem to do is knock Australia?
Icetek & Lany, if you put the effort into fighting for us that you put into making negative & snide comments, Australia could conquer the eworld
You cant say that about Lany...i cant speak for Icetek but how long has Lany been here?
Nicky I am responding to her comment above.
Nicky is that how it is? You will bow your head in shame and not stand up for being American? We get dissed by them in RL and in this game, yet we bite our tongues. Grow a pair man and be proud of where you are from. We still are the strongest nation in the world and everyone will hate us for it. Thats just the way or the word.
And yes from before defenceless countries....Still can't find Iraq's "nuclear weapons stash" can ya's?
lol, are you lot still going on about the weapons Saddam either buried or sold to Syria or Iran... those WMD's ?. Who cares, we got Saddam. In fact a yank mate of mine was part of his capture, I like war vets, they should be respected no matter what the policy of the US or Australia or the UK is.)
Umm ok, Australians love to knock on Americans example: Americunts etc.... How dare you say we start it? You f@ks are so ungrateful and Australia would not be 1/4 of a country if it wasnt for America.
Lets face it, you hate AMERICA because it is better in every way then Australia, we even have guns too shoot idiots like you. 🙂
You will always find clowns who do that - sad as it is to admit, there are retards in Australia, just like there are in the US.
The thing is not to listen to or even believe them.
Of course that goes both ways e.g. Why should Australians be grateful as you are saying???
As I said, put more effort into fighting, less talk - there is a golden opportunity for ALL Australians to do this right now.
I do agree with you, but you yourself tried to use the fact im American against me in the past. So i dunno how to look at this now. As to why, well, besides America pumping money into its allied countries and including the Pacific Dog War when America pushed back the japs from pushing futher into Indonesia and Australia (Darwin).
I am just saying, America might be a greedy country, but no other nation on this planet has gave out more money then the USA. And lets not forgot how many millions people donated when Haiti happened.
Also look up all major bush fires/flood Australia had, and you will always find America donating money to help with the devastation. Yes we might be the fattest country by population, but then again Australia is by percent.
And to be honest, when i came to Australia i literally seen it as a little brother to America, you guys tend to do the same things and mistakes America makes, and i was in shock when i figured out how much criticism comes from you guys and your politicians. Its not fair on so many levels.
As far as this game goes, im ready to jump on the horse to help. Problem is ARP is alianating everyone who is not in it. The smaller people have no voice in anything it seems, and people like Flatty flocked their for his own gain, and this is my biggest problem with him.
Democracy is a representation of DIFFERENT ideas and PARTY's, not on certain people and 1 party. I truly believe when you guys realize this we will get way more further then in history of eAUS. What is the point of having 80-200-500 people in ARP? You are only opening a gap for PTO. And non the less you yourselves are adding risk to the country, not me, or Reform Party.
Well I cannot remember doing that Icetek - I thought you were going on & on about me supposedly making homophobic comments about you, not anti American comments.
But please do not dish up that "We hadda cummun save ya" song about WW2, you do not know how much that grates. It is nowhere near the full story, but yes Australians are aware that the Battle of the Coral Sea did stop Australia from being invaded.
I am pleasently surprised to hear about the US donating money to help with the devastation caused by our bushfires - it is a two way street there as Australia has provided assistance to the US when it suffers similar devastation.
In many ways Australia & the US are alike & there is a close relationship
And just one thing about the ARP, I am not a member any more. Much respect as I have for Molly Jo, when that dilettante Valentyme decided to go slumming in Australia, joined the ARP & started moving & changing Australian things for fun - I left, both the party & the country.
I go on about you, but you were nothing compared to his mischief
Do fill me in.....i love a good mischief story lol
I dont fucking hate America, that is a fucking dumb comment. Also to say that America is better in EVERY way is silly, seriously, I can tell you were pissed off when you wrote it but that is ridiculous. For a start our weather is ten times better than America, we dont have killer tornadoes, we have far better sport here,... our food matches yours, especially our meats and our fish simply shit on your cold Atlantic stuff.
America has it over us in military (only through numbers certainly not quality, your green berets and navy seals are not even in the class of our SAS who are the most superb soldiers in history...). we have better beaches, .. and lets face it, your spiders, snakes and sea dealies are simply childs play to our taipans, funnel webs, irukandji jellyfish, box jellyfish... lol,,, Aligators versus salty Crocs...; no fuckin contest.. Alligator for brakfast.... lol... rattlesnake vs death adder ?.... rattlesnake shish kebab. We have more polite police who dont threaten to shoot you for exceeding a speed limit. We didn't lose General custer to a bunch of natives either.
We have guns, just not loose gun laws
I know, i had to pay 7k for my piece......damn you Australia!
Lanys comments were just pure fucking shit, and they showed that Lanys probably knows not a goddamn thing about Australia, silly yanks don't even know a decent sport when they see one, they have fuck all understanding of cricket, rugby league (there is appaerntly another kind of r+ugby too but*I have my doubts. They come from the land of the deep freeze and some have let water get on the brain.
Please keep ur cursing to a limit......otherwise you will turn into me lol.
I know Lany is not like that tho to be more "racist" or whatever you call it. I understand what she is saying tho and im sure it just came off the wrong way. Don't judge her based on 1 comment bro.
I didn't at all think Lanys comment was racist, just poorly informed of life here and I have nothing at all against her, just thought her comment was pretty shit.
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Holy crap, did not see the comments ending up like this 😃
Its the Canadian reference. Like chum to a shark.
There are people I really want to hurt; and this is only a game. I hope I never have the misfortune of meeting those in real life.
Funny as shit article though, love it!
Dude you would do me a honor to meet me. Maybe we are not so different after all.
Sure, I'm never against actually meeting people.
Great article.
Shame the comments devolved to RL slurs against nations that are allied in RL and actually have a good relationship. We don't need that here.
YES WE DO! Its time we settle it, dish it out and no more of it later on.
Some of my best friends are the very people i had a full punch on. I dunno as a female if you would understand that...not being sexist but yea.
We aren't American haters as some would paint us. I admit that it's almost a national pasttime to poke fun at Americans, but that's never meant with malice, just as Americans poke fun at us for other things. Aus and USA are good friends, and that's the way I'm sure it will stay.
Americans, Kiwi's, Brits.... hell, if someone gets offended that Aussies poke fun at them, they should stop and think; we practically do it to half the world.