What are your plans for Australia Day?

[tom in bangkok]

How are you Aussies celebrating Australia Day on Sunday? Sadly I don't have a bbq right now, so I'm heading to Australia Bar near BTS Nana on the day. Apparently they make a really good steak sandwich.

 

What are you true blue Aussies doing on Sunday?

Edited January 22, 2020 by tom in bangkok

[tifino]

why not dream of a Darwin bbq, and grab a buffalo burger?

 

[scottiejohn]

Ignoring it!

[Stocky]

What's Australia Day?

[4MyEgo]

Being its on a Sunday, I usually go to the local waterhole and listen to blokes from all around the UK telling their boring stories, hence the reason they got their name whinging poms, all jokes aside, it helps pass the time, but you can't beat a get together with Aussie's, now that's another waterhole that I frequent on 3 other nights, but it lacks sheila's, gotta have one shiela to look at, even if it's the UK bar owners wife, at least once a week oi

[tom in bangkok]

1 hour ago, Stocky said:

What's Australia Day?

 

23 hours ago, tom in bangkok said:

What are you true blue Aussies doing on Sunday?

* emphasis added

[StreetCowboy]

That’s grand that Australia Day coincides with Chinese New Year.  
 

I’m planning on cycling to the centre of town for a pub lunch, but not because it’s Australia Day. Maybe I’ll turn my phone upside down

[jimn]

In the UK we have St Georges day etc based on our ancestors. Strange that you have an Australia day and not a convicts day lol, you could all go around nicking stuff from 7/11.

[Don Mega]

Got a litre bottle of Bundy OP Rum and a dozen Four N Twenty pies, so will get smashed on Bundy and eat a few pies whilst listeneing to the hottest 100.

[emptypockets]

1 hour ago, jimn said:

In the UK we have St Georges day etc based on our ancestors. Strange that you have an Australia day and not a convicts day lol, you could all go around nicking stuff from 7/11.

Why? None of the convicts were Australian.

[emptypockets]

I'll be working.

[Mick501]

Praying not to hear the god awful anthem, or "oi oi oi".

[scottiejohn]

26 minutes ago, emptypockets said:

Why? None of the convicts were Australian.

They became Australian eventually!

Edited January 24, 2020 by scottiejohn

[brain150]

I think it's very appropriate to have a celebration while half your country is burning into the ground ...

But it's for sure a good reason to have a cold one on all the dying animals and all the people who lose everything !

[spiekerjozef]

go walkabout

Edited January 24, 2020 by spiekerjozef

[RJRS1301]

21 hours ago, Stocky said:

What's Australia Day?

The "celebration" of the invasion of Australia by the British and the begining of the white washed history of the country.

 

 

[RJRS1301]

36 minutes ago, emptypockets said:

Why? None of the convicts were Australian.

No they were all British

[emptypockets]

11 minutes ago, scottiejohn said:

They became Australian eventually!

Nonsense. Australia didn't become a country until 1901. Doubt there were many of the convicts still around by then.

There were more soldiers than convicts originally so it might be fairer to say we were founded on law and order.

[metempsychotic]

i once went to the grand final free pour extravaganza at a hotel on silom, 

it was such an utter horror show, that now i avoid congregations of aussies and aussie event.

one chick at our table was so bladdered she was eating cigarette butts form the ashtray.

you lot do go big though, enjoy

 

[ianezy0]

15 minutes ago, scottiejohn said:

They became Australian eventually!

Yep, the non whingin’ variety

[ianezy0]

20 minutes ago, brain150 said:

I think it's very appropriate to have a celebration while half your country is burning into the ground ...

But it's for sure a good reason to have a cold one on all the dying animals and all the people who lose everything !

Have you always been an idiot

[RJRS1301]

7 minutes ago, ianezy0 said:

Yep, the non whingin’ variety

With the exception of Tony Abbott

[emptypockets]

1 minute ago, RJRS1301 said:

With the exception of Tony Abbott

Who is a Pom.

[RJRS1301]

4 minutes ago, emptypockets said:

Who is a Pom.

Nah he has papers to prove otherwise ????

[DUNROAMIN]

Apparently, according to the new trend on changing Australia Day to some other day because it offends our indigenous population, I will be praying to Budda for forgiveness for steeling their country, that's after I have a meat pie with a cold beer watching AFL.

[RJRS1301]

11 minutes ago, DUNROAMIN said:

Apparently, according to the new trend on changing Australia Day to some other day because it offends our indigenous population, I will be praying to Budda for forgiveness for steeling their country, that's after I have a meat pie with a cold beer watching AFL.

By 1935, January 26 was known as Australia Day in all states except New South Wales, where it was still called Anniversary Day. From 1946, January 26 was called Australia Day in all states and territories, and since 1994, the Australia Day public holiday has been on January 26 throughout the country.

 

The First DAY of Mourning was held in 1938, before the day was recognised by all states. 56 years before it became a public holiday

So not a new "trend"

 

Edited January 24, 2020 by RJRS1301

[tifino]

1 hour ago, Don Mega said:

Got a litre bottle of Bundy OP Rum and a dozen Four N Twenty pies, so will get smashed on Bundy and eat a few pies whilst listeneing to the hottest 100.

... or at least 'Rage' on iView 

[4MyEgo]

Come to think about it, I might go looking for a brother and throw a roo on the barby and say no hard feelings mate, you see my parents are from Europe, I was born in Australia, I had nothing to do with it and live in Thailand now ????

 

[Number 6]

I'd drink a VB if I could find an Aussie to buy me one. Missing that ol beer.

[Number 6]

55 minutes ago, RJRS1301 said:

The "celebration" of the invasion of Australia by the British and the begining of the white washed history of the country.

 

 

555 I'd say something really hilarious but I'd get a red card sure ban.

 

That's the the world is, people stealing land from each other since forever. Don't like it? Kill yourself.