New NT waterbed....

[Outbackjack]

The Borroloola hotel is known as a bit of a frontier pub for many reasons. Their accomodation is basic to say the least, but you do get a waterbed as standard!!!!
I would not want this blokes hangover.

[GXL078]

That picture just brought a tear to my eye, very sad situation.

[4.9 EF Futura]

Lol.

Heading up north later in the year, actually really looking forward to it!

[MITCHAY]

LMAO! Beats the Hilton anyday! :

[Outbackjack]

Originally Posted by 4.9 EF Futura

Lol.

Heading up north later in the year, actually really looking forward to it!

If you end up in Borroloola/King Ash Bay, make sure you visit the Borroloola pub. Also the King Ash Bay fishing club bar, is possibly the nicest bar in Australia. Once you have had a beer or two there, you will know why.

Cheers.

[XRated]

Poor bastard!! I saw a bloke who was in a very similar situation - except he was passed out on the footpath, in front of a shop, on busy Swanston St during the middle of the day.

[[Tonko]]

LOL!
at least he dosent have to worry about ****ing the bed or being dehydrated when he wakes up...

[Kryton]

can see this thread lasting a long time.

[AU2PWR]

Gotta be better than an Airbed ..

[Keepleft]

Yikes! Common enough but.

I wonder if thats the brand reflecting in the water?

[The Monty]

Bwahahahaha. A XXXX water bed.

[Van D]

Somebody still wets the bed..

[DoreSlamR]

better than passing out on a single lane bridge...used to have to watch very carefully when driving at night in Fitzroy Crossing WA. Also used to wake them up 5am in the mornings doing the rubbish run in the Gator. ahh good times

[GXL078]

I have noticed in SA and WA there are heaps more aboriginals and people just walk around them as if they are not there. There was one at the cricket in Adelaide who kept moving from seat to seat while the occupiers of the seats were buying drinks. No one said or did anything. Also he was drinking from a 750ml longneck when there is a strict "no glass" policy for everyone else. He was swearing a lot an just went ignored, while another guy got booted out of the ground for telling 'boof' (Darren Lehman) he couldn't play cricket.

[flappist]

Originally Posted by xcgxl

I have noticed in SA and WA there are heaps more aboriginals and people just walk around them as if they are not there. There was one at the cricket in Adelaide who kept moving from seat to seat while the occupiers of the seats were buying drinks. No one said or did anything. Also he was drinking from a 750ml longneck when there is a strict "no glass" policy for everyone else. He was swearing a lot an just went ignored, while another guy got booted out of the ground for telling 'boof' (Darren Lehman) he couldn't play cricket.

I wonder if that is because when people have tried to do anything, left wing nutcases start screaming "descrimination" and "indigenous rights" and the people who are trying to do something spend all their time in court or facing some socialist do-gooder zealot on a power trip?

[4.9 EF Futura]

Originally Posted by flappist

I wonder if that is because when people have tried to do anything, left wing nutcases start screaming "descrimination" and "indigenous rights" and the people who are trying to do something spend all their time in court or facing some socialist do-gooder zealot on a power trip?

Truer words, never spoken.

[The Monty]

Originally Posted by flappist

I wonder if that is because when people have tried to do anything, left wing nutcases start screaming "descrimination" and "indigenous rights" and the people who are trying to do something spend all their time in court or facing some socialist do-gooder zealot on a power trip?

100% spot on the money.

[Outbackjack]

Originally Posted by flappist

I wonder if that is because when people have tried to do anything, left wing nutcases start screaming "descrimination" and "indigenous rights" and the people who are trying to do something spend all their time in court or facing some socialist do-gooder zealot on a power trip?

It's easy to blame one side of politics or the other. Both have tried to fix the "problem". Neither have the answer. We all must take responsibility for our own actions. Black white or brindle we all have the freedom to make choices that effect our lives. If the pictured guy decided to pour XXXX down his throat until he could no longer stand, that was his choice. What can any government do to change that? We see this all to often here in the Alice. It is the kids that I feel sorry for. I can see the next generation taking the place of the current one. I dont what the answers are. No-one does.

[GXL078]

If they were not paid for having kids and there would be no "next generation"

[Full Noise]

I think he’s having one hell of a wet dream. :hihi: :hihi: :hihi:

[flappist]

Originally Posted by Outbackjack

It's easy to blame one side of politics or the other. Both have tried to fix the "problem". Neither have the answer. We all must take responsibility for our own actions. Black white or brindle we all have the freedom to make choices that effect our lives. If the pictured guy decided to pour XXXX down his throat until he could no longer stand, that was his choice. What can any government do to change that? We see this all to often here in the Alice. It is the kids that I feel sorry for. I can see the next generation taking the place of the current one. I dont what the answers are. No-one does.

Left wing nutcases scream, right wing nutcases keep their mouths shut, at least in public, because their solution is usually 7.62mm wide and will get them mentioned in the UN.

But other than that you are correct but unfortunately we live in a world where it is now standard practice to blame anyone and or everyone but ourselves for our own situation.

[Outbackjack]

Originally Posted by flappist

Left wing nutcases scream, right wing nutcases keep their mouths shut, at least in public, because their solution is usually 7.62mm wide and will get them mentioned in the UN.

But other than that you are correct but unfortunately we live in a world where it is now standard practice to blame anyone and or everyone but ourselves for our own situation.

The CLP in the NT had a policy of mandatory sentencing for convicted criminals. The ALP knocked it on the head. They said that it was discriminatory. I suppose it was. It discriminated against criminals. The crime rate in the Alice has ballooned since the laws were repealed. I hope that the laws are brought back. As has been said, it seems that there is always some one else to blame for our own actions and descisions. The guy in the photo is lucky to be alive. He collapsed there during the night after the pub closed. It poured with rain over night, typical tropical down pour. If his face was facing downwards, the outcome would have been worse than one mother of a hang over.

[DoreSlamR]

Originally Posted by Outbackjack

We see this all to often here in the Alice. It is the kids that I feel sorry for. I can see the next generation taking the place of the current one. I dont what the answers are. No-one does.

I've always wondered that instead of receiving money each fortnight that at least half of it is in food stamps or something similar, at least this way it won't all be blown on alcohol.

I remember one particular weekend the local pub (The Crossing Inn) made $80,000 in just alcohol takeaways.

the local shell servo makes a killing also, and thats what all the kids eat..chips etc

[GXL078]

Originally Posted by DoreSlamR

I've always wondered that instead of receiving money each fortnight that at least half of it is in food stamps or something similar, at least this way it won't all be blown on alcohol.

I remember one particular weekend the local pub (The Crossing Inn) made $80,000 in just alcohol takeaways.

the local shell servo makes a killing also, and thats what all the kids eat..chips etc

No McDonalds there? My local government area has 15 of them. And the supermarket sends in all the worst fruit and veg because no one buys it.

[DoreSlamR]

Nah all there was was a supermarket, a BP servo and a shell servo.

[Woz]

A couple of weeks back, while out chasing the truck (I'm a garbo, I do the hard rubbish collections) we came to an obvious commission house. The joint was falling apart, there was a dog sitting on the porch that we'd spotted roaming the streets a couple of hours earlier, no collar or tags, the lawn was fairly disgraceful by most peoples standards and there was a big (Boonie big, but about 6' tall) Aboriginal bloke in torn jeans, thongs and a fly jacket over a bluey singlet. Scruffy hair, messy beard, didn't smell real fresh.

He was out the front and walked over when the truck backed up to his pile of rubbish, which was quite a large pile. He walked up, said g'day and started picking stuff up, throwing it in the back of the truck. Then thanked us, shook our hands, wished us well and wandered back inside.

That bloke gets more respect from me for his actions than the clean living knobheads who wanna sit behind the truck for 40 seconds before they decide they've been held up too long and start yelling abuse or riding the horn. More respect, also, than those who come out of the house, or are already standing next to the pile and don't even return a friendly wave or "hello", let alone offer to help (which we more often than not knock back anyway), choosing rather to stand and watch us, then complain about how they're not happy with us leaving a gas bottle or car tyre, which is stated as being unnacceptable for pickup on their pamphlets.

People shouldn't always wave their opinion around and judge people as a whole. Those who do, I find, generally tend to appear the lesser people.

Not all Aboriginals are as bad as the ones everyone wants to tell stories about and show pictures of. Anyone in the situation shown in that photo should warrant the same response purely for the situation, not who it is. I'd expect people to laugh and carry on if it was me in that photo. I don't think the photo was supposed to stir up "check out the Abo" comments, more "check out the ****ed bloke lying in the puddle".

Why has it now become an Aboriginal debate? And there's a few comments that probably should have been left unsaid in this thread so far, I think.

[Outbackjack]

Gidday Woz. I am glad that you had a positive experience with one of Australia'a indigenous folk's. I posted that picture, not because the bloke was black, but because it high-lighted a part of Australia that very few Australians ever visit. (Borroloola/King Ash Bay). As I said it is a very "frontier" kind of place. The thread did drift onto issues of indiginies and the plight that they find themselves in, not all, but too many. I read through and I didn't see anything that was racist. People had a dig at him, but as you said, if it was you lieing there you would expect the same, as would I. But if the picture has shown anyone just how the countries indiginous people are wiping themselves out, then that is a good thing too. As I said in an earlier post, it is their problem. There is no doubt that non indiginous people have made things worse, usually killing them with kindness, but it is up to them to improve their lot in life, not mine, not yours, but only themselves. And speaking of the indiginous people in central Australia, there is very little effort on their part to change things. Their life is one of recieving constant hand outs. As you may have seen in the press, we tax payers are about to spend 70 million dollars on housing for the indiginous people of the Alice. This is to replace and re-furbish housing that already exists and build new houses. If you saw the houses that are standing today you would be amazed that they are simply going to give out new ones. Will this make their life any better? Maybe for a little while until the houses are trashed again. As I have said, what is the answer, I dont know. But continually handing over freebee's is not working.

Cheers.

[Keepleft]

Hey Jack, we can highlight more than that:-

http://www.ntnews.news.com.au/common...E13569,00.html

Appalling way to treat . . .

[Outbackjack]

Originally Posted by Keepleft

Hey Jack, we can highlight more than that:-

http://www.ntnews.news.com.au/common...E13569,00.html

Appalling way to treat . . .

Sounds like a typical friday night in an Alice town camp. And every night in these camps is a friday night......

[GasoLane]

Now there's a bloke that could really use some Mitsubishi 'Padels'!