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Re: Just general surfing stuff
Posted: Wed Dec 27, 2023 4:30 pm
by Yuke Hunt
Kempsey Shire Council info on development application (quite brief) ...
https://www.kempsey.nsw.gov.au/Plan-Bui ... ation-area
Re: Just general surfing stuff
Posted: Wed Dec 27, 2023 4:33 pm
by Drailed
steve shearer wrote: ↑Wed Dec 27, 2023 1:30 pm
Sure, but they are open about being real estate developers.
Seems to have a very bad smell about it that Nick writes a puff piece about Crescent just as his brother is spruiking a real estate development on the flood plain there.
Especially after he spent years building his brand as a hard-core performance only surf journo who openly derided hipster and any retro surf movements.
Just a random coincidence?
It honestly fucking disgusts me.
Re: Just general surfing stuff
Posted: Wed Dec 27, 2023 4:36 pm
by PeepeelaPew
Nick wouldn't have written the article if he'd known it'd jeopardise the jackhammering.
Re: Just general surfing stuff
Posted: Wed Dec 27, 2023 5:35 pm
by Drailed
steve shearer wrote: ↑Wed Dec 27, 2023 9:13 am
Just read it- hilarious reading Carroll now romanticising the hipster/longboard scene he pilloried so relentlessly.
Obvs Surfline knows where it's bread is buttered.
He who pays the piper, calls the tune.
Jesus fuck, I just read it. Like an infomercial for the daily fucking mail or something. Nauseating. What the fuck.
Re: Just general surfing stuff
Posted: Wed Dec 27, 2023 5:50 pm
by buddy
Just found some footage of Nick reading our latest posts about him.
Re: Just general surfing stuff
Posted: Wed Dec 27, 2023 6:33 pm
by The Mighty Sunbird
foamy wrote: ↑Wed Dec 27, 2023 12:06 pm
Nick delivers!
Nick Carroll wrote: ↑Thu Mar 11, 2021 9:56 am
I tell you what polebean. I'll see if the crew can get a camera set up at Crescent Head for you. How's that? Then you can check Crescent Head every day of your life!!
So it’s all beanpoles fault!
Re: Just general surfing stuff
Posted: Wed Dec 27, 2023 6:43 pm
by godsavetheking
It’s gotta sting if you’re steve. You finally - finally - get admitted to what you see as the inner sanctum after years of patiently tapping on the door. You get your chance to write a handful of surfboard puff pieces; you feel the thrill of the baksheesh that makes the corporate surfing world go round. You marvel at the simplicity of a system where you write something complimentary and next thing you have a free board. You think that finally - finally - you’ve made it as a Surf Journalist and then Carroll goes and that’s-not-a-knifes you. AGAIN
Re: Just general surfing stuff
Posted: Wed Dec 27, 2023 6:57 pm
by PeepeelaPew
Re: Just general surfing stuff
Posted: Wed Dec 27, 2023 6:57 pm
by marauding mullet
Re: Just general surfing stuff
Posted: Wed Dec 27, 2023 7:03 pm
by buddy
Re: Just general surfing stuff
Posted: Wed Dec 27, 2023 7:56 pm
by Over55yrs
The finished project - sign up now
Re: Just general surfing stuff
Posted: Wed Dec 27, 2023 8:06 pm
by steve shearer
godsavetheking wrote: ↑Wed Dec 27, 2023 6:43 pm
It’s gotta sting if you’re steve. You finally -
finally - get admitted to what you see as the inner sanctum after years of patiently tapping on the door. You get your chance to write a handful of surfboard puff pieces; you feel the thrill of the baksheesh that makes the corporate surfing world go round. You marvel at the simplicity of a system where you write something complimentary and next thing you have a free board. You think that finally -
finally - you’ve made it as a Surf Journalist and then Carroll goes and that’s-not-a-knifes you. AGAIN
What?
Mate, I'd rather mow lawns than be a second rate puff piece merchant at retirement age for a bunch of adult learner venture capitalists in Fresno.
Whenever I feel gloomy I can think about that and immediately I'm on top of the world.
I actually feel sad for Nick- he sees himself in bigger terms than writing advertorial for the real estate industry.
Re: Just general surfing stuff
Posted: Wed Dec 27, 2023 8:30 pm
by godsavetheking
“Shearer’s Leap, an exclusive development of 3 and 4 bed executive detached homes for the mature surfer looking to put down roots in the boutique coastal village of Lennox Head. Sydney is just 18 relaxing minutes away, so you can hit the curl in the morning, crush that deal at lunch and be home on the deck for evening espresso martinis with your welcoming new neighbours. I’m steve shearer and I give you my solemn and personal guarantee that Shearer’s Leap is the opportunity of a lifetime. Invest in your future today.”
Re: Just general surfing stuff
Posted: Wed Dec 27, 2023 8:33 pm
by steve shearer
It has a ring to it- but just a bit too evocative of people jumping off Lennox Point to commit suicide.
Can you rename it?
Re: Just general surfing stuff
Posted: Wed Dec 27, 2023 8:34 pm
by buddy
This part reminds me of John Batman swindling the locals out of Melbourne's land.
In his head, he probably thought he did the right thing too.
Indigenous and settler lives are intertwined here more than in many other Australian surf zones, something any surfer will feel at times. Maybe that’s why Pagey’s words felt like permission; he’s a Dunghutti man, which means he is on country here.
Re: Just general surfing stuff
Posted: Wed Dec 27, 2023 8:36 pm
by godsavetheking
Shearer’s Reach?
Re: Just general surfing stuff
Posted: Wed Dec 27, 2023 8:43 pm
by steve shearer
Too camp.
People (loofy) might expect a reach around when keys are handed over.
Re: Just general surfing stuff
Posted: Wed Dec 27, 2023 8:44 pm
by steve shearer
buddy wrote: ↑Wed Dec 27, 2023 8:34 pm
This part reminds me of John Batman swindling the locals out of Melbourne's land.
In his head, he probably thought he did the right thing too.
Indigenous and settler lives are intertwined here more than in many other Australian surf zones, something any surfer will feel at times. Maybe that’s why Pagey’s words felt like permission; he’s a Dunghutti man, which means he is on country here.
That bit was full cringe.
White hipster chicks looking for the next Byron would have zero to do with Kempsey crew- guarans.
