Happy Australia Day

Ban India?

That'll have to do.

Zat wrote:We're well on the way to becoming states 51-56.

Like they'd accept Victoria.

JGK wrote:

Zat wrote:We're well on the way to becoming states 51-56.

Like they'd accept Victoria.

Of course they would ....They'd call it New New Jersey

Waste Aystraya

Tasmania - the New Keys

I wish we'd stop sterotyping people who love to display the national flag.

Some drunk nobs have hijacked it for their own purposes, but there's nothing wrong with wanting to wear your national pride on your sleeve (or your car for that matter).

I've always liked George Orwell's take on this issue:

I grew up in an atmosphere tinged with militarism, and afterwards I spent five boring years within the sound of bugles.

To this day it gives me a faint feeling of sacrilege not to stand to attention during ‘God save the King’. That is childish, of course, but I would sooner have had that kind of upbringing than be like the left-wing intellectuals who are so ‘enlightened’ that they cannot understand the most ordinary emotions.

It is exactly the people whose hearts have never leapt at the sight of a Union Jack who will flinch from revolution when the moment comes.

As a bonus, here's a fleeting cricket reference from the rest of the paragraph that quote is taken from:


Let anyone compare the poem John Cornford wrote not long before he was killed (‘Before the Storming of Huesca’) with Sir Henry Newbolt's ‘There's a breathless hush in the close tonight’.

Put aside the technical differences, which are merely a matter of period, and it will be seen that the emotional content of the two poems is almost exactly the same. The young Communist who died heroically in the International Brigade was public school to the core. He had changed his allegiance but not his emotions.

What does that prove? Merely the possibility of building a Socialist on the bones of a Blimp, the power of one kind of loyalty to transmute itself into another, the spiritual need for patriotism and the military virtues, for which, however little the boiled rabbits of the Left may like them, no substitute has yet been found.

Hass wrote:I wish we'd stop sterotyping people who love to display the national flag.

Some drunk nobs have hijacked it for their own purposes, but there's nothing wrong with wanting to wear your national pride on your sleeve (or your car for that matter).

Sure.

But given the number of sheep doing it for no other reason than because their mates are doing it, or because they got it for free with a carton of piss, it's not exactly 'pride' is it?

So the new job is working wonders for the mood then, your Imperialness?

Not a new job, just a new car...

Hmm, a little bird told me there had been some change, mebee time o' day?

Ah, yes, a few different working hours. That does help. No more pre-dawn starts.

Hass wrote:I wish we'd stop sterotyping people who love to display the national flag.

Some drunk nobs have hijacked it for their own purposes, but there's nothing wrong with wanting to wear your national pride on your sleeve (or your car for that matter).

I've always liked George Orwell's take on this issue:

I grew up in an atmosphere tinged with militarism, and afterwards I spent five boring years within the sound of bugles.

To this day it gives me a faint feeling of sacrilege not to stand to attention during ‘God save the King’. That is childish, of course, but I would sooner have had that kind of upbringing than be like the left-wing intellectuals who are so ‘enlightened’ that they cannot understand the most ordinary emotions.

It is exactly the people whose hearts have never leapt at the sight of a Union Jack who will flinch from revolution when the moment comes.

Hass, you know I don't think there's a thing wrong with national pride & further, when I'm at a football or cricket international there's no doubt whatsoever about which team I support. ANZAC day will see me chockful of pride in our nation and it's people. However, I detest overt nationalism in a form that provokes confrontation. There's a family without a father at home on the Gold Coast tonight. He was displaying his pride on his car. I'm certain you read the story. Where's the harmlessness in that? Of course I don't know all the details but I suspect strongly that those kids would have a dad tonight if it wasn't for a brewery promoting their product.

Touching on Orwell's views. I do have a problem with our flag. You see, the sight of the Union Jack doesn't turn my heart into the superbunny, but that's not the particular issue here.

Crafty work by Dick Smith. This ad has been banned from TV but is going viral on Youtube and generating much debate on talkback.



Personal, I think it's GOLD.

The banned Dick Smith ad...

snap...

Personal, I think it's GOLD.

Skully loves dick.

Lets make an ad with a single entendre with no hope of getting a "g" rating and say its been banned from Oz tv ...that'll save us a shit load of advertising dollars coz farquits like skully and JGK will post it all over the internet

embee wrote:Lets make an ad with a single entendre with no hope of getting a "g" rating and say its been banned from Oz tv ...that'll save us a shit load of advertising dollars coz farquits like skully and JGK will post it all over the internet

As I said, M, a crafty effort by Smith. He knew exactly what he was doing.

Well, I did get in before MrK by 14 minutes, but I guess this thread should be merged with the Aus Day thread, Frommie.

I think you mean Krafty effort

embee wrote:I think you mean Krafty effort

Well, I assumed you thought that's what I meant.

skully wrote:Well, I did get in before MrK by 14 minutes, but I guess this thread should be merged with the Aus Day thread, Frommie.

It took me that long to find an appropriate existing thread.

I am sure there was one with the new Sam K ad on it somewhere. Farked if I could find it though.

Nein Nooz running Dick's ad shortly and you can bet Seven will do the same.