topic Re: Double standards in Community Spirit

Double standards

martinw-48 — Thu, 06 Jun 2019 06:47:38 GMT

https://www.abc.net.au/news/2019-06-06/william-slim-drive-name-change-welcomed-by-abuse-survivor/11185016

But the name of the main street in Coleraine is Whyte street.
The name of the men that slaughtered the Aborigines at the Hummocks and will always celebrate their achievements

Re: Double standards

ecar3483 — Thu, 06 Jun 2019 12:22:24 GMT

I lived on a street that was named after an amateur explorer of this wide brown land.

He's credited with finding what were possibly the last pair, a male and a female, of an obscure and near extinct type of bandicoot.

What's not often mentioned in the pages of history is that on his return journey he got lost...

And ate the bandicoots... ha ha.

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Re: Double standards

ecar3483 — Fri, 07 Jun 2019 10:29:41 GMT

There's also Captain Cook crescent in Canberra.

It may, coincidentally, have been named thus because all the streets in that suburb bear the names of explorers...

Or...

It could have been named to honour the once popular childrens' rhyme -

Captain Cook chased a chook all around Australia...

He lost his pants in the middle of France and found them in Tasmania...

Ha ha...

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Re: Double standards

Anonymous — Fri, 07 Jun 2019 23:47:27 GMT

The one I know involves Captain Cook doing something stinky behind an apple tree

Re: Double standards

travlyn2012 — Sat, 08 Jun 2019 00:33:34 GMT

When I was a kid we would say Captain Cook did a p??p behind the bathroom door.

Maybe it was because I grew up in a ~~effluent~~ ..... I mean affluent area

This monument is located at 1770 / Agnes Waters in Qld.

Lieutenant Cook did a ????? --------------- Just doesn't sound the same

Lands in Botany Bay in April as Captain, arrives at Agnes Waters as a Lieutenant.

Re: Double standards

martinw-48 — Sat, 08 Jun 2019 02:16:48 GMT

He was made Captain upon arrival back in England.
So he was a Lieutenant in Botany Bay

Re: Double standards

ecar3483 — Sat, 08 Jun 2019 10:37:48 GMT

On the voyage back to England he stopped and claimed the island of South Georgia for the Crown.

South Georgia is one of the South Sandwich Islands, so you can say it with a clear conscience - Captain Cook stopped for a sandwich on the way home... ha ha...

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Re: Double standards

travlyn2012 — Sat, 08 Jun 2019 23:48:48 GMT

I think there was 4 Cooks.

A Captain, a Lieutenant, a Commander, and the one in the galley.

Re: Double standards

lyndal1838 — Sun, 09 Jun 2019 05:19:31 GMT

Cook was THE Commander of the Endeavour......he did not hold the rank of Commander.

Re: Double standards

ecar3483 — Sun, 09 Jun 2019 09:53:39 GMT

Apparently the only attempt to make broth on the Endeavour ended badly...

It must have been because there were too many Cooks... ha ha...

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Re: Double standards

travlyn2012 — Sun, 09 Jun 2019 10:44:23 GMT