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From: Kevin Gleeson on 16 Jan 2010 21:12 On Sat, 16 Jan 2010 21:12:56 +0000 (UTC), "Dr Ivan D. Reid" <Ivan.Reid(a)brunel.ac.uk> wrote: >On Sat, 16 Jan 2010 20:44:22 +0000, Champ <news(a)champ.org.uk> > wrote in <o894l59vgedrsimvlm5mves4mmvqsd4to9(a)4ax.com>: >> On Sat, 16 Jan 2010 20:12:21 +0000 (UTC), "Dr Ivan D. Reid" >><Ivan.Reid(a)brunel.ac.uk> wrote: > >>>On Sat, 16 Jan 2010 16:04:09 +0000, Champ <news(a)champ.org.uk> >>> wrote in <0po3l5hcrhapjqr1gv349lc354c05l7b07(a)4ax.com>: > >>>> Anyway, as all the Tasmanian aboriginals were slaughtered by the white >>>> settlers, the insult is well off target :-) > >>> Not _all_ of them. Remember how they got where they were? > >> er, I'm not following you. > > Briefly, there were at least two waves of settlement into >Australia before Captain Phillip. The most recent of them wiped out the >previous one, leaving historical remnants in, e.g., Kow Swamp in Victoria. >Their last remaining colonies had been driven into Tasmania by the time >the European settlers arrived. They accomplished the final step of >genocide that the current "aborigines" hadn't quite managed. You are opening a can of worms there. I have 1/8th Tasmanian aboriginal descent. There are no pure blood left as they were wiped out. From my point of view there are no more Tasmanian aboriginals. There is a massive amount of people in Tas claiming that they have land rights and that they are Tasmanian aboriginal as that is the way of life the choose to lead. I find that a hard one to take. It's a difficult argument. What happened was a fucked item. I'll blame you poms. But really there has not been a Tasmanian aboriginal for 100 years. Are you guys going to claim Italy because the Romans took over the country yonks ago? It's a highly contentious issue in Tasmania and I'm not really on the side of the supposedly indigenous group, even though I am as much part of that group as they are. Awkward one.
From: Dr Ivan D. Reid on 17 Jan 2010 08:46 On Sun, 17 Jan 2010 11:04:10 +0000 (UTC), Dr Ivan D. Reid <Ivan.Reid(a)brunel.ac.uk> wrote in <slrnhl5rla.vr.Ivan.Reid(a)loki.brunel.ac.uk>: > Had another racing friend killed in a similar accident with a car > in 1981, Ian but the surname is eluding me. Ian Lowe has been dredged up from my memory. -- Ivan Reid, School of Engineering & Design, _____________ CMS Collaboration, Brunel University. Ivan.Reid@[brunel.ac.uk|cern.ch] Room 40-1-B12, CERN GSX600F, RG250WD "You Porsche. Me pass!" DoD #484 JKLO#003, 005 WP7# 3000 LC Unit #2368 (tinlc) UKMC#00009 BOTAFOT#16 UKRMMA#7 (Hon) KotPT -- "for stupidity above and beyond the call of duty".
From: vulgarandmischevious on 17 Jan 2010 10:20 "Dr Ivan D. Reid" <Ivan.Reid(a)brunel.ac.uk> wrote: > Had another racing friend killed in a similar accident with a car >in 1981, Ian but the surname is eluding me. He stored my GS550 for me >while I was Down South, but he was killed before I got the chance to go >around to his place to pick it up so I never saw him after I returned. Did you get the bike back?
From: Champ on 17 Jan 2010 11:17 On Sat, 16 Jan 2010 22:53:30 GMT, Kevin Gleeson <kevingleeson(a)imagine-it.com.au> wrote: >>>Even shagged a Tassie woman... >> >>did you get a map? ><applause> >Especially coming from the other side of the world. Didn't know that >phrase had made it that far. Dunno about anyone else, but I learnt it from reading Fred Gassit crtoons, which were syndicated in a UK bike mag for years. -- Champ We declare that the splendor of the world has been enriched by a new beauty: the beauty of speed. ZX10R | Hayabusa | GPz750turbo neal at champ dot org dot uk
From: Champ on 17 Jan 2010 11:19
On Sat, 16 Jan 2010 22:52:16 GMT, Kevin Gleeson <kevingleeson(a)imagine-it.com.au> wrote: >>I had a great time in Tasmania, as I've probably said before. >> >>Even shagged a Tassie woman... >Pfftt. Let me start counting :-) Hey, I was only there for two weeks! -- Champ We declare that the splendor of the world has been enriched by a new beauty: the beauty of speed. ZX10R | Hayabusa | GPz750turbo neal at champ dot org dot uk |