lol, I had forgotten about menzies, now he was a queer bird wasn't he?
How must his wife have felt to have this silly old duffer creaming his strides every time he looked at the back of a coin.
And what about the poor old yanks, they are copping a flogging here, which I suppose is historically in keeping with our digger roots.
The WW2 expression about yanks was, "over paid, over sexed, and over here".
My uncle was in the middle east and on kokoda, and did not mind the yanks, but he used to laugh about all their medals.
He used to say if you were in the american army you could get a medal for spelling your name right.
Which was actually harder than it sounds for many, another uncle who was in the navy used to make a bit of extra cash by writing letters for americans who could not read or write, as a great many, especially those from poorer rural areas, as significant numbers were, had never received the education that aussies took for granted.
But all in all, when you think about it, the yanks aren't too bad, sure a quarter of them are religious maniacs who think they will have jesus around for a coffee and a bit of rapture, and a half of them are not so very far removed from the poor soldiers of WW2 in the education stakes, but that still leaves many millions of the best and brightest people that this world of ours have ever seen.
Artists, musicians, scientists of fantastic talent abound, and flourish there, so before we sink the boot in too much, we should give credit where credit is due, and all those complaining about our current migration mix would surely not object to a few yanks being chucked into the mix.