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Aussie City Life - September 2006

The Chinese Culture According to 2 Bogans

September 30th 2006 23:59
A simple post today. I was on the bus having a minute of silence for the death nu-metal when two coarse bogan voices started doing something (I don’t think it was talking). The following is all true, typed up from a shoddy phone recording.

Bogan 1: So many immigrants
Bogan 2: I’m gonna go to China and get me a young one
Bogan 1: Yeh they can make ya chinoise food
Bogan 2: Yeh they can teach may
Bogan 1: Serimagine if yerr had a chin-OISE woife
Bogan 2: Yerr it’d be rooly good
Bogan 1: But she prolly wouldn’t speak English yeah?

Bogan 2: Yeh but dy c’d prolly get a 19-20 year old
Bogan 1: Yeh I wouldn’t get with a white chick
Bogan 2: She’d prolly be a viiiiiiirgin
Bogan 1: How good would it be
Bogan 2: Imagine if on yer wedding nite she’d tell ya that she’s nevah had sex
Bogan 1: What would dya say?
Bogan 2: I’d say neither have I, in all my 40 years. We can experiment together!
Bogan 1: Yeeeeehhhhh!
<two hot girls walk by the bus>
Bogan 2: Cor look at the fillies
Bogan 1: Dressed up for a day at the races
Bogan 2: HAW hawww their boobs are fallin’ out
<taps on the glass loudly at them, the girls don’t notice>
Bogan 1: How long dreckon it’d take to get $2000 if ya earnin $600 a fortnight
Bogan 2: Aww I reckon it depends
Bogan 1: 600 minus some smokes, a few beers, some Maccas…
Bogan 2: I dunno prolly about 2-3 years
Bogan 1: Nah, not that long
Bogan 2: You wouldn’t wanna get lost there no
Bogan 1: Yeh you wouldn’t speak a word
Bogan 2: Yeh it’s all WA WA WA WA GA GA GA GA GA

Bogan 1: Yeh how do they understand each other
Bogan 2: I don’t think they do!!!
<HUGE laughing from both for 2 minutes>

At that point I zoned out. Bogans: adorable or grotesque? Add a comment…
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UTS University is a Japanese Icon

September 28th 2006 23:59
No ifs, ands or UTS.

The UTS Building: Boring? Or boring through layers of cranium into our imaginations!!!?

UTS Victoria Park


It doesn't look so bad here because you've got Sydney University's beautiful Victoria Park in the foreground. So let's separate it from its context:

UTS

UTS University


It's a giant brick in every sense. I'm not paying out the university though, it's fine, it even gets a comma in its abbreviation as the full name is "The University of Technology, Sydney". Not to mention, their library requires the scanning of a student card to enter. At Sydney's Fisher Library, anyone from the Queen of England to Homeless McTransient can walk in and start flipping through Quebecoise dictionaries. I'm UTS brown with envy.

Maybe it used to be a GIANT TREE and James Cook friends just carved out some ridges and decided to call it a building. It's dull and brown and would be better suited in Melbourne so the Yarra river wouldn't be the only stained monument.

Interestingly though, in spite of all this, the Japanese actually borrowed the design of UTS and made a cartoon character from it. Complete truth! His name is Domokun, if you've never heard of him, here he is:

DOMOKUN HUGNRY

domokun


He's a lovable fluffball who's probably majoring in Applied Chemistry or something. According to Wikipedia: "Domo's favorite food is seasoned beef with potatoes and he has a strong dislike for apples (an unexplained mystery in his DNA). Domo is known to pass gas repeatedly when nervous or in a bad mood." I cannot think of a better description of UTS either. You can understand the connection more when considering the name of the UTS city campus is actually called Domokun Campus.

I dying with jealousy now, Sydney Uni could never have a mascot made out of it unless it was a pair of mutated conjoined twins with tennis courts for hands. Oh well




Here's a video of UTS in action!!!



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Damn right, it's better than yours.

Those of us born between about 1984-1989 are a holy bunch. We're in an awesome demograpic that dodged the effects of the goth fad but we were born late enough to be tall enough to spit on emos.

From The SOVIET UNION... LINKA!
Earth! Fire! VIND! Water! Heart!
We were raised on the absurdity and brilliance of early Nickelodeon cartoons like Rocko's Modern Life, Ren Stimpy and Ahh Real Monsters. So we escaped the time before children had to relate to everything like when the Rugrats stopped having post-modern subversive adventures and had to worry about their periods and fringe symmetry in Rugrats All Grown Up. Experiencing the metaphors and deliberate insanity of early Nickelodeon let us enhance our creativity and our acceptance for the bizarre.

However, we still have appreciation for retro as we know all the words to the Captain Planet theme song and we know the feeling of actually anticipating new Simpsons episodes. The 3D episode? Who Shot Mr Burns? Now the children are supposed to feel excited about JD's penis pump story arc on Degrassi: The Next Generation. Somehow we turned out ok even though we didn't need to watch "real" cartoon characters "dealing with issues" so literally. At least Captain Planet had a fantasy element hiding its blatant message, they don't even give the younguns of today enough credit to interpret. Not to mention The ABC used to have Daria and Heartbreak High, voices for a generation. Drazic and Anita... so EMBARRASSING.

Emos are gross
Modern Emo "Boiz"
The Macarena was better than the The Crazy Frog Song, at least the former enhanced our knowledge of Mediterranean cultures and improved out coordination. We at least knew non-electronic fads like Glow Caps and Yoyos and even though it's electronic, Tamagotchis taught us valuable parenting abilities. Now ALL CHILDREN have iPods, mobile phones and Crystal Meth addictions.

Sure some of us we were a bit late to fully appreciate cassettes but at least we remember when BUYING cds was popular. We're completely at ease to going online however I'm sure we can still remember when it was actually a viable question in primary school to ask "Do you have the internet?" - back when online animated greeting cards were AMAZING.

Obviously every generation says things like this, I'm sure the current rising generation will be a bunch of wilting irises who'll reminisce about myspace, chunky non-plasma tvs and... muslims. Although emo is even a joke now; we can be thrilled that we'll be able to look back at old photos without cringing.

So we get the best of both worlds. We're completely familiar and can relate to the modern age of slavery to machines but at least have the memory of when mail could be posted. We escaped being raised purely on righteous tv which made us suitably irreverent and cyncial to take on the universe. However, it's not to an extent that we're desensitised to everything.

Yeah, we're an awesome demographic. Add a comment...
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Aussie Language Lesson: When To Use Mate

September 25th 2006 23:59
Welcome to another Australian Language Lesson. These lessons aren't about cultural stereotypes, they're actually practical. So if you're new to Australia, you won't be completely out of place with your green and gold cap you bought from a souvenir shop.

It's important to know that 95% of Australian slang you can read about in books is obsolete. Sayings like "Fair dinkum" or "Hoo roo" are only sparingly uttered by people in Sydney


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#1 songs = brilliant right? The Crazy Frog Song, Teletubbies Say Eh-Oh and Mr Blobby are examples... so to answer the quesion, the quality of these songs completely matches tonight's 4 1/2 total performances.

Klahnssyh Keogh
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I had an exclusive run in with fame yesterday. It was an incident so intense and spell-binding that my life is still recoiling from the recoil. But I'll write about my afternoon scones with Casey Donovan later. Here's some crap about Jamie now.

There I was screaming at the Boost Juice employees to get EVERY LAST DROP of juice out of blender in Westfield Bondi Junction when a revolting noise trespassed my ears


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The Sydney Monorail - Railly Monotonous

September 21st 2006 23:59
The monorail is Sydney's most frequented form of public transportation. Right after 1. Buses 2. Trains 3. Ferries 4. The Sydney Explorer 5. That stupid tram thing... ... .... ... ... 30. Razor scooters 31 Greasy bacon gliding conga line....

Sydney Monorail
There are several monorail street entries, the most convenient one probably being the one in the Victoria Galeries. The backwards sign makes it look like NOITATS LIARONO


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Choose Your Own Sydney Adventure: Part 2

September 20th 2006 23:59
Welcome back to the Choose Your Own Sydney Adventure. Go here for part 1 if you want to refresh your memory.

"I'd better get straight to Xiao Ping! I'll take the train


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Merry Premature-Christmas Sydney!!!

September 19th 2006 23:58
There I was in Myer in the city this morning - spending my drug-laundering money on some supplementary texts for my Shakespeare essay...

Casey is awesome

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I couldn't bring myself to write about last night's show due to its overwhelming unspectacularness. It felt just too pomo to only be able to form an opinion on how I couldn't form an opinion on any of the performances.

So i'll write about the elimination show... and elimination is certainly what it was


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Walking around the city the other day, I noticed Mr Sunshine in his usual post doing his usual job. Fortunately, I was with my Chinese friend so I put 2 and 2 together and I actually got an INTERVIEW with Mr. Sunshine.... and 4


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Girls In The Men's Room & More Androgyny

September 15th 2006 02:15
Today, I and my doe-eyed chastity were innocently wandering into the toilets at Fisher library of Sydney University. I opened the door and turned the corner only to see long flowing blonde hair, tied in a pony tail. "Crivens!" I thought in a British accent, "Did I wander into the girl's bathroom?"

My brain synapses were in overload as it occurred to me that this girl was standing in front of a urinal. Ay


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Choose Your Own Sydney Adventure: Part 1

September 13th 2006 06:41

We all remember the Choose Your Own Adventure books from primary school. Well let’s have our own recurring one about Sydney. You can vote on what you want to do and the most popular one(s) will be what happens next week.


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Stupid Sydney Shop Names

September 12th 2006 00:01
Imagine you're life long dream of opening a shoe shop is about to come true. You think of all the possible names and then one day you walk past a daycare centre and you hear someone mispronounce supermarket. "EUREEKA" you scream, as you run around telling all your friends with a straight face about how you've just taken a massive loan for your "Shoepermarket" (in Bondi Junction).

Well it's all true


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Australian Idol: Top 12 - An Ethnic Mess

September 10th 2006 12:40
1 New-Zealander, 1 Part Indonesian Blend, Another Polynesian, An Irishman, A walking chin, A redneck woman, A Maltese, A coal miner’s daughter, The Giant Chin of Bobby Flynn and some mutton (born in the UK) and 2 other anglo minorities.

The set looks like some rejected MTV show set, or even Nelly Furtado’s new music video except without the thumbing bass line and Toby. Marcia Hines’ voice is rough tonight, no doubt from screaming at Deni for embarrassing her with her music attempts


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France and Australia may be more than a hop, skip and striped jumper away from each other, yet their languages have some amazing similarities.

Not Pronouncing The Last Letter Of Words
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The McDonalds Misery Seat

September 9th 2006 02:21
The Misery Seat is an architectural phenomenon, stretching back to cavemen times when the unpopular cavepersons would have to sit on jagged spikes on cursed grounds.The ancient Britons called it Thy SIte Of Miseere and has since evolved into the modern day Misery Seat, now all over Sydney Cityrail Trains.


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Easy Channel 7 Celebs

September 6th 2006 16:34
Hey there, why so blue? So you don't see celebrities walking through your lawn often? Cate Blanchett doesn't stop by your house in Oatley often? Sandra Sully doesn't come in to the laundrette to ask if she could share your dryer? Tim Brunero's hair is a freakin mess?

Well that can all be cured! (Except for Tim's ratty). Australia has a surplus of B-rate celebrities. We have so many that they have several of their own reality shows like Celebrity Survivor, Dancing With The Stars, Celebrities on Ice etc. In fact it seems like the "real people" reality shows are a minority


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Sydney Asks: Where's Winter?

September 5th 2006 16:12
Winter has come and gone it seems. It lasted for about 18 seconds somewhere during early August. From short winter to shorts-wearing weather, it turns out Paris Hilton’s catch phrase of “That’s hot” could actually be a dire environmental warning instead of just coincidental mouth framings of a drug induced vocal spasms.

The temperature down in Katoomba recently has been about 6oC so if you want to live out the rest of your winter you’ll have to move there for a while


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Frightening proves to strike twice as we see again the reasons why these failures didn’t make it the first time.

Brendon Boney
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First (8-9am) comes the morning rush, everyone reeking of cologne
Later in the day (3:30-4:30pm) is the school rush with all those dear children whose bags are twice their size and reeking of stale Kraft cheese sticks.
Then the evening rush (5:30-6:30) when you wish that they had put even MORE cologne on in the morning


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