Aussie soap 'Neighbours' slammed for being 'too white'

hahaha. idiots.

that is all.

wtf? omg these guys can find a way to slam anyone cant they? i mean honestly,
how the fark can neighbours bring in an aboriginal star? how many of them are
there here in australia? not being racist, i am way far from it, but you cant
get blood from a stone, and honestly, unless ernie dingo wanted a guest role, i
don't see it happening anytime soon.
no wait, maybe they could try nick giannopoulos lmao. i don't even think he
would want anything to do with this failing soap.

seriously... ernie dingo?

is that the name of an actual person, or just some sort of generic aussie
terminology?

yes, he is an aboriginal australian actor. see:
wikipedia.org/wiki/ernie_dingo

on the point of the news article, its complete bullshit. just because there are
x% of black people living in england doesn't mean we need to put x% of black
people into our tv shows. thats just fucking reverse racism, in the end they
have to hire people because of their skin color instead of their talent to make
up the damn x%.

thanks for the pointer, but i did look him up after posting. it's just as i was
reading the name i almost hurt myself laughing. i honestly thought it was a
piss take.

couldn't agree more about the reverse racism (or affirmative action) issue;
complete bullshit that causes more problems than it could ever hope to solve.

the best drama is written and cast without colour in mind... oh hang on a
minute we're talking about a soap here so that's the words 'best' and 'written'
out the window. and the word 'drama'...

i'll be honest, except for a bout of industrial strength boozing last night i
wouldn't have even looked at this story. i'll just totter off now and leave it
to people who actually give a toss.

dusan mandic? that's not even in mike hunt territory.

i might be missing some aussie reference, but in the rest of the english
speaking world ernie dingo definitely takes the prize.

there's a few others, birnum birnum, kevin bloody wilson (look up ho ho f***ing
ho), i'm sure i've missed a few.

yeah neighbours is white, who cares, its a shithouse show anyway. i think it has
a greater following in the uk than it does in australia.

i did actually get the knob gag.

it was the dusan bit that i thought might have been a piss take.

had a crack with a few aussies in manchester, birmingham and down in the smoke.
your slang's as bad as ours.

makes for a rocking good laugh.

douche on man dick, but douche and its variants dont seem to get much play
outside of north america.

now i've gotcha, i was seeing du-san: absolutely fucking meaningless.

douche-on-man-dic. that is sreiously hi-larious.

*chortles*

you live and learn. many thanks.

edit:

just so you know that i'm not taking the piss, my first thoughts after reading
your phonetic description were:

oh, ok, all right, now i see where its coming from. oohhh, uerghh i'm so glad i
can't actually see where that's coming from.

i love the notion that white people see black and asian people in shows like
eastenders will think they dont represent the black and asian people they
know. does this mean that black and asian people think that the white people
in shows like eastenders are a true representation of how white people act;
of course people in soaps are over egged, thats the point, who wants to watch
people going to work and liveing a good life! nobody.

and all soaps are crap.