|
Welcome to the Australian Ford Forums forum. You are currently viewing our boards as a guest which gives you limited access to view most discussions and inserts advertising. By joining our free community you will have access to post topics, communicate privately with other members, respond to polls, upload content and access many other special features without post based advertising banners. Registration is simple and absolutely free so please, join our community today! If you have any problems with the registration process or your account login, please contact us. Please Note: All new registrations go through a manual approval queue to keep spammers out. This is checked twice each day so there will be a delay before your registration is activated. |
|
The Bar For non Automotive Related Chat |
|
Thread Tools | Display Modes |
25-01-2010, 10:14 AM | #61 | |||
zdcol71
Join Date: Jun 2009
Location: brisbane
Posts: 1,095
|
Quote:
That to me would be a truly great Australia Day outcome
__________________
: 30 years later |
|||
25-01-2010, 11:00 AM | #62 | |||
FF.Com.Au Hardcore
Join Date: May 2007
Posts: 575
|
Quote:
|
|||
25-01-2010, 11:10 AM | #63 | |||
Obsessed with wheels
Join Date: Dec 2006
Posts: 2,298
|
Quote:
|
|||
25-01-2010, 02:03 PM | #64 | ||
The Thread Killa
Join Date: May 2006
Location: Melbourne
Posts: 1,064
|
My wife and I are Filipino by birth, we've lived in Melbourne for 6 1/2 years, we got our citizenship (and passports) 3 years ago, our daughter was born here just before that.
I contribute to society and try to build a life for my family. Talk to me on the phone and you'd never realise you were speaking to an Asian. To me, that makes me Aussie, and I celebrate that with the Aussie flag stickers on our car's rear window (we're having a barbecue tomorrow too). I've been called "slope head", "yellow peril", and the like, but I know that's just the great Aussie tradition of taking the mickey. Where else could verbal abuse be a sign of affection?
__________________
"It is the mark of an educated mind to be able to entertain a thought without accepting it." - Aristotle |
||
25-01-2010, 02:18 PM | #65 | |||
zdcol71
Join Date: Jun 2009
Location: brisbane
Posts: 1,095
|
Quote:
__________________
: 30 years later |
|||
25-01-2010, 02:35 PM | #66 | ||
AFF Whore
Join Date: Apr 2009
Location: In between gas stations
Posts: 2,246
|
I've had the aussie flag as a dash matt for the better part of a year and I never seems to cop any grief. If anything people look at me then look away as soon as they see the flag, as if im about to belt the daylights out of them like a "true aussie"
Gives the car something different, as costs one hell of a lot less than a proper dash matt :P my main reasoning. I usually fly a couple of those little flags on australia day just to join in the festivities |
||
25-01-2010, 02:39 PM | #67 | |||
Obsessed with wheels
Join Date: Dec 2006
Posts: 2,298
|
Quote:
|
|||
25-01-2010, 02:54 PM | #68 | |||
zdcol71
Join Date: Jun 2009
Location: brisbane
Posts: 1,095
|
Quote:
I'd still suggest that the majority of people recieving these tags would find them extremely distasteful, even though the giver wonders why they don't share in this "Aussie sense of humour"
__________________
: 30 years later |
|||
25-01-2010, 03:09 PM | #69 | |||
Thailand Specials
Join Date: Aug 2009
Location: Centrefold Lounge
Posts: 49,437
|
Quote:
You don't have to be white or born here to be Australian, "Australian" isn't even a race, its a bunch of communities who come together as one I reckon. My Nonno, fought against the Allies in WWII and he come over here after the war and got a job, married and raised 2 kids and before he died, my sister made him an Italian flag and he said to her "burn it, I'm an Australian". |
|||
25-01-2010, 03:30 PM | #70 | |||
Obsessed with wheels
Join Date: Dec 2006
Posts: 2,298
|
Quote:
|
|||
25-01-2010, 03:31 PM | #71 | ||
as in chopped
Join Date: Jun 2007
Posts: 1,991
|
Keep it how it is and fly it when you feel the need too. (we don't need Ray Martins head on there though!)
maybe >
__________________
-> Reading this signature was pointless <- |
||
25-01-2010, 05:32 PM | #72 | |||
King of the Fairy's.
Join Date: Jan 2007
Location: CeeeeeTown.
Posts: 5,093
|
Quote:
Must have missed when people started calling it "The Australian Cross"?
__________________
|
|||
25-01-2010, 05:33 PM | #73 | |||
The Vengeful One
Join Date: Apr 2006
Location: Tazzy
Posts: 12,765
|
Quote:
__________________
|
|||
25-01-2010, 06:29 PM | #74 | |||
The Thread Killa
Join Date: May 2006
Location: Melbourne
Posts: 1,064
|
Quote:
I was pretty thin-skinned back then, and took offence very easily, and I didn't stay in that job for long. With my second job, I worked with a couple of old Aussie blokes who taught me a lot about the Aussie culture and sense of humour. I owe a lot to them. Anyway, the point I'm trying to make is that immigrants need to make an effort to assimilate and not stick to their own ethnic groups. Sure, it's comfortable and familiar, but I feel they'll never be truly "Aussie" until they break out of that comfort zone. I did it, and it's not that hard. My only real complaint now is that I'm always being mistaken for a kid in my 20s (I'm 35). My advice: when guessing an Asian's age, add about 10 years and you'll be about right. Flying the flag tomorrow, and if people dont like it they can toss my salad. ;)
__________________
"It is the mark of an educated mind to be able to entertain a thought without accepting it." - Aristotle |
|||
25-01-2010, 06:47 PM | #75 | ||
Obsessed with wheels
Join Date: Dec 2006
Posts: 2,298
|
My only real complaint now is that I'm always being mistaken for a kid in my 20s (I'm 35). My advice: when guessing an Asian's age, add about 10 years and you'll be about right.
I know what you mean we have alot of chinese were I work, and they are always older then what they look. |
||
25-01-2010, 06:57 PM | #76 | ||
Donating Member
Join Date: Aug 2006
Posts: 5,142
|
It is disappointing that we live in an age where the southern cross is associated with racism. I saw a car the other day with the southern cross and "white pride" written underneath it. What suprised me the most is that i DIDNT see the car completely smashed up and torched on the side of the road. Disgusting really.
|
||
25-01-2010, 08:23 PM | #77 | |||
FF.Com.Au Hardcore
Join Date: Sep 2007
Location: Sydney
Posts: 699
|
Quote:
__________________
93 NC2 Fairlane Ghia Sportsman. Standard Tickford 162kw engine and touring suspension, factory LTD trim option plus EF Ghia wheels. Other rides: Range Rover Sport, Mini Cooper Chilli Cabrio |
|||
25-01-2010, 08:31 PM | #78 | ||
FF.Com.Au Hardcore
Join Date: Sep 2007
Location: Sydney
Posts: 699
|
Flag is flying proudly from my boat now. Maybe when things calm down around home I can fly some more there too.
The funny thing is that as soon as people hear you are from The Shire (which includes Cronulla for the non-Sydneysiders) they automatically assume you are racist when you are anything but. Hell even I can't spell my surname sometimes ;) I guess the irony is not lost on them that they feel free to have a go at all people from the Shire being prejudiced and racist and label me simply because of my postcode (which is not tatood on my body) when I am anything but. Guess irony to those people is just something you do to crumpled shirts. Looking forward to some sailing, wakeboarding and bbqing on the beach tomorrow with mates. Nice.
__________________
93 NC2 Fairlane Ghia Sportsman. Standard Tickford 162kw engine and touring suspension, factory LTD trim option plus EF Ghia wheels. Other rides: Range Rover Sport, Mini Cooper Chilli Cabrio |
||
25-01-2010, 08:42 PM | #79 | ||
Focus on my Focus
Join Date: Dec 2005
Location: Canberra
Posts: 820
|
Australia Day is awesome. In previous years I used to get people yelling abuse to me to the tune of "Go back to your own country! We don't need you here!" I'm Asian by the way and have been here for 21 years now since I was 9 which makes me 30 now. My comeback is usually "Yeah? I'm in our Navy. I'm doing my bit for this country. What do you do?" They either mumble some swear word or just remain silent and keep walking. It was gold. haha
__________________
Now: 2006 Ford Focus LX Manual in Satin White Wife: 2013 Kuga Titanium in Frozen White Then: 1990 Ford Laser - Assasinated by a 76 year old man who failed to give way. Now normally when we have these races, Jeremy goes in the car and says "Powerrr" alot.... - James speaking about Jeremy (Top Gear S7 E05) American parts... Russian parts... ALL MADE IN TAIWAN! - Russian guy in Armegeddon |
||
25-01-2010, 09:27 PM | #80 | |||
Obsessed with wheels
Join Date: Dec 2006
Posts: 2,298
|
Quote:
|
|||
25-01-2010, 10:48 PM | #81 | |||
The Thread Killa
Join Date: May 2006
Location: Melbourne
Posts: 1,064
|
Quote:
__________________
"It is the mark of an educated mind to be able to entertain a thought without accepting it." - Aristotle |
|||
25-01-2010, 11:25 PM | #82 | |||
What's green is gold
Join Date: Feb 2006
Location: Shepparton
Posts: 3,079
|
Quote:
Everyone i know that has one got it because they are proud of this country.
__________________
EF XR8 - Koni's - Cam and Headwork -3.9s - Ex VIC TMU - 1982 Nissan Patrol - 460 ci Big Block soon - Semi Gloss Black - Dark Tint - 4x 6" Infinity Kappa Perfect Splits - 5" Kappa 2 ways - Kappa 6x9's - 2x12" Kappa perfect subs - 2x4 Channel and 2x Mono Kappa amps- |
|||
26-01-2010, 07:53 AM | #83 | ||
Built Ford Tough
Join Date: Jan 2005
Location: State of Euphoria Mod: F-Series
Posts: 3,035
|
We're flying a couple of Aussie flags we got from Bunnings on the way to our campsite in Lorne on the tent, but have been completely outdone by a brown LC torana two sites down that has two smaller flags af the front, and a full size flag attached to the roof racks which looked pretty cool as we were following him into town on Saturday!
__________________
Black on white '83 SWB F100 C6 auto 351C on gas and on the ground --> Project Thread '55 F100, just a roller at the moment, new project Silver MY12 Volkswagen Amarok |
||
26-01-2010, 09:30 AM | #84 | ||
Focus on my Focus
Join Date: Dec 2005
Location: Canberra
Posts: 820
|
Sorry... wrong thread. haha
__________________
Now: 2006 Ford Focus LX Manual in Satin White Wife: 2013 Kuga Titanium in Frozen White Then: 1990 Ford Laser - Assasinated by a 76 year old man who failed to give way. Now normally when we have these races, Jeremy goes in the car and says "Powerrr" alot.... - James speaking about Jeremy (Top Gear S7 E05) American parts... Russian parts... ALL MADE IN TAIWAN! - Russian guy in Armegeddon |
||
26-01-2010, 10:04 AM | #85 | ||
Regular Member
Join Date: Oct 2008
Posts: 315
|
Does anyone else see the irony when some drongo uses the anniversary of white immigration (yes white people immigrated here originally or were deported here) to have a go at someone else doing the same thing, just a few hundred years later?
What I would have loved to have seen, was captain cook rocking up in his boat to a thousand black fellas wearing "************** off we are full" t-shirts. anywho, who's got the Pale Ale, need one here stat.
__________________
"All my life, I have searched for a car that feels a certain way. Powerful like a gorilla, yet soft and yielding like a Nerf ball. Now, at last, I have found it" Homer. J. Simpson....... EF Project, SIX666 - ITB's + Turbo |
||
26-01-2010, 11:50 AM | #86 | |||
King of the Fairy's.
Join Date: Jan 2007
Location: CeeeeeTown.
Posts: 5,093
|
Quote:
__________________
|
|||
26-01-2010, 11:59 AM | #87 | |||
Now Fordless
Join Date: Aug 2005
Location: Fremantle, WA
Posts: 3,611
|
Quote:
And one thing I dont understand is living here and not learning the language. Should be a compulsory. |
|||
26-01-2010, 12:33 PM | #88 | ||
You dig, we stick!
Join Date: Mar 2006
Posts: 7,461
|
From what I've seen there are just as many "ethnics" flying the Aussie flag as "Aussies". Some people should get out more.
__________________
"....You don't put the car through engineering" - Rod Barrett. |
||