Just general surfing stuff

[steve shearer]

it's produced some stunning prose, no doubt.

and an empire the sun never set on.

All been downhill since Battle of Britain though.

[PeepeelaPew]

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[steve shearer]

sunshine, blue sky empty space.

[Nick Carroll]

dead dogs, beaten women, angry white men and a rough Indigenous crew on the outskirts

yeah it's fucken heaven out there in the Bush

[Cranked]

My mate liked that Nullagine pub.

He lived there for about 10 years, was accepted into the local tribe and given an aboriginal name.

One time we were talking and he was planning a trip near there prospecting but said he wouldn't be stopping in Nullagine. I asked why and he said he only had a day and the local aborigines would be insulted if he only stayed a day, it would have to be three days at a minimum, as there would be a corroboree and people would come in from all of the camps to celebrate.

My mate is remarkable at befriending everyone, high or low, or anything really.

[bobjs]

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[steve shearer]

dead dogs, beaten women, angry white men and a rough Indigenous crew on the outskirts

yeah it's fuschia heaven out there in the Bush

that still sounds heavenly compared to the sullen grimness of the suburban English pub.

also, a bit cliche.

[steve shearer]

I'll put the infamous Animal bar in Karumba up as the roughest pub in Australia.

[Wyre]

I fought six blokes there, shagged two Sheilas at once and had a great time.

[channels]

Alternatively GodSave, what would be the best pub in your part of the world, or all of the UK?

Could it possibly compare to the Pacific at Yamba, Manly Wharf Bar, Left Bank in Perth or the local of Nick Carroll, the Newport Arms?

[channels]

I'll put the infamous Animal bar in Karumba up as the roughest pub in Australia.

Wiluna pub had form as did a few in Kalgoorlie.

[Nick Carroll]

dead dogs, beaten women, angry white men and a rough Indigenous crew on the outskirts

yeah it's fuschia heaven out there in the Bush

that still sounds heavenly compared to the sullen grimness of the suburban English pub.

also, a bit cliche.

lol

[Nick Carroll]

I think the British bourgeois pub is a thing of beauty

But it's not the Newport Arms when Tim Bristow held sway.

[godsavetheking]

Our pubs come in so many different forms, of course. There’s the flat-roofed, centre of the council estate ones (terrifying), the urban drinking man’s ones (so many unknowable hierarchies! So alarming for the wide eyed colonial boy!), the ancient ones, the country ones etc etc. When I was in my late teens/early 20s the mumbles mile was in its pomp and oh boy was that a sight to behold

[steve shearer]

the urban drinking man’s ones (so many unknowable hierarchies! So alarming for the wide eyed colonial boy!)

hmmmmm, not really.

I think the average Brit vastly overestimates how much of a fcuk other nations care about any vestigial remnants of the class system.

certainly wide eyed colonial boys anyhow.

[steve shearer]

but then again there is a fascination with it too, to be fair.

[Beanpole]

Still don't know why Irish Pubs is a thing in Australia. Like we don't know how to drink piss. Irish in pubs inevitably involves a bunch of aggro drunken cnuts sitting at the beer pumps getting annoyed at every fcuking punter who tries to order a drink. Move along tossers.

[godsavetheking]

The pub is largely egalitarian though. They don’t call it the watering hole for nothing. Such hierarchies as exists align more with surfing’s - who’s local, who has his own glass behind the bar with his name written on a strip of insulating tape, who has his own tankard, who can hold forth unchallenged from the floor on the miracle of brexit and the perfidious frog, who can pounce on the new fella give him a predictable nickname and bellow Oi oi, here’s Skippy! every time he walks in, who commands the pool table, the darts, who knows when and how often to say And one for yourself, sweetheart. Such a minefield