Aussies demand Poms cough up first 'Australia' map A group of Oz agitators is demanding Blighty hand over the first map of the Lucky Country to use the word "Australia". The Australian "birth certificate" was drawn up by Brit explorer and cartographer Matthew Flinders, a Royal Navy officer, who from 1801-1803 surveyed Terra Australis, as it was then known. The home leg of his …
Has it;
1) Been convicted of a serious criminal offence
2) Been found to be too poor to support itself in England and stuffed on a boat
3) Been rounded up by a press gang
4) Been found guilty of being Susan Boyle ugly?
If so then we should stick it on the next convict boat going out, along with Tony Blair, Lord Levy and a whole bunch of other criminal crap we don't need. Tell you what, send the entire Leeds United team as well whilst we're at it.
Thanks for the reminder Australia, what would the civilised world do without a dustbin for our criminals, poor and chavs?
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"Being a school that is named after the great Matthew Flinders, we believe that it is within our responsibility to rise up and fight to reclaim this significant historical map that is rightfully ours."
Right!
I'm off to rename my house "The Royal Mint"....
That's my pension fund sorted.
Sam
(Jimmy Edwards icon because he would have been proud of their avarice)
"Being a school that is named after the great Matthew Flinders"
What kind of dibs and perks do you get if you name your school after Jesus Christ? Or the Marquis de Sade. Or Paris Hilton. Or anyone, really. Whiny high-pitched voice: "Can I have their stuff now, please!" Sheesh!
Come on Poms, surely you have groups of students, politicians and academics that come up with idiotic ideas? And you wouldn't want us to think the whole country felt the same way?
If you lot want to send the map over for a touring museum for the anniversary of Flinders' death I reckon that'd be a nice gesture. But in 2015 you can take the bloody thing back again, I don't want to have to pay the power bills for the climate controlled room it has to live in.
And of course if you don't want to come to the party we'll just send Warnie over to beat your whole cricket team single handed. And have affairs with half your female population.
Beer because I can't be bothered arguing.
I've always though that the US Declaration of Independence is rightfully British, given that it was us they were declaring independence from, surely it must be delivered to the English head of state, or else no independence.
As for the Flinders map, why not have it on display in Australia, given that it's currently doing nothing, and no one back in blighty has any idea who Matthew Flinders was.
In other news, Sydney is too hot.
As an Australian, even I can see the logic is truly warped and as others have pointed out, not in the interests of logevity for the document. To put this in a modern context, if I photograph someone's new house for the first time, THEY OWN the photograph?
Not bloody likely. Similarly, if there happens to be some really excellent satellite images of say an Icelandic volcano erupting the owners of the satellite have to hand over rights to Iceland for those images?
Australia has an insurgency movement at work called the Republicans who, though well meaning, don't understand that if you are going to change a system then it needs to be an improvement, not a retrograde step. The current system works rather well, aside from the fact it lets the bleeding hearts be given too much air time.
I'm off for now, just lucky I am out of the country at the moment!?
In another few hundred years it will be fucking dust anyway....
Get a super duper high resolution scan of the map and then engrave it into a slab of pure copper and then run off some prints in carbon ink and mausoleum grade paper... so it lasts a LONG time in hermetically sealed controlled atmosphere argon filled glass cases... along with the copper slab.
Hey.... print the fucking thing out on toilet rolls so we can celebrate Invasion Day while we wipe our arses....
even tho "Down Under" rates highly on the quality of lifestyle tables, we are not spared the odd gobby dickhead. (Also see "Maoris who want everyone to leave NZ and move back to Europe").
Most antipodeans couldn't give a monkeys about the empire, as long as it stays where it is and doesn't bother us. Get a grip.
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