ImAnAspie
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08 Jan 2015, 4:51 pm
B19 wrote:
ImAnAspie wrote:
Attwood is good. He's more than good. He's cool! He's also an Aussie!
I know, I know, he's actually English but whenever someone good like an actor, singer, and apparently good psychologists come live her in Australia, we claim them as our own... Unless they embarrass us globally publicly (like Mel Gibson. He was Australian until his drunken tirade on the Jews and then suddenly, he's American again. Same as Rolf Harris. English but we claimed him as Aussie. That was, until the child's sex allegations came out and then suddenly, he was English again.)
Australia loves to do that!
I know, I know, he's actually English but whenever someone good like an actor, singer, and apparently good psychologists come live her in Australia, we claim them as our own... Unless they embarrass us globally publicly (like Mel Gibson. He was Australian until his drunken tirade on the Jews and then suddenly, he's American again. Same as Rolf Harris. English but we claimed him as Aussie. That was, until the child's sex allegations came out and then suddenly, he was English again.)
Australia loves to do that!
You made me
I have to add that there was little complaint in NZ when Aussie claimed Russell Crowe as their own lol However if Attwood came across the ditch I'd be happy to claim him as one of us too!However on a more serious note (if I stay away from serious for too long I get withdrawal symptoms!) the Attwood criteria is a beautiful example of "frame theory" - how things don't change until the conceptual lens changes (see Frame Theory on Wikipedia if that rocks your boat!)
I don't understand this but when (if) I get to work, I'll Google/Wikipedia it!
