"Incorrect" T-shirts spark criticism
This story is from Australia's wild North -- rather reminiscent of Alaska in some ways (except in temperature). I imagine a few Americans would like to wear similar shirts if they felt that they could do so without being hounded by the enforcers of correctness.
"As the Territory was proudly celebrating our national day yesterday, a Darwin store was selling Australia Day shirts emblazoned with "racist" messages.... the Drunken Goat variety store in Casuarina was displaying a T-shirt in its front window proclaiming, "This is Australia. We eat meat, we drink beer, and we speak f#ckin English''. Another featured a picture of the Australian flag with the message "Support it or F#!K OFF''.
The manager of the store was unavailable to comment yesterday but community groups were outraged that the store would offer these shirts as part of their Australia Day window display....
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10 comments:
"we speak f#ckin English''"
Yah Myte, but with an unitelligible accent!
I'd wear one of those shirts proudly and I'm not even an Ausie!
Who has the unintelligible accent - and to whom?
Don't the Aussies know that any form of national pride is now forbidden? Haven't they been watching the international news from places like Britain, Canada, and France? Haven't they seen the new US president crawling to his Mooselamb brothers and apologizing? Hey mateies, leave those sheep alone and pay attention!
"Who has the unintelligible accent - and to whom?"
Certainly NOT we Irish.
As a matter of fact I can plainly understand everything my neighbour says.
It should say, "We eat meat, we drink beer, and we speak F*cking Straylian English."
Other people speak Murican English and British English and Canuck English and Injia English.
I want the United State version of this T-shirt.
What a great t-shirt!
The US version of that shirt:
We eat meat, so long at doesn't offend anyone. If it does, it will be immediately banned.
We drink beer, again so long as it doesn't offend anyone. If it does, it will be banned again.
and we speak English, or if you prefer, we will hire translators and make versions of our official documents, such as voting materials and ballots, in any language you care, that way you can vote without having to go through the inconvenient part of learning about the issues and candidates, which is typically in English.
San Farnsisco version:
We eat tube steak. We drink Chardonay. We speak English with a pronounced lisp. We play the skin flute. We take the back door to the hershey highway.
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