Sad week for Australia
We know the Oz brand of humor can be rough.....
You know, I'm Australian, and we have got the worst sense of humor. We are cruel to each other.
Steve Irwin
Steve Irwin
...and more regarding the old hasbeen in the UK:
From news on yahoo.com.au
""Stupid" Greer should back off: Beattie
Expatriate Australian academic Germain Greer should "back off" and keep her "stupid" comments on Steve Irwin to herself, Queensland Premier Peter Beattie says.
Ms Greer told the Nine Network that the crocodile hunter, who died on Monday when a stingray barb pierced his chest while he was snorkelling on the Great Barrier Reef, had embarrassed millions of Australians with his cruelty towards animals.
The comments came as she defended a column she wrote for The Guardian newspaper in Britain in which she said the animal world had taken revenge on "self-deluded animal tormentor Steve Irwin".
Mr Beattie told the Nine Network it was unbelievable Ms Greer had so publicly put her own ego first while the family of Mr Irwin struggled to cope with their loss.
"Germain Greer is just wrong and I just can't imagine anyone being more insensitive and, frankly, stupid," he said.
"This argument is just extreme radical rubbish from Germaine Greer and it couldn't come at a more insensitive time.
"Any suggestion that he (Mr Irwin) mistreated animals is just rubbish ... he educated a generation.""
Regardless of his fame, he was a husband and a dad, and for some one to come out with comments like these at this time is truely unbelieveable. She is just rubbish...
I talked to someone in Brisbane the other day and he summed it up quite well:
"Mate, we all liked to take the piss out of the Crocodile Hunter, but when you get right down to it, he was bloody good bloke..."
The praise dosn't come much higher than that in Oz...
From news on yahoo.com.au
""Stupid" Greer should back off: Beattie
Expatriate Australian academic Germain Greer should "back off" and keep her "stupid" comments on Steve Irwin to herself, Queensland Premier Peter Beattie says.
Ms Greer told the Nine Network that the crocodile hunter, who died on Monday when a stingray barb pierced his chest while he was snorkelling on the Great Barrier Reef, had embarrassed millions of Australians with his cruelty towards animals.
The comments came as she defended a column she wrote for The Guardian newspaper in Britain in which she said the animal world had taken revenge on "self-deluded animal tormentor Steve Irwin".
Mr Beattie told the Nine Network it was unbelievable Ms Greer had so publicly put her own ego first while the family of Mr Irwin struggled to cope with their loss.
"Germain Greer is just wrong and I just can't imagine anyone being more insensitive and, frankly, stupid," he said.
"This argument is just extreme radical rubbish from Germaine Greer and it couldn't come at a more insensitive time.
"Any suggestion that he (Mr Irwin) mistreated animals is just rubbish ... he educated a generation.""
Regardless of his fame, he was a husband and a dad, and for some one to come out with comments like these at this time is truely unbelieveable. She is just rubbish...
I talked to someone in Brisbane the other day and he summed it up quite well:
"Mate, we all liked to take the piss out of the Crocodile Hunter, but when you get right down to it, he was bloody good bloke..."
The praise dosn't come much higher than that in Oz...
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Good article in the Daily Telegraph (Australia) -
Jonathan Wilcken, executive director of the Australasian Regional Association of Zoological Parks and Aquaria:
GERMAINE Greer, the sniping harridan whose credibility in this country ran out years ago, has done it again.
As the world mourns the loss of Steve Irwin, the lovable larrikin who made a greater contribution to conservation than any other Australian, Greer saw a chance to kick him in the guts.
"The animal world has finally taken its revenge on Irwin,'' she howled in her UK paper column the day after Irwin's death.
Greer's conclusion about the manner of Irwin's death was as vicious as it was stupid. With her usual disregard for the facts, she dreamed up a scenario in which Irwin leapt on to the huge stingray and screamed: "Crikey! With those barbs a stingray can kill a horse.''
This idiot savant then decided to give sneering readers of The Guardian a lecture on the lethal nature of stingrays, based on her experience at Melbourne's Brighton Baths as a schoolgirl in the late 1940s.
"As a Melbourne boy, Irwin should have had a healthy respect for stingrays, which are actually commoner, and bigger, in southern waters than they are near Port Douglas,'' she wrote.
Talk about scientific. Germaine, Steve Irwin specialised in getting up close to dangerous animals. The point of his work was to show the world these creatures in their own habitat.
This week his luck ran out - trust Greer to be the first to tread his memory into the dirt.
Irwin's wife Terri and two children Bindi and Bob have enough to deal with at this difficult time.
But Greer, who has only ever lived for herself, wouldn't understand that.
Poisonous preacher ... Germaine Greer is as tired as she is tasteless
We have come to expect this ludicrous logic from a woman who has done nothing for Australia, the country which raised her but which she has embarrassed on the world stage for the best part of 40 years.
Since fleeing this country in the 1960s in pursuit of something less suburban, Greer has not made a single constructive statement about anyone or anything in Australia.
"I was 12 years old when I decided that I had to get out of Australia if my life was to begin. I had been bored ever since I could remember,'' she wrote in 2004.
"If your ambition is to live on Ramsay St, where nobody has ever been heard to discuss a book or a movie, let alone an international event, then Australia may be the place for you.''
Greer's greatest contribution to the world was her attempt - through The Female Eunuch - to make a whole generation of women feel ashamed for getting married and having children.
Thankfully, most women learned to ignore the shrill bore and made up their own minds about whether to have a family, career, neither or both.
Steve Irwin devoted his life to promoting his country. He didn't need a Cambridge degree to show millions how to interact with the natural environment.
I suspect what irks Greer is Irwin was an Aussie who conquered the world but never forgot where he came from.
Australians loved him. Who will mourn Germaine Greer when she keels over and dies in her mud-brick cottage in West Buggeryshire?
As the world mourns the loss of Steve Irwin, the lovable larrikin who made a greater contribution to conservation than any other Australian, Greer saw a chance to kick him in the guts.
"The animal world has finally taken its revenge on Irwin,'' she howled in her UK paper column the day after Irwin's death.
Greer's conclusion about the manner of Irwin's death was as vicious as it was stupid. With her usual disregard for the facts, she dreamed up a scenario in which Irwin leapt on to the huge stingray and screamed: "Crikey! With those barbs a stingray can kill a horse.''
This idiot savant then decided to give sneering readers of The Guardian a lecture on the lethal nature of stingrays, based on her experience at Melbourne's Brighton Baths as a schoolgirl in the late 1940s.
"As a Melbourne boy, Irwin should have had a healthy respect for stingrays, which are actually commoner, and bigger, in southern waters than they are near Port Douglas,'' she wrote.
Talk about scientific. Germaine, Steve Irwin specialised in getting up close to dangerous animals. The point of his work was to show the world these creatures in their own habitat.
This week his luck ran out - trust Greer to be the first to tread his memory into the dirt.
Irwin's wife Terri and two children Bindi and Bob have enough to deal with at this difficult time.
But Greer, who has only ever lived for herself, wouldn't understand that.
Poisonous preacher ... Germaine Greer is as tired as she is tasteless
We have come to expect this ludicrous logic from a woman who has done nothing for Australia, the country which raised her but which she has embarrassed on the world stage for the best part of 40 years.
Since fleeing this country in the 1960s in pursuit of something less suburban, Greer has not made a single constructive statement about anyone or anything in Australia.
"I was 12 years old when I decided that I had to get out of Australia if my life was to begin. I had been bored ever since I could remember,'' she wrote in 2004.
"If your ambition is to live on Ramsay St, where nobody has ever been heard to discuss a book or a movie, let alone an international event, then Australia may be the place for you.''
Greer's greatest contribution to the world was her attempt - through The Female Eunuch - to make a whole generation of women feel ashamed for getting married and having children.
Thankfully, most women learned to ignore the shrill bore and made up their own minds about whether to have a family, career, neither or both.
Steve Irwin devoted his life to promoting his country. He didn't need a Cambridge degree to show millions how to interact with the natural environment.
I suspect what irks Greer is Irwin was an Aussie who conquered the world but never forgot where he came from.
Australians loved him. Who will mourn Germaine Greer when she keels over and dies in her mud-brick cottage in West Buggeryshire?
Jonathan Wilcken, executive director of the Australasian Regional Association of Zoological Parks and Aquaria:
"I'm not aware of anyone who would seriously regard Dr Greer as having any expertise in the fields of animal welfare or conservation.
Unsurprisingly, Dr Greer is mistaken in many of the views she has so casually expressed in this highly insensitive article.
Steve Irwin is rightly regarded around the world as having been an outstanding ambassador for wildlife conservation.
He was widely respected as an animal handler of great expertise."
Unsurprisingly, Dr Greer is mistaken in many of the views she has so casually expressed in this highly insensitive article.
Steve Irwin is rightly regarded around the world as having been an outstanding ambassador for wildlife conservation.
He was widely respected as an animal handler of great expertise."
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More Sad News
Channel Nine have just announced the racing legend Peter Brock has been killed in a car accident whilst competing in the Targa Rally in Western Australia.
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This and the Steve Irwin thread may not be Rotorcraft related, but there are some of us who work in remote areas, (myself being one of them and I have another Aussie here with me) and news is not always forthcoming here. So being able to read this sort of news and discuss it with like minded individuals is what makes working in a remote site a little less arduous.
For those individuals who are not bothered or don't have the time to go cruising around the other blog sites to hear the opinions of people we have little in common with in regard to certain major events in the news, the oppertunity to read about these subjects and as stated discuss the subject matter with like minded individuals is a breath of fresh air.
If you don't wish to read these "unrelated" threads, then don't click on them. Read the stuff that interests you. I know I do!
For those individuals who are not bothered or don't have the time to go cruising around the other blog sites to hear the opinions of people we have little in common with in regard to certain major events in the news, the oppertunity to read about these subjects and as stated discuss the subject matter with like minded individuals is a breath of fresh air.
If you don't wish to read these "unrelated" threads, then don't click on them. Read the stuff that interests you. I know I do!
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Still remember when I met him on his first trip to Pukekohe in the Marlboro Holden. Was an awesome spokesman for the sport and after winning Bathurst 9 times, 6 in a row, doubt we will ever see someone that good again.
I think perhaps you should move in with that slut in the UK!
That was beautiful mate, my sentiments exactly.
Gayrow pilot,
Why don't you leave the moderating to the moderators.
I have been busy all day, missed the news and this is where I heard this terrible news so for that I thank Juggler. The man was a champion ambassador for a lot of good causes and deserves a spot on any forum.
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) etc..., and "Oh, did you hear about ...?" is just a natural comment.
If you don't wish to read these "unrelated" threads, then don't click on them. Read the stuff that interests you. I know I do!
) Sad news, and from the looks of it, related to helicopters after all.
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Germaine Greer
Up until Stevie passed away we hadn't heard much from good ol' germaine, it appears that she truly believes in the old saying that there is no such thing as bad publicity. In summary I think GG should get a life its really very boring.
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Not a good week to be an Aussie Icon!
First Irwin and now Brock! Not a good week to be an Aussie Icon me thinks? Who's next Steve Waugh? Just goes to show one minute its all roses and in the blink of an eye it can all turn to ****. Condolences to all involved.
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Who is that slut in the UK? I mean, it's a pretty big country and I presume there are more than a few sluts (or slags as the case may be) who call the UK home. Specifics? Or better yet, pictures?
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Pull your head in
Sorry Jayrow Pilot
Don't mean to be rude but pull your head in ,and have some respect,yeah its not really related to this site but if you don't like it then don't post..**** two really great guys in a week,very sad for Australia losing two great ozzy icons..Being a Kiwi myself and growing up in his error,a very sad lose indeed,the 05 will never be the same i am just glad i met him and had blast in one of his old cars,he did alot for road safety as well a very sad lose.
Don't mean to be rude but pull your head in ,and have some respect,yeah its not really related to this site but if you don't like it then don't post..**** two really great guys in a week,very sad for Australia losing two great ozzy icons..Being a Kiwi myself and growing up in his error,a very sad lose indeed,the 05 will never be the same i am just glad i met him and had blast in one of his old cars,he did alot for road safety as well a very sad lose.
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While it is always sad to hear of someone's death it would have been more helpful if the post originator had put more thought into the title. Most people have probably never heard of Peter Brock and by including his name in the post title it would have allowed only those interested to examine the thread.
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