In Reply to: Locals thoughts on Australian tourists posted by CharlieBaliBear on Saturday, 7. August 2010 at 12:01 Bali Time:
I cant stand other Aussies when I am over there. I love love love bali! and I love the people even more so it gets my blood boiling when you see other people arguing on poppies over the last 50 cents, walking around in their bikini's or making jokes that the locals "cant understand english".
But its not just locals that cop the raw end of the aussie behaviour, last time me and my partner where there it must have been the end of footy season and we hwere waiting to come out of poppies on our scooters and a huge group of drunken guys bombarded us, one of them smacking me and my partner on the head! (We were wearing helmets) And my partner is no chump. He is 100kg and a world champ boxer but that didnt stop us copping the arogant behaviour. All I could think of was how sorry i elt for the locals cause if taht was the reception we got, Id hate to see how they are going to be treated.
Im heading back over in a ew weeks ad I have been brushing up on my Bahasa cause its the least I can do to show my respect for the place. I just worry that F@*Kwits like that will ruin it for the rest of us.