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[Joe Hillshoist]

Out in the bush, the tarred road always ends just after the house of the local mayor.
- anon (this is so fucking true.)

[Joe Hillshoist]

Before you criticise someone, you should walk a mile in their shoes. That way, when you criticise them, you're a mile away and have their shoes.



The wowser mistakes the world for a penitentiary and themselves as the warden.

The cricket bat is mightier than the pen and the sword combined.

Some mistakes are too much fun to only make once.

A fair go for all, regardless of ethnicity, race, religion, except for Poms, Seppos and Kiwis.

- all anon.

(i went looking for ned kelly quotes and found a page on Australian "Wisdom". Got carried away, what a surprise.)

[Joe Hillshoist]

All the evil in his nature (and who is without any) had been developed and nourished by harsh and cruel treatment, kindling, perhaps, a revengeful feeling against all mankind - a feeling, often the cause, in Australia at a future period, of the barbarous murder of innocent individuals.

- some dead convict

Port Arthur made Gitmo look like a carribean holiday apparantly.

[Hugh Manatee Wins]

Before you criticise someone, you should walk a mile in their shoes....

...to decide whether you should walk back and throw their shoes at their head in the name of orphans and widows.

[AhabsOtherLeg]

The wowser mistakes the world for a penitentiary and themselves as the warden.

Kevin Bloody Wilson might not be everyone's cup of tea, but his song about the wowsers - "Born-Again Piss Tank" - is right on the money.

The cricket bat is mightier than the pen and the sword combined.

So all those years we were fighting the English, and producing documents like the Declaration of Arbroath that helped inspire the Declaration of Independence, we should've just been challenging them to repeated games of Rounders? Now I know.

[Joe Hillshoist]

Quotes about Australia

A few years ago we colonised this place with some of our finest felons, thieves, muggers, alcoholics and prostitutes, a strain of depravity which I believe has contributed greatly to this country's amazing vigour and enterprise.

- Ian Wooldridge

The extraordinary rapid growth which has followed upon settlement of the scum of the earth on the shores of Australia would make it appear that in colonisation it is as in gardening, the more your foundations consist of dung, the more rapid and striking the production.

- David Monre

They are not a nation of snobs like the English or of extravagant boasters like the Americans or of reckless profligates like the French, they are simply a nation of drunkards.

- Marcus Clark

Australians have a tendency to be loud and obnoxious when they are beered up, which in my experience, is much of the time. They're descendants from pockets and cut purses, and as we all know, the acorn doesn't fall far from the tree.

- Michael Carey

Australian culture feels as grotesque as The Day of the Locust. There’s no sense of a high culture anywhere, and extreme characters abound. TV ads are often leeringly sexual "These are the only balls you’ll see at our health club," says an ad for a women’s workout center, focusing on some tennis balls.

- Phillip Weis

there was hardly the slightest pretension to being gentlemen or civilised. Their faces were coarse and hard bitten. .....the Australian manner..... was blatant and self-assertive and the Australian voice likewise. I am afraid I never wish to meet any more Australians- there seems to much of the Botany Bay strain in them! My servant too complains that they are a rough lot.

- Some posh fuckhead

[can1exy]

We are the transition generation. We have one foot in matter and one foot in hyperspace and we can redeem the trust of thousands of years. All of the horror of history, can be redeemed if we don't drop the ball. Every pogrom, every instance of racial, sexual or minority persecution can be redeemed if we give the human adventure meaning.

And we give it meaning by discovering the totality within ourselves and then exemplifying it for each other.

And this dissolves boundaries, empowers the weak, enlightens the strong, and brings hope to all. And it can only be done if we accept the gifts which nature has offered us.

Terence McKenna - Seeking The Stone

[Jeff]

"Charity should be abolished, and be replaced by justice."

"Is it possible that a small class of men have persuaded a million poor men to attack and attempt to destroy another million men as poor as they, so that they may be richer still?"

[Joe Hillshoist]

The wowser mistakes the world for a penitentiary and themselves as the warden.

Kevin Bloody Wilson might not be everyone's cup of tea, but his song about the wowsers - "Born-Again Piss Tank" - is right on the money.

The cricket bat is mightier than the pen and the sword combined.

So all those years we were fighting the English, and producing documents like the Declaration of Arbroath that helped inspire the Declaration of Independence, we should've just been challenging them to repeated games of Rounders? Now I know.

There that ahab, and .. ever hit anything with a cricket bat?

Kevin Bloody Wilson, he's so funny, for a right wing redneck prick. I'd love to have a beer with him, but "don't mention the war".

[Joe Hillshoist]

Hey santa claus you cunt
Where's my fucking bike

- Kevin bloody Wilson

[AhabsOtherLeg]

Hehehe. Ever hit anything with a Claymore - and I don't mean the mines?

Um, neither have I, come to think of it. Only thing I've ever hit with a cricket bat was a cricket ball, and I never really got into it. Cricket - it's just not done, up here. Keep beating the Poms, though. It makes us laugh, too.

Agreed on Kevin Bloody Wilson. Don't get me wrong. He has done one half-decent song in his long and un-varyingly bad career. It actually is a half-decent song, though, even if the guy himself is a knobend.

ON EDIT: Yeah, I take it back - I like some of his other stuff too.

"Over Before It Began," - classic.

[chiggerbit]

"Ask of me, and I shall give thee, the heathen for thine inheritance, and the uttermost parts of the earth for thy possession."

Psalms 2:8



"But for the natives in these parts, God hath so pursued them, as for 300 miles space the greatest part of them are swept away by smallpox which still continues among them. So as God hath thereby cleared our title to this place, those who remain in these parts, being in all not 50, have put themselves under our protection."

Letter by Puritan John Winthrop to England, and likely the first documented source demonstrating the belief in American exceptionalism . If there were earlier ones, they were likely by Winthrop also.

[mentalgongfu2]

"Give not that which is holy unto the dogs, neither cast ye your pearls before swine, lest they trample them under their feet, and turn again and rend you." Matthew 7:6

[monster]

"If the tide is not turned on communications data, data-sharing, ID cards and the DNA database, if that tide does not turn and if worse still it accelerates we are looking at a very different Britain in a very short time. We are looking at a Britain where there is no such thing as personal privacy at all."

She warned: "There is a creeping contempt for individual liberty and dignity. There is no sense of history."

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[American Dream]

"As I have walked among the desperate, rejected, and angry young men, I have told them that Molotov cocktails and rifles would not solve their problems. I have tried to offer them my deepest compassion while maintaining my conviction that social change comes most meaningfully through nonviolent action. But they ask--and rightly so--what about Vietnam? They ask if our own nation wasn't using massive doses of violence to solve its problems, to bring about the changes it wanted. Their questions hit home, and I knew that I could never again raise my voice against the violence of the oppressed in the ghettos without having first spoken clearly to the greatest purveyor of violence in the world today--my own government. For the sake of those boys, for the sake of this government, for the sake of the hundreds of thousands trembling under our violence, I cannot be silent."

--Martin Luther King, Jr.,

"Beyond Vietnam -- A Time to Break Silence"
(April 4, 1967 speech)