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Food, Drink & Dining Out The Perth Thread - Part 2

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WCErevival said:
You realise how impractical a lot of those houses down on the river are too. Just too big. Like 6 bedrooms and 4 bathrooms for example. Unless you are leasing it out for accomodation what are you going to use that for.
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There's some beautiful places along The Strand, Melville Beach Rd, Burke Dr etc that are understated, and even some of the more opulent places look tasteful. But there are always people who want to flaunt wealth and built 6, 7, 8 bedroom houses, or smaller places in their own individual style that look dreadful.
 
WCErevival said:
You realise how impractical a lot of those houses down on the river are too. Just too big. Like 6 bedrooms and 4 bathrooms for example. Unless you are leasing it out for accomodation what are you going to use that for.
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More like 6 bedrooms, 6 bathrooms plus guest bathroom plus powder room but yeah. I suppose if you were children of the owners there'd be no reason to ever leave.

I saw another house that had a double garage on one side, another double garage on the other side with a single garage next to that. :eek:
 

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Beerfish said:
More like 6 bedrooms, 6 bathrooms plus guest bathroom plus powder room but yeah. I suppose if you were children of the owners there'd be no reason to ever leave.

I saw another house that had a double garage on one side, another double garage on the other side with a single garage next to that. :eek:
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The issue is selling it. I'm tracking one on Burke drive now. Wondering if it will sell at all or go well under market price.
 
Mr_Bojangles said:
The Langoulant findings on jobs for the boys by the Barnett Government is a little startling. Heard Liza Harvey faffing about on ABC Radio this morning trying to explain where the millions for a Western Force initiative went. That one has gone to the CCC.
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He's gone very hard at them, which is at least partly deserved, but at the same time I can't help but wonder whether their ignoring of his report for the location of the new stadium and instead going with an option he didn't think was worth looking at has something to do with it?
 
The Speaker said:
He's gone very hard at them, which is at least partly deserved, but at the same time I can't help but wonder whether their ignoring of his report for the location of the new stadium and instead going with an option he didn't think was worth looking at has something to do with it?
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Does it matter - if it was “wasted” it was “wasted” or are you implying that he wouldn’t have reported on it in the same manner. That I would find mind blowing
 
The Speaker said:
What would be mind-blowing about it? He's just a man.
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Who was contracted to do a job and you’re implying he wouldn’t have been as “efficient” if he had got his own way with the location of the stadium.
 
The Speaker said:
He's gone very hard at them, which is at least partly deserved, but at the same time I can't help but wonder whether their ignoring of his report for the location of the new stadium and instead going with an option he didn't think was worth looking at has something to do with it?
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It would a little. Wait 4 years and we will be hearing the same sort of things as per royalties for regions as labor's current novelty chequer handouts for 'community jobs' etc that was in the news a month back being almost all labor electorate pork barreling.
 
WCErevival said:
The issue is selling it. I'm tracking one on Burke drive now. Wondering if it will sell at all or go well under market price.
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Most of the value is in the land. There's a 700sqm block going for $1.5m and 3 houses down there is a 4x3 on 1,000sqm going for $2m.

Always going to be tough to sell something uniquely styled but the land value of these places puts a huge floor in the price.
 
Here in Freo, we call big ugly houses in cream and terracotta 'wog palaces.'

Imagine having the money where you can afford to build a house in East Fremantle on the Swan River, because your working class uncle got it for a pittance in 1967, and you build something like that?
 
Anyone else use the term 'ding?'

Apparently it's a West Australian vernacular and either offensive or not. I used to go to school with some Italians who'd try and say 'ding' was fine but calling them a 'wog' was offensive because wogs were general southern Europeans. I feel like wog has been recaptured as an endearing term or something but still, interesting. Spearwood/Bicton/what's now North Coogee and of course South and East Freo are the burbs I know best in Perth as it's my family's general area and they always seemed to look at Europeans in a good way, but some people from the northern (re: anglo in the north north, rich in the good areas) suburbs try and say how bad Italians are.
 

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Silent Alarm said:
Anyone else use the term 'ding?'

Apparently it's a West Australian vernacular and either offensive or not. I used to go to school with some Italians who'd try and say 'ding' was fine but calling them a 'wog' was offensive because wogs were general southern Europeans. I feel like wog has been recaptured as an endearing term or something but still, interesting. Spearwood/Bicton/what's now North Coogee and of course South and East Freo are the burbs I know best in Perth as it's my family's general area and they always seemed to look at Europeans in a good way, but some people from the northern (re: anglo in the north north, rich in the good areas) suburbs try and say how bad Italians are.
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My old man who is 71 and he and his mates use 'ding' and have always done so and never really use the term 'wog'.

My old man grew up around Osborne park and Scarbrough and had a lot of mates who were of italian or greek descent. No surprise that they all followed West Perth.
 
Silent Alarm said:
Here in Freo, we call big ugly houses in cream and terracotta 'wog palaces.'

Imagine having the money where you can afford to build a house in East Fremantle on the Swan River, because your working class uncle got it for a pittance in 1967, and you build something like that?
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It's amazing how many of them are still around even in places like Attadale and Bicton which seem to be going through perpetual gentrification. Concrete everywhere and/or pillars large or small and/or concrete lions and/or tiles and/or arches and/or yellow patterned glass. :sick::sick::sick:
 
Beerfish said:
It's amazing how many of them are still around even in places like Attadale and Bicton which seem to be going through perpetual gentrification. Concrete everywhere and/or pillars large or small and/or concrete lions and/or tiles and/or arches and/or yellow patterned glass. :sick::sick::sick:
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Go down Marine Tce and see the houses being built now. A block of land woul be close to two mil there, straight across from the beach and in South Freo which is a real locked in area, and yet they're putting up columns and gargoyles and sandblasting everything...
 
Silent Alarm said:
Anyone else use the term 'ding?'

Apparently it's a West Australian vernacular and either offensive or not. I used to go to school with some Italians who'd try and say 'ding' was fine but calling them a 'wog' was offensive because wogs were general southern Europeans. I feel like wog has been recaptured as an endearing term or something but still, interesting. Spearwood/Bicton/what's now North Coogee and of course South and East Freo are the burbs I know best in Perth as it's my family's general area and they always seemed to look at Europeans in a good way, but some people from the northern (re: anglo in the north north, rich in the good areas) suburbs try and say how bad Italians are.
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I use ding more than I use wog. Admittedly I don't use either term that often.
 

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The difference between wog/ding and abo is that most people have wog/ding mates and not abo mates. I've met dozens of wogs who refer to themselves as wogs, it's a bit of a cultural identifier for first/second generation Italians, Greeks etc. I don't think I've met an aboriginal who refers to themselves as an abo. It's usually indigenous, aboriginal or blackfella.

9 times out of 10 (closer to 10 really) if someone says abo they will be saying something derogatory.
 
JackOutback said:
Love a good concrete lion.
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Italians I play football with have told me that the concrete lion is something you can only put out the front once you've paid off your mortgage. Personally I think it's bullshit and something said to aussie ital kids to make them work harder and keep an eye on the prize (or just to take the piss out of skips like myself).

And the first time I heard the term ding was my brother's joke about calling 'what do you call an italian' before ringing the bell on an MTT bus when we coming back from a West Perth game once. Was a decent joke to be fair.
 
Silent Alarm said:
A lot wogs use the term.

Abo is appalling. Bit hard to use that when you're a white person and you've taken their land.

Context is important.
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It’s okay for a wog (European) to use the term - it’s not if you aren’t Greek/Italian etc. Similar to fellow - they can use it but I certainly can’t. In saying that I’ve never heard my Greek friends refer to other Greeks with the term wog and nor have I head their children or their friends use it. I suppose some do, I’ve just never experienced it. Same with ding - being married to an Italian and being aware of the discrimination his parents copped and the crap he copped at school it’s also a word that I’ve never heard used amongst the Italian community I know.

You find abo appalling but I can assure you there are some older migrants from Europe that feel the same way about wog so your idea of context is very different to theirs

Edit: I’ve noticed the racial slur for a black American has the swear filter - funny really that I can use the word abo - obviously that’s okay
 
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