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I hope I got the spelling right.
I was planning on migrating permanently to MM's country but bombed the English test required for the visa application. For the second time. 
I f#cking hate exams. No matter how much I prepare, I freak out during the actual thing.
It is worse during interviews. The only thing I hate more than exams is talking to people about myself. Programmer interviews should be carried out online, via IRC or something like that. If I wanted to talk to real people, I would be in marketing.
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Guerrilla Coder wrote: If I wanted to talk to real people, I would be in marketing.
There are no real people in marketing!
Bad command or file name. Bad, bad command! Sit! Stay! Staaaay...
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No, but the marketing mob talk to real-people. Or at least, that was the point I derived from the comment.
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Did you put too many rs in fark?
How the hell do you fail the English exam? Is English not your native tongue? Why would the antipodeans even require that? They barely speak the Queen's English as it is.
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R. Giskard Reventlov wrote: They barely speak the Queen's English as it is.
This might be part of the problem.
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Why on Earth would we want to speak the Queen's English? We speak strine!
(and whoever did the test must have been having a bad day because it's not like we can understand have of what people say in Australia anyway - especially the Queenslanders)
cheers
Chris Maunder
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Chris Maunder wrote: Why on Earth would we want to speak the Queen's English? We speak strine!
because you're merely a colony of crims, nothing more. 
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No, you need to do much better if you're going to wade into the UK vs Oz debate.
Firstly, the term is "self employed entrepreneur", and secondly, given the choice between living in cold, damp, dark, over-crowded England and warm, sunny Australia, who do you think got the better end of the deal?
cheers
Chris Maunder
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Chris Maunder wrote: No, you need to do much better if you're going to wade into the UK vs Oz debate.
haha: not really; you can't overcome your baser instincts.
Chris Maunder wrote: Firstly, the term is "self employed entrepreneur with sticky fingers"
FTFY
Chris Maunder wrote: secondly, given the choice between living in cold, damp, dark, over-crowded England and warm, sunny Australia, who do you think got the better end of the deal?
Ok, that one I have to concede though aren't you ensconced in a really cold place for most of the year? My parents lived there before I was forced upon the world and always said "it is bloody cold - we should have gone to California!"
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Chris Maunder wrote: given the choice between living in cold, damp, dark, over-crowded England and warm, sunny Australia, who do you think got the better end of the deal?
Given the choice between British[^] and Australian[^] wildlife, I know which I'd choose! 
"These people looked deep within my soul and assigned me a number based on the order in which I joined."
- Homer
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It seems you beat me to it... 
The United States invariably does the right thing, after having exhausted every other alternative. -Winston Churchill
America is the only country that went from barbarism to decadence without civilization in between. -Oscar Wilde
Wow, even the French showed a little more spine than that before they got their sh*t pushed in.[^] -Colin Mullikin
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I loved the fact that among all those poisonous animals there was a picture of ![Good Stuff | [The good stuff]](https://codeproject.freetls.fastly.net/script/Forums/Images/vegemite.gif)
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Chris Maunder wrote: given the choice between living in cold, damp, dark, over-crowded England and warm, sunny Australia, who do you think got the better end of the deal?
I'll take the country with fewer deadly animals[^]. Thanks. 
The United States invariably does the right thing, after having exhausted every other alternative. -Winston Churchill
America is the only country that went from barbarism to decadence without civilization in between. -Oscar Wilde
Wow, even the French showed a little more spine than that before they got their sh*t pushed in.[^] -Colin Mullikin
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Albert looked up and dived for cover, receiving only mild bruising because he had the foresight to curl into a ball.
After a while Death, his voice a little muffled, said: ALBERT, I WOULD BE SO GRATEFUL IF YOU COULD GIVE ME A HAND HERE.
Albert scrambled up and pulled at some of the huge volumes, finally dislodging enough of them to allow his master to clamber free.
HMM... Death picked up a book at random and read the cover. 'DANGEROUS MAMMALS, REPTILES, AMPHIBIANS, BIRDS, FISH, JELLYFISH, INSECTS, SPIDERS, CRUSTACEANS, GRASSES, TREES, MOSSES, AND LICHENS OF TERROR INCOGNITA', he read. His gaze moved down the spine. VOLUME 29C, he added. OH. PART THREE, I SEE.
He glanced up at the listening shelves. POSSIBLY IT WOULD BE SIMPLER IF I ASKED FOR A LIST OF THE HARMLESS CREATURES OF THE AFORESAID CONTINENT?
They waited.
IT WOULD APPEAR THAT -
"No, wait, master. Here it comes."
Albert pointed to something white zigzagging lazily through the air. Finally Death reached up and caught the single sheet of paper.
He read it carefully and then turned it over briefly just in case anything was written on the other side.
"May I?" said Albert. Death handed him the paper.
"'Some of the sheep'" Albert read aloud.
Terry Pratchett, The Last Continent.
Bad command or file name. Bad, bad command! Sit! Stay! Staaaay...
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At least the deadly animals in Aussie don't carry guns as a security blanket, not like some countries
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Wait, what country has animals that carry around guns?! 
Really though, you're definitely right, but the people in Australia probably need to...
The United States invariably does the right thing, after having exhausted every other alternative. -Winston Churchill
America is the only country that went from barbarism to decadence without civilization in between. -Oscar Wilde
Wow, even the French showed a little more spine than that before they got their sh*t pushed in.[^] -Colin Mullikin
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Nah, even the sharks bugger-off if ya punch 'em hard enough.
In the same way that dogs can smell fear, the wildlife can smell tourists. They should consider handing em out at the airports though.
"When I was 5 years old, my mother always told me that happiness was the key to life. When I went to school, they asked me what I wanted to be when I grew up. I wrote down 'happy'. They told me I didn't understand the assignment, and I told them they didn't understand life." - John Lennon
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Chris Maunder wrote: especially the Queenslanders)
Ahem!
PooperPig - Coming Soon
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_Maxxx_ wrote: Ahem!
You're a Pom. No matter howe long you live here. Your Boy on the other hand is lucky enough to be an Aussie, unfortunate enough to be a banana bender.
Michael Martin
Australia
"I controlled my laughter and simple said "No,I am very busy,so I can't write any code for you". The moment they heard this all the smiling face turned into a sad looking face and one of them farted. So I had to leave the place as soon as possible."
- Mr.Prakash One Fine Saturday. 24/04/2004
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Your casual racism is most offensive.
PooperPig - Coming Soon
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_Maxxx_ wrote:
I'm sorry, I'm white, you're white, there can be no racism.
Michael Martin
Australia
"I controlled my laughter and simple said "No,I am very busy,so I can't write any code for you". The moment they heard this all the smiling face turned into a sad looking face and one of them farted. So I had to leave the place as soon as possible."
- Mr.Prakash One Fine Saturday. 24/04/2004
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What makes you think I'm white?
PooperPig - Coming Soon
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_Maxxx_ wrote: What makes you think I'm white?
Cause all your talking (OK, so I mean typing) sounds just like all those proper Pom types from all the 60's and 70's English TV shows that filled out televisions over her oin the 70's.
I'm specifically thinking Steptoe and Son.
Michael Martin
Australia
"I controlled my laughter and simple said "No,I am very busy,so I can't write any code for you". The moment they heard this all the smiling face turned into a sad looking face and one of them farted. So I had to leave the place as soon as possible."
- Mr.Prakash One Fine Saturday. 24/04/2004
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I couldn't comment about what they speak over there, there were people from too many countries to be sure. About the rest -
see this reply[^]
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Come to America. We don't speak English here. We speak whatever you want to speak, write, read. It's all good.
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