Aboriginals.

kneemos · 22-02-2015 11:54PM #1

Always portrayed as poor and drunks . What's the real story of the modern Aboriginal?

Mode note: the term "abo/abbo" is consider a slur against Aboriginals; stop using it.

RonanP77 · 22-02-2015 11:56PM

I recently read something that said they're poor and drunk.

Desolation Of Smug · 22-02-2015 11:58PM

Mostly confined to reservations in N.Leitrim these days. A reclusive people, and very fond of Lidl Ham. I think the whole "drunk" thing is just rumor-mongering.

pmy.murphy · 23-02-2015 12:00AM

kneemos wrote: »

Always portrayed as poor and drunks . What's the real story of the modern Aboriginal?

Their Australias version of the Travellers

23-02-2015 12:00AM

Aboriginals? That's an odd name. I'd have called them Chazwazzas.

bodice ripper · 23-02-2015 12:01AM

In b4 a great bunch of lads.

mikemac1 · 23-02-2015 12:02AM

pmy.murphy wrote: »

Their Australias version of the Travellers

Do they scam Australians with dodgy roofing also?

Wang King · 23-02-2015 12:04AM

Classed as flora and fauna in Australia until 1967 if you believe some versions Of history

Fr_Dougal · 23-02-2015 12:04AM

pmy.murphy wrote: »

Their Australias version of the Travellers

No, they're not.

They're the indigenous Australians, had their lands taken off them by the settlers.

suicide_circus · 23-02-2015 12:06AM

pmy.murphy wrote: »

No they just live like dogs and are subesquently treated like dogs

Woah there skippey!

catallus · 23-02-2015 12:07AM

Fr_Dougal wrote: »

No, they're not.

They're the indigenous Australians, had their lands taken off them by the settlers.

They didn't even have fences up so who is truly to blame?

Sheep Lover · 23-02-2015 12:07AM

Fr_Dougal wrote: »

No, they're not.

They're the indigenous Australians, had their lands taken off them by the settlers.

So they have things taken off them and travellers take things, complete opposites

Chucken · 23-02-2015 12:08AM

pmy.murphy wrote: »

Their Australias version of the Travellers

pmy.murphy wrote: »

No they just live like dogs and are subesquently treated like dogs

pmy.murphy wrote: »

Yeh your right their not Australias version of travellers but they do live like dogs

Wow.

tomwaterford · 23-02-2015 12:08AM

Fr_Dougal wrote: »

No, they're not.

They're the indigenous Australians, had their lands taken off them by the settlers.

Was it not often said Irish travellers were landless labourers/small farmers turned out on the road during the famine??

pmy.murphy · 23-02-2015 12:10AM

Chucken wrote: »

Wow.

Sorry Ill rephrase that. They live animalistic lifestyles.

One example would be rooting through bins for food

biko · 23-02-2015 12:12AM

I met some in a bar in Alice Springs once, great lads.

Chucken · 23-02-2015 12:13AM

pmy.murphy wrote: »

One example would be rooting through bins for food

Poverty will do that to a person.

smurgen · 23-02-2015 12:13AM

pmy.murphy wrote: »

No they just live like dogs and are subesquently treated like dogs

They were treated like dogs first and foremost. Your post is offensive. Have a bit of decency.

pmy.murphy · 23-02-2015 12:15AM

smurgen wrote: »

They were treated like dogs first and foremost. Your post is offensive. Have a bit of decency.

I know first hand experience of how they act and how they are treated. I wasnt trying to be offensive just telling the truth

In Melbourne some of them lie on the roads so they can steal cars and then drive off until the car runs out of petrol. Some are often knocked down by people and the police dont really care

agent graves · 23-02-2015 12:15AM

there is a park in perth where they hide in trees and then jump on random passers to rob them.. happened to my friends when we we over there.. the abos in the citys are crazy.

bb1234567 · 23-02-2015 12:15AM

pmy.murphy wrote: »

Sorry Ill rephrase that. They live animalistic lifestyles.

One example would be rooting through bins for food

Seems like a bit of victim blaming go on here.
You think they enjoy rooting through peoples rubbish for food? I doubt they do that out of preference to buying normal food.

Chucken · 23-02-2015 12:16AM

pmy.murphy wrote: »

I know first hand experience of how they act and how they are treated. I wasnt trying to be offensive just telling the truth

I'd act up a bit too tbh.

https://i0.wp.com/www.janesoceania.com/australia_europeans/aboriginals_1906.jpg

harry Bailey esq · 23-02-2015 12:23AM

Wang King wrote: »

Classed as flora and fauna in Australia until 1967 if you believe some versions Of history

I'm nearly sure that has been established as fact,although the Australian gov might deny it.
There was also a big scandal uncovered recently enough about the treatment of aboriginal people in the 50s and 60s,very similar to the mother and baby homes.It is true that rates of alcoholism,unemployment,domestic violence,drug use and other social problems are significantly higher amongst the aborigines,but they are a marginalized community,they mainly live on reservations away from the rest of the population with little or no integration with the rest of the population.As such,they are left to their own devices essentially,and often harbour a deep distrust of outsiders,especially police.
Law and order quickly breaks down.This is not just unique to oz,the native American reserves in Canada and the gypsy towns in central Europe have the exact same issues.

dr.bollocko · 23-02-2015 12:28AM

http://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/List_of_massacres_of_Indigenous_Australians
Contains this unnerving line of text.

This list is incomplete; you can help by expanding it.

Also they tried to breed them out of existence.

23-02-2015 12:30AM

agent graves wrote: »

there is a park in perth where they hide in trees and then jump on random passers to rob them.. happened to my friends when we we over there.. the abos in the citys are crazy.

That's not a very nice word. But I wager that you already know that.

Desolation Of Smug · 23-02-2015 12:31AM

I was thinking of A B Originals. The Leitrim crowd. Forgive my ignorance.

Let the racist insults continue...

bodice ripper · 23-02-2015 12:32AM

Thread already looks like the parking lot at BanFest.

RobbingBandit · 23-02-2015 12:38AM

Throw another racial slur on the barbie.

asteroids over berlin · 23-02-2015 12:45AM

agent graves wrote: »

there is a park in perth where they hide in trees and then jump on random passers to rob them.. happened to my friends when we we over there.. the abos in the citys are crazy.

there is one in Cairns but it is a sacred aborigine park, backpackers are told not to walk through it, me done so with a couple of beers on me, was approached by this aborigine big mo fo "what you doing" "where you from", i said Ireland - he gave me a hug and said "you understand brother", sound man

asteroids over berlin · 23-02-2015 12:47AM

following on, i worked in a world renowned pharma company in Oz, fair few abo jokes each week, i didn't laugh. Up the Abo's!

gctest50 · 23-02-2015 12:49AM

agent graves wrote: »

there is a park in perth where they hide in trees and then jump on random passers to rob them.. happened to my friends when we we over there.......

dropbears

http://www.tandfonline.com/doi/abs/10.1080/00049182.2012.731307#.VOppTCxbxdg

lots of weird-want-to-kill-you-yokes around the world

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=6vqCCI1ZF7o

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