Hoes in different area codes

[Jiro]

But we did a damn fine job, BoB. Mother England owes us a great debt for that we pulled.

[Loony BoB]

Darn tootin'.

[NorthernChaosGod]

I think they also owe you a debt for shipping you off to that island(s).

[Loony BoB]

Continent for Australia, and they were indeed shipped there - or at least, some of them were. People went to NZ of their own accord, lured by the promise of a new paradise that had been found down that way. When they arrived, they faced hostile (sometimes cannibal) tribes and lived in crappy makeshift buildings on muddy ground. Hello, Auckland! Of course, time changes everything and now it's probably a lot closer to the paradise they were promised, but going by the letters they wrote to their families in the UK which we had to study at school, they probably won't take much consolation out of that.

Dunno how the Aussies fared - the Aboriginals were pretty different to the Maori.

[Jiro]

There was a bit of hostility from certain tribes here and there as far as I'm aware. Not everybody liked the weird white men with their strange skin.

Australia as a whole seemed like a place to set up shop though.

Not as ty as this place though:

*snip*

[G13]WTF MAN!?[/G13]

[Psychotic]

Yeah, us Antipodeans were cannon fodder so the British army could be saved for safer missions.

What, like The Somme?

[Loony BoB]

Normandy, that sort of thing.

EDIT: Yes, Normandy, decades later!

[Citizen Bleys]

That's when we kind of threw our bodies at Gallipoli

We Canadians think of Vimy Ridge the same way, but when we say "the war," we mean WWII.

[Timekeeper]

The land, yes, but the country itself is an entirely different matter. It doesn't take much to walk into a relatively empty space that isn't owned by anyone and say "I own this now. This is mine."

It was owned on some level by the native people, really, but I do get your point all the same and agree.

North America could in no way have been declared terra nullius, and although Australia had been, it's a hotly controversial subject. The land was owned by someone, and to some degree (especially in certain areas) it was conquered.

Personally I hate people who troll or laugh at someone for being trolled. I'm with Bob, I enjoy arguing and being passionate about something

[The Man]

They see me trollin', they hatin'.

Actually I haven't been trolling this thread at all. Oops. There's no one worth trolling here though; no one has displayed enough ignorance to merit it.

[Jiro]

TK did you lower cap that b just to be trollin'?

[Loony BoB]

I have all this rage pent up inside of me over it.

And I totally thought Temple Knight had posted for a second there.

[Timekeeper]

TK did you lower cap that b just to be trollin'?

That's just my mind doing a grammatical autopilot. I did a similar thing the other day when I typed querty...

And I totally thought Temple Knight had posted for a second there.

[Loony BoB]

I've just never seen anyone other than Temple Knight be called TK here before. Now if people also start calling you Teek...

[G13]

TK-421, why aren't you at your post? TK-421, do you copy?