Re: [OT] - HAPPY AUSTRALIA DAY!!

["Chris Downs" <cvdowns@ozemail.com.au>]

Tezza <tezza2000@dingoblue.net.au> wrote in message
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> "Chris Downs" <cvdowns@ozemail.com.au> wrote in message
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> | Tezza <tezza2000@dingoblue.net.au> wrote in message
> | > "Rob Kearey" <mammal@optushome.com.au> wrote in message
> | > | Sam Eades wrote:
> | > |
> | > | > Happy Australia day everyone!!
> | > |
> | > | Or Survival Day, as the local Murris call it. Much more positive than
> | > | Invasion Day, and good on 'em.
> | >
> | >
> | > What crap.
> |
> | I almost agree.  Survival Day is more conciliatory but Invasion Day seems
> more
> | appropriate.  Unless of course you're an apologist for the aggressive
> | expansion of the British Empire and want to revise history.  My Consise
> Oxford
> | Dictionary has inavde = "make hostile inroad into (country)"; sounds spot
> on
> | to me or is there an undiscovered treaty out there some where?
>
> Yeah, the French, Indonesians, Chinese and Japanese would've been so much
> kinder.

Ah, the honourable "we only robbed from you and raped you, they would have
maimed or killed you as well" justification.  Can't beat that.

Chris