Well you can't really tie a specific day with Kangaroo Boxing.
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by Kannadrickium » Wed Jan 17, 2018 8:30 pm
by Purpelia » Wed Jan 17, 2018 8:31 pm
by Sovaal » Wed Jan 17, 2018 8:34 pm
by Costa Fierro » Wed Jan 17, 2018 10:43 pm
Ifreann wrote:I would have expected Australia Day to be when Australia became a country, not when Europeans first found the place.
by Dazchan » Wed Jan 17, 2018 11:23 pm
Costa Fierro wrote:This marked when Cook landed in Australia.
by Costa Fierro » Wed Jan 17, 2018 11:38 pm
by Dazchan » Wed Jan 17, 2018 11:40 pm
Costa Fierro wrote:Dazchan wrote:
We should definitely change the date since apparently nobody actually knows what it commemorates.
I guess perhaps the landing of the first European on Australia, although I was under the impression that it commemorated the arrival of the first convicts. Is the day Australia became a federation celebrated?
by Costa Fierro » Wed Jan 17, 2018 11:52 pm
Dazchan wrote:Costa Fierro wrote:
I guess perhaps the landing of the first European on Australia, although I was under the impression that it commemorated the arrival of the first convicts. Is the day Australia became a federation celebrated?
It is the date the First Fleet landed in Sydney Cove and proclaimed the colony of New South Wales. It has absolutely nothing to do with Cook.
by Emericia » Thu Jan 18, 2018 12:11 am
Costa Fierro wrote:Then I have been misled by OP, who said it was the landing of Cook.
by Cedoria » Thu Jan 18, 2018 1:01 am
Kramania wrote:No.
Australia, as a country and as a colony, didn't exist prior to his landing. It was a historic event which led to the creation of the country.
People need to get over it.
by Cedoria » Thu Jan 18, 2018 1:02 am
by Cedoria » Thu Jan 18, 2018 1:04 am
by Cedoria » Thu Jan 18, 2018 1:07 am
Costa Fierro wrote:Dazchan wrote:
We should definitely change the date since apparently nobody actually knows what it commemorates.
I guess perhaps the landing of the first European on Australia, although I was under the impression that it commemorated the arrival of the first convicts. Is the day Australia became a federation celebrated?
by Dumb Ideologies » Thu Jan 18, 2018 1:08 am
by Cedoria » Thu Jan 18, 2018 2:47 am
Dumb Ideologies wrote:Every day is global white guilt day, an exception here or there is fine. Ignore the moaners and you have your day when you want.
by Dumb Ideologies » Thu Jan 18, 2018 2:57 am
Cedoria wrote:Dumb Ideologies wrote:Every day is global white guilt day, an exception here or there is fine. Ignore the moaners and you have your day when you want.
Not really sure how this is relevant, the major point is that lots of Aussies Don't want it on Australia Day. The argument is whether they have a good case.
by Cedoria » Thu Jan 18, 2018 2:59 am
Dumb Ideologies wrote:Cedoria wrote:Not really sure how this is relevant, the major point is that lots of Aussies Don't want it on Australia Day. The argument is whether they have a good case.
I think no. There's a point of pandering beyond which you might as well start painting yourself white and black and eating only bamboo.
by The Huskar Social Union » Thu Jan 18, 2018 3:27 am
by Cetacea » Thu Jan 18, 2018 3:36 am
by Cetacea » Thu Jan 18, 2018 3:43 am
Cedoria wrote:Costa Fierro wrote:
Then I have been misled by OP, who said it was the landing of Cook.
Even if it were, Cook was still not the first European to land in Australia. There were confirmed Portugese landings at one point, as well as French ones.
Some also speculate the possibilities of either Chinese or Egyptian explorers making it, but I don't think there's hard evidence to back that up.
by Cedoria » Thu Jan 18, 2018 8:24 am
Cetacea wrote:Cedoria wrote:
Even if it were, Cook was still not the first European to land in Australia. There were confirmed Portugese landings at one point, as well as French ones.
Some also speculate the possibilities of either Chinese or Egyptian explorers making it, but I don't think there's hard evidence to back that up.
there is evidence of Bugis and Makkasans from Sulawesi trading with Arnhem Land before Europeans arrived. The Egyptian presence is crap, ignore it
by Kannadrickium » Thu Jan 18, 2018 8:26 am
Sovaal wrote:Kannadrickium wrote:Well you can't really tie a specific day with Kangaroo Boxing.
Not with that attitude.
What well do is set up a string of boxing matches were put champion will box and defeat every single kangaroo in Australia, and the date of the last victory shall not only be the new Australia Day, but also the founding day of the new religion worshipping the kangaroo boxing Demi-god.
by The Derpy Democratic Republic Of Herp » Thu Jan 18, 2018 9:40 am
by The Derpy Democratic Republic Of Herp » Thu Jan 18, 2018 9:43 am
by Cedoria » Thu Jan 18, 2018 7:38 pm
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