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Off-Topic Discussion => General Discussion => Topic started by: Black Wolf on January 25, 2005, 11:53:52 pm
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Today is the day we celebrate the founding of our great nation by drinking, swimming, barbequing and watching as things blow up prettily.
Happy Australia Day to all the relevants. :nod:
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Not to mention breaking the law, getting convicted and being shipped off to a remote island. So celebrate your heritage: steal something.
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:wakka:
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huzzah!
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Originally posted by Rictor
Not to mention breaking the law, getting convicted and being shipped off to a remote island. So celebrate your heritage: steal something.
:nervous: i didn't steal nothing
*note the sig
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Originally posted by Black Wolf
Today is the day we celebrate the founding of our great nation by drinking, swimming, barbequing and watching as things blow up prettily.
Isnt that what you aussies do every day?
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your only right about the drinking part scuddie
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Originally posted by Scuddie
Isnt that what you aussies do every day?
Mostly, though we don't get to blow things up as often as I'd like.
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yay! i love public holidays! no school!!!!! :D:D:D:D:D
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*eye-twitches at the stereotypes*
Public holidays make all the shops shut. Damn you Australia Day! *shakes fist*
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muhahahah. (btw some shops are still open, prolly trying to make money of meat products and beer :D)
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Kind of like 4th of July?
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lol.
My Australia days been pretty ****house though...
I celebrated by having fish and chips for lunch.
And now that I'm reminded, I might go start on some Bundy rum or port...
@Lib = But better ;)
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Yeah its better coz we're not celebrating the end a war :D
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Wasn't Australia a penal colony originally, named after a ship in Star Trek? :p
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wut the???? yeah but which colony?
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Wasn't America a colony of Britain but are now rebels and kill each other? :p
And if you look at our flag only a quater of us are still true to the commenwealth... :p
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http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Botany_Bay
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Originally posted by Grug
Wasn't America a colony of Britain but are now rebels and kill each other? :p
And if you look at our flag only a quater of us are still true to the commenwealth... :p
*Checks out flag* :lol: Indeed. What do the stars represent then? :D
*Hopes looking at the Australian flag doesn't give him an FBI record*
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Umm the points of the big one represents the states (and teritories) of Australia, and the other 5 stars form the southen cross which can be seen in the southen hemisphere's night sky.
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The cross is the Southern Cross, obviously. The other star is the Commonwealth Star - it has seven points, one for each state, and one for all the various Territories.
*Is waiting for the evening to set up the barbie and bust out the Bundy* :D
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Care to share that Bundy? cause I just discovered I'm all out... :(
Where abouts do you live?
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Northam, but I'm in Perth for Uni.
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well im guessing somewhere in Western Australia.
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Perth!
Damn, I'm in Brissy.
I might still be able to make it though, you guys are a few hours behind yeah?
Edit: *notes Location* Don't be a smartass Pilot... :p
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hey i live in Brisbane aswell.
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3 Presently. Daylight savings and suchlike. You might want to start now though, or it'll be pretty tight.
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*Chucks swag on back and starts running towards sunset.* :p
Really?
1. Where abouts?
2. Why you called Pilot of US then? :p
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1. ummm, well i live in a suburb called Lawnton. Think it's in the north of brisbane.
2. Because i couldnt fit RAAF.
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I live in Caboolture. Not 40min drive from Lawnton.
We'll have to catch up one day! Meet you at the pub. :)
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Ummmmm, well you see the problem is that im not exactly sure if im currently old enough to be able to enter a pub.
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Ohh, ok how old are you then?
Else we could meet up at Chermside one day and catch a movie and hang out at EB :p
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im 15. I wonder if Team America is still showing?
Dunno when ill be free. Just started 11 and it's hell!
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hehehe.
One day though.
All the aussies from HLP and other assorted groups should all get together and have a sorta geek convention.
Or maybe we could all just go out get pissed and aim to pick up some chicks.
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Originally posted by Grug
Blah Blah Blah...
Or maybe we could all just go out get pissed and aim to pick up some chicks.
:nod:
Trip to Melbourne for the Grand Final? :D
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I like the Blah blah blah part :p
How about we all goto see the 2nd state of Origin
GO THE MAROONS!
-says grug the retard in his slightly comotose state
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As I recall, only a small portion of Oz was ever a penal colony. The Americas saw far more use in that regard because they were so much closer.
Of course, it wasn't really very many truly hardened criminals in the first place, since they were usually hung or shot. It was the petty thieves and debtors and the like. A grand british psuedo-eugenics project to ensure that they would have as small a gene pool as possible.
Sure explains Charles.
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Holy crap, you're alive.
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It was Georgia that was used as penal colony. Virginia was colonized by treasure seekers who were not too bright, Massachusetts by crazy religious folks until everyone realized it was stupid, the rest of New England by slightly deviant crazy religious people from Massachusetts Maryland by Catholics, Pennsylvania as a refuge from religious persecution (for the most part), the Carolinas by a few rich people, and New York by the Dutch. Not quite sure where the colonists for New Jersey came from....