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heh, I'm going to the outdoor cinema tomorrow night. it probably won't get below 20C, and I can have a beer.

Posted by mafic Dec 7 '09, 11:42

sometimes this country gets things very right.

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out of interest, what does that country get very wrong? - Roger More Dec 7, 11:43 10
- good question. two spring to mind. the big one is that a lot of people are shockingly racist. - mafic Dec 7, 11:50 5
  - The White Australia policy dies hard I guess. They'll probably need another generation or two. -- nm - MojaveMeg Dec 7, 12:12 1
    - Consider that, until I left the country at 19, I'd never seen a dark skinned /non-christian except for a few transient 1/2 breed natives and an - MojaveMeg Dec 7, 12:15
  - Yeah, Australia continues to struggle with racism (especially in Perth, which tends to have more migrants from white-majority countries than the rest - Roger More Dec 7, 11:58
  - to elaborate a little: the racism is a weird one, in that people seem totally blind to it. summed up perfectly by what a friend said a while back. - mafic Dec 7, 11:58 1
    - Perth is a whiter city than the other Australian cities, because it attracts relatively more white migrants from the UK and South Africa - Roger More Dec 7, 12:01
- I've never been, the whole idea of vegemite seems infinitely wrong. -- nm - Reagen Dec 7, 11:44 3
  - sometimes I like to say I like marmite better just to flip people out a little. I don't really. -- nm - mafic Dec 7, 11:51
  - It's like salt! That you spread on bread! -- nm - Roger More Dec 7, 11:45 1
    - we actually have it here at the office, i have no idea why, i've never seen anyone eat it, ever. -- nm - Elf Andie Dec 7, 11:48

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heh, I'm going to the outdoor cinema tomorrow night. it probably won't get below 20C, and I can have a beer.

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