Yeah...I'd not want my name on a parcel of any regulated gun parts...I'm too handsome for jail. Lol.
It's actually sometimes really difficult to get things out of the States and into here...It's weird what is regulated and shops over your way don't fuck around...They simply won't send it. I guess there are penalties?
I get some gun stuff in though, the un-regulated things.
With Shipping to Australia a lot of the time the dealers just dont want to mess with custom forms or the shipping costs which are pretty high. So thats often why they refuse. Granted its not something specifically prohibited. Other times dealers wont send individual parts unless it goes through their distributor in Australia. Mainly because its cost prohibitive to make profit sending individual pieces over to Australia. Instead they'll send a bunch of stuff bulk to their distributor say in sydney and have him distribute it to you at jacked up pieces to make his own cut of the pie. I ran into this with guitar pickups i sent over to friend in Brisbane. The company wouldn't ship direct to him only through their distributor bit had no problems with it if a friend shipped it over. In the states the part was like 85 usd in australia it was 275aud. A bit of a rip-off.
The cobbers down under getting fucked over huh? Lucky we're all so handsome...Otherwise we'd get an inferiority complex.
This guys a good bloke. Real good. the same guy i was telling you about with the Catherine zeta jones look alike doctor. I wasnt about to let this guitar pickup company bend him over. Most aussies got the charm, looks and accent to melt a woman's heart. Me my American accent went over pretty well there. Most aussies think americans all sound like Texans which they then go on to imitate but it sounds nothing like Texans and more like deep south hillbillies from Alabama. Me they thought at first was Canadian. Maybe cause i didnt act like a typical yank. But also because i have a west coast accent. If youre good youll tell right away its a southern Californian accent. As it is. I look like jack black and a hobbit had a love child and i have the personality to match. Any woman interested in me wasnt because of looks but due to talent and charisma
This made me laugh because it's also funny to hear Americans, or anyone, attempt an Aussie accent. It's like, do you hear yourself? You sound like a retard.
Still, we encourage it as it gives us a laugh.
Aussies were forgiving of my attempts to say howsitgoin, fair dinkum? And gday. I like to think its because i used them in proper context. To be honest as long as youre not an outright wanker most aussies will take kindly to ya. Aussies are good people. Besides I've watched that docuseries on sbs housos and fat pizza i know how to like fully speak proper choco. I blend right in.
I think you hit the nail on the head...Most Aussies are good people and despite the way the country is losing its Australianess due to the influx from other countries we're generally accepting of others.
Well my take on it is this. Respect goes both ways. If you immigrate to a new country because the way they do things is better (other wise why would you be moving there) then you need to respect their culture and assimilate a little. Meet them half way. It when you move to another country just to take advantage of it and not give respect back but demand it for yourself. Then youre what pisses off australians. I could've fit in with just about anyone over there and nobody would be bitching about this damned yank who moved onto their street. I respected aussie culture as much as my own. And i was practically invited into everyone's house in the neighborhood. It got to a point people i didnt know but had obviously heard about me would wave and smile and say hello as they drove down the street and as they saw me.