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A Queen question for our British cousins. (actually everyone, but them, mostly)

OFF-Topic / Misc. Discuss A Queen question for our British cousins. (actually everyone, but them, mostly) in the Current forums; Weren't more criminals transported to the American colonies (excluding Canada) than Australia? I thought that the principal reason to colonise ...

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    Weren't more criminals transported to the American colonies (excluding Canada) than Australia?

    I thought that the principal reason to colonise Australia was to find an alternative dumping ground.

    In a mild defence of transportation: it was promoted by the judiciary as they were unhappy at being expected to condemn less serious criminals. A similar reason the judiciary promoting the idea of an age of criminal responsibility so that they didn't have to condemn or imprison children. It was the judges, not the MPs, who thought the existing law unjust and unreasonable.


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    No, we were founded by prudes who dreamed of freedom for all. (As long as you were white and rich, of course.)







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    And male.

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    and Protestant.

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    Quote Originally Posted by yulzari View Post
    and Protestant.
    Hardly surprising for 17th century English puritans.

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    Pilgrims (Plymouth Colony) - Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia

    Americans & Canadians like to pay homage to the Mayflower steps in Plymouth where the Pilgrims Fathers set sail to the New World.
    I cannot image the courage these people has setting sail into the literal unknown.
    Perhaps this quality was our greatest to our colonies
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    Quote Originally Posted by stona View Post
    Hardly surprising for 17th century English puritans.

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    I just wish that they had been a little less "Puritan". Did you know that , in most states, any sexual position other than "missionary" is Illegal?







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    Quote Originally Posted by Readie View Post
    Pilgrims (Plymouth Colony) - Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia

    Americans & Canadians like to pay homage to the Mayflower steps in Plymouth where the Pilgrims Fathers set sail to the New World.
    I cannot image the courage these people has setting sail into the literal unknown.
    Perhaps this quality was our greatest to our colonies
    John
    I've been there.
    They built a wall around it.







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    Quote Originally Posted by meatloaf109 View Post
    I've been there.
    They built a wall around it.
    Only so the large over enthusiastic Americans don't fall into the water ML
    We have to look after you boys.
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    Quote Originally Posted by meatloaf109 View Post
    No, we were founded by prudes who dreamed of freedom for all. (As long as you were white and rich, of course.)
    Or had a strong back!

    Bryon O.




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    It's a shame that the Mayflower steps never existed when the 'Pilgrim Fathers' (as the religious bigots are now known) set sail.
    Last edited by yulzari; 04-26-2012 at 07:30 AM.

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    Used to be a truckstop up in Conneticut named the Mayflower. Had a motel, resturaunt, bar close by, anyways Me and this other mover friend found ourselves without a challenge after killing off a case of beer and a bottle of who-hit-john, had to have a contest to see who could put the most stuff in a small space.
    We got the entire contents of two motel rooms into one bathroom.
    Couldn't get any of it back out the next morning.
    Next time I went through there, a sign had been put up,
    read, "No Dogs Or Movers Allowed".
    Can't help but wonder if ....







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    ".... It's a shame that the Mayflower steps never existed when the 'Pilgrim Fathers' (as the religious bigots are know known) set sail ..."

    OK. Don't know where that comes from, but would you have preferred Huguenots ...?

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    Now that's just not cricket!

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