- Aug 12, 2015
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Realised this was fiction here ...Look the clock stopped because I dropped it when I was stealing it OK?
I think of myself as a boat person, as my ancestors arrived here from 1850s (earliest) to 1920s (latest), nearly all Irish.
Now my family is like the united nations with Mauritian, Japanese, Palestinian, and Indigenous Australian, bloody marvelous (also a teensy bit of P*m, big shame job).
I grew up with a few Polish mates and its weird but I barrack for the Poles. Same with the Hellenes.
Its fun to joke about mild racist and bigoted stuff, but it can get boring for the people who are the butt of the jokes. Anti Irish sentiment is so rare in Oz now that the two or three times Ive copped it it made me laugh it was so silly.
I feel the anti indigenous stuff more keenly now i have indigenous family members. I guess thats hyoocritical, i knew intellectually it was evil before, but now i really feel it in my gut.
I like to drop in the "double neanderthal" line because its funny, and its a great antidote to white supremacists. Everyone outside Africa has a touch if the old caveman blood, and western Europe has a double serve.
I like that a wee bit of neanderthal genes survive too. They went hard and i reckon they looked like Maynard and Hawkins. Theres no ancestral purity, we are all a mixture.







