Observations

Some odd little things I've noticed around here.

• There are no newspaper racks. You can't buy a newspaper from a machine anywhere. You have to go into a store and pay a human for it.
  
• I figured out why Australians don't do Halloween. It is because it involves dressing up, or different, which they simply never do. As a local explained it to me, they dress as Australians for Halloween.
  
• Even though Australians can be as bigoted as anyone else, they REALLY like American blacks. Although the reasons are very strange and based on incorrect information. For some reason they believe that all American blacks are excellent athletes, which they really appreciate, and they are American, which they like anyways. To the Australians, they are just better Americans. It's funny how an idea based on prejudice and ignorance has manifested itself into a genuine like over here.
  
• Fosters Beer is not favored here in Australia. In fact, I never seen it offered or anyone drink it. I've asked around and the the answer is that most Australian's consider it to be crap. They prefer the local bitter beers or micros, that have to admit are very good. There is a local Perth beer called Swan that I really like. So that whole Fosters advertising campaign seen in the States is pure marketing. Also, the beers are normal size. Perhaps the reason Fosters has to sell theirs in larger cans is because that is because it is the only way to convince someone to spend their hard earned money on it.
  
• Australians are very suspicious of anyone who manages to become wealthy. They tend to think that they must have broken some law somewhere to do so. Very strange.