Edited by Joffa: 22/1/2013 10:38:20 PM

Public holiday.

Nothing.

'straya c#nt

Very important to me. Far more important than the pagan festivals of Xmas and Easter. To be honest, it is pretty sad how mindless people are that Xmas is the most important holiday of the year.

This, the family usually get together but that's mainly because of this reason.

Just an excuse to get on the piss for me. It's the same for quite a few people in our society but very few will admit it.

Well, last australia day i was dared to run about a park with friends draped in a red flag and shirt with a hammer and sickle on it.
So I did.

The first person to use the phrase 'invasion day' should be perma-banned.

Technically it was you..

Funky.
You know what to do.

What a sad day it'll be, the day Funky takes orders from notorganic.

Is that going to be your new over-used meme, GA? :lol:.

Well, I'm working Australia Day, so for me it means gearing up for a 10-hour shift, hoping we have no fights during the afternoon in the bar. Security isn't being put on until the normal time of 7pm. :lol:.

During the day I'll fire up the BBQ, throw a couple steaks on, crack a couple cold beers and relax with dad.

Fuck that. That's a joke. You KNOW it's going to be busy earlier. I'm pretty sure it's illegal to not have security on? I know that Victoria have laws requiring a guard for every 50 people now.

Edited by Joffa: 23/1/2013 07:55:29 AM

And here I thought it was the sokka hooligans causing all the problems

Time to go Cronulla and beat on some lebs.

-PB

Eureka flag to become our national flag!

Yeah, a symbol of rebellion and subversion should be the symbol of the Australian establishment :lol:

When is Australia Day?

I'm the son of an Immigrant so it means a hell of a lot to me and if you think it's just about getting boozed up and being a Nationalist, you're wrong.

Australia, although it has its faults is the greatest country in the world and if you think its not then perhaps you should do a pro's and con's list with any other country to see that I'm right.

I don't believe in Love it or Leave it and I don't think we're full, I think we have plenty of room for anyone who genuinely wants a better life like my Father and grand Father did.

Saturday.

Those aren't the problem. I concur with that. Majority of Australia's populace has emigrated here in the last century or so. The problem is people bringing their own problems here.

The problem is those people who think they are superior cause they emigrated here first.

It takes time for people to move on from these issues, look at the offspring of many Croatians and serbians or Greeks and Masodonians, they're still carrying around their problems as much as any person from an Afgani, Persian or other Islamic middle Eastern background.
I work with plenty of New immigrants and refugees and honestly, the ACA TT ones are few and far between the ones that actually want to be Australian and Asimilate into our culture (geez I hate that term).

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Also a massive number of Irish migrants brought the troubles with them. FFS we have the orange order etc here to this day and people don't kick up a fuss about that.

A couple of months back I had a couple of Irish blokes in my bar who would shout "UP THE R-A!!" every time they had a drink. We asked them to stop but it went on for about half an hour until another group of irishmen came in and put their heads through a table.

It's just stupid, my parents used to be part of the Irish Association until they realised it was just being used as a way to carry on all the bullshit they left Ireland to get away from.

Yeah, it's bullshit. If you want to continue all the agitations from your old country that you or your compatriots left the country to get away from, go the fuck back there.

:lol: :lol:

This!!!

I came here as a young child immigrant. I love this country and think that people who don't should reconsider their choice to live here.

Anyone with gripes about how this country is run needs to go to the USA or Europe to get a taste of a struggling economy.

I don't get all the fucking Kiwis who talk way more bro than they are and have those stupid silver ferns on their cars.

I was born there, I certainly didn't come to Australia to be proud of NZ!

Australians are way too patriotic for their own good at times... Who gives a fuck? As long as it's safe to walk the streets at night and you're doing all right financially, I'm fairly happy.

Nothing.

I mean I love this country and feel very lucky to be here... But it's just a day.

I feel proud to be Australian and having lived in Australia, but it's just another day for me. A bit like birthdays, but I don't get lots of money or gifts.

Nothing as I'm not patriotic or proud to be Australian. I do however like how I can get drunk and high with friends listening to music

Realistically it is now just a day to spend with my kids.

I think we are nearing capacity in terms of maintaining our current lifestyle with the current infrastructure and way of thinking. There is only so much water that can be captured in our dams and only so much fertile land around the capital cities.

Most of that fertile land has houses on it - especially in Adelaide.

Australians are incredibly un-partiotic. Look at the apathetic response in this thread.

There's bogan nationalism, which makes us all cringe. But there's no patriotism.

Exactly my point about infrastructure and ways of thinking.

Edited by chillbilly: 24/1/2013 10:16:07 AM

Fireworks :D

what australia day means to me:
a day where i get to chill on the family yacht and count down the hottest 100

aka sfa, just a public holiday excuse

That must make us English even more unpatriotic. I just watched an insurance advert the other day and isntead of a saying people, it said Australians (certainly not an ad targeted at bogans). Woolies: Australians are fast food people. There's quite a list but I cba making it.

You sing national anthems at schools, patriotic songs in class. We don't in the UK.

Perhaps it's more of an indictment on British opinion of themselves but in my eyes, Australians are patriotic (maybe it's a colonial thing :-" ).

Means; not Citizens Day.

-PB

Ken, I think that's just because the british are boring and miserable.

I think most Aussies are patriotic, I just think it is understated and laidback as is our way...Aussies aren't so much into the jingoism of the yanks for example.

For many of us we're just rapt to have a long weekend with out families or at the football, or beach etc.. rather than waving a flag or standing to attention singing our anthem...mind you I do love hearing/singing our anthem at the football.

Edited by Joffa: 24/1/2013 08:46:47 PM

It's usually just a day, but having it reminds me what a great country we live in. Good to have it.

I think that majority of the responses and attitude ammounts to 'I don't give a fuck about this country', people with little to no national pride or appreciation for all the things that they take for granted. And most of them have never had to fend for themselves in another country.

+1

All you have to do is drive past all the slums in places like South Africa to realise just how lucky people are to grow up in countries like Australia. You hear people complain about being a "battler on the pension" and "having to shop at 8pm at night to buy the reduced to clear meat and bread" stories, and sure some people do it tough, but there is literally a billion + people in this world who would trade places with an Aussie "battler" in a heart beat.

I consider myself lucky and am greatful that i live and was born here, but i never understood what the hell being 'proud' to be australian is meant to mean.

I guess it's down to being proud of being involved in a community where you don't have to fear going down the street and that you've contributed to building one of the highest standards of living in the world.

Again, greatfulness to my fellows is more the feeling there for me.

Maybe you need to contribute more to the community to feel a sense of pride then.

I'm reminded of something Funky said yonks ago.

It says a lot about the people of this forum, that they can express sentiments that they're "proud" of a man on the other side of the world's ability to be a cunt, but they aren't proud of the society they live in.

Not everyone has the same feelings about doing the same things you know.

Well it's quite clear what it means to Joffa. He clogs up ET just to bump his post count.

To be fair, ANY public holiday is a reason for Joffa to boost his post count.

You should see what he does on Lincoln day...

Another long weekend for the public servants , it shits me that those who work on the real AUS day get nothing extra, while those that have the REAL day off , get to double dip on monday . We are truly the land of the long weekend (and i am a very proud aussie).

I take it you're a hospitality worker then?

Yep , cooking in a pub .Don't get me wrong , good luck to those who get the day off .

Edited by jg: 25/1/2013 01:53:15 AM

Many on this forum have never had to fend for themselves in THIS country, hence their lack of appreciation for what we have and how good we have it.

The wankers will equate "Australian values" with getting on the piss and racist boganry, but for me Australian values are a sense of equality between people and opportunity for all to better themselves if they put in the effort. Freedom of religion, association and political affilitation are part of it too.

We're far from being a perfect society, and there is much to improve, not the least the Aboriginal situation (although I'd argue that nearly 200 years of institutionalised discrimination can't be undone in the next 50 or so, but more still must be done today). But overall most people around the world view us very well, and would love to live here, which is a very good indicator of the society we are.

Not to be proud of that is the domain of the kind of people who don;t appreciate how good we have it.

I don't want to start this argument again, but...I find it humorous that people will say on one hand "We're lucky to have been born in a country where we've got things so good" and then go on to say "We should be proud of being from that country".

If it's luck that put me here (and it was), then I don't see it as something to be proud of.

It was luck that saw you born here. But you could be literally ANYWHERE in the world right now, and you're still here.

Maybe if you contributed something to society you'd have more of a sense of pride at having helped to make our social environment unique and one of the best in the world.

I await with bated breath for you to let us know what you have contributed to this society of ours.

I was going to write a response to this, but I honestly just don't care. This covers it nicely:

FFS, give it a rest.

So what you're saying is that if I work for charity, help the youth and contribute towards building the country that we identify as 'Australia' I shouldn't feel proud of that.

Last time I checked working for charity isn't an "accident of birth", so no, that's not what he's saying.

well as he said, it's pure accident as to whether you're on the giving or receiving end of that.

In your original statement you said nothing about receiving charity (that I'll agree with you on, is pure luck), but giving to charity, helping the youth etc is something you can be proud of as you attained that, only you can make yourself do that (bar court imposed orders, but still, that's of your own actions etc)

Edited by jlm8695: 25/1/2013 03:51:08 PM

Yes, but it's down to pure luck that you're born in a country where we're majority on the giving end, rather than the receiving end of said charity.

I'm not sure a raging arrogant asshole (yes, takes one to know one) like George Carlin is exactly the kind of person you want to be quoting about this topic either.

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-PB

Or people whinging about having to pay a carbon tax. Poor battlers. No really.

You know you're Australian if ...
1. You know the meaning of the word "girt".
2. You believe that stubbies can be either drunk or worn.
3. You think it's normal to have a Treasurer called Wayne.
4. You waddle when you walk due to the 53 expired petrol discount vouchers stuffed in your wallet or purse.
5. You've made a bong out of your garden hose rather than use it for something illegal such as watering the garden.
6. You believe it is appropriate to put a rubber in your son's pencil case when he first attends school.
7. When you hear that an American "roots for his team" you wonder how often and with whom.
8. You understand that the phrase "a group of women wearing black thongs" refers to footwear and may be less alluring than it sounds.
9. You pronounce Melbourne as "Mel-bin".
10. You pronounce Penrith as "Pen-riff".
11. You believe the "l" in the word "Australia" is optional.
12. You can translate: "Dazza and Shazza played Acca Dacca on the way to Maccas."
13. You believe it makes perfect sense for a nation to decorate its highways with large fibreglass bananas, prawns and sheep.
14. You call your best friend "a total bastard" but someone you really, truly despise is just "a bit of a bastard".
15. You think "Woolloomooloo" is a perfectly reasonable name for a place.
16. You're secretly proud of our killer wildlife.
17. You believe it makes sense for a country to have a $1 coin that's twice as big as its $2 coin.
18. You understand that "Wagga Wagga" can be abbreviated to "Wagga" but "Woy Woy" can't be called "Woy".
19. You believe that cooked-down axlegrease makes a good breakfast spread.
20. You believe all famous Kiwis are actually Australian, until they stuff up, at which point they again become Kiwis.
21. Hamburger. Beetroot. Of course.
22. You know that certain words must, by law, be shouted out during any rendition of the Angels' song Am I Ever Gonna See Your Face Again.
23. You believe, as an article of faith, that the confectionary known as the Wagon Wheel has become smaller with every passing year.
24. You still don't get why the "Labor" in "Australian Labor Party" is not spelt with a "u".
25. You wear ugh boots outside the house.
26. You believe, as an article of faith, that every important discovery in the world was made by an Australian but then sold off to the Yanks for a pittance.
27. You believe that the more you shorten someone's name the more you like them.
28. Whatever your linguistic skills, you find yourself able to order takeaway fluently in every Asian language.
29. You understand that "excuse me" can sound rude, while "scuse me" is always polite.
30. You know what it's like to swallow a fly, on occasion via your nose.
31. You understand that "you" has a plural and that it's "youse".
32. You know it's not summer until the steering wheel is too hot to handle.
33. Your biggest family argument over the summer concerned the rules for beach cricket.
34. You shake your head in horror when companies try to market what they call "Anzac cookies".
35. You still think of Kylie as "that girl off Neighbours".
36. When returning home from overseas, you expect to be brutally strip-searched by Customs - just in case you're trying to sneak in fruit.
37. You believe the phrase "smart casual" refers to a pair of black tracky-daks, suitably laundered.
38. You understand that all train timetables are works of fiction.
39. When working on a bar, you understand male customers will feel the need to offer an excuse whenever they order low-alcohol beer.
40. You get choked up with emotion by the first verse of the national anthem and then have trouble remembering the second.
41. You find yourself ignorant of nearly all the facts deemed essential in the government's new test for migrants.
42. You know, whatever the tourist books say, that no one says "cobber".
43. And you will immediately forward this list to other Australians, here and overseas, realising that only they will understand.

:lol: :lol:

:lol: Most of australia doesn't know the meaning of the word girt :lol:

(what is the meaning of the word girt?)

Encompassed or surrounded by.

Now your national anthem makes so much more sense :lol:

Australians all let us ring joyce,
for she is young and free.
With gold and soil and wells of foil,
our home is gurbadee.

Our land a bounce,
in natures gifts,
of beauty, ritchy rare,

In history's page,
let every stage,
avdance australia fair.

Edited by afromanGT: 26/1/2013 07:00:27 PM

monday off is what it means to me. and the big blue is generally on so i just relax and watch that. in my job we don't work on australia day so it just means a day off.

If you think that's not a plant then your not planted deep enough.

Doesn't matter if it's set up or not, you can hear all the bogans, bigots and right wing nutjobs having a fit from here.