I miss the prog & banger fueled Wednesday nights at the Bondi Hotel (think it’s the Bondi Beach Road now?) back in 2001. Absolute carnage.
FAO Of Dermo (General Aus is wank thread)
Did enjoy seeing Sasha at Sounds on Sunday in 2004.
And Dixon and Ame in Melbourne a few years ago.
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Are we already rowing back and saying Oz isn’t that bad now.
Proper flaming this !
It was good when we were there but had turned to absolute shit since Dermo moved there.
He has single handedly ruined the country and the climate.
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Ah, I get it.
Was there in 2003. 3 dingo dollars to the pound, dined like kings.
Gone to shit since
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Oh lord is it shit here? I’d better hot foot it back to the biggest shit box joke in the whole of Europe fast then.
Great whites in Sydney eh? Well I never. The smoke was odd , odd that it’s happened once in the 20 years I’ve been here.
The rain comes down a lot harder and quicker and in much shorter time frames. Like a tropical deluge. So what we have in a day or 2 would take over a month of grim, cold, perma pissy rain like that of the UK. And guess what? When it’s raining it’s usually still warm and the gardens have loved it.
Guess what else? You can stick the UK up your holes. A great place to visit, but live? Fuck off. I miss going to the footy and that’s all, the rest can bollox. One month a year is plenty. 6 weeks next year as work has to be done on my empire.
Already got tickets for Leicester and dipper filth sorted. Your ears would shrivel if I told you how much hospitality tickets cost for the latter. Made slightly more palatable getting the Leicester ones free.
Anyway as Si says, I’m in Scotland anyway, living off grid on an unnamed island in the outer Hebrides. Thank god for starlink and solar.
You need to build an ark.
The UK in a nutshell Derm.
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Hursty Lol! This is fucking hilarious, 7.5 feet of rain, 3 times the average of London!
That’s fuck all compared to somewhere like Cairns, they get a meter in a day sometimes. It’s about how you deal with it, how much there is is largely irrelevant. What you don’t realise is that unlike the shitty UK with their archaic Victorian drainage systems the diameter of a bog roll, you can stand up in the storm drains here and being costal means it all fucks off into the sea pronto. Even within a few minutes sometimes you would hardly know it had rained. It only goes pearshape where they’ve been fucking with river systems and dams. Most of the floods you see on the TV have been caused by diverting or not diverting river systems and basins. It’s a big political subject here. Plus I live up a hill anyway so don’t really care either way.
Cankles-McJeggings I’d hardly say Ed is a position to cast judgement’s on where people decide to live,
“That roof looks great mate,by the way do want to go on holidays?”
Any theories why Jacinda is resigning mid-term with a historic majority?
Not strictly Aus, but may as well lump the Kiwi’s in with this thread
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She divided the country with her strict covid policy , looks after the rich and doesn’t particularly cater for the working and middle class.
Ring any bells?
Aside of that she doesn’t believe she can win and it’s a good time to scarper. She comes across as a Mother Theresa but essentially is a bit of cunt.
Learnt a couple of things about Australian politics a couple of weekends back (the wife’s cousin lives there)… the conservative right wing party are called the Liberals, and they’ve been voted out for the first time in a decade.
Thanks for that, rhouses.
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It’s actually a coalition of the liberal and national party. The LNP.
Do you see any big changes happening with the lefties back in power?
Gives India some hope with the BJP running things for two terms, and I’d imagine the Brits with the Tories. Close London-based friend is convinced the Tories are done next round.
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Morrison destroyed the lnp all on his own. He didn’t appeal to younger generations same as the Tory filth won’t. He cooked his own goose by lying incessantly and getting caught out furnishing himself (ala Boris ) and has carried on doing so even since he’s left. Don’t think you’ll see the LNP in power here again for a while. Even Murdocks control over the media didn’t save them.
As to big changes the only one I voted for and care about is the anti corruption committee being installed. Something the coalition filth fought tooth and nail to stop. It’s even back dating corruption so you’ll see plenty of the LNP getting hauled over the coals over the next few years.
Far better explanation than mine.