New Zealand Arrival Levy

[brianlara 3]

SEPPOSPEAK!

[Wotname]

Originally Posted by brianlara 3

FWIW..And im anglo/saxon 6 generations removed....wogs and spicks BUILT Straya.
Many of the mob we had here prior to ww2 were a lzy lot....hangin' out of pub doors etc. 10% of 'em ...the wogs never ever did that...worker their asses off.................THANK GOD Straya is NOT ...only... British. At least i do.

I concur (and I also trace half ancestry to first fleet and the other half as new straylian) so we have more in common than that what divides us .

Originally Posted by El Pinguino

I think 'spick' is unorstralyan.... its american usage.

IS IT, OMG, have I been brain washed with dirty water?
Are you sure or are you winding me up?
Wottie's new year's resolution - relearn strike - me native tongue!!!

[JPA Cate]

brianlara3,

"Jum" and I are seppos.

Ann

[brianlara 3]

WOTNAME...i think every Wog in Australia should be so bloody proud for having made this country become what it is. FANBLOODYTESTIC....no USCG, almost daily mass shootings..
AND.... Im so grateful for the 540 American lives lost in the Battle of the Coral Sea, just east of Cairns in 1943...thus saving Straya from becoming South Japan
540 deaths, hundreds of ships.

U.S.A....far from perfect but truly great...imho.

[brianlara 3]

Ann. Seppos, Americans right?...God i hope im right.

[brianlara 3]

Was hoping you were having a ball on the way to Eddystone Lighthouse.
Sounds like Snug.

[JPA Cate]

Originally Posted by brianlara 3

Was hoping you were having a ball on the way to Eddystone Lighthouse.
Sounds like Snug.

Actually, in East Boyd Bay, awaiting the "vigorous" southerly change, and sorta expecting we may see some race boats in here later on, anchored off Whale Beach.

The plan is to pick a pleasant weather window for the trip, and let the race boats go by in peace, without having to be concerned about slow cruising boats out there in the night.

Cheers,

Ann

[brianlara 3]

Ann. American yes?

[Wotname]

Originally Posted by brianlara 3

Ann. American yes?

Yeah but they are also honorary Aussies and to use a seppo expression, "damm fine folks" and I can't wait for them to return to the fair southern isle so we can chew some fat

[JPA Cate]

Originally Posted by brianlara 3

Ann. American yes?

Yes. Americans.

Thanks, Wottie,

Ann

[Jim Cate]

Originally Posted by brianlara 3

Ann. American yes?

What difference does this make? Is it a problem?

Curious minds want to know.

Jim (bloody Yank that he is)

[El Pinguino]

No difference whatsoever...but get 12 months in pokey and you'll be on a boat home.... all same the unzudders...


They seem to think we are picking on them but we aren't. I think it is called 'small island syndrome'.

[Pelagic]

Jim.....Big-idiot-try is a peculiar Aussie pastime ....clad in humor and upstanding "mate ness" that stains an otherwise likable lot.....

[Jim Cate]

Originally Posted by Pelagic

Jim.....Big-idiot-try is a peculiar Aussie pastime ....clad in humor and upstanding "mate ness" that stains an otherwise likable lot.....

Oh, we like Aussies well enough. If we didn't, we wouldn't still be here after over twenty years!

I was just wondering why Brian was so insistent with his questioning of Ann. No harm done either way. In all our years of cruising, we've only encountered one chap who was anti-American enough to publicly berate us... and he was a Kiwi (or at least, it was in NZ), and I believe he might have been a wee bit drunk at the time. On the other side, we've encountered older folks who expressed gratitude for the role the Yanks played in WW2 in the South Pacific. While I wasn't personally involved, I appreciated their feelings and their candor and enjoyed some of the stories they told of those grim days.

Cheers,

Jim

[El Pinguino]

Originally Posted by Pelagic

Jim.....Big-idiot-try is a peculiar Aussie pastime ....clad in humor and upstanding "mate ness" that stains an otherwise likable lot.....

Not so much bigotry as xenophobia..... the correct playing of the xenophobia card at election time has put/kept many an Australian government in power ...all the way from the 'yellow peril' to Somalia and beyond.

Not that different to a lot of other countries really