Dear Paul,

Name calling, stereotyping,
and sweeping generalisations
have been a part and parcel for some in
this country for generations. That is nothing
new. It's part of their DNA.
And of course one witnesses quite a few
incidents while travelling on public transport.
That doesn't mean that one hates other people,
or that one is sledging the entire nation of which
after all, one is also a part. It simply means
telling it like it is. It also doesn't mean that
there shouldn't be criticisms of bad behaviour -
when its happening under our very noses.

At that moment all I wanted to do is get those drunk,
abusive, whining, whingeing, ignorant ferals, put them
on a boat and send them off to sea. Them and others
like them. But of course my stop to get off was next,
and I got off and went home instead.

And this wasn't just a one off situation. It happens
often on public transport in particular.

I doubt those you describe as "underdeveloped barbarians" are what I would consider Australians, Foxy.

I have not had anything to do with Melbourne in years, really not since it became a Greek city. Sydney however I have recently visited.

Both on the trains heading for outer suburbia, & in places like Bankstown, Parramatta & Fairfield, I had real trouble seeking directions. You see none of those "underdeveloped barbarians" could understand my questions, as none of them spoke English.

I had to my mind found a new game. It's called "Spot the Auzzy", & can be played in our larger cities, & in parts of our smaller smaller ones as well.

Are you sure you are describing Ozzies, or some recent blowins or more recently sailins? The mere fact they have conned their way into the country does not make them Ozzies, even if some of our officials have been stupid enough to give them a bit of paper.

HASBEEN, some of those people you've described will never be an Aussie while their 'proverbial' points to the ground - who on earth do they think they're kidding !

Dear Hasbeen,

These ferals were being abusive towards anyone who looked
distinctly "different," as in the Asian student they picked
on and abused
and also they were abusive to anyone who spoke a
language other than English - there was an elderly
Italian couple sitting nearby, who looked at me
as if to say, "What do you do?"

There was no excuse for their behaviour.

I would happily exchange tens of
thousands of hard-working people from
Iran, Afghanistan, and the Sudan, for these ferals
and all those like them. I feel that it would be an
exchange worth making and we would be a better
country for it.

Dear Hasbeen,

You have disappointed me greatly with your last post.
I had no idea that you had that sort of a mind-set.
Either you or O Sung Wu, for that matter.

Actually I am quite shocked and saddened.

FOXY, I regret I've saddened you, but I'm a realist, I've had to deal with many of these people, and some could only be described as scum, nothing more !