Your first job at sea

[j.sabourn]

#40 Something I could never understand with the system was how a Chinese person could be classed as a non White and yet a Japanese was classed as a white person. Do you think it had something to do with politics ? JS

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#41 How about a Peggies peggies peggy JS

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#41. How about a peggies peggies peggie. JS

[Keith Tindell]

I posted before some time ago, Stirling Castle, we had about?, 10 deck boys, and one trip i was the peggies peggy, definitely bottom of the pack. I seem to recall while on the same ship to South Africa, the Japanese had been reclassified as white, and was all to do with a trade deal the South African government had just dome with Japan.

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This was at the time i was on the ship

https://www.quora.com/Since-Chinese-...ate-each-other

[happy daze john in oz]

The manner in which some nations are classified regarding color is very odd to say the least.
Heritage must have a lot to do with it.
Here in Oz the Aborigines are called indigenous as they are the nations first people.
But the Oxford dictionary definition of indigenous is any one born in or native to a country.
But we have some whiter than some so called white people, have maybe 1/32nd in your blood and you can be one.
But if a local elder takes a like to you then you can become a voluntry Aborigine.

[j.sabourn]

Looking at some of the carvings on cave walls and the likes John, think the martians or some other stellar travellers were here first. Makes you wonder at these same carvings , and yet the wheel had to be imported into Australia long after the rest of the world . JS

[happy daze john in oz]

Australia being so far from the real world they never mixed with others.
It was stated at one time that when the first white man arrived he discovered stone age man.

But when you go to the NT and lok at them out in the bush one had to wonder why we bothered.

But they do have the Boomerang, which when it fails to return is only a stick

[Des Taff Jenkins]

John.
As a temporary aboriginal you get to carry the flagon, but you can't enter the Humpy.
Des

[Graham Shaw]

John.
As a temporary aboriginal you get to carry the flagon, but you can't enter the Humpy.
Des

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It's a whole different world out there isn't it Des.
Translation anybody?

[Des Taff Jenkins]

While I am an Aussie through the immigration system, I am indigenous Welsh; with a bit of Viking thrown in.
Des
Graham
There was a joke no longer kosher.
An aboriginal was walking down the road carrying a flagon of wine, when one of his mate's asked , 'How did the divorce go?" he replied. "The wife got the house and I got the contents .
Des

[happy daze john in oz]

You see Graham the other day I saw an Aborigine with two sheets of galvanized roofing, found out he was the local estate agent.

A Humpy is what they lived in before we came here, the white man that is, and some still do up north.

[J Gowers]

On my first trip, as a J/E on a steam tanker, there was no bar on the ship so only cabin drinking and my first job was being shown how to make sure the alleyway fridge had cold beers in it for the end of the watch, a job I became an expert in. Timing was crucial if you put the beer in too early then the previous watch which was still drinking would scoff your cold beers replacing them with hot ones, put it in too late and it was not cold enough at the end of the watch, it very technical business getting cold beer in those days.