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Onemunki says: We live in a world of genuine tragedy, starvation and terror. So, after hearing stories of cruise line passengers complaining at the air conditioning breaking down, what stories of sheer single-minded self-pity get your goat?

(, Thu 1 Mar 2012, 12:00)
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I used to live in Canberra.
This is not your worst problem.
(, Sat 3 Mar 2012, 9:17, 2 replies)
Yeah, I'd imagine the biggest problem is everything being upside down.
The longest I've been upside down for was about 15 minutes and my face went purple. How do you guys live like that, or have you evolved to cope with it like bats?
(, Sat 3 Mar 2012, 9:21, closed)
Best answer ever ;)
Gets a click.
(, Sat 3 Mar 2012, 10:56, closed)
Oh look.
It's a funny pommy bastard!
(, Sat 3 Mar 2012, 12:39, closed)
I'm just gonna assume 'pommy' is upside down criminal speak for 'incredibly sexy'.

(, Sat 3 Mar 2012, 19:12, closed)
Yes. It is.
It essentially means "someone who whinges incessantly in a british accent".
(, Sat 3 Mar 2012, 19:32, closed)
Thank you. I have always thought the Australian accent to be very manly. Particularly Australian women.

(, Sat 3 Mar 2012, 19:52, closed)
Get your eyes
off my sheila mate.
"You just ignore that pommy bloke, Bruceine"
(, Sat 3 Mar 2012, 20:15, closed)
Which particular British accent?
There's quite a few of them.
(, Sat 3 Mar 2012, 20:42, closed)
Mostly a nasal Sarf-Lundun.
But they can be interchanged.
(, Sat 3 Mar 2012, 21:25, closed)
Is a Glaswegian accent pommy.

(, Sat 3 Mar 2012, 22:12, closed)
Wasn't that wall Hadrian built
meant to keep you lot safely away from English soil?
(, Sat 3 Mar 2012, 22:16, closed)
You said British, which by definition includes Welsh, Scottish and Northern Irish.

(, Sat 3 Mar 2012, 22:19, closed)
We don't mind the other lot so much.
More just the poms.
So in answer to your question - no that would be a Scottish accent.
(, Sat 3 Mar 2012, 22:30, closed)
Alright, what about a Barnsley accent?

(, Sat 3 Mar 2012, 22:32, closed)
You're just trying to trick me up now, aren't you?
Pommy.
Nb. - I wasn't calling you a pom.Just answering your question.
(, Sat 3 Mar 2012, 22:43, closed)
Isn't the Barnsley accent just a Yorkshire accent?

(, Sat 3 Mar 2012, 22:45, closed)
A particularly coarse one with a lot of dialect.

(, Sat 3 Mar 2012, 22:48, closed)
Aw man, you must hate it on here then, there's loads of poms. I can try typing in a Scottish accent if that helps.
Do Swedish accents upset you too? I'd heard that Australians hate Abba.
(, Sat 3 Mar 2012, 23:54, closed)
i no rite?!

(, Sun 4 Mar 2012, 4:21, closed)
The criminals were English, not Australian...
...they got sent to Australia for being naughty.
(, Sun 4 Mar 2012, 5:08, closed)
Yes. The English sent all their best criminals to Australia for them to breed and form a new race of super criminals.
Although thanks to a mutation in the criminal gene most of them ended up being super racist.
(, Sun 4 Mar 2012, 10:04, closed)
^ What this person said
& I'm going on hearsay.
(, Sat 3 Mar 2012, 10:10, closed)

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