Happy Australia Day!

[Queenslander]

'We thought they were going to be massacred': 80 years since forced First Fleet re-enactment - ABC News (Australian Broadcasting Corporation)
http://mobile.abc.net.au/news/2018-01-25/eighty-years-since-forced-first-fleet-reenactment/9358854?pfmredir=sm

This day is pretty grim as more and more horrific incidents come out.

[Sir Andy Mahowry]

You going to get arrested in celebration?

[Queenslander]

My skin head requires me to punch at least one Lebo in the back of the head every hour.

[Lewis]

I saw [Sir] Johnathan Thurston making a good point about the date earlier, but it seems a bit pointless to change it. I could see the argument for not having it, and everyone just pretending that the first two hundred years never happened; but if you move it then you are still celebrating Australia at some other point, and that is obviously going to have to touch upon how you all got there, so it might as well stay on the date it is and just let people celebrate/whinge in their own way.

[Queenslander]

I think one of the biggest issues is people not even acknowledging that we have a very dark history. On.one hand they will forever pay respects to fallen soliders in a respectful tone and on the other they just demand that Aboriginal people just suck it up and get over it.

There definitely is a place for celebrating modern Australia though.

[Ian]

It's their own stupid fault for having the temerity to get there 50000 years before everybody else, right?

[Queenslander]

Crazy Tony thinks it is a good thing.

http://www.smh.com.au/federal-politics/political-news/first-fleet-good-for-indigenous-australians-tony-abbott-says-20180121-h0lyzc.html

[Lewis]

You can see why the indigenous fellas have the arse about certain policies over the previous century (give or take), like pinching their kids and what have you, but the wider point about us turning up and kicking them off the oval... It happens lads. If the alternative is no Australia then do the Eagle Rock and put the booze down.

[Queenslander]

It's their own stupid fault for having the temerity to get there 50000 years before everybody else, right?

:(

Baby Boomers are the worst. Aboriginal people were literally not considered humans at the time of their birth and they dont get what the problem is?

[Sir Andy Mahowry]

Speaking of Australia. I recently bought some Tim Tams, I tried them normally and I thought you lot were over-exaggerating how good they were. I then tried them by biting the corners off and sucking up milk, I instantly 'got it'.

They're magnificent.

[Spikey M]

Can’t you just give the aboriginals a load of shit land (obviously not the whole country) and let them fill it with tax free casinos?

They’d dance in your show then.

[John Arne]

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[Queenslander]

Hey!

[Baz]

Shame on the Scottish contingent for not making a similar thread for Haggis & Whisky Burns’ Night.

[Spikey M]

E’ry night is Haggis and Whisky night, yo.

[Waffdon]

Probably the worst people in the world.

[ItalAussie]

In fairness, emus are nasty bastards. I wouldn't fight one.

[Jimmy Floyd]

Name me a country that doesn't have a 'very dark history'. Apart from Denmark. Actually even they were murderous bastards in the 9th century AD.

[Mazuuurk]

Yeah fuck those guys, gallivanting around here cutting heads off.

[ItalAussie]

Name me a country that doesn't have a 'very dark history'. Apart from Denmark. Actually even they were murderous bastards in the 9th century AD.

I certainly don't think Britain can feign any sort of innocence as to the worst of Australia's past. It's a shared shame.

I'm not saying we need to bring out the sackcloth and ashes every year, but we do need to be honest about some of the wrongs in our past.

[Jimmy Floyd]

Only if we get to share credit for all the good things as well.

[Lewis]

Then you run straight into the 'cultural cringe' and everyone having to pretend that all those ropey seventies films were good.

[Jimmy Floyd]

This is the best Australian film I've seen. https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/The_Castle_(1997_Australian_film)

The dad in it is a full on legend.

[Lewis]

Dead set legend. Breaker Morant is the best Australian film, and all the whinging bastards have interpreted it wrong.

[phonics]

Suburban Mayhem is actually the best Australian film I've seen. Cracking pair of knockers on the lead as well.

[Dave.]

Does The Proposition count as an Australian film? If so, that's definitely the best one. :thbup:

[ItalAussie]

Only if we get to share credit for all the good things as well.

We were basically just on offshoot of you guys until World War 1, so everything up to that point is pretty much a shared effort. If you see anything up to there you want to claim, have at it.

And you get points for repping The Castle. The greatest of great Strine films.

[John Arne]

What's he want for it?
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Tell him he's dreamin.....