Australia day

[zen5887]

So its that time of year where everyone around the country has a bbq, drinks beer and acts as aussie as possible. Unfortunetly nowdays the most aussie thing I can think of is wearing a shirt that says "Australia - Support it or fuck off" while beating up foreigners.

This has got so bad that whenever I see someone with an aussie flag on their car or a southern cross tat I automaticly label them a drunken racist who loves their country a little too much.

I'm also sick of being called un-australian because I don't like lamb.

What are your thorghts on this? Is it only a trend that people in the early 20s are following or is this a serious problem?

 

[stormcaller]

Is it Australia day today? (sorry I'm out of it, time zones between Aus and Ireland)

 

[Cousin_IT]

So its that time of year where everyone around the country has a bbq, drinks beer and acts as aussie as possible. Unfortunetly nowdays the most aussie thing I can think of is wearing a shirt that says "Australia - Support it or fuck off" while beating up foreigners.

This has got so bad that whenever I see someone with an aussie flag on their car or a southern cross tat I automaticly label them a drunken racist who loves their country a little too much.

I'm also sick of being called un-australian because I don't like lamb.

What are your thorghts on this? Is it only a trend that people in the early 20s are following or is this a serious problem?

I thought it was New Zealanders who were all about the sheep? Didnt know aussies were in on it too

 

[zen5887]

It is on monday. Making this long weekend the busyest 3 days of the year (I work at a caravan park)

 

[TwistedEllipses]

What happens on Australia day? why is on this day? (I'm a Brit and this is new to me)

 

[Reaperman Wompa]

I love Australia. I love Australians. I hate dislike Aussies.

It's just drunken racism that has spread, people get drunk then follow the racist to go beat up *insert minority* because they aren't *A Feckin Aussie mate!!*. It's serious though. There's too many bogan-ish people growing up as racist pricks and these types are spreading, just using Australia day as their main release of their racist bullshit. You are Australian if you live here and love the country, fuck all that lamb chops and a stubbie bullshit. Those people aren't Australian, they are assholes.

Edit to above:

What happens on Australia day? why is on this day? (I'm a Brit and this is new to me)

Mostly a few fights between drunken idiots and people of a minority, almost always middle eastern. Sometimes there's only a drunken brawl at a local pub, sometimes the riot police are needed. This year is probably going to be the latter. As these idiots lose their jobs they are going to start blaming any minority for "stealing their jobs". It's utter crap but what can you do against drunken idiocy.

 

[Brett Alex]

So its that time of year where everyone around the country has a bbq, drinks beer and acts as aussie as possible. Unfortunetly nowdays the most aussie thing I can think of is wearing a shirt that says "Australia - Support it or fuck off" while beating up foreigners.

Queensland or Cronulla?

EDIT:
Thats meant to be, where do you live? by the way.

 

[zen5887]

I love Australia. I love Australians. I hate fucking Aussies.

Perfect!

 

[hypothetical fact]

Australia day doesn't make racists it only highlights the racists for who they are; but because of this association with the flag and racism I will keep my flag waving to a minimum. Sad that a bunch of drunken yobbos have to ruin the flag for the rest of us.

 

[Varchld]

I love Australia. I love Australians. I hate fucking Aussies.

Perfect!

Very nice indeed.

I love lamb, though the idea that it's got something to do with patriotism is just stupid. I'm as patriotic as any vegeterian, and those stupid Ingham chicken ads piss me off by insulting every vegeterian out there...though I know one that loves chicken but still refuses to eat it.

Anyway. I think Australia is slowly moving away from the racist bogans, maybe i'm just not hanging around enough young people though.

 

[Puppeteer Putin]

A rather excellent video from YouTube, this sums the situation up pretty well.

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I love Australia. I love Australians. I hate fucking Aussies.

It's just drunken racism that has spread, people get drunk then follow the racist to go beat up *insert minority* because they aren't *A Feckin Aussie mate!!*. It's serious though. There's too many bogan-ish people growing up as racist pricks and these types are spreading, just using Australia day as their main release of their racist bullshit. You are Australian if you live here and love the country, fuck all that lamb chops and a stubbie bullshit. Those people aren't Australian, they are assholes.

Agreed. They're ruining the day for the rest of us who instead of having a nice, chilled out public holiday, go and make news stories centred around the racist, patriotic arsehole-ism that Australia is now globally known for. I honestly think "Aussies" takes the patriotism too far because they don't have a such a rich heritage, other than the aborigines of course. So to justify their Australian existence they have to take things to the extreme, they don't know what makes them who they are and their affiliation to their country.

 

[JakalMc]

I don't really give a crap about Australia Day. Don't get me wrong - I love my country - but its just all the hype, commercialism and the aforementioned racist yobbos that ruin it.

 

[Jumez]

Zen and Reaperman, what part\s of Oz do you come from?

I'm half anglo half Fijian and i consider myself to be very much "Aussie" along with all my mates, i live in canterbury, a highly multicultural part of sydney, and there are tons ethnic(by ethnic i mean non-anglo[not in a racist way just for lack of a better word{because im ethnic }])people who beat up anglo-australians for no reason and less bogans that beat up ethnics.

I'm not trying to excuse the violence on either side, but people are just raised with the mentality that all foreigners are here for "our jobs", they push the ethnics, then the ethnics push back, escalating the violence until something like the cronulla riots happens.

I thought it was New Zealanders who were all about the sheep? Didnt know aussies were in on it too

Australians EAT lamb, New Zealanders do lewd things to them

 

[zen5887]

I'm an hour notrh of Brisbane - Queensland is far from the smart state!

 

[Reaperman Wompa]

Zen and Reaperman, what part\s of Oz do you come from?

I'm half anglo half Fijian and i consider myself to be very much "Aussie" along with all my mates, i live in canterbury, a highly multicultural part of sydney, and there are tons ethnic(by ethnic i mean non-anglo[not in a racist way just for lack of a better word{because im ethnic }])people who beat up anglo-australians for no reason and less bogans that beat up ethnics.

I'm not trying to excuse the violence on either side, but people are just raised with the mentality that all foreigners are here for "our jobs", they push the ethnics, then the ethnics push back, escalating the violence until something like the cronulla riots happens.

Oh I'm not saying it's entirely the bogan crowds fault, I'm just saying that the first blows were by them, and they did their best to escalate the situation. Both crowds of idiots are at fault, both deserve a good kicking followed by serious counseling or something to weed out this idiotic behavior. And I used to live in Baulkham Hills, but moved farther out. Was around to see the edges of the stupidity, and then spent the next couple of weeks going to school with racial tension and racial slurs on the rise. Thank god people knew me enough to know that I'm not a racist. My family is Irish so I have more in common with some of these "foreigners" than I do with Davo the retarded bogan. It's just that when looking at it I sympathize with (I'm fucking sick of this word) The people referred to as "foreigners" as It has always been the bogans to start it, from what I have seen.

 

[stompy]

I'm also sick of being called un-australian because I don't like lamb.

Heh, I love those ads. As a vegetarian, I think they're ridiculously funny... kinda like laughing at the bogans.

As for the idiocy surrounding it, I think it may have something to do with that 20-something crowd, escalated by the Cronulla Riots.

 

[Dommyboy]

I shall dress up in a ghillie suit and go down to the celebrations. Hey, if you don't support it, fuck off, the Aussie way.

 

[Noamuth]

I don't really give a crap about Australia Day. Don't get me wrong - I love my country - but its just all the hype, commercialism and the aforementioned racist yobbos that ruin it.

Exactly.

I'm just going over to a friends house for the day, small party and the like. I'm not going to parade around the city with a flag around my shoulders and a stubbie of putrid beer in one hand. Ych.

 

[Radelaide]

I class myself as an Aussie, but I'm not a close-minded bastard. I work in a multi-cultural hub and love learning about new cultures and people.

I hate listening to people throw out racists nicknames and laugh. I tell them they probably have harsh nicknames for us, and doubt that they'd laugh when they heard them. Being a racist is un-Australian, IMO.

 

[WolfThomas]

I love Australia day, I remember this one time we almost got in a fight and it was resolved by cricket. We'd been drinking and swimming (a winning combination), this semi-emo kid that a mate of mine didn't like rode past. My mate yelled an expletive at him.

The kid came back with a bunch of other guys for a fight, mainly his neighbors, turns out we knew all of them quite well. I offered them a beer, my other mate asked another to bowl. Couple minutes later we were all playing cricket and the kid was whining about wanting a fight before heading off alone.

This has got so bad that whenever I see someone with an aussie flag on their car or a southern cross tat

I'd get a southern cross tattoo, but that's because my family and I are staunch republicans (way different in Australia, its a leftwing party) and admire the Eureka Stockade thing.

What happens on Australia day? why is on this day? (I'm a Brit and this is new to me)

I get crowned as king of Australia (with a bucket), wave a scepter around (actually a corona bottle and yes its not Australian, but its the only bottle long enough) and order everyone in the pool to make a whirlpool, screaming "faster, I demand MORE SPEED!"

You are Australian if you live here and love the country, fuck all that lamb chops and a stubbie bullshit.

Pumps the brakes son, lambs a national treasure. But seriously we have a huge lamb industry affected by the drought, so while you don't have to eat it, don't "fuck all that" it. And what is wrong with a nice cold stubby on a hot summer day (which it usually is). Everything in moderation.

I honestly think "Aussies" takes the patriotism too far because they don't have a such a rich heritage, other than the aborigines of course. So to justify their Australian existence they have to take things to the extreme, they don't know what makes them who they are and their affiliation to their country.

Thats a little harsh. We're overly patriotic because we're awesome.

Actually you try living in a land that is majority desert or jungle, is a quarter mile from the sun, has the most poisonous everything, spider, snake, jelly fish etc and is desperately running out of water.

But instead of the nervous wrecks you'd expect we're amazingly sanguine and this shines through on our national holidays. Sometimes way too much when you throw in too much alcohol...

Also yes Australia is a small and young nation, but we do know who we are. We paid for our national identity with sons and daughters in two worlds wars.

Edit: I understand the hypocrisy in being King of Australia and a republican.