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Freud's dislike of Australians is linked to Ashes team

CLEMENT FREUD, the English humourist-broadcaster-politician who died a couple of months ago, seemed intent on offending Australians. Asked during a visit here which city he preferred, Sydney or Melbourne, he replied, "It's like comparing leprosy with syphilis." He also had this to say: "In England, many men take sexual pleasures with women beneath their social station. As it must be difficult to find anyone beneath the social station of an Australian, you [Australian men] could be missing out on a lot of fun."