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# You have
to be joking, don't you?

Not that it has anything to do with me (except Australia is rapidly becoming the USA's be-yatch too, and if the UK is next... well, we're watermeloned)
(Flyslip, Wed 19 Nov 2003, 10:24, archived)
# whaddaya mean, "if the uk is next"?
we've been their bitches for years
(I helped save b3ta! JustHere4Coffee remembers when all o' this were car parks, Wed 19 Nov 2003, 10:26, archived)
# they own all our nuclear weapons
at least the french have some of their own.
If we don't suck up to them, they can take them away, and then we lose our seat on the UN security council.
Which may or may not be a good thing, but would undermine the UKs long term international policy aims.
(I helped save b3ta! Pootle, Wed 19 Nov 2003, 10:35, archived)
# At least you guys HAVE nuclear weapons
Apparently (!?!?) Australia doesn't.

Although I heard today that the US wants to establish a base in Darwin.

Read: want to take the sodding place over...
(Flyslip, Wed 19 Nov 2003, 10:38, archived)
# bush is twunt fact.
i agree about lambrusco though, cheap, intoxicating and available in large quantities
(I helped save b3ta! lazygamer VS tittybiscuits, Wed 19 Nov 2003, 10:26, archived)
# Indeed
So let's drink to George W. going home!!!!

(That ought to unite the UK and Australia at least until the Australia/England World Cup Rugby Final on the weekend.)
(Flyslip, Wed 19 Nov 2003, 10:29, archived)
# maybe you can answer this
when the Aussies come here and solidly beat us, we don't start calling you all sorts of names.
Why when for once the English can give you a game, does your press turn quite so childish and pathetic?
Would it hurt for England to win, just once, in one sport
(I helped save b3ta! Pootle, Wed 19 Nov 2003, 10:46, archived)
# I don't know
as I've never been to England, let alone during the RWC/Ashes/whatever sporting comp you care to name.

So I can't compare.

But I do remember what it was like to be an Australian cricket fan during the mid-80s (and yes that hurt like root canal), so if the English win the Rugby... um, well-played. Really. (I don't care much for the game myself, so personally it'd be a bit like the Kiwis beating us at netball a few months ago - sad for a couple of seconds, but no biggie.)

And as for our press being jingoistic bastards - I give you two words.

RUPERT MURDOCH.

He knows it'll sell papers with the drooling masses (sound familiar?), so he ups the childish/pathetic factor.
(Flyslip, Wed 19 Nov 2003, 10:57, archived)
# The world would
surely be fucked if it wasnt for dance dance revolution
(dancingking, Wed 19 Nov 2003, 10:26, archived)
# which I believe
was an invention of the sodding FRENCH

...so, your argument was?
(Flyslip, Wed 19 Nov 2003, 10:34, archived)
# ancient greeks
/pedant
(I helped save b3ta! thirdman Ia! Ia! R'lyeh Cthulhu ftagn! Ia! Ia! Mglui nafl, Wed 19 Nov 2003, 10:36, archived)
# Okay, MODERN democracy
...
(Flyslip, Wed 19 Nov 2003, 10:39, archived)
# The word itself
does kind of give it away, doesn't it.

Mind you, I always thought Plato used some very Gallic expressions in his writings...
(I helped save b3ta! Ijon Tichy, Wed 19 Nov 2003, 10:42, archived)
# Democracy?
Does your 'democracy' extend to the people that you just called 'sand niggers'? I vote abusive racist terms be included in the fluffy filter!
(DogPoleDumbHorse, Wed 19 Nov 2003, 10:40, archived)
# Bastard!
You edited that.

"Dance dance revolution" indeed...

wasn't that the Nips?
(Flyslip, Wed 19 Nov 2003, 10:59, archived)