I can be in a mess room and make the slightest constructive criticism of modern England (e.g., a Swede/Italian should NOT be managing England) and all hell breaks loose; but if a born-and-bred like yourself says how much they'd like to give up on England for old-rival Aus., no-one bats an eye...


It's not weard (sic) in the slightest; it's a particular aspect of Britishness which you, as naturalised Australian, might have difficulty picking up upon, but which you may have detected in your ongoing mission to repatriate. Basically, on the one hand, it's the that we carry what we are wheresoever we go, proud of our fons et origo but in no way bound by its geographical & cultural limits. On the other hand it's an instinctive scepticism of people trying, for whatever reason, to become something other than what they are.

Mess room, WAV? I rest my case, dear boy!