G’Day Sport!


Australian sues Council for racial discrimination in England.
I had no idea they were such delicate little flowers.
The only ones I came across in the work environment had enough self-confidence for the planet, and then some, although we did enjoy ribbing them, mainly because they seemed to think Melbourne was the centre of the universe. It stemmed apparently from their school atlases being centred on – you’ve guessed? – Australia! I grant you, his workmates do sound pretty childish to have kept it up for so many years – a few well-aimed blows at the very beginning would have put a stop to it. Do Australians rank as a “race”? Over to you, Bearsy.

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Author: coldwaterjohn

CWJ travelled extensively with his family, having worked in eleven countries over thirty years. A keen photographer, holding a Private Pilot's Licence, he focuses mainly on landscape and aerial imagery. Having worked in the Middle East extensively he follows developments in that region with particular interest, and views with growing concern, the radicalisation flowing from Islamic fundamentalism, and the intolerance for opposing views, stemming from it.

16 thoughts on “G’Day Sport!”

  1. Gosh! Another immigrant who has sussed he could make money out of the stupid UK compensation culture. What a surprise! Good luck to him as I don’t pay taxes there any more (although I hope Diggers everywhere will hang their heads in shame for having spawned this apology for a man.)

    OZ

  5. Maybe I can sue a bank I used to work for, they called me Bub (Bubble and squeak) I never took offence nor did I care.

    It is all part of office banter.

  6. OZ, I have the privilege of having worked in my younger days with (Flying Officer) John Cruickshank VC, who was 90 last year, the RAF’s last surviving VC. He joins us for lunch every October at a Northern Reunion of those of us who worked overseas together, walking a mile or so from the local station to the hotel for lunch, refusing all offers of a lift! We hope he will be able to continue to join us for many years to come…

  8. CWJ – Cruickshank? He was the Coastal Command pilot, wasn’t he? made repeated attacks on a U-boat and was severely wounded in the process but still brought his crew and aircraft safely back to base.

    He wouldn’t know me from Adam, but please shake his hand on my behalf next time you meet him.

    OZ

  9. OZ. John is one of the most modest men I have ever met, and he has never ever discussed his decoration for valour. He was commanding A Catalina and depth-charged a U-Boat…
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    Flying Officer Cruickshank was twenty-four years old when he piloted a Consolidated Catalina anti-submarine flying boat from Sullom Voe on 17 July 1944 on a patrol north into the Atlantic. There the “Cat” found a German Type VIIC U-boat on the surface.

    At this point in the war the aerial threat to the U-boats meant that they were fitted with anti-aircraft guns and Cruickshank had to fly the Catalina into the hail of flak put up by the U-boat. On that first pass his depth charges did not release. Despite this he brought the aircraft back round for a second pass and this time straddled the U-boat with his charges sinking it with all hands. Cruickshank’s VC citation refers to the U-Boat as U-347, although its now known that it was actually U-361 and that it went down with all 52 crew members.

    The German flak however had been deadly accurate, killing the Catalina’s navigator and injuring four including the second pilot Flight Sergeant Jack Garnett and Cruickshank himself. Cruickshank had been hit in seventy-two places, with two serious wounds to his lungs and ten penetrating wounds to his lower limbs. Despite this he refused medical attention until be was sure that the appropriate radio signals had been sent and the aircraft was on course for its home base. Even then he refused morphine aware that it would cloud his judgement. Flying through the night it took the damaged Catalina five and a half hours to return to Sullom Voe with the injured Garnett at the controls and Cruickshank lapsing in and out of consciousness in the back.

    Once there Cruickshank returned to the cockpit and took command of the aircraft again. Deciding that the light and the sea conditions for a water landing were too risky for the inexperienced Garnett to safely put the aircraft down, he kept the flying boat in the air circling for an extra hour until he considered it safer and they landed the Catalina on the water and taxied it to an area where it could be safely beached.

    When the RAF medical officer boarded the aircraft he had to give Cruickshank a blood transfusion before he was considered stable enough to be transferred to hospital. John Cruickshank’s injuries were such that he never flew in command of an aircraft again and after the war he returned to his pre-war job of banking. For his actions in sinking the U-Boat and saving his crew he received the Victoria Cross while Flight Sergeant Jack Garnett received the Distinguished Flying Medal.
    UNQUOTE

  10. G’day Guys –

    What a big girl’s blouse! What a wanker! (‘tosser’ for those of you that dislike my use of Strine terminology)

    I read about this apology for an Aussie yesterday, and hoped that none of you would see it. I believe that Julia Gillard is talking about revoking his citizenship and having him extradited to the States for American “justice” (ie. CIA’s lynch mob).

    He looks like Julian Assange without the hair and without the balls.

    Racist?
    This sounds like the same distortion of the word so beloved by Muslims and their limp-wristed appeasers. As one Charioteer admonished me recently when I defined the word properly, “Oh that may be strictly true, Bearsy, but the word has a far wider meaning these days.” Bloody oath, I’ll say it does, it means exactly what the user wants it to mean, which is generally “you’re a nasty bigot, because you’ve been mean to me and I know that the EUSSR’s British region’s police state fascists will throw you in gaol if I say I’m offended and use the “r” word”.

    Hope his work mates cover him with honey and point some fire ants at him. Non-fatal, but bloody uncomfortable. 🙄

  11. CWJ – That’s the chap and thank you for the description of the events. I shall be proud to have corresponded with someone who has shaken the hand of such a man.

    OZ

  16. Bloody shirt-lifting sizzy poofter is a disgrace to all of us. Probably left Australia cause he couldn’t stand it when the men came home from the pub and borrowed his missus ;-(

    The only time am Aussie sues is when his does his back after helping to unload the kegs off the back of the beer truck.

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