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Chuckle in Your Day! (AKA the joke thread)

CRH said:
We are lucky, we have culture
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Not entirely true. Modern British culture is mostly acquired from colonies that the British Empire invaded and stole / appropriated from. Britain itself has very little culture of its own, and the little that isn't from the colonies is mostly European appropriation. Norman and Saxon culture isn't really a thing... 😉
 
RY-Journeyman said:
Not entirely true. Modern British culture is mostly acquired from colonies that the British Empire invaded and stole / appropriated from. Britain itself has very little culture of its own, and the little that isn't from the colonies is mostly European appropriation. Norman and Saxon culture isn't really a thing... 😉
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Really not sure an Australian should be going down that road.

".......convicts and rabbits!" The Cruel Sea, Nicholas Monsarrat 1951
 
“Hello, you have reached the ‘Men’s Help Line. My name is Bob. How can I help you?”
“Hi Bob, I really need your advice on a serious problem. I have suspected for some time now that my wife has been cheating on me. You know, just the usual signs: The phone rings and when I answer, the caller hangs up. Plus, she goes out with ‘the girls’ a lot. I usually try to stay awake to look out for her when she comes home, but I always fall asleep.
Anyway, last night about midnight, I woke up and she was not home. So, hid in the garage, behind my boat and waited for her. When she came home, she got out of someone’s car, buttoning her blouse, then she took her panties out of her purse and slipped them on.
It was at that moment, while crouched behind the boat, that I noticed a hairline crack in the outboard motor mounting bracket. Is that something I can weld, or do I need to replace the whole bracket?"
 
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Jeremy996 said:
Really not sure an Australian should be going down that road.

".......convicts and rabbits!" The Cruel Sea, Nicholas Monsarrat 1951
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I’m Scottish. Not Australian. And my heritage is British Indian. So yes, my people were all colonised - like most of the world was - by the British empire. As for Australia my adopted country - “a lucky country spoilt only by its shabby people” as the saying goes. Sadly in many places that is still very true, but it truly is a glorious country to explore.
 
RY-Journeyman said:
I’m Scottish. Not Australian. And my heritage is British Indian. So yes, my people were all colonised - like most of the world was - by the British empire. As for Australia my adopted country - “a lucky country spoilt only by its shabby people” as the saying goes. Sadly in many places that is still very true, but it truly is a glorious country to explore.
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My turn to show some patriotism.
I was manufactured in Australia a long time ago and have spent 99% of my life in rural and regional areas where farmers and country folk do like their sayings. I've never heard anyone say 'a lucky country spoilt only by its shabby people'. At best it's a misquote. The original saying was 'Australia is a lucky country run mainly by second rate people who share its luck.' It comes from a 1964 book called The Lucky Country by author Donald Horne. The actual context is that Horne, an early social commentator, was reflecting on a land of rich resources and in spite of some second-rate leadership, Australia was doing quite well. The saying is now typically used to suggest that Australians have created our own luck, we are the lucky country, but its origin was derogatory towards the leadership of the day. It was never a reflection on the people.
 
Clark Kent said:
My turn to show some patriotism.
I was manufactured in Australia a long time ago and have spent 99% of my life in rural and regional areas where farmers and country folk do like their sayings. I've never heard anyone say 'a lucky country spoilt only by its shabby people'. At best it's a misquote. The original saying was 'Australia is a lucky country run mainly by second rate people who share its luck.' It comes from a 1964 book called The Lucky Country by author Donald Horne. The actual context is that Horne, an early social commentator, was reflecting on a land of rich resources and in spite of some second-rate leadership, Australia was doing quite well. The saying is now typically used to suggest that Australians have created our own luck, we are the lucky country, but its origin was derogatory towards the leadership of the day. It was never a reflection on the people.
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And since 1964 (a very fine year by the way), nothing much has changed.
 
RY-Journeyman said:
Not entirely true. Modern British culture is mostly acquired from colonies that the British Empire invaded and stole / appropriated from. Britain itself has very little culture of its own, and the little that isn't from the colonies is mostly European appropriation. Norman and Saxon culture isn't really a thing... 😉
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No culture in Britain? Wow. Shakespeare? Oscar Wilde? Tolkien? John Lennon? A whole host of poets, musicians and writers. So, no culture?

From a country that gave us Rolf Harris.
 
Coullabus said:
From a country that gave us Rolf Harris.
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Then he grew a extra leg, it didn't help him run from the law...they still caught up with the f#*kwit. Now don't forget the Neighbour's Kylie, ACDC, Dame Edna and Les Patterson who could slide across a stage on his own self propelled saliva or anything else weeping from an orifice. What a great cultural attache just to name a few.:ROFLMAO:
 
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