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Posted: 5/19/2006 5:45:15 AM |
Oh yeah, one more thing........why was this thread started by an American?
Hmmmmm.
because if the american bothered to look there were already 3 threads started by australians concerning the welcome relief that the miners have been rescued safe and well.
Well, I started this thread as the only thread at the time. I did a search before doing so; perhaps, I overlooked other threads, but I think not.
As an American who sincerely cares about Australia and who hopes to travel there someday, and whose own land has mining tragedies almost on a regular basis -- a few very recently -- this story of this miracle affected me and I just wanted to express my feelings. I didn't realize that to some of you, these emotions coming from an interested American, were not welcome.
That said, I still plan on traveling to your beautiful country.  | |
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Posted: 5/19/2006 6:04:14 AM | I'm not offended, but thanks for making me feel better.
Yeah, your PM seems to have the same affliction that many others do, and there seems to be no cure in sight. A cure. Now that's a miracle we should ALL pray for. | |
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Posted: 5/19/2006 6:44:30 AM | it would make a good porn movie
lil john doing the chimp and vicey versa
serioous but,it was f//uc//king ,amazing that they came out | |
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Posted: 5/19/2006 6:48:39 AM | 
Now that's priceless!! Put 'em both in there.
I am a former airline employee and have traveled quite abit but never got to your country. I do know what is meant by "not defending" my government. I think if you were to read some of my comments in the current events/political forums you would notice that I am very adamant about what is happening to our people -- our country.
But on topic -- I think that perhaps, your country has better means of rescue. Of the miners, I mean. From all the film footage on tv, apparently your mine is solid rock and so very, very deep. Ours, are mixed medium, and usually cave in or the toxic gas get them before the miners can get out--alive. We lost 6 recently who scrawled their last remarks on whatever they had available--brave souls to the end. | |
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Posted: 5/19/2006 7:02:03 AM | brave souls to the end???????????????????????????????????????????????????????????????????
just probably poor old bu.gger,s who could not quite make the payments
they may of been seen to be brave souls and in that situation i would agree.
where the f u/ck are the owners/managers in this day we can send man to the moon,i dont know it just makes me wild,if our p.ms son was leading troops somewhere i may think different
cowardly no good bas tar ds yes i have gone off topic cruisading again | |
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Posted: 5/20/2006 12:05:56 AM | Yes Hurrah for them and those that got them out and sympathy to the family of the man that didnt make it. I watched this stroy on the news and it didnt look good for them with all the difficulties and the time it took. I think that Australia should be proud of these guys that remained in good spirits and came out giving a smile and a thumbs up. Almost brushing it off like it wasnt a big deal. They showed that spirit that seems to run through all Aussies. These guys wont be buying their own beer in the pub for a while. Great story all around.   | |
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Posted: 5/22/2006 4:49:27 PM | No matter what technological improvements - goin down to the bowels of the earth is always goin to be dangerous.
The 3 American miners made big news here too. Sorry that they couldn't be rescued - I guess we all can empathise.
My dad was a coal miner in england and tells me stories:
about the blind pit ponies that lived & died down in the darkness (except for christmas day when they were brought up to breathe fresh air)
the 14 year olds working down in the most dangerous parts of the pit because they were still small and agile
the 15 year olds put to work to save the family from eviction because the father had been killed or injured down the pit (thats how my dad started down).
The miners deserve every penny of compensation they get. | |
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Posted: 5/22/2006 9:47:09 PM | I was encouraged to see the community and country as a whole get behind these 2 living miners, it really brought out the aussie spirit.
I am glad to see the guys come out alive..
Sad to say though, that from my personal view (which is not always right) it looks like these guys are going out of their way to sell their story for money etc.. and well, although there may be no problem with that, i just really hope that they do not put aside local community etc that helped them out of their situation (which from some of the interviews they have seemed to do unfortunatly)
and in reply to another post on this forum..
it is so easy to blame a god and be shitty at god when bad things happen, but not as easy to thank him when the good things happen.
to answer that question about God's will.. NO ONE but God knows God's will, and the reasons behind it.. so you will never get a real answer from that question..
there are 2 guaruntees in life our life and that is life and death.. i just buried my mum and best friend (the same person) today.. and thank God that she was my mother, and that i am her sun.. sure it may have been God's will for her to die at this time, but instead of being selfish and blaming god i thnaqk him for giving me the chance to know mum and giving us both life.
but yeah.. unless you truly believe in God, his will etc.. then it does not matter either way what you think.. because you seem to be getting upset over something you do not understand..
anyways as mentioned before this is not a religious thread etc (and to that.. big deal.. most threads take a turn somewhere, it does not matter if religion, theories etc come into them) | |
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Posted: 7/7/2006 12:06:38 AM | | I don't want this discussion to be defensive, but until this fatal mining accident I, like probably most of the people who are not in the mining industry i.e. the general public, did not know that a tremor had previously occurred. So please forgive my ignorance ... where was Bill Shorten when the previous tremor occurred? What kind of answer do you expect me to have to that question. I do know that I would much rather be represented by a union, and a strong willed and determined union representative such as Bill shorten, if I was in a similar predicament and my life was hanging in the balance than to have no union representation. | |
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Posted: 7/8/2006 1:38:38 AM | unionism is stuffed i am afraid to say
if bill shorten became pm would he repeal all legislation regarding the collective being able to determine their own fate.......of course he would not
unfortunately i believe it was merely a last ditch attempt to revitalise unionism
the cycle will have to continue for another thirty years or so and then will swing back in favour of the worker as we must be pushed into a tight corner afore we react.
this applies to the mining and services not nursing[god bless em] or police and other essential services but i bet a penny to a pound that they are next inline to be broken.... | |
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Posted: 7/8/2006 2:30:39 AM | i believe shorten was merely in it to further his political career
labour badly need something and a tie back into their grassroots is what i was thinking
who bought about the labour shortage,i guess keating started it,i when talking of union issues is of one who has grown up in the mining industry from 85 when unions were strong and would strike if the fishing looked good,but also know the stories first hand of the early 1900s and the beginning of the union,
as a boy i remember my dad planting lots of spuds at one time and i think that strike went for 40 weeks,imagine that now,it would not happen as we now live in a credit society that was not happening back then.
ask what you like but i am simply a first hand,semi educated blue collar worker | |
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Posted: 9/23/2006 7:13:42 AM | well well well three holes in the ground
f///u...ck a brown dog...
so its all forgotten at the mo
\...and i mean to say who the **** shall ponder the bro
well i am sorry but it aint for me | |
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