jesus, another cunt of a human being, I’ll quote this one
Second year visa granted today,another year livin the dream
23 likes from cunts living the dream out there aswell
“Living the dream” = going to the far side of the world to try and recreate an exagerrated sterotypical version of the place you told everybody couldn’t wait to get away from because in reality you wish you were back there
[quote=“Tassotti, post: 517449”]jesus, another cunt of a human being, I’ll quote this one
Second year visa granted today,another year livin the dream
23 likes from cunts living the dream out there aswell[/quote]
Would you believe I know people who’s second year visa has expired and they are paying $2500 a semester just to do a mickey mouse course so they can continue ‘livin the dream’. The qualification will be useless and they are not even working in the field the course is in .
Theory of fruit picking 101?
Very true Sid, i was actually talking to a few lads home for Christmas and to my surprise they said they can’t wait till there 2nd year visa is up and their out of Oz. They also said they would’nt have gone back to Oz but things are so bad here. At least you have some fellas telling the truth.
If people feel they have to emigrate they should follow Dunph’s brave lead and go to France - but then again you’re not seeing the world in France as opposed to County Bondi
Kev’s honest and straight up truth about Australia is to be admired. 
“Living the dream” is an incredibly bent phrase to begin with. It sounds like a Barry Manilow song-title or somesuch.
Fixed that for you
what is the “dream” anyway? drinking the shit out of it 3 or 4 days a week, suffering horrendously for 3 days then doing it all again?
The most important thing is to make others think that they’re “living the dream” and to reinforce this impression on a regular basis with strategic Facebook status updates and photo uploads, preferably of drinking sessions with their new “bessies” that they met for the first time last week. The important thing to convey is that they don’t miss Ireland at all, that they’ve left it behind and are moving on to bigger and better things, that Ireland and the people still stranded on that godforsaken rock in the Atlantic are so passe compared to the sophisticated go getters in Australia. It’s about making you wish you were them.
The drinking thing is mainly to try and con themselves into forgetting the pretence of the whole thing for a few hours, to con themselves into believing they’re still in Ireland before they wake up the next morning and open the cupboard in the kitchen in their grotty flat, hoping, wishing, that a comforting box of Barry’s tea bags and a packet of Galtee rashers will smile back at them. It never does. It’s breakfast time in County Bondi but it’s 3am back home.
“Living the dream” is the perfect phrase for the aspirational classes who grew up watching the OC and Dawson’s Creek to convey to everybody that they’ve finally found in Oz that Celtic Tiger lifestyle they so richly deserved and were so cruelly cheated of by the recession. Oz is just amazeballs.
Deep Sid, deep. I feel a little sorry for them after reading your post. The other thing that pisses me off is that their profile pictures are always at least a few months old and fail to show how fat and haggard(I’m talking about women here ) they have become since they started living the dream.
The status updates with the weekly forecast is always a gas one. Clearly aimed at home and to show that they are in paradise and you are not.
Six months of eating your dinner out of a KFC bucket can have that effect
Don’t know why anybody would want to go to Australia by choice anyway, looks a complete and utter dump. The weather is about the only thing appealing, the people seem like wankers, it comes across as a very backward place and it’s got snakes and poisonous spiders. They have no culture and extremely annoying accents.
Going to the states or learning a foreign language and moving to a Latin country seems much more appealing where you can immerse yourself in the fine culture and scenery on offer.
:rolleyes:
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=RWVhdEQBupY
The actual second comment under this video reads as follows:
i think this song is brillaint…!! fair play to him!!! People givin out about dis song are jst jealous dey cant live d dream in Oz… !! Cannot Wait til i get out dere… only 6 weeks nd il be dere !!!
<3 DIS SONG !!! XXXXXXXXXXX
:rolleyes:
seeing the same thing on facebook too. lads out there, packed into a grotty little house and having the temperature in their status. or asking is it raining at home, its 34 degrees here. I know of a lad who hadnt work here, and went over leaving his wife and child behind. hes doing a shit job, and by the looks of it, drinking a shitload every week. cant see how that is living the dream, being on the other side of the world and not exactly rolling in money or making it worthwhile. Another girl I know in Perth going on about her apartment by the beach. And then hearing from her parents where she is living, and wouldnt exactly call it overlooking the beach as she loves telling everyone, far from it.
Its like as if they are trying to make out they are there by choice and that they dont miss home as sid says. there are obviously other people out there who have got good job opportunities and making the best of life there and integrating into society and with locals. its just the clowns who live in bondi and think travelling around the world is a day trip to the blue mountains.
Sid - the comment you posted up just sums these people up:
I think this song is brillaint…!! fair play to him!!! People givin out about dis song are jst jealous dey cant live d dream in Oz… !! Cannot Wait til i get out dere… only 6 weeks nd il be dere !!!
<3 DIS SONG !!! XXXXXXXXXXX
Jesus swept.
I think people are being unfair to Australia here, I’ve never been but it clearly has some good aspects to it. The problem I have with it is that it just seems to be full of the absolute worst of Irish society.
Is there something ironic about lads posting on an anonymous social networking forum deriding others facebook status updates?
Can’t you hide people on facebox if their updates trigger bouts of self doubt and misery?
Live and let live people.