Seems that some people here have a very low opinion of Deakin university.

mlaichtastic: Yeah but Deakin degrees aren’t useful for anything apart from toilet paper.

There are many people here who seem to believe, if something is written down, it must be true. This means that the internet causes them much discomfort. I think this is crazy speak. If you think that you’ll end up thinking the world is flat or that the sun spins around the earth.

I first came across this when I lived in Redfern in 2001-2002, but it has been the topic of some discussion recently. Some people, a significant number it seems, in Sydney, believe that if you have breakfast with someone, say in a cafe, then you must have had sex with them. Apparently it is not possible to have breakfast without having first had sex. Of course, this leads to all sorts of false and incorrect conclusions as at the end of the day it is a load of shit.

people in the western suburbs of Sydney (say around 2003-2004) who think that, in a game we were playing, where we were the americans, decided that it was ok to burst into a building and kill people in their sleep on the grounds that they were probably muslim terrorists. I find the whole thing distasteful. And what if they turned out to be jews? Is killing someone because they are a jew a war crime, yet killing someone for being a muslim be perfectly acceptable? There is a slippery road here that the germans headed down before WWII. People should remember and learn otherwise they might as well put a poster of Goebbels up on the wall. You say that it is OK to kill people in their sleep. I think what makes one side the good guys is that they do not go around killing people in their sleep.

be warned according to the guards on the bridge: …All was ok until a security guard asked me to leave the bridge, as you are not allowed to take photos of ‘bridge infrastructure’…

Here are some of the aforesaid evil photos of the bridge.

“Views on the Sydney Harbour Bridge” by yewenyi [?]

“Sydney Harbour Bridge BridgeClimb” by 80651083@N00 [?]

“Bench” by jashil [?]

“Sydney Harbour Bridge” by brianapa [?]

I used to do a bit of geocaching. When doing this, I’d take my camera around and take photos of the places we cached. Often the caches were in somewhere interesting to make the caching more interesting. But there was a down side. People, particularly in the hills district are fearful of people with cameras. They fear that we will take photos of their children as a preliminary step to molesting them. They watch you with suspicious minds. Though why they fear this redundant step has always bemused me. I suspect that they have psychological problems in dealing with the real world. In some places the risk of child kidnappings and other forms of molestation have grown so great that they have spent a fortune on installing high tech security systems. I would not want any children of mine to grow up in suburbs such as these. I mean, why would anyone go onto the internet to find someone first to molest? In my life the worst molestation I have seen had been in houses by parents against their own children. Perhaps they need the cameras inside the houses?

"you are being watched" by yewenyi [?]

NSW has a problem with people throwing stones which does not exist in other state. What is wrong with these people? The problem is so great that the state government thinks that it is necessary to put up fences over the freeways. I am not sure how this helps as a stone thrower could just throw the stone over the fence. From what I remember, this hysteria was caused by a small number of children. Hundreds of pedestrians die each year on the roads, but they probably don’t matter.

What you will see in NSW:

The veiw from a bridge of the eastern freeway in Melbourne, clearly clear of fences.

One of the differences between Melbourne and Sydney people is that people in Sydney will always growl disapproval at belly dancers. We’re better than people who like things like that is what they say.

People in Sydney are often like little robots. If you mention a country you will automatically get some basically racist response.

• It is impossible in Sydney to talk about New Zealand without some stupid dork mentioning sheep.
• It is impossible in Sydney to talk about vending machines in Japan without some stupid dork mentioning teenage girl panty vending machines.
• It is impossible in Sydney to talk about Korea without some stupid dork mentioning easting dog.
• It is impossible in Sydney to talk about China without some stupid dork mentioning that everything in China is bad because it is not a democracy.
• It is impossible in Sydney to talk about Thailand without some stupid dork mentioning the sex industry.

Of course this never happens if you talk about the UK or the USA.

Addendum: Here are two I forgot when doing the original post:

• Is it impossible to talk of Germany without some stupid dork mentioning the nazi party. (though this is a little bit true of Melbourne as well).
• It is impossible to talk of the Aztecs without some stupid dork mentioning sacrifice.

And another addition: 

• A few weeks back I was speaking to someone of a funeral in indonesia. He then went on to talk about how they just staged these things for the tourists and to make money by selling trinkets. The four of us were the only foreigners there and, a little unusually, no one tried to sell us anything.