someone needs to put a bomb under your buggern rock and destroy it first.

what a ignorant bastard you are korri elder Herbert

you come on this forum and tell everyone there is no class system in Australia.

but then you Act like your korri king muck and think that your better then everyone else in our society.

so the comment I made about how some treat others bin our society is correct.

and there are some of higher class out there.

king korri

and All this to make white man's money for a greedy black man

a ignorant greedy black korri

BigOl64 wrote on Aug 11^th, 2013 at 3:46pm:


I thought the above was bleeding obvious. Seems not.

Lisa Jones wrote on Aug 15^th, 2013 at 5:33pm:


The middle class dont need wealthfare though - they can afford to get by without it unlike the ppl that arent getting the money that do need it.

SOB

Lord Herbert wrote on Aug 15^th, 2013 at 8:49am:


I don't know what people would say about my track record with politeness here. I don't normally think about being polite. I say my Thank-You's and Please's but that's just a habit. I just thought if I was going to ask if someone was British (or any other nationality), I better tread carefully.

Lord Herbert wrote on Aug 15^th, 2013 at 8:49am:


It may not identity your ethnicity, but surely it does identify your nationality, does it not?

Lord Herbert wrote on Aug 15^th, 2013 at 8:49am:


Made-in-China Australian flags are common too.

Lord Herbert wrote on Aug 15^th, 2013 at 8:49am:


Seven years in China hey? You must have learn to speak Mandarin in that time.

Lord Herbert wrote on Aug 15^th, 2013 at 8:49am:


I think a little bit of mystery is a good thing. I could be the guy who runs the KwikiMart (Simpsons) or the City Wok (South Park) ........ or something else altogether. Every now and then, little bits of my life leak out. For now, I think I'll keep you guessing.

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As for "politeness" and "respect," I think it is more a result of an experience I had several years ago when I was studying, than to do with my "background." Let me just say, bullying doesn't just happen in high school. It happens in university as well. In fact, it happens everywhere: in the workplace, in relationships, in marriages, in the armed forces; it happens everywhere. I think the 98th percentile score should be a sign: I was very competitive in high school.

At university I used to spend time with a "friend" who like me, studied hard and thought of himself as "smart." We had a kind of "competition" and "rivalry" that got a little too "personal." I never wanted a competition. I was a victim of bullying in high school and tried hard to manage conflicts, to not hit back emotionally at an aggressor. But this guy was keen. He was obsessed. I was afraid that if I told him to stop, he'd say that I was weak or a coward, so I let this continue for four years. Eventually we stopped talking to each other and blamed each other for what happened.

That guy put me in very uncomfortable situations and I promised myself I wasn't going to do the same to anyone else. That experience taught me the true meaning of respect.

It's because of that experience that I don't like snobbery. I don't want to go back to that life. It brought the worst out of me. It destroyed a friendship. Snobbery and classism tear people apart. They stop trusting and talking to each other -- nothing to do with being a "left-wing whinger."

Snobs only have snobs as friends. That's fine until people start quitting the snob group and saying, "I'm out."

Lord Herbert wrote on Aug 15^th, 2013 at 8:49am:


Oh that was a while ago. If I wanted to get into Medicine, I would have needed 99, but I wasn't interested in it anyway.

Back in my "yuppie" days, the score really mattered. Now it doesn't.

What people achieve in high school becomes insignificant as the years go by. When you get your university degree, it doesn't matter if you went to public or private school. When you go out looking for a job, employers are looking for experience. Even university qualifications aren't so important unless the job involves number crunching or really technical matters -- like jobs for engineers, accountants, lawyers, judges and scientists -- where you really have to know what you're doing.

If you're running a business, it's more about management, making decisions and dealing with people. They won't care so much that you have a Business, Commerce or Arts degree. I actually did choose a path where university qualifications did matter, but my high school results won't help my career prospects.

Lord Herbert wrote on Aug 15^th, 2013 at 8:49am:


I thought the British were a nationality, not a race -- a bit like being Roman. Join the Empire.

Lisa Jones wrote on Aug 16^th, 2013 at 1:59pm:


Not any more with 400k more unemployed than there are jobs.

SOB

Torpedo wrote on Aug 15^th, 2013 at 1:52pm:


Oh I was never saying anyone should be forced to do anything. I was just talking about a change in culture. If people continue living the way they do, there's nothing I can do about it.

The only changes I proposed for the current "system" were to the tax system so that business was easier and so that our economy can compete. I do think we have a high-cost economy and need to step down to a low-cost one, but I'm still thinking about how we're going to achieve that.

Torpedo wrote on Aug 15^th, 2013 at 2:06pm:


Actually, one solution I can think of isn't a new technology or a scientific breakthrough, but where we live and how we get to work or school each day.

Instead of living in houses, we'd live in caravans. Instead of driving to work/school each day, you park your caravan near your workplace or school and walk there every morning. That would save lots of fuel.

Each caravan would be like a bedroom. If you need something bigger, you get a bus with its seats ripped out.

Instead of a television set for each family, it's communal television: a television set or cinema for each channel.

Instead of having mail delivered to a "home address," it will go to an account you have with the postal service. The postal service will deliver the mail to your current location. You will collect it from a special post box.

Instead of urban dwellers, we'd be nomads, ready to uproot and go at will. At the moment we don't have the infrastructure to support such a system, but in the future ............ who knows?

Mnemonic wrote on Aug 16^th, 2013 at 1:55pm:


Ah. You've raised an interesting point.

The only people I have ever met who are NOT paranoid about their nationality are people from the English-speaking countries.

It's only You Ethnics who tense up with paranoid suspicion if someone should ask where you come from. The reason: you have your traditional enemies, going back centuries.

Lord Herbert wrote on Aug 15^th, 2013 at 8:49am:


Mnemonic wrote on Aug 16^th, 2013 at 1:55pm:


Good lord, no.

Each summer when India and Pakistan's national cricket teams arrive in the UK to play the 'British' ~ they are swamped by hysterical crowds of fifth generation immigrant Indians and Pakistanis carrying them triumphantly on their shoulders in various parts of England.

Same when the West Indian cricketing team arrives. People born in Britain in the 1950's greet them as visiting heroes, and barrack for them all the way through the summer months.

If a war came, half of Britain's population would have to be shipped off to the Canadian wilderness for internment until the cessation of hostilities.

[quote author=Mnemonic link=1376192497/112#112 date=1376625321Seven years in China hey? You must have learn to speak Mandarin in that time. [/quote]

Ah-HUH! Now I know where you come from, Grasshopper!

Anybody else would have assumed I had lived in Hong Kong, and had learned to speak a little Cantonese. But you nominated north China ~ an odd choice for a Gweilo to have spent as a child.

I lived in both Shanghai and Hong Kong, but as for more information... well, first you have to snatch these 5 fresh testicles out of my hand, Grasshooper...

(Sorry, I'm reading a book about Hannibal Lecter at the moment, and ... )