Finland, land of uneducated, starving murderers

[Winston Blake]

Underarm bowling.

You guys are still sore over that?

I will say this for you guys. You don't seem to have a perchance for military adventurism with the Americans that we seem to love.

You seem to have suffered from an acute gallipoli deficiency in your early school years.

[mr friendly guy]

Underarm bowling.

You guys are still sore over that?

I will say this for you guys. You don't seem to have a perchance for military adventurism with the Americans that we seem to love.

You seem to have suffered from an acute gallipoli deficiency in your early school years.

I am pretty sure Gallipoli was planned by the British politician, later Prime Minister Winston Churchill, and the ANZACs attacked Gallipoli several years before America joined WWI. None of which was of course taught in my early school years, them being more concern about the gist of ANZAC day. Of course my main point still stands regardless, although I was referring to our more recent periods than WWI, such as the debacle in Iraq.

[Phantasee]

I think he means that if Australia better remembered Gallipoli, they wouldn't be so keen to go off and fight other people's wars today.

[mr friendly guy]

Considering my statement about our military adventurism was meant to be sarcastic, ie a bad thing, I don't see how the interpretation that his statement meant not being keen to fight wars if we remembered Gallipoli better could possibly apply to my statement. Although I concede he could have missed the sarcasm.

[tim31]

Thread about Scandanavia

Aus and NZ hijack

[Winston Blake]

Whoa whoa whoa, I was just saying that Australia has this big cultural thing about Gallipoli proving we were 'our own nation' or whatever. So regardless of how often we say we're not glorifying war, the basic idea of sending heroic soldiers off to join in with foreign wars (a 'penchant for military adventurism') is practically part of our national myth. I was assuming that New Zealand doesn't have this issue - am I wrong?

[Alkaloid]

You are aware there were New Zealanders at Gallipoli? And in Vietnam? And East Timor? And in Afghanistan? In fact, due to the sheer number of soldiers from both countries integrated into each other's armed forces you can pretty much state that if Australian soldiers were there, New Zealanders were too. So I'd say it's more or less the same but with less hating the Aboriginals thrown in.

[Winston Blake]

You are aware there were New Zealanders at Gallipoli? And in Vietnam? And East Timor? And in Afghanistan?

Yes . I was talking about culture.
It was an off the cuff remark. I failed to recognise that mr-friendly-guy was taking a shot at America and not military adventurism in general. I withdraw the comment.