All Things Australia

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  1. crank

    crank Well-Known Member

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    Maaate .. Strayans pay a motza for both electricity and gas. And real estate. And petrol.
     
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    The latter. That's the joke.
     
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    check for perma-hair and russian presidents

    but what a bloody superb number, eh? gawd bless Melbania's 60's garage rock!
     
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  4. Moi621

    Moi621 Well-Known Member Past Donor

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    On the Bet I Do Understand y'r English

    YES!

    What does it take to get YOU prison culture folks upset?

    Prison Culture via gov't vs FREEDOM!
    Simple as that for those who have the aptitude to witness and wish for FREEDOM.

    Dear Australians. Mel Gibson, one of yours, died most horribly on film for you sins of forgetfulness.



    Think, "FREEDOM". Or deny Mel Gibson. :hmm:
     
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    Sallyally Well-Known Member Donor

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    Sounds like yer chucking gloves around!
     
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    Sallyally Well-Known Member Donor

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    He was playing a Scot.
    Freedom is a word.
     
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    Moi621 Well-Known Member Past Donor

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    He was / is,

    One of yours.


    Was he acting or expressing an O.Z.'s yearning to be free?
     
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    How/why are Strayan's not free?
     
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    Unfortunately, the Australian vocabulary is generally too big to fit into the tight confines of Americanese.

    And please don't ever wish Canada upon us. Not while the Dreamy Hair Hipster is still pretending to be Daddy.
     
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    Moi621 Well-Known Member Past Donor

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    Because from the earliest times the culture evolved from Military Law. aka Martial Law

    Whatever genome yearned to be free was obliterated.

    The :heart: of FREEDOM - - - GWTW

    https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Ned_Kelly#Political_revolutionary

    Remember Ned Kelly.

    The Robin Hood of Australia.
    hurrah

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    Ned Kelly, forgotten or propagandized to oblivion.

    Ned Kelly, the Louis Riel of Australia. Deal with it.
    Don't call it FREEDOM.

    So Sad to witness an English Speaking (or nearly) people not knowing FREEDOM
     
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    Moi621 Well-Known Member Past Donor

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    How many Australian men does it take to change a light bulb?

    None. It's a woman's job. eh



     
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    Mel Gibson is not & never has been Australian. His grandmother was. His ex-wife is. The children they had together are. He is an American citizen & always was. He only grew up in Australia because his religious fanatic father didn't want his son to get drafted. We can take credit for training Mel to be an actor. Other than that the Yanks are welcome to him.
     
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    Moi621 Well-Known Member Past Donor

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    No he's yours.
    That shifty side glance.
    Obnoxious. Loud.
    Yours.
     
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    Sallyally Well-Known Member Donor

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    . More than 80% of Australians participate in gambling of some kind.
     
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    Scientists at Air New Zealund built a gun specifically to launch dead chickens at the windshields of airliners travelling at maximum velocity. The idea is to simulate the frequent incidents of collisions with airborne fowl to test the strength of the windshields.
    Australian engineers heard about the gun and were eager to test it on the windshields of their new Qantas A380 aircraft. Arrangements were made, and a gun was sent to the Australian engineers.
    When the gun was fired, the engineers stood shocked as the chicken hurled out of the barrel, crashed into the shatterproof shield, smashed it to smithereens, blasted through the control console, snapped the engineer's back-rest in two and embedded itself in the back wall of the cabin like an arrow shot from a bow.
    The horrified Aussies sent Air New Zealand the disastrous results of the experiment, along with the designs of the windshield and begged the Kiwi scientists for suggestions.......
    Air New Zealund responded with a one-line memo: "Defrost the chicken......"
     
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    Religious fundamentalist who feels the need to shag anything in a dress - a 'do as I say not as I do' Christian. That is the most American thing imaginable. Practically a requirement for citizenship.
     
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    It is still the 23rd here and I realize
    Australia is beginning their Christmas Eve.
    It's like Christmas starts there and what ever is left over comes around, finally to California.

    Hey, try to save some for the rest of the globe!

    Happy Summer Holiday.
    Jingle Bells and all that too.

    :)
     
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    Sallyally Well-Known Member Donor

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    Ho ho ho! One more sleep!
     
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    Santa comes tonight .... Yipee.

    Merry Christmas to you all, may you find peace, joy and contentment in 2018.
     
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    I'll second that. Happy Christmas and safe, sober(or not) New Year.
    May a labour hero arise from the ranks to lead our country in the manner to which it has become unaccustomed.
     
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    And remember. COAL is good.
     
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    Sallyally Well-Known Member Donor

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    Haha, very good.
     
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    Turns out my Australian branch of the family came to Australia on the Fairsky on a 1959 voyage..
    AncestryDNA strikes again. With dates, passenger lists and names of ships.

    I knew they were (all of them who went) part of the whole cheap £10.00 1 way ticket fare.
    And that they settled in Caloundra, Queensland up in the tropics near the rain forest when they first came to Australia.

    I've never heard of the Fairsky before today/yesterday...
    I've heard of the Mayflower (New England settlers from UK and NL) and the Windrush (UK settlers from Jamaica), but not this one that took my Australian family to Australia.
    I wonder if the Fairsky is famous in Australia?
     
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