When explaining technical concepts it's always a good idea to time your pitch for those with the shortest attention span.

Any suggestions what to say to an Australian person to make them really angry?

Be polite to them. They will think you are taking the piss.

It is hilarious you know working with those islanders, ( I have two of them in the team).

One of them when he tries to explain somesing he uses a lot of words (up to 20 minutes) to say what have could be done in a single sentence, ha ha ha!

The funniest part is he complains about some person doing more or less the same.

Is this is normal for people from Australia, if so, how to deal with that?

The other day he went on to explain me some new technology the company wants to introduce and went on for almost an hour, so I cut him short saying: So this, bla bla (in a single sentence) is what it does?

He: Yeah, basically that is it.

Yeah, Alex.

Aussie owned company I worked for once brought a guy to NZ to manage our division.

Every week he would call a meeting to tell us how great he was and how well the division was doing.

In actual fact he was totally unaware of what our processes were.

With about 80+ guys, the time wasred was immense.

Our production was down, as you could imagine accumalating every week.

As union delegate at the time, I tried to tell him to just wander around and talk with guys, no way.

Eventually I used my camcorder and taped his meetings.

The union had a meeting with the CEO of the division, a kiwi, presented the tapes.

A week later he was back in OZ.

Our bonuses were dropping off due to time waste.

Blotty Ockor bosses.

People sometimes ask what is the difference between a Kiwi and a computer? The answer is none. You have to punch in the information to make them work, The only significant difference is that with a computer generally you only have to do it the one time.

CB

Any suggestions what to say to an Australian person to make them really angry?

Be polite to them. They will think you are taking the piss.

It is hilarious you know working with those islanders, ( I have two of them in the team).

One of them when he tries to explain somesing he uses a lot of words (up to 20 minutes) to say what have could be done in a single sentence, ha ha ha!

The funniest part is he complains about some person doing more or less the same.

Is this is normal for people from Australia, if so, how to deal with that?

The other day he went on to explain me some new technology the company wants to introduce and went on for almost an hour, so I cut him short saying: So this, bla bla (in a single sentence) is what it does?

He: Yeah, basically that is it.

Yeah, Alex.

Aussie owned company I worked for once brought a guy to NZ to manage our division.

Every week he would call a meeting to tell us how great he was and how well the division was doing.

In actual fact he was totally unaware of what our processes were.

With about 80+ guys, the time wasred was immense.

Our production was down, as you could imagine accumalating every week.

As union delegate at the time, I tried to tell him to just wander around and talk with guys, no way.

Eventually I used my camcorder and taped his meetings.

The union had a meeting with the CEO of the division, a kiwi, presented the tapes.

A week later he was back in OZ.

Our bonuses were dropping off due to time waste.

Blotty Ockor bosses.

What's on your other shoulder ?

Blotty Ockor bosses.

What's on your other shoulder ?

An even bigger chip

CB

Blotty Ockor bosses.

What's on your other shoulder ?

An even bigger chip

CB

Or would that be a "chup" ? Any fush with that ?

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Aussies warm with love for Kiwis

4:00AM Wednesday Oct 14, 2009

By Greg Ansley

They just cannot stop loving us.

New Zealand has been voted Australia's most warmly regarded country - by a new record of 83 "degrees" - in the latest poll of the nation's feelings by the Lowy Institute for International Policy.

The warmth of regard was measured by a "thermometer", on which respondents were asked to rate their regard for 17 countries on a scale of degrees from zero to 100.

New Zealand had set the previous record of 81deg.

AWWWWWWWWwwwwww guys, luv yas too.

Edited October 14, 200916 yr by Zpete

The warmth of regard was measured by a "thermometer", on which respondents were asked to rate their regard for 17 countries on a scale of degrees from zero to 100.

New Zealand had set the previous record of 81deg.

AWWWWWWWWwwwwww guys, luv yas too.

To put this in context the list of the seventeen countries was:

Afghanistan

Kurdistan

Pakistan

Turkestan

Kazakhstan

Rajastan

Uzbekistan

Bezelsebubistan

Outer Mongolia

Inner Mongolia

North Korea

Iraq

Iran

Somalia

Ethiopia

Burma and our perennial favourite other place we like to visit

New Zealand

Isn't Rajastan a state of India, not a country???

What's the difference between a buffalo and a bison?

One roams the plains, and the other is what a Strine washes his face and hands in.

What's the difference between a buffalo and a bison?

One roams the plains, and the other is what a Strine washes his face and hands in.

I love that one.........

Originally it came about when, an Ockor guvna gen'l visiting Canada was asked about OZ accent...........

He replied,......

"Well in Canada a bison is an animal, in Australia, we wash in one.

Isn't Rajastan a state of India, not a country???

Try finding Bezelsebubistan on a map!

Ockors, gotta luv 'em.

Speshully in the Territory.

I love DARWIN.

This from, NORTHERN TERRTORY NEWS

POLICE rushed to what they thought was a violent disturbance yesterday only to find it was a couple having sex.

Officers scrambled to respond to an emergency call from a woman who reported a possible attack when she heard someone "in distress" behind a fence about 6.30am.

But when police arrived they discovered what the resident had heard was, in fact, cries of passion.

They found a naked couple having sex on a mattress in a laneway backing on to the resident's property on Gap Rd, Alice Springs.

The officers did not charge the man and woman and asked them to move on.

Frenzied public displays of affection have made headlines in the NT recently.

The laneway lovemaking incident comes a week after the Northern Territory News told of a couple caught having sex in a allegedly stolen car while filling up at a service station.

Sex health expert Dr Sally Cockburn - known as Dr Feelgood - said people drop their daks and get down and dirty in public to heighten the sexual experience.

But she warned that by heightening the anxiety it can have the opposite effect on some men.

"You have to be really careful as it can cause shrinkage factor," she said.

The Melbourne-based GP said she heard some people's wild sex adventures when she used to host the sex and relationships talkback radio show Pillowtalk, which aired on Hot100 in the Territory late on Sunday nights in the '90s.

"People use to call in and tell me the strange places they had had sex," she said.

"Some of them are quite bizarre. Someone rang in once and said they were doing it in the middle of a football field when all the automatic lights came on.

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Isn't Rajastan a state of India, not a country???

Try finding Bezelsebubistan on a map!

I thought it was a state of Hades.

In the UK the hard up and often homeless sell a paper called the " Big Issue" to help them on their feet.

Quality seller in Oxford this month................

Hello Sir, and where are you from ?

Australia mate

Would you like a copy of The Big issue ?

No mate I'm an Aussie, we don't buy rubbish.

Oh go on sir, you could set fire to a copy and at least have some ashes to take home............

Is it true that Aussie guys are bad performers in the bedroom Olympics?

This Aussie girl told me after we finished........ mentioned something with sheep .

Is it true that Aussie guys are bad performers in the bedroom Olympics?

This Aussie girl told me after we finished........ mentioned something with sheep .

Alex, this where you heard that?

Coffee Mona Lisa

Artist assistants stand next to 3,604 cups of coffee which have been made

into a giant Mona Lisa in Sydney, Australia. The 3,604 cups of coffee were

each filled with different amounts of milk to create the different shades!!

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Why do Australians always go on about VB.... its PISS!!!

Australia in my opionion has some of the best beer in the world... many microbreweries

VB is not one of them!@@!

Welcome to Bedlam Xbones.

Most need 500 posts to get here.

I notice we joined TV on the same day and are 3 apart in Member #'s !

Where have you been?

Edited November 6, 200916 yr by Old Croc

Why do Australians always go on about VB.... its PISS!!!

Australia in my opionion has some of the best beer in the world... many microbreweries

VB is not one of them!@@!

Well, you are entitled to your opinion, however, it doesn't necessarily mean it counts.

VB Rocks.

I'm with Xbones. VB is rubbish. It's not even a real bitter despite it's name.

I'm with Xbones. VB is rubbish. It's not even a real bitter despite it's name.

As a pub draught beer it is ok but definitely not one of my favourites nor is it a good example of Lager as it is generally classified. Definitely not a bitter under English nomenclature but is brewed using very bitter Ringwood hops to give it that bite. It has a much higher gas rating compared to an English Bitter. It doesn't rate under the German classification of Lager which translates to "to lay down" meaning it was left in a cool cellar or cave over winter to mature and develop the wonderful after notes of European Lagers. Australian beer is a variety of its own which is a Light in colour but bitter in Hopping but using only single hop varieties.

With the number of microbreweries in Australia and that we can legally brew our own for self consumption personally I refuse to pay the money for a VB or similar. If I am going to pay the $4.50 plus for a brew in a bar then I will order a Boags or Cascade instead.

All this beer talk has had its intended effect, off to the fridge for another cold one.

Mmmmmmm Beeer Yeah

As one for whom beer is now in the past I can look back on the various brews with fondness and lack of a hangover.

VB is not a good beer, it's too "heavy" and should only be drank during a shortage of more drinkable beers.

Tasmanian beers are the best, then New South Wales. I've only had a couple of sessions in Perth but found the beer palatable.

Queensland beer is terrible, as is South Australian... unless you're raised on it like I was. The privately owned Coopers is drinkable but some of it's popular brews are overrated.

Like Aussie politicians though, our main commercial beers are sinking into similarity, blandness, and mediocrity.

Edited November 7, 200916 yr by sceadugenga

As one for whom beer is now in the past I can look back on the various brews with fondness and lack of a hangover.

VB is not a good beer, it's too "heavy" and should only be drank during a shortage of more drinkable beers.

Tasmanian beers are the best, then New South Wales. I've only had a couple of sessions in Perth but found the beer palatable.

Queensland beer is terrible, as is South Australian... unless you're raised on it like I was. The privately owned Coopers is drinkable but some of it's popular brews are overrated.

Like Aussie politicians though, our main commercial beers are sinking into similarity, blandness, and mediocrity.

That is because most Ockors would not know a good beer, brew.

Most need 500 posts to get here.

Hey, what happened there then?

Advance Australia Fair 9-18

Until next week at the Croker

As one for whom beer is now in the past I can look back on the various brews with fondness and lack of a hangover.

VB is not a good beer, it's too "heavy" and should only be drank during a shortage of more drinkable beers.

Tasmanian beers are the best, then New South Wales. I've only had a couple of sessions in Perth but found the beer palatable.

Queensland beer is terrible, as is South Australian... unless you're raised on it like I was. The privately owned Coopers is drinkable but some of it's popular brews are overrated.

Like Aussie politicians though, our main commercial beers are sinking into similarity, blandness, and mediocrity.

That is because most Ockors would not know a good beer, brew.

I disagree, in the past we were as parochial, or more so, than your silly lot. If it was Aussie it was good was the catch cry and we'd take on all comers to defend this.

Now some of us have been as far away as London, (where the beer is equally crappy) and we appreciate the finer things in life.

As one for whom beer is now in the past I can look back on the various brews with fondness and lack of a hangover.

VB is not a good beer, it's too "heavy" and should only be drank during a shortage of more drinkable beers.

Tasmanian beers are the best, then New South Wales. I've only had a couple of sessions in Perth but found the beer palatable.

Queensland beer is terrible, as is South Australian... unless you're raised on it like I was. The privately owned Coopers is drinkable but some of it's popular brews are overrated.

Like Aussie politicians though, our main commercial beers are sinking into similarity, blandness, and mediocrity.

That is because most Ockors would not know a good beer, brew.

I disagree, in the past we were as parochial, or more so, than your silly lot. If it was Aussie it was good was the catch cry and we'd take on all comers to defend this.

Now some of us have been as far away as London, (where the beer is equally crappy) and we appreciate the finer things in life.

Jump across the ditch for some of the best brews around.

Trubl with OZ, is everyone seems to only drink 2 - 3 beers, hence the brewers have no inclination to improve. Mediocrity breeds mediocrity.

So many competeing brewers in NZ, everyone is trying to improve all the time.

Personally, being a dark beer fan, I have a very poor opinion of what is on offer in OZ, if a pub has any on offer.

Leave out Guinness.

In Chalong at the moment, dark beer, nobody knows, gunna check out Villa later.

Toohey's Old and Cooper's Dark Ale were my personal preferred Aussie dark beers. Both should be available in bottles in NZ if you care to look around.

The mega breweries are certainly taking over in Australia but as you say, they cater for the mob, rather than the discerning palate.

But is beer meant to be drunk like a good wine? I must admit I cringe a little when some of these micro breweries are touted as the answer to all brewing mediocrity.

And another thing:

Beer to me was something you drank to get drunk, wine was what you learnedly rolled around your palate before proclaiming that the grapes from the southern end of the vineyard made a far superior drop. (I've pulled a little oneupmanship with single malts as well, but that's another story).

I've probably mentioned it before (ad nauseum ) but I think Cooper's produce some of the best beers in Oz. My personal favourite is their sparkling ale. Although as I make most of my own beer at home these days I use only buy Cooper's to reculture the yeast sediment in the bottom of the bottle to use in my own beers.

crossbones - If you interacting with Aussies going on about how good VB is you are mixing in the wrong crowds . VB is crap and should only be consumed in dire circumstances (like Chang). They do use Pride of Ringwood Hops in VB but it shouldn't be blamed for the poor finished product - It is the base ingredients, pre-hopping, that really take make VB the pig swill that it is.

Edited November 8, 200916 yr by chiliwasabi