Australia Day

[Trevc Senior Member Find all posts View Profile Close Trevc]

We spent the day at Taylors Arm where the famous 'Pub with no Beer' put on a great day.

[Jon Avid PP Poster! Find all posts View Profile Close Jon]

Here is a refined geographical tour and familiarisation of the land down under

I am, you are, we are Australian……
WE, the people of a free nation of blokes, sheilas and the occasional wanker. We come from many lands (although a few too many of us come from New Zealand) and although we live in the best country in the world, we reserve the right to bitch and moan about it whenever we bloody like.

We are One Nation but we're divided into many States.

First, there's Victoria, named after a queen who didn't believe in lesbians. Victoria is the realm of Mossimo turtlenecks, cafe latte, grand-final day and big horse races.
Its capital is Melbourne, whose chief marketing pitch is that "it's liveable". At least that's what they think. The rest of us think it is too bloody cold and wet.

Next, there's NSW, the realm of pastel shorts, macchiato with sugar, thin books read quickly and millions of dancing queens. Its capital Sydney has more queens than any other city in the world and is proud of it. Its mascots are Bondi lifesavers who pull their Speedos up their cracks to keep the left and right sides of their brains separate.

Down south we have Tasmania, a State based on the notion that the family that bonks together stays together. In Tassie, everyone gets an extra chromosome at conception. Maps of the State bring smiles to the sternest faces. It holds the world record for a single mass shooting, which the Yanks can't seem to beat no matter how often they try.

South Australia is the province of half-decent reds, a festival of foreigners, off season carni-folk, and bizarre axe murders. SA is the state of innovation. Where else can you so effectively re use country bank vaults and barrels as in Snowtown, just out of Adelaide (also named after a queen). They had the Grand Prix, but lost it when the views of Adelaide sent the Formula One drivers to sleep at the wheel.

Western Australia is too far from anywhere to be relevant Its main claim to fame is that it doesn't have daylight saving because if it did all the men would get erections on the bus on the way to work WA was the last state to stop importing convicts and many of them still work there in the government and business.

The Northern Territory is the red heart of our land. Outback plains, sheep stations the size of Europe, Kangaroos, Jackaroos, Emus, Uluru and dusty kids with big smiles. It also has the highest beer consumption of anywhere on the planet and its creek beds have the highest aluminium content of anywhere too. Although the Territory is the centre piece of our national culture, few of us live there and the rest prefer to fly over it on our way to Bali.

And there's Queensland. ... While any mention of God seems silly in a document defining a nation of half-arsed sceptics, it is worth noting that God probably made Queensland as its beautiful one day and perfect the next?? Why he filled it with dickheads remains a complete mystery.

Oh yes and there's Canberra. The least said the better.

We, the citizens of Oz, are united by Highways, whose treacherous twists and turns kill more of us each year than murderers. We are united in our lust for international recognition Not that we're whinging, we leave that to our Pommy immigrants.

We want to make "no worries mate" our national phrase, "she'll be right mate" our national attitude and "Waltzing Matilda" our national anthem . (So what if it's about a sheep-stealing crim who commits suicide).

We love sport so much our news readers can read the death toll from a sailing race and still tell us who's winning. And we're the best in the world at all the sports that count, like cricket, netball, rugby, AFL, roo-shooting, two-up and horse racing. We also have the biggest rock, the tastiest pies, the blackest aborigines and the worst-dressed Olympians in the known universe. And our national dress code is short shorts, thongs, and the good old t-shirt!

We shoot, we root, we vote. We are girt by sea and pissed by lunchtime. Even though we might seem a racist, closed-minded, sports-obsessed little people, at least we feel better for it.

……. I am, you are, we are Australian!

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We were at Rainbow Beach. We saw the weather was going to be bad on Australia Day so we hit Double island Point a day early. We went around at Low tide. Kids had a Swim then out to the Teewha beach which was very soft (a 120 Prado Stuck trying to get onto Leisha track and a Zuki stuck beside it.) then back to Rainbow Via FreshWater. We were travelling with 4x4 first timers which was a bit of fun. Then went later and watched people go through Mudlo rocks.



Moo

[AJ120 Out of control poster! Find all posts View Profile Close AJ120]

Absolutely perfect weather here for getting out into the bush and spending a few days over the long weekend camping and relaxing, unfortunately spent half the weekend camped at the Childrens hospital in Adelaide Never any fun in that.

Cheers Andrew

[chappy Senior Member Find all posts View Profile Close chappy]

Worked dayshift over the weekend,nightshift tonight

[OldGreyFart Advanced Member Find all posts View Profile Close OldGreyFart]

Beautiful late fried breakfast on the BBQ out at Tidbinbilla Nature Reserve with sister, her partner all 3 of their daughters and 2 of their partners (one working), 2 of their kids, one of my grandsons, my daughter and wife. Home grown tomatoes (mine), recently laid eggs (my sister's chooks), bacon - just as it should be. Nicely brewed coffee. drove back via the Cotter Reserve to get an ice cream.

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Bump.

Hope everyone has a good day and maybe gets a chance to fire up the BBQ or get out in their Prado.

Not very good weather around my way at the moment (big hail storm last night, more storms today), so I'm heading to the cinema during the day to see the Hateful Eight. Family wants a roast lamb for dinner.

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Nice one NTP, although it doesn’t sound as good as your original post on this thread at Litchfield NP. Wish I was doing that! I’m looking forward to Hateful 8 too - love Samuel Jackson! Roast lamb on the BBQ for lunch at mates house today, happy days!

Cheers
Spike

[AussieAndy Find all posts View Profile Close AussieAndy]

Just a quiet one planned here, roast lamb lunch on the webber then off to donate blood this arvo.

Have a great Australia Day everyone, be safe and with the ones you love

[Ian Reid Advanced Member Find all posts View Profile Close Ian Reid]

Edit. Just read date of previous one duh!
Was a good weekend to go camping which we didbut had to come home Sunday. Sitting at the airport waiting to go to work now

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I have today off work. The first Australia Day that I haven't had to work in many, many years. Like Christmas and New Years, I've worked the last 15 years or so. So, I am off to my sister's for a BBQ, a few drinks and a swim in the pool:

Two arms, two hands, two swollen glands.
Beneath the Southern Cross I stand.
A can of Bundy in my hand.
A product of my native land.
Swoosh (sound of can being opened). Guzzle guzzle (sound of a couple of mouthfuls going down).
Australia - you fu&^en bewdy!

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Brilliantly Jon,
The comments about my state WA made me LOL
Hope you all have a great Australia Day.
Alan.

[ntp Addicted PP Member Find all posts View Profile Close ntp]

Epic Australia Day add - Operation Boomerang

[juc33_prado Advanced Member Find all posts View Profile Close juc33_prado]

Boring Aussie Day this year!

But got so much done!
House work done, prado mods done, walk on beach done, sitting drinking done, finishing off with triple j hottest 100 top 20.

DONE.

SAMUEL

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Spent the better part of my Australia Day under the 4WD, installing new bash plates and hosing out more of the mud I'd missed while the old ones were there. I have mud in my eyes and in my hair but at least the 4B is a bit cleaner now. No BBQ here but I reckon that's still a pretty Aussie way to spend the day.