red750 Posted March 15, 2019 Share Posted March 15, 2019 Take any stereotypical characteristic you like, and I do not fit that characteristic. I'm the most boring person you ever came across. Don't drink, don't smoke, don't have tattoos, haven't played sport since school, haven't been to a footy game this century, my only drugs are prescribed medications, celebate for more than 15 years. (too much information), haven't been to a cinema this century. Yes, I have attended a few concerts - Rolling Stones, Fleetwood Mac, John Fogarty, etc. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
octave Posted March 15, 2019 Share Posted March 15, 2019 Take any stereotypical characteristic you like, and I do not fit that characteristic. I'm the most boring person you ever came across.Don't drink, don't smoke, don't have tattoos, haven't played sport since school, haven't been to a footy game this century, my only drugs are prescribed medications, celebate for more than 15 years. (too much information), haven't been to a cinema this century. Yes, I have attended a few concerts - Rolling Stones, Fleetwood Mac, John Fogarty, etc. You are a typical Australian, by that I mean unpredictable and unique. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
pmccarthy Posted March 15, 2019 Share Posted March 15, 2019 Average Aussie bloke has lots of opinions he shares with his mates but never when there’s is a woman around. He drinks too much, is overweight, doesn’t exercise, hates bicycles, does what his missus tells him. Or maybe that’s just me. He can’t land properly either. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
spacesailor Posted March 15, 2019 Share Posted March 15, 2019 EVER see a musician do Manual-labour, FOR that mater EVER see a plumber "Wipe a lead joint". EVER see a TV repair-man "solder" a PC board. The list of Multi talented people is diminishing VERY quickly. Mended a punctured tyre lately, (with a patch), most people can't/won't use tyre-irons, Those dainty pinkies. spacesailor Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Old Koreelah Posted March 15, 2019 Share Posted March 15, 2019 ?..Does this mean that Asians are unsuited to swimming ..... unlikely? In the early olympics Japanese competitors often dominated swimming events. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
nomadpete Posted March 15, 2019 Share Posted March 15, 2019 "You are a typical Australian, by that I mean unpredictable and unique." Octave, you finally offered us your version of the "Stereotypical Aussie" ! Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Bruce Posted March 15, 2019 Author Share Posted March 15, 2019 You only have to look at how big they are to see why asians are not as fast as negros. Don't tell me that size is determined by cultural stuff. As for typical Australians, how can you have such a person when they are so many born overseas? Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
octave Posted March 15, 2019 Share Posted March 15, 2019 [ You only have to look at how big they are to see why asians are not as fast as negros. Don't tell me that size is determined by cultural stuff.As for typical Australians, how can you have such a person when they are so many born overseas? I thought "they" came in more than 1 size Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
octave Posted March 15, 2019 Share Posted March 15, 2019 7 You only have to look at how big they are to see why asians are not as fast as negros. Don't tell me that size is determined by cultural stuff.As for typical Australians, how can you have such a person when they are so many born overseas? So you reject the notion of a typical Australian because we are born in many places and I would agree. Asia covers many countries and cultures, it is very broad term which could include a Japanes business man or a Cambodian villager. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Bruce Posted March 15, 2019 Author Share Posted March 15, 2019 Octave, you are avoiding the fact that the average height of many tribes of Africans is greater than the average height of any asians, Cambodians included. Mind you, it is a real good point you made about how knowing about different racial characteristics is of no practical use. For example, you select a basketball team on their heights, not on their ethnicity. It is only afterwards somebody notices that they are mainly negros and no asians. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
octave Posted March 15, 2019 Share Posted March 15, 2019 Octave, you are avoiding the fact that the average height of many tribes of Africans is greater than the average height of any asians, Cambodians included.Mind you, it is a real good point you made about how knowing about different racial characteristics is of no practical use. For example, you select a basketball team on their heights, not on their ethnicity. It is only afterwards somebody notices that they are mainly negros and no asians. The reasons are many. Do Australians have natural ability when it comes or surfing or do they have more access to the beach? Of course differrent ethnicities may statisticsl tendencies to different physical charactoristics. It is not as if there are no tall asians or short africans. By the way do marathon runners need tp be tall? Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
facthunter Posted March 15, 2019 Share Posted March 15, 2019 As we are all alike in most ways we exaggerate the differences to discriminate and stereotype. CLASS is now MONEY. That's one of the most obscene stereotypes and guess who advances it? The poor, just admitting the facts?. No, have another guess. The richer inventing the facts.? You are getting warmer but aren't we all?. Nev Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
nomadpete Posted March 16, 2019 Share Posted March 16, 2019 From the Cambridge Dictionary..... Quote: "stereotype noun [ C ] uk /disapproving 1: a set idea that people have about what someone or something is like, especially an idea that is wrong: racial/sexual stereotypes 'He doesn't conform to/fit/fill the national stereotype of a Frenchman.' " However I look at it, stereotypes are not a great lot of use. Anyway, I just remembered, this thread is "Hospital Wait Times." Sorry folks. I'll go back under my rock. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Old Koreelah Posted March 16, 2019 Share Posted March 16, 2019 ...you select a basketball team on their heights, not on their ethnicity. It is only afterwards somebody notices that they are mainly negros and no asians. Incorrect, Bruce. Ri Myung-hun - Wikipedia Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
spacesailor Posted March 16, 2019 Share Posted March 16, 2019 "I'll go back under my rock." NO ! Stay & entertain Me. ITS You or a pain killer tablet. I can sit reasonably comfy or go & get the "Tramel SR50" then a laxative. or "endone" also followed by a laxative, It's enough to give a man the sheets. I don't know pain if the is increasing or if I'm getting adjusted to the tablets. spacesailor Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
nomadpete Posted March 16, 2019 Share Posted March 16, 2019 I just got fed up with all those unfinished jobs around the house, my back wasn't hurting too much, so got on my bike and headed down the highway to blow a few cobwebs out of my head. There's no problem so big that you can't run away from it (temporarily anyway). Felt great for at least a minute. Then a European wasp went down my sleeve. It stung me repeatedly before I got off the road and evicted it. Bloody illegal migrants! Nothing but trouble! Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
facthunter Posted March 16, 2019 Share Posted March 16, 2019 Like a red hot wire, aren't they. Nev Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
nomadpete Posted March 16, 2019 Share Posted March 16, 2019 The bigger disabled my throttle hand! How bad is that! Really spoiled my day. Its a pity because we don't get that many nice sunny days in Tassie. The imported wasps are in plague proportions down here at the moment. Anyway, after that I zipped my jacket right up to the top. It would have been worse if it stung me on the throat. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
spacesailor Posted March 16, 2019 Share Posted March 16, 2019 Love it, Hope you stomped on the blooody import. spacesailor Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Bruce Posted March 16, 2019 Author Share Posted March 16, 2019 Nomad, try and see it from the wasp's point of view.. there he was, enjoying a nice flight when...pow! Trapped in a nightmare place! Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
nomadpete Posted March 16, 2019 Share Posted March 16, 2019 Nah, no sympathy from me! After I did a roadside strip, I cast the little intruder onto the pavement and got some small measure of satisfaction hearing it crush under my heel. If it was having such a nice flight why didn't it look where it was going. For all I know it probably was the sort of flyer that ends up stuck in a Ferris wheel! Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
facthunter Posted March 16, 2019 Share Posted March 16, 2019 To affect hospital waiting times you have to regulate the Patients. Perhaps they knew they would need patience all along.. Nev Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
spacesailor Posted March 16, 2019 Share Posted March 16, 2019 Regulate the STAFF. Private nurses get higher salary, than Public hospital staff. Makes more patients remortgage their homes to get in quicker, by going Private !. Thinking about it, Seriously. spacesailor Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Bruce Posted March 17, 2019 Author Share Posted March 17, 2019 Don't be like my old Auntie Pat, Space. She paid for private medical all her life, but when she became too sick to be profitable for them, they dumped her on the public system. As for me, I don't want to give my life savings to the medical profession when the time comes. I have yet to see a happy outcome from an old person with a serious medical problem, and the sooner they have died, the better off they were. I'm open to suggestions.... Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
facthunter Posted March 17, 2019 Share Posted March 17, 2019 When you are old and nearly wanting death I'll have another talk with you. Nev Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
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