Australia Day

We drove a 60 km round trip through suburban Melbourne today and did not sight one Australian flag anywhere. Sadly it looks as the activists have bluffed everyone into believing today is Invasion Day.

Ok you expect the Australian flag to fly on Australia Day.  Along with the "other" flag, if rather less.

Carioca wrote: Baghdad Bob wrote: We drove a 60 km round trip through suburban Melbourne today and did not sight one Australian flag anywhere. Sadly it looks as the activists have bluffed everyone into believing today is Invasion Day. Bob , when you see a flag with a red background and a big yellow star in the middle then worry.

Baghdad Bob wrote: Carioca wrote: Baghdad Bob wrote: We drove a 60 km round trip through suburban Melbourne today and did not sight one Australian flag anywhere. Sadly it looks as the activists have bluffed everyone into believing today is Invasion Day. Bob , when you see a flag with a red background and a big yellow star in the middle then worry.  Some of the best food I have ever eaten is at Chinese restaurants, I do like Chiko rolls and dim sims. I do expect some feed back on those last two dishes

As the aboriginal flag has been brought into this discussion its derivation maybe be of interest.

The Chiko Roll is an Australian savoury snack invented by Frank McEncroe, inspired by the Chinese spring roll and first sold in 1951 as the "Chicken Roll" despite not actually containing chicken.^[1] The snack was designed to be easily eaten on the move without a plate or cutlery. Since 1995 they have been owned by Simplot Australia.

A Chiko Roll's filling is primarily cabbage and barley, as well as carrot, green beans, beef, beef tallow, wheat cereal, celery and onion. This filling is partially pulped and enclosed in a thick egg and flour pastry tube designed to survive handling at football matches. The roll is typically deep-fried in vegetable oil.

At the peak of its popularity in the 1960s and 1970s, 40 million Chiko Rolls were sold annually in Australia. The product has been described as an Australian cultural icon

Oh wait, "Beef", yes, that would be probably be minced up snouts and ears etc

You'd swear some of those old meat pies were made from dead dogs picked up at the side of the road, some of the bits and pieces were that tough, they had to be part of the dog's collar.

Oh really?

It is a whinge-fest fostered by inner city do-gooders glorying in their imagined moral superiority, and politicians who sense they better go with the flow, but in reality the complaints are largely vacuous. All addressed decades ago. I heard one middle aged half black bloke spitting vinegar about massacre sites, as if there is anything can be done, it makes about as much sense as demonstrating against Japanese treatment of POW's, all over and done with, finished. "What do we want ?" a kick in the bum, "when do we want it" Now ! Trying to shame people for things they had nothing to do with, is just divisiveness attempted to be perpetuated indefinitely. I wouldn't give you two-bob for people who attend those rallies.

Baghdad Bob wrote: max manewer wrote: marble wrote: isn't a chiko an australian invention? you can only eat them after 10 beers The contents you are probably better not to know the details of. Max you are often wrong, but on this occasion you are 100% correct

‘Our land abounds in Nature’s Gifts;

Why is this women " poor " and how do you know she is .? is there something she said that irks you?

If you watched her acceptance speech you might see why I said that. Her elevation to this role may be enough to get the other states to repeal that law, which has already been dumped in Tasmania, but if she goes, or is led on, some sort of crusade against pedophiles, I'd expect she will unravel. She has already achieved getting that gagging legislation removed, and realistically should concentrate on lobbying for it nation wide, not "dismantling grooming" whatever that can be construed to be, for which laws already exist. She's not Joan of Arc.

I'll take a Chiko Roll over one of these horrors from a cafe in Adelaide as an Australia Day special.