I know they are beautiful and that some people really love being on the water…..but I could not fathom spending 3.1 million dollars on a boat. A boat? I just don’t get it.

Well she’s got money to spend. I wonder if I can get a ride on that yacht. I know I sail it to the US for her. I wonder where I’ll park it in Nashville, TN?

Aboriginal leaders who want to prevent women from making music don’t own the moral authority here. Any custom enacted to restrict women’s movements is inferior. I am blowing on my didgeridoo in support of Nicole right now.

Bring it on! You attack Aussie Aboriginal culture! Didgeridoos are restristed to men and men only! Women have there own things, white beaded necklaces that are restricted to women wearing. Traditional places for them only, songs, dances, stories, knowledge. Its not there to restrict womens movements, women dance women make music. I was with an aboriginal dance group in Redfern, as a white girl dancing with aboriginal kids, females inlcuded. Bangara dance theatre is an aborigianal dance theatre that includes beautiful dancers and music with mostly women it in! That proves that My Alias!

Jeez, I played the didgeridoo once. So sue me.

So have no children and trample all over aboriginal culture, you want to be rasict which is what your being then go right ahead. With your colonistic ideas of we’re so better than them, “those damn savages why don’t they act mordern and respectful of women. Like our culture, which is always been respectful of women and still is.” Thats what you guys are basically saying, westerners looking down on others peoples cultures like we’re better than them. By the way without those men that made these rules along with the women, you have no didgeridoo to play! because their the ones who make them. Unless it was made in China! Remember that the next time you play your didgeridoo!

First of all if you knew anything about aboriginal people you would know that in aboriginal beliefs it is beleived any woman who uses the didgeridoo will become infertile. Second, i’m gay and there is no comparison between respecting someones traditional cultural values and us gays wanting to have the right to get married. Thirdly if you really knew aborigines, you would know that not one aboriginal woman has wanted to play the didgeridoo through out the centuries! I grew up with them and lived with them, beside them, went to school with them, taught aboriginal culture and dance by them, babysat by them, i have never come across one woman who wanted to use a didgerdoo. My great grandfather was aboriginal which is so far back that it means i’m not, but i was considered by some to be aboriginal anyway and i know he and my great great grandmother, his black mother black unlike him. Would be disgusted by you and he would want to spear you if he wasn’t raised as a white fella. The white men would have to protect you if it was those days, you would be the type of white woman to stand there looking down at them as damn savages. I’m not using that term to be rasict myself, but to point out your way of thinking is colonistic. Maybe your thinking of changing(reforming) the culture of aborigines to be better suit your whiteness, maybe you should a mission school. Wait thats already been done. The reason i point out how i got my knowledge of aboriginal culture and my association with them is because you did in such a ridicoulous manner. I’ve been in there homes and sang karokee with an aboringinal women down under and worked with them and buy their cultural stuff, that i don’t know anything about. Yet i think i know so much about them. By the way, i am Australian and when you say “Down under” It shows how little you know of my country because in my country we don’t speak of our country as down under, only people who haven’t been here or tourists who haven’t been here for a long period of time call Australia “Down under.”

Alias, I’m thinking this aboriginal person may in fact be the same person as the native American person who tried to dominate every thread with argumentative posts during the presidential campaigns.

Excuse me, but I’ve never tangoed with you before as you put it. I’m not an native American person nor aboriginal, i never said i was aboriginal. I clearly stated two of my ancestors are and its so far back it doesn’t count, i have only just joined this site and i don’t discuss American politics! I have never called Aborigines “Damn savages”, i am stating that you do have that mentantilty in your head where you think of them as such and what a load of bullshit back at you that we Aussies are proud to call Australia down under! They were probably referring to it that way as a joke and laughing at you when you took it seriously, since we never seriously call it down under, only to mock foreigners that do! By the way we are not talking about this on every street corner in Australia nor on TV, it was mentioned one day on the news and that was all! And dominating the forum, what a load of bullshit! I’m simply stating the facts as they are to an ignorant uniformed American who thinks they know more than an Aussie who was born and raised in Australia!

Alias, if we had emoticons I’d be sending you a wink. ;-)