Howzat!

[mackem 26,441]

Just now, jukel123 said:

It could be that those sent away to Australia were not criminals at all. They were simply hungry and stole to eat.

Just trying to survive,you got transportation for stealing a chicken,different times.

 

[jukel123 8,017]

8 minutes ago, Gypsydog94 said:

They’re the ones laughing now whatever they was. Lol 

I remember in the fifties the Australian government  were  short of workers and were a offering a ten pound passage to brits and their families. Some of our neighbours went. There was talk of my family going but my ma wasn't having it. I sometimes wonder where life would have led me if we had taken up that ten quid offer.

Think I would have a pack of staghounds for sure.

Edited July 3, 2023 by jukel123

[mackem 26,441]

31 minutes ago, jukel123 said:

I remember in the fifties the Australian government  were  short of workers and were a offering a ten pound passage to brits and their families. Some of our neighbours went. There was talk of my family going but my ma wasn't having it. I sometimes wonder where life would have led me if we had taken up that ten quid offer.

Think I would have a pack of staghounds for sure.

£10 poms,I got offered a job in Oz a few years ago,doing my own thing so I didn’t go for it,I always fancied a bit of a rod ansell lifestyle or gold hunting,the grass always seems greener.

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Just now, mackem said:

£10 poms,I got offered a job in Oz a few years ago,doing my own thing so I didn’t go for it,I always fancied a bit of a rod ansell lifestyle or gold hunting,the grass always seems greener.

There's never enough time. You need twenty lives to do all the things you fancy.

[mackem 26,441]

9 minutes ago, jukel123 said:

There's never enough time. You need twenty lives to do all the things you fancy.

Ain’t that the truth,imagine having two lifetimes,one as a practice run and one to really live as you want.Instead we get one lifetime,and one day we wake up and realise how much time we actually wasted that could have been put to better use.

[jukel123 8,017]

Just now, mackem said:

Ain’t that the truth,imagine having two lifetimes,one as a practice run and one to really live as you want.Instead we get one lifetime,and one day we wake up and realise how much time we actually wasted that could have been put to better use.

I've always yearned for a working man's McNab. Course and kill a roe, net a salmon and screw the keeper's wife in the same day. One and two are fairly easy.  Number 3 is a bit of a challenge...maybe with a jump start.

Edited July 3, 2023 by jukel123

[mackem 26,441]

2 minutes ago, jukel123 said:

I've always yearned for a working man's McNab. Course and kill a roe, net a salmon and screw the keeper's wife in the same day. One and two are fairly easy.  Number 3 is a bit of a challenge...maybe with a jump start.

You might want to skip number 3 I have met a few gamekeepers,their wives weren’t exactly lookers.

[jukel123 8,017]

Just now, mackem said:

You might want to skip number 3 I have met a few gamekeepers,their wives weren’t exactly lookers.

I know a few in the far far north. They are all Thai women....the only women that will put up with the climate and the lifestyle.  Mind you, they ain't lookers either.

 

[mackem 26,441]

1 minute ago, jukel123 said:

I know a few in the far far north. They are all Thai women....the only women that will put up with the climate and the lifestyle.  Mind you, they ain't lookers either.

 

The only women who would put up with the lifestyle without complaint,Thais and Filipinas,there’s quite a few in Iceland and Greenland living in remote areas with western husbands.

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Just now, mackem said:

The only women who would put up with the lifestyle without complaint,Thais and Filipinas,there’s quite a few in Iceland and Greenland living in remote areas with western husbands.

Think I'll order my Mrs to go on a Thai marriage guidance course so she can learn how not to moan. Some hope.

[mackem 26,441]

3 minutes ago, jukel123 said:

Think I'll order my Mrs to go on a Thai marriage guidance course so she can learn how not to moan. Some hope.

Changing countries sadly doesn’t stop most ladies from complaining,you have to sift a lot of gravel to find a diamond.

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5 hours ago, cragman said:

Aussies have form in this kind of thing. Didn’t one of them bowl under arm on the last ball in a match once bowling a pea roller?

 

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2 hours ago, mackem said:

Just trying to survive,you got transportation for stealing a chicken,different times.

 

From what l've read the reason  many minor crimimals were sentenced to Transportation wasn't the severity of their crimes . It was because they were tradesmen and tradeswomen  or agricultural workers .

Magistrates were working to an agenda to populate the new colony with useful citizens rather than the common criminals that had been sent out on the early boats. 

[mackem 26,441]

10 minutes ago, comanche said:

From what l've read the reason  many minor crimimals were sentenced to Transportation wasn't the severity of their crimes . It was because they were tradesmen and tradeswomen  or agricultural workers .

Magistrates were working to an agenda to populate the new colony with useful citizens rather than the common criminals that had been sent out on the early boats. 

Yup,had to populate the colonies.