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YOUNG AUSSIE MALES LOST IDENTITY????

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Created by mineral1 > 9 months ago, 25 Oct 2012
mineral1
WA, 4564 posts
25 Oct 2012 8:54PM
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Was travelling down from Geraldton today, and stopped off at Dongara Bakery (those meat pie enthusiast will understand why)
Anyway was sitting at table, and chap walked in (maybe in his ealy 50's) with his son and daughter in tow. Both late teens I guess. Both called him Dad at one stage in the ordering process at counter, so guess brother and sister.
Girl caught my attention, as she was easy on the eye plus "bare foot" thats a shock for Dongara and double Gee's (prickles)all over the place, wearing shorts and a Bin tang T-shirt
Dad wearing standard jeans and T-shirt and boots.
Now the brother, he fronts up in shorts and a general T shirt, no harm there, but had "pretty blue" what I can only term as dancing pumps and little white bobby socks on his feet. For goodness sake this isn't the norm of late I notice with our young men. Girls looking more like top country girls in dress sense but lads looking more like "Nancy Boys "

Revhead
ACT, 372 posts
26 Oct 2012 12:01AM
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Yep. Its sad. Hopefully the mega-sensitivity fashion will pass quickly.

theDoctor
NSW, 5786 posts
26 Oct 2012 12:02AM
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maybe 'losing' identity

maybe just foot 'loosing'

jsnfok
WA, 899 posts
25 Oct 2012 9:03PM
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I live in my steel caps for 50 hours a week , i think thats pretty aussie

jsnfok
WA, 899 posts
25 Oct 2012 9:03PM
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could be gangnam style

Mark _australia
WA, 23706 posts
25 Oct 2012 9:12PM
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Yeah I'm hearing ya Mineralman

Started with "popped" collars on polo shirts, wearing loafers with no socks, the gelled ****y hair etc and pink shirts about 5yrs ago.

BTW pink shirt is OK, maybe with a tie of the right colour and a dark suit, yeah OK.

But then the other day I saw a bloke in pink (and I mean PINK) boardies and a button up short sleeved shirt, going to the pub. A special night, not just a 'whatever' night, at the pub, pay for tickets etc, and he is wearing pink boardies. WTF?

Underoath
QLD, 2434 posts
25 Oct 2012 11:25PM
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Its Dongara, id be more concerned if the kid had a speed addiction. Fashion will pass.

Destroying brain cells won't.

Mark _australia
WA, 23706 posts
25 Oct 2012 10:05PM
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Underoath said...
Its Dongara, id be more concerned if the kid had a speed addiction. Fashion will pass.

Destroying brain cells won't.


Yup. Unfortunatley I know what u mean. WTF is wrong with them, they live in paradise in Gero, Dongara, Leeman, Lano, 2rocks etc. Go surf, sail, kite, SUP, whatever. But nup, bong on and then turn into a grogmonster goey freak.

I will never understand it.

CMC
QLD, 3954 posts
26 Oct 2012 7:14AM
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Come to South East Qld and see the hordes of 'individuals' in the rolled up just below the knee tight jeans, Brady bunch shoes, loose collared stripey shirts or singlets with a beard and bryll creamed short back and sides hair cut.

How do these blokes expect to get decent woman when there's no time left in front of the mirror for the woman???

Mobydisc
NSW, 9029 posts
26 Oct 2012 8:36AM
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Grumpy old blokes have probably been moaning about how young blokes are a bunch of p00ftas for thousands of years.

edit:
Didn't know ****tas is a swear word!

CMC
QLD, 3954 posts
26 Oct 2012 8:40AM
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Mobydisc said...
Grumpy old blokes have probably been moaning about how young blokes a bunch of p00ftas for thousands of years.

edit:
Didn't know ****tas is a swear word!



Yep, it's a fine tradition and our responsibility to perpetuate.

evlPanda
NSW, 9207 posts
26 Oct 2012 9:53AM
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Mark _australia said...
Underoath said...
Its Dongara, id be more concerned if the kid had a speed addiction. Fashion will pass.
Destroying brain cells won't.

Yup. Unfortunatley I know what u mean. WTF is wrong with them, they live in paradise in Gero, Dongara, Leeman, Lano, 2rocks etc. Go surf, sail, kite, SUP, whatever. But nup, bong on and then turn into a grogmonster goey freak.
I will never understand it.


I will never understand how anyone sees this girl spinning in an anti-clockwise direction.



sameh
WA, 310 posts
26 Oct 2012 6:55AM
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Seriously, some kids fashion affronts your male sensibilities. I remember wearing fluro pink floral okanui boardies in the early eighties, along with hundreds of other surfers at the time. If a kid wants to look a little different from the wa bogan norm, all power to them i say. Who the **** are we to judge!

Mobydisc
NSW, 9029 posts
26 Oct 2012 9:55AM
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evlPanda said...

I will never understand how anyone sees this girl spinning in an anti-clockwise direction.






I can see it spin both ways. Look away and back or blink and its spinning the other way.


evlPanda
NSW, 9207 posts
26 Oct 2012 9:58AM
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Aussie men were real in the 70's.

www.theguardian.com/tone/blog

FormulaNova
WA, 15106 posts
26 Oct 2012 7:53AM
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evlPanda said...

I will never understand how anyone sees this girl spinning in an anti-clockwise direction.






Are you serious or not?

The image was originally intended to show that some peoples brains work differently, and that some people would see clockwise and others would see anti-clockwise.

I think I see it as clockwise normally, but can change it to anti-clockwise. Can you change the direction by covering one of your eyes?

I can't remember what each direction was meant to relate to though.

pierrec45
NSW, 2005 posts
26 Oct 2012 11:34AM
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Country metrosexual ?

CMC
QLD, 3954 posts
26 Oct 2012 11:35AM
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FormulaNova said...
evlPanda said...

I will never understand how anyone sees this girl spinning in an anti-clockwise direction.






Are you serious or not?

The image was originally intended to show that some peoples brains work differently, and that some people would see clockwise and others would see anti-clockwise.

I think I see it as clockwise normally, but can change it to anti-clockwise. Can you change the direction by covering one of your eyes?

I can't remember what each direction was meant to relate to though.



Was going to recite my own understanding of the left vs right brain test but thought I would cut and paste the below.

She spins clockwise for me:


If clockwise, then you use more of the right side of the brain and vice versa.

Most of us would see the dancer turning anti-clockwise though you can try to focus and change the direction; see if you can do it.

LEFT BRAIN FUNCTIONS
uses logic
detail oriented
facts rule
words and language
present and past
math and science
can comprehend
knowing
acknowledges
order/pattern perception
knows object name
reality based
forms strategies
practical
safe

RIGHT BRAIN FUNCTIONS
uses feeling
"big picture" oriented
imagination rules
symbols and images
present and future
philosophy & religion
can "get it" (i.e. meaning)
believes
appreciates
spatial perception
knows object function
fantasy based
presents possibilities
impetuous
risk taking

worrier
WA, 726 posts
26 Oct 2012 9:36AM
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bought a steak and mushy pie from there the other day myself. Not as good as I remember when we used to call in there after comin back from the edge for 3-4 days. Seem to remember them being way better then.
[}:)]By jesus though if ya walked into the Tarcoola Tav or the Dongara hotel for happy hour wearin pink ya would get bashed pretty quickly.
Strewth if ya didn't smell of stinky hocks or bait everyone would think ya was a bit homosexual in those days.
Ah memories
W

PoleTroll
36 posts
26 Oct 2012 10:10AM
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mineral1 said...
general T shirt, no harm there, but had "pretty blue" what I can only term as dancing pumps and little white bobby socks on his feet.


= Kite boarder.

Skid
QLD, 1499 posts
26 Oct 2012 1:11PM
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FormulaNova said...
evlPanda said...

I will never understand how anyone sees this girl spinning in an anti-clockwise direction.






Are you serious or not?

The image was originally intended to show that some peoples brains work differently, and that some people would see clockwise and others would see anti-clockwise.

I think I see it as clockwise normally, but can change it to anti-clockwise. Can you change the direction by covering one of your eyes?

I can't remember what each direction was meant to relate to though.



The direction of rotation also depends on your point of view....
If the girl is spinning clockwise if viewed from above, she is also spinning anti-clockwise if viewed from below....

paddymac
WA, 943 posts
26 Oct 2012 11:32AM
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evlPanda said...
Aussie men were real in the 70's.

www.theguardian.com/tone/blog


Never again will I wonder how they hit those high notes

deejay8204
QLD, 557 posts
26 Oct 2012 10:26PM
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Mobydisc said...
evlPanda said...

I will never understand how anyone sees this girl spinning in an anti-clockwise direction.






I can see it spin both ways. Look away and back or blink and its spinning the other way.





My missus sees it both ways I only see it going clock wise. So if going by the above I use more of my right side of my brain?

Stuthepirate
SA, 3591 posts
26 Oct 2012 11:18PM
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^i was seeing it going anticlockwise so i unfocused now i see it going clockwise.
Tried to unfocus again now all i see is it going left and right

Mark _australia
WA, 23706 posts
26 Oct 2012 8:54PM
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I agree with evlpanda.......you people are insane.

She is going clockwise (if you were to view from above.)

When her foot is closest to us it goes from right, to left.

If you see anything else you are a freak, no amount of squinting, one eye use, focussing funny etc, will make it spin the other way.

Twimby
WA, 483 posts
26 Oct 2012 9:01PM
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Mark _australia said...
I agree with evlpanda.......you people are insane.

She is going clockwise (if you were to view from above.)

When her foot is closest to us it goes from right, to left.

If you see anything else you are a freak, no amount of squinting, one eye use, focussing funny etc, will make it spin the other way.




If you have an iPad/phone etc. while looking just give a little up down swipe, it stops her and you can make her swing either way with total control

Stuthepirate
SA, 3591 posts
26 Oct 2012 11:31PM
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evlPanda said...
Aussie men were real in the 70's.

www.theguardian.com/tone/blog


Isn't that a photo from the WWA/WSKA end of season party?

lotofwind
NSW, 6451 posts
27 Oct 2012 12:02AM
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It must be a gen Y thing Markie Its always gotta be because of the younger whipper snappers somehow.

Mark _australia
WA, 23706 posts
26 Oct 2012 9:08PM
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lotofwind said...
It must be a gen Y thing Markie Its always gotta be because of the younger whipper snappers somehow.


Wow out of 26 other responses here (and two of them after mine) you need to talk about me again

I am touched, but your idolatry is becoming noticeable Alcah.


Chris6791
WA, 3271 posts
26 Oct 2012 9:32PM
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Twimby said...


While looking just give a little up down swipe, it stops her and you can make her swing either way with total control



For 20 years I must have been doing something wrong, never knew they came with this functionality

Twimby
WA, 483 posts
26 Oct 2012 9:38PM
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Chris6791 said...
Twimby said...


While looking just give a little up down swipe, it stops her and you can make her swing either way with total control



For 20 years I must have been doing something wrong, never knew they came with this functionality




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