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I agree, I would consider being told I wasn't Australian as a compliment as well.
I am Australian though. By law and first generation. They do call this the lucky country too. I'm privileged. :D
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Who calls it the lucky country?

I'd rather be Great than lucky
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God is an Englishman wrote:Who calls it the lucky country?

I'd rather be Great than lucky
"Australia is a lucky country run mainly by second rate people who share its luck. It lives on other people's ideas, and, although its ordinary people are adaptable, most of its leaders (in all fields) so lack curiosity about the events that surround them that they are often taken by surprise." :lol:

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God is an Englishman wrote:You assumed it wasn't when you made the comment laughing at Grossi for saying he has no affinity with Australia.

With your assumption he's wrong, with mine he's right. Therefore, my assumption makes sense.
If you read my original post I laughed that Australia's most capped player apparently doesn't have an affinity for Australia. If he had no affinity he wouldn't of played for Australia a record amount of times. So not only were you being entirely presumptuous about Grosso's comment you were totally wrong about mine as well.
But also as said we haven't heard from Schwarzer on this so we don't know for sure what he's level of affinity actually is. So on that fact you and he are assuming knowledge on that.

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Bomber wrote:
God is an Englishman wrote:
I agree, I would consider being told I wasn't Australian as a compliment as well.
I am Australian though. By law and first generation. They do call this the lucky country too. I'm privileged. :D
The term lucky country isn't actually a compliment. Its a reference to the fact Australia has all this space and natural resource to earn income off where as "less lucky" countries must make the most of the resources they have. It basically means that Australia has no excuse not to be prosperous.

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magnet wrote:
God is an Englishman wrote:Who calls it the lucky country?

I'd rather be Great than lucky
"Australia is a lucky country run mainly by second rate people who share its luck. It lives on other people's ideas, and, although its ordinary people are adaptable, most of its leaders (in all fields) so lack curiosity about the events that surround them that they are often taken by surprise." :lol:
Don't give up your day job.

If you're so "great" mr giae, and yet your stuck here, isn't that a bit of an oxymoron then? "Great" people by and large don't shiraz up.
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Bomber wrote:
magnet wrote:
God is an Englishman wrote:Who calls it the lucky country?

I'd rather be Great than lucky
"Australia is a lucky country run mainly by second rate people who share its luck. It lives on other people's ideas, and, although its ordinary people are adaptable, most of its leaders (in all fields) so lack curiosity about the events that surround them that they are often taken by surprise." :lol:
Don't give up your day job.

If you're so "great" mr giae, and yet your stuck here, isn't that a bit of an oxymoron then? "Great" people by and large don't shiraz up.
I said the country was great, not that I was.
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Just an opinion, hardly fact.
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Bomber wrote:Just an opinion, hardly fact.

It's a fact, it's even in the name.

GREAT Britain
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God is an Englishman wrote:
Bomber wrote:Just an opinion, hardly fact.

It's a fact, it's even in the name.

GREAT Britain
Maybe you should live in GREATER Manchester.

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Stuckey wrote:
God is an Englishman wrote:You assumed it wasn't when you made the comment laughing at Grossi for saying he has no affinity with Australia.

With your assumption he's wrong, with mine he's right. Therefore, my assumption makes sense.
If you read my original post I laughed that Australia's most capped player apparently doesn't have an affinity for Australia. If he had no affinity he wouldn't of played for Australia a record amount of times. So not only were you being entirely presumptuous about Grosso's comment you were totally wrong about mine as well.
But also as said we haven't heard from Schwarzer on this so we don't know for sure what he's level of affinity actually is. So on that fact you and he are assuming knowledge on that.
Amazing that Grosso & Co can read Schwarzer's mind, what's next, this weeks winning X Lotto numbers?

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Slinky_Pete wrote:
God is an Englishman wrote:
Bomber wrote:Just an opinion, hardly fact.

It's a fact, it's even in the name.

GREAT Britain
Maybe you should live in GREATER Manchester.
What's so great about either? I had a great-grandfather once. Was he special?
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God is an Englishman wrote:
Bomber wrote:Just an opinion, hardly fact.

It's a fact, it's even in the name.

GREAT Britain
Does it really count if they gave themselves the name though?
Also is Great a reference to it's size and not how good it is?

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ozzie owl wrote:
Stuckey wrote:
God is an Englishman wrote:You assumed it wasn't when you made the comment laughing at Grossi for saying he has no affinity with Australia.

With your assumption he's wrong, with mine he's right. Therefore, my assumption makes sense.
If you read my original post I laughed that Australia's most capped player apparently doesn't have an affinity for Australia. If he had no affinity he wouldn't of played for Australia a record amount of times. So not only were you being entirely presumptuous about Grosso's comment you were totally wrong about mine as well.
But also as said we haven't heard from Schwarzer on this so we don't know for sure what he's level of affinity actually is. So on that fact you and he are assuming knowledge on that.
Amazing that Grosso & Co can read Schwarzer's mind, what's next, this weeks winning X Lotto numbers?
Why do "& Co" need to read his mind?

I'm sure this will be added to the list of this blokes unanswered questions. Always goes missing when he's wrong.
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Stuckey wrote:
God is an Englishman wrote:
Bomber wrote:Just an opinion, hardly fact.

It's a fact, it's even in the name.

GREAT Britain
Does it really count if they gave themselves the name though?
Also is Great a reference to it's size and not how good it is?
It is reference to its size.

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A small island would be called Great because of of its size. Hardly makes sense.
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Stuckey wrote:
God is an Englishman wrote:
Bomber wrote:Just an opinion, hardly fact.

It's a fact, it's even in the name.

GREAT Britain
Does it really count if they gave themselves the name though?
Also is Great a reference to it's size and not how good it is?
So - who called Australia the "lucky" country then?
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God is an Englishman wrote:A small island would be called Great because of of its size. Hardly makes sense.
Great Barrier Reef, an example of size, more so than anything else one would think.
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Bomber wrote:
God is an Englishman wrote:A small island would be called Great because of of its size. Hardly makes sense.
Great Barrier Reef, an example of size, more so than anything else one would think.

After the Anglo-Saxon period, Britain was used as a historical term only. Geoffrey of Monmouth in his pseudohistorical Historia Regum Britanniae (c. 1136) refers to the island of Great Britain as Britannia major ("Greater Britain"), to distinguish it from Britannia minor ("Lesser Britain"), the continental region which approximates to modern Brittany, which had been settled in the fifth and sixth centuries by Celtic immigrants from the British Isles.[38] The term Great Britain was first used officially in 1474, in the instrument drawing up the proposal for a marriage between Cecily the daughter of Edward IV of England, and James the son of James III of Scotland, which described it as "this Nobill Isle, callit Gret Britanee". As noted above it was used again in 1604, when King James VI and I styled himself "King of Great Brittaine, France and Ireland".

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God is an Englishman wrote:A small island would be called Great because of of its size. Hardly makes sense.
Maybe it was a comparison to it's neighbor Ireland.
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God is an Englishman wrote:
Stuckey wrote:
God is an Englishman wrote:

It's a fact, it's even in the name.

GREAT Britain
Does it really count if they gave themselves the name though?
Also is Great a reference to it's size and not how good it is?
So - who called Australia the "lucky" country then?
http://www.google.com
Find out for yourself mate.

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