Happy Australia Day!

[think positive]

Happy Australia Day from Bali.

Fair to say we'll be avoiding all the Aussie Pubs around here today!

hehe be brave!!

[Jezza]

Happy Australia Day to all Nicksters!

[Skids]

Have a great day peeps

I'm at work and it's 44 again today... beautiful.

The site BBQ with plenty of lamb chops is what's on everybody's mind this morning.

Geez the beers go down well after a run on the treadmill up here!
I don't usually like 'em, prefer tracks but it's just too hot and too many death adders out there for my liking.

[Wokko]

"You are to endeavour by every possible means to open an Intercourse with the
Natives and to conciliate their affections, enjoining all Our Subjects to live in amity and kindness with them. And if any of Our Subjects shall wantonly destroy them, or give them any unnecessary Interruption in the exercise of their several occupations. It is our Will and Pleasure that you do cause such offenders to be brought to punishment according to the degree of the Offence."

King George III instructions to Arthur Phillip.

[Pies4shaw]

Here's the dancing and drinking soundtrack for the day (just a bunch of Australian songs I like, not in order and no grandiose claims are made - other than in jest - for any of them) -

And the award for Best Colonial Song goes to: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=tSNxFGW09Mo

And now number 2: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Jf-jHCdafZY

Number 3: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=uimTGnJF2A8

Number 4: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=oQfAZVsz6KM

Number 5: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=zu0lBJPFERE

Number 6: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=BHFFuukk9Y8

Number 7: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=O3YC5sc_V6I

And whilst we're on that theme, number 8: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=QHtGu0OGEpc

Number 9: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=fCQjBC4DM4o

Number 10: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=AaBbT-UaUi0

Number 11 (Bon Scott's greatest moment): https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=hZY2nl2CwLc

Got to pay jonesr227's comment on this one: "After seeing this video, I have to ask the question of why didn't AC/DC incorporate any recorder playing in their music? "

Number 12: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=ywlMscN4Loc

Number 13; https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=4DLccP2yh_o

Number 14: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=1POR4H0gJss

Number 15: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=HLHKia4PTKQ

And for David ("The 60s was 50 years ago, you know - get over it"), number 16: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=KmPU45gQdFQ

Number 17: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=1bCsjy0UhMk

Number 18 (no such list would be complete without Australia's greatest living musician in it - go Chris): https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=hz3k8gGTsqo

Number 19: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=XkQ9lqzugsE

Number 20 (It's a long way to the shop, if you want a sausage roll - I don't really like this group but I always enjoy waiting for a chord change to happen in this one): https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=-sUXMzk ... cG&index=5

Number 21: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=c-h3T7CMztk

Number 22: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=JEs00KAiYL8

Number 23: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=ME920H7a7Lw

From that great Australian songwriting team, Paul Simon and Bruce Woodley, number 24: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=ouh6YgoH100

Number 25: I'd really like to put Jeannie Lewis' version of "Do Not Go Gentle", here but it doesn't seem to be on youtube. Otherwise, I'd link to her cover of Celluloid Heroes - which started an interest for me in Ray Davies' songwriting that lasts to this very day. But that's not on youtube, either, so, I'll go, instead, for that greatest of all Australian bands (in the sense that I saw them sing this live at Festival Hall about 35 years ago) singing my favourite song ("It was on a loser album but I think it's a good song", says Ray in his introduction to a different, live version of this, in typical understatement): https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=rTJVclgwS5g

[David]

"You are to endeavour by every possible means to open an Intercourse with the
Natives and to conciliate their affections, enjoining all Our Subjects to live in amity and kindness with them. And if any of Our Subjects shall wantonly destroy them, or give them any unnecessary Interruption in the exercise of their several occupations. It is our Will and Pleasure that you do cause such offenders to be brought to punishment according to the degree of the Offence."

King George III instructions to Arthur Phillip.

The best-laid plans of mice and kings go oft awry.

[stui magpie]

Happy Straya day all

[pietillidie]

Remembrance followed by celebration could work, and is probably the de facto approach of many people already. These are two different head spaces, but transitioning from the solemn to the optimistic isn't a bad way to proceed.

The remembrance could be formally demarcated, much like ANZAC Day morning. Surely, this integral aspect of the day doesn't need to exist in a parallel universe.

[Mugwump]

[Dave The Man]

Same to You and Everyone Here

[think positive]

[pietillidie]

^Happy Aussie Day!

Whoops, my post was a bit out of sync. I was referring back to previous discussion.

I still read the goings on here when I can. Glad everyone seems to be going okay.

[Pies4shaw]

https://www.theguardian.com/australia-n ... tralia-day

[Pies4shaw]

http://www.theage.com.au/video/video-ne ... 5203b.html

https://www.theguardian.com/australia-n ... protesters

[think positive]

They could have protested by not having the day off!