The 'Strayan Things for 'Strayans on 'Straya Day

[Kram]

I don't like watching tennis much but don't mind Kyrigos because he is simply a dude playing a game for a living and he manages to trigger so many people.

 

[Frank Bunn]

Doesn't matter....They still live & are situated in Australia mate.....As opposed to anywhere else.

City-Slickers can still visit the country-side, go to the beach, go fishing & camping, attend a country retreat or a corroborre.....Or just spend some time on their own or together, exploring this land, as many retired gray-ghosts do, right across this country....All our Capital cities are situated on the coast or very near to it. Alongside of rivers & harbors....So our climate & our nature is pretty well inescapable from that point of view.

You can probably live a very insular life in the urban metropolis, insulated from many of the defining aspects of this land, granted......But that doesn't preclude you from being influenced by it's peculiar climate, atmosphere & nature....

It was un-Australian to not put Canberra on the coast. The next trade deal we do with China we should swap them supplies of baby powder for building a new capital city at Bermagui.

 

[Frank Bunn]

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Goon of Fortune wins the internet!

 

[Procrastinator35]

It was un-Australian to not put Canberra on the coast. The next trade deal we do with China we should swap them supplies of baby powder for building a new capital city at Bermagui.

I wasn't counting Canberra as a part of Oz.....It' s just some abstracted alien joint where all the aliens go.

 

[the_interloper]

Taking pride in something you had no control over.

Being born on one slab of dirt and thinking you're better than others born in another slab of dirt in another part of the world.

We're such villagers.

I think most people from around the world think their country is the best in the world, so you're really having a go at everyone.

 

[HARKER]

It means that we live in Australia mate & not anywhere else.....It both grounds & situates us in a conceptual & existential context, in situating our identity in a specific time & place....The connection of man to the earth & his mixing of his labor, his blood & sweat into it, both grounds & connects us to it....So our identity is inextricably linked to & bound up with place.

To be Australian means that you live in the land down under....Home to the Aboriginies & a tribe of convicts....Where Kangaroos, Koala's, Wombats, Echidnas, Galahs, Goannas, Gum trees & Eucalyptus abound.

Here you go mate....Let me give you the gist of the spirit of this land;

I love a sunburnt country, a land of sweeping plains.
Of rugged mountains ranges, Of droughts & flooded plains.
I love her far horizon, I love her jewel sea.
Her beauty & her terror, The wide brown land for me.

Now stick that in ya wowser pipe n smoke it.

I see where you're coming from.

Going to bring out the flag in the front yard and place a couple Aussie flags-on-a-stick onto my car.

What was I thinking? I come from a land down-under. Where beer does flow and men a-chunder.

 

[Frank Bunn]

Taking pride in something you had no control over.

Being born on one slab of dirt and thinking you're better than others born in another slab of dirt in another part of the world.

We're such villagers.

Haven't we got enough pity party threads about this subject? I'm sure the OP meant it as a fun thread.

 

[HARKER]

I think most people from around the world think their country is the best in the world, so you're really having a go at everyone.

Having a go at blind patriotism.
Don't Americans live in the best country in the world? We keep hearing it, so it must be true.

Of course everyone thinks (wants to think) that theirs is best; The best culture, the best religion, the best race, the most beautiful, the most clever etc etc
Why this silly need to want to be part of something better than someone else's and hang ones hat on something that they didn't bring about themselves?

Some 'cultures' are though worse than others and my experience is that one in particular need to turn the clock back over 2000 years to boast for the feats of their countrymen. I won't say which one.

Haven't we got enough pity party threads about this subject? I'm sure the OP meant it as a fun thread.

This isn't the SRP board, is it? Don't know how I got here, but I'm proud to be part of it.

 

[Procrastinator35]

I see where you're coming from.

Going to bring out the flag in the front yard and place a couple Aussie flags-on-a-stick onto my car.

What was I thinking? I come from a land down-under. Where beer does flow and men a-chunder.

Pride of place is nothing to be sneezed at....Cynicism however, is often-times an incurable disease.....Our flag should be representative of this country....Not some slave masters from 2 centuries ago.

 

[Frank Bunn]

This isn't the SRP board, is it? Don't know how I got here, but I'm proud to be part of it.

Strayan



Stupid

 

[Bunk Moreland]

I don't get supporting sports people just because they're Australian. Nick Kyrigos is an A grade ****** yet people will support him against someone who is probably a much better human being, simply because he is Australian.

Kyrgios and Tomic are the only mildly interesting things about tennis

 

[Bunk Moreland]

It may have been the case since the dawn of time, but it doesn't mean that it should forever be the case.

We announce "I'm Australian" as though it really means something. What does it mean though, when you think about it?
Even as a pre-teenager. I disliked questions about nationality, as though that alone should say something about an individual.

There may be better things for us to pat ourselves on the back for, than for something most of us had no control over. Maybe.

Yeah, but it’s not really a strayan thing

 

[Geelong_Sicko]

It was un-Australian to not put Canberra on the coast. The next trade deal we do with China we should swap them supplies of baby powder for building a new capital city at Bermagui.

There's a good fish 'n chip shop on the wharf at Berma with an autographed picture of Billy Connolly. Apparently he made a fillum there about a man who sued God after his tinny got struck by lightning.

Solid reason for moving the capital thought Syd and Melb will still moan about it

 

[Cold Sober]

Australia used to be the greatest country, now it's a dumping ground.

 

[edgie]

?

 

[Procrastinator35]

Australia used to be the greatest country, now it's a dumping ground.

Wasn't that the whole point of the convict settlements to begin with?

 

[Cold Sober]

Wasn't that the whole point of the convict settlements to begin with?

Point taken, but look around, get your do gooding head out of your do gooding arse, you know exactly what I was getting at.

 

[Procrastinator35]

Point taken, but look around, get your do gooding head out of your do gooding arse, you know exactly what I was getting at.

No, I don't....A dumping ground for something worse than convicted felons?....Do enlighten me.

Though your first premise was a good un....That Oz use to be a great place prior to White man colonization.

 

[Geelong_Sicko]

I still wonder why 'doing good' is such a Monumental Evil these days to some people. They denounce people 'doing good' in the same tone they'd use to denounce paedophiles 'doing kids'.

What gives?

 

[Cold Sober]

No, I don't....A dumping ground for something worse than convicted felons?....Do enlighten me.

Though your first premise was a good un....That Oz use to be a great place prior to White man colonization.

You obviously hate whites, I detest idiots like you, CHOICE.

 

[Procrastinator35]

You obviously hate whites, I detest idiots like you, CHOICE.

That was clearly the inverted logic I was going for.....It's like a nasty look in the mirror, aye mate?

 

[Geelong_Sicko]

You obviously hate whites, I detest idiots like you, CHOICE.

Skin colour alone does not make a person either a shithead OR a saint. Would you agree?

 

[Better Loosen Up]

It was un-Australian to not put Canberra on the coast. The next trade deal we do with China we should swap them supplies of baby powder for building a new capital city at Bermagui.

Nah, don't do that to Bermagui.

I recommend Kiwirrkurra. (The most remote town in Australia)