Bilingual haiku?
To próbujmy po polsku
I’ll be damned! Polish works!
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That could be true. I’ve only worked in restaurants here (and have sadly never been to your country). I didn’t mean to imply I know the situation in other places, just where I am.
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That doesn’t surprise me. There is something of an American sonderweg in stuff like this. Though of all countries, I’d expect Australia would be the closest to us, given the similarities in our foundings and evolution over time. But, yeah, that whole Calvinist world view is pretty American at it’s core.
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Not sure what I did, but…
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I do, but it’s a hell of a salary in a very specific field. It’s also a very low percentage of my friends who are able to do such a thing.
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Well we were managing it… but it was 2 incomes while the kid was through about 2nd grade. I feel I am gonna have to take a cut for whatever new job I get and we will probably have to go back to 2 incomes.
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I would be surprised. Australia was famously the land where the working man was king - Mark Twain noted it over a hundred years ago - and social attitudes are very different. What’s more, a lot of young Australians used to come over to this country for a year and work in “hospitality” - and their attitude (that it was a perfectly respectable job) rubbed off on the population generally.
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America is supposed to be like that as well, except we twisted the message. Instead of thinking that hard work brings success, we think that if one is successful, the only reason is because they work harder than anyone else.
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So American you guys exported Ken Ham to us. Thanks a lot.
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He just wasn’t happy here; we had to set him free to search for others of his kind.
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What, you don’t have con artists that defraud governments down under? I thought that Rupert Murdoch was also a native?
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People tend to assume everyone else is like them, to some extent. But overt condescension on the basis of occupation is the exception rather than the norm here; we used to say Jack’s as good as his boss. Tipping isn’t a thing here, which no doubt plays into it as well.
However, as wealth continues to be redistributed upwards, that notion is probably being eroded as some folks struggle to rationalize the increasing inequity, and American multinationals debase their low-level employees and make them call customers sir or madam.
I fucking hate being called sir. It’s unAustralian.
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It’s the exception here too, but it still happens.
I have yet to even visit Australia, so I’m probably wrong to say you guys have the same problems we do. Everything I’ve heard of Australia sounds great though, and I plan to visit someday.
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Vast swathes of our populace are apathetic and racist, and we have a tradition of pissing away every natural advantage we have, due to the stunningly persistent mediocrity of our governments. Which are inclined to nanny; we have nocebo cigarette packets, and those condescending arseholes made it mandatory to wear a helmet on your bike 26 years, 4 months and 20 days ago. Stupid fucks.
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Yeah, but you have cricket and nice weather…
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Forty years ago it was bloody paradise. We had Gough Whitlam at the helm, and it was a brand new day.
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He was the guy fired by the governor-general?
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Yeah, because the goddamn ‘Liberal’ party blocked supply; they refused to let anything be funded.
Silver-spoon born to rule arseholes don’t believe in investing in human potential.
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Respect you and yours
Poetry is essential
Otherwise, blank soul
Also, it’s really hard to count syllables when you have a thick southern accent. My words tend to have more of them, the syllables.
ETA: Also, watching debate right now and if I never needed a haiku war, it’s at this moment, mofos. So thank you, @Enkita and BBS.
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Orange glow of skin,
Autumn leaves fall on bullshit.
Debate time again.
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