Sven und EIN HUND said:
- Yes, our ancestors are mostly convicts. But, despite this, no, we are not all convicts, and your endless slew of jokes on this matter are really.not.that.funny.
Maybe the majority of your family were descended from convicts, but the majority of Australians are descended from those who immigrated in massive numbers during the Gold.
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Population_of_Australia#Population
Population tripled in 10 years between 1848-1858, by a factor of 5 in 20 years by 1868.
170,000 (aprox) convicts were transported to Australia in 80 years, at least a million people immigrated in during the gold rush.
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Convictism_in_Australia
So while the criminal jokes are funny rest of the world, they're getting old.
P.S. Hey USA you guys had at least 50,000 convicts transported to your country as well.
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Penal_transportation#British.2FIrish_transportation_to_North_America
Skarin said:
There's your problem, I've been to Canberra twice...first and last fucking time!
Skullkid4187 said:
meh. it's just a country and continent.
Yes the only country-continent.
Halaxis said:
My only thing is the racism in Australia. Yes , it's there, and not toward Blacks. Its against us Indians. I can understand why, a bit. The outsourcing, taking of jobs, different culture, our really annoying accent and the ever funny head-bob, the penny-pinching etc. but really? Attack defenseless Indians
These attacks are completely un-Australian, however there are a lot of misconceptions, for example people seem to assume it's organised racial attack from white Australians ala KKK, when the attackers in these different incidents span multiple nationalities. While the majority of course where white (they are the majority population), there have been Asian, middle eastern, african and indigenous attackers. (That sentence sounds wrong, I'm tired but it reads like I'm approving of equal opportunity villainy)
While some are directly race related many are crimes of opportunity, or affect some Indians perhaps because of the dangerous line of work that a lot are in (Cab driving, Petrol Station, night shift) I've had many discussions with cab drivers and boy does there job suck.
BlueberryFalacy said:
Well your missing out then and will for a long time, as those bastards can take a beating before they die (seen a hunstman take 2 full spray paint cans, 3 cans of baygon and a deoderant flamethrower and still scurry off, albeit singed and multi colored)
Why would you want to kill a hunstman spider?
No seriously, they are not poisonous and rarely bite anyone. Okay haven't sold you yet.
They eat cockroaches, a lot of cockroaches. If you have one in the kitchen you will never see a roach again no matter how filthy.
If ones in your bedroom, just do the glass and paper trick and relocate him outside or better yet your pantry. Again sounds messed up but you don't get any other creature trying to eat your food.
