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Whoa! Almost out of time to run an Australia Day post, featuring our chilling gang colours:
Fear us, world! Apologies for not posting earlier; work, etc.
UPDATE. Not everybody enjoyed Australia Day. Keith Mobbs, for example, promised to spend the day with “the nearest Aboriginal group, mourning the invasion of their land”:
As a “true, caring Australian”, how can Keith describe himself as an “Australian”? He’s nothing but the descendent of invaders, and should go back to where he belongs.
(Via Andrew H.)
UPDATE II. Further frightening flaggery via Andrew Bolt:
- Can someone please confiscate her flagPosted by Rachel Corrie’s Flatmate on 2007 01 26 at 08:46 AM • permalink
- I’ve always disagreed with those pathetic leftoids who want to remove the union jack – now I’m not so sure!!Posted by Vincent Gerome on 2007 01 26 at 08:46 AM • permalink
- From ‘the australia day poem’ at the australian
Our multi tribal nation
further resisted cultural assimilation
yet we lived together all year without a war.
Progressive thought stopped
in a mucus of leftwing pride.
Political correctness was diagnosed
as a compulsive obsessive disorder.
It continued unabated
hating itself for knowing its denial.Phillip Adams emerged from a long dry drunk
parading as a humanist genius
from a heartfelt, authentic, softleft
post modern reasonableness.
He demanded the decriminalization of drugsThe ecological aborigine bit the dust
and the noble savage was filled with lust.
Great wealth has come from the ambit claim
the dispossessed have harvested
a massive paddock sewn with shame
and the intellectual vanity of a Jesuit priest.hope everyone had a bloody bonza day
Posted by eeniemeenie on 2007 01 26 at 08:48 AM • permalink
- More …ummm…flag bearers here:Posted by Art Vandelay on 2007 01 26 at 08:53 AM • permalink
- UNCOVERED MEAT!Posted by Rittenhouse on 2007 01 26 at 09:03 AM • permalink
Apologies for not posting earlier
Easy to say.
Unless I see a big sheets’n towels “SORRY” on the Google photo, I’ll have difficulty in convincing myself of your sincerity.
Posted by Jack from Montreal on 2007 01 26 at 09:30 AM • permalink
- Australia Day, what does it all mean? Yeah I’m working on what it all means, not done yet, will be adding as I go along, because we need to know what it all means, we need to find our identity!
I don’t want to chuck a Lleyton Hewitt or anything, but it’s frustrating at times.
Posted by Jamie-Reardon on 2007 01 26 at 09:32 AM • permalink
- Who the fuck is Kieth Mobbs, anyway?
One should never cease asking our first nations bothers and sisters WTF would have happened to them if our pommy antecedents hadn’t arrived here first.
It would have been the french, dutch, belgians or germans. Possibly japs, russians or chinese.
One thing’s for sure, they wouldn’t be frolicking in their fucking pristine wilderness.
SORRY??? FUCK NO
Posted by Jack from Montreal on 2007 01 26 at 09:46 AM • permalink
- Good effort, Jamie.
Most of the rest of us are too full of lamb chops and cold beer to cogitate too deeply.
Except for the kids, of course, they are full of lolly water, ice cream and burnt snags.
“Gang colours” waved proudly over Chez Pedro until sundown, then lowered respectfully at last light as per flag protocol.
Happy ‘Straya Day, all.
Posted by Pedro the Ignorant on 2007 01 26 at 09:49 AM • permalink
- Cheers Pedro. I haven’t said nothing about Mark Philippoussis yet, so it’s incomplete, he’s gotta cop a serve, otherwise I will have to delete it all.Posted by Jamie-Reardon on 2007 01 26 at 09:54 AM • permalink
- He also writes to the green left weakly
Found a few others but nothing too amusing. Sad little man wants a reason to feel bad, apart from having a brain made of rancid potato peelings…
Posted by thefrollickingmole on 2007 01 26 at 10:01 AM • permalink
- Silly bugger even puts his email on this link. Anyone have a “FBI”.com address?Posted by thefrollickingmole on 2007 01 26 at 10:03 AM • permalink
- It’s okay I got the bastard.Posted by Jamie-Reardon on 2007 01 26 at 10:07 AM • permalink
- Look, I am not fond of gazing at female flesh like the next strange celibate chap, but this moonbattery of this fellow is very silly indeed.
I celebrated this day heartily, without the stuff from the first post, but with a full sense of appreciation, joy and triumph.
Long live Australia.
Posted by Simon Darkshade on 2007 01 26 at 10:14 AM • permalink
- Hmmm.
Well I’m definitely in favor of supporting nations that produce well developed flag-carriers like the ones in the photo.
Y’all got my vote.
Posted by memomachine on 2007 01 26 at 10:18 AM • permalink
- Get a dog up ya!. Strangely, that isn’t an insult. It’s one of those days when too much beer is barely enough.Posted by Daniel San on 2007 01 26 at 10:19 AM • permalink
- Happy Australia Day, Southrons!
And never underestimate the earth-shattering power of Australian moonbats.
Posted by Ken Summers on 2007 01 26 at 10:39 AM • permalink
- Mobbs is a typical example of a PC fool who despises the nation we have created here. Sure, it’s not perfect but it’s damn close to the best in the world, if not the best.
What’s the bet that he doesn’t actually know anyone with aboriginal ancestry? I know quite a few and it is fucking insulting to assume that they all “mourn” the fact that they are living in the modern world.
Most Australians would desperately like to improve the lot of Aboriginees who are still living in squalor, mainly in remote communities. But we recognise that the problem is not easy to solve. It needs a lot of time and massive cultural change – including stable domestic arrangements, taking responsibility and valuing the education of children.
Most urban people people of Aboriginal descent are not too different to the rest of us. They are mostly proud of their heritage but they basically want the same things that we all do. To say that the European invasion (eventually) expanded the horizons of Aboriginal people is an understatement, to say the least! Unlike Mobbs, they generally don’t piss and moan on about the “invasion”.
- I am hoping you all had a happy Australia Day! I too will drink a glass of Australian wine in your honor.
If God, Gaia, fate, or whatever your personal belief system did not make me born American, I would have wanted to be born Australian—you must love a country where the most popular patriotic song is about a guy who steals a sheep then commits suicide rather than get arrested!
Apologies for not posting earlier
Oh, yeah? Where’s the Compassionate Head Tilt™, Tim?
Otherwise……happy Australia Day, denizens of Oz!
Posted by The_Real_JeffS on 2007 01 26 at 11:36 AM • permalink
- I’ll never drink again…
Ahhh…. that brings back memories.
Of, ah, last week…the week, uh, before that…and, um, yeah, now.
Posted by Jamie-Reardon on 2007 01 26 at 11:40 AM • permalink
- I don’t think he actually carried out his Invasion day ritual, as promised. And if he did, how was he recognised as ‘Someone Not Indigenous, But Who Really Deserved To Be Here’?Posted by boxofmatches on 2007 01 26 at 11:42 AM • permalink
- Well they sure have me seeing stars.
From the credit where credit is due dept. He got just about the whole lefty mantra and mindset distilled into one paragraph. I, for one, am grateful for that.
He is whinning about something that was “council-decreed”? Wouldn’t that be sufficient grounds for taking away his lefty in good standing card? Just asking.
- There’s a gang in Australia called the Hooters? (Or possibly the Jugs?) Who knew? And can I open a branch in Canada?Posted by andycanuck on 2007 01 26 at 12:11 PM • permalink
- Congratulations!
Long live Australia!
Elizabeth
Imperial KeeperPosted by Elizabeth Imperial Keeper on 2007 01 26 at 12:12 PM • permalink
- Happy Australia Day, Mr Blair and Antipodean Blairites! I’ll be cracking open a bottle of VB in your honor (when I’m done with work).
Cheers! :^)
Posted by Spiny Norman on 2007 01 26 at 12:14 PM • permalink
- In photo #3 there’s a young lady whose Union Jack brassiere is green and yellow instead of red and blue, which puzzles me. Is this one of those optical-illusion tricks? That is, the kind where you stare at it for a good solid minute and then look away, at which point you will “see’’ the flag in the correct colors?
Anyway, judging from the photos, you’ve recovered from your Gorebal-warming cold snap and are back to having a real summer. Enjoy.
Posted by Sonetka’s Mom on 2007 01 26 at 12:51 PM • permalink
- Maybe the one in the green suit is an Italian immigrant.
Happy Australia day! Hilaly can stay in Egypt!
Posted by The Sanity Inspector on 2007 01 26 at 02:47 PM • permalink
- Everyone be sure to check out the link in #28. It’s not every day you get to see a compassionate continent-tilt.Posted by Paul Zrimsek on 2007 01 26 at 03:28 PM • permalink
- Just returned to the US Tuesday from my first-ever, all-too-brief visit to your fair land. Mrs. Pooh and I had a marvelous time, and wish all and sundry a happy belated Australia Day. It’s a pity Mr. Mobbs wasn’t with us on our seaplane flight. I would have liked to confirm our altitude (nominally 1,000 feet) by measuring the time it would have taken him to complete a triple twisting half gainer off Manly Beach.
Great people. Great wine. Great beer (Little Creatures). Great display of gang colors. Thanks to all, and we will be back.
<salutes>
- I’ve seen the cricketers referred to as “baggy greens” but that doesn’t seem to apply here.Posted by Paul Zrimsek on 2007 01 26 at 04:52 PM • permalink
- A great Australia Day – lamb chops, cold beer, family and a flogging of the Poms at cricket.
You bloody beauty.
Posted by Stop Continental Drift! on 2007 01 26 at 05:13 PM • permalink
- Green and Gold are Australia’s National Colours– taken from the floral emblem of Australia, the Golden Wattle.
(I had a different post but the power went off, maybe a tree down on the wires from the tornado yesterday!)
- At some stage I think we in Oz have to sort out our ‘national colours’ bit.
Flag is red, white blue.
For sports its green & gold.No harm in having both but wouldn’t it be easier if they were the same? Trying to think of another situation when national sporting colours different from the flag. Kiwis come readily to mind. Any others?
Posted by Stop Continental Drift! on 2007 01 26 at 06:29 PM • permalink
- #65 SCD
We can’t have a green flag. Green is the colour of Islam. OK?
Unless it’s the Boxing Kangaroo (read for the history of the Boxing Kangaroo, very interesting!). Most will remember it from the 80’s when Australia won the America’s Cup!
Not until we get our branch in Tucson!
Maybe we can arrange a rumble, yojimbo, to see who’s best? But in Jell-O or chocolate pudding?
And Stop Continental Drift, Canadian international teams do wear red and white, as in our current flag, but with black added.
Posted by andycanuck on 2007 01 26 at 07:25 PM • permalink
In photo #3 there’s a young lady whose Union Jack brassiere is green and yellow instead of red and blue, which puzzles me. Is this one of those optical-illusion tricks? That is, the kind where you stare at it for a good solid minute and then look away, at which point you will “see’’ the flag in the correct colors?
That was what I thought at first, too. However, after spending about an hour checking that out (purely in the interests of science, of course), I can say “no”. The green comes out as reddish, and the yellow comes out as blue, the reverse of the Union Jack. Using the “negative” effect of any graphics program verifies that.
- 219 years ago, Britain planted a seed on the far side of the world. Today, any rational person can look around and make only one conclusion. We and our ancestors have created a truly great nation and society in which to live.
Onya Sonya!
And a note to all our anglosphere friends who have left their regards here. Thanks mates! Don’t doubt for a minute that we understand who our family is.
The anglosphere is the brightest light in a dark world.
- Happy Australia Day! Altho I must point in the interest of flag etiquette that several of those young ladies, though meaning well, are displaying flags that are entirely too large for the venue…Posted by richard mcenroe on 2007 01 26 at 09:02 PM • permalink
- God, I love Australia. Happy Australia Day, mates, and raise a pint to yourselves. You’ve earned it.Posted by Spectre765 on 2007 01 26 at 09:27 PM • permalink
- That first patriotic pic…. now, should I go for left or right.Posted by Wimpy Canadian on 2007 01 26 at 09:48 PM • permalink
- Hey, I hope y’all turn up for Canada Day on July 1st now, you hear.Posted by Wimpy Canadian on 2007 01 26 at 10:00 PM • permalink
- In our local paper. The Kalgoorlie miner a local state pollie got himself firmly abused by the public and especialy returned servicemen when he tried to inject a bit of “Free Hicks” crap into his Australia day speech.
Unfortunately the Kalgoorlie miner doesnt have an on line version but the 4 comments they had from RSL blokes were all basicly “He should have been shot, let him rot”.That just cost him a plethora of votes up here, I only hope Krudd tries the same line.
Posted by thefrollickingmole on 2007 01 26 at 10:31 PM • permalink
- # 78 thats a common misconception. flags of course actually have two sides. so we are merely seeing the reverse ie a flag on a poll moving from left to right.
incidentally ozzie national colours were blue and gold until bob hawke changed them to green and gold forgetting that south africa already used these colours. (they being banned at the time from most international sport).
Posted by Astonished on 2007 01 27 at 12:20 AM • permalink
- Is it possible that Islamist terrorist who want to destroy Western freedoms just, y’know, haven’t seen these pictures yet?Posted by Shaky Barnes on 2007 01 27 at 12:48 AM • permalink
- Did anyone else here see the fireworks in Sydney down at Darling Harbour?
They were just wonderful
I’ve never seen so many flags around – there must be some high level teeth grinding going on by those elitists who hate the idea of this – patriotism – a dirty word for them
I thought is was great but then again I’m an ignorant Lib voting Westie
Posted by aussiemagpie on 2007 01 27 at 01:24 AM • permalink
- God has provided.
We Aussie men will have to make do with such women folk when we replenish the earth following the coming catastrophe.
Tough, but someone has to do it.Gotta say, I was amazed at the display of patriotism here, especially by the young people!
I saw a guy proudly showing his three year old an Aussie flag.
I saw groups of young people all draped in the Aussie flag, proudly walking around and singing, carrying on.
Man, I haven’t seen such patriotism on display in Sydney, well, ever.
Great Australia day.The next generation is tough and patriotic.
Bloody marvellous!
- Mike_W—that’s a part of this a lot of folks overlook. The ‘peacelovers’ aren’t reproducing.Posted by richard mcenroe on 2007 01 27 at 03:44 PM • permalink
- #65 S.C.D.-
The Italian soccer team is the “Azurri”, but of course there is no blue in their flag.
I must also say, Australia never looked so good. Happy day to all down under!
Posted by Tex Lovera on 2007 01 27 at 04:09 PM • permalink
- HAPPY AUSTRALIA DAY (belated)!!!
Just back from personal growth retreat, this is the first thing I read–& like RebeccaH, my dad was dreaming of the Land Down Under, too. Mum nixed that particular move (maybe the only time), so we went to the Great White North instead. I feel quite a kinship & am proud to drink your health (with sparkling cider, so no hangover, sorry).
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