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Old 22-07-2021, 10:31 PM   #31
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In the Joh era Brisbane people thought that southerners were commie homo tree-hugging weirdoes - but that's what NQ people thought about Brissy folk. Strange eh.
Back then Qld = conservative verging on redneck, but WA = conservative but tolerant.
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Old 22-07-2021, 10:39 PM   #32
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Old 22-07-2021, 10:41 PM   #33
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You’re thinking of Tassie where your daughter is also your niece.
Dunno how to counter that one. lol
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Old 22-07-2021, 10:50 PM   #34
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Old 22-07-2021, 10:59 PM   #35
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Dunno how to counter that one. lol
Well if you looked at a map of Tasmania you’d have to say that Hobart must be a **** of a place but it’s really quite lovely.
Except for the occasional miserable overcast windy or sleety days - but wet is often good down there.
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Old 23-07-2021, 04:53 AM   #36
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That looks only slightly less revolting than the fritz, but I concede gefilte fish often looks like cat vomit with a piece of carrot slapped on top.
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Old 23-07-2021, 09:17 AM   #37
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That looks only slightly less revolting than the fritz, but I concede gefilte fish often looks like cat vomit with a piece of carrot slapped on top.
Geez mate, was having a good morning until I read that!..yuk, sounds revolting


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Old 23-07-2021, 09:47 AM   #38
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Lips, lungs, eyebrows and scrotums ! Yummy ...
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Lips, lungs, eyebrows and scrotums ! Yummy ...
you talking about the english diet

Thank goodness for the european migrants

Australia - nothing like variety, be it State by State town to town.
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Tripe - love it cooked properly , is magic ..

in Circa 1962 ,

me old man used ta go over ta the slaughter house in manilla , and get heaps .

for nix . or if i remember . about 4 bob -- come home , we had a Copper up tha back near tha Dunny , fer boiling , washing clothes , yep true as .... [me mum never said any thing ] ..

Boil it all up ,,, was a bastard ta Clean , separate , almost like scaling fish ..ya had ta get tha film of skin off ..

Holy **** ,, Mum cooked it up with Onion [ White sause ] .. Nothing else..

still love it ta this day , always keep some Par boiled in Me freezer ..

Try ta buy some ta day , around 7+ dollars a kg ...

Aquired Taste ,,, Maybe --But I was raised on it ....

Me old man used ta make tha best Brawn too ,, see how much that is taday ..
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Tripe - love it cooked properly , is magic ..

in Circa 1962 ,

me old man used ta go over ta the slaughter house in manilla , and get heaps .

for nix . or if i remember . about 4 bob -- come home , we had a Copper up tha back near tha Dunny , fer boiling , washing clothes , yep true as .... [me mum never said any thing ] ..

Boil it all up ,,, was a bastard ta Clean , separate , almost like scaling fish ..ya had ta get tha film of skin off ..

Holy **** ,, Mum cooked it up with Onion [ White sause ] .. Nothing else..

still love it ta this day , always keep some Par boiled in Me freezer ..

Try ta buy some ta day , around 7+ dollars a kg ...

Aquired Taste ,,, Maybe --But I was raised on it ....

Me old man used ta make tha best Brawn too ,, see how much that is taday ..
I could never stomach that stuff
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Old 23-07-2021, 11:05 AM   #42
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yeh not ta everyones taste ,,
also used ta go down under tha Bridge , and catch Crawbobs ,,
get a 5 gal can full , boil em up .. and feed tha shells ta tha Chooks .

used ta have good hard shell eggs ,, till one or so went on tha block at tha wood heap ...
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Old 23-07-2021, 11:23 AM   #43
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Qld had ports instead of suitcases and pushies instead of bikes.

The regional stuff can be confusing.
When I was a newly-arrived hippie in Fremantle people were always talking about going to or coming from Denmark.
I wondered about the fascination with Scandinavia - the Freetown Christiania commune perhaps ?
Later discovered that there’s a town on the south coast called Denmark ...
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Old 23-07-2021, 11:25 AM   #44
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Well if you looked at a map of Tasmania you’d have to say that Hobart must be a **** of a place but it’s really quite lovely.
Except for the occasional miserable overcast windy or sleety days - but wet is often good down there.
You may well be right about Slowbart,full of overpaid Pollies and public servants.That is why I am over 200kms away up nth
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Old 23-07-2021, 11:31 AM   #45
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Noooooo !!!!! One of those northerner types.
The Hobart - Lonny antagonism matches the Sydney - Melbourne rivalry.
But is it possible to be 200 km from Hobart and not be in the ocean ? ;-)
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Noooooo !!!!! One of those northerner types.
The Hobart - Lonny antagonism matches the Sydney - Melbourne rivalry.
But is it possible to be 200 km from Hobart and not be in the ocean ? ;-)
Dunno how far it is the way seagulls fly,but it is 230 by road,maybe only 99.35 km in a straight line
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Back then Qld = conservative verging on redneck, but WA = conservative but tolerant.
The reason WA tended to lean conservative, was simply because in those days the local Labour party were all ardent Federalists, and for the Libs everything was about "States Rights"

Our Labor Premier, mr Magoo, recently won a massive landslide, based on a single policy.
Officially known as "The Rest of Australia can F_ck Off"

WA never wanted to be part of Australia. Read the Constitution, we were not included, and were only to be added if we informed the Queen of such a desire.
A referendum was supposedly held, and somehow ran completely contrary to public opinion at the time. Depending on which version you believe for this turn around, it was either a fraud, or the vote was turned by the Goldfields, where the Federalists bribed the inhabitants by promising to deport all the non-whites.

Hardly surprising then, that in the 30's WA voted in a Referendum to leave the Commonwealth. Ironically the only reason we're still part of the Federation is because in those days the final say rested with the Privy Council.

It didn't help matters that in the following war, Canberra's official policy was to abandon WA to the Japanese.

There is only one road connecting WA to the other states, and that wasn't sealed until the 1970's.
Perth is over 3,000km from Canberra. (Jakarta is marginally closer.)
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Old 23-07-2021, 01:54 PM   #48
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But there is a road connecting WA to the NT.

Emperor Magoo has truckloads of political capital he could expend on progressive policies but hey - it’s WA ...
He’s a pollie so he’ll not risk a single vote by doing anything risky to ensure re-election.
Then he’ll be parachuted into Canberrastan as the new strongman of the glorious workers’ party.
Which doesn’t give a rat’s about anything except factional struggles, preselection for safe seats, and fat remuneration packages followed by lucrative positions in industry.
Luckily the other mob aren’t like that.
Oh wait ....

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