Red Mosquito

Birds in Hell wrote:I've prepared this handy guide for future reference:

simple schoolboy wrote:

Citizen Dick wrote:When I lived in the US it was always a bit surprising how many Americans would use convict jokes as some kind 'hur, hur' burn, without realising America was used as a penal colony by the Brits first.

Like... losing the US colonies is literally the reason they chose to settle Australia with convicts.

The first colonies were backed by investment companies. Then, followed by additional colonies of puritans and other religious minorities. What penal colonies do you refer to? There were many indentured servants who paid off their transit through a term of service, but I don't think that indicates they were necessarily prisoners in England or elsewhere.

The British used colonial North America as a penal colony through a system of indentured servitude. Merchants would transport the convicts and auction them off (for example) to plantation owners upon arrival in the colonies. It is estimated that some 50,000 British convicts were sent to colonial America and the majority landed in the Chesapeake Colonies of Maryland and Virginia. Transported convicts represented perhaps one-quarter of all British emigrants during the 18th century.

BurtReynolds wrote:If Australia legalizes guns, I'll move there.

simple schoolboy wrote:

Birds in Hell wrote:I've prepared this handy guide for future reference:

Between the regions that touch on the North Coast, what would have been most helpful in the case of of a Japanese invasion? Ports, oil, railroads, etc.

spike wrote:

simple schoolboy wrote:

Birds in Hell wrote:I've prepared this handy guide for future reference:

Between the regions that touch on the North Coast, what would have been most helpful in the case of of a Japanese invasion? Ports, oil, railroads, etc.

They stopped the Japanese in Papua New Guinea, hoss.

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96583UP wrote:

Higgs wrote:

96583UP wrote:

Higgs wrote:

96583UP wrote:oh god more 'Australia is superior to the US' talk again from Higgs

hey big shot - take a look at page 17 and see if you still think you are top banana

https://newclimate.org/wp-content/uploa ... ersion.pdf

Such a pussy little snowflake.

for a moment i forgot Australia was a desolate island of undomesticated criminal descendants but then you just reminded me

What you will never grasp is that we understand and are proud of this. It's who we are.

Sorry for triggering your inferiority issues. I'll try and be more considerate of your delicate constitution in future.

Thanks. And congrats on putting out those forest fires! It must have been tough putting your thinking caps on to find a solution for that brain-scrambler. But in the end, you managed to claw your way up the cognitive ladder to the level of homo erectus and had a breakthrough: water put out fire. Amazing. Proud. Of. You. It took almost a year, but you did it. See - you showed everyone - and who knows what's next now?!? Maybe learning to walk on your hind legs, all the time?! Sky's the limit.

I guess I'm too dumb to even know what you're talking about here? I mean my cousins family lost their complete home and 2 dogs they couldn't find in the fires in January last year, so I'm pretty well versed in what went down then. No idea on fires burning for the past 12 months though. Nice "burn" though, I'm sure.

Not certain why you have such a problem with me though numbers. I was making comment about the US corona stimulus in the corona stimulus thread. Sorry?

BurtReynolds wrote:Dime's hatred of the Brits is only rivalled by Numbers's hatred of the Aussies.

96583UP wrote:

Higgs wrote:

96583UP wrote:

Higgs wrote:

96583UP wrote:

Higgs wrote:

96583UP wrote:oh god more 'Australia is superior to the US' talk again from Higgs

hey big shot - take a look at page 17 and see if you still think you are top banana

https://newclimate.org/wp-content/uploa ... ersion.pdf

Such a pussy little snowflake.

for a moment i forgot Australia was a desolate island of undomesticated criminal descendants but then you just reminded me

What you will never grasp is that we understand and are proud of this. It's who we are.

Sorry for triggering your inferiority issues. I'll try and be more considerate of your delicate constitution in future.

Thanks. And congrats on putting out those forest fires! It must have been tough putting your thinking caps on to find a solution for that brain-scrambler. But in the end, you managed to claw your way up the cognitive ladder to the level of homo erectus and had a breakthrough: water put out fire. Amazing. Proud. Of. You. It took almost a year, but you did it. See - you showed everyone - and who knows what's next now?!? Maybe learning to walk on your hind legs, all the time?! Sky's the limit.

I guess I'm too dumb to even know what you're talking about here? I mean my cousins family lost their complete home and 2 dogs they couldn't find in the fires in January last year, so I'm pretty well versed in what went down then. No idea on fires burning for the past 12 months though. Nice "burn" though, I'm sure.

Not certain why you have such a problem with me though numbers. I was making comment about the US corona stimulus in the corona stimulus thread. Sorry?

sorry about your relatives house

if you don’t want the fury of the 96 account, then stop shitting on my country. that’s for americans to be obsessed with- focus on your own shithole
government.

our government didnt fail us. we passed the largest fiscal stimulus package in modern US history within record time when this broke out - including billions for vaccine development, which paid off

now you can all mooch off our stash- again

enjoy

96583UP wrote:these colors don’t run