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  1. 31st August 2019, 06:49 PM #221
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    Not to mention the pious audacity of some, referring to blokes like the bread tea leaf as Australian Convicts.

    The Brits don't realise that we didn't have convicts until GB sent theirs here & suddenly they are ours.
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    I always countered snide convict remarks from Poms with " Oh! Yes! The convicts. They were English, weren't they".
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    Surely, a great many were Irish political offenders...?
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    Fe shur, fe shur.

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    Quote Originally Posted by Fifth Columnist View Post
    Surely, a great many were Irish political offenders...?
    Fair point, but they still were not Australia's back then. Maybe they should have built bigger Gaols?

    Hang on, haven't I heard that somewhere before?
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  6. 3rd September 2019, 11:17 AM #226
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    Australia didn't exist back then, so they couldn't have been Australian.
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    Quote Originally Posted by DiscoMick View Post
    Australia didn't exist back then, so they couldn't have been Australian.
    Yea, they were all bloody Cockroaches!
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  8. 3rd September 2019, 12:27 PM #228
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    I read about a bloke who got sentenced to seven years of transportation for stealing a loaf of bread because he was hungry. Hardly a case of the punishment fitting the crime.
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    When did the sentence start, on departure or arrival?
    If you don't like trucks, stop buying stuff.
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    Quote Originally Posted by V8Ian View Post
    When did the sentence start
    With a Capital Letter.
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