Pathetic excuses for Australians

[minux]

Well, i thought i had heard everything...until leaving the gym today...

Was walking out past the old dig selling remembrance day poppies...and i overheard this.

Child: Mum whats that for?
Mother: Oh nothing its just silly people trying to make money.
Child: Can i have a flower?
Mother: Oh(disgusted sounds) if you must
Man: Thank you maam
Mother: So what are these for exactly?
Man: Remembrance day
Mother: Whats that?


I could go on, but you get my point, i was honestly upset that someone who was obviously been in australia all her life had no idea what this day represents. Do people not care about these things anymore? If not, it is just a disgrace.


Sorry needed to get that off my chest

[fourstar82]

Completely and utterly disgraceful! Who was this excuse for a human being? And what rock has she been living under?

[Julie]

Jeez thats disgusting but unfortunately it doesn't suprise me nowadays. Without being discriminatory, did they look like they just got off the boat and hence had no idea of our history? Or was it just your regular ignorant uneducated Aussie?

[AirStrike]

I purchased one of each kind they had, my grandad was a PoW in Changi for 2 years and I know the money all goes to a good cause to help the old diggers out.
We have them selling at work atm, and the area I work in has a high muslim population and yes I have heard similar conversations as yours minux and just been deeply saddened.
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[padrickz88]

yeah that happens alot, i seriously wonder at times if im the only 18 yr old who actually does the 1 minute silence, ok there has been once i slept in until 12 and couldnt do it (the 1 time in the year i 100% set my alarm for 10.30) but didnt go off and yeah, but i usually do it.... and at my highschool school they never promoted it much, so airstrike just wondering how much are they? i used to buy them in primary but that was ages ago and ive forgot..... because i want to buy a couple and put 1 around my rear view.... show some respect... thanks btw every person should be grateful of the people who served this country, wouldn't be as great as it is if it wasnt for them =]

[stocky]

yeah that happens alot, i seriously wonder at times if im the only 18 yr old who actually does the 1 minute silence, ok there has been once i slept in until 12 and couldnt do it (the 1 time in the year i 100% set my alarm for 10.30) but didnt go off and yeah, but i usually do it.... and at my highschool school they never promoted it much, so airstrike just wondering how much are they? i used to buy them in primary but that was ages ago and ive forgot..... because i want to buy a couple and put 1 around my rear view.... show some respect... thanks btw every person should be grateful of the people who served this country, wouldn't be as great as it is if it wasnt for them =]

im working tomorrow at 11am at a liquor store, but we are still making the entire shop silent for that one minute

[sircruisealotVS]

That doesnt suprise me at all, it seems half the people in Australia these days struggle with english, grammar and spelling...how are they supposed to know anything about history if they struggle with the basics?
I think the country is going to be very interesting in say 20-30 years when there's a severe lack of educated people to remember and pass on such historical and cultural knowledge. Things like respect, values and decency already seem to be out the window, so its only a matter of time before the rest of Australian culture crumbles away.

[AirStrike]

Cost around $30 I think for one of each, there is like 3 different types.
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[minux]

Jeez thats disgusting but unfortunately it doesn't suprise me nowadays. Without being discriminatory, did they look like they just got off the boat and hence had no idea of our history? Or was it just your regular ignorant uneducated Aussie?

Was just your run of the mill brainless undeducated aussie.

[pandaman]

One minutes silence is the least I can offer in honour of the fallen and God help anyone who has a go at me for doing it. Every Remembrance day and ANZAC day there's an RFS contingent at the ceremony and I try to attend with them. My Grandfather spent most of his life in the RAN, he managed to survive two wars. His best mate wasn't so lucky, that tortured him for the rest of his life. Even thinking about it brings me close to tears, un-patriotic retards like the ones Minux was talking about make me so angry, they have no understanding of the events that have shaped this country, no idea of anything. I'm never sure whether I should laugh or scream at them.

[crazyspoon05]

I was working at a Tatt's Pokies venue a few years ago and we tried the minutes silence, most of the patrons respected it but this one idiot kept playing throughout the minute so rather than a minutes silence we had a minute of listening to some $$%@head play a pokie

Shame we can't turn them off for that minute

[Holden_Chickie]

I did my bit for rememberance day I brought a pen......I have to work this morning so I also hope that they do the one minute silence thing, because I think showing respect for the people who died in battle for us should be honoured.

Ignorant aussies get up my nose to Pandaman Im with you on this one I agree wholly heartedly!!!!

[minux]

One minutes silence is the least I can offer in honour of the fallen and God help anyone who has a go at me for doing it. Every Remembrance day and ANZAC day there's an RFS contingent at the ceremony and I try to attend with them. My Grandfather spent most of his life in the RAN, he managed to survive two wars. His best mate wasn't so lucky, that tortured him for the rest of his life. Even thinking about it brings me close to tears, un-patriotic retards like the ones Minux was talking about make me so angry, they have no understanding of the events that have shaped this country, no idea of anything. I'm never sure whether I should laugh or scream at them.

Its nto a matter of being patriotic, its a matter of respect. It is one quality australians used to be so well known for, now, i find it hard to come across a person who is even willing to help out the little old man and woman carrying groceries home from the supermarket.

[Holden_Chickie]

Its nto a matter of being patriotic, its a matter of respect. It is one quality australians used to be so well known for, now, i find it hard to come across a person who is even willing to help out the little old man and woman carrying groceries home from the supermarket.

They did a tv show trial on people helping others it took over 5 hours for someone to stop to help someone. I think the things we are taught these days for example stranger danger, have made it so people are to scared to assist others.

But in saying that a lady saw me up at my local grocery store with bags of shopping waiting for my ride that never came, anyways she asked it I wanted a lift home.......also I go to work each saturday and a guy i just met asked me the same thing....so there are people out there that, want to help others just not the majority.

[minux]

They did a tv show trial on people helping others it took over 5 hours for someone to stop to help someone. I think the things we are taught these days for example stranger danger, have made it so people are to scared to assist others.

But in saying that a lady saw me up at my local grocery store with bags of shopping waiting for my ride that never came, anyways she asked it I wanted a lift home.......also I go to work each saturday and a guy i just met asked me the same thing....so there are people out there that, want to help others just not the majority.

I agree these people are out there, i always go back to help people if they have broken down, even if they don't need help they always seem happy that someone stopped.
When i had my BIG accident, the only asshole who stopped was a sleazy little wog who tried to steal shit out of my car.

[vlv8vic]

im not shocked. as a teacher i see kids who grow up being allowed to play x-box and watch cartoons on paytv flat out. the more energetic ones flog a stolen 80 around the backyard of their mums comission home. the parents dont have time for them and dont give a shit about their education so they dont tell them these things. school can only do so much with a curriculum chocked full of crap there is hardly room for anything 'important'.
i managed to read a story to my kids and observe a mins silence yesterday, however we didnt touch on poppies adn their significance.
say the same kids leave school at 15 with no understanding of what it's about, they get preggers and the cycle starts again.

whalla! instant ignorance. (and the proper term is gererational poverty).

Now, the person minux mentions may have been a new aussie with no understanding, or a generationally impoverished ignorant twit, either way it doesnt excuse their rudeness.

[minux]

vlv8, thansk for those words, you just made me realsie how grateful i am for the life i live

[stylin_vr2]

what arrogant lil twats... grr.. theres only 1 thing i hate more than ppl not speakin english in public, and thats aussies who no f*ck all about our history... grr.. slap em silly i will!
p.s. i did the whole minute silence..

[Marco-EFIVL]

I unfortunately have no ANZAC's in my family, two of my grandfathers did fight commonwealth troops in the second World War though, especially my father's father, who was in North Africa under German General Erwin Rommel the 'Desert Fox'. However, I have great respect, as did my grandfather and my father respectively, for the Commonwealth troops, and since they moved to Australia themselves, an even greater noteriety for the Australian troops, to whom bravery and grit my grandfather would always comment "Those plucky little Australian bastards in Tobruk!".

It is on that note, on every ANZAC and Rememberance day, not only do I remember my families sacrifices through the Great Wars (As Rememberence day is 11/11, the armistace of WWI), and those who fought with great bravery and dignity against the ANZACS, but I also take time to remember the ANZACS themselves, for it is they who have provided us, on the backs of their sacrifice, a country so free and full of oppotunity, which gave my family, and so many other migrant post-war families, a time and place for a new start, in a new world, for that, I am most grateful, and I wish my wogs/dings understood that...

[Shortstuff]

How do people manage to grow up in this country or the UK without knowing anything about remembrance day? At both the primary and high schools I went to it was such a big thing there was no way you could avoid it. And the minutes silence - how can anyone miss noticing that for many many years?

Just checked with my 7 year old daughter though and no-one said anything at all about it at her school.

[Shifty1]

I respect the ANZAC cause. My great grandfather died in that war, and my father also went to the vietnam war, so I respect any war vertran cause and will by the anzac pin or poppies or whatever they are selling.

Ialways do the minute silcence, no matter where I am at the time.

[J_D]

Time for our minute silence here in QLD.

http://www.defence.gov.au/army/tradi...s/LastPost.htm


MP3 of the Last Post

http://www.dva.gov.au/commem/commac/...s_download.htm

[pandaman]

Its nto a matter of being patriotic, its a matter of respect. It is one quality australians used to be so well known for, now, i find it hard to come across a person who is even willing to help out the little old man and woman carrying groceries home from the supermarket.

As far as I'm concerned such a grievous lack of respect for fellow Aussies amounts to being unpatriotic. The semantics don't matter though, fact is it's a problem.

Didn't get to go to the service today, a minibus caught fire so I ended up spending the morning in the comms room down at the fireshed. Ahh well, try again next year.

[stocky]

while doing the minutes silence, there was a trumpet playing as expected. one guy asked "is it anzac day?"

[adam69]

Im sorry Minux that you had to suffer that.Its a very emotional day and should not be clouded by these morons.If it wasnt for these diggers who knows what our lives would be like now.
This should be part of our kids education.