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Musings on experiences of volunteering in Papua New Guinea with some gratuitous domestic social and public comment

Wednesday, March 22, 2006

Australian bagging "aussies"

Why would you bag a countryman? Because from my ex-pat situation there are nicer people up here. Besides, I only bad-mouth the "aussies". The fair dinkum Australian who leaves the Christmas dinner table to check on the water for the stock is having his good name besmirched by loud mouthed louts who infest the cricket and other circuses and TV personalities.
Like this morning when news room people tell you that their thoughts and prayers are with you in your adversity (this time it was Cyclone Larry), I can understand the thoughts bit but what do they mean by their prayers? I didn't know that atheists prayed, so if they do pray, to whom do they pray? And what is an atheist prayer like? I used to see the Telegraph (Sydney) with a patriotic picture of a ship and sailors going off to Iraq with the banner headline "God Speed". The owner Kerry Packer had been to the other side and said there was no God but his paper seemed to be saying otherwise. Anyway, what does God Speed mean? Obviously there are missing words. "God is on Speed" doesn't make sense in the context. "May God speed you safely home" might make sense if there is a God. So does the collective paper believe in God but the owner doesn't?

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