Let's be the City of Sydney!

I'm a pretty good copy of the Hell Gate Bridge.

I'm the funnel web spider you're going to be checking the bathtub drain for for the rest of your life.

I'm the 400 gallons of liquid laughter per drinking night, which would be all of them.

I'm a historic build--AHHHH THEY GOT ME

I'm the Facts of Life Down Under

I’m the ugly modern architecture that all looks the same!

I'm Stephanie Harper, and if I knew what lay in store for me, Id have let the crocodile finish the job!

I'm the local laws that have reduced nightlife options to basically hiding under your blanket and farting.

I'm Bondi Beach gays! Let my toned and tan body mesmerize you. No, you can't join us.

I'm Melbourne, quietly smirking.

We're the dozens of Dataloungers who have never been to Sydney, let alone Australia. This will not stop us from posting bad Crocodile Dundee jokes.

We're the handful of DLers who visited Sydney... in the 1980s. We will suppose our 40 year old impressions of the city are still valid.

We're Sydney thread hall monitors, offering nothing useful but content to scold.

I was there for a week in late 2018, R11. It seemed like a place well on its way to being transformed into an overdeveloped taste-free hell-hole, but maybe I missed the nice bits.

I'm its classy citizens.

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I'm the second prettiest harbour in the world after Rio de Janeiro.

I'm Mardi Gras!

No, not the one in New Orleans. The other one. The gay one.

I'm the Sydney Mardi Gras.

I used to be Gay. It became Gay and Lesbian in the late 80s.

It turned Gay, Lesbian and heterosexual in the late 90s.

It went fully commercial two decades ago when police officers, army personnel, trade unions, political charlatans and corporate employees were PAID to dance about in the streets, take drugs and flaunt their expensive corporate publicity at the audience of baffled, drug-taking Westies and tourists.

Since I ... moved to Sydney, I haven't listened to one ABBA song. That's because my life is as good as an ABBA song.

Saying hello to Sydney is saying “Goodbye Porpoise Spit!”

I'm the new blossom on the Wattle tree swaying in the breeze.

It's deliriously warm in Sydney today at 25 degrees. I'm on my hammock trying to read a text from an 1889 memoir but I'm disturbed by the sultry sound of Doris Day singing via my (awful Lesbian) neighbour and her tranny.

I'm the Blue Mountains on fire, blanketed Sydney in smoke and causing all sorts of health problems for Sydneysiders.

Why is the ugliest guy always closest to the camera like in R16s pic

I'm the rich people who choose to live in the fire-prone forests of the Blue Mountains and expect the taxpayers to save my property.

R24 The guy in the middle is the longest-serving Council worker who only works six months a year.

The other ones were hired later as eye-candy by the TV producers for the TV show (in link below)

I'm the record button on Gable Tostee's phone.

I'm Gable Tostee and I used to be gorgeous.

I'm Gable's slice of pizza to show business as usual.

I'm the evident lack of Australian Dataloungers.

I'm the Real Housewives of Sydney. Everyone loved me. Can we please get a season 2?

-Athena's cape

To the morons making the Gable references, he lives near Gold Coast/Brisbane.

[quote]I'm the Blue Mountains on fire, blanketed Sydney in smoke and causing all sorts of health problems for Sydneysiders.

Not looking forward to this Spring, to be frank.

R30 There aren't many Sydney Dataloungers here right now because it's 4 o'clock on a balmy afternoon beckoning the first day of Spring and most of us are at the beach (whilst socially-distancing).

I'm Zac Efron lurking somewhere you least expect.

I'm a third-rate Aussie actor sitting in Kingsford-Smith awaiting my flight to LA and fame. Those dumb Yanks just love our accents.

R35 Are you Kristian Mynott?

I'm the endless sweltering humidity. After your fifth summer here, under a grey sky and drenched in sweat, you'll finally swallow your pride, pack up, and leave just to get away from me.

^ What do you mean by 'pride'?

R38, because when I moved there (yes, it was in the 90s) I told everyone I was finished with the UK and never coming back. I came back. I still think Sydney is a beautiful city, but only to visit in the winter.

Fair enough, R39, we call you a 'transplanted pomegranate which didn't acclimatise'.

I’m Tim Draxl,. I’m sorta famous on DL.

I am a huntsman spider. Catch me before I eat you.

That photo was probably taken at the Charlton Pool.

r42 best to actually read the thread before you post

^ Yes, it is the Andrew Boy Charlton Pool. I've seen Draxl buying his groceries at Aldi on Oxford St.

R44 I did. Huntsman spiders are a problem in Sydney and other areas of OZ. Would you rather I post, "I'm a can of Foster's Lager, the shittiest brew in Sydney, OZ ? I'm the half-eaten shrimp on a Sydney barbie? I'm the hottest hunk of man-meat in all of Sydney?" Your point dearie? Do you need a hug?

I'm the fabulous Carlotta. I miss sleazy Sydney.

I occasionally get Huntsmans in my bathroom. The bathroom door opens on the backyard which is full of Acacias, Lilli-Pillis, Lomandra and Dianella.

They hide behind the washing tub but I get anxious when I see them scuttling over the toilet.

I'm Kerri-Anne Kennerley getting trashed on prosecco at Bill's of Bondi. Someone call me a cab!

I’m David Harris. I used to be famous on DL.

^^ Hmmm

I'm the city streets that used to be nice to visit but are now anarchy.

[quote]I'm the city streets that used to be nice to visit but are now anarchy.

How so? I live here.

Because the notion of keeping to the left of the footpath is not respected. It's made Central Railway Station a nightmare.

The city's streets aren't so bad now that we're in plague mode.

But prior to that pedestrians would walk anywhere with their eyes glued to their Iphone and their ears filled with I-pods.

We're the flying foxes. We look like we'd eat your baby, but we leave that to the dingos.

I'm Keiran XXL, watch for me and the boyfriend at the saunas. I won't be looking as fresh, but just focus on the cock, or ass.

I am a porn star.

I many have been exterminated by the unforgiving zealots of the Self-righteous Cancel Culture Brigade. Or I may be hiding undercover in Sydney.

You did R13!

I’m the visiting gay in for 2 days doing a selfie in front of the Opera House to add to the obligatory gay tourist-trail photo collection including the Golden Gate Bridge and Table Mountain.

I'm one of the hundreds of legal brothels that operate all over the city. You can't miss me - I usually have either a red light, flashing lights or the number of the street in very large writing near the entrance. I was shutdown during the lockdown but I'm back up and running.

There's a video on Pornhub called "Sucking a Stranger at the Beach'.

I believe it's at Garie Beach 33 miles south of Sydney.

I am Spring, which sprang rather spectacularly over the weekend.

I’m NSW, currently laughing hard at the “sophisticated”, “European” Melburnians who “take their coffee seriously!”, with their “maze of alleys”, and “live music”, as the entire state has revealed itself to hold the biggest proportion of QAnon mouth-breathers in the country.

Totally not surprised about this R64.

I'm the bushfire season. I'm here!

I’m the previous bushfire season - I just finished!

I'm where Judy Davis lives because she refused to go Hollywood.

I'm the shocked resident at Woolwich hearing Judy Davis lambasting poor husband Colin from across the harbour at Birchgrove.

I am Dan Saxon

r69 I've always gotten the impression Judy Davis had bipolar. She has that tortured mental illness vibe about her. Good actress though.

R70 I am Dan's wide hips.

You'll be waiting a while, R35. Nobody is allowed to fly out at the moment without a much better reason than, "I could be a STAH!"

Except former PM and practising idiot Tony Abbott, who can apparently go where he pleases.

I am Cher making my gay Mardi Gras appearance

I'm Julia Eileen Gillard former PM and former anti gay crusader who is unable to explain in plain English her turn around on the issue of gay marriage in 2015. I now support it even if I can't articulate why.

I'm the Vegemite on your breakfast table.

Go on. Give it a go, mate!

I hate vegemite and I've never called anyone 'mate' in my life, or said 'g'day' for that matter.

R77 I have and I hate being called 'mate' but it has been decades since anybody called me that. I don't mind 'g'day' to which I reply hello. That still happens in rural Australia sometimes.

Sounds like something a closet bogan would say, but okay...

I love vegemite, have said g’day many a time, and ‘mate’ is fine.

I’m Sydney and I love R78 and R79. WEST Sydney, that is.

I'm the Opera House now closed.

I'm Tetsuya's Japanese restaurant. Many guides and articles say I'm the best restaurant in town. I'm full of pretentious tourists, too busy Instagramming their dinners to notice if the food is any good. Dinner will cost you a fortune and take three hours.

Afterward you'll still be hungry and consider stopping for a burger on your way back to the hotel.

I'm the Archibald Fountain in Hyde Park.

r80 Oh, WEST Sydney, enough said.

“Double Pay”, dahling R84.

Michael Hutchence masturbated in “Double Pay”. Once.

I'm David Jones.

After earlier having eaten at that dodgy Indian restaurant up the hill in Edgecliff, R86.

We're the queens of Ava and Susan's smirking at the gayling who has received his 1960s Barbra LPs that needed to be shipped from overseas.

I'm Lord Mayor of Sydney, Clover Moore. Long time supporter of gays, trans & dykes on bikes.

I'm Clover Moore (my friends call me Edina Monsoon. I'm famous for my outrageous attempts at grandiose modern art and my motto is "I MUST spend a million dollars EVERY single day!).

I'm Martin Place train station toilet. Where the lighting is a gorgeous royal blue. Not for atmosphere, but to prevent the junkies from shooting up.

I'm the queue outside The Hong Ha in Mascot, I'm the giant crane on every horizon and I'm the extended family gathering for 57 every Sunday at "our" spot along Botany Bay.

I'm Gladys Berejiklian, the dumbest NSW premiere, in office at the time of a pandemic.

R94 Sorry but I'm the dumbest Premier in Australia. I've always retained my fluids.

I'm the "G'd day, mate!" greeting that sounds hilarious and novel at first but by the end of your stay you just want to punch everyone in the face who says it, even the good looking ones.

I'm the Sirius. Sydney's 'shithole' Housing Commission apartments in Millers Point. With dazzling harbor views and $75 per week rents, standard rentals in the area are easily 10 x that. Developed in the 1970s in a brutalist style, I'm about to be transformed into yuppie hotel and condos.

I’m a kangaroo eating a pavlova as I hop across Sydney Harbour Bridge.

R87, I'm Myer, formerly Grace Bros, currently waving a gloved hand at you from a block down Market Street.

I may not be around much longer

R87 Mate of mine lived for years in a council flat a block from Maroobra beach. Paid $50 a week or a fortnight in rent. The houses across the road and in the neighbourhood were worth close to a million.

^^^ R97, not R87 ^^^

I'm New Zealand, telling you yet again we invented the pavlova.

R99 Good riddance.

r95 and yet Queensland has done better than Victoria and NSW with covid

AND lamingtons R102.

R104 appears not to know that I am the primary port of entry for travellers by both sea and air, almost to the exclusion of the other cities, and it is the quarantining (or not) of incoming travellers which has been the origin of virtually every cluster in Australia.

r107 Sweetie, that might explain Sydney, but what about Melbourne/ Victoria

R107 You bet me to it.

Fact is also that only Sydney & Melbourne have any degree of capacity to handle a COVID outbreak - the other states are truely fucked if it breaks out in their capital cities even if they are much smaller. They simply lack the manpower and resources that Victoria & NSW have.

Melbourne's problems were also caused by the quarantine [failure] of incoming travellers. They have more than anywhere but Sydney, but significantly fewer than Sydney.

But we are being Sydney so I thought I'd stick to the thread title.

I'm R107.

Covid or not, Melbourne is still the asshole of the earth

Melbourne is just full of arrogant ethnic minorities and immigrants who refuse to do what they're told and quarantine or stay inside. Grubby Chinese, Sudanese, Muslims

I’m the Asian gay bathhouse in the CBD busy with rice queens

R114 I went there once but never again.

They didn't seem to know the word 'No' so I said 'Oom-go joyo-jeh' at them.

Does David Harris live in the Eastern Suburbs? If so I'm pretty sure I've had sex with him a few years back.

R116 Was it good ?

Yes not bad R117. If it's the same guy and I think it is. I was living in North Bondi at the time. Met him in Marks Park.

We were in the bus in Elizabeth Street going up the hill from Haymarket to Central Railway. Two rather handsome men were strutting downhill towards us. The more handsome of the two was short and overly muscular. He was enjoying the admiration of the passersby while ignoring his companion.

I half-recognised him. He was that Instaho in the Gay Olympics, wasn’t he? He displayed his nude pictures on the net—along with two matching ugly blotches on his thighs.

Was he named Shane or Simon? I know his surname was a matching five letters. Two syllables.

My companion asked me if the man was sexy. I replied ‘I don't know, I’m still making up my mind’.

R119 who?

Love, Sidney

I'm Carol Burnett.

I am Tony Abbott, Ex Prime Minister, soon to be employed by the UK as trade negotiator

I’m Craigieburn, one of the most ridiculous sounding names for a city ever.

Craigieburn is in Melbourne R124.

R124 I reckon 'Craigieburn' was named 150 years ago by a lonely Scottish shepherd transplanted to the opposite end of the world.

A Sydney woman wrote in 1855 "I feel very lonely here. I am a stranger in a far land and the time hangs very heavy in the dead of night finding yourself alone with the distant sounds of cattle. The receipt of a letter is the greatest treat we have".

An old man in Aberdeen offered this advice to a younger man smoking a pipe. ‘It’s good to see a young laddie enjoying the best companionship the world can offer. A pipe’s your friend for life and ye canna say that for man or woman’.

I'm Fox Studios.

R119 You'r talking about nude Bobsleigher, Simon Dunn—

R115: real question- what’s ‘Oom-go joyo-jeh’?

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R129 'Oom-go joyo-jeh' means 'Please, get out of my way' while walking on the correct side of the footpath/sidewalk.

I'm the Hoyts cinema complex in George Street. I had a laugh in 1979 when the posh voiced lady announced that doors were now open for the screening of The Bitch starring Joan Collins.

Hot fit guys guys, with even hotter accents; but horrible flat blocks.

R131: thanks! But what language/dialect is that? Or is it just something randomly made up?

Im Zac Efron. Gay rumors won't follow me here, mate.

I'm the gap tooth smile of Luna Park.

I'm the Backpacker Murderer, who found many of his victims hitchhiking along Sydney-Canberra highways.

I'm the grannie killer who strangled multiple mature women in the 1980's on Sydney's leafy northern suburbs.

I'm the Mahmoud family killer.

I'm related to Hawi family Killer. He's related to the Ahmad family killer. And he's related to the Nazlioglu family killer.

They're all related to each other and leave within four suburbs of each other.

They have a real sense of entitlement because Mick Hawi's father was once photographed with Gough Whitlam years ago describing the new emigrant as model New Australian.

I'm the toilet water being flushed and spinning counter -clockwise.

I'm the gigantic labia!

^ The Sydney Opera House has 8 gigantic labia surrounded by smaller labias.

I'm the super stylish, sophisticated & erudite populace!

R143This is one of those super stylish and sophisticated Sydneysiders (with an American friend)

I’m the Andrew (Boy) Charlton Pool mentioned somewhere upthread:

I'm the sign in the Andrew (Boy) Charlton Pool changing room saying 'Persons using cameras in this Changing Room will be Prosecuted'.

R146: Lolz is there really such a sign?

There was, R147, the last time I went there.

I'm the Australian media who believe Australian is already the US's 51st state.

We churn out daily minutia about the current US president and we give preference to tornadoes in Toledo Ohio over the Southerly Buster now raging up the Sydney coast.

There are tornadoes in Toledo, Ohio?

Heavens. News to me.

I'm the $1.8 million, cockroach-infested, damp-ridden, 2 bedroom apartment in a former slummy part of the city. I will be bought by a Chinese oligarch and then left empty while all the young people flee for other cities where they may be able to afford a place.

I'm the insanely narcissistic and bigoted white gay community, frequently throwing the n-word around, ostracising Asian and Middle Eastern men, and being horrible about any gay man they meet, only to then go home and make a video for social media where they weepily tell everyone how important the gay community is, and "black lives matter"!

I am also one of the most beautiful harbours out there, the easy walkability, and the ability to eat cuisine from almost any country you can think of.

And finally, I'm the joy of having left there.

Damn a lot of stuff here sounds just like New York. Properties being bought up by foreign oligarchs, sitting empty while residents face a housing crisis, a lonely and superficial gay community, bigotry, etc.

^That may explain why so many people I met in Sydney were really keen on going to New York and how they thought going there was the next logical step in their life. Interesting!

(I should add, the worst in Sydney are the transplants, people from other places who think they have to behave a certain way once they're there... the people born in Sydney that I met were by and large lovely, and looked upon these awful people with derision.)

I'm the foreign oligarchs.

We are buying YOU out now. In Australia, In Europe, In America. In Canada. In Africa.

We buy. We give cheap loans and you suffer in debt to us.

I'm the Sydney Opera House, which from a distance, resembles a pile of dried pumpkin seeds.

^ Yes, and also yacht sails, clams and the Sisters of Charity.

I'm the skeptical American from San Francisco on a five week, Circle-the -Pacific, five-nation scuba diving dream trip of a lifetime who is dragged to Sydney, Australia for the last week of 1999 by his cheating partner, who watched Priscilla Queen of the Desert, Muriel's Wedding, and Strictly Ballroom too many times.

While touring the inside of the Sydney Opera House, I say: "This looks like your average BART station," but then has an epiphany while eating meat pies with mashy peas from a truck.

I hope you're with someone who treats you much better now, R157 😘

R104 I'm late getting back to comment but of course QLD is doing better than NSW & Victoria with COVID:

1) Far, far less people in the whole of QLD than Sydney or Melbourne alone;

2) Sydney & Melbourne (until it got out of control) were taking the bulk of the returned travellers returning from overseas. Sydney is still taking way way more than the rest of Australia combined, which is fair enough because none of the other states has the capacity to take much more than they already are because they don't have the population to support such an operation. But the endless comments by Mark McGowan & A.P. sticking the knife into Victoria & NSW at every opportunity is getting tiring - as are all the bickering between the states with each other and the federal government.

Also, Melbourne & Sydney house nearly 10.5 million people of Australia's population of about 25 million.

QLD has handled the outbreaks they have had of COVID brilliantly but that has more to do with CMO Jeanette Young than A.P. Jeanette Young is extremely cautious in her decision making and rightly so because just one case can quickly become many more. QLD's should be kneeling at the alter of Jeanette Young every night just like NSW should be kneeling at the alter of CMO Kerry Chant who has also handled the situation very well.

A.P. should and hopefully win the upcoming state election. I'm not a fan of A.P. but she is much better than the opposition.

Most of the shit Dan Andrews is copping is a bit unfair. Mistakes were going to be made somewhere and from them hopefully the country will learn collectively from those mistakes. And at the end of the day by Australian standards the situation is Melbourne in dreadful but by most International standards its been handled far far better.

R139 Do these "bikies" in Sydney actually ride bikes anymore, or are they all driving around in Lexus? Guys like this gangster definitely know how to put on a respectable front when they face court.

R157 is referring to the redoubtable Harry's Cafe de Wheels, with the pie and mashy peas. It now has several spinoffs, but the original in Woolloomoolloo dates from 1938.

(Yes, Americans, that is a real place.)

Marlene ate there

This thread got pretty negative, so to balance it out a little:

I’m Surry Hills, a beautiful neighbourhood of terrace houses (row houses for those in the US) built around 1850s and largely preserved. I’ve got great restaurants, bars, parks and am an easy walk to the city CBD. It’s a beautiful place to live.

Another one: I’m the walk from manly ferry up and over North Head. I’m just incredibly beautiful, with changing scenery, wild flowers, harbour and ocean views and a smattering of lovely small beaches. I take about 4 hours and will breathe life into your week.

You've also got a great theatre, R163, which has just tentatively reopened with reduced audience capacity.

I'm crappy skyscraper architecture.

I'm the lazy generalisation about "skyscraper architecture".

I think you will find that every city's "skyscraper architecture" is 'crappy'. It would be more informative if you could name a city skyscraper which ISN't 'crappy'.

R167, then you know nothing about skyscraper architecture.

Allow me to assist you.

Google the word "Chicago".

That is skyscraper architecture.

Bullshit twiddly bits stuck on cement lumps is not skyscraper architecture. It's "featurism" which is what Australia mostly has instead of architecture.

I'm the one who appreciates the Chicago Tribune tower, the Lloyd Wrights at Oak Park suburb, but not that fat silver bowel movement.

I can't see much else, or indeed, special.

Not to turn this into a Chicago thread, but Louis Sullivan, John Wellborn Root, Dankmar Adler, Ludwig Mies van der Rohe, Charles Atwood, Skidmore Owings & Merrill, Daniel Burnham, Graham, Probst & White and a host of talented Art Deco, Beaux Arts and Modernist architects created a cityscape that is functional yet monumental, detailed without being fussy and beautifully modulated in terms of the skyline and its relationship to the shore.

Sydney got the brilliantly sited Opera House, some bold work by Harry Seidler and a few others and, well, that's about it.

I'm the one ignorant of John Wellborn Root etc so I will need to spend some time googling to respond later.

But I will immediately agree that the Opera House is 'brilliantly sited'. A site like that deserves an unusual building. Unfortunately the architect was naive and the government department who commissioned him were too impatient for him to resolve his issues. So the compromised building we see today is quite different from what he originally proposed.

^ Furthermore, and in response to R157, construction of the Sydney Opera House was a long drawn out list of mistakes.

The handsome, but naive, Danish architect named Joern Utzon knew nothing about Australia's climate. He wanted a pavilion with low-slung white rooves, without walls, floating like clouds above a stone platform similar to the Acropolis on Parthenon. His design was chosen by one of the 3 judges, another Scandinavian named Eero Saarinen. Utzon’s sketches were so vague no one could build them so he had to change his design into a bulkier, upright-shaped building.

The client at the time were a bunch of men (ex-coalminers and engine-drivers) who changed their mind about the use of the halls (concerts versus opera) because they knew there was insufficient local audience who wanted to watch opera. Meanwhile back in the USA Eero Saarinen had a sympathetic client and was able to quickly build the TWA Flight Center at JFK Airport which closely resembled Utzon’s original design.

Utzon struggled on for a decade and was sacked by the replacement government. The stone platform was replaced with ghastly pink aggregate. And the replacement architects did the interior foyers in a gloomy Brutalist style which, as you say, R157, resembles a Bay Area Rapid Transit train station.

I'm the hotel elevator that can't wait to be the "fly on the wall" when visiting Carol Burnett and Julie Andrews decide to "pretend to make out" riding on me so they can purposely be shock-discovered when my doors open on them onto the Lobby.

My initial response was rather rude, so I apologize. Sydney has some wonderful architecture, but nearly all of it is domestic.

Taste is subjective, of course, and preferences vary - where Chicago's glory lies is in creating an architectural language for the skyscraper that was not all bells and whistles, but was instead about materials, engineering and proportion. Its best building do not scream "look at me!!!" they simply are there and when you look closer they reveal their charms, whether it be the exquisite copper lacework of Sullivan's department stores, or the overall proportions of SOM's John Hancock tower (which, despite being the second tallest building in the city, is so gorgeously vertical that it seems to weigh nothing). The majority of high-rise architecture outside of the US never had the strength of its convictions and was always seeking to hang a ribbon on itself. Australian work is similar to the horrid new skyline of London in employing gimmicks and cosmetics as ways to prove that this really is architecture, goddamn it, and as a result, seems trendy, tacky and oddly insubstantial.

As I mentioned, there are exceptions, such as Harry Seidler's towers, which are classics in the Bauhaus style.

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I’m the Americans judging a place that they could never afford to visit, and would be too scared to, it being foreign, and all.

sdwdwde

I'm the very tiny list of reasons why an American should travel thousands of miles to visit what is essentially Cockney Texas.

I'm the obnoxious Harry Seidler who arrived in Australia in 1950 claiming to be American even though I was born in Austria, lived in the US for a couple of years while worshipping at the feet of Germans Mies van der Rohe and Walter Gropius.

I was contemptuous of my adopted country. ‘Let’s not make a great song and dance about creating a uniquely Australian style of architecture”. . .it is ‘a provincial place’ that ‘blindly follows everything that happens in England and the US’.

I was aggressively, rectilinearly modern until Philip Johnson said it was OK to use curves. I built the Blues Point Tower which intrudes into almost every tourist picture of Sydney.

I am the lack of evidence that anything Harry said about Australia was untrue.

[quote]it is ‘a provincial place’ that ‘blindly follows everything that happens in England and the US’.

Ouch. There's... quite honestly a ring of truth to that, though not so much with England these days.

Which shows how little you know and have experienced, R178, thereby perfectly proving my point.

You parochial idiot.

R182, I am well aware of your superior health care and other admirable social services. I am also aware of the unique aspects of Australian native culture.

The list ends there.

We have our own majestic landscapes, our own national parks (we actually invented the things!) and historic cities that were old before you lot washed up in Botany Bay. Our museum and cultural infrastructure leaves yours in the dust. As we were settled by the Spanish, the Dutch, the Germans, the French and the Russians, we have a much more diverse post-contact population and history. And our Mardi Gras is an actual Mardi Gras, dating back from before you fuckers even existed. As we did not, for the worst possible reasons, have a White Australia policy, we can actually play music and dance. Our favorite holiday is not throwing up while a race horse dies in the background. And our fast food is not named after an unflushed toilet.

If we travel for novelty, it will be to the "Old World" or the Americas.

You're like Nevada, only somehow more tacky. Or New Jersey, only minus Princeton and Peapack and 120 degrees in the shade.

R183 I'm the curious person who asks what are the 'unique aspects of Australian native culture'.

We have carbon dating but almost nil documentation of what was happening prior to the 18th century.

R184, I'm R183, reluctant to explain Australian aboriginal culture to a person whom I take to be an Australian.

Luckily for you, Google exists.

Knock yourself out.

And you proved it again you dumb fuck, R183.

Feel free to create a list of why an American should visit Australia, R186. And try to restrict yourself to three claims that you all shit jelly beans. Because you don't.

Face it.

We're just not that into you. And we don't need to be.

Nobody wants you to, mate - you’re just too American to realise that!

And R188 proves MY point.

Any city that has Tim Draxl as a resident is OK by me... and I’ve been to Sydney.. beautiful city, with friendly people!!

Any city that has Tim Draxl as a resident is OK by me... and I’ve been to Sydney.. beautiful city, with friendly people!!

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I'm the stomping grounds of the late, great Tim Conigrave, trying to catch a break (and some dick) as an actor.

I'm the one who rejected Tim Conigrave. I found him to be pushy, manipulative and as short as a toadstool.

I'm the lost earphone bud under the bed in the hotel room where Tom Hanks and Rita Wilson quarantined after they were diagnosed with Covid.

R195 They discovered they had COVID when they were on the Gold Coast and that is where they were quarantined, first in hospital then in a hotel suite. They had just been to Sydney but appear to have caught it in the U.S.

I’m Tim Draxl, trying to convince DLers that some people find me attractive

I'm my mum, recounting tales of growing up in Kings Cross and lamenting her beautiful city of sandstone and leadlight that got destroyed in the 1960's mad rush to modernise. I'm my Granma telling me about growing up by the Pyrmont Docks and her wild times racing on 16 footers in the harbour on Sundays and dropping overboard on the return leg to swim to the Milson Point ferry. I'm the dusty photos of long dead relatives in their best clobber out for a day at the Randwick races. I'm my dad remembering life in Ryde just after the war when he could walk down one end of the street and catch a tram into the city and down the other end was open farms and a stream he caught rainbow trout in. I'm The Sando, The Graphics Arts, Soup Plus, The Coogie Bay and all the countless venues I haunted watching bands like INXS, Midnight Oil, The Cure and Talking Heads...good times. I'm my Great Granma who arrived in Sydney from Tasmania and changed her ethnicity from part Aboriginal to Italian Jew on the boat over. I'm the backyards with lemon trees (which always fruit) and mangos (that fruit every third year and are a cause for great celebration). I'm all those little towns at the edge of the metropolis that keep getting swallowed up by suburbia.

R183, you're quite right. The US has marvellous national parks and museums; riches far beyond what Australia can offer in terms of profusion and the kind of quality you can get with a large, relatively wealthy population. We have a tiny population by comparison with you, and western culture has not been here very long.

However, we have sent you streams of actors, directors, cinematographers and more recently writers that you seem to need despite your vast superiority. We own arguably the best Jackson Pollock in the world (certainly many thought so during MoMA's Pollock retrospective), and the Opera House, if flawed, pisses on your theatres. Many's the time I've seen an American diva there who has mentioned singing there as a bucket-list event for her.

If you visited Australia and took any decent tour around Alice Springs and Uluru you would learn that the custodians of your national parks regularly visit Uluru National Park, which is run by the Anangu people, to learn the traditional means of park management by which they have made it one of the world's greatest in the short period that ownership has been returned to them (?40 years). You would also see contemporary Aboriginal art that your superior museums are now collecting.

Unless you plan to do a spot of major drug-dealing, you also don't have to worry about being shot.

What's leadlight, R198?

R200 Stained glass in leaded framework in Sydney Town Hall

^ This allegorical figure stands on the 'Oceania' part of the globe and holds a lamp (representing a lighthouse) and a sceptre with an anchor. This meant to symbolise that Sydney was safe anchorage after a long and treacherous sea voyage.

She is shown with the state flower which the natives called a 'Wa-ra-ta" which can grow to six feet and bears a more spectacular bloom than anything growing in Rio de Janeiro, New York, Boston or Chicago.

^ She's wearing a British Union Jack bodice and a headdress bearing rams' horns (wool was Australia's best export at the time).

I don't know the meaning of the 5-pointed and the 7-pointed stars. The necklace looks like a null-nulla.

The other flower is a Trumpet Honeysuckle.

[quote]We have our own majestic landscapes, our own national parks (we actually invented the things!) and historic cities that were old before you lot washed up in Botany Bay. Our museum and cultural infrastructure leaves yours in the dust. As we were settled by the Spanish, the Dutch, the Germans, the French and the Russians, we have a much more diverse post-contact population and history. And our Mardi Gras is an actual Mardi Gras, dating back from before you fuckers even existed. As we did not, for the worst possible reasons, have a White Australia policy, we can actually play music and dance. Our favorite holiday is not throwing up while a race horse dies in the background. And our fast food is not named after an unflushed toilet.

If we travel for novelty, it will be to the "Old World" or the Americas.

You're like Nevada, only somehow more tacky. Or New Jersey, only minus Princeton and Peapack and 120 degrees in the shade.

Lowlife cocksuckers like R183 make me ashamed to be American. Motherfucker everything you mentioned that is great about the USA is the result of nature, not your entitled ass. It was all here before your ancestors came here massacred and enslaved people. You are a stupid, stupid asshole. Poxy lowlife bigot, get cancer.

[quote]We have our own majestic landscapes, our own national parks (we actually invented the things!) and historic cities that were old before you lot washed up in Botany Bay. Our museum and cultural infrastructure leaves yours in the dust. As we were settled by the Spanish, the Dutch, the Germans, the French and the Russians, we have a much more diverse post-contact population and history. And our Mardi Gras is an actual Mardi Gras, dating back from before you fuckers even existed. As we did not, for the worst possible reasons, have a White Australia policy, we can actually play music and dance. Our favorite holiday is not throwing up while a race horse dies in the background. And our fast food is not named after an unflushed toilet. If we travel for novelty, it will be to the "Old World" or the Americas. You're like Nevada, only somehow more tacky. Or New Jersey, only minus Princeton and Peapack and 120 degrees in the shade.

*Fixed so everyone can see R183's entitled cuntitude. Lowlife cocksuckers like [R183] make me ashamed to be American. Motherfucker everything you mentioned that is great about the USA is the result of nature, not your entitled ass. It was all here before your ancestors came here massacred and enslaved people. You are a stupid, stupid asshole. Poxy lowlife bigot, get cancer.

I'm Sydney Dance Company ballerino Rhys Kosakowski (thanks, Gorgeous Gay Men queens).

Doctor! We've located R205's nerve!

R159 Dan Andrews is responsible for the most disease-ridden coronavirus state.

Sloppy management in his state has allowed 18,000 infections and 768 deaths.

He refused to have federal officers doing the work guarding the disease-carriers and gave that job to the most lowly paid workers to do it. These low-paid workers are sub-contractors to other sub-contractors and are unmotivated to do a thorough job and some of them were having sex with the disease-carriers.

Dan Andrews is now being criticised for making those decisions a few months ago and now claiming he's forgotten who made those decisions and how they were made. He has forced his Minister for health to take the blame.

R16, R24, R26 You need to differentiate the employed lifeguards and the volunteer lifesavers.

The employees wear baggy blue clothing while the volunteers were brief clothing in red and yellow. It's the volunteers who use the old-fashioned wooden surfboats requiring them to stretch their speedos unto their anal cleavage and perfectly display their muscled buttocks.

R24, the 'ugly' one you complaining about joined these others doing the Monty 22 years ago—

The late Helen Reddy was born in Melbourne rather than Sydney.

She left to chase fame in LA very early but only returned very recently looking rather tubby to appear on some mindless game show.

I am the few bucks it costs to travel by city train to an assortment of national parks.

I am the endless possibilities when it comes to accessible bushwalks.

You do not require an automobile to get to me.

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I’m the latest - and rather homoerotic - ad from R.M. William’s boots

^ R.M. Williams

^ I heard that his wife was on some painting a portrait show on TV this week. She said both she and Hugh were gay. I didn't see it.

I'm the Socialist Alliance who made up the majority of protesters at today's illegal transvestite parade.

It was deemed to be illegal because the city seems to be now slowly recovering from The Virus' Second Wave.

R216 Dear God. I'm planning on voting for them (Socialist Alliance) at the next federal election and giving my preference to the extreme right party that makes Pauline Hanson look like a greenie. I'm sick of the LNP, ALP, Greens, One Nation, etc. Between the lot of them they couldn't organise a walk along the beach. We need to do away with compulsory voting!

^ I agree. I have worked as an electoral officer at many elections and so many of the voters have NO interest in politics or professional politicians.

I'm Malhoub, one of Sydney's ethnic 'Roid Ragers

I am the arrogant dumb police who never like to be held accountable and are basically bullies. I turned a blind eye to a serial killer of gay men in the 90s because I didn’t see them as people. I have evolved, but I am really racist, sexist, corrupt thugs in uniform.

R220 sounds like the Philly thread.

I am the new era of policing in Sydney.

Millions has been spent over a decade looking at cold cases and ensuring better public relations—

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R224 Fuck. The make-up people at the ABC polish him fine. He looks like a very old man in the photo.

He's got a good body but a big George Arliss nose and I think he's squinting in the harsh summer glare.

I reckon his hubby initiated the smooching.

I'm a frequent backdrop for MAFS, the fake reality show that usually casts actor wannabes

I'm all the A-List Hollywood stars who have decamped to Sydney indefinitely. There are too many of us to list....................

R226 - I'm admiring you for referencing George Arliss.

I was a gayling who got cruised by Richard Wherett before I knew who he was.

I’m one of the Americans who visited Sydney in the late eighties during my Navy years. I am a black American and I was treated nicely by the locals, white, aboriginal and otherwise. I’m so shocked that there are so many racist people in Sydney and Australia in general. Everyone was so nice to me and my fellow black crew members. So my jaw has dropped after reading some of the comments here and in other threads about Australian culture. Most of the older Australians told us about the black servicemen who were sent to Darwin in 1942 after the Japanese bombings. Despite being mistreated by the local Australian government, they won over most of the townspeople and Eleanor Roosevelt even sent them a letter of thanks for their service. The Australian PM at the time told FDR that “Australia is a white nation so please don’t send us your Negros, please.”. Well FDR told Eleanor and she wasn’t having it. “You tell them that if they won’t take Negro soldiers, then you won’t send ANY!”. At least that is how it was told to me.

It’s too bad some people feel like that today. Why should I travel over there when I can get mistreated here and save a few thousand dollars in airfare.

The way that the world is nowadays, I should not be surprised...

[quote] The Australian PM at the time told FDR…

Is that a true story? Or an ancient embroidered anecdote?

It’s what I was told r232. I wasn’t there but that’s what they told me. Hopefully I remembered it correctly, maybe not.

Crap airport with dumb ass customs agents.

R233 Never believe gossip. It tells you more about the gossiper than about the person being gossiped about.

Beware of "Oral History". Everyone likes to big-note themselves and self-aggrandise.

Those incidents you talk about may have been discussed in secret but the Australian Archives usually release Top Secret documents after 30 years.

What?

I'm the city that sleeps at 8 P.M.

R219 That guy was shot yesterday.

The two tribes are progressively killing each other.

I’m Secret City on Netflix. People wear coats do government things here. I have a hulking tranny in my first few episodes, confusing and scaring the American viewers even further.

[quote] I'm the extended family gathering for 57 every Sunday at "our" spot along Botany Bay.

Are you talking about those heterosexual swarms interrupting our al fresco "corroboree" sex places?

I'm the stunning aerial views of the harbor during the show "Married At First Sight---Australia."

R239, Secret City is set in the nation's capital city, Canberra. Not Sydney.

R241 I'm the stunning views of the mountains just west of Sydney for the show "Married At First Sight---Australia."

I'm the shade of jealous scarlett red that Sydney has turned since the government announced that, via a small tweak of the land area definition, metro Melbourne has just edged past metro Sydney to become Australia's population center.

[quote] Melbourne

Untrustworthy.

Tries too hard.

This thread has many expired links. Including one to a former sexy, Sydney socialite.

He would thrill us with his seductive daily posts to Instagram three years ago. But now he wears a suit and ties and sells cars on the North Shore.

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I'm the former Aussie star who has forsaken the land of sunshine for the land of drizzle.

Let's not! (...be the city of Sydney!)

I'm all the Brits emigrating there because Australia offers a better life. Doctors - the kind of people the UK spent money training!

FYI, I checked and the poster redtagged as a troll has about 70 posts in this thread. So just that you understand how much one poster can dominate a thread.

R231 Thanks for sharing that. An elderly friend in Sydney told us about the black GI's coming to Australia even before the US entered the war. She said she and her girlfriends thought the black soldiers were the best - they were handsome, well-groomed, perfect gentlemen, and they brought records with them. Swing music from the States was a scarce commodity back then. And she said they were the best dancers ever - far and away more exciting than the local boys. The government were shits, but the people were very good to them, she said.

Her enthusiasm struck me as a bit odd because while she raved about the Americans of color who were visiting, she was not too found of the aboriginal people who lived there.