Path: ccsf.homeunix.org!CALA-MUZIK!newsfeed.media.kyoto-u.ac.jp!newsfeed.icl.net!newsfeed.fjserv.net!newsfeed.freenet.de!fu-berlin.de!uni-berlin.de!individual.net!not-for-mail From: "John R. Yamamoto-Wilson" Newsgroups: rec.travel.europe,fj.life.in-japan,alt.politics.economics,aus.politics Subject: Re: Unemployment in Australia now at 4.6%... WHAT ABOUT EUROPE?? Date: Fri, 15 Dec 2006 14:03:03 +0900 Lines: 43 Message-ID: <4ueod1F17vqjeU1@mid.individual.net> References: <4577b14b$0$5749$afc38c87@news.optusnet.com.au> <4tq10lF14or3hU1@mid.individual.net> <4uac90F17ffv3U1@mid.individual.net> <4ud27hF17o96fU1@mid.individual.net> Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset="iso-2022-jp" Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit X-Trace: individual.net +1mBkSsQ+lyKlqx+hOyigAcwVQbV1YXovQTaooxbLbC2xz/nuT X-Priority: 3 X-MSMail-Priority: Normal X-Newsreader: Microsoft Outlook Express 6.00.2800.1106 X-MimeOLE: Produced By Microsoft MimeOLE V6.00.2800.1106 Xref: ccsf.homeunix.org fj.life.in-japan:164766 Otter wrote: > >>>> We only allow in people of quality. I quipped: > >>> So times have changed since your great-great grandfather's day, eh? Jim replied: > >> So wrong. The "we" then didn't get any say; the Poms just forced > >> their way in at gunpoint and began unloading their jails. I came back with: > >I think that makes me so *right*, actually. He said: > Not at all. The locals never liked the transportation. If you > looked at the records of that period, you'd see agitation against > it from the beginning. I didn't say anyone *liked* it. I merely drew attention to the fact that the idea that Australia was a country that only allows in "people of quality" does not have that long a pedigree. Indeed, you go on to suggest that the old, unreconstructed ideas still persist: > a UK Home Office spokesman said they were exploring resettling the > killers in the Bolger murder case in Australia or New Zealand. Interesting; I didn't know that. > so you were just trolling. I gave you the benefit of the doubt and > assumed your comment was based on ignorance. Well, trolling's too hard a word. Being mischievous, yes, certainly. All this "Euro-loser", "We only allow in people of quality" tosh doesn't merit a *serious* response. John http://rarebooksinjapan.com