The Perth Thread

[jedi mind tricks]

The Roe Hwy off ramp does have those funky light poles.

Winning.

Haha

If Roe Hwy went all the way through to Freo like the Gov planned then it may not have such a congestion problem at the freeway exit. Greens kicked up a stink and stuffed the project up.

 

[blueboy25]

We might've played against each other then! I was just a fill in for the team though cos technically i was too young to play for them. So if I wasn't playing I was a pretty awesome water girl. Some of the guys in that team were stupidly talented footballers

There was one guy called Kevin Humphries who was a aboriginal kid and was a top midfielder. He won the WAFL colts best and fairest as a 16yo playing against 18yo's. He was pretty much a monty to be drafted once he was old enough but ended up going off the rails.

Another guy who could have made it ended up getting shot in the face by his old man but luckily survived.

 

[vealesy]

There was one guy called Kevin Humphries who was a aboriginal kid who was a top midfielder. He won the WAFL colts best and fairest as a 16yo playing against 18yo's. He was pretty much a monty to be drafted once he was old enough but ended up going off the rails.

Another guy who could have made it ended up getting shot in the face by his old man but luckily survived.

 

[Hudu Gurusingha]

I live in Nollamara. The other weekend we had shop lifters at our garage sale stealing $1 books and clothes.

 

[vealesy]

How would you describe the offenders?

 

[Allikat]

Were/are you a female footballer? Is that why you've got the photo of another chick as your avi?

Yes and oi

There was one guy called Kevin Humphries who was a aboriginal kid and was a top midfielder. He won the WAFL colts best and fairest as a 16yo playing against 18yo's. He was pretty much a monty to be drafted once he was old enough but ended up going off the rails.

Another guy who could have made it ended up getting shot in the face by his old man but luckily survived.

Bloody Perth... you always know everyone. I know Kev, and if I recall correctly (it was a while ago) I think his Dad was club president? I played in the same year as Joel Corey.
And I know the guy that got shot. Happened down the road from my best friend. Shot through the door. And his brother was shot too.

 

[blueboy25]

Yes and oi


Bloody Perth... you always know everyone. I know Kev, and if I recall correctly (it was a while ago) I think his Dad was club president? I played in the same year as Joel Corey.
And I know the guy that got shot. Happened down the road from my best friend. Shot through the door. And his brother was shot too.

Kev's dad could well have been president, I chatted to him once and he seemed like a nice fella.

 

[kfc1]

How would you describe the offenders?

Probably using multiple one syllable words

 

[Bacon Warrior]

Hope this series isn't a let down like Gavin Tanner. That burnt out E Class is probably still there, at the corner of Girrawheen and Hudson Avenues, next to the exchange.

 

[Allikat]

Hope this series isn't a let down like Gavin Tanner. That burnt out E Class is probably still there, at the corner of Girrawheen and Hudson Avenues, next to the exchange.

So far it does look like a disappointment. It's like they're trying to throw every cliche in as small a time as possible without even being funny

 

[Silent Alarm]

They're some nice looking old houses in that vid, reminds me of the ones you get out Footscray, Yarraville way and up near Northcote. Beautiful, really classic Aussie homes. Obviously they're in a shithole and even if you tidied them up every other block would still look like that, but alas...

The best cultural critique is usually subverted through something else. There is so much fertility in cultural critique but Aussies mostly piss it away. TISM were good at it, never over the top, and they seemed to admit they were almost a little bit associated with it or something. You should laugh at what they're saying because it's so true and unsaid, not making those things explicitly also funny? Ya dig? Well before my nights of wasted hedonism at Melbourne night clubs, but this bit from Music Jamboree was always the example I wish more people would take. Just explaining it and discussing it is enough (as well as some actual wit), like that first Arctic Monkeys album or Portlandia or something

 

[Borry]

On the bus on Sunday heading into Cannington, what a great place for a husband and wife to start abusing each other, on a public bus in front of their young children. Just hilarious.

 

[Freofalcon]

On the bus on Sunday heading into Cannington, what a great place for a husband and wife to start abusing each other, on a public bus in front of their young children. Just hilarious.

I love public displays of affection.

 

[Ljp86]

Emu Export and Swan Draught for me.

Traffic I agree is getting bad. The northern part of the Mitchell is generally cooked by around 6-6:30am and which then flows into just after Reid Highway all the way through to Scarborough Beach Road or even Powis Street in the later morning. I usually go down Marmion Avenue/West Coast Highway in the mornings but you need to leave earlyish to avoid most of the traffic.

The government really needs to spend a vast amount of money on improving the transport infrastructure in Perth and encouraging people to catch public transport in order to ease the rate of congestion. This would obviously entail creating more bus routes and obviously more buses, more frequent trains with bigger carriages and also slightly lower the cost of using them in order to make them more attractive for commuters. As much as I like the fact of having a new stadium (hate the fact it's going to be built at Burswood though), this city desperately needs the right transport infrastructure rather than a new stadium or Elizabeth Quay in order to cater for the city for the remainder of the century.

It seems the government is more intent on creating a pointless "look at what we built" legacy rather than actually catering for the majority of the city's population. I'd rather the focus be on this and then we can have our stadium and quay after.

 

[Macca81]

I live in Nollamara. The other weekend we had shop lifters at our garage sale stealing $1 books and clothes.

i just moved out of a house in nollamara on eastbourne crescent. Must say the general vibe around there and the mirrabooka shopping centre isnt the greatest once the sun goes down.

 

[Milang_Panthers]

Most of us seem to be in the same general area haha

 

[Macca81]

ok just got done reading the whole thread. I must be on my own when it comes to cheap alchohol. About 12 years ago when i was going through uni it was good old Vat 69 for about $22. Sometimes the local junk mail would have it on special for $18 and my housemates would stock up Then we discovered that year that one of the blokes in the miniseries Band of Brothers drank Vat 69 and we felt shit hot then. Would always load up on Vat 69, before walking down to the Scarborough scene where Stamford Arms, The Lookout and the White Sands were the usual hangouts. Ahhh good times.

As for the citys layout, its sad to see how quickly things have changed in just 3 years. The greedy developers are partly responsible for whats happening. All of these suburbs that are 10-15km out from the city have these old shitty houses, built on large blocks of land. The developers buy out the owner, bulldoze the house, subdivide one lot into 3, and voila we have a shit load more cars on the road. People building way down in Baldivis, and as far up as Butler thinking they will still be able to drive into the city in 5 years time have no idea. Unless we have a shit tonne of money pour into transport infrastructure and apartment style inner city living, we can expect LA style gridlock every day 6 hours a day.

Completely unrelated, i wish some big wig with a truck load of money would build a world class Theme Park somewhere near Perth. We have close to the best climate in the world, yet adventure world still remains our biggest and best theme park. Wish we could have something like this:

Check out the slide at the 5 minute mark

 

[Hudu Gurusingha]

How would you describe the offenders?

Old ladies would you believe!

 

[Silent Alarm]

How good is Band of Brothers?

The government really needs to spend a vast amount of money on improving the transport infrastructure in Perth and encouraging people to catch public transport in order to ease the rate of congestion. This would obviously entail creating more bus routes and obviously more buses, more frequent trains with bigger carriages and also slightly lower the cost of using them in order to make them more attractive for commuters. As much as I like the fact of having a new stadium (hate the fact it's going to be built at Burswood though), this city desperately needs the right transport infrastructure rather than a new stadium or Elizabeth Quay in order to cater for the city for the remainder of the century.

I see any worthwhile, needed development as a positive for Perth, regardless of priorities, blow-outs, or cost issues. People in Perth love to sit around and bemoan things not getting done (hospitals) and then bicker or boast about ideas for stadiums. Public transport is the way but Aussies are very attached their cars. Which is probably cultural, an icon of self and money and freedom, but something that isn't really necessary or right in 21st century plus-2-million cities.

As someone else said, the way things get done is through this almost authoritarian status: big Barne brought in Sunday trading and from all accounts, the conservatives and poms of Perth are still going to the soccer, small businesses are going as the trajectory has seem them going, and people can shop on Sunday. The same needs to be done for daylight savings too – all these piss poor arguments about cows, sun-bleached blinds, and morning walks are moot. WA isn't the only state with office workers, joggers, and (the perennially woe-is-me) farmers and they go well with it. And if there's one city in this country where a post-dinner swim, people staying out, people going out, would be best suited, it's Perth. The place's best attribute are the summer months and orange skies so why wouldn't you extend and patronise that as much as possible?

 

[The_Reaper]

How good is Band of Brothers?


I see any worthwhile, needed development as a positive for Perth, regardless of priorities, blow-outs, or cost issues. People in Perth love to sit around and bemoan things not getting done (hospitals) and then bicker or boast about ideas for stadiums. Public transport is the way but Aussies are very attached their cars. Which is probably cultural, an icon of self and money and freedom, but something that isn't really necessary or right in 21st century plus-2-million cities.

As someone else said, the way things get done is through this almost authoritarian status: big Barne brought in Sunday trading and from all accounts, the conservatives and poms of Perth are still going to the soccer, small businesses are going as the trajectory has seem them going, and people can shop on Sunday. The same needs to be done for daylight savings too – all these piss poor arguments about cows, sun-bleached blinds, and morning walks are moot. WA isn't the only state with office workers, joggers, and (the perennially woe-is-me) farmers and they go well with it. And if there's one city in this country where a post-dinner swim, people staying out, people going out, would be best suited, it's Perth. The place's best attribute are the summer months and orange skies so why wouldn't you extend and patronise that as much as possible?

Yeah nah.

It's ****ing hot in summer and we're already on the very west of our timezone.

For those of us who don't live right next to a beach it's shit on weekdays

 

[Kram]

I hate daylight savings, it's just a personal preference and there is nothing progressive about fiddling with the clocks. The most people seem to be able to come up with that want it are lame insults about curtains fading or cows.

 

[PastiesPeake]

I remember that!! Where was that located again?

Remember the White Sands, Stamford Arms and the Lookout all too well.

 

[blueboy25]

Remember the White Sands, Stamford Arms and the Lookout all too well.

Lookout until close then straight to Club A.

Good times

 

[Shane Hird]

ok just got done reading the whole thread. I must be on my own when it comes to cheap alchohol. About 12 years ago when i was going through uni it was good old Vat 69 for about $22. Sometimes the local junk mail would have it on special for $18 and my housemates would stock up Then we discovered that year that one of the blokes in the miniseries Band of Brothers drank Vat 69 and we felt shit hot then. Would always load up on Vat 69, before walking down to the Scarborough scene where Stamford Arms, The Lookout and the White Sands were the usual hangouts. Ahhh good times.

As for the citys layout, its sad to see how quickly things have changed in just 3 years. The greedy developers are partly responsible for whats happening. All of these suburbs that are 10-15km out from the city have these old shitty houses, built on large blocks of land. The developers buy out the owner, bulldoze the house, subdivide one lot into 3, and voila we have a shit load more cars on the road.

People building way down in Baldivis, and as far up as Butler thinking they will still be able to drive into the city in 5 years time have no idea. Unless we have a shit tonne of money pour into transport infrastructure and apartment style inner city living, we can expect LA style gridlock every day 6 hours a day.

Completely unrelated, i wish some big wig with a truck load of money would build a world class Theme Park somewhere near Perth. We have close to the best climate in the world, yet adventure world still remains our biggest and best theme park. Wish we could have something like this:

Check out the slide at the 5 minute mark

It's a truly horrific traffic nightmare that's half way to reality right now.

Massive numbers of homes are being built near the freeway in Baldivis, Mandurah and Wellard atm. In two years time we'll look forward to an additional 10,000 odd cars joining the masses on their daily trek up those ridiculous two lanes on the Kwinana freeway.

The Mandurah, Warnbro and Rockingham train station carparks are jam packed every day. They will have to get more trains running and make carparks even bigger if they think public transport is the answer.

We're stuffed!

 

[Macca81]

I remember that!! Where was that located again?

Remember the White Sands, Stamford Arms and the Lookout all too well.

somewhere in the US. It was closed down for years because of how many accidents were occuring, but its being re-opened again.

Perth would be much more of a tourist attraction if we had a world class theme park with water slides and roller coasters. Whenever I have friends visit Perth it doesnt take long before im all out of ideas for something to do.