Australia's national Qantas, tells staff to call Australia's settlement an "Invasion"
Alan invaded Australia. Amongst other things.
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Originally Posted by goodonyamate
The easiest way to deal with this **** is to not talk to anyone. Ever.
If you haven't already read Orwell's 1984 (freely available for download HERE). It's a relatively short, easy read, but the most potent of warnings given the horrors Orwell had witnessed in the 1930's with Soviet socialism (who he initially supported), the Fascists and the Spanish Civil war.
Reading 1984 can either be seen as a warning against, or an instruction manual on how to implement a totalitarian system. He anticipated almost everything that is the insanity of political correctness, in 1948 whilst dying of Tuberculosis.
1984, page 65. Apologies for the extended quote, but I think it is necessary.
‘How is the Dictionary getting on?’ said Winston, raising
his voice to overcome the noise.
‘Slowly,’ said Syme. ‘I’m on the adjectives. It’s fascinating.’
He had brightened up immediately at the mention of
Newspeak. He pushed his pannikin aside, took up his hunk
of bread in one delicate hand and his cheese in the other,
and leaned across the table so as to be able to speak without
shouting.
‘The Eleventh Edition is the definitive edition,’ he said.
‘We’re getting the language into its final shape—the shape
it’s going to have when nobody speaks anything else. When
we’ve finished with it, people like you will have to learn it
all over again. You think, I dare say, that our chief job is
inventing new words. But not a bit of it! We’re destroying
words—scores of them, hundreds of them, every day. We’re
cutting the language down to the bone. The Eleventh Edition
won’t contain a single word that will become obsolete
before the year 2050.’
He bit hungrily into his bread and swallowed a couple
of mouthfuls, then continued speaking, with a sort of pedant’s
passion. His thin dark face had become animated, his
eyes had lost their mocking expression and grown almost
dreamy.
‘It’s a beautiful thing, the destruction of words. Of course
the great wastage is in the verbs and adjectives, but there
are hundreds of nouns that can be got rid of as well. It isn’t
only the synonyms; there are also the antonyms. After all,
what justification is there for a word which is simply the
opposite of some other word? A word contains its opposite
in itself. Take ‘good’, for instance. If you have a word like
‘good’, what need is there for a word like ‘bad’? ‘Ungood’
will do just as well—better, because it’s an exact opposite,
which the other is not. Or again, if you want a stronger version
of ‘good’, what sense is there in having a whole string
of vague useless words like ‘excellent’ and ‘splendid’ and all
the rest of them? ‘Plusgood’ covers the meaning, or ‘doubleplusgood’
if you want something stronger still. Of course
we use those forms already. but in the final version of Newspeak
there’ll be nothing else. In the end the whole notion
of goodness and badness will be covered by only six words—
in reality, only one word. Don’t you see the beauty of that,
Winston? It was B.B.’s [Big Brother] idea originally, of course,’ he added
as an afterthought.
A sort of vapid eagerness flitted across Winston’s face at
the mention of Big Brother. Nevertheless Syme immediately
detected a certain lack of enthusiasm.
‘You haven’t a real appreciation of Newspeak, Winston,’
he said almost sadly. ‘Even when you write it you’re still
thinking in Oldspeak. I’ve read some of those pieces that
you write in ‘The Times’ occasionally. They’re good enough,
but they’re translations. In your heart you’d prefer to stick
to Oldspeak, with all its vagueness and its useless shades of
meaning. You don’t grasp the beauty of the destruction of
words. Do you know that Newspeak is the only language in
the world whose vocabulary gets smaller every year?’
Winston did know that, of course. He smiled, sympathetically
he hoped, not trusting himself to speak. Syme bit
off another fragment of the dark-coloured bread, chewed it
briefly, and went on:
‘Don’t you see that the whole aim of Newspeak is to
narrow the range of thought? In the end we shall make
thoughtcrime literally impossible, because there will be no
words in which to express it. Every concept that can ever
be needed, will be expressed by exactly one word, with its
meaning rigidly defined and all its subsidiary meanings
rubbed out and forgotten. Already, in the Eleventh Edition,
we’re not far from that point. But the process will still be
continuing long after you and I are dead. Every year fewer
and fewer words, and the range of consciousness always a
little smaller. Even now, of course, there’s no reason or excuse
for committing thoughtcrime. It’s merely a question
of self-discipline, reality-control. But in the end there won’t
be any need even for that. The Revolution will be complete
when the language is perfect. Newspeak is Ingsoc and
Ingsoc is Newspeak,’ he added with a sort of mystical satisfaction.
‘Has it ever occurred to you, Winston, that by the
year 2050, at the very latest, not a single human being will
be alive who could understand such a conversation as we
are having now?’
his voice to overcome the noise.
‘Slowly,’ said Syme. ‘I’m on the adjectives. It’s fascinating.’
He had brightened up immediately at the mention of
Newspeak. He pushed his pannikin aside, took up his hunk
of bread in one delicate hand and his cheese in the other,
and leaned across the table so as to be able to speak without
shouting.
‘The Eleventh Edition is the definitive edition,’ he said.
‘We’re getting the language into its final shape—the shape
it’s going to have when nobody speaks anything else. When
we’ve finished with it, people like you will have to learn it
all over again. You think, I dare say, that our chief job is
inventing new words. But not a bit of it! We’re destroying
words—scores of them, hundreds of them, every day. We’re
cutting the language down to the bone. The Eleventh Edition
won’t contain a single word that will become obsolete
before the year 2050.’
He bit hungrily into his bread and swallowed a couple
of mouthfuls, then continued speaking, with a sort of pedant’s
passion. His thin dark face had become animated, his
eyes had lost their mocking expression and grown almost
dreamy.
‘It’s a beautiful thing, the destruction of words. Of course
the great wastage is in the verbs and adjectives, but there
are hundreds of nouns that can be got rid of as well. It isn’t
only the synonyms; there are also the antonyms. After all,
what justification is there for a word which is simply the
opposite of some other word? A word contains its opposite
in itself. Take ‘good’, for instance. If you have a word like
‘good’, what need is there for a word like ‘bad’? ‘Ungood’
will do just as well—better, because it’s an exact opposite,
which the other is not. Or again, if you want a stronger version
of ‘good’, what sense is there in having a whole string
of vague useless words like ‘excellent’ and ‘splendid’ and all
the rest of them? ‘Plusgood’ covers the meaning, or ‘doubleplusgood’
if you want something stronger still. Of course
we use those forms already. but in the final version of Newspeak
there’ll be nothing else. In the end the whole notion
of goodness and badness will be covered by only six words—
in reality, only one word. Don’t you see the beauty of that,
Winston? It was B.B.’s [Big Brother] idea originally, of course,’ he added
as an afterthought.
A sort of vapid eagerness flitted across Winston’s face at
the mention of Big Brother. Nevertheless Syme immediately
detected a certain lack of enthusiasm.
‘You haven’t a real appreciation of Newspeak, Winston,’
he said almost sadly. ‘Even when you write it you’re still
thinking in Oldspeak. I’ve read some of those pieces that
you write in ‘The Times’ occasionally. They’re good enough,
but they’re translations. In your heart you’d prefer to stick
to Oldspeak, with all its vagueness and its useless shades of
meaning. You don’t grasp the beauty of the destruction of
words. Do you know that Newspeak is the only language in
the world whose vocabulary gets smaller every year?’
Winston did know that, of course. He smiled, sympathetically
he hoped, not trusting himself to speak. Syme bit
off another fragment of the dark-coloured bread, chewed it
briefly, and went on:
‘Don’t you see that the whole aim of Newspeak is to
narrow the range of thought? In the end we shall make
thoughtcrime literally impossible, because there will be no
words in which to express it. Every concept that can ever
be needed, will be expressed by exactly one word, with its
meaning rigidly defined and all its subsidiary meanings
rubbed out and forgotten. Already, in the Eleventh Edition,
we’re not far from that point. But the process will still be
continuing long after you and I are dead. Every year fewer
and fewer words, and the range of consciousness always a
little smaller. Even now, of course, there’s no reason or excuse
for committing thoughtcrime. It’s merely a question
of self-discipline, reality-control. But in the end there won’t
be any need even for that. The Revolution will be complete
when the language is perfect. Newspeak is Ingsoc and
Ingsoc is Newspeak,’ he added with a sort of mystical satisfaction.
‘Has it ever occurred to you, Winston, that by the
year 2050, at the very latest, not a single human being will
be alive who could understand such a conversation as we
are having now?’
I like being called Husband.
I like being call Dad.
My wife likes being referred to as my Wife.
My wife likes being called mum.
And while these words and their definitions remain in the Oxford dictionary then screw the QF HR numb nuts who came up with this sh1te, I'll keep using them till the cows come home.
And while i don't work for QF i hope the staff that this crap is aimed at give it the big flick pass.
Fly safe.
Play hard.
Cheers Hoss
I like being call Dad.
My wife likes being referred to as my Wife.
My wife likes being called mum.
And while these words and their definitions remain in the Oxford dictionary then screw the QF HR numb nuts who came up with this sh1te, I'll keep using them till the cows come home.
And while i don't work for QF i hope the staff that this crap is aimed at give it the big flick pass.
Fly safe.
Play hard.
Cheers Hoss
Last edited by hoss58; 6th Mar 2018 at 00:30. Reason: typing error
Last time I looked on the ASX website they had Qantas listed as a transport company, I didn’t realise they had changed to a social engineering enterprise!
Got to love the political correctness brigade!
Got to love the political correctness brigade!
AP:
Well, that seems to suit your argument, doesn't it? Try some research on the Mungo People. According to my "most evidence", they were here before the aborigines arrived, and do not share DNA with them. I believe that would make the aboriginal arrival an "invasion" as well.
That is never discussed in polite company though, is it?
Well, that seems to suit your argument, doesn't it? Try some research on the Mungo People. According to my "most evidence", they were here before the aborigines arrived, and do not share DNA with them. I believe that would make the aboriginal arrival an "invasion" as well.
That is never discussed in polite company though, is it?
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We are all immigrants, including the first aborigines.
Would a Japanese occupational force be saying 'Sorry' for the stolen generation?!
Would the Torres Straight Islanders rather be a part of (broke) PNG or get the cash benefits of white Australia?!
Why do people think that they have the right to slam their sexual orientation in other peoples face?
Those of you who work for (or want to work for) Quntas should have a long look in the mirror.
Sad to say but Australia is sliding down the path of laziness. Lucky country no more.
And they wonder why so many Aussie pilots are going overseas...
Would a Japanese occupational force be saying 'Sorry' for the stolen generation?!
Would the Torres Straight Islanders rather be a part of (broke) PNG or get the cash benefits of white Australia?!
Why do people think that they have the right to slam their sexual orientation in other peoples face?
Those of you who work for (or want to work for) Quntas should have a long look in the mirror.
Sad to say but Australia is sliding down the path of laziness. Lucky country no more.
And they wonder why so many Aussie pilots are going overseas...
they came here to steal the land, the natural resources and they did it with the view that no-one other than themselves were 'entitled' and anyone who was here already was not even to be considered.
At the end of the day when all is said and done you only have what you fight for. Aboriginal Tribes were never going to fend off any colonisation whether it be the Dutch, French, British or Japenese if you want to wait another 150 years.
The "indiginies" had no use for gold, silver, lead, zinc, coal, iron ore, or anything else the european migrants took out of the ground. Sure, it knocked over a few piles of eaten-out seashells, and probably disturbed some graves, but it didn't knock over any of the houses and magnificent buildings that the indiginies had constructed, or any schools, or racetracks, or roads.
Have a look at the billions being spent on the Guilt Industry, and then look at how many full-bloods there are. Once you start diluting the blood, the claim to "indiginiality" gets weaker and weaker. But anybody who wants to claim to being an indiginie must be treated as one, and the handouts begin. But not to the paler others, oh no.
But back to Quaintarse, the LGBTMFPDGW-1B groups must be laughing their little assets off at the way the 99% has to dance to the tune of the 1%.
Have a look at the billions being spent on the Guilt Industry, and then look at how many full-bloods there are. Once you start diluting the blood, the claim to "indiginiality" gets weaker and weaker. But anybody who wants to claim to being an indiginie must be treated as one, and the handouts begin. But not to the paler others, oh no.
But back to Quaintarse, the LGBTMFPDGW-1B groups must be laughing their little assets off at the way the 99% has to dance to the tune of the 1%.
Really? How do you know that? Were you there during the decision making? The British were very concerned about the French coming and setting up a colony before and after they had settled some of the country, certainly doesn't look like they thought they were 'entitled' to it. More like use or lose it.
At the end of the day when all is said and done you only have what you fight for. Aboriginal Tribes were never going to fend off any colonisation whether it be the Dutch, French, British or Japenese if you want to wait another 150 years.
At the end of the day when all is said and done you only have what you fight for. Aboriginal Tribes were never going to fend off any colonisation whether it be the Dutch, French, British or Japenese if you want to wait another 150 years.
Interesting isn’t it how they managed to dominate North America (not) when they tried the same subjugating tactics on the 13 colonies who were prepared to shoot back at them they got their a-ses caned.
If you think they came here to play nice with indigenous people and respect their culture and lands then I want some of what you’re smoking.
You would really have something to virtue-signal and spout self-righteous claptrap about had the French, Spanish or Portuguese colonised Australia over two centuries ago. And, ‘The past is a foreign country; they do things differently there’ [L.P. Hartley].
A ratepayer-funded Aboriginal flag flies over my local council office (but they had to remove the invented ‘welcome to country’ sign, as they picked the wrong token tribe).
At least the British system eventually doubled their life span, and provided education, health care, land rights, ‘sit down’ money, even their own flag, and useful idiots, and taxpayers, to support the guilt industry.
Like my local shire council, QANTAS management are becoming a laughing-stock.
A ratepayer-funded Aboriginal flag flies over my local council office (but they had to remove the invented ‘welcome to country’ sign, as they picked the wrong token tribe).
At least the British system eventually doubled their life span, and provided education, health care, land rights, ‘sit down’ money, even their own flag, and useful idiots, and taxpayers, to support the guilt industry.
Like my local shire council, QANTAS management are becoming a laughing-stock.
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One wonders whether this rubbish is handed out to their 'Alliance partners' EK for distribution to all staff in the UAE?
Once out of the myopic dominant home market position, Qantas has little presence or even consideration in the minds of other airline management. It has shrunk itself to irrelevance. Lacking in stature as an airline, their decisions have nonetheless bought amusement to airline executives world wide.
QANTAS management are becoming a national laughing-stock.
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they forced their way into most of the world, China, India, South East Asia, Australia, North America, Africa, the Middle East and they raped every place they went to and were unceremoniously kicked out in the end
And how, pray tell, would things have been different (better) if the colonisers in the places you mention had been other than British? Your principles may be high but your argument is weak.
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When I first read it, I was a bit miffed. Then on reflection, I started laughing. Fort Fumble had cocked up again. The morons had released it 3 and a half weeks too early!!!!!!
Hey, why don't they rename QANTAS as Gondwanaland Aerial Services, GAS.
That would remove the offensive words 'QUEENSland and Northern TERRITORY', acknowledge the megafauna (wiped out by you-know-who) and the acronym would be an appropriate description of the drivel being spouted by the airline's management.
That would remove the offensive words 'QUEENSland and Northern TERRITORY', acknowledge the megafauna (wiped out by you-know-who) and the acronym would be an appropriate description of the drivel being spouted by the airline's management.
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From 1788, British and French arrivals were shocked at local misogyny. First Fleeter Watkin Tench noticed a young woman’s head “covered by contusions, and mangled by scars”. She also had a spear wound above the left knee caused by a man who dragged her from her home to rape her. Tench wrote, “They are in all respects treated with savage barbarity; condemned not only to carry the children, but all other burthens, they meet in return for submission only with blows, kicks and every other mark of brutality.”[18]
He also wrote, “When an Indian [sic] is provoked by a woman, he either spears her, or knocks her down on the spot; on this occasion he always strikes on the head, using indiscriminately a hatchet, a club, or any other weapon, which may chance to be in his hand.”
Marine Lt. William Collins wrote, “We have seen some of these unfortunate beings with more scars upon their shorn heads, cut in every direction, than could be well distinguished or counted.” [19]
Governor Phillip’s confidant, Bennelong, in 1790 had taken a woman to Port Jackson to kill her because her relatives were his enemies. He gave her two severe wounds on the head and one on the shoulder, saying this was his rightful vengeance.[20]
Phillip was appalled that an Eora woman within a few days of delivery had fresh wounds on her head, where her husband had beaten her with wood.
In 1802 an explorer in the Blue Mountains wrote how, for a trivial reason, an Aboriginal called Gogy “took his club and struck his wife’s head such a blow that she fell to the ground unconscious. After dinner…he got infuriated and again struck his wife on the head with his club, and left her on the ground nearly dying.”[21]
Or maybe this?
TRIBAL warfare and paybacks were endemic. In "Journey to Horseshoe Bend", anthropologist T.G.H. Strehlow described a black-on-black massacre in 1875 in the Finke River area of Central Australia, triggered by a perceived sacrilege:
"The warriors turned their murderous attention to the women and older children and either clubbed or speared them to death. Finally, according to the grim custom of warriors and avengers they broke the limbs of the infants, leaving them to die ‘natural deaths’. The final number of the dead could well have reached the high figure of 80 to 100 men, women and children."[26]
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Jim Molan stated that if you think that was an invasion, you haven't seen a real invasion.
It was always going to happen.
Its worth noting that of the Imperial powers at the time, Britain was the only one to have abolished slavery. The rest of them, including the Maori, didn't get around to stopping the practice till the mid-1800's.
Future historians will view this time as part of a long transition of a people from the Iron Age, being brought to modernity. Some things will go right, others will not.
One thing is for certain. Living in a remote community where there are no jobs or an inclination to send your kids to school, is a sure-fire way to eventual extinction.
It was always going to happen.
Its worth noting that of the Imperial powers at the time, Britain was the only one to have abolished slavery. The rest of them, including the Maori, didn't get around to stopping the practice till the mid-1800's.
Future historians will view this time as part of a long transition of a people from the Iron Age, being brought to modernity. Some things will go right, others will not.
One thing is for certain. Living in a remote community where there are no jobs or an inclination to send your kids to school, is a sure-fire way to eventual extinction.
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Hudson Fysh must be turning in his grave. 