Save the Roos!

[nomdeplume]

Posted: 11/29/06 at 12:01am

"... the victims of the biggest wildlife slaughter on land in the world."
Save Our Kangaroos

[brdlwyr]

Posted: 11/29/06 at 12:08am

What would Midnight Oil say?

[nomdeplume]

Posted: 11/29/06 at 12:34am

Midnight Oil?

The Aussie Boy Band who puts a kangaroo in some of their cover art?

Have they taken a stand?

[brdlwyr]

Posted: 11/29/06 at 12:37am

I do not know, but on Monday I heard that song about beds burning and giving it back, are they not a political band?

I was asking you the question!

[nomdeplume]

Posted: 11/29/06 at 12:39am

I'm no Aussie, mate.

[brdlwyr]

Posted: 11/29/06 at 12:39am

The time has come
To say fairs fair
To pay the rent
To pay our share
The time has come
A facts a fact
It belongs to them
Lets give it back

How can we dance when our earth is turning
How do we sleep when our beds are burning

[nomdeplume]

Posted: 11/29/06 at 12:41am

Sounds pro-Abbo ta me, mate.

[brdlwyr]

Posted: 11/29/06 at 12:46am

Well, I like Roos. I saw one at a county fair recently, it was obvously very sedated and sad. My kids agreed and thought it was not right to have a roo at at a fair.

[harris007]

Posted: 11/29/06 at 12:47am

great

now my roo is sad

[nomdeplume]

Posted: 11/29/06 at 12:49am

Perhaps the mystical powers of sacred Ayers Rock will cheer up your roo.

[brdlwyr]

Posted: 11/29/06 at 12:53am

Wow, gorgeous!

[jrb_actor]

Posted: 11/29/06 at 2:50am

I thought the thread might be about...well saving an animal would be much more important.

[DG]

Posted: 11/29/06 at 3:13am

Ugh.

We certainly don't learn much as we stomp about the world doing what we please, do we?

And please note the use of the 'we' - the divisive attributes aren't NEARLY as deep as some would want to believe.

[paradox_error]

Posted: 11/30/06 at 5:06am

Nondeplume, you might wish to reconsider the use of the word "abbo". You just said a terribly racist thing..."sounds pro-n* to me, mate" might translate...

[nomdeplume]

Posted: 11/30/06 at 10:32am

I was in character, kiddo.

And I don't think abbo or aborigine is a bad word, you're just being PC.

I think aborigine culture is fascinating. I do the same "sky-watching" that aborigines who live to very high ages do because I read about it and used to do it on walks with a Tongan girlfriend around Diamond Head crater.

And I believe in the shaman-like beliefs of the Australian aborigines and the American Indians that humans can control and affect the weather.

Futher, I saw The Last Wave, an old Richard Chamberlain flick wherein aborigines had a special relation to the force that causes tidal waves and am very interested in the mysticism of that.

And that strange movie about Ayers rock and the lost girl...

And the movie about the young aborigine man who sees the white girl and falls in love and either suicides or pines away to his death because he knows he can never have her.

And I know about the walkabout bush traditions of the aborigines, their knowledge of plant medicines like tea tree oil.

I don't think the term is racist unless you want it to be.

And from what I can guess about that song, it's saying the land belonged to the aborigines.

[Fiction Writer]

Posted: 11/30/06 at 12:44pm

I knew this Australian in college.
He said it was illegal NOT to kill one, if you saw it.
Maybe he was pulling my leg, I dunno.

[Rose_MacShane]

Posted: 11/30/06 at 1:03pm

"And that strange movie about Ayers rock and the lost girl...

And the movie about the young aborigine man who sees the white girl and falls in love and either suicides or pines away to his death because he knows he can never have her."

You mean Walkabout? Didn't care for it. SO dreadfully boring...

[doodlenyc]

Posted: 11/30/06 at 1:15pm

"A dingo ate my baby daughter"

and Kath & Kim Rule!