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Sabu

9-Aug-2011
12:41:26 PM

On 9/08/2011 Big G wrote:
>how on earth do you have time to miss the AFL - its on every channel and
>every news item in NSW. On a saturday afternoon the only thing on am radio
>is a mindless jabber about 2 victorian teams displaying a complete inability
>to catch the ball. officially the worst sport in the world!

I call it ariel pingpong and get intensely nauseated when the first 15 minutes of the news headlines for the day are devoted to a story about a footballer who picked his nose and got sent to the tribunal for it....


Capt_mulch

9-Aug-2011
1:37:35 PM

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>How much for a case of Coopers, in The Solomons, King of Kambah?

Coopers - that's stuff I only dream of (too many Victorians here) - takeaway beer, AUD$1.10 per can. You'd cry though if I told you how much the other stuff was for a nice little baggy...

widewetandslippery

9-Aug-2011
2:10:56 PM

" let's take a look at strayan demographics vs US demographics. Summary: Australia is ~85% white / English speaking vs ~64% in the US. "


Climboholic

9-Aug-2011
2:51:32 PM

On 9/08/2011 Big G wrote:
>how on earth do you have time to miss the AFL - its on every channel and
>every news item in NSW. On a saturday afternoon the only thing on am radio
>is a mindless jabber about 2 victorian teams displaying a complete inability
>to catch the ball. officially the worst sport in the world!

I knew that one would get a few bites.

While I'm on the subject of what I miss about Victoria - Good Trad!

widewetandslippery

9-Aug-2011
3:01:35 PM

You miss good trad and your from Newcastle? You are a stones throw away of the Mt Kiera of the north the Monkey Face. Seriously though have you been to the Zawn? i reckon it qualifies.


Climboholic

9-Aug-2011
4:18:37 PM

On 9/08/2011 widewetandslippery wrote:
>You miss good trad and your from Newcastle? You are a stones throw away
>of the Mt Kiera of the north the Monkey Face. Seriously though have you
>been to the Zawn? i reckon it qualifies.

Monkey face !?%@$!? I said good trad.

widewetandslippery

9-Aug-2011
4:25:45 PM

I said zawn


bel

9-Aug-2011
11:08:17 PM

Coopers - that's stuff I only dream of (too many Victorians here) - takeaway beer, AUD$1.10 per can. You'd cry though if I told you how much the other stuff was for a nice little baggy...

i wont cry im in central america!!!


Capt_mulch

10-Aug-2011
7:05:50 AM

ai karumba! does it have piles of seed too :-) ? A meal in every baggy...

martym

10-Aug-2011
9:18:38 AM

On 8/08/2011 Andrew_M wrote:
>edit: thai food is our defacto national cuisine isn't it now?

I would have said "the availability of good vegetarian food" - but the amount of people mentioning steak and meat pies reminds me how hard it is to find a decent meal outside the cities.

So I have to go with - real wilderness, no sign of people. But that means being away from almost everything listed above.
My Mrs read this list and admitted, we're really going to miss living in Europe.

kieranl

10-Aug-2011
12:37:46 PM

On 8/08/2011 rockotter wrote:
>lovely and the glorious flavours of Sandstone(oh, and Chris Lilley) but
OT but I don't get Chris Lilley. Yes, he's a great writer and actor but what's with the drag and the blackface?
A drag act may be funny but it's just a drag act. If it's a good female part it would be better if played by a good female actor - and there are more than a couple of those about.
Similarly with blackface - that went out with the Black and White Minstrel show. Hey, Hey It's Wednesday got rightly panned when it tried a blackface act and it's pretty hypocritical to let Chris Lilley get away from it.


nmonteith

10-Aug-2011
12:44:05 PM

On 10/08/2011 kieranl wrote:
>Similarly with blackface - that went out with the Black and White Minstrel
>show. Hey, Hey It's Wednesday got rightly panned when it tried a blackface
>act and it's pretty hypocritical to let Chris Lilley get away from it.

So why was it ok for A list white amercian Robert Downey Jr to do the very same thing in the Hollywood flick Tropic Thunder that came out in 2008? That was way more full on then the lame Hey Hey skit. Typical hypocritical americans...


StuckNut

10-Aug-2011
12:44:52 PM

On 10/08/2011 kieranl wrote:
>Similarly with blackface - that went out with the Black and White Minstrel
>show. Hey, Hey It's Wednesday got rightly panned when it tried a blackface
>act and it's pretty hypocritical to let Chris Lilley get away from it.

Get a sense of humour about it - people have lost the ability to have laugh at each other and take the piss with all the over sensitive PC these days. Some of the funniest shit I've seen is Dave Chapelle impersonating a white guy!

kieranl

10-Aug-2011
12:50:30 PM

Don't know about that one.
Maybe if there's a point to it it could be justified? But Chris Lilley playing a Tongan comes across as a white guy pretending to be a Tongan. It gets in the road of what might otherwise be great material. Ditto when he drags up.


nmonteith

10-Aug-2011
1:14:53 PM

There is a lot more to impersonating a character than the color of the skin. Chris Lilley's skills are in getting mannerisms, accents and dialogue to match the intended character.

How about the quality movie White Chicks?

http://youtu.be/rr_SY-1Z5vg

Fish Boy

10-Aug-2011
1:40:27 PM

Moved to Vancouver a week or so ago....Coopers Red is just around the corner! And it is only $11 a 6er! RP's are $14 too....

kieranl

10-Aug-2011
1:45:38 PM

On 10/08/2011 nmonteith wrote:
>There is a lot more to impersonating a character than the color of the
>skin.
Totally agree
>Chris Lilley's skills are in getting mannerisms, accents and dialogue
>to match the intended character.
Also agree but when he plays women, coloured people I find it embarassing so I have given up watching him.


ChuckNorris

10-Aug-2011
4:59:30 PM

He's equally cringeful playing white males --- which is why I like it.

widewetandslippery

10-Aug-2011
6:25:06 PM

So far fishboy wins

kieranl

10-Aug-2011
10:22:56 PM

On 10/08/2011 StuckNut wrote:
>On 10/08/2011 kieranl wrote:
>>Similarly with blackface - that went out with the Black and White Minstrel
>>show. Hey, Hey It's Wednesday got rightly panned when it tried a blackface
>>act and it's pretty hypocritical to let Chris Lilley get away from it.
>
>Get a sense of humour about it - people have lost the ability to have
>laugh at each other and take the piss with all the over sensitive PC these
>days. Some of the funniest shit I've seen is Dave Chapelle impersonating
>a white guy!
PC or not has nothing to do with it - that's just a label to hit someone you disagree wit. I don't find his stuff unfunny because of a social belief; I just don't find it funny and I understand why. His comedy works when you believe in the characters he's playing but , for me, when he plays women and non-euros I don't find his characters believable. Others obviously do find it funny and the thing with sense of humour is that you can't share someone elses on demand.

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