sf wrote:
> "Bob Terwilliger" > wrote:
>
>> I've noticed this before, and thought it odd: Are *all* Australians so
>> preoccupied with the affairs of the USA that they even read the newspaper
>> from our thirteenth-largest city as well as slavishly follow US news in
>> every available medium?
>
> They're fascinated by us.

Yeah, I don't get it. I like non-US cultural stuff but current news
like politics? I follow US politics to the extent that I'm not willing
to go out of my way doing evasive maneurvers. "Evasive maneuver pattern
gamma please, Mr Sulu" is too much work for me to avoid local politics.
To avoid foreign politics I just need to not read Foreign Affaris more
than once in several years.

Deep fried beer. Um, okay.