Thread: Happy Australia Day coonts!

Back on topic, what did our Stralian members do for Ustrailia Day, and are you still recovering from it / still awaiting bail?

Originally Posted by NamPikToot

Back on topic, what did our Stralian members do for Ustrailia Day, and are you still recovering from it / still awaiting bail?

Drove up to the missus village.

Originally Posted by Fondles

Drove up to the missus village.

Fondles, I get the feeling you are leaving some detail out......

Originally Posted by NamPikToot

Fondles, I get the feeling you are leaving some detail out......

Yeah flew out from Aus to see my dogs.

Originally Posted by Maanaam

Sadly you learnt from one whose English is not as good he likes to think.

Originally Posted by Fondles

Yeah flew out from Aus to see my dogs.

spoken like a proper bloke, excellent.

Originally Posted by cyrille

Cyrille rejoicing I missed an "as" as can happen when typing while chatting with other people. Same league as Lu, looking for every single miniscule and irrelevant mistake. Very telling. Very.
Meanwhile, he can't respond, (also like Lu) to his incorrect denunciations of my Englsih when proven wrong. Just snipes again and again.

Manny, who TF are to directing this at?

Now the question was "what did you do on Ustralia Day?>", if you were committed to your cause I should imagine you were placading Aboriginal rights outside the Oz Embassy in BKK in a loincloth, inhaling a Didgeridoo and snacking on Witchetty Grubs?

Originally Posted by NamPikToot

Back on topic, what did our Stralian members do for Ustrailia Day, and are you still recovering from it / still awaiting bail?

I celebrated with some fantastic porterhouse grass fed steaks (none better IMHO) washed down with Crown lager. Had the OZ flag flying out of the second floor window.
I must admit later I did wash everything down with a very unaustralian brew made by those nasty Yankee imperialists to subvert the nations of the world called Bourbon, to my everlasting shame. (which I miraculously recovered from after the first glass). Those damned Yankees!!!

Originally Posted by NamPikToot

Manny, who TF are to directing this at?

Now the question was "what did you do on Ustralia Day?>", if you were committed to your cause I should imagine you were placading Aboriginal rights outside the Oz Embassy in BKK in a loincloth, inhaling a Didgeridoo and snacking on Witchetty Grubs?

Showing once again that you're incapable of following a (albeit convoluted) dialogue.

And look to your punctuation, you ignoramus!!!

Originally Posted by Hugh Cow

I celebrated with some fantastic porterhouse grass fed steaks (none better IMHO) washed down with Crown lager. Had the OZ flag flying out of the second floor window. I must admit later I did wash everything down with a very unaustralian brew made by those nasty Yankee imperialists to subvert the nations of the world called Bourbon, to my everlasting shame. (which I miraculously recovered from after the first glass). Those damned Yankees!!!

See, that's what we want, although with the right weather that could describe most weekends once i've hung up me pinstripe.

Originally Posted by Maanaam

Showing once again that you're incapable of following a (albeit convoluted) dialogue. And look to your punctuation, you ignoramus!!!

I don't really follow your dialogue, its a diatribe, a repetitious one at that......

28th Jan is Manny Meltdown Day.

caught up with my sister

I get the Bundaberg now......softens the edges...

Thanks Ukan. After housos youtube came up with Geelongs 2011 season. Relived the mighty Cats last premiership.

Originally Posted by NamPikToot

I don't really follow your dialogue, its a diatribe,

Oxymoron right there. Learn some English, some Queen's English, you and Lu. Maybe you both won't keep looking like fools.

Originally Posted by NamPikToot

a repetitious one at that

Now you're talking about your repo circle-jerk mate. See ^^^ ?

Originally Posted by Maanaam

Maybe you both won't keep looking like fools.

Seriously though, if we didn't know that you're low IQ, we'd think that you're pulling the piss.

what happened to the drinking thread ?

A bottle of numbers.

When i was across in Xmas time they had Johnnie Walkers - White Walker a la Game Of Thrones, weird gimmick and not that i'd touch whiskey, can't stand it.

Originally Posted by NamPikToot

Back on topic, what did our Stralian members do for Ustrailia Day, and are you still recovering from it / still awaiting bail?

Should be out soon.

Originally Posted by Maanaam

Then why celebrate the anniversary of the start of their oppression which quickly eventuated into them being legally classed as fauna?
Wouldn't it be better to have a day memorialising the nation's roots that didn't accentuate the fact that the Brits took over by force and treated the inhabitants as animals?

And what day would that be and what would we be celebrating? I dont expect an answer because you constantly throw up questions with offering any solutions. Any idiot can do that. You seem to be suggesting an aboriginal cultural day. We already have National Reconciliation week to celebrate aboriginal culture. Maybe we could celebrate the 240 years quietly in hushed tones preferably behind closed doors, so we dont offend anyone who is slightly darker than europeans.

Err... BTW that statement is not exactly true is it Manny. Your knowledge of Early australian history is appalling. Phillip actually landed on the 18th of January at Kurnell. He moved a few days later to Botany Bay on the 26th of January. He instructed everyone to treat the aboriginals with respect. A man was killed by aboriginals and no action was taken as they were unsure whom had instigated the fight. Governor Phillip himself was speared by an aboriginal and instructed his men not to retaliate.
FYI There were approx 760,000 (estimated) aboriginals in Australia in 1788 with approx 500 different tribes and over 200 languages and no written form of communication all spread over a country bigger than all of Europe and great Britain combined. In that context the country would have appeared to white men at the time with nothing faster than a horse, to be virtually uninhabited. That does not excuse the disposession or killings that took place. Many were killed by "white man" diseases such as smallpox. It also cannot be seen in its historical context through the eyes of todays people. With different moral and cultural values although that does not excuse past wrongs.
Certainly in the last 40 years the government has spent hundreds of billions of dollars to try to improve the lives of aboriginals. Currently over AUD$30 billion per year, or more than twice the amount spent on non aboriginal australians, sadly with little improvement to their life span, health and overall quality of life. Over 50% still rely on government welfare. Rates of school attendance,child mortality,rape, domestic violence, alcoholism kidney disease diabetes glaucoma and life expectancy are more akin to the third world, despite 80% living in urban areas.
Native title to land has been granted to over 32% of the Australian land mass or to put it into perspective approximately 10 times larger than the U.K. So far it has made little to no difference in outcomes of aboriginal people and in fact is worse on some indicators.
It is farcical to think that a country the size of Australia with a miniscule population was never going to be colonised and fatuous to suggest all Aboriginals problems are a result of colonisation.
The sad fact is a stone age culture will not survive in todays world and it really is a case of progress or perish. The benefits of modern life can sometimes have a heavy price for some who cannot adapt. We have spent Billions of dollars trying to find another way which unfortunately does not exist. Playing the forever victim certainly wont. Many aboriginals work live and thrive in modern Australia. Sadly the majority dont and wont until the realise, like many migrants to these shores, you can keep some parts of your culture but some have to be sacrificed if you want a better life.

Originally Posted by baldrick

what happened to the drinking thread ?

I salute you, sir ! This is the only beer I enjoy drinking, as being wheat beer, it does not have any of the suds other hops-based beers have. And it has two aftertastes : a hint of citrus and another of fruit.

Originally Posted by Hugh Cow

Your knowledge of Early Australian history is appalling.

I wouldn't worry. It's quite a recurring theme on pretty much every thread he posts on.