Happy Australia Day....

[vogue]

Little late I know but what do Australians do on their national day off?

 

[Daemon]

Seems a bit crass to celebrate the day with festivities imo

 

[social]

It's great being back in Australia after many years away but one thing that ****s me to tears is how ridiculously PC the country has become

If we moved Australia Day to 1 January (i.e. anniversary of federation), I guarantee that someone would object on the basis that not everyone had equal rights at that time

 

[sledger]

Invasion day.

 

[Burgey]

Traveling from vineyards back home, listening to the hottest 100 then drinking a lot of vodka while playing pool in the rumpus room

#straya

 

[Magrat Garlick]

sounds fun (language warning, obv)

 

[Dan]

The only positives to Australia Day are the Hottest 100, the cricket and the penalty rates. Which, admittedly, is more than ANZAC Day has.

Yeah, not a fan of nationalism at all.

 

[Spikey]

the hottest 100 sucks,

 

[social]

The only positives to Australia Day are the Hottest 100, the cricket and the penalty rates. Which, admittedly, is more than ANZAC Day has.

Yeah, not a fan of nationalism at all.

Yeah, the ANZACs did nothing for us at all

FMD

 

[auditor]

Happy people in Australia .... in Moscow is now 20 degrees cold

 

[watson]

A little bit of Nationalism is good for the country's soul as long as it's not taken to extreme. Beats the narrowness of tribalism any day.

 

[sledger]

Nationalism is tribalism. Just on a grand stage.

 

[Spikey]

tribalism v nationalism is this a game of Civ 4 or something

 

[dontcloseyoureyes]

Little late I know but what do Australians do on their national day off?

lol, "day off". Tell that to my feet. At least I didn't have to belt a **** like last year.

Yeah, the ANZACs did nothing for us at all

FMD

He's quite obviously talking about what the bogan culture uses ANZAC Day as an excuse to do (ie. start drinking at 4am and try to fight people all day). Get off the horse.

 

[social]

lol, "day off". Tell that to my feet. At least I didn't have to belt a **** like last year.



He's quite obviously talking about what the bogan culture uses ANZAC Day as an excuse to do (ie. start drinking at 4am and try to fight people all day). Get off the horse.

Many Australians go to dawn services to pay tribute to the people that defended our country

What they do after that is their own business

The bogan/entitlement culture believes that penalty rates are defensible

****s are lucky to have a job

If not for the Anzacs, they'd be working 6 days a week on minimum wage in a Toyota factory before going home to a meal of sauerkraut

EVERY day in Australia should be ANZAC day

 

[Spikey]

hahahahah holy crap

 

[Howe_zat]

I have done some research on this and from what I can tell it is a holiday mainly based around flags and jet skis

 

[Spikey]

don't forget the southern cross, a bunch of ****ing stars which we have tried to give great, non-astronomical, meaning to

 

[watson]

Nationalism is tribalism. Just on a grand stage.

Nationalism is the celebration of cultural difference and diversity, and it is one of the reasons why Aus V India contests are enjoyable. If Australia = India, and India = Australia then much of the enjoyment would have been subtracted from todays T20 game in Adelaide.

Only totalitarian idealogies and McDonalds insist on monochrome uniformity.

 

[Gnske]

Little late I know but what do Australians do on their national day off?

Complain about the day, get mad when other people won't join in complaining about the day, get mad when people get mad about the day, talk fruitlessly about a republic and if you're an uncouth bogan, drink yourself into an early grave.