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Old 2nd Aug 2016, 17:34
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Danny #9032

My opinions are very well "foundered"
Think you missed your vocation mate . . .what a proof-reader you might have been. You'd have had no trouble sorting out all the labels on all the rum bottles. Incidentally in Tasmania today you still hear occasionally "It's a rum do" . . or… "Jeese cobber. . . . he's a rum 'un.". Digressing further, Australian white-fella history as once taught, used to cover the so-called Rum Corps. Because in the early days of the colony (say 1788 to 1820) there was rum aplenty and little in the way of coin of the realm, the payment in rum for goods and services was common practice. So the NSW Corps quickly became known as the Rum Corps.

That shocking photo you posted of the Jap with the raised sword and his victim, the bravest of brave coast watcher, would be for many people quite obscene. It is disturbing enough to know that these atrocities occurred without graphic depiction. Is not the subject at root, mans' inhumanity to man, with many sub-headings such as crime and punishment?
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