In the USA it is still Australia Day Australia Day is the official national day of Australia. Celebrated annually on 26 January, it marks the anniversary of the 1788 arrival of the First Fleet of British Ships at Port Jackson, New South Wales, and raising of the Flag of Great Britain at that site by Governor Arthur Phillip.
It's still Australia day in Australia if your in Western Australia. Sitting in Broome having another fermented vegetable drink after BBQing half a cow. We do this most days but today we have a flag.
You are killing me... Are you both Aussies? I worked as a bouncer in Kings Cross in 1985. Not a thing I use in my CV... There were so many Swedes there then Sydney were called Swedney.
I am but @cicindela is getting square. Don't forget Barramundi, the size of horses ( over a meter they call it the saddle club)
Yes, it is not anything I would recommend anyone. I was cut once and a lot of bruises. I worked the Rex (not far from the fountain) and a place called, if i remember correctly, "the bottoms up bar". It was a "hard" gaybar. Nothing feminine about that place - I can assure you. We were three bouncers there - a big Samoan, a black American guy and me. Had to leave Kings Cross in a hurry in the end. I was naive and did not understand that the pushers had the same boss as me. One night I took my job too seriously and that resulted in a note on the door to my appartement - "you better leave Kings Cross"...Signed by the manager. I phoned one of my collegues and he just said... "Do not pack anything - just go". Spent a couple of weeks out in a national park camping and then had a friend pack my stuff. Got it sent to me on another adress and that was it. Never been back. The manager was later shot at close range with a shotgun in his office (not that this had anything to do with me - just a sign of the time and place). This was many years ago and I would not have it undone but as I wrote earlier - it is nothing I would recommend to anyone. I was young, naive and/but had a top class military education and had been training wrestling and kick boxing since childhood. That saved me during the daily bouncer "things". The organized crime you cannot fight whatever your skills are though. Went home - went to university and have not ventured into anything like this since then (even if I worked the door while going to university - bouncing students in a small town in Sweden is a totally different thing).
The position of "OmegaForums Bouncer is open at this time if you are interested. You provide security at the Gold Coast Headquarters and during travel. Pay is a 5% discount on watch books and you get to have the title of ΩF Enforcer under your name
I proudly accept your offer! As long as you are aware of me, today, being 50 and an old, fat, slow geezer... First time I get to have a title (at a website) - can I tease STANDY with this one (him being a just a Woffler and all)?
I used to work in the kitchen at the Sebel Town House in the 80s -- once watched a guy get stabbed in the street as I came off a nightshift. King's X is a shadow of its former self today, but that is probably a good thing. I'm relocating to Australia tonight, taking my collection with me. Can anyone recommend a good watchmaker who can handle Universal complications and the odd Heuer/JLC/Rolex from the 1950s and 60s in Sydney? Many thanks Tim
'Straya, where we love music, like Midnight Oil and AcDc and choose to call the hardest fighting, shittest tasting fish in our Southern waters the 'drummer' Also the place where I was chased while on foot by a machete wielding, V8 driving maniac shouting 'stop, or ill kill you' needless to say I didnt stop running ... and that was Adelaide, never mind Kings Cross
I celebrated Australia Day by sleeping in until 09:00. Got up and had Vegemite on toast and a coffee for brekky. Spent most of the morning in my workshop (garage actually) resorting an 1889 American Ansonia clock. Had lunch on the patio. A ham, matured cheese and mustard mayo on rye sandwich washed down with a stubbie of Coopers Pale Ale. Back to checking clock bits and listening to Tchiakovsky, Beethoven and Sibelius. Dinner was Australian lamb, leek and thyme sausages fresh from the barbie with fresh local salad, accompanied by a New Zealand Oyster Bay Pinot Noir. A nightcap? A wee dram of Glenfiddich Gran Reserva 25YO. Most of the time spent with my Darlin' (except for workshop bits). Doesn't get much better than that. Cheers Jim
A Swede gets a title on a Australia Day thread for telling a story about running away. Well done mate.. Your new avatar
Well, my ancestry is a wee bit of Irish, a wee bit of English, and a wee bit of German, but unfortunately, no Scot that I know of (Grandma, any secrets??) I visited Scotland on holidays twice and I'm just in awe of that little country, but having no ancestral roots from there, the closest I can do to having some Scotch in me is to imbibe in a wee dram
