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The antipodean adventures of Mark Steyn! Concluding points: “What a great country. Why isn’t it in the G8 and a permanent member of the Security Council?”
What a great country. Why isn’t it in the G8 and a permanent member of the Security Council?
Screw both those overrated institutions. We should all just set up an “Anglosphere cooperation council” with the US, UK, Australia and maybe India as senior members with Canada, New Zealand and Ireland as associate members.
Then all we have to do is get the Aussies to drive on the right side of the road and stop eating beets on their burgers (kidding, kidding).
Love the image of Mark as “Darth Sidious” BTW, which Star Wars character should we compare to Tim?
re: #4. The Republic of Ireland is pathetically leftist. Too many years as a hobbled client state, followed by too many years on the EU dole, has left them thoroughly anti-American and anti-West. They recently aquitted vandals that attacked American aircraft sitting on the tarmac at Shannon airport. Most of my relatives there are all too typical examples of this
I include India in the anglosphere. Canada is only an asociate member because of the isolationist French component.
Posted by Wimpy Canadian on 2006 08 30 at 10:58 AM • permalinkI’m talking to you Ontario and Quebec.
We’re not all bad.
8=^(Posted by andycanuck on 2006 08 30 at 11:37 AM • permalinkWhen I return Tim and his charming missus’s hospitality on their next trip to North America, we’ll relive those wild Aussie nights by having a late piece of pie at my local diner (last orders 5.30pm) and then turning in after a mug of hot chocolate and a rerun of “Murder She Wrote”.
Why, Tim, I didn’t know you have a charming missus. Er, I mean I didn’t know there was a Mrs. Tim (I’m sure any missus of Tim’s would be charming).
Posted by Kyda Sylvester on 2006 08 30 at 11:52 AM • permalinkNo, you’re right, 91B30, Ontario sucks.
http://tinyurl.com/o978r
8==^(Posted by andycanuck on 2006 08 30 at 11:57 AM • permalinkAndy-well in all fairness we have plenty of the same brand of nuts south of the border as well. I’d laugh at them, but the other day there was a 9/11 documentary on CourtTV and they interviewed one of the parents who had talked to his kid on one of the flights that hit the WTC. “We’re flying way too low,” the young man had told his dad. “I think they are going to fly the plane into a building.”
“Don’t worry dad, it will be quick.”
Aussies drive on the left side of the road?
And Aussies eat beets on their hamburgers?
(sits in shocked silence)
Posted by wronwright on 2006 08 30 at 12:22 PM • permalinkYou can have my beetroot when you prise it from my cold dead hamburger.
Posted by Pedro the Ignorant on 2006 08 30 at 01:00 PM • permalink#9 You can imagine my reaction when a relative from County Coraigh (Cork) remarked upon the loss of ten Marines in Fallujah as ” I see that the Yanks aren’t doing as well as they had thought”. Another time they joked about the appalling loss of life following Katrina.
I wouldn’t extend associate membership. And it pains me to say that.
Having lived and worked on both sides of theTasman I’ll have to reply to the slur on NZ.
NZ is really no more lefty than Australia is. Yes it has a Labour Government but such things are not unknown in Australia, especially at the state level.
There is a strong streak of isolationism here but at the end of the day people still see themselves as part of the"English speaking world” so much so that half the population live in Australia or England.
Finally despite the efforts of Helen and co Australia is far more tax, rule, regulation and public servant ridden than NZ is. There are quite a few things in NZ that you are allowed to do in NZ that are verboten in Australia.
Poor 1.618—she’ll be simply crushed to learn of Mrs. Tim.
Posted by MentalFloss on 2006 08 30 at 04:20 PM • permalink#25 chrisgo
The beetroot usually ends up down the front of my white shirt.Well…. of course. That’s where it’s supposed to go.
As to the septics who find beetroot in burgers repugnant - I’ve said this before in these columns. Burger off! There are few things that this country will go to war for and one of ‘ems the preservation of the culinary masterpiece of having beetroot in our hamburgers.
Posted by Stop Continental Drift! on 2006 08 30 at 06:21 PM • permalinkI suppose that Ireland resents all the money and support it recieved from the US. Hatred seems to be the standard reaction to altruisms presumptions. America faces it all over the world.
How could anyone be surprised that Mr. Tim has a mizzus and that she’s nice? Mr. Tim’s aren’t a dime a dozen, you know. Of course he’d be snatched up!
I do worry about crash, though. I hope this doesn’t mean that she ceases granting her sparkles.
Thwack! Hurls several slices of beetroot at RebeccaH. First salvo in the Great Beetroot War of ‘06.
Posted by Stop Continental Drift! on 2006 08 30 at 06:54 PM • permalinkIf Australia wants on to the Security Council, we can give you a great price on a Trident sub and a couple CV(N)‘s…
Posted by richard mcenroe on 2006 08 30 at 08:18 PM • permalink#38 I wish Australia was more monocultural, parochial, small-town. The lack of the first two is due to left-wing fancies like multiculturalism and cultural relativism. Mind you the Howard govt is jumping over itself to let more immigrants in.
Posted by russell2pi on 2006 08 30 at 09:18 PM • permalinkWhen John Howard recently visited the US to talk to George W, and then hastened to Beijing to talk to the Chinese about North Korea, the importance of his visits scarcely received a mention in our media. Instead he was criticised for his spending on overseas trips.
Provincial, us?
Posted by Margos Maid on 2006 08 31 at 02:02 AM • permalinkI will leave it to my Aussie mates to explain the concept of “a burger with the lot”.
Beetroot is just the beginning…go on, tell ‘em!
Posted by MentalFloss on 2006 08 31 at 04:59 AM • permalinkRebeccaH, I have seized your tomato, dill pickles, and two slices of onion and put them in the burger. I add a fried egg, bacon, lettuce (iceberg only) more beetroot and then vainly try to clamp the top part of the roll on top. Wrap tightly in plastic film so the juices from the filling makes part of the bun go soggy and when you open it, the whole lot springs open depositing said beetroot and fried egg down your front.
There. A perfect burger as made by beach-side milkbars all over coastal Australia. I wonder why they don’t put all that on the Aust Tourism ads?
Posted by Stop Continental Drift! on 2006 08 31 at 05:48 AM • permalink#43 SCD. Damn you, man. Now I want a burger!
I looooove beetroot on my hamburgers. And cheese. And tomato, and lettuce and egg, and onion, but not the pineapple.
Posted by Nilknarf Arbed on 2006 08 31 at 07:08 AM • permalinkHuh? You don’t like the “tropicana”?
How about a “Sweetheart” (as in the 5m crodile caught in the harbour) like they used to serve at the Mindil markets in Darwin - replace the beef patty with shredded prawn meat, ditch the pickles and the beetroot (shudder) and add mango and ground chili.
An acquired taste.
Posted by Stop Continental Drift! on 2006 08 31 at 07:28 AM • permalinkMadam, you continue to insult our Nation’s culinary heritage!
I demand satisfaction and your being of the fair sex be damned!
Its cream pies# at 10 paces at dawn.
# Aussie version: Spread Vegemite liberally on the crust before adding the cream
[/Colonel Blimp]
Posted by Stop Continental Drift! on 2006 09 01 at 03:52 AM • permalink
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I agree, but then OZ, you would be just as disgusted with the bullshit, as an insider going on in each of these organizations, as you are NOW, without the hassle of actually having to be present.
Of course if this became reality, The OZ representative(s), in typical blunt Australian fashion, could actually inquire eyeball to eyeball….‘Pray tell, Exactly what in the fuck are you trying to say?’
But to me, the below is the money quote….
Governor-General all the way up to His Excellency the Tim of Blair.