― Orbit (Orbit), Tuesday, 15 February 2005 03:06 (twenty-one years ago)
God where to start?
Good TV: the first 2 seasons of "The Secret Life of Us" - it got shit after that though sadly. I'm sure everyone loves Neighbours and H&A, I see those shows in a very UK mould of soap, though. We invented Bananas in Pyjamas!
I'm having trouble thinking of stuff heh.
Sean Micallef is a genius comedian - he's worth checking out, he did a show called "the Micallef Pogram". Also, John CLarke and Brian Dawes, responsible for the brill satire of "Frontline" and that one about the Olympics.
― Trayce (trayce), Tuesday, 15 February 2005 03:10 (twenty-one years ago)
Australian film is shithouse at the moment too. Music? Honestly I don't know, I've not been keeping up.
That was helpful, wasn't it? Sorry.
― Autumn Almanac (Autumn Almanac), Tuesday, 15 February 2005 03:13 (twenty-one years ago)
― hstencil (hstencil), Tuesday, 15 February 2005 03:14 (twenty-one years ago)
If you're interested Orbit, I can burn you a few of his CD's of stand up and post them to you.
― kate/papa november (papa november), Tuesday, 15 February 2005 03:15 (twenty-one years ago)
Peter CareyTim WintonJessica AndersonPatrick White
... I so wish I was more well read than I am :(
― Trayce (trayce), Tuesday, 15 February 2005 03:15 (twenty-one years ago)
― Autumn Almanac (Autumn Almanac), Tuesday, 15 February 2005 03:15 (twenty-one years ago)
― Orbit (Orbit), Tuesday, 15 February 2005 03:16 (twenty-one years ago)
― kate/papa november (papa november), Tuesday, 15 February 2005 03:16 (twenty-one years ago)
Bad Boy BubbyThe Year My Voice BrokeSpotswoodPicnic at Hanging RockMad Max (the original one anyway)
― Trayce (trayce), Tuesday, 15 February 2005 03:17 (twenty-one years ago)
can we all agree that jet sucks tho?
― hstencil (hstencil), Tuesday, 15 February 2005 03:18 (twenty-one years ago)
― kate/papa november (papa november), Tuesday, 15 February 2005 03:18 (twenty-one years ago)
Going through my music collection now, not seeing much...
Oh and The Late Show is probably the pinnacle of Aus television comedy.
What about "He'll never be an old man river" Adam?
Ah yes :)
― Autumn Almanac (Autumn Almanac), Tuesday, 15 February 2005 03:19 (twenty-one years ago)
xxpost
― kate/papa november (papa november), Tuesday, 15 February 2005 03:19 (twenty-one years ago)
also i like that one movie with michael hutchence (rip). and nick cave is great too.
― hstencil (hstencil), Tuesday, 15 February 2005 03:20 (twenty-one years ago)
Such as, an Aussie would never say "Throw a shrimp on the barbie, because we call them prawns", as in, "don't come the raw prawn with me". To be honest, I don't even know properly what that means.
Also, i have never said "g'day" in my life and can count on one hand the amount of Aussies who've said it to me.
― kate/papa november (papa november), Tuesday, 15 February 2005 03:21 (twenty-one years ago)
If you want to apologise to anyone, apologise to poor New Zealand, who has to put up with Australia claiming all its talent all the time. Poor buggers.
The B Dolls have an album coming out this month, and it sounds very Mavises [was formed by two ex-members]. That could be one to recommend.
― Autumn Almanac (Autumn Almanac), Tuesday, 15 February 2005 03:21 (twenty-one years ago)
xpost
― kate/papa november (papa november), Tuesday, 15 February 2005 03:22 (twenty-one years ago)
― Autumn Almanac (Autumn Almanac), Tuesday, 15 February 2005 03:22 (twenty-one years ago)
― phil-two (phil-two), Tuesday, 15 February 2005 03:24 (twenty-one years ago)
― kate/papa november (papa november), Tuesday, 15 February 2005 03:25 (twenty-one years ago)
also, chiodo in melb is probably my favorite men's designer. except for slimane for dior, of course
― phil-two (phil-two), Tuesday, 15 February 2005 03:31 (twenty-one years ago)
― phil-two (phil-two), Tuesday, 15 February 2005 03:33 (twenty-one years ago)
― Trayce (trayce), Tuesday, 15 February 2005 03:34 (twenty-one years ago)
― kate/papa november (papa november), Tuesday, 15 February 2005 03:36 (twenty-one years ago)
I once got into trouble for making fun of that game show where everyone just sits around and opens suitcases for half an hour. I won't do that again here.
― Pleasant Plains /// (Pleasant Plains ///), Tuesday, 15 February 2005 03:37 (twenty-one years ago)
Nah man, you're safe. That show is fucked!
― kate/papa november (papa november), Tuesday, 15 February 2005 03:39 (twenty-one years ago)
Come on, that suitcases show is STUPID! Make fun all you want ;P I cant even remember what it is called. And surely, as we ususally do, the format was nicked off the UK or Netherlands anyway.
― Trayce (trayce), Tuesday, 15 February 2005 03:39 (twenty-one years ago)
― jed_ (jed), Tuesday, 15 February 2005 03:39 (twenty-one years ago)
― hstencil (hstencil), Tuesday, 15 February 2005 03:40 (twenty-one years ago)
The golden circles are awesome too, but nobody outside of my city even knows who they are so they don't really count for this thread I spose.
― kate/papa november (papa november), Tuesday, 15 February 2005 03:41 (twenty-one years ago)
― Trayce (trayce), Tuesday, 15 February 2005 03:42 (twenty-one years ago)
― kate/papa november (papa november), Tuesday, 15 February 2005 03:43 (twenty-one years ago)
Falling Joysthe Clouds(early) Ratcat(some) Something for KateSidewinder (thats a friends bias tho)Itch-e and Scratch-e (eh eh? See wot I did there?)SNOGNoBirthday PartyGo BetweensUps and Downs (looove those guys)the Moffsthe Church
― Trayce (trayce), Tuesday, 15 February 2005 03:44 (twenty-one years ago)
xp The Birthday Party, of course!
― jed_ (jed), Tuesday, 15 February 2005 03:45 (twenty-one years ago)
yeah, i remember it being a little on the pricy side... but not too bad! the kids in melb were so well dressed. i still wear the two shirts i got from genki. and actually, one of the genki ex-shop assistants lives a few blocks from me in nyc, and another one just moved to america to go to school here. im supposed to have drinks with her today but its raining
― phil-two (phil-two), Tuesday, 15 February 2005 03:45 (twenty-one years ago)
― hstencil (hstencil), Tuesday, 15 February 2005 03:46 (twenty-one years ago)
Where's James when you need him?
― kate/papa november (papa november), Tuesday, 15 February 2005 03:46 (twenty-one years ago)
Yes where is Jim?
― Trayce (trayce), Tuesday, 15 February 2005 03:50 (twenty-one years ago)
― kate/papa november (papa november), Tuesday, 15 February 2005 03:51 (twenty-one years ago)
― phil-two (phil-two), Tuesday, 15 February 2005 03:53 (twenty-one years ago)
― Michael Stuchbery (Mikey Bidness), Tuesday, 15 February 2005 03:54 (twenty-one years ago)
Ahahaha. I can't believe anyone attacked you for saying that. That has to be the single most asinine show I have ever seen.
― Autumn Almanac (Autumn Almanac), Tuesday, 15 February 2005 03:55 (twenty-one years ago)
― kate/papa november (papa november), Tuesday, 15 February 2005 03:57 (twenty-one years ago)
― haitch (haitch), Tuesday, 15 February 2005 03:59 (twenty-one years ago)
― Trayce (trayce), Tuesday, 15 February 2005 04:01 (twenty-one years ago)
― Trayce (trayce), Wednesday, 21 December 2005 02:36 (twenty years ago)
― jim p. irrelevant (electricsound), Wednesday, 21 December 2005 02:36 (twenty years ago)
I did. They were, disappointingly, not very hot at all.
― moley (moley), Wednesday, 21 December 2005 02:38 (twenty years ago)
― Trayce (trayce), Wednesday, 21 December 2005 02:40 (twenty years ago)
― Trayce (trayce), Wednesday, 21 December 2005 02:41 (twenty years ago)
― ratty (moley), Wednesday, 21 December 2005 03:02 (twenty years ago)
― emsk ( emsk), Wednesday, 21 December 2005 03:14 (twenty years ago)
Bogans roughly = chavs or white trash... but not really. In essence, but there are cultural differences I think.
― Trayce (trayce), Wednesday, 21 December 2005 03:25 (twenty years ago)
― Trayce (trayce), Wednesday, 21 December 2005 03:26 (twenty years ago)
― gem (trisk), Wednesday, 21 December 2005 03:29 (twenty years ago)
― ratratratty (ratratratty), Wednesday, 21 December 2005 03:35 (twenty years ago)
i do have a vague familiarity in my head wrt bogans but my memory started to deteriorate around the same time i started fucking around with it so i could pass exams :( i think someone may have splained bogans to me once (charlie no 4?) but my head is pretty crap since/bc of then and no information stays in it for long. i know abt the pokies and how they are teh devil hisself etc. but hmm bogans...
― emsk ( emsk), Wednesday, 21 December 2005 03:40 (twenty years ago)
― emsk ( emsk), Wednesday, 21 December 2005 03:53 (twenty years ago)
― gem (trisk), Wednesday, 21 December 2005 03:55 (twenty years ago)
― emsk ( emsk), Wednesday, 21 December 2005 03:57 (twenty years ago)
― gem (trisk), Wednesday, 21 December 2005 03:57 (twenty years ago)
um i think i am goin to bed.
gem patrick white? his name is teh familiar.
― emsk ( emsk), Wednesday, 21 December 2005 04:01 (twenty years ago)
― gem (trisk), Wednesday, 21 December 2005 04:02 (twenty years ago)
― ratty, Wednesday, 21 December 2005 04:07 (twenty years ago)
I don't know chavs but bogans are like rednecks that listen to hairbands + metal & still wear tight jeans.
― VegemiteGrrl (VegemiteGrrl), Wednesday, 21 December 2005 04:16 (twenty years ago)
― Trayce (trayce), Wednesday, 21 December 2005 04:26 (twenty years ago)
― Trayce (trayce), Wednesday, 21 December 2005 04:27 (twenty years ago)
man i haven't read a novel, australian or otherwise, in over three years.
― jim p. irrelevant (electricsound), Wednesday, 21 December 2005 04:31 (twenty years ago)
― Trayce (trayce), Wednesday, 21 December 2005 04:34 (twenty years ago)
― ratty, Wednesday, 21 December 2005 04:39 (twenty years ago)
It's starting to rain here in ADL. It better rain.
― ESTEBAN BUTTEZ~!!, Wednesday, 21 December 2005 04:39 (twenty years ago)
― VegemiteGrrl (VegemiteGrrl), Wednesday, 21 December 2005 04:45 (twenty years ago)
― Trayce (trayce), Wednesday, 21 December 2005 04:49 (twenty years ago)
― ratty, Wednesday, 21 December 2005 04:52 (twenty years ago)
― ratty, Wednesday, 21 December 2005 04:53 (twenty years ago)
― ESTEBAN BUTTEZ~!!, Wednesday, 21 December 2005 04:59 (twenty years ago)
― Trayce (trayce), Wednesday, 21 December 2005 08:06 (twenty years ago)
― ESTEBAN BUTTEZ~!!, Wednesday, 21 December 2005 12:17 (twenty years ago)
also, god i sounded like such a tosser last night, i should not drunk ile. apologies.
― emsk ( emsk), Wednesday, 21 December 2005 12:24 (twenty years ago)
― Theorry Henry (Enrique), Wednesday, 21 December 2005 12:25 (twenty years ago)
― ESTEBAN BUTTEZ~!!, Wednesday, 21 December 2005 12:30 (twenty years ago)
Question about Australian food: I just read that in AUS, pork can have a gamier flavor than it does in the US because pig farmers leave the males intact, not castrated, and the meat has "boar taint." And this is one of the reasons why pork is way behind lamb, beef and poultry in sales. Is this bullshit or true?
― pleas to Nietzsche (WilliamC), Thursday, 23 June 2016 01:42 (nine years ago)
which part
― glandular lansbury (sic), Thursday, 23 June 2016 06:13 (nine years ago)
can't say I've heard that one before! but I'm not a pork eater so what would I know. bacon aside I think maybe pork just isn't as popular as lamb and chicken here?
― Stoop Crone (Trayce), Thursday, 23 June 2016 09:31 (nine years ago)
which part― glandular lansbury (sic), Thursday, 23 June 2016 06:13 (3 hours ago) Bookmark Flag Post Permalink
― glandular lansbury (sic), Thursday, 23 June 2016 06:13 (3 hours ago) Bookmark Flag Post Permalink
The bollocks, obviously.
― Horizontal Superman is invulnerable (aldo), Thursday, 23 June 2016 09:51 (nine years ago)
This was in an article by an American who worked in the Australian pork industry for a few years and included stuff about them trying to bump sales with a "Christmas in July" ad campaign to boost pork sales in the winter, when sales numbers were lowest. It was all unsourced and anecdotal so I was wondering if it was gibberish.
whichever part you care to address
― pleas to Nietzsche (WilliamC), Thursday, 23 June 2016 11:51 (nine years ago)
"boar taint" is not two words in combination that I was expecting to read
― Johnny Cage - 4'33" Fatality (King Boy Pato), Thursday, 23 June 2016 13:33 (nine years ago)
"Christmas In July" is a real thing for slightly desperate motel/pubs that have a fireplace of some sort but that's about it
― Johnny Cage - 4'33" Fatality (King Boy Pato), Thursday, 23 June 2016 13:34 (nine years ago)
More a thing done by hotels in the mountains, where it actually gets cold and might even snow a little bit, but otherwise yes. It's definitely predicated on the seasons here not matching up with pop culture representations of Christmas (and has only recently afaik adopted the name of the Sturges film, as opposed to being called Midwinter Celebration or Yule In June or w/e), and not introduced by or ever associated with a pork campaign. That wouldn't even make sense, as pork is not connected to Christmas at all. Roast turkey, yes. Fruit mince pies, yes. A leg of ham, perhaps. A slab of tinnies in an old non-wheelie bin full of ice while you knock the stumps about in the back yard, of course. But pork? Nah.
― glandular lansbury (sic), Thursday, 23 June 2016 13:44 (nine years ago)
My understanding was that pork has been considered fattier and thus less desirable than the other major meats. I personally love pork so more for me. Never heard of boar taint. I hate lamb and don't eat it if I can avoid it.
Christmas in July is lame, like you need a lame excuse to eat roast meat. Just shovel it all into my face, thanks.
― oh, boy, .GIF! That's where I'm a Viking! (edwardo), Thursday, 23 June 2016 13:47 (nine years ago)
Turns out that boar taint is enough of a real thing that there's a Wikipedia article on boar taint, and Australia actually takes several measures more than the US to reduce or avoid boar taint. So the real question is: why is pork so much more popular than poultry or beef over there?
― glandular lansbury (sic), Thursday, 23 June 2016 13:50 (nine years ago)
QGP, edwardo and I discussed this in the pub tonight, and concurred that the only pork-based advertising campaign we could remember was the '90s classic "Get Some Pork On Your Fork."
― glandular lansbury (sic), Thursday, 23 June 2016 13:59 (nine years ago)
which was obviously a roaring success, inasmuch as it led to me fucking Ed's mum all those times.
― glandular lansbury (sic), Thursday, 23 June 2016 14:00 (nine years ago)
This article's audience is 12 to 18 year olds, so the writer knows he could say any damn thing and not be called on it.
― pleas to Nietzsche (WilliamC), Thursday, 23 June 2016 14:08 (nine years ago)