Australia day festivities

[Neferti]

http://catallaxyfiles.com/2015/01/26/ar ... australia/

WTF?

Has Tony Abbott really lost his marbles? If he were not bad enough going the captain’s pick and reintroducing Sirs and Dames – even John Howard thought this was a bad idea, pretty much all you need to know – this year we have (drum roll);

PHIL THE GREEK, KNIGHT OF AUSTRALIA

Now I actually have a bit of time for the old codger. He has had to tramp around the UK and the world, trailing after his wife, attending all manner of boring events.

Wouldn’t you put your foot in it simply out of a sense of frustrated ennui and to give the masses something to chuckle about? Not quite up there with Yogi Berra but pretty good.

But seriously, are we to assume that there is no one in Australia who deserves the title of Sir or Dame and that we have to hand over a gong (let’s face it, the Duke couldn’t give a toss) to a nonagenarian who has precious little connection with us?

Here are some of Phil’s howlers (taken from the SMH, in its sneering column):

“Do you still throw spears at each other?” Speaking to Aboriginal leader Ivan Brim in Cairns in 2002.

“Oh no, I might catch some ghastly disease.” When asked to pat a koala in Australia in 1992.

“It looks as if it was put in by an Indian.”Describing a fuse box at a factory in Scotland in 1999.

“If it has got four legs and it is not a chair, if it has got two wings and it flies but is not an aeroplane, and if it swims and it is not a submarine, the Cantonese will eat it.” Said to a 1986 meeting of the World Wildlife Fund.

“Deaf? If you are near there, no wonder you are deaf.” Talking to young deaf people in Wales about a steel band recital in 1999.

“How do you keep the natives off the booze long enough to pass the test?” Question to a Scottish driving instructor in 1995.

“You managed not to get eaten then?” Question to a British student who had been trekking on the Kokoda Trail in Papua New Guinea in 1998.

“Well, you’ll never fly in it, you’re too fat to be an astronaut.” Said to a 13-year-old while visiting the NOVA space craft at the University of Salford in Manchester in 2001.

“If you stay here much longer, you’ll all be slitty-eyed.” Comment to British exchange students in Beijing in 1986.

“Do you know they have eating-dogs for the anorexic now?” Sharing a joke with a blind, wheelchair-bound woman in 2002.

“Everybody was saying we must have more leisure. Now they are complaining they are unemployed.” Commentary on the deep recession in Britain in the 1980s.

“You are a women, aren’t you?” To a gift-bearing native in Kenya in 1984.

“The bastards murdered half my family.” On Russians in 1967.

“If it doesn’t fart or eat hay, she is not interested.” On Princess Anne’s love of horses.

“What do you gargle with? Pebbles?” To Tom Jones after a Royal Variety Performance.

[mellie]

Got to love the toady left pandering to and flattering minorities (ethnic, gay or otherwise) for self serving purposes.



Boxy cant wait until it's hug a gay down syndrome Jew week.

[Rorschach]

Just to name a few he is patron of...

Alfred Group of Hospitals ( Alfred Health )
Australian Carriage Driving Society
Australian Outward Bound Trust
Australian Rugby Football League, Board of Control
BirdLife Australia (was Royal Australasian Ornithologists Union (Birds Australia)
HMAS Canberra/Shropshire Association
Ian Clunies Ross Memorial Foundation
Norfolk Island Flora and Fauna Society
Royal Sydney Yacht Squadron
Sandringham Yacht Club, Australia
Surf Life Saving Australia

[mellie]

Leftard socialist Multi-cults destroying and undermining Australia Day and our culture.


http://www.crc.nsw.gov.au/__data/assets ... ralism.pdf

It's one thing to celebrate diversity, it's another to allow it to grand-stand, undermine and overshadow what it really means to be an Australian.

[IQS.RLOW]

Sir Prince Phillip

Is a great pic for an Aussie knighthood.

His un-pc sayings are more Australian than the simpering mewlings of softcock Australian lefties.

Toadying is so un-Australian

More so is leftism and socialism.

[Rorschach]

Oh and Poxy.... I disagree with Abbott's decision in this award. I also disagree with the arrangement that just the PM gets to make the call.

[Neferti]

Prince Charles was made a Knight of the Order of Australia (AK) on 14 March, 1981 by the 22nd Australian Prime Minister (Fraser).

Hawke (23rd PM) abolished this on 3 March, 1986.

Following his election in 2013, Prime Minister Tony Abbott (28th PM) advised the Queen to reinstate the categories of Dame (AD) and Knight (AK). In March 2014, the Queen co-signed Letters Patent to bring this into effect.

The first person to be awarded a Dame of the Order of Australia (AD) was Dame Quentin Bryce. Others still alive you can call Sir or Dame are listed here ...

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/List_of_Kn ... _Australia

[boxy]

Oh and Poxy.... I disagree with Abbott's decision in this award. I also disagree with the arrangement that just the PM gets to make the call.

Just took you 4 hours to decide that the usual piling on, along party lines, didn't fit with your "pretend lefty" persona, eh

[Rorschach]

Oh and Poxy.... I disagree with Abbott's decision in this award. I also disagree with the arrangement that just the PM gets to make the call.

Just took you 4 hours to decide that the usual piling on, along party lines, didn't fit with your "pretend lefty" persona, eh

No poxy I decided that when I first heard it.
I just wasted my time replying to your crap first.