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Originally posted by klingklang77 and i think (he isnt sure, but they were english and either poor or a convict) i married one of the convict ancestors...

So you'll always be wealthy

Just don't ask where the $$$ comes from

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Originally posted by klingklang77 and i think (he isnt sure, but they were english and either poor or a convict) i married one of the convict ancestors...

people dont realize that there were alot of other people who came with these "convicts". at the time england was overpopulated immensely so they would look for any excuse to deport someone, hardly any of these so called convicts committed serious crimes...

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Originally posted by trancepunkk people dont realize that there were alot of other people who came with these "convicts". at the time england was overpopulated immensely so they would look for any excuse to deport someone, hardly any of these so called convicts committed serious crimes...

i understand. still whenever my husband says something about america, it is always fun to play the convict card...

lol yea i know, its funny though because no americans or australians for that matter get offended at all by that

Australia's "convicts" were mostly people who owed outstanding tax and personal debts.

It was effectively a debtors' prison colony, not some kind of Snake Pliskin playground


MrS

Plus Adelaide was settled only by free settlers, no convicts sent here


I saw a doco (actually only 5 mins worth, I gave up on it cos it was crap) about convicts and one was a 15 year old girl who stole some clothes. What a heinous crime!

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Originally posted by MrSquirrel Australia's "convicts" were mostly people who owed outstanding tax and personal debts. It was effectively a debtors' prison colony, not some kind of Snake Pliskin playground MrS

So you're saying my (possible?) ancestors sucked at their yearly tax returns? Fuck. I guess the English thought that sending the convicts to a warm place was sending them that much closer to the flames of hell.

Oh well

aussie english

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Originally posted by Eagle` aussie english

Now just what in the hell do you mean by that???

They also sent a very large amount of convicts to the American's for similar things for a lot longer and lot earlier than Australia (1617), up until the ruckus of 1775, indeed between 1718 and 1775 a full 1/4 of the people going to the US where english convicts (around 50,000 or so)
Other interesting fact where that the US kept things like Convict Leases in place for a very long time, up until the mid to late 1920's, farmers and local councils bought them off the prison system for manual labour. Nasty stuff.

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Originally posted by eRRaTiK surprised nobody mentioned this guy...

Thats what I was thinkin

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Originally posted by Sushipunk Now just what in the hell do you mean by that???

Actually it's bad example, it's not a export product or somethin, but I adore your accent

MrS

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Originally posted by Lilith They also sent a very large amount of convicts to the American's for similar things for a lot longer and lot earlier than Australia (1617), up until the ruckus of 1775, indeed between 1718 and 1775 a full 1/4 of the people going to the US where english convicts (around 50,000 or so) Other interesting fact where that the US kept things like Convict Leases in place for a very long time, up until the mid to late 1920's, farmers and local councils bought them off the prison system for manual labour. Nasty stuff.

my husband was trying to tell me tonite that americans were convicts. i didnt believe him, saying americans were seeking religious freedom and seeking taxation without representation

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Originally posted by Trance Nutter Plus Adelaide was settled only by free settlers, no convicts sent here

adelaide- city of churches.

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Originally posted by klingklang77 my husband was trying to tell me tonite that americans were convicts. i didnt believe him, saying americans were seeking religious freedom and seeking taxation without representation

Damn you, I don't want to poke fun of Kraftwerk fans... (poor little EBM apprecionardo's are few and far between) But go on, go do some digging around and see who turns up in the family tree from that period

Lilith is also immensely drunk so don't take any of this to heart!

How in hell can you be "immensely drunk" and still write perfectly articulate english, and apply forum size tags correctly?

I have been throw-up drunk at times and was still able to type perfectly. I couldn't speak well at all, but I could type. Weird.

Maybe it's because when you type you can look at what you wrote, press backspace and try again. When you talk, you say stupid shit but can't go back and erase it.

That's probably part of it, but I didn't really make many mistakes, either. Probably just a few more per minute than if I had been sober.

The fact that I type many, many, many words more than I speak each day probably has something to do with it. My typing muscles are much more coordinated than my speaking ones.

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Originally posted by Lilith Damn you, I don't want to poke fun of Kraftwerk fans... (poor little EBM apprecionardo's are few and far between) But go on, go do some digging around and see who turns up in the family tree from that period Lilith is also immensely drunk so don't take any of this to heart!

whose family tree? mine or his?

Yours
Unless of course most of your 'lations came over on a boat after the 1780's+ then it's probably not really worth it unless youre really want to chase down the married-related branches looking for criminal relatives

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How in hell can you be "immensely drunk" and still write perfectly articulate english, and apply forum size tags correctly?

Probably because it's the only thing I'm doing... aside from breathing and thinking very, very slow, dropping me from about 60wpm to about 15

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Originally posted by Lilith Yours Unless of course most of your 'lations came over on a boat after the 1780's+ then it's probably not really worth it unless youre really want to chase down the married-related branches looking for criminal relatives

yeah my family went over to the US in 1910+ from Italy and Poland. my brother did a whole family tree dating back to the late 1700s. we did have an italian horse thief, but he wasnt sent over b/c of that. they came over on their own. does that count?

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Originally posted by Lilith Sadly most Australians will never appreciate Nick Cave and his band as they had to go overseas to make it big.

You kidding me. Nick Cave it awesome! But it's true that bands can "make it big" overseas. You have to remember that Australias population is about 20 million, where as Europes population is nearly 400 million & USAs is around 300 million; so of course they will make it big in other countries because there is a bigger market there!!

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