BS: Australia Day

Subject: BS: Australia Day
From: allanwill
Date: 25 Jan 03 - 08:36 AM

We've got the worst drought in one hundred years, the worst bushfires for sixty years, the worst Prime Minister ever - but we still call Australia home.

Happy Australia Day.

Allan

Subject: RE: BS: Australia Day
From: gnu
Date: 25 Jan 03 - 10:16 AM

Is Australia Day 25 Jan ? From Canada... 'ave a g'day eh.

Subject: RE: BS: Australia Day
From: allanwill
Date: 25 Jan 03 - 10:25 AM

It is currently 2.21AM, Sunday 26 January in the smokey land of Oz.

Come on, you guys - catch up.

Allan

Subject: RE: BS: Australia Day
From: gnu
Date: 25 Jan 03 - 10:29 AM

It's 11:23h, Saturday the 25th, here on the Right Coast of The Great White North and I couldn't catch up if I wanted to... not when it's -19C with 30kph winds.

Subject: RE: BS: Australia Day
From: allanwill
Date: 25 Jan 03 - 10:39 AM

Oh gnu, please send some of that our way. I can't remember what it is like to feel cold and I only have a vague recollection of that wet stuff that used to fall out of the sky.

Allan

Subject: RE: BS: Australia Day
From: gnu
Date: 25 Jan 03 - 10:47 AM

Well, the stuff that's falling around here lately ain't wet. It hits your face and melts and, if you're not careful, freezes, along with your skin. I blew out the driveway a couple of days ago and my moustache musta weighed a pound when I was done... not from snow but from my breath freezing on it.

Of course, I don't mean to seem as whining about it. I feel for you guys and my thoughts and prayers go out to you.

Subject: RE: BS: Australia Day
From: alison
Date: 27 Jan 03 - 12:23 AM

well thankfully its over....

I started playing yesterday at 10.30am... and three long gigs later I packed the car up again at 10.30pm.... collapsed into bed and slept for 13 hours.........

thankfully we only had to do "I still call Australia home" once!!.... and hopefully it won't have to be done again until next Australia day.......

slainte

alison

Subject: RE: BS: Australia Day
From: Callie
Date: 27 Jan 03 - 06:10 AM

Thankful to see rain in Canberra today ... our hosts there were fearing terrible fires this long weekend. Luckily we only saw flames from a distance (actually it was very apocalyptic). Unlucky for others ... not such a good Aus Day for everyone this year.

Subject: RE: BS: Australia Day
From: Nigel Parsons
Date: 27 Jan 03 - 06:14 AM

Alinact: how can you claim to have the "worst Prime Minister ever". We've got Tony Blair.

Subject: RE: BS: Australia Day
From: JennyO
Date: 27 Jan 03 - 06:27 AM

Nigel, you haven't heard about little Johnnie Howard? Don't get me started!

The only good thing you can say about him is that he is, and has been for far too long, rich fodder for the parody writers.

Jenny

Subject: RE: BS: Australia Day
From: Strupag
Date: 27 Jan 03 - 06:22 PM

Yes we've heard about him and how he had lowest ratings untill he got the chance to make a big issue out of the refugee ship.
Aren't you Aussies gullable.
We'd never do anything like that here...
Now who mentioned Belgranno?

Anyway Gdonya all, it's still a great country because it's the people that make it.


Slainte a charaidh

(For the record, it's close to midnight monday 27th and it's mild- about 8 deg C and it's blowing a wild gale and raining as if it were horizontal stait rods. Mind you I'm in Skye and at least there are no midgies this time of year.0

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Subject: RE: BS: Australia Day
From: alison
Date: 27 Jan 03 - 09:02 PM

so the only difference in Skye between summer and winter is midgies????...*grin*.... lovely part of the world... but those midgies are ferocious!!

slainte

alison

Subject: RE: BS: Australia Day
From: JennyO
Date: 27 Jan 03 - 11:04 PM

Strupag, you said "aren't you Aussies gullible"

Most of the people in my circle of friends were not in that category, but there were not enough of us to get the man kicked out, unfortunately. At the time, I was disgusted that the Australian public was so gullible.

So now we've got the government that the "majority" deserve. That's democracy for you.

Jenny

Subject: RE: BS: Australia Day
From: Strupag
Date: 28 Jan 03 - 05:22 AM

Hi Jenny, I was really taking the mick about ourselves in the UK who have been down a similar route before.
Ironically, when we all thought we had come to our senses we found ourselves with Blair!

God I could do with some of your sunshine today. It's now morning here and the only difference to last night is that we can now see the rain like horozontal stair rods.
Go on give us a weather report!

Subject: RE: BS: Australia Day
From: JennyO
Date: 28 Jan 03 - 07:38 AM

Hi Strupag, here is the weather report from Sydney. Today was 25 degrees c - pleasant, a little bit of cloud mixed in with the sun, not too hot and not too cold . Tomorrow will be a degree or two warmer and similar to today, and Thursday is predicted to be stinking hot - up to 39 degrees on the coast and in the 40's further in from the coast.

I'll give you a few degrees from Thursday, if you like.

Even though you weren't altogether serious about the gullible aussies, I really did think a lot of them were. There was an election at that time, and he actually won it on that issue.

I must admit I'm not a Blair lover, either.

They say that the only trouble with an election is that a politician always wins!

Jenny

Subject: RE: BS: Australia Day
From: GUEST,Bystander
Date: 28 Jan 03 - 07:53 AM

I can rememember at least 10 different prime ministers in UK and every one of them was the worst we've ever had. I don't suppose Australia is any different. What do you want, a dictatorship.

Subject: RE: BS: Australia Day
From: JennyO
Date: 28 Jan 03 - 08:17 AM

This is not altogether true in Australia. Some labor prime ministers weren't too bad. I actually liked Bob Hawke.

What I'd like is for the Greens to win. Although they have made up some ground, they are still a long way off from being a serious threat to the major parties. Oh well, one can dream.

And it could be worse. We could have Bush!

Subject: RE: BS: Australia Day
From: Strupag
Date: 28 Jan 03 - 06:02 PM

Thanks for your sunshine Jenny - Still stair rods here but turning colder and snow expected tomorrow.
Just to go on a totally different tack, do you know that Ullapool, my former village, is the same age as Australia. We shared the same Bicentenery a few years back. This is a fact that often puzzles me because Ullapool is a norse name. Maybe it was formed by a couple of 1200 year old vikings!
Yes I had a wee bit of liking for old Hawkie (from a distance). He did seem to have less bulshit that the average politition, but I was actually in Australia when Fraser took over from G Whitlam.
You can say what you want about his handling of the ecomomy but GW made some lasting changes to Aus. that are still benefiting people today.
Is this generally accepted or just an outsider's point of view?

Subject: RE: BS: Australia Day
From: Callie
Date: 28 Jan 03 - 06:30 PM

BIG ERROR Strupag!! Australia is more than 40,000 years old!!! That little bicentenary celebration we had was to celebrate the white invasion of the country, not how old it was!!!

You're right about GW making a big positive impact on the country that is still widely felt. It's a real shame he blemished his wonderful record with an appalling disregard for human rights in East Timor when he was in power ...

Cloudy. Warm with a little breeze. Good weather for the sea, which I might just wander down to at lunchtime!

Callie

Subject: RE: BS: Australia Day
From: JennyO
Date: 28 Jan 03 - 11:02 PM

Did you know that Gough Whitlam has offered to donate his brain to science? True!

And yes, a song has already been written about it.

Jenny

Subject: RE: BS: Australia Day
From: BusbitterfraeScotland
Date: 29 Jan 03 - 07:49 AM

What about Thatcher, Compered to her Tony Blair is an angel.

Bless his cotton socks, he wears them because he has sweaty feet.
Tam

Subject: RE: BS: Australia Day
From: Strupag
Date: 29 Jan 03 - 10:07 AM

Hi Callie, Maybe in a way similar to Ullapool, Australia was created by a couple 39,800 year old aboriginal folk!
That aside, does anyone out there listen to 3RRR in Melbourne. My son, who is out there put me on to as it is on the web - great station!