What do true blues read, traditionally 4281

Ned Latham

Ned finally admits that the phrase "cultural diversity which has been part of our true-blue culture from the outset" is a reference to 'multiculty'! B^D

It is correct, and people have been trying to tell Ned for years, that when one refers to "cultural diversity which has been part of our true-blue culture from the outset, we are talking about the multicultural bandwagon, rolling along from the OUTSET, .. and Ned just climbed on it! B^)

Well done Ned, you have finally accepted the common usage and confirmed that Australia's true-blue society has been multicultural from it's inception!!!! B^D

You can read about the true-blue view of Australia's multicultural past which Ned now accepts, and it's vibrant modern expression, in a range of fair dinkum websites:

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The Official Est. June 2000 aus.culture.true-blue FAQ ;

The true-blue Homestead;

The true-blue Hall Of Fame;

The Tuckerbox;

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Only to the ANU researcher and the serious historians, Ned, not to a fool such as you, obviously. B^)

Most people, faced with such a mewling infant, would simply slap its snot-face and tell it to f*** off.. but you are such a sad loser, and we know you have no manners, no decency, and no idea of how to behave.. that you will get an answer anyway.

It's really pretty f***ing obvious to most people, but then you are particularly thick!

Tim Dolin, the ANU researcher, said that what the UNborrowed books told you was what people were not interested in.

Why are simple facts so hard for you to grasp? B^p

It shows that they were not simply consumers of anything and everything from the variety of works on offer, but that their borrowings reflected their genuine, multicultural, interests.

Of course not Ned, you need the pictures to help you guess what the word balloons mean! B^D

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That you are a brain dead, sub-epsilon moron? B^)

So much so that I'm surprised the doctors let you near a computer on the internet.. aren't they corncerned that you might cyberstalk pubescent girls, again?

THtas why multicultural exhanges, not just in literature, buty in all areas of cultural expression, makes so much sense!

THose cornish methodists, and American populists all found a welcoming audience among the true-blues of yesteryear. And they owed their financial survival to that international multicultural exchange!

I can see that you feel deeply the problems which occur when the outlets for multicultural exchange are limited.

Yes, that wasn't even that popular in it's home turf, as the library borrowings and book sales show (you really should access the whole report, not just the tiny snippets I have quoted. Then you would see that the Collie example was repeated in Libraries and Mechanics Insbreastutes all across the nation, and suppoeted by records of book, and magazine sales.

I doubt you will find a more comprehensive survey of reading habits in the period anywhere.. but I would be most happy to hear if you do find anything, other than your own imaginary invention, of course! B^)

Pity more Aussies at the time had more eclectic tastes, a preference for foreign cultural products, and showed more interest in the multicultural Top Ten, from Cornish methodists who topped the list, to American satirists and muckraking polemicists.

"Steele Rudd (Dad In Politics) was borrowed a mere 18 times out of a total 8562 borrowings."

Sounds like true-blues read the sort of thing Che not only liked, but wrote! Wry humour and rollicking good times, often mocking people like you:

"There were some gilded youth that sat along the barber's wall, their eyes were dull, their heads were flat, they had no brains at all!"

-Banjo Patterson "The Man from Ironbark"

Sadly, Rudd hasn't stood the test of time.

I like it, but I suspect it is too idiosyncratic and dated for the modern mainstream, as it largely appears to have been for the true-blues at the time he wrote.

But I think you are missing the point. I know you are obsessive to the point of mania about that one author, to the rabid exclusion of almost all other contributors to Aussie culture.. but the central point about peoples reading at teh time is how MULTICULTURAL is was! B^)

What does your "opinion" say about RESEARCH on what true-blues read in the late 1800's and early 1900's??? Who gives a f***..!! B^D .. you are a particularly ill informed nobody who influences no one and can only respond to primary source empirical data with your perenially BASELESS **OPINION** .. not worth poo! B^D

Ned, don't pretend,.. you haven't been to the report, and you don't even know how many seperate Libraries, Mechanics insbreastutes, book and magazine catalogs, sales and inventory lists.. across all states, were accessed! B^D

But if you have ANYTHING you can show is more comprehensive research, present it.. otherwise that laughter at you will simply grow louder! B^D

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Reading books and magazines, the stories people choose.. is NOT ABOUT CULTURE???? Are you insane? B^D

The funniest part is that at the same time you are dismissing books as part of culture, you are trying to claim that Steel Rudd was the most successful author ..BECAUSE HE WROTE A BOOK! B^D

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A national survey of books and magazines borrowed and bought! The 'selected group' is AUSTRALIANS, (the Collie miners I cited was one EXAMPLE example which reflected NATIONAl PATTERNS! B^)

What additional data are YOU proposing to offer on people's reading habits at the time? B^)

But Ned, you recently equated the "cultural diversity which has been part of our true-blue culture from the outset" to 'multiculty'.. which means that mainstream culture through the 1800's and early to mid 1900's was multicultural, bu YOUR own admission.

So you admit that it is you, who engages in bitter tirades against religion, who is out of step with the traditional true-blue mainstream!!

You are really making some progress lately, under the careful tutelage of my intellectual cattle prod! B^D

But Ned, you are ON RECORD as referring to that whole period of cultural diversity FROM THE OUTSET of our true-blue culture to be multiculture; (even if you can't spell, you poor uneducated dolt! B^)

# # Ned Latham

Ned finally admits that the phrase "cultural diversity which has been part of our true-blue culture from the outset" is a reference to 'multiculty'! B^D

It is correct, and people have been trying to tell Ned for years, that when one refers to "cultural diversity which has been part of our true-blue culture from the outset, we are talking about the multicultural bandwagon, rolling along from the OUTSET, .. and Ned just climbed on it! B^)

Well done Ned, you have finally accepted the common usage and confirmed that Australia's true-blue society has been multicultural from it's inception!!!! B^D

You can read about the true-blue view of Australia's multicultural past which Ned now accepts, and it's vibrant modern expression, in a range of fair dinkum websites:

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The Official Est. June 2000 aus.culture.true-blue FAQ ;

The true-blue Homestead;

The true-blue Hall Of Fame;

The Tuckerbox;

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