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Aussie, Aussie, Aussie…. Oi Oi Oi
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@inose:
And when you are bored one day and look up most evil people in history. Not a single American is named. War is war and yet war leaders are named. Where is the guy who wanted to bomb innocent jap lives named?Only difference is it is justified today. Probably in 300 years people will look up to them and say "man those Americans are evil.. But uhh wtf is an Australian? "
Not everyone labels like that. I don't find Australians racist at all (compared to Europe) and a celebration like Australia Day couldn't be had in Europe without riot police present.
Patriots love their country. Nationalists hate other countries. I find most Australians to be good-natured patriots.
St Paddy's Day is a much bigger celebration and does not have riot police present
I am sure many other European countries have national days without that kind of security in force
I'm talking about the kind of public gatherings you get on Australia day. Baffled me when I saw the size of the crowd, with no overly visible police presence.
No other country's flag has been co-opted by its white trash quite like ours. In the US, rednecks might fly the stars and stripes, but they're more likely to use alternatives like the confederate or 'don't tread on me' flag. It also doesn't help that our other iconic symbol, the southern cross, usually comes in chest tattoo form.
It is the way it is represented by the people who wear it as a cape and not fly it appropriately on a flag pole.
have pride, fly the little hand held ones, don't wear it as a cape, doing so is in fact the opposite of showing pride
everyone that has an Australian flag or shows Australian pride is labelled bogan trash
I disagree. No-one will call you a bogan for flying an Australian flag on your front lawn. Or wave a small one at a sporting event.
The bogan part is when you use the flag as clothing, or decoration for your esky.
Nope, a flag pole in your front lawn is pretty bogan too
That's a cashed up bogan
That's because its not Australian to wave the flag around and wear it as a cape like a nationalist boofhead.
It only started around 15 years ago as a way to generate sales by the company selling the flag.
Most of the idiots who wave the flag around are either;
- insecure xenophobic's trying to prove to themselves
- young people, using it as a symbol of rebellionComon flag cape, how insulting.
The only time Australians wave the flag around culturally is during sporting events.
Do they?
I think it's just the thongs and towels and capes etc that's bogan??
There is nothing "trashy" about patriotism and pride in one's country. People living in Australia, who are ashamed of our flag, are traitors and ought to have their citizenship revoked and be exiled or deported.
People like you, who fail to respect other people's point of view and would apparently prefer to live in a dictatorship, should have their citizenship revoked and be exiled or deported…
Blame the racist idiots who have appropriated those items as symbols of racist intolerance, then.
The Australian flag waving's been tarnished, by becoming affiliated with Reclaim Australia / Pauline Hansen / racists / bogans etc. This is unfortunate for the 'level headed' general Australians.
especially when all other races can show and wear their flag and spout off about their home country pride so much
I haven't seen this; the most flag waving I've seen in Australia were in the racist marches, by Australian racists (or 'nationalists' or whatever). Where have you seen flag waving other 'races'… or you mean countries?
Wow. It's a cape too!
That's so much more than just a flag. I hope the cape instructions come with an adapter.Is it halal?
That's how riots starts
Is it fat free?
Definitely laced with kosher…
made in china? kosher?
Is it organic?
100 % [fair-trade] Polyester
Good thing i live in a valley - Wont have to bother with taxi after oz day celebration now
Does come in any other colours?
Special edition Rainbow colours when gay marriage is legalised…
Check out the red version which is commonly used on ships. https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Australian_Red_Ensign
Great for placing it on the rear window of a bagged commie ute.
Fantastic writeup, Roary!
"Aussie, Aussie, Aussie…. Oi Oi Oi"
Come to a football game - we are so much more passionate & wittier with chants than at all other sports combined
Riiiiight. Do you mean Soccer?
'Cos Soccer isn't football in Australia.
It's soccer.I thought this thread was about the Aussie flag & bogans. As we all know bogans are insular, have low IQ & education.
So to educate, on planet earth, the game is called FOOTball.We live in Australia, "Football refers to either AFL ot Rugby depending on your state.
Football is a movable term that usually refers to a nation or state's major winter ball sport.
The Americans call their game "football", but we in Australia call it 'gridiron' which is another proper name for the sport and differentiates it from "football" in Australia (AFL or Rugby).
Many Europeans and others play soccer. They may well call it "football" in their own countries but it is known as soccer here to avoid confusion with proper Australian Football.
Soccer, like many other minor codes, is not called football in Australia or the USA.
It is called soccer.@King Tightarse:
Actually most media outlets refer to the game as FOOTball.
The game used to be referred to by another name, but thanks to less insularity over time, the game is called FOOTball.@Tafe: actually there is no logic. Logic would suggest the games he refers to should be called 'hand egg'. Of course, we shouldn't use bogan & logic in proximity…
This whole "in Australia" thing like that's important to absolutely anyone. We are a very small part of a big world.
Its football, even the newspapers here call it that now.
@Brianqpr: if they do, it's only when there is a picture above it for reference… :)
Thongs, jandals, flip-flops…
Doona, quilt, duvet…I'm sure there's more.
Much to the displeasure of soccer fans, until the NWO takes control, regional differences will continue to exist…
There have always been the detractors desperate to keep football/soccer down and I don't really know why. League, AFL, cricket and Rugby will always have their audience but certain people seem terrified football could sweep everything else aside. There is no other explanation for the sustained campaign against it.
That said I have seen a huge change over the last decade. I think it really started when Australia made the 2006 WC and did very well. People realised how huge it was globally. Thousands out watching big screens in the middle of the night in Melbourne etc. That will never happen during a cricket or rugby world cup. Australia's path to the WC is now quite easy so they should qualify pretty much every time. The revamp of the competition from the old ethnicity based clubs to the a league has also helped.
Football in much of the press these days, and its getting much bigger here. If you are in Sydney, get to the next Sydney Derby at Allianz stadium in February. You will see what a proper atmosphere is like.
Yep, AFL has the atmosphere of an art gallery by comparison
Sorry dude, it's football. ie Football Federation Australia, Sydney FC, Melbourne Victory FC, WSWanderers FC etc etc.
It's soccer here in Australia.
No you keep telling yourselves that.
You may hope and wish and pray and even wishfully name it football but you are talking to each other and no one else. Its soccer in Australia. You wanna call soccer football? Go to Europe.
Like Johnny Warren titled his famous book "Sheilas, Wogs and Poofters" (play soccer) an incomplete biography of Johnny Warren and soccer in Australia.
Johnny Warren knows. Its soccer.
http://pubimages.randomhouse.com.au/getimage.aspx?vid=474500…Lol…
I like 'soccer' too. It's just disheartening when the official Australian soccer federation is called… Football Federation Australia.
@inose:
They can call themselves any name they want.
They can choose 'Princes of the Intergalactic Sphere Heros" if they so desire. Doesn't make it true.
The name football goes to AFL or Rugby depending on the state.
The minor codes get called by their proper names:
Soccer, Gridiron, Gaelic football and Keepie Uppie and others.@King Tightarse:
It's football dude. Biggest GAME worldwide. Europe, Africa, South America, and it's getting bigger here too.
Soccer is the name eggball lovers call the great game.
dang out of negative votes… I'll come back tomorrow
Cronulla riot would barely rate in the race/religion hate events in pretty much any other country . There were despicable actions of wanton destruction from both sides of the fence that day. Sad how people like to cling onto it as some sort of one sided all encompassing defining portrait of Australians . Even sadder that displaying the flag has been twisted into some sort of racist act . I'll be wearing my Australia day shirt because I love Australia , The prejudiced will just have to suck it .
Not a place to discuss politics m8.
if people want to understand how the cronulla riot started, just go to a 'popular' beach on a hot day. and you'll see them just sitting in their car in groups with music blaring, eyeing off girls and staring down guys.
Come to think of it, they have similar mentality to what recently happened in Cologne. maybe its a cultural thing that we all need to accept living in a 'multicultural' country
How does that translate to beating up subcontinental gentelemen on the Cronulla line that day again?
I'm not exactly sure what conclusion you are trying to achieve?
For that one incident that happened to a subcontinental gentlemen, i can post a hundred articles of subcontinental thugs beating on other gentlemen. What about the recent death of an Australian kid in Brisbane, the kid got hit and killed for no apparent reason.
simply wrong place, wrong time for both incidents
It seems you (and other people) don't know or don't understand or choose to ignore for the sake of political correctness, is that the 'Cronulla riots' was a build up over years of harassment from a certain section of the community and the other group had had enough.
I think the inncinuation was that there was a small group of foreigners that started it by eyeing off the hogans but the hogans took it too far by attacking people that were totally innocent
Australia day is inherently racist - time to pick a new day, rather than the invasion and taking over of the natives.
"Britain established a colony at Sydney Cove on 26 January 1788 without consent and without
negotiating with the original inhabitants. In the following decades, other colonies were
established around the continent to which British convicts were exported and free settlers
and emancipists were granted title to lands in the colonies and surrounding areas."https://www.engineersaustralia.org.au/sites/default/files/sh…
haha, so if Britain didn't invade these lands, do you think this island would have been only inhabited by aboriginals in 2015?
On the 26th of january, i will celebrate Australia day and not feel sorry for what happened centenaries ago to people that are so long forgotten.
You're welcome to, but stop pushing your agenda onto others.
I don't condone some terrible things done, but that doesn't alter the fact that we came, we conquered, we raised the Union Jack and will continue to fly it.
I fail to see your point regarding if these lands would have only been inhabited by Aboriginals alone. This isn't the issue. Aboriginals migrated to Australia to, albeit 50,000 years a go.
Just because you get somewhere first does not mean it is yours and yours alone. However there should be negotiation over said land, and some form of agreement made.
You can choose to not feel sorry for what happened centenaries ago, however indigenous Australians do not get that choice. They are reminded of what they have lost and what they have been subjugated to every year, with people celebrating on white Australia day with their Australian flag. It's a little tasteless if you ask me.
Why not change the date to May 27th, the anniversary of the constitutional referendum that you know.. acknowledged Aboriginals as people. That was in 1967 by the way, not centenaries ago.
I suppose stating my opinion is pushing my agenda? Just like your opinion above was pushing yours.
I don't get this argument - I like Aboriginals and Aboriginal culture but I don't need to feel bad about stuff that happened over 200 years ago. The fact is a stronger force "invaded" and yes conquered the land. Lets face it if they didn't you and me wouldn't be alive today and in this wonderful country with all the opportunities we get.
Its just a fact of what happened - the same thing has happened all around the world in almost every country throughout history. China could do the same to us today and then celebrate "new Australia day" or whatever. Its all just a fact of life. It may not be fair but the strong conquer the weak since the dawn of time.
I understand your point of view, simply it would be a good gesture to change the day from something that divides us, to a date that unites us.
Whether people want to hear it or not January 26th is tainted. Indigenous Australians aren't just going to get over what they have gone through, and continue to go through. Just as in your example our great-grand-children wouldn't get over the massacre of our generation, and the taking of our children to assimilate to the Chinese culture.
There are better days out there that we can celebrate as Australians which would be more inclusive of indigenous Australians and better represent Australian values. I have little doubt that the date of Australia day will change, likely when we gain our independence.
We could learn a great deal from our neighbours who celebrate the signing of the Treaty of Waitangi, New Zealand's founding document signed in 1840 where Maori people were afforded the same rights as what Aboriginal people wouldn't be granted for another 127 years - that is to be considered as equal to there white counterparts.
I don't think so. I don't think many countries would tolerate flag burning.
Then you have Aussies like "fk multiculturalism" .. Lol.. sorry .. where was your flag made? and your car?
And your awesome kickass TV?
Getting goods imported isn't multiculturalism lol. I don't think they care about supply side economics of where their stuff is made. They just don't want the people that make it to be here.
ok…so how about the asian chefs who made their oily but tasty takeaways/yumcha? ;)
a racist might not like them being here.
Most of us, I believe, appreciate them, but don't intend giving up our own identity.Now you're comparing imported goods to local services? You're right though. Many of those ilk would be hypocrites in that regard if they chose to eat it…but people are irrational and still do many things that contradict their beliefs or what they say, aka cognitive dissonance.
just in time for invasion day yo!
You mean "Thank You Day" (saved from the stone age)
Aboriginals at the time were happy to be in the stone age, and had no desire to become farmers or labourers.
When waves of disease and dispossession spread, there was little cause for thanks.Modern Aboriginals OTOH benefit greatly from being a part of this new nation, and contribute little.
I suppose a thankyou day makes as much sense as a sorry day.Or we could all together as one people, pause a moment to thank those who built the nation, with great personal hardship.
been here 40,000 years. Invented a stick.
Other outcomes might have been colinisation by China or Indonesia who would have been more sensitive to the existing culture and it's retention
Thanks for the giggle!
I assume it'll need batteries to run, a fitness band to sync to, and a hard drive to store its data on?
I've got a room full of eneloops, charge HRs and seagate external drives ready to go.How cucked can you be that you get upset over the flag of your own country.
People like to have a symbol. You're saying most people since the beginning of civilisation are "cucked"??
Is it a Flag.. is it a cape…..???
oi oi oi
Bought one.
It can be useful when you go overseas and a good gift.Wearing the national flag as a cape is completely disrespectful and letting it touch the floor is also wrong.
Whilst cheap - I think this bargain is crap and shows you to be an instant boganProblem is most people havent the foggiest about how to treat a flag with respect.
http://www.australiaday.com.au/about/flag-flying-protocols/
https://www.itsanhonour.gov.au/symbols/flag.cfm
Dunno why schools don't seem to teach kids about how to respect the flag. Wearing it as a cape is certainly a big no no and letting it touch the dirt…
Whilst i agree and was taught how to treat the flag (scouts)….. we are aussies. Its in good fun (and wgere its not hammer them under law). Its 2016. Lighten up. If you are worried about or fail to relate to bogans when it comes to national pride i think thats pretty sad.
This is the aussie way. Take nothing seriously.
But maybe we should just take 1 thing seriously??
Wearing it as a cape is certainly a big no no
This is your interpretation, We bought capes last year for the kids but ofcourse didn't let the flag touch the ground.
I don't see anything wrong in that..and letting it touch the dirt…
Agree with that part too but wearing it as a cape doesn't necessarily mean it will touch the ground / dirt. Wearing it as thongs ensures it will.
http://www.australiaday.com.au/about/flag-flying-protocols/
https://www.itsanhonour.gov.au/symbols/flag.cfmBoth those links do not say anything about capes being ok or not.
You can't "wear the flag as thongs" unless you literally wrap your feet in a flag. The flag is a representation of the country; flag-themed thongs are not.
There are so many uninformed extremists here - its a flag. People have the right to buy and do with them as they feel. People can be proud of who they are and where they live without the threat of being labelled a bogan, racist or otherwise. Anyone that represents an extreme and judgemental view will do so with or without using our flag as a symbol.
ignoring etiquette makes you a bogan
one step closer to chaos!
Bought a dozen capes, get in! We're going to run around drunk on the grass so the capes don't get dirty:)
LOL, very funny………. kinda makes me laugh how people get all weird about flags and stuff. I suppose at least we are free enough in this country to be able to wear flags, burn flags, fly flags, respect flags,make bullshit political statements surrounded by flags, march around under a flag, die for a flag and even a little sexy time under a flag.
Ask yourself this, why does anyone want to fly the flag or wear the flag etc? It has meaning, thats why you parade it about, to show something.
I wasnt getting weird, just stating factual expectations surrounding the flag. If you respect the country enough to parade the flag, wear it or whatever, then you should understand that by doing so youve then gone and desecrated one of its symbols, its representation. Its makes as much sense as saying I love you Mum, then calling her a filthy skank. Youre free to do that too, but dont expect people who understand respect to think its cool or acceptable.
Fly a flag properly, sure. Wear it, wrap your nuts in some Aussie flag boxers or step on it as thongs, lay on it in the dirt or grass as a towel, nope. The flag should never touch the ground.
Mate, you sound unpatriotic. Go back to where you came from. Flying the flag is patriotic and Australian! I just got my 7 year old a southern cross tattoo cause I love me country so much. I was at centrelink the other day trying get emergency relief as me commodore got impounded by the police (for doing a sick burnout) and there were so many foreigner taking OUR jobs. Jimmy Barnes - legend.
End rant.
I bought three.
I don't care if people call me a bogan (I'm not). It's our national day to celebrate being lucky enough to live in this country. I'll fly these with pride.
Well said, it's amazing how we are made to feel bad for being Australian, just in case we upset some other cultures.
@rogsamsy:
No, the US military dropped the atom bombs on Japan, to try and end the war. They dropped one, didn't work… so they dropped another one, and they finally surrendered. Took two, for their leaders to get off their high horse.
The Japanese suffered no doubt… but it was their actions (their government) that lead to the deaths of millions in Asia, America, Australia and ultimately, themselves.
As you can tell, I don't buy that "We were victims" bs by the Japanese right-wing. Bottom line: War is bad, innocent people die :P