Live Event The Ugly Arrogant American thread plus the Australian Open Tennis.

[Plugger35]

We should be grateful that England invaded Australia rather than the French or the Dutch as now we have cricket and the Ashes.

If England didn't bring cricket to our country then what the f*** would we have to amuse ourselves in summer, play tiddlywinks.

 

[Stronzo]

We should be grateful that England invaded Australia rather than the French or the Dutch as now we have cricket and the Ashes.

If England didn't bring cricket to our country then what the f*** would we have to amuse ourselves in summer, play tiddlywinks.

True. And more importantly they brought the Irish.

 

[the avoca drover]

We should be grateful that England invaded Australia rather than the French or the Dutch as now we have cricket and the Ashes.

If England didn't bring cricket to our country then what the f*** would we have to amuse ourselves in summer, play tiddlywinks.

I’ve often thought about that Plugger.
If the Dutch had stuck around and made it over to the east and decided to stay, what would Australia be like today.

 

[springvale_mackers]

Why do want to celebrate on a day that is offensive to Indigenous people who have been here 60,000 years?
There's 364 other days of the year you could celebrate without being disrepectful to Indigenous people.
Enjoy your party.

AP! AP! AP!

 

[jannissary]

I’ve often thought about that Plugger.
If the Dutch had stuck around and made it over to the east and decided to stay, what would Australia be like today.

miserable and shit i reckon

 

[Drunkcat]

Wrong and wrong. Enjoy your disrespectfull day if that's how you roll.

You have no idea not all want it changed, Jacinta price is levelheaded Indigenous woman does not want welcome to country and is ok with Australia day, some just want trouble but then some won't to work together.

 

[the avoca drover]

miserable and shit i reckon

Dunno
I worked for a Dutch company for about 25 years and they were pretty good. Some of my work mates thought the Dutch bosses were miserable pricks but they were no worse than the Australian bosses. You get all sorts.

 

[Aristotle Pickett]

You have no idea not all want it changed, Jacinta price is levelheaded Indigenous woman does not want welcome to country and is ok with Australia day, some just want trouble but then some won't to work together.

Jacinta Price lol! She represents 1% of Indigenous people, of course you love her and disregard the other 99%.
Embarrassing post.

 

[StackedHunch]

You have no idea not all want it changed, Jacinta price is levelheaded Indigenous woman does not want welcome to country and is ok with Australia day, some just want trouble but then some won't to work together.

Jacinta just tells white people what they want to hear. I'm not on board with all the hysterics, but Jacinta is about the last person who should be advising on race relations - on par with Lidia Thorpe.

 

[AvantGardener]

There is winners and losers in this world. It is determined by what you do with adversity.

Losers mope, find excuses, blame others when things go wrong.

Winners find strength, work hard, improve and press on.

Mind you, the winners adversity is in the here and now. It takes a special loser to be still moping about old adversity. Think a person in mid 20s blaming their shit life on high school bullies. Now imagine adversity from 250 years ago multiple generations removed being the adversity still being moped about. It's pathetic.

Some idiots will find racism in this post, but the hard truth is some Indigenous people have certainly pressed on with their lives and are winners, while more than a fair share of white Aussies mope around like losers for other reasons.

 

[StackedHunch]

There is winners and losers in this world. It is determined by what you do with adversity.

Losers mope, find excuses, blame others when things go wrong.

Winners find strength, work hard, improve and press on.

Mind you, the winners adversity is in the here and now. It takes a special loser to be still moping about old adversity. Think a person in mid 20s blaming their shit life on high school bullies. Now imagine adversity from 250 years ago multiple generations removed being the adversity still being moped about. It's pathetic.

Some idiots will find racism in this post, but the hard truth is some Indigenous people have certainly pressed on with their lives and are winners, while more than a fair share of white Aussies mope around like losers for other reasons.

If you think the trouble stopped just after the first fleet, you're completely ignorant of our history. Suggest you first have a conversation with chatgpt to see how recently Aboriginal folk were being killed in frontier wars, herded into missions, treated like slaves (paid in only rations), removed from their mothers, and all manner of exclusion from society.

There's plenty to criticise with the way programs are run, and the way blame is apportioned as if this is the fault of today's white Australians, but let's not pretend society was kind to Aboriginal folk immediately after taking their land. They were treated horrendously.

 

[AvantGardener]

If you think the trouble stopped just after the first fleet, you're completely ignorant of our history. Suggest you first have a conversation with chatgpt to see how recently Aboriginal folk were being killed in frontier wars, herded into missions, treated like slaves (paid in only rations), removed from their mothers, and all manner of exclusion from society.

There's plenty to criticise with the way programs are run, and the way blame is apportioned as if this is the fault of today's white Australians, but let's not pretend society was kind to Aboriginal folk immediately after taking their land. They were treated horrendously.

The debate around Australia Day being Jan 26 means only the First Fleet is relevant to this discussion. Those other things you mention are only relevant if the change the date campaign true mission is run down Aus Day regardless of the date.

 

[StackedHunch]

The debate around Australia Day being Jan 26 means only the First Fleet is relevant to this discussion. Those other things you mention are only relevant if the change the date campaign true mission is run down Aus Day regardless of the date.

Look if you read my other posts here, you'll see I'm not sold on the idea that changing the date will solve much. AP is typical of your hysterical SJWs - heart in the right place, brain disconnected, full of mindless slogans that would do little to improve things.
But jumping to the other extreme, suggesting there's not ongoing damage to Aboriginal communities because of what past white Australians did, is just totally inaccurate.

 

[AvantGardener]

Look if you read my other posts here, you'll see I'm not sold on the idea that changing the date will solve much. AP is typical of your hysterical SJWs - heart in the right place, brain disconnected, full of mindless slogans that would do little to improve things.
But jumping to the other extreme, suggesting there's not ongoing damage to Aboriginal communities because of what past white Australians did, is just totally inaccurate.

Well lucky for you thats not what I said. I can't mention 10000 things in one post that was just about the one issue.

Regardless we can transpose my point about adversity. Yes there is adversity of what happened in Aboriginal communities, but again winners and losers are decided by how you respond to that adversity.

Edit: It wasn't strictly clear my post was just about Jan 26, but if you follow the thread being about Jan 26 you will realise I was just talking about Jan 26 re the '250 yrs ago' comment.

 

[V_23]

This isn’t a tennis fred anymore, is it?

 

[Freofalcon]

I’ve often thought about that Plugger.
If the Dutch had stuck around and made it over to the east and decided to stay, what would Australia be like today.

South Africa 2.0?

 

[Elmer_Hauser]

This isn’t a tennis fred anymore, is it?

Unless one of the mods decide to bundle a certain agitating poster out in straight sets again

 

[Stax on the mill]

Wrong and wrong. Enjoy your disrespectfull day if that's how you roll.

Happy Australia Day Aristotle old son. Hope you have a great day my good friend.

 

[zackah]

Missed the last few days.

Did we #BOO and #lol at Novac?

 

[zackah]

wait did we get off topic?

bants friends?

 

[Aristotle Pickett]

Happy Australia Day Aristotle old son. Hope you have a great day my good friend.

Take your disrepect for Indigenous people to the SRP board please mate.

 

[Chronz]

Take your disrepect for Indigenous people to the SRP board please mate.

SRP board is a one sided echo chamber. In saying that, I hope you have a great Australia day Aristotle Pickett, my good bay 13 friend.

 

[Triggering Tiger]

Take your disrepect for Indigenous people to the SRP board please mate.

I don't know why posters even go there, it's as if they're looking to be thrill seekers of some kind out of sheer boredom so they like to play chicken with the mods who are extremely bant happy on that board and are more than glad to give someone holidays if you tick them off enough.

 

[AvantGardener]

I don't know why posters even go fthere, it's as if they're looking to be thrill seekers of some kind out of sheer boredom so they like to play chicken with the mods who are extremely bant happy on that board and are more than glad to give someone holidays if you tick them off enough.

I learnt that with a 3 week holiday!

 

[Stax on the mill]

I learnt that with a 3 week holiday!

Yes, it’s not a level playing field there. Different rules dependant on which side of the political spectrum you support. Anyone to the right of Aristotle Pickett is on a hiding to nothing.