Thread: Aussie ! Aussie! Aussie ! Oyi Oyi Oyi

Originally Posted by stevo68

Good to see still an interesting discussion aside from a few just trying to snipe. I find "racism" interesting as it can encompass many things and can vary so differently. Example: if I say I'm not real keen on Americans, thats thumbs up ok, if I say I'm not real keen on Muslim's and their culture, I could be viewed as racist. Why??

I came across a thread on another forum and they were on the news last night, a Baptist Church from Kansas from memory and they have a website GODHATESFAGS and GODHATES a whole range of things. Some were protesting at Heath Ledgers funeral as he was in Brokeback Mountain and basically was going to Hell. Now as far as I am concerned I wouldn't want anything to do with anyone from that religion, whatever colour they maybe. Rightly or wrongly, I couldnt see myself embracing the Muslim religion or the people that follow it as it doesnt gel with my beliefs or lifestyle, as with Buddhism, Hindu etc. To me it is no different than the people I associate with, their are commonalities in either believes, values or background.

However I also take my hat off to anyone who comes here and makes a good life for themself, generally opportunities they didn't have in their homeland. In the past from my 39 almost 40 odd yrs on the planet, any sort of racism has revolved around being "different" ie looked different, like my best mate at school being chinese and another mate from Pakistan and one who was of Greek descendancy, they all spoke Aussie but because of their visual difference sometimes copped it. But is that any different to a fat kid copping it cause they are fat? Or a kid with a big nose, or someone who was born hit with the ugly stick? Even a mate, cause he was adopted?

The difference these days as I see it, is political correctness and bleeding hearts and part of that is not so much due to a race but a religion. Ya think it is bad here, England is 10 times worse. The same kind of issues have been around, like when my Dad first came over to oz from England some 40+ yrs ago and he copped it where ever he went, but the powers that be didnt start to change our culture over it. He had to integrate to a much tougher audience than is presented now days,

Regards

Stevo

And Amen to that.

Stevo, your comments made more sense than the rest of the thread put together.

Originally Posted by vnx205

I think you're right.

Back in the early 1980s I was a Scout Leader with a troop at the Ipswich Jamboree.

Might have bumped into you there... how WET was that?

I still have my "Diamond Award" floating about somewhere and a metal 75 year woggle

Originally Posted by procrastination inc

Might have bumped into you there... how WET was that?

I still have my "Diamond Award" floating about somewhere and a metal 75 year woggle

We were troop 303. Were you anywhere near there?

Some of the boys from our Yass troop were off farms. They knew that way to erect that dining shelter and table that we were given was to put a bit of earth down the hole around the post, ram it well, add a bit more and ram it and so on until the hole was full.
They had done some fencing in their time.

Our city neighbours in the camp next door thought it was good enough to just throw all the dirt in at once and ram the top bit.
When that deluge came and their shelter fell down they found out that our country boys knew what they were doing after all.

Originally Posted by p38arover

No, it's the motto of the USA, not ours!

That's obviously been a rough cut and paste with some changes to suit Australia.

thanks for that Ron, i was going to do the same thing. i pointed this out to Bryce recently when he sent it around.