qwerty Posted February 12, 2014 Report Share Posted February 12, 2014 Good thing I'm Englikaans then! Wrote a letter to my daughter's school a while ago and had to use Google Translate to translate from English to Afrikaans From my experience here in SA you find English and Afrikaans snobs in large numbers. Maybe there are more Afrikaans snobs emigrating from SA to Aus than English ones? Perhaps English snobs (many with ancestral visas) prefer the UK over Aus. Who knows? At the end of the day it comes down to the good ol' South African "I am better than you" mentality, which is a load of and says more about that person than anyone else. 2 Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Bronwyn&Co Posted February 12, 2014 Report Share Posted February 12, 2014 Ok so I googled 'Arrogant South Africans' and spent an unpleasant half hour reading about that. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Nev Posted February 13, 2014 Report Share Posted February 13, 2014 Ok so I googled 'Arrogant South Africans' and spent an unpleasant half hour reading about that.Just did the same google search, pretty sobering.... Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Toitjie Posted February 13, 2014 Report Share Posted February 13, 2014 I think wrt the above comments - one cannot look at such google searches in isolation.google "arrogant Australians" and see what comes up.Then google "arrogant Italians" and see what comes up.Then google "arrogant French"the list goes on...I have come across my fair share of arrogant people in my life. They certainly included not only afrikaans, but english, british, australian, and chinese as well. I feel it's unfair to look at one group and attach a certain "trait" to them as a group. Not all are like that, thank goodness.just saying...we are not all bad.. 2 Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Nev Posted February 13, 2014 Report Share Posted February 13, 2014 Agreed Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Bronwyn&Co Posted February 13, 2014 Report Share Posted February 13, 2014 True Toitjie. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Linz4 Posted February 25, 2014 Report Share Posted February 25, 2014 What a great read this has been! Love the humor and all the shared annoyance with ppl loving themselves too much...I think I'm just as annoyed by "all important" South Africans as the Aussies are?We're just starting the application process but have been to NSW & Queensland 3 times and I honestly can't wait to be living among people who just get on with their own lives and let it be, no judgement or issues!! good to hear that when living there it is exactly like we experienced it when visiting! Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Bronwyn&Co Posted February 26, 2014 Report Share Posted February 26, 2014 We're just starting the application process but have been to NSW & Queensland 3 times and I honestly can't wait to be living among people who just get on with their own lives and let it be, no judgement or issues!! good to hear that when living there it is exactly like we experienced it when visiting!Not my experience! people are the same everywhere. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Bob Posted February 26, 2014 Report Share Posted February 26, 2014 The only folk we know who has a spa are South Africans.The wife and I got invited to join them one evening in the spa.As an Aussie, I just downed my cold beer and hopped out after 10 minutes, towelling myself dry after.I didn't know you had to get up to tricks in the spa later on.I'm learning more and more about all of you lot . . . . . . . . . . . 1 Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
AndreaL Posted February 26, 2014 Report Share Posted February 26, 2014 Ooooh, what have I started with my little tale of the late night shenanigans of South Africans and their spa parties. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
HadEnoughofJuju Posted February 26, 2014 Report Share Posted February 26, 2014 @Andrea, I have heard spas described as "human soup", won't be in one any time soon. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Bronwyn&Co Posted February 27, 2014 Report Share Posted February 27, 2014 @Andrea, I have heard spas described as "human soup", won't be in one any time soon. Ewwwwww Juju no man! Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
HadEnoughofJuju Posted February 27, 2014 Report Share Posted February 27, 2014 Hence the reason you'll never find me in one. 1 Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
AndreaL Posted February 27, 2014 Report Share Posted February 27, 2014 Hence the reason you'll never find me in one.People do keep them clean, either with chlorine or some other sanitiser, I reckon a public swimming pool is a lot more "human soup".................ever been in one of those?........lol 1 Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Kit Posted February 28, 2014 Report Share Posted February 28, 2014 Not on the 'spas' topic but regarding being liked or disliked as a Saffa or Aussie, at one of the rental properties I went to look at, when the agent lady heard I was South African said she would keep that fact from her boss if I applied for the place, because he didn't want any Saffas renting any of the properties on their books. She said they'd had some really bad experiences and it just takes one or two to get us all a bad name.I guess, to be completely fair, if you're an Aussie looking at a tenant (or whoever else you have a bad experience with), you'd identify them the best way you know: South African/Irish/something else distinctive. But if it was an Aussie tenant, as a fellow Aussie you'd be able to identify them better, and maybe end up 'disliking' Qlders, or NSW people, or south-of-river people in Bne, or maybe some other characteristic like that.Just like (for example) in RSA we can identify different accents and place people in subgroups as opposed to their just being a 'fellow-countryman'. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Bronwyn&Co Posted February 28, 2014 Report Share Posted February 28, 2014 (edited) What do fellow forumites think of 2 teenage girls beating up a pensioner on the bus on the Gold Coast? There are plenty of these stories around. This is just today's one...http://mobile.news.com.au/national/queensland/two-teenage-girls-have-been-caught-on-camera-allegedly-racially-abusing-and-assaulting-an-elderly-indigenous-man-on-a-bus/story-fnii5v6w-1226840203524Sorry but I have to be the boring voice of reason, just letting you know that there are horrible people everywhere. The bogan element is strong The good news is that the police have arrested the girls (I believe). There has been a lot of public disapproval. Edited February 28, 2014 by Bronwyn&Co Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
HansaPlease Posted February 28, 2014 Report Share Posted February 28, 2014 Disgusting animals. That is all. 1 Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
OubaasDik Posted February 28, 2014 Report Share Posted February 28, 2014 What do fellow forumites think of 2 teenage girls beating up a pensioner on the bus on the Gold Coast? There are plently of these stories around. This is just today's one...http://mobile.news.com.au/national/queensland/two-teenage-girls-have-been-caught-on-camera-allegedly-racially-abusing-and-assaulting-an-elderly-indigenous-man-on-a-bus/story-fnii5v6w-1226840203524Sorry but I have to be the boring voice of reason, just letting you know that there are horrible people everywhere. The bogan element is strong The good news is that the police have arrested the girls (I believe). There has been a lot of public disapproval.Interesting - earlier this morning the story said that the man did NOT self-identify as aboriginal or Torres Strait islander and now he's indigenous (according to the story). Bad as the story is, seems like someone is taking the opportunity to add another element.BTW did anyone see the TV story about the Camilleri who borrowed money to pay his daughter's gambling debts?http://www.theaustralian.com.au/national-affairs/state-politics/ex-railcorp-boss-joseph-camilleri-took-16m-in-loans-from-workers-icac-hears/story-e6frgczx-1226829408147#Extracts from her phone calls to him were there as well - truly hair-raising - she sounds like a real piece of work. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
AndreaL Posted March 1, 2014 Report Share Posted March 1, 2014 An Australian friend of mine describes them as ugly, ugly, dirty moles.Apparently their names are Layni Cameron & Larna Watmough (according to FB sources) and they have been done for armed robbery..............held someone up at knifepoint............................urgh, would you want them anywhere near your sons? Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
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