ViewsAsia by Cartoon Movement-US for May 18, 2010

Ha, cute, and it rhymes… :-|

Corporal Clegg With a wooden leg He won it in a war In 1944

Pink Floyd, not Rolf Harris. Either, Piper at the Gates of Dawn or Saucer Full of Secrets.

^ Saucer Full of Secrets. Just checked mine. But Leahy is definitely referencing Rolf Harris since there’s a caption within the ‘toon apologising to Rolf Harris.

Edit 7 hours later: Hang on half a tick…wasn’t this in ViewsEurope yesterday? And today gocomics guy decides Australia is now Asian?

Demographically Australia is getting there. Most regional geography texts put Australia and NZ in their own realm for taxonomy purposes.

Hmmm, not yet. Around 8% of the Australian population is of Asian descent, just under 90% European even though a quarter of all current Australian/Australian residents were not born there. A mere 2.3% are Arboriginal… Source: http://www.censusdata.abs.gov.au I do recall class discussions about this when the continents came up. In Portuguese we call the Australasia region “Oceania”. What do Australians call themselves?

Economically Australians are more pragmatic and I understand they tend to look to Asia first.

In World Regional geography the taxonomy system is based on both demographic and physical geography. Thus, they generally give Australia and NZ their own area/realm. My demographic comment was slightly tongue in cheek. The Asian birthrate is higher and there is this desperate fear among a portion of the European descended population that they will be marginalized. This has been responisible for their draconian immigration policies over the years. Currently, those policies are a bit more relaxed than they have been in the past.

BTW: Interestingly enough, ‘The Austalian’ website gives the European descent #s as 85%

^ My sums didn’t add up so I said under 90! (sheesh, what a poor excuse) Just missed 5% of “other” :-| I was ready to cycle out to work this morning when I posted this at 5:30am (more poor excuses!) Yeah, their immigration policies make other countries’ seem positively angelic.

^ Still snowing? :p An Australian mate pointed these out to me after my nasty spill in Austria last winter but something tells me you’d know all about them ;-)

http://www.snowbikers.com/snow_tyre.html

We hit 28C today…I looked outside, and yup, I was still in England. Bizarre. Aha, of course, you’re a triathlon athlete. Just took delivery of a cyclocross but I’m changing the 32mms on them with slicker 23mms tomorrow. I was used to a hybrid on my former commute and I have a mtb in Austria but nothing extreme. I’m not a streetracer, this is a first for me but I like the speeds I’m achieving now ;-)

^ Phew! Great looking bike and great kit. Different league than mine in more ways than one. All of mine are leisure/ entry level grade. I have a hybrid Trek 7300 2007, a hardtail mtb Kona Cinder Cone 2008 and a Specialized Tricross comp 2010.

Varied tastes ;-)

We’re ready for the three-legged race……… however, we need a burlap bag!