Australia is reverting to type. It started as a penal colony. It is ending as a penal colony. Alas, no more “Crocodile Dundee” movies, no more kangaroo jokes, no more hanging out at the billabong, no more waltzing with Matilda, no more hoisting of a Foster’s.
How will the world survive?
ghostsniperDecember 3, 2021, 9:42 AM
Never had much inclination to have anything to do with down under, but I did buy some nice exotic wood from a chap down there a few years ago. The shipping was blue murder. I did kinda like Quigley Down Under though, and Mad Max, but never cared much for ACDC and all their screamin and yellin.
Casey KlahnDecember 3, 2021, 12:31 PM
Bet you never realized Mad Max was a goal statement.
Glad I was able to visit while on liberty in the 80s. Downed vast quantities of Swan Lager on an epic pub crawl, and learned that when invited for Sunday “tea,” you’ll be plied with more Swan Lager and all manner of eats. I don’t think I’ll be going back to visit.
My visit to OZ was around 1980. All the beaches were topless excepting the nude beaches. Train from Melbourne to Sydney fast and smooth, so smooth nearly no ripple on the surface of the beers I brought aboard and was drinking in my window seat. Private clubs had a dress code, no admittance if you weren’t wearing leather shoes. Local rodeos; St. John’s Ambulance hauling off damaged riders every 15 minutes (Lack of our western boot high heels resulted in many riders getting a foot through the stirrups and being dragged.). Manly, across the harbor from Sydney, ten thousand cockatoos come home to roost around six thirty, all hollering about their day to the other birds. Get in a wee bit of a blue in a pub and then drinks all around. Good times!
Nope, no desire to return to today’s OZ.
Casey KlahnDecember 3, 2021, 12:38 PM
Pubic Health, writ large.
I just watched some tweets with footage from the voluntary lockdown camp. I wonder if one can stream movies in there, like Schindler’s List, or The Pianist? Just a thought. I suppose if you’re there, without the Covid, and you catch it from the sickos down the street, that you have no recourse legally with the absolute state of Australia?
Imagine what the Nuremberg Trials that come after this event will be like. That great Aussie accent and dudes in the dock saying, “I was just following higher up’s orders, Mate!” What goes around, comes around.
Man. Maybe I do need that AR, after all. Just in case the ammo matches the tool, with black market supplies, as it were.
Boat GuyDecember 6, 2021, 9:57 AM
AR’s have their place but “…a Mauser rifle, 20 rounds of ammunition and the will to use it…” ( RIP Aaron Zelman) will do just as well
I spent about a month in Oz around 1986. Flew from Singapore, landed in Perth and made my way across from Adelaide to Melbourne to Sydney. The country looked like the Texas panhandle spread out 3,000 miles wide… with greenery on the edges. The Aussies reminded me of Texans, too. Loud, boisterous, hard drinking, fun loving, totally don’t give a shit types. These people are living their worst nightmare imaginable. How they ever turned in the guns is unbelievable. These are not the kinda people to do such a thing.
Mike AustinDecember 3, 2021, 3:59 PM
“The Aussies reminded me of Texans, too.” I lived in Texas for three years. I never—not once—confused them with Australians.
“These people are living their worst nightmare imaginable.” No they are not. Wait for what is coming.
“How they ever turned in the guns is unbelievable.” Why unbelievable? Most people are natural slaves and will do as they are directed by their government. Americans are different—vastly different.
“These are not the kinda people to do such a thing.” What? They turned in their guns did they not? Thus, they are exactly the kind of people who would “do such a thing”.
Why waste time worrying about slaves, about cattle, about geldings? They turned themselves in, Tom. Given the chance, they would turn you in as well.
ZaphodDecember 3, 2021, 3:55 PM
It’s not the country it was.
Spent a chunk of my growing up years there from mid 70s to early 90s. Looking back, the PC/Poz was beginning to make a dent by 1990 with the dawn of the Wimminz is Alwuz Right era. Feminism was only the fuse. Female Infallibility and Feminization of the professions was the bomb. The homos were just starting to dare to get in normal folks’ faces, too. A big change happened in the late 80s when there was a government policy change to encourage everyone to get a university degree. We all know what Universities do.
But if I had to guess what neutered Australia, it would be the introduction of no fault divorce in the early 70s. It takes a while for new societal trends to percolate and fully manifest their effects. By the 90s, men were consciously or subconsciously emasculated. The knowledge (one way or another) that at any moment you can be destroyed as a man by female / judicial fiat with zero recourse is, well, unmanning and I think it took the fight out of them. And believe me, the Sheilas are shockers.
Now when I go back for visits it’s a foreign country. And full of unvoted for mystery meat immigrants and ‘refugees’ who have no business being there. It’s toast. Vegemite optional.
A very fine explanation of what happened in Australia, Zaphod. I was going to go item by item after Austin’s scolding but I’ll just say read what Zaphod just wrote. It’s not the same country I visited in the mid-80’s. It’s toast.
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Who Am I? by Carl Sandburg
My head knocks against the stars.
My feet are on the hilltops.
My finger-tips are in the valleys and shores of universal life.
Down in the sounding foam of primal things I reach my hands and play with pebbles of destiny.
I have been to hell and back many times.
I know all about heaven, for I have talked with God.
I dabble in the blood and guts of the terrible.
I know the passionate seizure of beauty
And the marvelous rebellion of man at all signs reading “Keep Off.”
My name is Truth and I am the most elusive captive in the universe.
Duty, Beauty, Liberty, Country, Honor, Family, Faith — Plus a few simple easy to follow rules for guys
Men saw the stars at the edge of the sea
They thought great thoughts about liberty
Poets wrote down words that did fit
Writers wrote books
Thinkers thought about it
Take it where you find it
Can’t leave it alone
You will find a purpose
To carry it on
Mainly when you find it
Your heart will be strong
About it
Many’s the road I have walked upon
Many’s the hour between dusk and dawn
Many’s the time
Many’s the mile
I see it all now
Through the eyes of a child
Take it where you find it
Can’t leave it alone
You will find a purpose
To carry it on
Mainly when you find it
Your heart will be strong
About it
[Chorus]
Lost dreams and found dreams
In America
In America
In America
Lost dreams and found dreams
In America
In America
In America
And close your eyes
Leave it all for a while
Leave the world
And your worries behind
You will build on whatever is real
And wake up each day
To a new waking dream
Take it where you find it
Can’t leave it alone
You will find a purpose
To carry it on
Mainly when you find it
Your heart will be strong
About it
[Chorus]
Change, change come over
Change come over
Talkin’ about a change
Change, change
Change come over, now
Change, change, change come over
I’m gonna walk down the street
Until I see
My shining light
I’m gonna walk down the street
Until I see
My shining light
I’m gonna walk down the street
Until I see
My shining light
I’m gonna walk down the street
Until I see
My shining light
I see my light
See my light
See my shining light
I see my light
See my light
See my shining light
Just two of the millions yearning to visit Australia these days.
Gerard Van der Leun
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Australia is reverting to type. It started as a penal colony. It is ending as a penal colony. Alas, no more “Crocodile Dundee” movies, no more kangaroo jokes, no more hanging out at the billabong, no more waltzing with Matilda, no more hoisting of a Foster’s.
How will the world survive?
Never had much inclination to have anything to do with down under, but I did buy some nice exotic wood from a chap down there a few years ago. The shipping was blue murder. I did kinda like Quigley Down Under though, and Mad Max, but never cared much for ACDC and all their screamin and yellin.
Bet you never realized Mad Max was a goal statement.
Glad I was able to visit while on liberty in the 80s. Downed vast quantities of Swan Lager on an epic pub crawl, and learned that when invited for Sunday “tea,” you’ll be plied with more Swan Lager and all manner of eats. I don’t think I’ll be going back to visit.
My visit to OZ was around 1980. All the beaches were topless excepting the nude beaches. Train from Melbourne to Sydney fast and smooth, so smooth nearly no ripple on the surface of the beers I brought aboard and was drinking in my window seat. Private clubs had a dress code, no admittance if you weren’t wearing leather shoes. Local rodeos; St. John’s Ambulance hauling off damaged riders every 15 minutes (Lack of our western boot high heels resulted in many riders getting a foot through the stirrups and being dragged.). Manly, across the harbor from Sydney, ten thousand cockatoos come home to roost around six thirty, all hollering about their day to the other birds. Get in a wee bit of a blue in a pub and then drinks all around. Good times!
Nope, no desire to return to today’s OZ.
Pubic Health, writ large.
I just watched some tweets with footage from the voluntary lockdown camp. I wonder if one can stream movies in there, like Schindler’s List, or The Pianist? Just a thought. I suppose if you’re there, without the Covid, and you catch it from the sickos down the street, that you have no recourse legally with the absolute state of Australia?
Imagine what the Nuremberg Trials that come after this event will be like. That great Aussie accent and dudes in the dock saying, “I was just following higher up’s orders, Mate!” What goes around, comes around.
Man. Maybe I do need that AR, after all. Just in case the ammo matches the tool, with black market supplies, as it were.
AR’s have their place but “…a Mauser rifle, 20 rounds of ammunition and the will to use it…” ( RIP Aaron Zelman) will do just as well
I spent about a month in Oz around 1986. Flew from Singapore, landed in Perth and made my way across from Adelaide to Melbourne to Sydney. The country looked like the Texas panhandle spread out 3,000 miles wide… with greenery on the edges. The Aussies reminded me of Texans, too. Loud, boisterous, hard drinking, fun loving, totally don’t give a shit types. These people are living their worst nightmare imaginable. How they ever turned in the guns is unbelievable. These are not the kinda people to do such a thing.
“The Aussies reminded me of Texans, too.” I lived in Texas for three years. I never—not once—confused them with Australians.
“These people are living their worst nightmare imaginable.” No they are not. Wait for what is coming.
“How they ever turned in the guns is unbelievable.” Why unbelievable? Most people are natural slaves and will do as they are directed by their government. Americans are different—vastly different.
“These are not the kinda people to do such a thing.” What? They turned in their guns did they not? Thus, they are exactly the kind of people who would “do such a thing”.
Why waste time worrying about slaves, about cattle, about geldings? They turned themselves in, Tom. Given the chance, they would turn you in as well.
It’s not the country it was.
Spent a chunk of my growing up years there from mid 70s to early 90s. Looking back, the PC/Poz was beginning to make a dent by 1990 with the dawn of the Wimminz is Alwuz Right era. Feminism was only the fuse. Female Infallibility and Feminization of the professions was the bomb. The homos were just starting to dare to get in normal folks’ faces, too. A big change happened in the late 80s when there was a government policy change to encourage everyone to get a university degree. We all know what Universities do.
But if I had to guess what neutered Australia, it would be the introduction of no fault divorce in the early 70s. It takes a while for new societal trends to percolate and fully manifest their effects. By the 90s, men were consciously or subconsciously emasculated. The knowledge (one way or another) that at any moment you can be destroyed as a man by female / judicial fiat with zero recourse is, well, unmanning and I think it took the fight out of them. And believe me, the Sheilas are shockers.
Now when I go back for visits it’s a foreign country. And full of unvoted for mystery meat immigrants and ‘refugees’ who have no business being there. It’s toast. Vegemite optional.
A very fine explanation of what happened in Australia, Zaphod. I was going to go item by item after Austin’s scolding but I’ll just say read what Zaphod just wrote. It’s not the same country I visited in the mid-80’s. It’s toast.
Tom: I just read Zaphod. Very perceptive it is. And we agree about Australia: It’s toast.
And I promise not to scold for a week.