How FUCKED is this

[doormouse]

I don't care if I sound racist after tonight.

THe abbo little bastards across the road just smashed my car window and broke into my home for the THIRD time.

Well, my home for the first time. I'm three hours from home so can't even see what the little assholes stole. And I'm not covered by insurance grrrrrrr

My neighbour just called me. Not a fucking thing I can do until I get home... thankfully I have a convoy of brother-in-laws all driving there with me.

God it makes me sick that some little c#@t can smash a window and just help themself.

If I'm not online for a while, it's because I'm not in the fucking chatting mood. It's just thankful I had my tower with me getting it upgraded

 

[wishfulthinking]

abbo = Aboriginie = Indigenous Australian

for those unknowing of racist Aussie slang

 

[Guest]

abbo = Aboriginie = Indigenous Australian

Are they Semite?

 

[Samandiriel]

I thought they were endangered?

I guess they are now.

 

[cloudy]

I don't care if I sound racist after tonight.

I love you to death, mousey, but I can't say that this statement doesn't disturb me....it does.

What does race have to do with it?

I'm truly sorry this happened to you, but it could just as easily have been white folks, or black folks or green folks that did it.

It really bothers me to think that you actually said what you did.

~ Cloudy, American Aborigine

 

[dreampilot79]

damn.. I was just learning to speak english.. and make it co-exist with my american!!!

Now I discover I have to learn to speak oz too!!!!!!!!

my head hurts!!!

 

[minsue]

damn.. I was just learning to speak english.. and make it co-exist with my american!!!

Now I discover I have to learn to speak oz too!!!!!!!!

my head hurts!!!

I dunno. Personally, I could've gone my whole life without learning new racial slurs and been quite happy about it.

 

[Virtual_Burlesque]

damn.. I was just learning to speak english.. and make it co-exist with my american!!
Now I discover I have to learn to speak oz too!!!!!!!!
my head hurts!!!

You will have to make an effort to learn Kiwi English, too. Even if it is only a Tolkien commitment.

 

[dreampilot79]

You will have to make an effort to learn Kiwi English, too. Even if it is only a Tolkien commitment.

all this study is makin my head hurt!!

 

[cantdog]

Kiwis sound much the same in their vowels, but they seem to have less belly somehow.

And they have pists, not abbos.

 

[Virtual_Burlesque]

Kiwis sound much the same in their vowels, but they seem to have less belly somehow.
And they have pists, not abbos.

I have to ask.

Have the pists piss't 'em off?

 

[dreampilot79]

I have to ask.

Have the pists piss't 'em off?

and I have to ask.. are you talkin american pissed or oz pissed?

 

[cantdog]

http://image26.webshots.com/27/5/22/86/304052286maNhUg_ph.jpg
This is the Australian possum. Endangered at home, but ninety million strong in little New Zealand. They call 'em 'pists' because their vowels are shifted.

In the hotels, we were 'gists.'

That movie was jist about six, and so on.

 

[Virtual_Burlesque]

When their vowels shifted, did any fall out of their pouch?

 

[cantdog]

Most likely.

The little creatures appear most commonly as road kill. They outnumber-- wait for it-- the sheep! They prefer the native bush, so called, where they strip the leaves at mind boggling rates. The government sponsors a pist eradication program with little wads of cyanide, left out where anything could get at them. But marsupials are built for reproduction, baby.

You see the little eyes at night. It is the last accusing glare of the pist before he dies ignominiously against the car. During hte day, they generally sleep, I'm told, and you see the furry corpses in the road everywhere from the night before. Although my sister did see one alive on the grassy shoulder of the road next one of those immense wall hedges.

 

[oggbashan]

Crime and Aboriginals

Unfortunately some Australian Aborigines have lost their own culture and have not acquired any other culture.

There is a highly visible minority that are alienated from norms of decent behaviour and exist through welfare benefits and petty crime. That also happens to other Australians who exist at the fringes of society. The delinquents among the city-dwelling Aborigines are more obvious. The Police would not seek a white perpetrator if the crime was committed by someone with aboriginal characteristics.

It is not solely an Australian phenomenon. In London youths of West Indian descent are more likely to be stopped by the police than white youths because the statistics show that proportionally more street crime is committed by youths of West Indian descent.

'Gypsies' and 'Travellers' are already a feature of the UK election campaign. If a family claims that they are itinerant they can drive roughshod over planning restrictions that everyone else has to obey and claim if challenged that their 'human rights' are being abused. Genuine Gypsies or Romanys are facing a hostile reception when they visit a community because the criminal underclass has moved in on the 'itinerant' status and can get land developed when no one else could. They are paid by middlemen to squat on land and make a deliberate nuisance of themselves. Once planning permission has been extorted then the land can be sold by the middlemen for massive profits. It is a criminal conspiracy and currently our laws cannot stop it.

The cry of 'Racism' can be used to justify the unjustifiable. If a black man is dealing in drugs he should not be able to claim that the police are racist and victimising him when he is arrested in the act of dealing. Those claims are made and have to be investigated despite the tainted source of the complaint.

The Aborigines who make a career of petty crime are a disgrace to their culture and bring shame on their forebears. Australians have made considerable progress towards reparations for past injustices towards Aborigines, far more than has happened towards Native Americans in the US. Repeat offending Aborigines cannot continually justify their criminal activity by claiming that they are the victims, not the offenders.

Og

 

[shereads]

I love you to death, mousey, but I can't say that this statement doesn't disturb me....it does.

What does race have to do with it?

I'm truly sorry this happened to you, but it could just as easily have been white folks, or black folks or green folks that did it.

It really bothers me to think that you actually said what you did.

~ Cloudy, American Aborigine

Cloudy, maybe she lives in Southern Australia.

When my relatives who live in the Southern U.S. tell a story about something annoying that happened - car accident, lousy service at a restaurant, etc. - they begin by telling the listener what color the person was. Unless the person is white, because then it's irrelevent.

When the person telling the story is my genteel, big-haired, 80-something Mom she always hesitates for a moment and adds, "Now, don't go calling me a bigot. There are a lot of perfectly nice ____."



Progress, unless there's money to be made from it, is slow.

 

[minsue]

Cloudy, maybe she lives in Southern Australia.

When my relatives who live in the Southern U.S. tell a story about something annoying that happened - car accident, lousy service at a restaurant, etc. - they begin by telling the listener what color the person was. Unless the person is white, because then it's irrelevent.

When the person telling the story is my genteel, big-haired, 80-something Mom she always hesitates for a moment and adds, "Now, don't go calling me a bigot. There are a lot of perfectly nice ____."



Progress, unless there's money to be made from it, is slow.

It ain't just the south, She

 

[shereads]

Unfortunately some Australian Aborigines have lost their own culture and have not acquired any other culture.

There is a highly visible minority that are alienated from norms of decent behaviour and exist through welfare benefits and petty crime. That also happens to other Australians who exist at the fringes of society.

Casinos.

They will build casinos and before long, they'll be rolling in cash like our local Seminole tribe, whose high-rise casino in the Everglades can be seen for miles. It's ugly as sin, but it's the only game in South Florida for people who find racing too far removed from betting. It's been a hit since it opened. If the building didn't look like a toilet plunger sticking up from the River of Grass, I'd applaud with more enthusiasm.

The casinos are a tacky way to enter the mainstream, but there's a rough justice about it.

The Seminole Casino sucks up busloads of day-trippers eager to gamble and splurge on the $12 Surf & Turf. I'm tempted to say they get scalped, but that would be out of character for a liberal Democrat.


For the first time in history, the reservation system we used to get the American Indians out of our way is working to their advantage. State laws that prohibit casino gambling don't apply because the reservations are self-governed; a fact that our white forefathers never expected to care about. Some of their descendents are starting to care, but what can they do about it? It just wouldn't look good to openly covet what is owned by the survivors of genocide.

Now the Seminole tribe of Florida is beseiged with people claiming to have a Seminole ancestor somewhere. For those who can prove it to the tribe's satisfaction, there is a guaranteed percentage of the take from the casino.

Satellite dishes have sprung up behind the chickee huts that front Highway 41.

The local NBC affiliate's weather forecast is sponsored by the Seminole Tribe of Florida, who now have a logo.

Most grating of all to the hoi polloi is that the tribe owns a luxury skybox at sports events where such things are normally reserved for city commissioners who've done zoning favors for land developers.

Casinos haven't made people less racist, but they've provided a reason that any idiot can understand: envy.

 

[minsue]

Casinos haven't made people less racist, but they've provided a reason that any idiot can understand: envy.

To quote my mother's problem with the casinos that popped up down the street a couple of years ago, "They're getting rich off the white man."

There are so many things wrong with that sentiment, I never even know where to start. I usually stick with the obvious fact that casino operators don't give a good goddamn what color a person is as long as their money is green. And then I wonder why her only problem with the casinos in Nevada is that they exploit the weaknesses of those who go there for the sole purpose of being exploited. Somehow, it's just the casinos next door that have anything to do with race.

And then I wonder how in the hell she raised me. Did she not believe the things she taught me? Does she shake her head now in wonder that I do?

Ugh.

Damn tangents. This is what happens when you're too cheap to get a damned shrink.

 

[shereads]

To quote my mother's problem with the casinos that popped up down the street a couple of years ago, "They're getting rich off the white man."

What your mom may be trying to explain, Min, is that tribal casinos are exploitive in new, unforseen ways. The State of Florida, for instance ("the white man") can't enjoy the same cut of the take they derive from traditional, off-reservation ways of exploiting gamblers, such as horse racing, greyhound racing/killing, and the Florida Lottery.

For decades, the state remained loyal to its friends and refused to allow casino gambling to compete with the tracks. The success of the Seminole casino seems to have inspired the passage of this year's referendum to allow slot machines at racetracks in Broward County. The theme of the campaign was this: *Some* forms of gambling are unregulated and untaxed and contribute NOTHING to the public schools."

My question is, why not put the slot machines in the public schools? Think how they'd liven up the teachers' lounge?

 

[minsue]

My question is, why not put the slot machines in the public schools? Think how they'd liven up the teachers' lounge?

I agree, but keep in mind this is coming from someone who could reach into a pile of nickels and come out with the requisite 5 perfectly lined up in her hand thumb at the ready to flick them in the machine every time without looking or thinking about it at the age of 9 or 10. Grandpa taught me well. I still can't put less then the maximum into a slot machine. It was forbidden. Not allowed to play the slots if you're not going to play them right.

 

[cantdog]

Anyway, Mousie? I'm sympathetic about your depredations at the hands of your unsocialized neighbors. A family of drug dealers has moved in across the street from me.

They're all right, although the clothes are 'way tacky and the kids and dogs are 'way overfed. (Their three-year-old is a little porker.) But the customers drive up all hours of the clock and make car noises. You know, revving and screeching tires. Compensations for small bodily endowments, my daughter says. Whenever someone peels out she always calls loudly after them, "Sorry about your penis!"

And sometimes these customers want more cash than they currently seem to be carrying, so they break in to the houses in the vicinity and ferret about for cash and whatnot. We lock everything and there's nearly always someone home, but it brings down the tone.

 

[she_is_my_addiction]

Hm...honestly, I don't know many Aussies, but all the ones I DO know (Hannah and some of her friends) do not seem to like the Aboriginals.

I could say more on this subject, but my head hurts and I'm hungry, so maybe I'll come back this way and throw in my .02

 

[kendo1]

I sympathise Doormouse
But not with the bigotry