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Lest we forget : Comments

By Rosie Williams, published 25/1/2010

Australia Day 2010: learn something new about Australia and then tell someone you know or meet.

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Well I did abysmally at answering your questions Examinator, and I majored in Australian History some years back! ...Of course Australian history is also a crock--I'd be happy to debate that crock with you Stezza.
What amazes me is, where's all the passion out there? Why aren't the patriots rallying around the flag in the Australian colony's defence? No doubt they're busy with important things like cockroach races, eating competitions and fireworks extravaganzas.
It's my intention to go on shoving the stinging nettles up the orifices of the sacred cows, hopefully I can eventually arouse a bit more than complacency, indignation and the odd fart. But geeeze mate, this opinionated lot on OLO are cool customers! I don't think most of em ever really thought about anything!
So here's a clue, drag all those mealy-mouthed mouldy convictions into a clearing and hear em out. Say to em, "well, are yous full-a-sh!t, or can yous defend yerself!
..And if it's all just too much, ya poor bastards, grab a flag, mate, and wrap yerself up in it!
Posted by Mitchell, Wednesday, 27 January 2010 6:48:07 PM
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Dear Examinator
I am a little disappointed that you did not avail yourself of some tutoring in English, particularly grammar and spelling, over the Christnas/New Year school holidays. I am sure you have some interesting ideas which you could share with fellow ONO readers but it is truly difficult to comprehend some of your writings. For example.
"PS I can answer all except number 6.,but I'm for changing them because they are obsolete unjustifiably biased while ignoring, the input, contribution and existence of others. Celebrating a mythical, "white-washed" exclusive history of ONE racial group. Which by the way treated us as lessors in at least 3 wars and culturally."
1.Are you for changing the questions,the answers or both?
2.How can questions or answers be biased and moreso unjustifiably biased and ignore the "input, contribution and existence of others"? Questions could be obsolete perhaps but questions are simply questions.
3.You may not like a lot of what happened in Australia over the past 200+ years but the history was not a myth.
4.What racial group are you talking about? Most of the arrivals at Sydney Cove were descendants of Angles, Saxons, Jutes, Celts, Vikings, a real mix. But they were all under the rule of the British government. Since then Australia has been settled by just about every "racial" group on the planet.
5.What did Australia lease to this "ONE racial group" in at least three wars and what on earth did we lease them culturally?
Posted by blairbar, Thursday, 28 January 2010 7:30:52 AM
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blairbar: << I am a little disappointed that you did not avail yourself of some tutoring in English, particularly grammar and spelling >>

Dear blairbar, given your superior knowledge of English, could you please provide a dictionary definition of "moreso"?
Posted by CJ Morgan, Thursday, 28 January 2010 9:13:25 AM
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Superior compared to whom, CJ? If my use of the word "moreso" is your only complaint about my comments, I should be flattered.
Just for the record, I am not alone. http://en.wiktionary.org/wiki/Talk:moreso
Posted by blairbar, Thursday, 28 January 2010 2:55:43 PM
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Mitchell,

Why oh why do the English always want to make people miserable. First they invaded this fine country to use slave labour to chop down the grand ancient rainforest trees so they could have fancy chairs to plonk their lazy bums on. But no, not enough destruction. Still we have the whinging pom intent on bringing misery to this nation all the while he no doubts profits from it.

Can we please have an expiry date to this incessant pommie whinging? Over it. You do not run this nation now. Toddle off if you do not like it :)
Posted by TheMissus, Thursday, 28 January 2010 4:55:33 PM
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TheMissus
toddle-off now and get hubby his dinner. Leave the thinking to the men, Dear. Woman's job is to back them up, right or wrong, and they do it admirably.
Posted by Mitchell, Thursday, 28 January 2010 7:25:37 PM
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