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Offline CaptnYellowShirtTopic starter

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Do All Australians Dress Like This?
« on: March 21, 2014, 03:07:19 am »


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Dave: come clean, man.

 

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Re: Do All Australians Dress Like This?
« Reply #1 on: March 21, 2014, 05:30:20 am »
in a word.
yes.
 

Offline GeoffS

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Re: Do All Australians Dress Like This?
« Reply #2 on: March 21, 2014, 05:41:18 am »
In the 70's? too right we did!
 

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Re: Do All Australians Dress Like This?
« Reply #3 on: March 21, 2014, 06:15:22 am »
can confirm.
 

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« Reply #4 on: March 21, 2014, 06:19:15 am »
Just got to watch how you pack the budgie smugglers.
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« Reply #5 on: March 21, 2014, 06:35:24 am »
That's those City girly boys

Out bush its more like this http://punch.photoshelter.com/image/I00002WRH.fJhDfM
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Re: Do All Australians Dress Like This?
« Reply #6 on: March 21, 2014, 09:33:08 am »
I would think not usually like that while in the UK summer or not but the summer of 1976 was a heat wave.
 

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Re: Do All Australians Dress Like This?
« Reply #7 on: March 21, 2014, 03:19:49 pm »
Q: Is that a banana in your trousers or are you just happy to see me?
A: Yes
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Re: Do All Australians Dress Like This?
« Reply #8 on: March 21, 2014, 03:35:31 pm »
Wow... great old video.  I never knew Angus was so tiny!  What?  35 kilos?  Less?  I saw them (Back in Black).  They were all real tiny, but that might have had something to do with the location of my seat.
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Re: Do All Australians Dress Like This?
« Reply #9 on: March 21, 2014, 03:39:51 pm »
When I was at university - in Canada - there was an Aussie grad student in one of my classes. He showed up to class in shorts all winter long, no matter how cold it was outside. I guess he just couldn't shake the idea that January was summertime.
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« Reply #10 on: March 22, 2014, 01:07:55 am »
When I was at university - in Canada - there was an Aussie grad student in one of my classes. He showed up to class in shorts all winter long, no matter how cold it was outside. I guess he just couldn't shake the idea that January was summertime.

Going by the Mad Max series of docu-dramas they also wear hockey equipment in the desert. In the desert. With no hockey game in sight. they also appear to be irritable and bad drivers.
 

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Re: Do All Australians Dress Like This?
« Reply #11 on: March 22, 2014, 01:42:42 am »

Going by the Mad Max series of docu-dramas they also wear hockey equipment in the desert. In the desert. With no hockey game in sight. they also appear to be irritable and bad drivers.

Hockey? Sounds like a made up word to me.

And yes, we are irritable and poor drivers.
 

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Re: Do All Australians Dress Like This?
« Reply #12 on: March 22, 2014, 05:15:06 am »

Going by the Mad Max series of docu-dramas they also wear hockey equipment in the desert. In the desert. With no hockey game in sight. they also appear to be irritable and bad drivers.

Hockey? Sounds like a made up word to me.

And yes, we are irritable and poor drivers.

And... You're driving in our country too! I snapped this today at work.

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Re: Do All Australians Dress Like This?
« Reply #13 on: March 24, 2014, 12:51:43 pm »
When I was at university - in Canada - there was an Aussie grad student in one of my classes. He showed up to class in shorts all winter long, no matter how cold it was outside. I guess he just couldn't shake the idea that January was summertime.

Half the people in Iowa in the USA do that too. Mostly Norwegian/Swedish ancestry here, and they are flipping hot if it get close to what I consider room temperature. LOL

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Re: Do All Australians Dress Like This?
« Reply #14 on: March 24, 2014, 06:50:53 pm »
And yes, we are irritable and poor drivers.

I disagree, you have to come here and drive a little. You guys are pretty considerate, from seeing all the road trips from Aussie50 and Dave. Positively polite, considerate and obey the road rules.

Here it is generally drive with caution, and watch out for both bad roads and bad drivers. You can tell for sure that there are a lot of drivers who have either no licence, a fake licence or who just are plain clueless. Then you have the taxi drivers. Saw one break about 50 laws in 50m, including turning across oncoming traffic and driving up a one way street. Metro police drove right past while he was doing this, not a concern aside from looking for the coffee and donuts.
 

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Re: Do All Australians Dress Like This?
« Reply #15 on: March 25, 2014, 01:33:17 am »
Here it is generally drive with caution, and watch out for both bad roads and bad drivers. You can tell for sure that there are a lot of drivers who have either no licence, a fake licence or who just are plain clueless. Then you have the taxi drivers. Saw one break about 50 laws in 50m, including turning across oncoming traffic and driving up a one way street. Metro police drove right past while he was doing this, not a concern aside from looking for the coffee and donuts.
Sounds exactly the same as Australia to me haha.
 

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Re: Do All Australians Dress Like This?
« Reply #16 on: March 25, 2014, 02:10:01 am »


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Dave: come clean, man.

No,they'd been in the UK too long,& gone native.
On the odd occasion during a British summer that the sun dares to peep out from behind the clouds,the Poms start tearing their clothes off so they can sunbathe.

You can pick the newly arrived Aussies-- they're the ones shivering inside their furry collared jackets.

The grey weather does something to your eyes,too!
When I came back from the UK in March 1972,the sky was grey,the sea looked nasty,& it was windy,all the way down the West coast of Africa---but the Poms were still sunbathing!!

"That's Africa,right?", "It must be hot & sunny,right?"

When we came into Capetown,it was a beautiful bright blue sunny day,the light was so strong,that the edges of the buildings seemed to have "ringing" on them.
If it had that effect on me,what would it be on someone who'd never seen a sunny South African,or Aussie Autumn day?
 

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Re: Do All Australians Dress Like This?
« Reply #17 on: March 25, 2014, 02:13:03 am »
In the 70's totally.
Still today in some parts of Sydney...
 

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Re: Do All Australians Dress Like This?
« Reply #18 on: March 25, 2014, 03:01:21 am »
There was that time you took your t-shirt off on camera in one of the early videos.   :-DD
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Re: Do All Australians Dress Like This?
« Reply #19 on: March 25, 2014, 03:04:50 am »
There was that time you took your t-shirt off on camera in one of the early videos.   :-DD

I was actually on the way to the gym with my tank top on so thought why not shoot another clip  ;D
 

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Re: Do All Australians Dress Like This?
« Reply #20 on: March 25, 2014, 06:20:18 am »
And on an unrelated site, I see this..



So yes maybe they do dress that way.

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Re: Do All Australians Dress Like This?
« Reply #21 on: March 25, 2014, 09:23:51 am »
Q: Is that a banana in your trousers or are you just happy to see me?
A: Yes

I was half expecting Jimmy Savile to be in that clip!
 

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Re: Do All Australians Dress Like This?
« Reply #22 on: March 25, 2014, 09:49:31 am »
And on an unrelated site, I see this..



So yes maybe they do dress that way.

I'd be surprised if this guy makes it to 40.
 

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Re: Do All Australians Dress Like This?
« Reply #23 on: April 05, 2014, 10:41:48 pm »


Comments?
 

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Re: Do All Australians Dress Like This?
« Reply #24 on: April 07, 2014, 06:52:12 pm »
I have seen worse.
I was in a small town in Tasmania almost 15 years ago. There 2 young men walking along the road, who looked like what could best be called 'hillbillies', (i am sure there must be local Ozzie slang for the term) and from the way they were looking around they had never seen civilisation before.
 


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