Did the frontiersmen walk backwards?
2007-04-11 23:47:27 · 9 answers · asked by Anonymous in Entertainment & Music ➔ Polls & Surveys
this is only a reference to how the English language is used in this case. Out-back refers to behind where i come from.
Try to see the humour in it. After all, you named it.
2007-04-12 00:04:02 · update #1
Yes i've noticed
2007-04-11 23:49:17 · answer #1 · answered by Anonymous · 2⤊ 2⤋
We don't have wilderness, we call it the bush or the outback so you must not be Australian if you are calling it the wilderness. We do not turn our back on it either, we are helping our farmers through the country womens association and are preserving our land. The Kooris are getting some of their land back and they are doing a great job looking after it. We have a great respect for our land. My local hospital and my university are built around bushland, most of the bushland is kept in tact, yes this means a certain risk is taken with bushfires but we deal with that by putting in place early warning systems and evacuation training. We had explorers not frontiersmen. Burke and Wills etc.
There is no humour in it, it is every day speech here. If you are poking fun I fail to see it.
2007-04-11 23:53:50 · answer #2 · answered by ? 4 · 1⤊ 1⤋
Hang on a minute ... you're talking about a nation that chose an emu and kangaroo (native fauna endemic to that continent ) to be depicted on their Coat of Arms . As neither animal can walk back-wards, they have come to symbolise the progress and the unwillingness of Australians to back down..... (witness the last Ashes series,,,, did'ya ?)
Oh yeah .... I forgot to mention you can also purchase emu and kangaroo in the meat section of the larger supermarket chains .....
2007-04-12 10:02:00 · answer #3 · answered by rjr 6 · 1⤊ 0⤋
Frontiersmen????
Our wilderness is reserved exclusively for a breed of rare, pale animal........................
English tourists..... as for them walking backwards so long as they stay outback Aussies don't give a rat's one way or the other!
2007-04-12 11:56:12 · answer #4 · answered by renclrk 7 · 1⤊ 0⤋
Reverse psychology,
them got eyes in them back of them head them white fellas do
2007-04-12 00:30:52 · answer #5 · answered by I forget 5 · 2⤊ 0⤋
Maybe they just like coastlines.
2007-04-11 23:50:38 · answer #6 · answered by Anonymous · 1⤊ 1⤋
I think they're all slightly backward down under........
2007-04-12 00:00:24 · answer #7 · answered by Anonymous · 2⤊ 2⤋
big deal, who cares
2007-04-11 23:50:44 · answer #8 · answered by Anonymous · 0⤊ 3⤋
did it? how weird
2007-04-11 23:49:39 · answer #9 · answered by *Princess Sharona* 2 · 1⤊ 1⤋