Fourth Bruce: Gentlemen, I think we better start the faculty meeting. Before we start, though, I'd like to ask the padre for a prayer.

First Bruce: Oh Lord, we beseech Thee, Amen!!

Everybruce: Amen!

Fourth Bruce: Crack tubes! (Sound of cans opening) Now I call upon Bruce to officially welcome Mr. Baldwin to the philosophy faculty.

Second Bruce: I'd like to welcome the pommey bastard to God's own Earth, and remind him that we don't like stuck-up sticky-beaks here.

Everybruce: Hear, hear! Well spoken, Bruce!

Fourth Bruce: Bruce here teaches classical philosophy, Bruce there teaches Haegelian philosophy, and Bruce here teaches logical positivism. And is also in charge of the sheep dip.

Third Bruce: What's New-Bruce going to teach?

Fourth Bruce: New-Bruce will be teaching political science, Machiavelli, Bentham, Locke, Hobbes, Sutcliffe, Bradman, Lindwall, Miller, Hassett, and Benaud.

Second Bruce: Those are all cricketers!

Fourth Bruce: Aww, spit!

Third Bruce: Hails of derisive laughter, Bruce!

Everybruce: Australia, Australia, Australia, Australia, we love you amen!

Fourth Bruce:Bruce: Crack tube! (Sound of cans opening) Any questions?

Second Bruce: New-Bruce, are you a Poofter?

Fourth Bruce: Are you a Poofter?

Michael: No!

Fourth Bruce: No. Right, I just want to remind you of the faculty rules: Rule One!

Everybruce: No Poofters!

Fourth Bruce: Rule Two, no member of the faculty is to maltreat the Abbos in any way at all -- if there's anybody watching. Rule Three?

Everybruce: No Poofters!!

Fourth Bruce: Rule Four, now this term, I don't want to catch anybody not drinking. Rule Five,

Everybruce: No Poofters!

Fourth Bruce: Rule Six, there is NO ... Rule Six. Rule Seven,

Everybruce: No Poofters!!

Fourth Bruce: Right, that concludes the readin' of the rules, Bruce.

First Bruce: This here's the wattle, the emblem of our land. You can stick it in a bottle, you can hold it in your hand.

Everybruce: Amen!

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Liam don't lecture to me that I am un-Australian. Excuse me.

@ Liam Apart from 7 generations of Euro ancestry, my Grandfather was inducted into Aboriginal culture. Most people here in OLO know this and and over my rantings on this.. He spoke the language, danced the coroboree and shunned his standing in colonial community to make a bold move that he saw was ethical. I guess Quakers are like that.

I can't help but be Australian Liam, and I don't need YOUR approval.

That song really sucks bad. The music tries to copy American Hip Hop, doesn't work, I sent it to my Afro-American friends in Texas and they threw it in the rubbish where it belongs. They didn't care what it said, the music was just Afro-wonnabe dribble.

The information was just wrong. Cook didn't colonise Australia. Right?
"Whites" as you call non Aboriginals can't just go back to England. Been there, done that, we need residency after 4 years of a visa. Over 40 it is not possible.

So I'm pedantic and un-Australian? I'm not pedantic mate, I just like to get my facts right.

Rainer, I saw that episode on Monty Python too. It was kinda funny at the time.

Finally, when Cook landed, and when Phillip landed to colonise Port Jackson, there was no Australian flag. On the boats were the Union Jacks.

On land, the Flag of the British Colony was the Union Flag. You only call it Jack on a Naval Vessel. So the colony was a British colony before 1901. There was no Australian flag before that date.

Pedantic Liam? You just don't get it, do you?

See all the lefties pulling out there hair, chardonnay flowing out their nostrils? Beer swilling, blah blah blah...

Or how about the comment that you would have been attacked for being asian, etc. In reply to this, I have worked amongst many nationalities and when it comes to Asian's, this is where you find real racism as each asian nationality hates the others with a passion. There's no love lost between the Chinese and Vietnames, I'll tell you that.

As for fascism, it's the only system that works which is China has rejected Communism, replacing it with fascism. Watch their people become wealthier now.

Thank you Rainier, for injecting a little humour into this thread (not before time either) - I find the worst threads on OLO often start to resemble a Monty Python sketch.

I think some of you folk really need to lighten up a bit (as they say in the classics). I won't bore you all with trying to prove how OZZIE I am, suffice to say that I don't belong anywhere else. The flag doesn't mean that much to me, my pride in my country resides elsewhere. All this flag stuff seems too American for my taste.

Thanks Spider for telling us that "fascism is the only system that works". I can now safely ignore anything else you have to say.

So while out on a wave (very butch, very Ozzie!) the author overheard a longwinded conversation by two young surfers arguing deep and meaningful stuff about the flag and nationalism. Gee, he must have had some time, luck and the benefit of 'radar' ears because he has come up with more detail than Oprah Winfrey (and without asking a question). Identifying the surfers as 'Grommets' was a nice touch, very (sic) authentic.

One could be forgiven for thinking that modern humanities academics weave more stories than gossips on a bus. The public must be so 'over' such storytelling rhetoric by now.

However it wasn't always that way, was it? Is it unreasonable to expect less fluff and more meat from some university departments? No tour of the back streets and cut straight to the chase.

Re Rainier:
“I'll be waving my Australian flag, its got three colours, red, black, with a big yellow sun - And if the immigrants find it offensive - move out.”
I reckon we should ALL adopt Rainier’s flag as OUR (national) flag.
I’d bet if we did, within a week or two, Rainier would be the one moving out (as in, out looking for a new flag).His ticket on the gravy-train very much depends on him differentiating himself from the rest of us (later) immigrants.

RE TLTR:
I note you are much concerned about “fascist thuggish redneck fool(s) trying to tell (you) how to be Australian” but how about some of the unelected, leftist bureaucrats & “academics” - you perceive no danger from that direction ? or are they ( being largely now establishment) above suspicion?