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A MOAN ON MANNERS
Shortcomings of Australian Life
By MacGrumpus
… Without grace and in the disagreeable manner that comes natural to me, I should like to write about the shortcomings of the Australian people. Having been a pernickety old man ever since I was about 14 years of age, I am extremely well qualified to tell Australians what bad manners they have…The worst manners in the world are in England; the second-worst in Australia… But England’s bad manners arise from an offensive sense of superiority over lesser crawling things and a social system that makes most individuals snub those below them and fawn to those above. Australian bad manners come from sheer uncouthness. The poor brutes know no better…
Good Hearts; Crude Behaviour.
Australians are nice, solid chaps, with good h
