Welcome to the Melbourne Community Daily Discussion Thread.

  • GaveUp [she/her]
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    1 year ago

    Morning Aussies, greetings from America 🦅

    Hope you guys aren't doing too bad, wish I could help you all immigrate here or something

        • MeanElevator@aussie.zone
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          1 year ago

          I gave you the benefit of the doubt, but that post is just ignorant.

          Australia is an amazing country and there is nothing the US does better, for it's people, than Australia.

          • Seagoon_@aussie.zone
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            1 year ago

            Nothing is a bit extreme. How about a bill of rights? How about choice in how to pay for things rather than be forced to use the banking system at a cost? How about housing costs ? How about investing in their own country?

            there are many positives on both sides of the water

            there is no reason to have a competition about it

            • MeanElevator@aussie.zone
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              1 year ago

              Housing costs may be lower but affordability is on par.

              Especially in places that are a bit progressive.

              They have fuck all job security. Medicare tied to employment and such a corrupt political system, that makes Australian politicians look like saints.

              No doubt we're not perfect but we're way ahead of the yanks where at looking out for our own.

        • Hongohones@aussie.zone
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          1 year ago

          you're generalising . I don't have much national pride, but I have very little interest america either. I enjoy some of your old television shows and some indie music, but nothing I listen to anymore. eastern europe has much more interesting music and plenty of us love lots of aussie music. you're talking about our boomers. i agree a lot of mainstream aussies are fucking basic though. I'd be denied existence and access to life saving medical care in a lot of states now too so fuck that.

        • wscholermann@aussie.zone
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          1 year ago
          • Better food? Food quality in the U.S. is horrendous.
          • Smarter people? How have you determined that?
          • God help you if you get sick in the U.S. You could easily be bankrupted depending on your circumstances.
          • let's not get started on their gun policies and the mass shootings seemingly ever other week.
          • There are differences in per capita GDP but the reasons for that are more complex than mere superiority.
          • I won't deny Australia tends to import a lot of culture from US/Britain etc, but sometimes they import us as well i.e. Olivia Newton John is one example. How about Sia? I could rattle off many other examples. Australia punches above it's weight for it's population size.
          • Better weather? Both US and Australia are massive continents with varying climates. It's not really possible to compare both so simply.

          Australia has it's problems but I would rather be here than in the U.S. where life can be very precarious.

        • the_procrastinata@aussie.zone
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          1 year ago

          Congratulations, this might be one of the most pathetic things I’ve read in quite some time. The only good thing about Murica is some of their national parks.

        • Thornburywitch@aussie.zone
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          1 year ago

          The nearest equivalent we have is steel cut oats. I understand grits is a kind of porridge, only corn not oats. Should be banned under every possible convention, including the nuclear arms one.

          • Rusty Raven @aussie.zoneM
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            1 year ago

            I wasn't impressed with steel cut oats, and having that style of porridge made with corn just makes it worse. Why would anyone do that to themselves?

            • Thornburywitch@aussie.zone
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              1 year ago

              It gets worse. Grits are lacking in some essential vitamins, so long term ingestion brings on some serious vitamin deficiences - including a form of roseacea that affects the skin - hence the phrase red-neck meaning someone who eats grits that they have a vitamin deficiency that turns the back of their neck red. Can easily be cured by eating tortillas instead of grits. The mexicans learned long ago that you have to process cornmeal with lime to access the essential vitamins. So a redneck is someone who refuses to learn from other people how to eat corn properly.

              • MeanElevator@aussie.zone
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                1 year ago

                Another reason that the states south of the Mason Dixon line are fucked up.

                It keeps making more and more sense