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Re:History
« Reply #165 on: March 10, 2005, 02:09:08 PM »

Yea, i'm mostly only joking.
i do try to make an informed decision, but it's quite confusing sometimes.

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Re:History
« Reply #166 on: March 11, 2005, 02:20:44 AM »

I've heard of some serious social problems in Darwin- the whole aboriginal defemation thing... I mean, I saw how people treated Aboriginees in Sydney, and that's not even "the sticks".

Seriously, I love Australia, but it'd give the south a run for it's money on the racist ticket.

I seem to remember something in the books about aboriginee tribes wiping out Darwin with a manastorm, or something like that. Anyone know what I'm talking about?

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Re:History
« Reply #167 on: March 11, 2005, 04:01:22 AM »

Just ask Ted Turner... He practically owns American Media...

Well, him and Rupert Murdoch (who incidently is an Australian ;D).
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Re:History
« Reply #168 on: March 11, 2005, 04:03:42 AM »

Personally, I'm just getting a kick out of Fortune defending his entire continent.

I'm just trying to clear up any misconceptions. As I said, the two cities that were mentioned as not being coastal cities are in fact, right on the damn coast in both cases.
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Re:History
« Reply #169 on: March 11, 2005, 04:12:13 AM »

I've heard of some serious social problems in Darwin- the whole aboriginal defemation thing... I mean, I saw how people treated Aboriginees in Sydney, and that's not even "the sticks".

Seriously, I love Australia, but it'd give the south a run for it's money on the racist ticket.

Mostly racist from the other point of view. people bend over backwards to accomodate the aboriginals, and they do nothing but bitch and whine for even more, screaming discrimination if anyone even questions their claims.

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I seem to remember something in the books about aboriginee tribes wiping out Darwin with a manastorm, or something like that. Anyone know what I'm talking about?

That's news to me. In Target: Awakened Lands, Darwin is listed as a major port rivalling Perth in size (as it's the closest port to Asia), and also a major center for smuggling operations. It's described as a high-tech city of 1,000,000 people (which is 10 times its current population), and is the most diverse city in Oz, as far as cosmopolitan makeup is concerned. It is also host to a large part of Oz's military, protecting the continent from increasing Indonesian hostility.

I don't know where you got your info on the Manastorm.
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Re:History
« Reply #170 on: March 11, 2005, 06:06:17 AM »

Probably the same place he gets all of his information, lots and lot of pain medications. ;)

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Re:History
« Reply #171 on: March 11, 2005, 08:56:47 AM »

i don't think he's had any pain medication sense that last concussion he got following me over a jump on a bike...

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Re:History
« Reply #172 on: March 11, 2005, 12:43:18 PM »

What city was it, then? Alice Springs?

I know they're having problems with manastorms eating up the westies (western suburds of Sydney), but not one particularly like the Westies, so it's not a big problem yet. ;D

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Re:History
« Reply #173 on: March 11, 2005, 02:27:56 PM »

what's a westey?

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Re:History
« Reply #174 on: March 11, 2005, 05:23:06 PM »

Apparently it's a suburd, some sort of strange creature that lives in the outback?
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Re:History
« Reply #175 on: March 12, 2005, 12:45:43 AM »

Sydney has a harbor on the east side of the city, so all of the suburbs that AREN'T Sydney are west of the city itself.

So if you're from the "Westies", than you're one of those people who's too poor to afford to live where you work... which is everyone but the richest.

Of course, the further you went west, the poorer and poorer people got. Right around Mt. Druitt, there's a brothel on every other corner, (the have to fit pubs in there SOMEWHERE) there is graffitti everywhere, and it depressingly reminded me of Riverside.

*sighs* I didn't know it was a hole until I lived here!

Seriously, everyone was suprised because I wasn't afraid of the gangs there... I mean, ten kids with attitudes aren't a gang. A bunch of kids with knives, crobars, and guns are a gang. And usually they kill peoples. Not the ones who terrorize the food court.

But people looked at me a little different when I would say it reminded me of home. ;D ;D ;D

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Re:History
« Reply #176 on: March 12, 2005, 01:05:36 AM »

now shouldnt posion anwser this after all its his backyard
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Re:History
« Reply #177 on: March 12, 2005, 05:59:22 AM »

You know, Australia is a big place...
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Re:History
« Reply #178 on: March 12, 2005, 11:10:18 PM »

You know, Australia is a big place...

Yes it is. Bigger than continental US (just), in fact.
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Re:History
« Reply #179 on: March 13, 2005, 04:39:20 PM »

Too bad most of it's a dry rock...
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