ENGLAND v AUSTRALIA

[Bomber]

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.

[God is an Englishman]

Who calls it the lucky country?

I'd rather be Great than lucky

[magnet]

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."

[Ioseb Jughashvili]

It's like saying that a convicted car thief isn't that bad a person because they aren't as bad as Stalin.

Hard labor in Siberia for you.

[Stuckey]

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.

[Stuckey]

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.

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.

[Bomber]

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."

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 fuck up.

[God is an Englishman]

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."

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.

[Bomber]

Just an opinion, hardly fact.

[God is an Englishman]

Just an opinion, hardly fact.

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

GREAT Britain

[Delete Your Account]

Just an opinion, hardly fact.

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

GREAT Britain

Maybe you should live in GREATER Manchester.

[ozzie owl]

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?

[Bomber]

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?

[Stuckey]

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?

[God is an Englishman]

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.

[ozzie owl]

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.

[God is an Englishman]

A small island would be called Great because of of its size. Hardly makes sense.

[God is an Englishman]

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?

[Bomber]

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.

[ozzie owl]

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".

[Baseball Bill]

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.

[Stuckey]

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.

[God is an Englishman]

You don't keep a dog and bark yourself.