Fall In Love With The Men Down Under

by Tom Miller

“You better run, you better take cover.” According to Metro, British women are being given the opportunity to root with some Australian men. A dating program has been set up by the government of South Australia (it’s a state in, well, south Australia, sort of in the middle-like). So, we’re talking the down under of down under. The goal of the program is to get people to immigrate to Australia.

To get the campaign rolling, the marketing company polled thousands of British women and discovered that they were less than thrilled about the weather, how expensive England has become, and English blokes. On top of that many of the respondents claimed they’d be more than happy to move for love. So, the geniuses in Adelaide (South Australia’s capital) decided to send some of their boys over to woo the ladies of the British Isle to the land of winter in July and vegemite sandwiches.

What is it with Australia that women are so hard to come by? A couple months back, the mayor of Mount Isa (in Australia) got in hot water for putting out feelers to get ugly women to move to his mining town because of the crappy blokes to sheilas ratio.

The story goes that South Australia needs more skilled laborers and would prefer if they were pleasant to look at and smelled nice. They have more going on than women glowing and men plundering. There’s real industry. And looking at South Australia’s wikipedia page (possibly also engineered by the Adelaide gov’t), it seems like it might be a pretty nice place to live and is only about 9 and 14 hours (driving) from Melbourne and Sidney, respectively.

We hope that British dudes are at least a little nervous about some Aussies swooping in for their ladies. Doesn’t feel so good being on the other end of that one, does it governor?

Take ‘em home, Men At Work: