Look Australia is really the best country but we don't like to brag

[The Pioneer]

So should I move to Australia?

My sister recently moved to Melbourne from Greece and my wife is from Adelaide but she really does not want to go back. She says that she prefers it here in Germany more than any other place including Greece and the US.

So is it worth it?

So long...

[Alexander's Horse]

Clancy of the Overflow ...
Banjo Paterson - Sydney or the Bush - late 1880's ...

I had written him a letter which I had, for want of better
Knowledge, sent to where I met him down the Lachlan, years ago,
He was shearing when I knew him, so I sent the letter to him,
Just "on spec", addressed as follows, "Clancy, of The Overflow".
And an answer came directed in a writing unexpected,
(And I think the same was written with a thumb-nail dipped in tar)
Twas his shearing mate who wrote it, and verbatim I will quote it:
"Clancy's gone to Queensland droving, and we don't know where he are."

In my wild erratic fancy visions come to me of Clancy
Gone a-droving "down the Cooper" where the Western drovers go;
As the stock are slowly stringing, Clancy rides behind them singing,
For the drover's life has pleasures that the townsfolk never know.

And the bush hath friends to meet him, and their kindly voices greet him
In the murmur of the breezes and the river on its bars,
And he sees the vision splendid of the sunlit plains extended,
And at night the wond'rous glory of the everlasting stars.

I am sitting in my dingy little office, where a stingy
Ray of sunlight struggles feebly down between the houses tall,
And the foetid air and gritty of the dusty, dirty city
Through the open window floating, spreads its foulness over all

And in place of lowing cattle, I can hear the fiendish rattle
Of the tramways and the buses making hurry down the street,
And the language uninviting of the gutter children fighting,
Comes fitfully and faintly through the ceaseless tramp of feet.

And the hurrying people daunt me, and their pallid faces haunt me
As they shoulder one another in their rush and nervous haste,
With their eager eyes and greedy, and their stunted forms and weedy,
For townsfolk have no time to grow, they have no time to waste.

And I somehow rather fancy that I'd like to change with Clancy,
Like to take a turn at droving where the seasons come and go,
While he faced the round eternal of the cash-book and the journal --
But I doubt he'd suit the office, Clancy, of "The Overflow".

[MrFun]

Originally posted by Caligastia


As if you know the first thing about it.

Of course I do -- I remember living in the early 19th century -- the good ol' days.

[ZoboZeWarrior]

Originally posted by MrFun


Of course I do -- I remember living in the early 19th century -- the good ol' days.

Settler in Australia were as kind as Settlers in Americas, you know.
Don't be so sissy, Mr Fun ...You speak like a frenchman !

[MrFun]

Exactly my point, Zobo -- aborigines were not treated any better than Amerindians were in the Americas.

[Alexander's Horse]

And we got drought breaking rains today. Its still raining

[ZoboZeWarrior]

Originally posted by MrFun
Exactly my point, Zobo -- aborigines were not treated any better than Amerindians were in the Americas.

Yeah ... White man, black heart ...

[Caligastia]

Originally posted by ZoboZeWarrior


Yeah ... White man, black heart ...

Thats right, the white man is EVIL! All other races would be living in peace and harmony if it wasnt for the white devil.

[ZoboZeWarrior]

Originally posted by Caligastia



Thats right, the white man is EVIL! All other races would be living in peace and harmony if it wasnt for the white devil.

Maybe...

[orange]

Are so far from any global trouble spot its all a bit of a joke?

E. Timor?

[Caligastia]

Originally posted by ZoboZeWarrior


Maybe...

Dont be so foolish.

[The Pioneer]

Maybe we could argue that if women were indeed in power all these years that nothing would have happened and the most evil thing that would ever happen would be cat fights ?!

So long...

[ZoboZeWarrior]

Originally posted by Caligastia


Dont be so foolish.

No, I'm serious you know.

If there were only white on earth, we would have racism problems :

Blue eyes will hate green eyes ...
Blond hair will attack brun air, red hair would impose their race supremacy !!

But if people were all black, as black are all identical, it would be technically impossible to be racist !


...

[Caligastia]

Ok Zobo, now I know youre not serious.

[Ethelred]

Originally posted by ZoboZeWarrior

But if people were all black, as black are all identical, it would be technically impossible to be racist !

How dead in Ruwanda?