Double standards

[martinw-48]

https://www.abc.net.au/news/2019-06-06/william-slim-drive-name-change-welcomed-by-abuse-survivor/111...

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

[ecar3483]

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.

🙂

[ecar3483]

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...

🙂

[enigmabear]

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

[travlyn2012]

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.

[martinw-48]

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

[ecar3483]

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...

🙂

[travlyn2012]

I think there was 4 Cooks.

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

[lyndal1838]

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

[ecar3483]

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

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

🙂