Aussie Day is coming!
January 26th is Australia Day. It’s the day that the first fleet of English settlers (which comprised of a shitload of convicts and their evil unwashed pommy overlords) landed on the shore of this fine country. It’s a national holiday which is held on precisely the day it falls (a Thursday for us this year), but that gives us the excuse to have a flexi day (or a sickie!) on the Friday, completing the other great Australian goal in life, the extra long weekend!
Now there’s that other little thing most Australians don’t like to mention, but for our indigenous Australian community, it’s Invasion Day, and that’s a whole other post in itself. However, what I will say to them (that our Prime Minister can’t) is SORRY.
OK, now that I’ve got the gut-wrenching guilt-thing out of the way, let me share with you a quintissentially Aussie advertisement running on TV at the moment, which kind of sums up what we do on Australia Day. Just open the rest of this post (which I have hidden so the whole damn thing doesn’t load every time someone accesses the page) and press play!
Now, apart from enjoying a lamb cutlet or two on the barbecue, we like drinking. A Lot. It’s always hotter than the incinerator from hell on Australia day, but we wouldn’t have it any other way!
Once we’re done eating and drinking, rather than actually getting of pur collective arses to play an actual game in the backyard, we will probably settle ourselves in front of the TV and indulge in watching the Australian Cricket team flog some poor third world country, or if the year is right and we’re lucky, watch them reach the happy nirvana of flogging England. Mind you, the way we’ve been playing lately…. that would be a big ask!
Anyhow fellow Aussies, get stuck into it on Thursday and have a great day! Others, get a roo up yah! 
bio wrote,
Lamb =
Of course, spiced lamb (like they server in gyros) is wonderful. I just don’t much care for the chops.
Link | January 25th, 2006 at 6:36 am
The Grumpy One wrote,
Far be it for me to be insulting the fine Americans (as you know I would never do my dear Bio), but how could I possibly take seriously an anti-lamb comment from a person from a country that thinks hotdogs (mystery-meat tubes) and hamburger patties maketh a barbecue!
Link | January 25th, 2006 at 6:41 am
Proper Aussie wrote,
I really don’t understand the mentaility behind saying sorry. What are you, personally, apologising for?
Maybe the indigenous Australians should also say sorry for taking the governments money, and bashing up white people in rural areas.
Link | February 5th, 2006 at 2:23 pm
The Grumpy One wrote,
ohh look, a comment from a “proper” aussie.
Yeah, maybe they should and I would say that almost all are.
I do think however, that we, as a nation, should acknowledge the fact that we “invaded” their country and killed a lot of their people.
I’m not saying that there isn’t problems with our indigenous community, far from it. But I do have to say, that a lot of their problems’ root cause is due to what we have done to them.
Try putting the shoe on the other foot as a “proper aussie” (what the fuck IS that anyway)..
Imagine today, China invades Australia. They start telling us we all have to live in a particular area far from our homes, in some god-forsaken shithole. They say they now OWN the places we used to live, decide to take away our children because we are “sub-human” and they think they can do a better job raising them, and oh, they shoot and kill a good percentage of us to boot.
Think you won’t have problems in future generations? I think not.
Link | February 5th, 2006 at 2:33 pm
Foro wrote,
White power?
Link | February 5th, 2006 at 7:00 pm