Damn you Australia!

[Burning Zeppelin]

Australia. The continent where people came for a new life, where they would find happiness (of course not the refugees, but thats not what this is about) But goddamn it, it is so freakin conservative! I mean, apart from the Middle East (my friend said in his flight to Dubai, the replaced all the "swear" words of iRobot with similar sounding words like "kit") and Singapore, it is prbably one of THE most conservative countries. Lets see...

1. Mysterious Skin
It was not band but this movie (which i can not see because of it R rating, oh and the rating system is E, P, C [but those arent used much], G, PG, M, MA, R and X) which my Geography teacher said was superb, was probably going to be banned, due to some "protecting children" movement. But dont you understand? What do you think ratings are for?

2. Leisure Suit Larry
I didnt care because it is a horrible game, but still it was quite strange that it was banned. I mean, sex in video game is stupid. And if you wish to protect children, how come ads are so sex oriented? I mean the, i think, Ford ad with the naked people which is censored with those blurred square things.

3. NARC
Another horrible game, but it too was banned. But it did teach to experiment with drugs

4. GTA: San Andreas
This absoulutely shook me. I am so lucky my friend got a copy for XBOX, or i would never get the SA goodness. After the announcement of it, it was banned in Australia. First of all, why? To get it, you must either download the mod for the PC version, or hack the XB or PS2 cd. Both would require you to actually WANT the sex mini game. And plus, they arent naked (unless you get another mod) So is this wrong because it teaches little children about sex? WRONG. If the parent believed it is too early to teach their kid about sex, dont buy the game. the game has swearing, violence and sexual references, and so not suitable for their special little child. im lucky my dad doesnt care. my mum probably does, but she worries if im 5 minutes late from school  

So about the banned games. A while ago, the The Office of Film & Literature Classification or OFLC held a meeting with certain press about a unified classification policy. The mag a read, Hyper (EDGE Australia sucks, EDGE UK is too expensive and too hassling to get, and HYPER is downright funny) had "joygasms" at the prospect of having and R rating for games. It would show that games are for adults as well, and that some games are TOO mature for young kids. Too bad the OFLC said that they didnt think they needed one because games were for kids. Plus the new tags are ugly. They are brightly coloured. M being bright blue, showing gee this is pretty mature, so lets make it period. harr harr. MA is red, DANGER DANGER VOO VOOOOOO. And R is black, cause we all know black means  bad    So it comes to the point were you must say, gee Australia, you suck

[Lord J Esq]

I take it you live in Australia? Have you ever lived elsewhere?

[Burning Zeppelin]

For a while, Bangladesh, Singapore, South East Asian nations mostly. I know, youll be going, "yeah, but see other nations" its not fun bagging out nations your not a citizen of

[Zaperking]

Umm, Australia is one of the shittest countries in the world. I live there. It's has the most corrupt political system, and all the other systems like the educational and law system.
They call it a 1st world country, but they don't even have a fucking constitution. Even Korea is more civilized, but is under the 2nd world standards because it's communist.

Australia's morals are wrong. Banning computer games? WTF? Just because they involve sexual themes. Get a life, restrict them to people over 10 or something. By 10, Kid's know all the basics about it pretty much. I mean, at school, there's always kids talking and bragging about how they got drunk and had sex and shit, that's probably worse than virtually doing any of it, especially when it's censored.

And the educational system is soo corrupt. Kids who are slow or who don't wana learn get put into "Self Select" classes (Im in on cuz i wanted to get smarter cuz that was the point) to be with their friends. The teachers are only nice to "attractive" looking Kids. Even if a Kid is unattentive and distruptive, they never get introuble and they pass. But someone who has great potential and likes the class gets the least attention, and is always picked out if they talk or something just because they should know better... WTF >.>

I hope the free trade agreement does go ahead. Then American culture can invade Australia and get rid of all that its worth. That'd be soo good. I wana go live in a more sophisticated environment like in the USA

[Lord J Esq]

I hope the free trade agreement does go ahead. Then American culture can invade Australia and get rid of all that its worth. That'd be soo good. I wana go live in a more sophisticated environment like in the USA

Sophisticated?

[saridon]

I hope the free trade agreement does go ahead. Then American culture can invade Australia and get rid of all that its worth. That'd be soo good. I wana go live in a more sophisticated environment like in the USA

i hope your being sarcastic because all the americans i know (exept gamers) are usually fucking assholes australia may be corrupt and shitty
but at least we dont have tons of fat, self obsessed asshole.

sorry if i offended anyone but as i said almost all non gamer americans i know are assholes obsessed into to thinking their veiws are right and no one elses are.

but australias goverment, school system and various other things are corrupt
and banning games and shit is dumb cause they make ratings for a reason then forget about them just because its a "game" example GTA:SA you need a computer mod or a gamehark just to see the mini game WTF about the millions of R and hentai ,etc computer games you can buy in almost every other game store in the city.

australia needs less corrupt idiots running the country and america needs less self obsessed "every thing i belive is right" people.

sorry for any one i offended but thats how I see things.

[Lord J Esq]

i hope your being sarcastic because all the americans i know (exept gamers) are usually fucking assholes australia may be corrupt and shitty but at least we dont have tons of fat, self obsessed asshole.

Is America's crime its obesity? I think you can be more creative (and accurate) than that.

[saridon]

i hope your being sarcastic because all the americans i know (exept gamers) are usually fucking assholes australia may be corrupt and shitty but at least we dont have tons of fat, self obsessed asshole.

Is America's crime its obesity? I think you can be more creative (and accurate) than that.

not really but at least we dont have lots of people eating KFC,etc 3 times a day, lazy would probally be a better word to replace fat since they eat KFC,etc since their too lazy to cook somthing decent themselves.

[Sentenal]

KFC?  Not everyone in America are KFC eatting assholes.  In fact, few assholes in America are KFC eatters.  KFC isn't one of the biggest fast food chain.

Some Americans may be lazy (gamers more than non-gamers), but not all.  I think your using a broad brush on America.

[Daniel Krispin]

Actually, I found Americans quite nice and friendly when I was in Chicago a few weeks back. It kind of caught me by surprise, because I was used to hearing about these unfriendly Americans. Actually going to the US dispelled that myth, though.

[Sentenal]

Yeah, appearently the outside world thinks were fat, lazy, militant cowboys.

[Chrono'99]

Actually, I found Americans quite nice and friendly when I was in Chicago a few weeks back. It kind of caught me by surprise, because I was used to hearing about these unfriendly Americans. Actually going to the US dispelled that myth, though.

Chicago isn't representative of how unfriendly some regions of the USA can be.

[ZeaLitY]

Generalizations are retarded, in general. I live right next door to Texas. If you come around here acting like a sanctimonious intellectual, of course you're going to get treated like a sissy boy. Self-respect, clout; just carry yourself. Neither can the political leaders of any single nation be considered totally representative of the beliefs of the populace.

[Radical_Dreamer]

Sometimes it feels like the rest of the world saw a Yosemitie Sam cartoon, and pretty much derived the rest of their assumptions of America from there. And from what I've heard of Australia, it's quite nice. I'd like to go there when I have the time and money. Kangaroo is tasty, but it's pricey over here.

[nightmare975]

i hope your being sarcastic because all the americans i know (exept gamers) are usually fucking assholes australia may be corrupt and shitty

You know, that is so true. Non gamer americans are really fucktards.