Sometimes it's hard to be an ... Aussie

Alain Quay

In the last week or , national representative defeats in
rugby league
rugby union
formula one
football
cricket



And yes, the ashes are coming :oops:

Thank God for great weather, beaches and 4% economic growth.

Stewie Griffin

Alain Quay wrote:

In the last week or , national representative defeats in
rugby league
rugby union
formula one
football
cricket



And yes, the ashes are coming :oops:

Thank God for great weather, beaches and 4% economic growth.

How the tables have turned, apart from the weather and beaches

takethehighroad

Alain Quay wrote:

Thank God for great weather, beaches and 4% economic growth.

I see you've clearly never been to Scarborough. Or Cleethorpes

northernneil

Alain Quay wrote:

In the last week or , national representative defeats in
rugby league
rugby union
formula one
football
cricket



And yes, the ashes are coming :oops:

Thank God for great weather, beaches and 4% economic growth.

dont forget its also full of Australians !! GHAAASTLY !

takethehighroad

That's just reminded me of a joke Micky Flanagan told to a guy who said he'd travelled to Australia

"Just shorten words badly, undercook some meat and talk to your thickest mate, same as going to Australia"

Alain Quay

"Just shorten words badly, undercook some meat and talk to your thickest mate, same as going to Australia"

I like it.

Dame Edna once said the reasons for Aussie sporting success were threefold:

good weather, big fat steaks and no intellectual distractions whatsoever.

Sorry I wasn't gloating. All the wealth comes out of the ground, who knows
what will happen when the mining boom ends. Scarborough del Sol?

giant_man

Tsk bloody aussies .......

JohnnyAllez

Scarborough Beach (WA) beats the beach at Scarborough hands down The bikinis are a whole lot skimpier as well :shock:

Stewie Griffin

It's summer there anyway. It's freezing here, you need to stop the whinging lad

bobtbuilder

Stewie Griffin wrote:

It's summer there anyway. It's freezing here, you need to stop the whinging lad

Yeah - but I'm stuck on your crappy, rain-infested island surrounded by the world's worst fair-weather sports fans. Those at my work that "don't follow cricket" when we're tonking you 5-0 last time they were held back home, but are suddenly fully paid-up members of the Barmy Army. :roll:

Chip \'oyler

northernneil wrote:

Alain Quay wrote:

In the last week or , national representative defeats in
rugby league
rugby union
formula one
football
cricket



And yes, the ashes are coming :oops:

Thank God for great weather, beaches and 4% economic growth.

dont forget its also full of Australians !! GHAAASTLY !

No it's not. Australia is now full of Brits - it's Earls Court that's full of Aussie's!

northernneil

it gets worse !!

you drop your best spinner and opt for steve smith ... who is utter garbage ! do your selectors want to win this ?

ooermissus

bobtbuilder wrote:

Stewie Griffin wrote:

It's summer there anyway. It's freezing here, you need to stop the whinging lad

Yeah - but I'm stuck on your crappy, rain-infested island surrounded by the world's worst fair-weather sports fans. Those at my work that "don't follow cricket" when we're tonking you 5-0 last time they were held back home, but are suddenly fully paid-up members of the Barmy Army. :roll:

Cf the Aussie I sat next at the Oval, last day of the 2005 Ashes. Spent all day bending my ear about how England would certainly lose because Brits had no bottle, then mysteriously disappeared 45 minutes before the end.

MichaelW

Strewth mate! Even the Koala bears need a tinnie

http://www.townsvillebulletin.com.au/ar ... photo.html

louthepoo

hmp australia have as many fair weather fans as we have. They've just got bigger gobs when they win - or used to win

Pross

JohnnyAllez wrote:

Scarborough Beach (WA) beats the beach at Scarborough hands down The bikinis are a whole lot skimpier as well :shock:

Skimpier bikinis are not a good thing when it comes to the usual clientele at the UK Scarborough though!!

JohnnyAllez

Pross wrote:

JohnnyAllez wrote:

Scarborough Beach (WA) beats the beach at Scarborough hands down The bikinis are a whole lot skimpier as well :shock:

Skimpier bikinis are not a good thing when it comes to the usual clientele at the UK Scarborough though!!

That was my point Fat chav birds and bikinis don`t mix :shock:

Nuggs

bobtbuilder wrote:

Yeah - but I'm stuck on your crappy, rain-infested island surrounded by the world's worst fair-weather sports fans. Those at my work that "don't follow cricket" when we're tonking you 5-0 last time they were held back home, but are suddenly fully paid-up members of the Barmy Army. :roll:

What is your connection to Australia again?

Tonymufc

Just throw another shrimp on the barby, and everything will be ok.

Stewie Griffin

Tonymufc wrote:

Just throw another shrimp on the barby, and everything will be ok.

Grab a tinnie while you're there.

Wheelspinner

Tonymufc wrote:

Just throw another shrimp on the barby, and everything will be ok.

As any proper Aussie will tell you, we call them prawns, not shrimps. That dreadful phrase came from a TV advertisement made for Americans who would not understand otherwise, although tbh, not sure that helped much.

Ronnie Corbett is what we'd call a "shrimp".

deptfordmarmoset

It's going to be such a relief when this series finally gets under way - it seems to have been building up forever. England's best chance to ''bring'' the Ashes back in decades but I reckon it's still going to be very, very tight. Still, only 24 hours to go...

retreads?

Haha.......
We'll see who takes the ashes.
Never known of sporting teams needing their own psychiatrist; suppose that's just a pommie thing????

"Just shorten words badly, undercook some meat and talk to your thickest mate, same as going to Australia" That's quite funny actually.

I suppose that means all I have to do to pretend I'm in GB is go somwhere really cold & wet, talk to someone who thinks he knows everything and sonds like his lips are stuck together, and chew away on a bit of meat that's been cooking since last night........

By the way:
Whales eat shrimps; people eat prawns.

And don't even start on beaches or bikinis.....

Stewie Griffin

So here we go. Anyone else up? We win the toss and will have a bat thank you very much.

verylonglegs

Staying up for the first couple of hours, looking forward to it.

alfablue

yes, up and ready, as is Harry!

RichN95.

Hopefully Mitchell Johnson bowls the first ball to second slip.

(Although he only tends to do that outside Australia)

alfablue

not so hard being an Aussie now :evil:

RichN95.

C ock!

verylonglegs

It was never going to be easy now was it....

Stewie Griffin

Not a great start. Might try to make it to lunch.