And what country can preserve its liberties if their rulers are not warned from time to time that their people preserve the spirit of resistance? Let them take arms. The remedy is to set them right as to facts, pardon and pacify them. What signify a few lives lost in a century or two? The tree of liberty must be refreshed from time to time with the blood of patriots and tyrants.
Thank you for labelling this with it's name, Ayer's Rock. Australia was mapped out by British explorers, their names grace many places, many towns. The United Nations has decided that indigenous people should be revered as gods or something, and a lot of woke civil servants have taken it upon themselves to rename a lot of places. To date the larger cities have retained the names given to them by the people who built them, Darwin, Cairns, Townsville, Rockhampton, Brisbane, Newcastle, Sydney, Melbourne, Adelaide, Fremantle, Perth. Canberra was named with an aboriginal name when it was built, so we accept that as ok, but changing any other name to honour the very dark people who roamed around this country doing nothing is beyond the pale, basically it is a slap in the face to the people who built this country, and without the colonisation done by the British, Australia would now either be a barren country with 30, 000 black aborigines walking around it, or taken over by the Dutch, French, or worst back in 1942, the Japanese. The fact is someone was going to come and inhabit the place, the aborigines of Australia probably still exist because it was the British that came, and not some more 'decisive' people.
Evidence shows Aborigines have populated Australia for at least 40,000 years. Thank the gods whitey showed up 250 years ago to eradicate… er, to save the savages from themselves, show ‘em how it’s done.
If whitey wants to call it Ayer’s Rock, so be it. If the natives call it Uluru, so be it. Same damn thing.
I climbed to the top in the 80s, too. Nice view, crazy rock
There's a Alt-history story about the Germans winning the war and taking over in India. Gandhi soon discovered the difference when he tried 'passive resistance' on the Nazi's instead of the British.
Went there in the 80's when you could still climb it and look at the glyphs around the base. That was stopped a few years later. Driving out from Alice Springs was a two day trip with a stop at a "station" the only indication of which was 2 gas pumps under cover just off the road. Met a nice bunch of folks that ran the place and set up a "barbie" for us that evening.
Climbed the anthill in ‘87. Someone painted a strait passing line to the peak, thru all deep pits scalloped the sandstone. We walked around level-like watching the tourrorists scramble up and down the large holes following the painted line.At the high point we properly oriented.on our heads.
How does so much water get up there for so long that it erodes a meandering channel down the side?
ReplyDeleteI love this photo image.
DeleteMillions of years of erosion.
DeleteNo more photos allowed, I read. Holy place now. No trespassing.
ReplyDeletetoo many UAP & orb sightings
DeleteThat bottom waterfall is very reminiscent of a certain female anatomical area. If this photo is cropped appropriately it could be considered smut.
ReplyDeleteHow do you manage when you segment an orange ?
DeleteHa!
DeleteYou mean Uluru?
ReplyDeleteWhat are you, woke ?
DeleteThank you for labelling this with it's name, Ayer's Rock.
ReplyDeleteAustralia was mapped out by British explorers, their names grace many places, many towns.
The United Nations has decided that indigenous people should be revered as gods or something, and a lot of woke civil servants have taken it upon themselves to rename a lot of places.
To date the larger cities have retained the names given to them by the people who built them, Darwin, Cairns, Townsville, Rockhampton, Brisbane, Newcastle, Sydney, Melbourne, Adelaide, Fremantle, Perth.
Canberra was named with an aboriginal name when it was built, so we accept that as ok, but changing any other name to honour the very dark people who roamed around this country doing nothing is beyond the pale, basically it is a slap in the face to the people who built this country, and without the colonisation done by the British, Australia would now either be a barren country with 30, 000 black aborigines walking around it, or taken over by the Dutch, French, or worst back in 1942, the Japanese.
The fact is someone was going to come and inhabit the place, the aborigines of Australia probably still exist because it was the British that came, and not some more 'decisive' people.
DeleteWell and succinctly stated Will Rocket. Steve_in_Ottawa
Evidence shows Aborigines have populated Australia for at least 40,000 years. Thank the gods whitey showed up 250 years ago to eradicate… er, to save the savages from themselves, show ‘em how it’s done.
DeleteIf whitey wants to call it Ayer’s Rock, so be it. If the natives call it Uluru, so be it. Same damn thing.
I climbed to the top in the 80s, too. Nice view, crazy rock
There's a Alt-history story about the Germans winning the war and taking over in India.
DeleteGandhi soon discovered the difference when he tried 'passive resistance' on the Nazi's instead of the British.
Went there in the 80's when you could still climb it and look at the glyphs around the base. That was stopped a few years later. Driving out from Alice Springs was a two day trip with a stop at a "station" the only indication of which was 2 gas pumps under cover just off the road. Met a nice bunch of folks that ran the place and set up a "barbie" for us that evening.
ReplyDeleteClimbed the anthill in ‘87. Someone painted a strait passing line to the peak, thru all deep pits scalloped the sandstone. We walked around level-like watching the tourrorists scramble up and down the large holes following the painted line.At the high point we properly oriented.on our heads.
ReplyDeletenever knew it had these features .
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