Guhday
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Typical load of Ockers lies and bull.
I work with Ozzies all the time and while most of them aren't too bad there is a streak of convict in them that manifests itself as crudeness and mendacity among other even less socially desirable traits.
Churchill was right when he said you couldn't build a civilised country out of convicts & the Irish.
I work with Ozzies all the time and while most of them aren't too bad there is a streak of convict in them that manifests itself as crudeness and mendacity among other even less socially desirable traits.
Churchill was right when he said you couldn't build a civilised country out of convicts & the Irish.
Australia is the country with the world's most venomous snake, most venomous spider and most venomous ANIMAL - the box jellyfish. A sting from a box jellyfish is supposed to be the most agonising thing a human can experience, and victims have been known to moan in agony even when pumped full of morphine.
It's no wonder we used to send convicts there as a punishment when it was a huge penal colony.
It's no wonder we used to send convicts there as a punishment when it was a huge penal colony.
You should thank your lucky stars they didn't send you! -
They couldn't have sent me for two reasons:
1) I'm not a convict, and;
2) British transportations to Australia took place from 1788 to 1868, and I wasn't even born then.
You also have to remember that what is now the United States was a British penal colony for LONGER than Australia was. Britain's American colonies were the dumping ground for our convicts for around 160 years, from the 1610s until the 1770s. It was only after America gained her independence that Britain had to look elsewhere to send her convicts, and she chose her newly-discovered and claimed colony of Australia, where we sent our convicts for eighty years.
My Great Grandfather & three of his Brothers took that one-way trip
to Australia, and two of those (one being my Great Grandfather) did
manage to emigrate out to Canada as a reward for a stopping off in
South Africa to partake in the Boer War for King & Country, etc....
to Australia, and two of those (one being my Great Grandfather) did
manage to emigrate out to Canada as a reward for a stopping off in
South Africa to partake in the Boer War for King & Country, etc....
To be fair, many of Britains convicts were of a religious / political stripe. Not for violent crimes. Having a tartan could get your deported.
