Not from television. Speaking from a male point of view, the only one
I have at the moment, I did enjoy the laudatory frankness of many
actual Australian women that I met. It struck me at the time,
thinking of the old Ireland of say ten years ago, that Australia was
where the Irish had gone to get healthy, in every sense.
If I had been younger I would never have left.
Mark
At 01:00 PM 6/8/2007, you wrote:
>We Yanks have been exposed to many Brit series
>(Masterpiece Theatre, Mystery, etc.), but not
>Australian shows, I think. My one glimpse of an
>Australian series airing in Australia while I was
>visiting there was a shocker. It was a detective +
>lawyer series with a trio (2 women and a man), and the
>relations among them were very interesting. The
>shocker, though, was an exchange between the 2 women.
>They're talking about the man when one of them asks
>abruptly, "Do you masturbate when you think of him?"
>
>Later in the show she apologizes to the other woman,
>saying she was way out of line. "What I should have
>asked," she says, "is do you pleasure yourself when
>you think of him."
>
>My Australian hosts merely laughed while I sat there
>with my mouth hanging open. (I wonder if Mark had any
>such experience during his visit.)
>
>Candice
>
>
>
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