Things you don't see often

[Billy ray]

Live webcam from outside my place

 

[Shell]

I was told there'd be punch and pie..

 

[come on oliver]

Used to love the roundabout ride as a kid. Plenty of bruises from this. Are they all gone now?

 

[Scotland]

Merging two recent ones, you often see white guys with Asian girlfriends, but you rarely see Asian guys with white girlfriends.

 

[GreyCrow]

Merging two recent ones, you often see white guys with Asian girlfriends, but you rarely see Asian guys with white girlfriends.

Incorrect

Head to your local pinny parlour

 

[perthblue]

Used to love the roundabout ride as a kid. Plenty of bruises from this. Are they all gone now?

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the one from my local park has been gone for ages. Loved it as a kid, did some underage drinking in that park later on in my teen years and one of my friends smashed his mouth pretty bad trying to jump off it as it was spinning at full speed.

 

[GreyCrow]

Pinball Parlours

 

[come on oliver]

the one from my local park has been gone for ages. Loved it as a kid, did some underage drinking in that park later on in my teen years and one of my friends smashed his mouth pretty bad trying to jump off it as it was spinning at full speed.

Only recent in England
https://www.google.com.au/amp/s/au....unt-left-boy-horrific-injuries-231425425.html

 

[Gough]

Pinball Parlours

Addams Family was the GOAT pinball machine, f*** knows how much money I've pumped into that.

 

[Shell]

Used to love the roundabout ride as a kid. Plenty of bruises from this. Are they all gone now?

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My local park near my holiday house had an even better one- think of an "egg shaped" one you sat inside of- up to 4 ppl could fit in it. And the disc in the middle you spun around to turn it.

Was ******* awesome.

And of course its gone.

 

[iluvparis]

My local park near my holiday house had an even better one- think of an "egg shaped" one you sat inside of- up to 4 ppl could fit in it. And the disc in the middle you spun around to turn it.

Was ******* awesome.

And of course its gone.

Legit getting head spins just thinking back about those. Good riddance!

 

[Run n Spread]

Rarely see Asians at the footy or cricket (in the crowd).

Define Asian. Heaps of Indians and Sri Lankans. In fact one of the non Australian World Cup games got close to 90K.

 

[Run n Spread]

Go with the incinerator theme and say bonfire. Remember as a kid neighbours next door used to not bother with an incinerator or hard waste if they wanted to get rid of something they'd basically start a fire in their backyard and chuck everything on.

 

[Scotland]

Define Asian. Heaps of Indians and Sri Lankans. In fact one of the non Australian World Cup games got close to 90K.

Asian in Australia typically means SE or E Asian. Chinese, Japanese, Thai, Filo, Indonesian. Most Aussies can't distinguish between a lot of nationalities in our region, plus you have places like Singapore and Malaysia which have crossovers between ethnicities etc.

In the UK if you said Asian people would assume South Asian. There are over 2m Indian/Pakistani/Bangladeshi people in the UK compared to about 250k Chinese. Here that is more like 1.2m Chinese to 600k Indians.

People here will say things like 'I work with a two Asian guys and an Indian guy' which you would never hear in the UK. If you are from Pakistan, Bangladesh or Sri Lanka and live in Australia chances are you have been called 'Indian' plenty of times. There's no real collective term used for people from the subcontinent that isn't mildly racist. It used to be OK to shorten Pakistanis to Pakis but that's become a no no as the connotations elsewhere aren't nice.

Not sure how the 'Muricans roll but they are big on hypen-Americans. Chinese-American, Japanese-American etc.

 

[craigos]

Asian in Australia typically means SE or E Asian. Chinese, Japanese, Thai, Filo, Indonesian... pretty much anyone who looks vaguely yellow skinned and squinty eyed. Most Aussies can't distinguish between a lot of nationalities in our region, plus you have places like Singapore and Malaysia which have crossovers between ethnicities etc.

In the UK if you said Asian people would assume South Asian. There are over 2m Indian/Pakistani/Bangladeshi people in the UK compared to about 250k Chinese. Here that is more like 1.2m Chinese to 600k Indians.

People here will say things like 'I work with a two Asian guys and an Indian guy' which you would never hear in the UK. If you are from Pakistan, Bangladesh or Sri Lanka and live in Australia chances are you have been called 'Indian' plenty of times. There's no real collective term used for people from the subcontinent that isn't mildly racist. It used to be OK to shorten Pakistanis to Pakis but that's become a no no as the connotations elsewhere aren't nice.

Not sure how the 'Muricans roll but they are big on hypen-Americans. Chinese-American, Japanese-American etc.

Jesus Christ Scotland.

 

[Shell]

It's like we're in an episode of Extras all of a sudden..

 

[Scotland]

Jesus Christ Scotland.

Just calling it how it is.

Do you really think your average Australian is more discerning than that?

 

[craigos]

It's like we're in an episode of Extras all of a sudden..

Haha. Is it a black mans utensil?

 

[Shell]

Haha. Is it a black mans utensil?

Thats the Office.


/whats white and slides down the bathroom wall?
George Michael's latest release.

 

[Scotland]

I was not advocating the use of drugs!

 

[Perth gal]

Just calling it how it is.

Do you really think your average Australian is more discerning than that?

My step Mum is Filo so have spent a lot of time with them so am pretty good at picking them out in a crowd. I think I'm pretty good at picking out Japanese too. The rest , no.

And agree with your above statement.

 

[akkaps]

Asian in Australia typically means SE or E Asian. Chinese, Japanese, Thai, Filo, Indonesian. Most Aussies can't distinguish between a lot of nationalities in our region, plus you have places like Singapore and Malaysia which have crossovers between ethnicities etc.

In the UK if you said Asian people would assume South Asian. There are over 2m Indian/Pakistani/Bangladeshi people in the UK compared to about 250k Chinese. Here that is more like 1.2m Chinese to 600k Indians.

People here will say things like 'I work with a two Asian guys and an Indian guy' which you would never hear in the UK. If you are from Pakistan, Bangladesh or Sri Lanka and live in Australia chances are you have been called 'Indian' plenty of times. There's no real collective term used for people from the subcontinent that isn't mildly racist. It used to be OK to shorten Pakistanis to Pakis but that's become a no no as the connotations elsewhere aren't nice.

Not sure how the 'Muricans roll but they are big on hypen-Americans. Chinese-American, Japanese-American etc.

See, I would take offence if I wasn’t called an Asian. Asia spreads all the way from Turkey to Indonesia in one direction and Japan in the other direction. And therefore should be defined as such.

 

[Xtreme]

Addams Family was the GOAT pinball machine, f*** knows how much money I've pumped into that.

T2 was my favourite!

 

[Scotland]

My step Mum is Filo so have spent a lot of time with them so am pretty good at picking them out in a crowd. I think I'm pretty good at picking out Japanese too. The rest , no.

And agree with your above statement.

Filos are easiest to pick by the way they speak.

 

[iluvparis]

Filos are easiest to pick by the way they speak.

I raise you Thais