Merry Christmas Thread

[BruceS]

Right behind you Ron.
What makes me laugh is some say "we're so lucky we live in a democracy" where the majority 'rules'.
OK, majority of political votes may be but when it comes to "minority groups" they get to win & impose their views on the majority.
How can that be right?
I shudder every time I here cricket commentators call batsmen "batters" ........... maybe they're making fritters out of batter? Got me confused!!

[Coolabah1au]

Maybe the commentators are woke people too [emoji848]


Sent from my iPhone using Tapatalk

[Greynomad]

… and where aborigines (no matter how pale their skin) can call themselves “blackfellas”, but us caucasians can’t call ourselves “whitefellas” because that identifies us as separate from the former, and our national anthem was changed to say “… we are one and free.” So by using the term we are discriminating against the blackfellas … a term caucasians are not allowed to use because it is also discriminatory.

That’s “woke”.

[Keith Morris]

"tanks" here---
I cant remember if I posted my Xmas wishes so here goes---
HAVE A GREAT CHRISTMAS EVERYONE AND BE AROUND FOR A WEALTHY NEW YEAR.
Stay relatively sober and in control, or whatever tickles your fancy..
(be nice Dot, remember there may be children reading the posts)
Keith

[Macca]

Please all have a safe, healthy, merry Christmas with your families.

[Macca]

Please all have a safe, healthy, merry Christmas with your families.

[T1 Terry]

… and where aborigines (no matter how pale their skin) can call themselves “blackfellas”, but us caucasians can’t call ourselves “whitefellas” because that identifies us as separate from the former, and our national anthem was changed to say “… we are one and free.” So by using the term we are discriminating against the blackfellas … a term caucasians are not allowed to use because it is also discriminatory.

That’s “woke”.

Maybe we can call ourselves second nation people ...... at least we can sort of understand the language from other mobs of second nation people ..... still can't figure where they get off calling themselves first nation people yet there is a different language for each mob that the other mobs can't understand .... so they use the second nation people's language to communicate with other mobs.
No doubt this will get the heckles up among those with a guilty conscious about something their ancestors did ...... but so be it .... maybe a "please explain" moment me thinks .....

T1 Terry

[Noggins]

Well, being my usual cynical self I worked out how that came about using the Pascoe slide rule of feasibility where according to him there was a well-developed civilisation here when the first white settlers arrived.

The First Nations must have had a well developed United Nations ( F N ), well in advance of the western one that was ( copied ? ) developed a couple of hundred years later.

The shock of the first settlers, who I might add, were selectively picked by a panel of Britain's best Magistrates, had such a profound effect on their( original, First nations ) UN that they seemingly forgot how they all lived peacefully together, and traded all that serenity for flour, sugar and bakky, as well as the odd blanket and things like that.
It seems that all that new affluence had a severely disruptive effect and then someone started all the infighting the best of families seem to suffer from.
That started a round of tribal wars that are still continuing today.
It took them all of a couple of hundred years to recall all the wonderful lifestyles of their ancestors and to reform their united First Nations group, and then advise us current settlers of how wonderful their way of living was compared to the later group of settlers.
I say Later Group of Settlers because history, written history that is, not stories passed down from some dream, clearly demonstrated how they systematically wiped out the settlers before them.
Such as the Pygmy tribes of Far North Qld, recorded and photographed by the missionaries.
I won't go into the Darien People or Mongo Man as we don't have any written proof of their lifestyles.

So T1, if we're to call ourselves anything, using recorded history, we're the Third Nation People, you know, the ones that support the second nations people and are still looking for survivors of the First People before the second tribe has wiped them from history..

[Greynomad]

"If the present sits in judgement of the past, we lose the future."
-Winston Churchill.

No guilt over our ancestors' beliefs or actions re the First (or Second?) Nations people.

That was then, this is now.

(Although I think they should consult a dictionary for the meaning of 'Nation': "People of the same blood and having the same language" – my emphasis – Nutall's Concise Standard Dictionary of the English Language)

[Riverlander]

Merry Christmas everyone from Loxton.

unnamed.jpg

Cheers John and Faye