GRIPES

[old man emu]

A miserable couple of slices of "grilled chicken". a few pieces sliced from a lettuce leaf, a slice of tomato, all smothered in a creamy sauce and wrapped in a circle of unleavened bread then microwaved so that it was a sloppy mess. That's a Macca's wrap for $9.50. I should have bought a steak sandwich from the Lions Club  bar-b-que. At least I got a small tea for free.

 

The price of fast food is skyrocketing while the quality is a Cessna - plummeting.

[old man emu]

Now for a real gripe. Keats wrote that Autumn was "the season of mellow fruitfulness". He obviously never walked across a paddock and got spiny seed capsules piercing the soles of the thongs he bought the previous Spring and which had beenworn thin over Summer. Those seed capsules are the fruit of Rumex spinosus known variously as spiny emex or three-cornered jacks in polite conversation. In no way are they "mellow".

Season of mists and mellow fruitfulness,

   Close bosom-friend of the maturing sun;

Conspiring with him how to load and bless

   With fruit the vines that round the thatch-eves run;

To bend with apples the moss'd cottage-trees,

   And fill all fruit with ripeness to the core;

      To swell the gourd, and plump the hazel shells

 

[Marty_d]

I don't know that we have them down here - never seen them, anyway. 

We do get an incredibly annoying spherical seed cluster we call "buzzies" which stick to any fabric except for smooth leather or rubber.

When you try to remove them they break apart revealing that they're a cluster of triangular seeds, each with a Velcro-like hook.  

[facthunter]

Just buy a couple of pieces of fruit for lunch if you're on the run. Your GUTS will feel better. .  Nev

[spacesailor]

Those ' Cathead type weeds.

In England, it was used as a treatment for nettle stings, I think but not certain ' Keats was English .

And being a cooler , wetter place than This land of milk & honey . it doesn't harden / brittle like a lot of Australian seeds , ' Bindii ' spray Before seed hardens .

spacesailor

[old man emu]

I'm getting jack of ABC Classical radio. Last week it was Gay Pride. This week it's International Women's week. Not to be confused with Gay Women's Week. There's also NAIDOC Week. As well is the constant reference to things being done, or callers being on (Aboriginal name) Country. I'm just waiting for Gay Aboriginal Women's week. I haven't heard of a Disabled Person's week, unless you class a week of the deaf Beethoven, or the early 20th Century pianist who lost an arm in WWI and could only play the piano with his left hand and commissioned a lot of one-handed music.

 

When will they have an Anglo-Celtic Heterosexual Robust Men's Week? 

[facthunter]

 Sure, every minority group should have it's day in the sun.   Nev

[red750]

Particularly the tribal origin reference. I don't call myself a Gippsland Riverina person.

[facthunter]

What IF you  don't particularly like your MOB?  You don't HAVE to like them because they're yours.   One might say "What's so SPECIAL?" Nev

[onetrack]

34 minutes ago, red750 said:

Particularly the tribal origin reference. I don't call myself a Gippsland Riverina person.

You forgot to say. "Proud" Gippsland Riverina Anglo-Saxon person. Gotta have pride bro, gotta generate ree-spect.

 

What gets me is, these people have very little to be proud of, when it comes to beneficial contributions to society by their group. Their group generally only drags society down.

 

Edited March 7, 2023 by onetrack

[old man emu]

2 hours ago, facthunter said:

 Sure, every minority group should have it's day in the sun.   Nev

When will that sunny day be for Anglo-Celtic Heterosexual Robust Men?

[rgmwa]

SBS now give the weather forecast using a map on which the normal capital city names have been replaced with their Aboriginal names - presumably the local place names as the inhabitants at the time couldn't possibly have named cities that hadn't been founded yet. I don't have a problem with acknowledging historically significant Aboriginal cultural sites and traditions, but I think renaming the cities is ridiculous.

 

[facthunter]

Be New Calcutta soon.  Nev

[pmccarthy]

I am a proud Cork Bristol London man. Could go on and on about my other mobs. More recently a Narrandera Tingha Inverell man. But I have never lived in any of those places.

[Bruce Tuncks]

Apparently a lot of places in Australia are called "F### off whitefeller " because the white mapmaker asked his trusty aboriginal guide " what feller name this place Jacky ?" and then he wrote it down on the map.

[Bruce Tuncks]

Personally, I don't mind the renamed places as long as the original name didn't deserve to be there. I didn't agree with changing lake eyre but I didn't mind changing Ayre's rockto Uluru. Ayre was an Adelaide rich man who helped fund some explorer.

Mind you, when I was at Ayre's rock, you spent one day climbing it and one day walking around the base. Are either of these allowed these days?

 

[rgmwa]

I don't mind landmark lakes and rocks reverting to their aboriginal names, and there are plenty of towns in Australia whose names have aboriginal origins, but why rename the capital cities?  

[spacesailor]

Can you pronounce ' fraser's island ' new name .

" GK ' !.

Sounds guteral french to me .

spacesailor

[Bruce Tuncks]

Let's take Sydney as an example....  Named after a rich pom who never even visited Australia.

So he fails my test about being deserving, but I do have to say that I would find it uncomfortable for some Aboriginal name to replace Sydney.

[Bruce Tuncks]

Lord Sydney was a pom, an aristocrat and a bureaucrat....  wow that's 3 strikes in my book. He should be out.

[Bruce Tuncks]

Lest I be accused of being parochial, I think Queen Adelaide never even visited Australia either. I don't even think she spoke English.

[old man emu]

4 minutes ago, Bruce Tuncks said:

some Aboriginal name to replace Sydney.

Which Aboriginal group's name would you use? Here are the locations of separate groups on the Sydney Basin

[Bruce Tuncks]

Instead of Sydney, I like the sound of Kurrajong. Seriously,there are too many foreign maps etc to change such a name as a capital city. And  the aborigines were a bunch of warring tribes. Initially, they saw whites as a resource to use in their never-ending tribal wars. They foolishly thought to enlist the whites on their side.

I wonder if they have got their acts together these days, I think that one of the problems in Alice Springs is that the politically correct lot have swallowed their own propaganda and as a result they have brought mutually hostile tribes together in the town.

There was an uholy alliance between the politically-correct ( They use the term " First nations ") people who thought that the aborigines were all good people and the nasty right-wing lot who realized ( correctly ) that keeping the outstations running was expensive compared to moving the inmates into town.

What the right-wing nasties didn't get right is that the whites would be caught up in the resulting chaos.

[facthunter]

 Kurrajong East it is then,  Sydney sounds dumb if you think about it    Nev

[red750]

What about Bennelong?