@purplewood: Good thing we know the Brits can take a joke! No but seriously, I wonder what the stats on that would be #australianhistory #britishhistory
Kate
Region: AU
Tuesday 19 September 2023 09:24:45 GMT
Music
Download
Comments
oodalally :
Only 20%?? I’ve always wondered but assumed it was way higher 😅
2023-09-19 21:16:00
3693
abouthalfthree :
My dad likes to remind ppl that the first fleet was mostly convicts but also prison guards - and the dodgy prison guards at that
2023-09-20 06:48:00
301
hautemolly :
TOO FUNNY
2023-11-03 16:19:22
0
msocsci :
As someone who lives in the UK, it's 35%. It tallies up with right wing tory voters
2023-09-19 16:56:28
871
T R :
Does "roughly 20%" actually mean close to 50%? Because that's what I assume.
2023-09-20 04:43:05
46
Apple User397664391 :
It’s not a big secret though. Not at all.
2023-09-19 21:43:52
91
BookDragon24🇦🇺 :
my mum's side can trace their family tree back to the First Fleet
2023-09-19 11:06:40
90
Grace :
I feel like this isn’t a secret. I grew up in Canada with the common knowledge Aus was built using convicts lol😂
2023-09-20 13:29:00
351
ana_krn :
ok is this why everyone there is like a happy drunk pirate?
2023-11-03 22:06:12
0
Nzpure :
I’m an archaeologist, I’ll start checking the ditches lol
2023-09-19 20:14:19
472
Dashael :
Just look for the stitches in the old family photos 😂
2023-09-19 11:28:55
186
King Creole. :
My great grandfather x 3 was transported for highway robbery. Stand and deliver! 🤣
2023-09-19 12:17:01
52
Briggsy :
Not always, they needed skilled labourers down here, so the police would frame carpenters and the like to have them sent down here.
2023-09-20 16:58:34
1
yeahnah :
Descended on both sides on my family. Thinking I should look into these witnesses and take a UK vengeance tour 😂
2023-09-20 07:56:20
3
Corrina Muir :
mine had too many hubby's
she was married got on the 1st boat out married on the boat land married why 2ed was at sea married again when 3ed was off
2023-09-19 14:29:28
40
Debbie Jane :
Wait so for every family in the uk, there’s a family in Australia we have historical beef with???
2023-09-22 01:12:01
46
AB- TechOccultist :
My family landed in South Australia so we got sent here by the rest of the family as black sheep or as a disgrace.
2023-09-19 12:51:04
1
TeeHee :
Is it a secret there??? I’m in the US and it’s one of the only things I know about Australian history.
2023-09-21 02:44:15
0
PropheticNexus :
I need to know. My family knows NOTHING about our family history and I'm pretty sure that's because I'm descended from Irish convicts
2023-09-22 10:23:42
1
David :
A Secret to Who Exactly????🤣
2023-09-19 10:10:45
61
kegalegs64 :
I would suggest the figures are much higher.
2023-10-08 20:39:12
1
ColbyCake :
Honey that’s not a secret there was a Simpsons episode about and we also all had to read Great Expectations in school
2023-09-21 04:13:03
0
mads❤️ :
As if people don’t get that’s it’s a joke!😅
2023-09-21 02:27:04
23
Shelby :
My mother's maiden name is either from a convict who couldn't spell or who jumped ship and changed his last name slightly
2023-09-21 11:14:49
8
joederasespinoza :
Yeah, I don’t think this is a secret. I am pretty sure I learned this in elementary and country built by prisoners
2023-09-21 16:19:45
0
To see more videos from user @purplewood, please go to the Tikwm
homepage.
© 2021-2025 TikWM. All rights reserved.