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Unveiled in 2002, the Big Poo is made out of foam. This gives it two advantages, according to Cohen. One, it’s portable; it can very easily be moved if need be. And two, “it’s a floater,” he said. While it can float, it doesn’t. Instead, the Big Poo sits right next to the Welcome to Kiama sign next to the Princes Highway. “I am very unhappy to be here today to officially launch this five-meter-long memorial to the renewed stupidity and deceit of Sydney Water,” Cohen said at the time of its placement. “Sydney Water has distracted and misled South Coast community groups and Jamberoo farmers for two years with so-called ‘consultation’ on a new sewerage scheme for the local Jamberoo Valley, a consultation focused on reuse of effluent.... Now Sydney Water has shown its true colors - brown and yellow - and has finally revealed that it proposes to retreat to past standard operative procedure and dump the effluent on the ocean at Bombo.”

Update as of November 2019: The Big Poo has resurfaced near the Ford Oval toilet block near Merimbula’s Main Beach.

Aardvark! posted:

First question. Where are the fattest, dumbest rednecks located in Australia? And not "on the other end of the Pacific ocean"

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Second question:

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The pie floater is an Australian dish particularly common in Adelaide. It consists of a meat pie in a thick pea soup, typically with the addition of tomato sauce. Believed to have been first created in the 1890s, the pie floater gained popularity as a meal sold by South Australian pie carts. In 2003, it was recognised as a South Australian Heritage Icon.

A pie floater commonly consists of a traditional Australian-style meat pie, usually sitting, but sometimes submerged (traditionally upside down) in a bowl of thick pea soup made from blue boiler peas. It is often self-garnished with tomato sauce, and the consumer may also add a combination of mint sauce, salt, pepper, or malt vinegar according to personal preference.

Early records in South Australia state that the pie floater was reputedly born in Port Pirie conceived by one Ern "Shorty" Bradley in 1890s, but it remains unknown if he did and how it came about

Nefarious 2.0 posted:

i am a huge man with a huge appetite for bananas but no banana has ever been able to sate me

Inceltown posted:

All Australians are Florida man. All.

Gronk translates to something like deadshit.

Meme Poker Party posted:

BrassRoots posted:

NSW gets pretty drat racist. Found one homestead owner whose dad thought it was a good laugh to shorten the homesteads name on the sign to "nynga" station.

Basically, all of it is the racist bit. And it doesn't stop at skin tone. Aussies rage at poms or anyone else with ideas that don't originate from the motherland.

Also, the gently caress is the OP on about? 5 hours from banana to pineapple? Good luck getting from Coffs to brissie in 4 hours. The traffic loving blows.

Meme Poker Party posted:

https://allthatsinteresting.com/olive-python-eating-crocodile

Lolie posted:

Waiting for the potato cake/scallop wars to commence.

BrigadierSensible posted:

Pfft.

What about the Pot/middy/schooner etc. divide.

I can still remember the dirty looks I git on my first trip to Sydney. All I wanted was a bloody beer, and the stupid bartender didn't even know what size glass to put it in.

I suppose that's what a lifetime of following Rugby League will do to a person.

Tace Vim posted:

sailor goon

BrigadierSensible posted:

If you grew up in Melbourne during the 90s, then there was a rumour going around that one of your teachers was a member of this band.

But you'd be wrong. Coz the bass player was my year 9 Maths teacher.

Whorelord posted:

a friend of mine went backpacking in australia and spent 8 weeks in wollongong for some reason, probably because he thought the name sounded funny

he doesn't talk about what happened there other than that he called some american guy a ginger oval office for stealing his kebab or something and was later attacked by said ginger oval office, which ended up with both of them going to hospital.

wollongong sounds like a city of dreams

A Pack of Kobolds posted:

Don't be a bloody idiot in the bush: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=1ZL1rY51Vdk

Aardvark! posted:

Can I get some more uniquely Aussie foods for my files please? Or are you all a bunch of gronk cunts?

BrigadierSensible posted:

*Dodgy Aussie cuisine*

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The Chiko Roll is an Australian savoury snack invented by Frank McEncroe, inspired by the Chinese spring roll and first sold in 1951 as the "Chicken Roll" despite not actually containing chicken

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A Chiko Roll's filling is primarily cabbage and barley, as well as carrot, green beans, beef, beef tallow, wheat cereal, celery and onion. This filling is partially pulped and enclosed in a thick egg and flour pastry tube designed to survive handling at football matches. The roll is typically deep-fried in vegetable oil.

At the peak of its popularity in the 1960s and 1970s, 40 million Chiko Rolls were sold annually in Australia. The product has been described as an Australian cultural icon

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In September 2016 a disagreement in the Parliament of New South Wales over the origins of the Chiko Roll occurred. The Nationals' Member for Calare Andrew Gee, Labor’s Member for Bendigo Lisa Chesters and Member for Riverina Michael McCormack all claimed the snack originated in their respective hometowns.

To celebrate the 50th anniversary of the creation of the Chiko Roll the current manufacturer presented gold-plated replicas to Bendigo and Wagga Wagga cities.

In October 2016 Karratha resident Mark Habermehl cooked a meat pie and a Chiko Roll on a barbeque in an attempt to avoid washing dishes. The event made the local newspaper and prompted a nomination for Australian of the Year, recognising the 'Australian-ness' of his choice of cuisine, selection of cooking device and ingenuity

Breetai posted:

Petition to get this thread added to the c-bomb probation exclusion zone as here in Oz it's not profanity, it's punctuation.

Breetai posted:

Australians.


https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=vmL72sgVdAQ

Aardvark! posted:

this lead me down a path in which i learned that some australians call them "bush chooks"

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"The inner or second of the three toes is fitted with a long, straight, murderous nail which can sever an arm or eviscerate an abdomen with ease. There are many records of natives being killed by this bird."

The first documented human death caused by a cassowary was on April 6, 1926. In Australia, 16-year-old Phillip McClean and his brother, age 13, came across a cassowary on their property and decided to try to kill it by striking it with clubs. The bird kicked the younger boy, who fell and ran away as his older brother struck the bird. The older McClean then tripped and fell to the ground. While he was on the ground, the cassowary kicked him in the neck, opening a 1.25-cm (1/2-in) wound that may have severed his jugular vein. The boy died of his injuries shortly thereafter.

Cassowary strikes to the abdomen are among the rarest of all, but in one case, a dog was kicked in the belly in 1995. The blow left no puncture, but severe bruising occurred. The dog later died from an apparent intestinal rupture.

Another human death due to a cassowary was recorded in Florida on April 12, 2019. The bird's owner, a 75-year-old man who had raised the animal, was apparently clawed to death after he fell to the ground.

Jestery posted:

Jestery posted:

And for further reference, I live a 5-10 minute drive from the city center

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Jestery posted:

Brisvegas oval office

Bill Posters posted:

il modernissimo
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=6aTO6Iv4f3A

Code Jockey posted:

What's cost of living like in Sydney / Melbourne / Brisbane?

Bill Posters posted:

In particular I think this has exposed just how average Coopers is. It's still head and shoulders above the others though.

~Coxy posted:

check out this poor c*** who can't afford OP

Wendigee posted:

Underproof? Is this like a tax law thing making it technically not liquor?

It better be if it tastes like kerosene.

I pickle my liver with gin ~94 proof or strong rum 100 proof. You guys have to drink more liquid you losers

Wendigee posted:

Underproof? Is this like a tax law thing making it technically not liquor?

low key sex master posted:

Cockatoos are already hellish demon birds in their normal state, I can't imagine what they're like when drunk

Budzilla posted:

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Fahf77qzEnE
Bargearse, 30 min of fat jokes.

Telsa Cola posted:

I run into obscene amounts of elk, mule deer, cow, and coyote skulls during work. But I imagine you likely have most of those.

BrassRoots posted:

Quarantine will be the trickiest part of bringing skulls in. Will need to be fumigated and poo poo.

Neddy Seagoon posted:

I was looking at the Agriculture import site for something else, and it had this for bones;
So long as it's been cleaned to hell and back, they SHOULD probably be okay and they'll just make you pay to have it cleaned otherwise.

Snowglobe of Doom posted:

'Mephisto' in that show is a dude called Doug Bayne who a lot of people might be more familiar with as one half of the team behind webcomic https://www.oglaf.com/ with Trudy Cooper (who also worked on Enter The Fist).

They've done a whole bunch of other stuff as well
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Ikjx50RbNvM


E: I just googled and he's currently performing live shows with The Umbilical Brothers holy poo poo

BrigadierSensible posted:

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=ajeL87l3prM

In a less scatological song, I always liked this one, especially because it mentions David Wirrapanda, (who I always liked, even though he played for West Coast.)
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=ki6YTXyITaQ

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The back upon which Jezza jumped and rode into the ground;
The humiliated vertebrae that mighty mark crushed down;
That pathetic platform from which Jesualenko leapt into the sky;
That ladder to immortality has finally laid down to die.

Yes, Graeme "Jerker" Jenkin, the man who stood his ground
And took the pain that gave other's fame is six foot underground;
Giant jolly "Jerker" Jenkin, Jesaulenko's dupe -
All he got out of that magic mark was a tenancy to stoop.

Did he hear the thundering footsteps on that fateful day?
As he looked up at that Sherrin, did he know he'd have no say
As Jezza jumped to fame and glory with one almighty leap,
And he was left to be forgotten in a crumpled heap?

And so all you men of small ability and mediocre skill,
All those of you who, in the race of life, are left standing still;
Those who must always know others are unquestionably better -
The second class, the also ran, the unsuccessful go getter;
The minor leaguers, the average markers, the consistent second raters;
The stay at homers, the timid loners, the habitual masturbators;
The ugly girls, the amputees, the screaming Mongoloids;
The senile old, the deformed young, the bladders that unwillingly void;
The cancer ridden, the A.I.D.S. victim, the plastic surgery disaster;
The fake bowel, the anguished howl as the psychopath shafts ya;
The violated; the child rapist; the jerk off artist;
The disaster fated, the intensely hated, the involuntary fartist;
All of you huge race of men with mind or body dismembered
Never forget the name of the man who will never be remembered;
And beware!, all who have hopes of happiness you pathetically nurture,
Lest you forget the back upon which Jezza jumped, the giant Graeme "Jerker"

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My hair ain't boofed or blonded, my TER was so-so
Won't never score a hundred, or even win a Brownlow
To be something is something I fall short of
But me and Hawthorn's captain are connected, sort of

I rooted a girl, who rooted a guy
Who rooted a girl, who rooted a guy
Who rooted a girl, who rooted Shane Crawford

Our Nicole buys her bread rolls from a bread shop near my Mum's
I met the Gallagher brothers, though not the famous ones
My brother stood next to Steve Waugh in a lift
I had dinner at Warney's, but that's just an urban myth

I rooted a girl, who rooted a guy
Who rooted a girl, who rooted a guy
Who rooted a girl, who rooted Shane Crawford

I met her at a disco, we both were drinking Bundy
I told her that I liked her, though didn't call her Mond'y
She sure was pretty rat-arsed, but you don't knock back a win
Especially when your best mate winks and whispers that you're in

Well, ain't never had a lesbo, nor two-girls-at-one-time did
But this I always will have to impress me wife and kid
The summer of my lifetime now freezes into winter
I got this sadness in me like flesh barbed on a splinter

I rooted a girl, who rooted a guy
Who rooted a girl, who rooted a guy
Who rooted a girl, who rooted a guy
Who rooted a girl, who rooted a guy
Who rooted a girl, who rooted a guy
Who rooted a girl, who rooted a guy
Who rooted a girl, who rooted a guy
Who rooted a girl, who rooted a guy
Who rooted a girl, who rooted a guy
Who rooted a girl, who rooted a guy
Who rooted a girl, who rooted a guy
Who rooted a girl, who rooted a guy
Who rooted a girl, who rooted a guy
Who rooted a girl, who rooted a guy
Who rooted a girl, who rooted a guy
Who rooted a girl, who rooted a guy

BrigadierSensible posted:

TISM is cheating.