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Maximum Sexy Pigeon posted:It's worth noting that Port Pirie is renowned as one of Australia's crappiest towns, forever holding the #10 slot for the weekly poo poo Towns Of Australia shame list from a popular satirical page (https://www.facebook.com/shittownsofaustralia/) which lists poo poo towns based on notable news articles and also awards specific towns on other demerits. Port Pirie's mayor actually had a sook about it and it made national news https://www.abc.net.au/news/2021-05-10/port-pirie-named-s-test-town-in-south-australia/100128394 
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Weirdly enough they were also released in the US and the UK in 1985 at the same time they were released in Australia but they didn't catch on in those markets, so the only places they're still sold are Australia and NZ. I'm not sure how many Aussie kids have even heard of Buffalo Bill so they probably don't even get the pun in the name 
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May 25, 2021 05:59
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Valko posted:I thought they were cosplaying goonsacks or something. They had a whole bunch of different costumes but some of them were very very goonsackish https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=tFc-ictzHKE
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May 25, 2021 10:38
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May 26, 2021 19:46
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Shout out to the gronk wearing a MAGA (Make Australia Great Again) baseball cap at the anti-lockdown protest outside Flinders Street station last night: gently caress offfffffffff with all of that
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May 29, 2021 11:06
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Inceltown posted:I didn't realise Bob Katter posted on the forums. Hey now Fair suck of the sauce bottle
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May 30, 2021 01:26
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Budzilla posted:Double The Fist - won best comedy at the Logies when no one watched it, beating out Kath and Kim. The first episode is slow but picks up after '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 
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May 30, 2021 14:52
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Was that the Ayers Rock Roadhouse & Golliwog Museum at the former Leyland Brothers theme park?? E: yep
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syntaxfunction posted:I remember my grandmother defending those "Golliwog" dolls as totally not racist because they're old and actually affectionate if you think about it! Yeah a lot of Australians try to argue that golliwogs were never 'racist' over here and were never meant to depict minstrels or anything but then you go back and look at newspaper articles about them from the early 1900s and uhhhh    Seems super fuckin' racist to me! They were also a popular fancy dress costume at the time and there were lots of "golliwog dance" acts in local theatres and fundraising events which were also incredibly  Australia has a bizarrely long and complicated relationship with golliwogs and it's taken us many many decades as a society to finally go "Hey maybe these are problematic", we're dumb as hell
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Jun 2, 2021 14:36
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Wendigee posted:the extra funny thing is if you go listen to the songs mentioned above like "i hate wogs" or the one about native australians the comments are just 100% people going this a parody its not meant to be taken seriously and it's not racist at all! lolol! stupid ppl! See also the Hey Hey It's Saturday youtube video from a few posts up which is really obviously incredibly racist but which was still being passed off as "Just a bit of fun, no harm intended" as recently as a few months ago: https://www.news.com.au/entertainme...d617ea8038b5694 https://www.abc.net.au/news/2021-03-31/kamahl-daryl-somers-statement-hey-hey-its-saturday-treatment/100041612
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Jun 3, 2021 03:13
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Szyznyk posted:That coin bank is readily available in any antique store outside of Gatlinburg, Helen GA, or any other southern US tourist town. Antique? You can buy a brand new one in some places E: here's a shop in NZ that was selling new ones a few years back: https://www.stuff.co.nz/dominion-post/news/85594871/cute-toy-or-racist-relic-shoppers-divided-on-money-box-for-sale-in-wellington
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corn haver posted:What's the second best Australian film after Wake in Fright? Howling III: The Marsupials https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=T8YKJkYu37Y Razorback is pretty good too https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=MmuPQzgh6Ik
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Aardvark! posted:Also please show me pictures of these "Royal Shows" They're just an Aussie version of the state fair  Inceltown posted:It's standard fair type activities. Good clean wholesome family fun! Here's some 8mm footage from the 60s and 70s: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Xg9rM6A9qLo https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=wAmIeQGZYBA Of course the highlight of the Royal Melbourne Easter Show for every kid was the showbags, which were always stuffed full of lollies and toys. There's several huge pavilions that are dedicated to selling nothing but showbags every year and it's not uncommon to see families walking around at the end of the day loaded down with a dozen or more showbags. Most of them are filled with cheap overprices crap and they usually cost between $5 for the garbage tier showbags up to $15 or $20 for the good ones all the way up to $100 for some of the fancy ones with expensive branded stuff   The classics include the Bertie Beetle showbag:  Wizz Fizz showbag:  N*gger Boy Licorice showbag:  Caramello Koala showbag:  And many many more! Snowglobe of Doom fucked around with this message at 00:13 on Jun 7, 2021 |
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BrigadierSensible posted:2)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. Those videos I posted earlier had footage of it. It turns out they dismantled it in 2003 and shipped it off to Indonesia where it's apparently still operating. https://rcdb.com/1248.htm
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Suburban night clubs? Here's a 1987 ad for the Power House in Ballarat I may or may not know several of the people appearing in this ad https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=hcycU_OykSg E: oh god https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=cKFZd6HpDoA Snowglobe of Doom fucked around with this message at 14:22 on Jun 9, 2021 |
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Poohs Packin posted:Everything was covered in "splatter". I was once on a cleaning crew that was scrubbing down an abandoned factory complex in Coburg for a new client and the toilets had seen a few decades of hard use and then had a couple of years of dust and bird poo poo caked over the top of that. The men's toilets were pretty bad but the women's toilets were a step beyond that, the entire walls on the cubicles right up to the ceiling were absolutely covered in  thick reddish-brown flecks of what appeared to be chunky dried menstrual blood. It obviously wasn't a quick spur of the moment splattering either, it was in every cubicle and they'd managed to get pretty good coverage of all the walls which must have taken a fair bit of effort. Still, that wasn't as nasty as the toilets down the other end of the complex where some homeless person had been living in there and they'd kept making GBS threads in the toilet even after the water had been turned off and the S-bend got clogged. abigserve posted:I once went to a club in Werribee that had a camera out the front that took a picture of your face and license before you entered That seems to be a standard in rough clubs all over Melbourne, I was catching a tram along Sydney Rd Brunswick one night and I noticed that at one of the bars the bouncers had a little portable booth with a camera to scan faces & ID cards, they had it set up out on the curb where the line to get in started
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Jun 10, 2021 02:07
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EoinCannon posted:When I lived in the bush I would wake up in the morning and kangaroos would be standing right up near the window staring in. It was pretty creepy https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=RpXxWQeho3M
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Yeah if they've a strop on they'll go the raw prawn if you look at them wrong     https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=SYaIDupJXcs
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Slugnoid posted:this is like one of those trick videos where they get you to focus on the birds so you miss the skeleton In case anyone was wondering about the giant animatronic birds, some guy up in Queensland decided to knock them up in his backyard and he's currently driving them all around the state to cheer people up https://twitter.com/DrDaliri/status/1389447789197729794 E: looks like the skeleton is his as well https://twitter.com/DrDaliri/status/1311023462622748672
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BABABA BABABABABA BABABA BABABABABA BABABA BABABABABA https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=JwI2NrVYqIE
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I spent way too much time at the Espy in the late 90s and early 00s, watching comedians like Greg Fleet, Dave Grant, Brad Oakes, CJ Fortuna, Bob Franklin, Pommy Johnson, Dave O'Neil, etc etc etc.
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Nam Taf posted:Paul MCD 
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Now do a map of spider density https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=IT7SAYi1SO8
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In a similar vein, here's https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=U3L_eye63qU
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Ghost Leviathan posted:Trolleyed or troll-eyed? Trolleyed = pissed, sloshed, maggoted, three sheets to the wind
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Maximum Sexy Pigeon posted:I mean, the last snake I saw was in 2019 5km from the Sydney CBD in my back courtyard but it was only a Red-Bellied Black and buggered off on me as soon as I got near it (I thought it was a hose so I didn't notice it until it moved) I live within spitting distance of the Melbourne CBD and although we never get snakes in our backyards there's a popular walking/cycling track along a creek that runs right through the suburb which frequently has snake sightings all the way through the warmer months. If there's a permanent source of water and a bit of scrub there's guaranteed to be snakes as well. duck monster posted:Not relevant to anything, but I had a dream a couple of nights ago about a movie called "Honey, I glassed the kids" staring Paul Hogan. That sounds pretty lovely and dumb ........ so it would have been a marked improvement on the films he actually did make recently which were extremely lovely and dumb.  Also it should come as no surprise to anyone but he's been a massive rear end in a top hat during the pandemic: https://www.news.com.au/entertainme...76fe10889117b07
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Aussie kid flies across the country to visit her parents who she hasn't seen for 1.5 years due to the covid border lockdowns https://vm.tiktok.com/ZMdy2LtBw/ Gets you right in the feels 
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Maximum Sexy Pigeon posted:Navigating the lockdown laws is fun, good thing the only part that changes over the next fortnight is whether or not I go to pubs. Oh you think this is only going to last a fortnight? The heal;th minister said the aim was to get cases back to zero, they ain't going from 29/30 cases a day to zero in just 14 days.
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Neddy Seagoon posted:This is a six-weeker. Minimum. If we're very lucky and things go absolutely perfectly. (Which they won't, because NSW Health and the Premier are both loving idiots). I'm hanging out for your inevitable Melbourne-style anti-vaxx protests, the Sydney cops probably won't know what to do with them so it should be a hoot.
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Oh and just wait until July 9 when cases still aren't at zero so Gladys announces an extension to the lockdown and all the Murdoch media readers/viewers raise their voices in unison and scream "BUT YOU PROMISED IT WOULD ONLY BE TWO WEEKS!!!"
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Only 16 new local cases in NSW today https://twitter.com/NSWHealth/status/1411490293791170560 LOL @ all the people in the comment thread excitedly talking about opening up /laughs Melbournishly
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Kiss goodbye to opening back up this weekend, Sydney .... https://twitter.com/NSWHealth/status/1411852699864240128
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Lolie posted:I'm still sooking about the demise of Sizzler. All those classic restaurants, now gone forever https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=hNLDaZygI3Q https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=eMYpLagx6Ik
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Wendigee posted:the good news is that the US is now for the first time less than 50% "religious". I think it's what is causing the right to go into their death throws as they go to crazier and crazier extents to assure relevance Australia is steadily becoming less religious every year. In our earliest censuses we were close to 100% Christian but that's been dropping ever since: quote:In an optional question on the 2016 Census, 52.2% of the Australian population declared some variety of Christianity.
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Inceltown posted:We'll also be staying at home for a long time it seems. Yeah last week's messaging of "Maybe we can open up on Friday if we're lucky" has now turned into "It's unlikely we'll be able to open up next week" quote:NSW Premier 'can't see restrictions easing next Friday' without a dramatic turnaround
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Tinsel City posted:should I get this for my living room? You already know the answer.  You also need to track down a Peter Russell Clarke portrait to hang next to it E: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=HXDnhmE4GL4 https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=uOG2N74-Nv0 Snowglobe of Doom fucked around with this message at 09:17 on Jul 15, 2021 |
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EoinCannon posted:There's a Tittybong in northern VIC. And his ghost may be heard as you bypass Tittybong 'You'll come a boobing a fat cone with me'
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d0s posted:forgive me for being a seppo but is that real? in florida you can do the same thing with places that have "negro" in the name except the word used wasn't originally "negro", and there's like 20 of them Australians were particularly racist towards Chinese immigrants for the longest time, and given the general level of racism here that's saying something. Back in the early days of the Australian gold rush the government was passing specifically anti-Chinese legislation (such as the 1888 Chinese Restriction and Regulation Act) and there were so many anti-Chinese riots on the goldfields they actually had to appoint a special police commissioner in Victoria to oversee the issue. The Eureka Rebellion famously included a whole lot of immigrants among the rebels (the 13 ring leaders who were brought to trial included a Scottish Jew, a Jamaican and an African American) and pretty much the only group the rebels didn't include were the local Chinese miners because they hated them so much. The Eureka! stage musical weirdly attempted to whitewash the rebellion by including a scene where an Irish rebel realised at the last minute that a Chinese miner is his friend and ally. Dan Andrews actually gave an official state apology to our Chinese community in 2017 for all the racism during the gold rush era: https://www.abc.net.au/news/2017-05-25/victoria-apologises-to-chinese-for-racism-during-gold-rush-era/8558998
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