Frequently Asked Questions : ~88/AU


FAQ / Shiri Dori / AU

Why does Australia consider itself an entity separate from the rest of lugnet?

From Richie Dulin: !

They are trying to take over the world.

From James Howse: !

They are trying to pass the UK in number of posts, and have recently succeeded.

From Melody Brown: !

It all depends on which way you look at it... not to mention what kind of mood you are in :) <snip> What we [Austrialians] have here on Lugnet with our loc.au group is precious to us. We are like bricks ourselves and connect together with our meets and our postings about who and where the sales and goodies are.

From Paul Baulch: !

Because we’re close. Most of us have met face-to-face, I think. So it’s probably true of a lot of the smaller loc’s, but LUGNET tends to notice it with Australia.... for some reason. ;-)
Because we don’t have a Legoland and we deserve one - so we spend a lot of the time sulking.
Ditto for S@H. ;-)
Because loc.au is mostly free of “dorky compartmentalisation”, and blissfully so. It’s the only place we can have decent variety in our conversations without having some Smart Feller FUT’ing it away somewhere (yes, I use NNTP, and no, using the web interface is too slow).
Because in loc.au we have at least a snifter of a chance of “spicing up” the conversation with an innuendo, double entendre or not-so-PC comment without tripping over some ‘murkans moral-socio-political safety alarms. Not that we do so very often, but that’s not the point - it’s the opportunity that counts.
Because we have a rampant inferiority complex.

From Shiri Dori:

Australians seem to have a general distaste with the mainly American-centric organization of lugnet and TLC. Thus they have diverged as a group, many of their posters post very rarely in other newsgroups (OK... not *all* of them, just some).

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