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Horace Burtons Ghost

PostPosted: Mon Jan 25, 2010 6:52 pm


Happy Australia Day people. Hope you is kicking back, listening to triplej
PostPosted: Tue Jan 26, 2010 2:07 am


Happy Australia Day.

Hope you all had plenty of booze. I know I did.

DanskiWolf


The Curse
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PostPosted: Tue Jan 26, 2010 2:19 am


still have liuke ten cans of JD&COLA and one can of JD&Lemonade but I already had a bunch lol wearing an Australian flag for a cape and earlier I had an ******** WHOO
PostPosted: Tue Jan 26, 2010 5:06 am


I saw two dudes, one draped in the Australian flag, pissing side by side against a wall on a major street of Melbourne's CBD a couple of hour ago. ******** classy Australia Day Invasion Day shenanigans.

Comrade Kotka

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DanskiWolf

PostPosted: Tue Jan 26, 2010 4:33 pm


Comrade Kotka
Invasion Day


No way, you is soooo hardcooooore.
PostPosted: Wed Jan 27, 2010 1:30 am


DanskiWolf
Comrade Kotka
Invasion Day


No way, you is soooo hardcooooore.

Believe it, suckah. That's what it represents.

Comrade Kotka

Shirtless Fatcat


The Curse
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PostPosted: Wed Jan 27, 2010 2:28 am


Comrade Kotka
DanskiWolf
Comrade Kotka
Invasion Day


No way, you is soooo hardcooooore.

Believe it, suckah. That's what it represents.


Part of what it represents.

I mean, to ignore all the positive things in our history, and all the great things about our country, and the luxuries we are lucky enough to enjoy, is just plain... mean. It's mean.
PostPosted: Wed Jan 27, 2010 5:53 am


I guess Australia being all cool and stuff by you makes celebrating colonialism okay then? Glad we got that straight.
Anyway, we've been through allllll this before on chat or something.

Comrade Kotka

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The Curse
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PostPosted: Wed Jan 27, 2010 6:17 am


Comrade Kotka
I guess Australia being all cool and stuff by you makes celebrating colonialism okay then? Glad we got that straight.
Anyway, we've been through allllll this before on chat or something.


I think we might have, but Australia day = Colonialism is just... well, if you were baffled by my views on racism, times it by three, and there you have it.
PostPosted: Wed Jan 27, 2010 3:52 pm


The Curse
Comrade Kotka
I guess Australia being all cool and stuff by you makes celebrating colonialism okay then? Glad we got that straight.
Anyway, we've been through allllll this before on chat or something.


I think we might have, but Australia day = Colonialism is just... well, if you were baffled by my views on racism, times it by three, and there you have it.

Why?
Wikipedia: "Celebrated annually on 26 January, the day commemorates the arrival of the First Fleet at Sydney Cove in 1788, the hoisting of the British flag there, and the proclamation of British sovereignty over the eastern seaboard of Australia."
=|

Comrade Kotka

Shirtless Fatcat


DanskiWolf

PostPosted: Wed Jan 27, 2010 4:11 pm


If we had to have it on the day of Federation (Januray 1) it'd have to be shared with New Years Day. And that would suck.
PostPosted: Wed Jan 27, 2010 5:50 pm


Hooray for partriotism and the founding of a racist, anti-working class, genocidal gaol colony!

Le Pere Duchesne

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DanskiWolf

PostPosted: Wed Jan 27, 2010 6:19 pm


Gracchia Saint-Justine
Hooray for partriotism and the founding of a racist, anti-working class, genocidal gaol colony!


You know what's anti-working class? That spelling of "jail".

Why must you be a borugeoise reactionary?
PostPosted: Wed Jan 27, 2010 6:38 pm


DanskiWolf
Gracchia Saint-Justine
Hooray for partriotism and the founding of a racist, anti-working class, genocidal gaol colony!


You know what's anti-working class? That spelling of "jail".

Why must you be a borugeoise reactionary?


Gonna have to side with Gracc on this one. I'll be damned when I start spelling it the American way.

I think I only do it when I don't think the person I am in conversation with can understand.

The Curse
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The Curse
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PostPosted: Wed Jan 27, 2010 6:46 pm


Comrade Kotka
The Curse
Comrade Kotka
I guess Australia being all cool and stuff by you makes celebrating colonialism okay then? Glad we got that straight.
Anyway, we've been through allllll this before on chat or something.


I think we might have, but Australia day = Colonialism is just... well, if you were baffled by my views on racism, times it by three, and there you have it.

Why?
Wikipedia: "Celebrated annually on 26 January, the day commemorates the arrival of the First Fleet at Sydney Cove in 1788, the hoisting of the British flag there, and the proclamation of British sovereignty over the eastern seaboard of Australia."
=|


And how many of your mates were standing at the barbeque toasting to Captain Cook, and the Slave Labour? How many of them were basking in the glory of the British expansionist policies?

Celebrating Australia day is apolitical. It might exist because of the day Australia was born and.. so what? The day is about Australia, not the raping of the land. Not racism. Not colonialism or imperialism or anything of the sort. It's about our country, what we love about it and all the like.

I am sure that after conversion to a republic, Australia day will be on the same date, even if the official declaration of independence is not.

Something tragic has happened on every single day of the year significant to Australia. No matter when we celebrated it, there is absolutely no way the day could not then be associated with a terrible event, or some group could call it insensitive, you'd just rename it from 'invasion day' to 'slavery day' or 'intervention day' or 'Dead Ned day' or some other thing.
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