A very good friend of mine is off to live in Oz.
Flying out tonight.
Any advice from those already ther that I can pass on is appreciated...
Thanks.
'Don't take any frogs'
1.Drink Bundaberg
2.Take your own chocolate.
3.Always wear sunscreen
Have fun!
Tanky x (sadly not in Oz)
watch out for hoons and bikies
and russell crowes music
Be careful about colonial jokes, some people have no sense of humour. But by the same token, expect to get called pom a bit (usually not meant in offence but still...)
And DO NOT try to explain to someone who calls you a pom why it is that actually us Aussies are the poms, you'll just get a blank stare....
Most Aussie shiela's like a confident man, so repeat after me this mantra for the pubs:
How's about a root luv?
You're friend now hates Kiwi's, this is not negotiable.
Remove 30% from your PC sensibilities.....
Enjoy the happy abundance of boobies!
Boobies!
Being of Celtic extraction I don't think he's in any danger of getting the 'pom' treatment.
"Any advice from those already ther that I can pass on is appreciated... "
Never been, but by a strange coincidence, I did spend most of Saturday afternoon getting drunk with my ex-boss, who's just returned from Down Under.
The only advice I managed to glean, however, was: don't expect to be able to buy a house anywhere within an hour and half's drive of downtown Sydney without selling a kidney, a lung and at least one of your children ...
(This was the main reason why he came back!)
Cheers
Jim
advice would depend very much on where your friend is going to live, but....
the people are nicer than they sometimes seem at first - they are mostly very casual but friendly
your friend will be asked what they think of Australia the second they arrive, so they should have some opinions ready
get ready to be called mate by all sorts of people you've never met, mate
everybody says 'yeah no' to make a point
(as in You're from Ireland?
Yeah no, I come from Belfast)
(if going to Melbourne, Adelaide, Perth, Tasmania) any football team is okay, provided it's not Collingwood
if your friend has a celtic accent of some kind, he can expect to be shagged senseless by women who look like the ones in Neighbours*
seriously, I love this place myself...your friend is free to send any more specific questions they might have
*probably
Also, I'm pretty sure that in some areas there are laws that state that every spoken sentence must rise in pitch on the last sylable, question or not. ;)
"Also, I'm pretty sure that in some areas there are laws that state that every spoken sentence must rise in pitch on the last sylable, question or not. ;)"
I thought that only applied to people on Kilroy?
;p