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Lolie posted:Waiting for the potato cake/scallop wars to commence. 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.
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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.
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May 24, 2021 11:36
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Aardvark! posted:Can I get some more uniquely Aussie foods for my files please? Or are you all a bunch of gronk cunts? Pie Floaters Dim Sims Lamingtons Pavlova Fairy Bread Vegemite Cheesymite Scrolls Democracy Snags Golden Gaytime Bubble-O-Bill are amongst the things that are completely normal to me, but I have been told are uniquely Australian. Apparently an American friend of mine has told me that a 4/20 style bog standard meat pie is difficult to get in the US. Also, Bundaberg Rum doesn't do exports as far as I know. So you can't get it overseas. (Which is a poor business decision on their part. Places like Japan and Korea would go nuts for Bundy Rum.)
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May 25, 2021 05:34
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Breetai posted:Strewth! We lost the flamin' Prime Minister! Harold Holt is pretty Australian. A sitting Prime Minister, who goes for a swim and is never seen again. Did he drown, or was he taken by the Chinese in a midget submarine? (He probably drowned.) Anyway, the best way we could think of to commemorate him was to name a public pool after him. That's right a swimming pool named after a famous drowning victim. In Glen Iris.
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May 25, 2021 10:22
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Lolie posted:Good quality butcher's mince is the key to getting a rich, meaty flavour. When it's brown add finely chopped onions and herbs. Mixed herbs are fine or you can add your favourite herbs, but thyme is essential as is plenty of black pepper. Bah Humbug! "good quality mince"? Get hosed. The appeal of a meat pie is that it is chopped up offal in generic brown gravy. The "good quality" artisan meat pie you are describing sounds delicious, but it is not a meat pie. A meat pie is something you buy at the footy and slather in tomato sauce whilst you sit in the rain and watch your team lose to an interstate side. Edit: I just thought of another Australian only food. - Burger Rings. I haven't had a packet of these since school. BrigadierSensible fucked around with this message at 02:48 on May 26, 2021 |
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May 26, 2021 01:31
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A factoid I love. Australia had a national cricket team decades before we had a national parliament. Because, priorities.
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May 26, 2021 11:44
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When I lived in Korea, I bought a bottle of Bundy to give to the sweet old couple who lived in the apartment next to me. They loved me. I also did the requisite Australian thing of getting them some Vegemite. That, they liked not so much.
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May 27, 2021 05:31
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Nooner posted:are we allowed to say the "c" word in this thread? I once got probated for calling Shane Warne a "See You Next Tuesday". And I can think of no more fitting description of the man. Nor a more apt use of the word.
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May 30, 2021 05:16
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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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May 31, 2021 12:28
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Maximum Sexy Pigeon posted:If you like songs mentioning AFL players... TISM is cheating.
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Jun 1, 2021 01:05
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Maximum Sexy Pigeon posted:Incorrect. That's true also.
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Jun 1, 2021 01:12
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I like Somersault https://www.imdb.com/title/tt0381429/?ref_=fn_al_tt_1 A fragile delicate film about a teenager who runs away up into the high country in winter. A bit slow, but I like it. I also like Bad Eggs https://www.imdb.com/title/tt0312409/?ref_=nv_sr_srsg_0 Made at the height of their powers, before they had a falling out, this is a Martin/Molloy vehicle that is a fun little romp. But it is very "suburban Melbourne", and very Martin/Molloy. So I dunno how much it would translate to people who didn't grow up there, or knew of them. And for those who like horror, there is The Loved Ones https://www.imdb.com/title/tt1316536/ A nice little horror film about a girl and her dad, and the prom date that tries to get between them.
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I forgot a very silly, very Australian film. You Can't Stop The Murders https://www.imdb.com/title/tt0303251/?ref_=fn_al_tt_1 A murderer is going around a country town killing people in Village People themed ways. Like Bad Eggs, (which I recommended earlier), it has Bob Franklin in it. This time as a bikie. It's a silly film, as you'd expect a film about Village People murders to be, but I liked it.
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Jun 5, 2021 08:00
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Aardvark! posted:
There are only 2 things you need to know about the Royal Melbourne Show. 1)  I am old enough to remember when these were $22)The Mad Mouse. A rollercoaster that was ancient and rickety when I was a lad, and was/is under constant fear of falling over with every ride. It was ACE! Couldn't find a good picture of it though.
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Jun 7, 2021 02:33
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syntaxfunction posted:
This is like the person before, who gave the recipe for a "good quality" meat pie. gently caress you! The whole point of a showbag is the throwaway plastic crap and borderline stale lollies. But I do agree with you, as an adult, I dunno if I could stand a day at the show, with the crowds, and lugging about multiple heavy showbags with crying whingy kids in tow. But as a little kid, it was ace.
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Jun 7, 2021 02:47
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A friend of mine once posited the question: Which band do Australians more identify with, Cold Chisel or TISM? To which my answer was "I know I like to pretend to myself it is TISM, but at heart it's probably Chisel." Or to use a quote from one of the aforementioned bands "Who is your favourite genius, James Hird or James Joyce?"
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Jun 18, 2021 03:07
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I would blow Dane Cook posted:Is Tism the Slipknot of Australia? No. TISM are a band I never thought would translate outside of the outer suburbs of Melbourne. Let alone internationally. I have always failed when trying to find an equivalent. Think pseudo-intellectual hipsters that hate hipsters and pretention, whilst also being mega bogans from the outer suburbs who will name drop Nietchze and Kierkergard in the same song that they mention several AFL footballers by name, and the song is about farting.
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Jun 18, 2021 08:20
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~Coxy posted:Nobody knows all the words to Khe Sanh (or Cheap Wine) but that doesn't matter. Years ago, when I lived in Korea, they were doing a thing where each of the Foreign teachers got up and sung their country's national anthem for all the Principals and stuff in attendance. I sang Khe Sanh. It went down pretty well.
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Jun 19, 2021 05:43
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Re: expensive beer. I am old enough to remember being outraged, outraged I tell you, when the pub next to Uni raised the prices so a pot of beer was more than $2. What? You expect me to pay more than one coin for the glass of beer I am drinking instead of going to my afternoon lecture? The scoundrels!
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Jun 24, 2021 12:07
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Lascivious Sloth posted:
Re: this song and the Cold Chisel classic Khe Sanh, it was always a little weird to me how Australia wrote better songs about the experience of the returned traumatized Vietnam veteran than America did. And you can add "And the band played Waltzing Matilda" to the list of Aussie songs about the tragedy of returning home from war. For the heathens who have never heard either song, here they are: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=dTjvG4WJD_A https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=E22gszljklc
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Jul 15, 2021 00:39
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Paul Kelly is someone, (much like Don Walker, who wrote much of Cold Chisel's hits), who is an absolute songwriting genius. But they are both "very" Australian and very much Australiana. So whilst it sucks that neither of them are better known overseas, and thus are denied the success and superstardom they deserve, I can understand why their work doesn't translate well when it leaves these shores.
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Snowglobe of Doom posted:He was a dog. All the main characters were introduced feral species If I remember right, the cartoon also had a bunch of native Australian animals as The Ferals' country cousins or some such. I think they were the baddies, but I may be misremembering.
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dr_rat posted:
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=z0kSBiu1IGk Pretty much.
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5er posted:I'm going to bet, as opposed to INXS or AC/DC, no one outside of Australia has. This leads me to a question: Without going too obscure, who are the "Australiana" bands that never got big outside of Australia? And I am more thinking bands that didn't translate to foreign audiences, as opposed to bands that were just not good enough to get famous overseas. As mentioned there is TISM, and Cold Chisel. But who else are/were superstars in Oz, but nobodies overseas? I would posit Crowded House as a band that fits this criteria. As well as possibly Savage Garden and Human Nature. Darryl Braithwaite also qualifies as a local superstar who would be unknown anywhere else.
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A lot of these Australian bands that found superstardom at home but no success overseas are 70s and 80s. The Church and Little River Band are two more I thought of. Trying to think of more recent ones and not coming up with much success. Perhaps Oz HipHop? Like Hilltop Hoods? Would Custard be big enough to qualify as a big band that never found traction overseas?
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Jul 29, 2021 07:06
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Carlos Lantana posted:who's ganglier? peter garrett (midnight oil) or bruce spence (mad max)? Bruce Reid, (Fast bowler from the 80s) would give them both a run for their gangly money.
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Jul 29, 2021 08:52
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EoinCannon posted:Warrnambol's Airbourne are pretty popular overseas, moreso than in Australia defintely If we are doing Australian more popular overseas than in Australia, the Keith Urban would surely be the gold standard.
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Lolie posted:I seriously never heard of him until he married Nicole Kidman. Nicole Kidman? Star of BMX Bandits? I wonder what she has gone on to do with her life?
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Jul 30, 2021 01:34
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Laserface posted:You am I are pretty good but i dont think hit it big OS. After one of the Big Day Outs, Soundgarden chose You Am I to open for them on an American tour. Dunno if that translated to US success though.
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If we're doing TV series' that are very Australian. I always liked the Jack Irish mini series'. They were very very inner suburban Melbourne. Good Guys Bad Guys was also another aggressively inner suburban Melbourne series, but it leant on the comedy a lot more than Jack Irish, which, whilst it does have its funny moments, gets dark at times.
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Jul 31, 2021 11:41
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Robin Williams posted:Wouldn't get enough views, what with Hey Hey... coming back When Hey Hey died the first time I was sad. I remember talking to my friends at the time who were rejoicing at the death of a long irrelevant racist, homophobic archaic institution, and telling them, "Were you never 11? Don't you have fond nostalgic memories of watching this with your family on a saturday evening? etc." Then it had it's first reboot, and I was shown why they were right and I was wrong. gently caress Hey Hey and gently caress Darryl Somers.
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Further making GBS threads on Hey Hey stories. I remember when they had English band Reef scheduled to perform, years and years ago. Well the band members saw Red Symons being mean to a little girl on Red Faces, and so instead of performing their hit, as had been previously agreed upon, they played their song "Yer Old" and pointedly sang it at the ex-Skyhooks bassist. For a show that prided itself on being "organized chaos", (seriously that is how Somers described it once in an interview), the act of a band singing a different song to the one they had rehearsed was unthinkable! So much so that they cancelled the next weeks performance by a rock band, (Faith No More if I remember rightly), because they couldn't be trusted to be nice boys. And instead replaced them with Rhonda Burchmore singing a show tune. Then there is the fact that it was an open secret that "Animal", the drummer from the Hey Hey band who used to wear sunglasses, had been busted diddling 14 year old girls. Then there is the infamous TISM performance. https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=hG4janHITY8 Here's a member of the band talking about it. He tells the story starting at 1:50 https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=VX_3xIdvenU
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Maximum Sexy Pigeon posted:I know, I know You are probably right. I am probably getting my rumours messed up in my head.
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TISM news seems to go in this thread. RIP to the man who inspired, and indeed is named in this song. https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=O4PlQzd0SvU
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Aug 17, 2021 09:04
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Neddy Seagoon posted:There'd always be that one person that brings in their over-customized Bad Dragon with the racing stripes and near-industrial RPM motor to swing the race their way every time otherwise Bloody professional dildo racers. I remember when it was all about the purity of the sport.
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Aug 27, 2021 04:48
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Should have called it the 0.81 recurring Bottle Shop
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Sep 4, 2021 07:38
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Code Jockey posted:watching Mad Max right now The cool one with Tina Turner and Bruce Spence? Or the even cooler one with just Bruce Spence and no Tina?
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Jestery posted:
You need to dip that coin in a glass of coke. She'll be good as new in no time.
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Melbourne were still paying off the '56 Olympics when I graduated High School in 1994. God I'm old. Also Melbourne has already had a Commonwealth games. We had them in 2006. So they ended up being a damp squib and a miserable half arsed provincial copy of Sydney 2000. And from what I am hearing, Melbourne isn't even going to get the 2026 games. They are going to spread them round regional areas. Possibly to keep costs down, or possibly as an excuse to pork barrel some country town electorates by building a velodrome in Shepparton or a canoeing course in Benalla etc.
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Bill Posters posted:Nooooooo! That's where I live! But don't you want to watch the Faroe Islands vs Scotland bronze medal volleyball match? Right there in YOUR town! Think of the international prestige. Edit: Although this makes me think what towns/places will be classified as "regional" Will they just chuck everything in Geelong/Bendigo/Ballarat, and give nothing to the actual country towns? Will they send events all the way out to Warnambool, Mildura and/or Lakes Entrance? BrigadierSensible fucked around with this message at 07:39 on Feb 16, 2022 |
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