26 January 2008

[Caravan Ray]

Happy Australia Day everybody.

26 January is the day when we celebrate the founding of a Guantanamo Bay-style concentration camp for political prisoners and poor people and the beginning of the Aboriginal genocide!

I hate Australia Day. I mean, the day off work is good - but increasingly in recent years too many dickheads seem to think it is a reason to go wandering around flying Australian flags. I hate that. Flags belong on the top of government buildings or at the head of the Olympic march-past. Nowhere else. Waving flags around everywhere is such an American thing to do. It is very distasteful. If anyone come near me today with a flag I'm going to burn the fucker.

QOTD: Did you spill my beer?

QotD (part 2): What was the best song released in 2007?

[Hoblit]

Happy Australia Day everybody.


I hate Australia Day.

QOTD: Did you spill my beer?

Well then, thank god it's still the 25th here.

qotd: Heavens no, that would be alcohol abuse.

[drë]

Yes, but only cuss I was staring at your wife’s huge knockers.

[Reist]

qotd: It's a bit of a stretch, but I'll say ... yes.

I have to go and drum at chapel now ... it's about an hour away, and I'm a bit nervous (the team leader is making me play some retarded 32nd note fills in one song ... hopefully I'm warmed up enough)

[Lord of Oats]

Somebody wasted one of my ciders last night. I was bloody pissed. But to be fair, we were fleeing an area and that was part of the swift retreat process.

some retarded 32nd note fills

with your feet?

[Niveous]

Qotd: Yeah, I did. What are you gonna do about it, mate?

[j$]

QotD: With a gut like that, I was doing you a favour ...

oh yeah,

I was on a guided tour last weekend (don't ask) and they claimed aussie anti-british slang 'poms' comes from what was written on the shirts of those we sent your way. 'Prisoners of Millbank' - the prison from which all prisoners were sent to the colonies, and now the site of Labour HQ. Also from the same place 'down under' - becuase prisoners went down the steps from milbank and under the river to board the prison ships ...

Probably shit, and doesn't explain the 'whingeing' part - but hey, at least, you're half a world away, exactly where we want you. Happy reject's day

[Billy's Little Trip]

QOTD: Did you eat my Dou-bial burger?

[EmbersOfAutumn]

QotD: Sorry, man. When I get going on those windmill air guitar strums.... (true story by the way, only with a ceiling fan and not a beer)

[Caravan Ray]

I was on a guided tour last weekend (don't ask) and they claimed aussie anti-british slang 'poms' comes from what was written on the shirts of those we sent your way. 'Prisoners of Millbank' - the prison from which all prisoners were sent to the colonies, and now the site of Labour HQ. Also from the same place 'down under' - becuase prisoners went down the steps from milbank and under the river to board the prison ships ...

Probably shit, and doesn't explain the 'whingeing' part - but hey, at least, you're half a world away, exactly where we want you. Happy reject's day

haven't heard that before - it is usually claimed to be an acronym for "Prisoner of Her Majesty" or "Prisoner of Mother England". I think the fact that those explanations are all similar - yet essentially contradictory - implies that they are crap.

The other explanation is it is a derivative of pomegranate:
H J Rumsey wrote about it in 1920 in the introduction to his book The Pommies, or New Chums in Australia. He suggested that the word began life on the wharves in Melbourne as a form of rhyming slang. An immigrant was at first called a Jimmy Grant (was there perhaps a famous real person by that name around at the time?), but over time this shifted to Pommy Grant, perhaps as a reference to pomegranate, because the new chums did burn in the sun.
http://www.worldwidewords.org/qa/qa-pom1.htm

This sounds much more likely, because most of our other slang is based on rhyming slang. Also - I don't think the word is really that old that it dates to convict days. I don't recall the word ever being used by (18thC poets who wrote in the Australian venacular) Henry Lawson or Banjo Patterson (though I could be wrong). The idea of having a slang term for the English before about 1900 seems a bit weird - because we were all English back then

[fluffy]

qotd: No, but one time Mad Dog wasted half of a six-pack of Red Stripe that I brought to an # practice session. (Apparently he doesn't know how to hold his liquor, if it's contained in a stubby bottle anyway.)

At Amazon, my department had a weekly Friday drinking gathering in one of the offices (and later in the department lounge, when we finally had such a thing). We always knew it was official when this one particular guy managed to knock over a half-drank beer (it was always him, and it was every week, and no, he never learned).

[Hoblit]

qotd: No, but one time Mad Dog wasted half of a six-pack of Red Stripe that I brought to an # practice session. (Apparently he doesn't know how to hold his liquor, if it's contained in a stubby bottle anyway.)

(AND apparently you don't know the difference between liquor and crappy Jamacan beer)

[sausage boy]

Who organised Australia Day this year? Saturday? At least the powers that be have a bit of sense and offset the public holiday part until Monday.

I'm with you on the flag business, Ray. If there is one thing I hate more than yobs wandering around waving flags everywhere, its when its yobs wandering around wearing flags as capes.

And the question isn't who spilt your beer, but are you willing to suck it out of the bar mat?

[Lord of Oats]

qotd: No, but one time Mad Dog wasted half of a six-pack of Red Stripe that I brought to an # practice session. (Apparently he doesn't know how to hold his liquor, if it's contained in a stubby bottle anyway.)

(AND apparently you don't know the difference between liquor and crappy Jamacan beer)

Um...I believe in the expression "to hold one's liquor," liquor refers to any form of alcohol. It's just kind of an accepted thing in our society, I thought. But I guess participation in the program may very locally.

[Billy's Little Trip]

qotd: No, but one time Mad Dog wasted half of a six-pack of Red Stripe that I brought to an # practice session. (Apparently he doesn't know how to hold his liquor, if it's contained in a stubby bottle anyway.)

(AND apparently you don't know the difference between liquor and crappy Jamacan beer)

Hey, I've had Red Stripe. I remember liking it. Hooray Beer!

[Märk]

qotd: No, but one time Mad Dog wasted half of a six-pack of Red Stripe that I brought to an # practice session. (Apparently he doesn't know how to hold his liquor, if it's contained in a stubby bottle anyway.)

(AND apparently you don't know the difference between liquor and crappy Jamacan beer)

Um...I believe in the expression "to hold one's liquor," liquor refers to any form of alcohol. It's just kind of an accepted thing in our society, I thought. But I guess participation in the program may very locally.

Calm down, Oats

PS: What is Jamacan?

[Reist]

some retarded 32nd note fills

with your feet?

I wish. I fail at double kick. I'd like to note though - the chapel went well, I only had one blatantly obvious mistake (not involving 32nd notes), and we jammed for a little while too, which was pretty fun ... I don't jam enough these days.

[Lord of Oats]

I remember loving some Red Stripe commercials a few years ago and wanting to try it. I was unable at the time, and now the interest has kind of faded. I saw it and considered it, but I don't know. I've had a lot of six packs I couldn't finish. How does everyone feel about this stuff?

And yeah, like jamming is really sweet. I need more too. You want to meet up some time? We'll each go half way. Maybe in Omaha?

[Hoblit]

qotd: No, but one time Mad Dog wasted half of a six-pack of Red Stripe that I brought to an # practice session. (Apparently he doesn't know how to hold his liquor, if it's contained in a stubby bottle anyway.)

(AND apparently you don't know the difference between liquor and crappy Jamacan beer)

Um...I believe in the expression "to hold one's liquor," liquor refers to any form of alcohol. It's just kind of an accepted thing in our society, I thought. But I guess participation in the program may very locally.

heh, I just learned something. (I had always considered the saying to just mean liquor liquor as opposed to beer liquor)

Jamacan ? good question.
Answer: I wasn't using Firefox to post this time.

I guess I really should start drinking this evening. I was going to hold off...tomorrow being Gasparilla and everything..don't wanna be hungover for that.

[Caravan Ray]

Happy Australia Day everybody.

26 January is the day when we celebrate the founding of a Guantanamo Bay-style concentration camp for political prisoners and poor people and the beginning of the Aboriginal genocide!

I hate Australia Day. I mean, the day off work is good - but increasingly in recent years too many dickheads seem to think it is a reason to go wandering around flying Australian flags. I hate that. Flags belong on the top of government buildings or at the head of the Olympic march-past. Nowhere else. Waving flags around everywhere is such an American thing to do. It is very distasteful. If anyone come near me today with a flag I'm going to burn the fucker.

QOTD: Did you spill my beer?

Ok - that post was made about 1am this morning and I may have been a bit fdrink ruight then, so it is not unreasonable to assume that I spilt my own beer. So, with that question answered (and most of you not even on 26 Jan yet) - I will offer a new QOTD.

I actually forgot the one good thing about Australia Day - it is also Hottest 100 day! The day that Triple J radio plays the top 100 songs from 2007 as voted by listeners. So:

QotD (part 2): What will be the Hottest 100 number one song this year? In other words - what was the best song released in 2007?

I voted for:
Flathead by The Fratellis,
Penny on a Train Track by Ben Kweller,
No Pussy Blues by Grinderman,
Get What You Want by Operator Please
Let's Dance to Joy Division by The Wombats
Is There a Ghost by Band of Horses and
The Shape is in a Trance by Thurston Moore

I have no idea what #1 will be. Probably something boring by Powderfinger

[Billy's Little Trip]

I thought your first question of the day was referring to the song "Did You Spill My Pint?" by Lawnmower Deth, even though you said beer. I always read your posts with a pom accent just to piss you off telepathically.

[Ross]

'Ere.

QOTD: Did it spil on your crotch? Did you have to remove your pants?

That was me.