OzTennis

BTW - a straw poll of 20 16 year old 'non skippies' (to use your term) found that they have no clue what it is, when it was, what it was! One managed to say it was a square in London but didn't know why it was so named.

I then had to explain 1815, Wellington, Napoleon, Belgium and all that but it didn't ring a bell until Abba's song was mentioned:

Trafalgar

My my, at Trafalgar Napoleon did surrender
Oh yeah, and I have met my destiny in quite a similar way
The history book on the shelf
Is always repeating itself

Trafalgar - I was defeated, you won the war
Trafalgar - Promise to love you for ever more
Trafalgar - Couldn't escape if I wanted to
Trafalgar - Knowing my fate is to be with you
Trafalgar - Finally facing my Trafalgar
etc

Sorry to 'extract the urine' but your thread title invites it.


OzTennis

gogdownunder

which half, cymraes bach?. ........................anyway going to bed, which should send hearts a flutter over in WA, keep punching boys ykwim

DagBoy

I'm not. Why would I?

I never did while I lived in the UK, so why the f### would I start now?

Cheers,

DagBoy

PS. I do, however, now celebrate the Queen's birthday as this enlightened country gives us all a day off

MrsDagboy

OzT!!!! And I just posted in the other thread saying how none of us skippies had even bothered to post. Bad man LOL.

Pollyana

The best half of course!!

I am a little confused by the expression "feeding strawberries to pigs" - do pigs even like strawberries? Answer in 500 words or less.......Good topic for tomorrows insane thread..........

Bix

I think they were forced to change their diet due to the lack of affordable lettuce.

Pollyana

Now, c'mon, by mentioning the price of lettuce you are bringing us back to reality and the harsh woes of life in Australia. We haven't discussed lettuce for a while, I hope all the newbies are aware of its price?

However, I'll worry about that tomorrow, off to bed now, though I probably can;t sleep as I have the theme tune to an annoying Aussie tv show going round my head "skippy, skippy,.........." ARGHHHHHH!!!!!!

bridiej

Dont know why I'd bother to celebrate that or St George's day since neither day is really commemorated in the UK.

Cant understand why on earth I'd want to celebrate just cos I didnt live in the Uk anymore....

Gease

So that’s what it’s all about you are worried that your Aussie friends may think you are not good pomm

Well I'm sure you can feel safe in bed tonight that they all think you are.

As far as being well known, no I assure you that I have never been here before May. I am surprised by some of the responses however; I love living here and have many fine Australian born mates, which may have a different version of what a “good pomme “actually is.
Because I wanted to celebrate an occasion in our heritage, does that makes me a naughty one, so be it. Would an Aussie not celebrate ANZAC day because he or she lived in England. I think not.

All the best, good night good pomm.

louise4

If that is the truth and you are just trying to enlighten us on what trafalgar day is then may suggest you are wasting your time. you just talk like someone who is very bored and trying a wind up. maybe you need to work on your people skills a bit more.
i know, go and practice with nelson

bridiej

Sorry but I dont know that many people in the UK who celebrate Traflagar Day, so cant understand why they'd want to celebrate because they live elsewhere.

Still each to their own I guess...

floss

Lordy, lordy... laughed so hard I nearly peed

Me - I've never heard of Trafalgar Day, but I reckon as long as it's between consenting adults you celebrate what and how you like...

This is slightly off-thread, and I may be starting something I shall regret, but there have been a number of threads in the past while, where the view has been expressed, or alluded to, that I may have been here (in this case Aus) for 50 years, I'm English/Welsh/Scottish/Irish/Hungarian (whatever) through and through....

Now, while I am too much of a coward to have an opinion on this, IF I DID, that opinion might be that while I think it is important for people to respect their roots.......... I can't help thinking that if they were here (UK) there would be an avalanche of people accusing them of not assimilating.... who'd'ya support in the cricket then (omg - have I really just quoted Norman Tebbit???? :scared: ) THIS IS NOT A PARTICULAR REFERENCE TO ANYONE IN THIS THREAD, IT'S JUST THAT SOME COMMENTS GOT ME THINKING...

See where this insanity has brought me....

p.s. special thanks to pollyanna - "norman, norman, norman the bush kangaroo" will stay with me always!x

off to hide now

Merlot

Ditto???

louise4

floss these threads have been going on all day.
confused the bugger out me i can tell ya.
couldn't actually make out what gees and slugger (not thier real names i know) were trying to get at. i had never heard of trafalgar day either. i used to be ingorant and happy

gobbyjock

I think it`s only really being celebrated this year because it`s the 200th Anniversary (members of the RN however do have Trafalgar and Pickle nights every year though in memory of Nelson & Trafalgar)(any excuse for a p*ss up)Loads of stuff going on in Portsmouth at the end of June, wouldn`t have thought Oz would be bothered about celebrating it though.