January 26

[Dan]

You're obsessed.


You love it. You keep bringing it up. You've just done it again in a thread that has nothing to do with the topic. Gives me a good laugh everytime I see you mention me. Not that I really care what you think.

Nah I reckon scavenging the search engine day after day would be what I regard as obsessed.

Not that I'm passing judgement. It's given me and lots of others on BF a laugh.

I'm glad you enjoy the banter.

 

[Roylion]

Nah I reckon scavenging the search engine day after day would be what I regard as obsessed.

Yet it's you who keeps mentioning me. Whereas I couldn't care less what you post on or how often.

 

[South of the Yarra]

You're obsessed.


You love it. You keep bringing it up. You've just done it again in a thread that has nothing to do with the topic. Gives me a good laugh everytime I see you mention me. Not that I really care what you think. I'll just continue to post when and where I see fit on a number of topics. But keep obsessing away.

Keep posting, I love your posts, even if we have a disagreement on one topic. I learn lots. Just ignore him, let him be obsessed.

 

[Roylion]

Keep posting, I love your posts, even if we have a disagreement on one topic. I learn lots. Just ignore him, let him be obsessed.

My posts on the mighty Roys are obviously memorable to him. I haven't posted on the North board for close to ten years, yet he still mentions me there.

I find your posts and perspectives on various social and political issues interesting as well.

 

[ferball]

This is just bizarre.

Why?

 

[ferball]

What....

They don't teach reading in those Nigerian schools you went to?

Or history by the looks of things.

 

[ferball]

When it comes to racists, don't be surprised at anything.

Eugenics and racism go hand in hand.

 

[Present Not Past]

I think it was a choice of English, French, Spanish or Portuguese colonisation for indigenous Australians.

 

[Forward Press]

I think it was a choice of English, French, Spanish or Portuguese colonisation for indigenous Australians.

Dutch? They were the first Europeans to set foot in Australia. Admittedly, they didn't care much to colonise what they found here.

 

[South of the Yarra]

I think it was a choice of English, French, Spanish or Portuguese colonisation for indigenous Australians.

Aboriginals had a choice of who invaded them? Was it a tick a box exercise?

 

[Forward Press]

Aboriginals had a choice of who invaded them? Was it a tick a box exercise?

I interpreted it as lots of Europeans were poking around the area at the time so unfortunately one of them would eventually claim Australia for themselves. Don't think it was intended to be malicious.

 

[Freomaniac]

At one of my local shopping centres/food villages there is a giant rock with a plaque sponsored by Gina Rinehart to remind us of her contribution to WA's wealth.

One of the reasons I suspect she picked a rock is because of how bloody hard it would be to move it and it's easy to clean any vandalism.

that is very nice of her lol

 

[Engimal v3]

Aboriginals had a choice of who invaded them? Was it a tick a box exercise?

Who would you have picked if it was?

 

[schneebly111]

Who would you have picked if it was?

Either the Portuguese, they seem more chilled, and I had one of my best holidays ever in Lagos on the Algarve, if they brought their lifestyle and vibe to Australia that would be awesome;

Or the Dutch, they seem more down to earth and we’d be all hanging out in coffee shops pissing ourselves laughing instead of getting blind drunk and wanting to fight all the time.

 

[Cmarsh]

Who would you have picked if it was?

English for the economic opportunities that come with speaking the language.

 

[Roylion]

It nearly was the French.

The French made the first European claim over Western Australia in 1772 at what is now known as Turtle Bay at Dirk Hartog Island. The same year Marc-Joseph Dufresne was visiting Tasmania and stayed briefly with the Indigenous people.

Louis-Antoine, Comte de Bougainville was sailing off the east coast of Australia two years before Cook.

Louis XVI was certainly very interested in expanding French influence in the South Pacific. He had been inspired by the account of the journey of James Cook.

Van Diemen's Land had been recommended for colonization by French politician Henri Peyroux in 1785 with Frederick Henry Bay in south-east Tasmania picked out as the location for a colony. The explorer d'Entrecasteaux was ordered to investigate the bay in 1792-1793 when looking for the lost La Perouse expedition.

Some historians argue that the reason the First Fleet was sent was not merely to dump convicts but to thwart French territorial ambitions in the South Pacific after they had lost their North American colonies in 1763. The French explorer La Perouse met the First Fleet at Botany Bay on 24th January 1788 and stayed there for six weeks before leaving. They were never seen again, being shipwrecked in the Solomon Islands. Incidentally a young Napoleon Bonaparte applied to be on that expedition but was rejected.

It was the outbreak of the French Revolution in 1789 and its subsequent turmoil, that limited further French colonialism in the South Pacific. France was not in a position to develop colonies in the southern oceans for a couple of decades, until Napoleon became emperor. By then the British were quite well entrenched and determined to resist increased French influence .

In 1801-04, about the same time as Bass and Flinders were mapping the southern coast of Australia, the French explorer Nicolas Baudin charted much of the southern coastline of Australia and named the area which now covers much of what is now Victoria and South Australia, "La Terre Napoleon".

 

[Gethelred]

When other avenues for discourse don’t work….go the potty mouth route

When someone is being a campaigner, calling them a campaigner is not an insult. It's accurate.

 

[Gethelred]

I teach the causes of World War I every year.

Must go down well at christmas parties.

 

[Roylion]

Must go down well at christmas parties.

I try not to mention work at Christmas parties.

 

[Tadpole]

For us, the Great War is finito. A war which would have been a damn sight simpler if we'd just stayed in England and shot 50,000 of our men a week!

That would have been a plan so cunning you could put a tail on it and call it a weasel.

 

[Tadpole]

And there is someone who is not willing to listen and learn. Aboriginal people have never owned the land, Aboriginals have always belonged to the land. Ownership of land only happened since the British invaded. The saying Always Was, Always will be means there has been an Aboriginal footprint from the beginning and despite best attempts to get rid of us, there will Always be an Aboriginal footprint. Aboriginal people are going nowhere.

Thanks for that description. I’ve never heard it put like that before, but it makes perfect sense to me.

 

[Johnny Bananas]

My Ancestry DNA testing results state that I’m 1% Nigerian.

Am I African?

You're of African (and presumably European) ancestry, yes. Of course, nationality and ethnicity are separate concepts.

 

[schneebly111]

English for the economic opportunities that come with speaking the language.

Most euro nations can speak fluent English.

Plus the economic opportunities of speaking English as your primary language are overhyped especially after the UK committed national seppuku in 2016. UK is 17th on GDP per capita of all euro nations, behind other colonial nations like France, Netherlands and Belgium.

 

[Kram]

That would have been a plan so cunning you could put a tail on it and call it a weasel.

There's a nasty splinter on that ladder, someone could get hurt!

 

[DaRick]

Most euro nations can speak fluent English.

Plus the economic opportunities of speaking English as your primary language are overhyped especially after the UK committed national seppuku in 2016. UK is 17th on GDP per capita of all euro nations, behind other colonial nations like France, Netherlands and Belgium.

It's more culturally convenient than anything else.

Spaniards tend to be the worst continental English speakers, because English is a slightly harder language to learn. Spanish is also a Romance language, while English is a Germanic language. Scandinavians and German-speaking peoples tend to be the best for the opposite reason.