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The country is done for

I'm all for inclusion of all people in our society. No one should be prejudiced for who they are.

BUT! Today I have to draw the line! Listening to the Play School alphabet song with my kid and it goes "A, B, C, D....X, Y, zed or zee". Since when is this blatant destruction of our national identity accepted?

I'll be picketing outside the ABC's head office from tomorrow and following that the education office until this travesty can be corrected! Who's with me?!

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Idk which it's meant to be and I'm too afraid to ask

I feel like no matter how I say it some cunt always tells me I'm saying it wrong

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It’s fine. Outside of visiting the United States I never hear anyone say zee. Even the American guys at work say zed.

We explained to our 4 year old, when she was 2, why she might hear zee on tv. She gets it and goes “it’s zed!” when she hears those shows. This is a nothing problem.

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- Exactly what we did. Demonised the filth, before the infection could spread.
  
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Zed's dead baby, Zed's dead.

/s

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- No /s, it is, no one says Gen Zed, or Jay Zed, XY Zee is just next in line, it's all Zee's and it makes sense why
  
  At this point nobody is learning 'English', people are learning American because they watch American Movies, TV Shows, listen to American Music, eat American Food, play American Video Games, we watch literally millions of American Youtube and Tiktok Videos every day, we're following American Influencers and Celebrities, with American Social Media Australians are following American Politics more closely than Australian Politics and frequently confusing the two, in addition we're all addicted to the American Apps installed on American Operating Systems (all of them, Windows and MacOS and Android and IOS) on the American Smart Phones/Laptops/Desktops
  
  The top most visited websites in Australia:
  
  https://www.similarweb.com/top-websites/australia/
  
  American
  
  American
  
  American
  
  American
  
  American
  
  The consequence of this is that we lose our culture, but as some French statesman said: why bother when everyone is enjoying everything?
  
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  no one says Gen Zed
  
  Odd choice of example, I hear it often.
  
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  Well tbf what you're losing is the UK's culture. Finding a balance of other stuff that works for you instead of clinging to tradition is how you build a culture of your own.
  
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- Well, Trump did get elected. Do you're probably correct.
  
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That's enough internet for me for today. Sick fuck. At least put a NSFL warning next time.

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Zee, candy, cookies. All that American language creeping in shits me.

And yet we also see "football" being used more and more often to refer to soccer. The one time Australian culture and American culture should be in sync, some of us decided to copy the bloody poms.

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- As long as they don't call it footy its fine. Football is a broad term for a lot of codes.
  
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- I'm not sure if I understand which version you'd prefer- Do you want football to refer to the game where players use their hands to move an egg shaped object, or do you think football should refer to the game where players use their feet to move a ball shaped object?
  
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  We’re not America.
  
  Here we say football to refer to the game where players use their feet to move an egg shaped object.
  
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  Tell me you have no understanding of the history of football sports without...
  
  Also that you don't know what the word "ball" means.
  
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- ⚽ 🇺🇸 SOCCER 🇦🇺 ⚽
  
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I always knew it as zee growing up. It worked in the rhyme.

"W, X, Y and Zee, now I know my A B Cs, next time won't you sing with me" (that last line is probably a separate argument on its own 😂).

Then Dragon Ball Z hit Australian TV and it was done after that.

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The Wiggles alphabet song says this too. Although that I get since they export to the states now. It might even introduce American kids to the Zed.

Playschool is unforgivable. That's our national kids show and should be Australian.

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A picket on the sidewalk is a great idea.

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Wait until you hear what they did to the U.S. alphabet.

LMNOP is gone. They fucking killed it.

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- What?! Noooooooooo!
  
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  Close, but not quite. It's actually "L M N O P", but that's okay keep trying!! ;)
  
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- Huh?
  
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  Basically the song got changed in elementary school from,
  
  "ABCDEFG HIJKLMNOP QRS TUV WX Y and Z(ee)"
  
  to
  
  "ABCEFG HIJK L M N OPQ RSTUV WXY and Z"
  
  Basically they slowed it down
  
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A noble cause

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You're wrong Play School!

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Who the fuck says C to Z?

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- Rappers on a tight schedule?
  
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  Gotta make happy hour
  
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Right behind you my dude.

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- Don't call him dude, buddy.
  
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We can have a little pogrom against usaians as a treat.

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- usaians
  
  Cringe.
  
  Just say Americans mate, we all know you’re not referring to the inhabitants of North America or South America, you’re not correcting any confusion only adding it by not using the countries name.
  
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  by not using the countries name
  
  "America" is not their country's name either ("USA" is actually closer, now that you mention it)
  
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  Nah, it's funny ribbing them over their egotistical exceptionalism. you know they almost named their country freedonia?
  
  Imagine meeting a German who refers to themselves as a Eurasian, cringe shit that is.
  
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  Mexicans are americans.
  
  Colombians are americans.
  
  Brazilians are americans.
  
  Unitedstates-ians are americans.
  
  It’s funny because spanish doesn’t have this problem. They call the people from the US estadounidenses which basically is unitedstates-ian.
  
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I cringe if I hear someone use a hard Z

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We coulda nipped this in the bud if we had joined together and formed AmerAustralia, a unified country. I tried to promote it. We’d each have each other’s backs when the other was sleeping. But noooo. And now Zed is dead. smh. I’m so sad for all that could have been.

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- The Austra-Zealand Union is what we should be looking at. Sure, the accent will take a hit, but we will be unstoppable in sports.
  
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  You’d both be on the same side of the world. Who would keep an eye on things while you sleep?
  
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As a NZr, I couldnt care less. English is a juggernaut truck - it goes on regardless.

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- Is play school big over there?
  
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It rhymes better with zee. Seeth.

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Zee is your tipping point? Would you prefer to have Don The Con Trump for President? For perspective, there are worse things than Zee. Language changes. Check the Archaic letters section here.

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- I don't care about who's president but messing with play school is not on. Next Noni will be changing the words to the ning nang nong
  
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- Will you please take this seriously
  
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  LOL! Seriously? Language is ever changing. Every generation adds and deletes words and usage. And we are global now so it's even faster.
  
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That's really fucking stupid. It's not about "diversity", they just want to make it look like they are doing stuff.

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