Nor do I think it patriotic or to be saying "I'm proud to be Australian"

It's just a shirt.

It's just a garden variety, albeit blunt, comment applicable to any and all.

People will twist things and see things any way that suits their agenda - take the Nike slogan "Just Do It" for example.

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@goldenjet16 wrote:
I like it... I see nothing wrong with having love for your country.

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I would have thought that a prerequisite for whatever your country, and as the t shirt says, if you don't like the country you are in (or the pub, restaurant, hotel or suburb for that matter) - Leave - find one you do like.

If im at the movies and the movie is really bad...i leave

If im at a restaurant and the staff are taking ages to take my order....i leave

If im in a shop and the service is really bad.... I leave

So whats the issue with saying that if you dont like the country that you are living in, then leave?

My parents were born in the UK. In their early 20's they decided they didnt like what the UK was becomming. So guess what they did? They left.

My Grandad, at the age of 60,immigrated to Australia. Two years later he decided he didnt like it here so guess what he did. He left and went back to the UK.

6 months after that though he decided he disliked the UK even more so he left and came back to Australia

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@daydream**believer wrote:

 

 

 

My Grandad, at the age of 60,immigrated to Australia. Two years later he decided he didnt like it here so guess what he did. He left and went back to the UK.

6 months after that though he decided he disliked the UK even more so he left and came back to Australia

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lol, my best friends family did the same, came here, went back and then came back again. I guess they got a bit homesick the first time around.

I wonder if the shirts, like the Aussie flags that we wave on Australia Day, are made in a foreign country.

Correct me if I'm wrong, but in the past, didn't anything produced with an Australian Flag on it, have to be approved by some govt dept?

DEB

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@punch*drunk wrote:

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@daydream**believer wrote:

 

 

 

My Grandad, at the age of 60,immigrated to Australia. Two years later he decided he didnt like it here so guess what he did. He left and went back to the UK.

6 months after that though he decided he disliked the UK even more so he left and came back to Australia

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lol, my best friends family did the same, came here, went back and then came back again. I guess they got a bit homesick the first time around.

 

 

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Grandad ended up going back twice. The second time he got off the plane in London in singlet and shorts and it was snowing. He knew almost immediately he had made a mistake again going back.

After coming back to Aus again he was happy here but he did ask that after he passed, his ashes be taken back home to the UK, so they were

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@goldenjet16 wrote:
If that's the way one feels about their country, I don't see the racism.

Am I missing something with you Aussies??

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Not at all, all your seeing on here is the lefts tut tut brigade, the marketplace of outrage,  seeing racism in every little thing, love to depict our country as racist and play the racist card to shut down normal debate.

They are not representative of the wider Australian people.