Stuff White People Like
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e_dawg
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Someone else forwarded me that blog earlier today as a matter of fact, and it's hillarious.
ddrueding
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Hilarious. Thanks.
Tannin
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Australians used to threaten to move to New Zealand.
After 50% of New Zealanders moved to Australia in about 1980 and spent the next 15 years sitting around in pubs complaing about the beer and badmouthing the place that was now housing them and feeding them and providing them with expensive taxpayer-funded healthcare and giving them much better-paid jobs than they ever dreamed of getting at home, Australians decided that they would be better off staying home because the Kiwis were not really very nice people after all.
New Zealand by this time was sorely missing its expatriate inteligentsia (yes, both of them) and the not-so-bright ones left at home rather foolishly proceeded with a series of major economic reforms of the Thatcherite flavour which, taken as a whole, did nothing much to help the balance of payments problem but was at least successful in raising exports: New Zealand now became a world leader in the art of exporting industry, jobs, and prosperity.
Having more-or-less completely forgotten about New Zealand by this time, Australia now took careful note of the economic chaos across the Tasman and immediately decided to bring in an economic program of its own. Designed, so far as anyone can tell, to export public assets, manufacturing industry, jobs, and any odd bits of metal ore still left lying around after the last mining boom, it succeeded beyond the wildest dreams of its authors, with the result that Australians are now just as poor as New Zealanders, we all get along together very well, and everybody is happy.
Well, sort of.
After 50% of New Zealanders moved to Australia in about 1980 and spent the next 15 years sitting around in pubs complaing about the beer and badmouthing the place that was now housing them and feeding them and providing them with expensive taxpayer-funded healthcare and giving them much better-paid jobs than they ever dreamed of getting at home, Australians decided that they would be better off staying home because the Kiwis were not really very nice people after all.
New Zealand by this time was sorely missing its expatriate inteligentsia (yes, both of them) and the not-so-bright ones left at home rather foolishly proceeded with a series of major economic reforms of the Thatcherite flavour which, taken as a whole, did nothing much to help the balance of payments problem but was at least successful in raising exports: New Zealand now became a world leader in the art of exporting industry, jobs, and prosperity.
Having more-or-less completely forgotten about New Zealand by this time, Australia now took careful note of the economic chaos across the Tasman and immediately decided to bring in an economic program of its own. Designed, so far as anyone can tell, to export public assets, manufacturing industry, jobs, and any odd bits of metal ore still left lying around after the last mining boom, it succeeded beyond the wildest dreams of its authors, with the result that Australians are now just as poor as New Zealanders, we all get along together very well, and everybody is happy.
Well, sort of.
mubs
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Another day in paradise...
udaman
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dd, Lost, can someone give me a translation of Tannin's rant, er post, also? Seems besides being a side tangent of some sort of 2008's Bush bashing, spinoff of that thread posting, like LM's UPS help thread, both authors know what they are thinking (as opposed to me, as I rarely know what I'm thinking when I rant 
), but have left out a little bit here, and slightly better worded sentence there, which would have made the difference between incomprehensible, mostly unintelligible gibberish seem understandable.
Just a little bit more here or there to fill in. Hmm, that takes me off on a tangent since I'm about to fall asleep...sing it with me dd on the [SIZE=-1]karaoke[/SIZE] ---
), but have left out a little bit here, and slightly better worded sentence there, which would have made the difference between incomprehensible, mostly unintelligible gibberish seem understandable.Just a little bit more here or there to fill in. Hmm, that takes me off on a tangent since I'm about to fall asleep...sing it with me dd on the [SIZE=-1]karaoke[/SIZE]
---jtr1962
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I was laughing my ass off because it was all so true. Just go to any yuppie neighborhood in New York. You'll find people who are exactly like that. Some of my favorites were the parts about gifted children, bicycles, and Asian girls. Yeah, (yuppie) white people always have "gifted" children, and like to covet super expensive bicycles that they ride less than I ride my beat up Raleigh. On the "yellow fever" thing, don't even get me started. Funny but also kind of annoying to have all these yuppies suddenly wanting to be seen with an Asian girl just because it's the cool thing to do. Leaves less of a selection for those like me and udaman who have loved Asian females from the time they first were interested in females. Then again, the types of Asians that tend to date yuppies probably wouldn't appeal to me anyway.