Shajota
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The Aussie depository.....
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Davo
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Yep, Happy Cook visited Botany Bay Day. :
Cracking bottle of Rolf Binders 2010 "Malcolm" Shiraz to celebrate all those leaners getting Aus Day gongs. They never seem to go to the poor bastards that put in years of volunteer work making the lives of others better. Always seem to go to fuckers who have already been well rewarded for sometimes doing what they have been paid to do.
Cracking bottle of Rolf Binders 2010 "Malcolm" Shiraz to celebrate all those leaners getting Aus Day gongs. They never seem to go to the poor bastards that put in years of volunteer work making the lives of others better. Always seem to go to fuckers who have already been well rewarded for sometimes doing what they have been paid to do.
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Legs
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Couldn't agree more Davo; the greatest travesty was when the mob that won gold medals at the Olympics were awarded gongs. Given a medal for winning a medal! 
motoddrob
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Was it the day Cook arrived in Botany Bay or as I thought the day the first fleet landed. Never given it a great deal of thought.
Dellortoman
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Anniversary of the First Fleet arrival in 1788. https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Australia_Day
PS: Captain Cook's arrival in Botany Bay was on 29 April 1770. 18 years earlier.
PS: Captain Cook's arrival in Botany Bay was on 29 April 1770. 18 years earlier.
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Davo
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So it is really NSW day. Australia day should be 1st January.
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Legs
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YES!
Yogi
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... what about the date when Captain Cook finish his recently well-publicised circumcision of Australia - gotta love our current PMs lack of understanding of our history...
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Davo
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Yogi said:
Fixed it for you.
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Dellortoman said:
And the earliest English settlement in Western Australia was Albany in 1826. The Swan River Colony (later to become Perth) in 1829.
As to boofhead and his Cook re-enactment perhaps he should just go the full monte and head straight for the Sandwich Islands.
And if fuckknuckle wants to celebrate anyone English at all for discovering Australia it should be William Dampier who landed in Shark Bay or nearby 70 years before Cook, ie Cook wasn't even born.
A quick history here :- http://www.abc.net.au/local/stories/2014/08/25/4073748.htm
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Legs
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Errr, could it be because Dampier didn't make landfall on the east coast? 
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chrisk
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I went to an Australia Day bbq yesterday, consumed a total of two mid strength beers ...... I hate being the designated driver.
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Legs
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Mathew Flinders, Master Navigator ably assisted by his good mate Trim.
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Davo
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sfcpiet said:So Oz is circumcised
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I was being circumspect and decided to circumnavigate the misspelling.
Yogi
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...best not to feed it.
mauricejota7604
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I was talking to LJ a few years ago in the UK and he mentioned that in fact he maybe generations down from the Dampier that discovered the north west coast of Australia.
So maybe he is an Aussie after all.
So maybe he is an Aussie after all.
Dellortoman
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maurice turner said:I was talking to LJ a few years ago in the UK and he mentioned that in fact he maybe generations down from the Dampier that discovered the north west coast of Australia.
So maybe he is an Aussie after all.
That makes sense. William Dampier was a pirate.
