My fellow Australians
?
The_observer said:
My fellow Australians
?
That should have been
“My fellow Australians”
The_observer said:
The_observer said:My fellow Australians
?
That should have been
“My fellow Australians”
PermeateFree said:
The_observer said:
The_observer said:My fellow Australians
?
That should have been
“My fellow Australians”
Krampus!!!!!!
A bit of yesterday.
roughbarked said:
A bit of yesterday.!https://c1.staticflickr.com/3/2190/32844300135_a197853022_z.jpg
Tamb said:
roughbarked said:
A bit of yesterday.!https://c1.staticflickr.com/3/2190/32844300135_a197853022_z.jpg
16° ATM. High 20s to low 30s predicted. Probable rain.
Oops. Sorry. Wrong thread.
Tamb said:
Silly, yeah.
Tamb said:
roughbarked said:
A bit of yesterday.!https://c1.staticflickr.com/3/2190/32844300135_a197853022_z.jpg
16° ATM. High 20s to low 30s predicted. Probable rain.Oops. Sorry. Wrong thread.
roughbarked said:
Tamb said:Silly, yeah.
Tamb said:16° ATM. High 20s to low 30s predicted. Probable rain.
Oops. Sorry. Wrong thread.
Coffee hasn’t kicked in yet.
John Schumann
ChrispenEvan said:
John Schumann
Which rather begs the question, who is John Schumann?
Tamb said:
ChrispenEvan said:
John Schumann
Which rather begs the question, who is John Schumann?
http://www.schumann.com.au/john/articles/what_a_dream_i_had%20….pdf
Tamb said:
ChrispenEvan said:
John Schumann
Which rather begs the question, who is John Schumann?
Which rather invites the question, who is John Schumann?
Robert Schumann?
Clara?
ChrispenEvan said:
Tamb said:
ChrispenEvan said:
John Schumann
Which rather begs the question, who is John Schumann?
http://www.schumann.com.au/john/articles/what_a_dream_i_had%20….pdf
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The resource you are looking for might have been removed, had its name changed, or is temporarily unavailable.
:(
Tamb said:
ChrispenEvan said:
Tamb said:Which rather begs the question, who is John Schumann?
http://www.schumann.com.au/john/articles/what_a_dream_i_had%20….pdf
404 – File or directory not found.
The resource you are looking for might have been removed, had its name changed, or is temporarily unavailable. :(
google search My fellow Australians
ChrispenEvan said:
Tamb said:
ChrispenEvan said:http://www.schumann.com.au/john/articles/what_a_dream_i_had%20….pdf
404 – File or directory not found.
The resource you are looking for might have been removed, had its name changed, or is temporarily unavailable. :(google search My fellow Australians
Oh that John Schumann. Thanks.
Eucalyptus camaldulensis
Tamb said:
ChrispenEvan said:
John Schumann
Which rather begs the question, who is John Schumann?
Apparently:
“John Schumann is one of the very few songwriters who has changed the way a nation thinks. “
Quite an achievement, since nations do not think.
“John Schumann is one of the very few songwriters who has changed the way a nation thinks. “
Quite an achievement, since nations do not think.
——
Disagree. That’s legit.. A nation behaves… A nation moves…
The Rev Dodgson said:
Tamb said:
ChrispenEvan said:
John Schumann
Which rather begs the question, who is John Schumann?
Apparently:
“John Schumann is one of the very few songwriters who has changed the way a nation thinks. “
Quite an achievement, since nations do not think.
terry would disagree.
ChrispenEvan said:
The Rev Dodgson said:
Tamb said:Which rather begs the question, who is John Schumann?
Apparently:
“John Schumann is one of the very few songwriters who has changed the way a nation thinks. “
Quite an achievement, since nations do not think.
terry would disagree.
Gilliam or Jones?
The Rev Dodgson said:
Tamb said:
ChrispenEvan said:
John Schumann
Which rather begs the question, who is John Schumann?
Apparently:
“John Schumann is one of the very few songwriters who has changed the way a nation thinks. “
Quite an achievement, since nations do not think.
Referring to the people of a nation by the term “nation” is a form of metonymy, in this case synecdoche.
Ian said:
“John Schumann is one of the very few songwriters who has changed the way a nation thinks. “Quite an achievement, since nations do not think.
——
Disagree. That’s legit.. A nation behaves… A nation moves…
I disagree with your disagreement.
The governments of countries might be said to behave in a certain way, or even to think in a certain way (although I wouldn’t say that myself), but to talk of a nation thinking implies that all the people of a nation have a certain way of thinking, and that I vehemently disagree with.
We (other than one fictitious person in The Life of Brian) are all different.
Ian said:
ChrispenEvan said:
The Rev Dodgson said:Apparently:
“John Schumann is one of the very few songwriters who has changed the way a nation thinks. “
Quite an achievement, since nations do not think.
terry would disagree.
Gilliam or Jones?
I was thinking Pratchet.
well seeing as we were talking about nations not thinking i thought that terry nation might disagree.
btm said:
The Rev Dodgson said:
Tamb said:Which rather begs the question, who is John Schumann?
Apparently:
“John Schumann is one of the very few songwriters who has changed the way a nation thinks. “
Quite an achievement, since nations do not think.
Referring to the people of a nation by the term “nation” is a form of metonymy, in this case synecdoche.
I don’t actually know what those words mean, but my statement is true both applied to the abstract concept of a “nation”, and to the combined population of a nation. The individuals all think, but the combined population of a nation do not think as one entity.
ChrispenEvan said:
well seeing as we were talking about nations not thinking i thought that terry nation might disagree.
Had to look him up.
Do Daleks have lapses of memory I wonder.
The Rev Dodgson said:
btm said:
The Rev Dodgson said:Apparently:
“John Schumann is one of the very few songwriters who has changed the way a nation thinks. “
Quite an achievement, since nations do not think.
Referring to the people of a nation by the term “nation” is a form of metonymy, in this case synecdoche.
I don’t actually know what those words mean, but my statement is true both applied to the abstract concept of a “nation”, and to the combined population of a nation. The individuals all think, but the combined population of a nation do not think as one entity.
It doesn’t matter whether you agree with the statement; your criticism was with the use of the term “nation” to refer to the people of the nation; my reply illustrates that it is a valid figure of speech. I suggest you look up those words; you might learn something.
btm said:
It doesn’t matter whether you agree with the statement; your criticism was with the use of the term “nation” to refer to the people of the nation; my reply illustrates that it is a valid figure of speech. I suggest you look up those words; you might learn something.
No, my criticism was not with the use of the term “nation” to refer to the people of a nation.
My criticism was with the notion that the people of a nation think as one, which would be necessary to change the way a nation thinks.
As for learning the meaning of the words, I won’t remember them, so there is little point.
In post 1024107, The Rev Dodgson said:
Apparently:
“John Schumann is one of the very few songwriters who has changed the way a nation thinks. “
Quite an achievement, since nations do not think.
(my emphasis)
Then in post 1024121,
btm said:It doesn’t matter whether you agree with the statement; your criticism was with the use of the term “nation” to refer to the people of the nation; my reply illustrates that it is a valid figure of speech. I suggest you look up those words; you might learn something.
No, my criticism was not with the use of the term “nation” to refer to the people of a nation.
My criticism was with the notion that the people of a nation think as one, which would be necessary to change the way a nation thinks.
Yes, clearly I’ve misinterpreted your comments. Sorry I assumed you meant what you wrote. I still disagree with what what you now say you mean; it’s quite possible to change the way the people of a nation think, even though they don’t all think the same way (either before the change or after.)
Tony Barber
btm said:
Yes, clearly I’ve misinterpreted your comments.
Yes
btm said:
Sorry I assumed you meant what you wrote.
I did mean what I wrote. The “as one” was clearly implied in my first post, and clearly stated in my response to ian.
btm said:
I still disagree with what what you now say you mean; it’s quite possible to change the way the people of a nation think, even though they don’t all think the same way (either before the change or after.)
I suppose that’s true if we want to be hyper-literal, but the original quote implies that all (or the great majority) of the population of one nation (namely Australia) had their thinking changed in a similar way by the words of a song or songs, and I don’t believe that to be true.
dv said:
Tony Barber
I heckled him once in a shopping centre when he was doing a WAI on Germaine Greer.
Ian said:
dv said:
Tony Barber
a WAI on Germaine Greer.
I have NFI what that means.
Ian said:
dv said:
Tony Barber
I heckled him once in a shopping centre when he was doing a WAI on Germaine Greer.
West Australian Imitation?
Ian said:
dv said:
Tony Barber
I heckled him once in a shopping centre when he was doing a WAI on Germaine Greer.
What is a WAI?
The Rev Dodgson said:
Ian said:
dv said:
Tony Barber
I heckled him once in a shopping centre when he was doing a WAI on Germaine Greer.
West Australian Imitation?
Clue’s in thread title
Ian said:
The Rev Dodgson said:
Ian said:I heckled him once in a shopping centre when he was doing a WAI on Germaine Greer.
West Australian Imitation?
Clue’s in thread title
doi
But why was he doing the show in a shopping centre?
dv said:
Ian said:
The Rev Dodgson said:West Australian Imitation?
Clue’s in thread title
doi
But why was he doing the show in a shopping centre?
Germaine Greer worked on the checkouts in those days.
That’s what he does now…
furious said:
- But why was he doing the show in a shopping centre?
All the street corners were taken.
Tamb said:
furious said:
- But why was he doing the show in a shopping centre?
All the street corners were taken.
How the mighty have fallen.
sibeen said:
Ian said:
dv said:
Tony Barber
a WAI on Germaine Greer.
I have NFI what that means.
+1
Ian said:
The Rev Dodgson said:
Ian said:I heckled him once in a shopping centre when he was doing a WAI on Germaine Greer.
West Australian Imitation?
Clue’s in thread title
Um……..*shrugs * I is sick with bug, therefore not functioning very well.
Why would he be doing that?
What type of heckling did you do?
The_observer said:
My fellow Australians
?
Max Gillies.
kii said:
sibeen said:
Ian said:a WAI on Germaine Greer.
I have NFI what that means.
+1
Who am I or WAlk up Interview?
party_pants said:
The_observer said:My fellow Australians
?
Max Gillies.
Bob Menzies. aka King Ming or Pig Iron Bob or The Lord Warden of the Cinque Ports.
what’s this thread about
The_observer said:
Who am I, my fellow Australians?
The _observer.
transition said:
what’s this thread about
NFI
Tamb said:
transition said:
what’s this thread about
NFI
better get observer back here to explain
transition said:
what’s this thread about
The Krampus sitting on the train.
transition said:
what’s this thread about
We have to guess who or what the_observer is thinking about on the basis of an extremely common and conventional phrase.
dv said:
Ian said:
The Rev Dodgson said:West Australian Imitation?
Clue’s in thread title
doi
But why was he doing the show in a shopping centre?
Being heckled doing a WAI.
Not the TV TV show.. the SC version
transition said:
Tamb said:
transition said:
what’s this thread about
NFI
better get observer back here to explain
Pass.
Tamb said:
party_pants said:
The_observer said:My fellow Australians
?
Max Gillies.
Bob Menzies. aka King Ming or Pig Iron Bob or The Lord Warden of the Cinque Ports.
Max Gillies impersonating Bob Hawke. “My fellow Australians” was his catch-cry in that persona. Even though it is something the real Bob Hawke never said very often.
A bit like Steve Vizard’s character impersonating Deryn Hinch always said “shame, shame, shame”. Hinch himself never said it (deliberately) and used to bristle when people attributed it to him.
Ian said:
dv said:
Ian said:Clue’s in thread title
doi
But why was he doing the show in a shopping centre?
Being heckled doing a WAI.
Not the TV TV show.. the SC version
Going to have to ask again. What does SC mean?
Krampus
Shopping Centre…
dv said:
transition said:
what’s this thread about
We have to guess who or what the_observer is thinking about on the basis of an extremely common and conventional phrase.
I guess the idea is that if whoever does enough work, dedicate their neurons to the task, the jobs done
Ian said:
dv said:
Ian said:Clue’s in thread title
doi
But why was he doing the show in a shopping centre?
Being heckled doing a WAI.
Not the TV TV show.. the SC version
SC?
*ducks and runs away *
Ian said:
dv said:
Ian said:Clue’s in thread title
doi
But why was he doing the show in a shopping centre?
Being heckled doing a WAI.
Not the TV TV show.. the SC version
What prompted you to heckle him?
retaliation from the time he came into your workplace and heckled you while you were doing your job?
Tamb said:
transition said:
what’s this thread about
NFI
Metonymy.. a cause of mass dementia
transition said:
dv said:
transition said:
what’s this thread about
We have to guess who or what the_observer is thinking about on the basis of an extremely common and conventional phrase.
I guess the idea is that if whoever does enough work, dedicate their neurons to the task, the jobs done
Okay well my answer is Henry Parkes, who might have been the first to use the phrase during a political speech.
Ok, start again….
I think that I ever told of how I heckled a red swilling NSW premier, and shortly thereafter he resigned.
:)
(even though there may not have been a causal link)
Ian said:
Ok, start again….
Existence exists.
Existence is a thought, therefore thought exists.
I think, therefore I exist.
That is who I am.
Who are you?
mollwollfumble said:
Ian said:
Ok, start again….
Existence exists.
Existence is a thought, therefore thought exists.
I think, therefore I exist.
That is who I am.Who are you?
A drunken fart?
The Rev Dodgson said:
A drunken fart?
Dribbly and a little bit green coloured?