I'm getting sick of our country losing it's identity

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Originally Posted by bee utey

...As for Black Friday, it's just another excuse for the retail industry to shove useless crap in your face to try and make you feel inadequate. Similar to every other seasonal cash grab, Fathers Day, Mothers Day, Easter, Halloween, Christmas, need I go on. Smart people invent their own reasons to buy stuff and throw sales catalogues in the bin where they belong. Celebrate family, not consumer tat. Frankly, IDGAF. [biggrin]

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Says a grumpy old man. [bigwhistle]

Cyber Monday is coming up too.

The sooner us grumpy old men realise that the continent of Australia is part of the global world the better.

'Our' separate identity as a nation was always going to be a short-lived notion, because it is stuck in the age of empire. Something which Britain is embarrassingly attempting to reclaim! (mostly voted for by grumpy old people).

We live in the world people. The younger generations are just moving with and creating the times.

'Our' identity is by definition in a state of perpetual flux.

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Originally Posted by Roverlord off road spares

Well I'm not having a black Friday sale[bigsmile]

I hate the term sale, many are just usually a con to get rid of slow moving stuff, Or it plays on peoples emotion thinking its genuine
I remember a retailer who used to put up a sale flag on a pole every day out side his shop. I heard customers ask the retailer when did the sale finish as they didn't want to miss out but at the time didn't have funds.

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Did you know that in French the word "sale" means "dirty" in English? Trufax. [bigrolf]

I am one of these grumpy old men.

Mario, you have my support on this one.

Who can name 5 uniquely Australian traditions or ceremony’s to celebrate that don’t revolve around colonisation or war?

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Originally Posted by Zeros

Who can name 5 uniquely Australian traditions or ceremony’s to celebrate that don’t revolve around colonisation or war?

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Drinking XXXX or Bundy, on any day that ends in a Ý. There you go, there's forteen. :tease:

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Originally Posted by Zeros

Who can name 5 uniquely Australian traditions or ceremony’s to celebrate that don’t revolve around colonisation or war?

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The Chook Raffle[bighmmm]

Bunnings snags
Meat pies at the footy
Denny Ute muster [emoji38][emoji38]

Up sh** creek in a barbed wire canoe! (Bazza McKenzie)

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Originally Posted by Zeros

Who can name 5 uniquely Australian traditions or ceremony’s to celebrate that don’t revolve around colonisation or war?

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That'll be events featuring the roughly five B's, booze, boats, briny, beaches, betting and brainless bravery.

1. Henley-on-Todd Regatta

2. Beer Can Regatta

3, Bird Man Rally

And a couple of others, maybe featuring camels, aka Boats of the outBack.