Australia Day ~ Absolutely No Focus Whatsoever
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HAPPY AUSTRALIA DAY~!
This is the post made of everything else that makes my country AWESOME and can be proven in picture form XD You've already seen our fabulous music, movies, television, comedians, books and beer ads, how have everything that wouldn't fit. We've got animals, food, clothing and rocks. Seriously. Our rocks kick arse. Ain't nobody can do rocks in the middle of nowhere like Australia.
Everyone's heard of koalas and kangaroos and kookaburras and echidnas and platypi. I'm going to show you some you may not know unless you've been talking to me >>
This is a wobbegong, shark that lives in the tropics. I just love the name wobbegong. It's fun to say and it suits them well XD Hee. Wobbegong.
This is a numbat, one of our countless small marsupials. A lot of Australian natives look like some sort of rat or mouse thing, only prettier. And also marsupials and therefore not actually rodents. Case in point, the numbat. Aren't they pretty?
Tasmanian devil, which you probably will have heard of because of Looney Tunes's Taz. Real Tassie devils look nothing like Taz, tho. They're gorgeous~ and so dorky XD They're fun to see at the zoo cos they're always huffing around like someone's ticked them off.
WOMBAT <3 My favourite animal, as you'll recall from the books post. They're ADORABLE and I want to cuddle one but it'll probably claw my gut out if I try. Aussie animals do that. I LOVE WOMBATS~
Here I'll pick one beach from each state, except Tasmania where you'd frankly be NUTS to go swimming, Northern Territory for which I couldn't actually find a decent picture of any of its beaches, and the ACT because they have none. The rest of the country, tho, fair game. Most of our coastline is beach, and they're all beautiful and/or fantastic to swim at. Fabulous beaches, unlike Crocodile Dundee, are not a stereotype X)
Bells Beach
Starting out with the most famous beach in Victoria, which I've never been to because it's a surf beach and I can't surf. Bells Beach is where the vast majority of the surf brands started up: Rip Curl/Roxy, Quiksilver, Piping Hot, etc and so on.
Bondi Beach
I'm sure I don't need to say Bondi's my pick for NSW. The only other one I know over there is Manly, which was highly peopled >> Anyway, Bondi. PEOPLE EVERYWHERE again, but at least it's a big beach and can fit them all. Mostly. I've only been once and that was yeeeeears ago, but never mind. Surf beaches in the city are a cool concept, but I don't know that you'd really get enough room to actually surf on anything. Still, you'd get some kickarse boogey boarding happening there >D
The Whitsundays
Technically the Whitsundays are islands on the Great Barrier Reef in Queensland, but any island out there is going to be more beach than anything, so they count. Also, Queensland beaches tend to be either riddled with jellyfish, other things that sting/bite/eat you, or are the Gold Coast. Whitsundays look pretty idyllic to me. Mmmmmm tropical island <3 Mmmm, bloody expensive >>
Silver Sands
My pick for South Australia, and my favourite beach to go to ever <3 As you can see, you can drive your car down onto the sand and park it there, mere steps from the ocean. Don't let the picture fool you: you usually get at LEAST 30m either side of you. Of course, being fairly high up in the Gulf St Vincent, Adelaide beaches have absolutely no surf to speak of. Glassy flat and beautifully warm in summer despite being in the Southern Ocean, and yes. Absolutely gorgeous.
80 Mile Beach
I love how any picture you take of WA just LOOKS big. Look at that beach. You can just tell it goes for 80 miles without being told. Beaches you can drive on without the need for a 4WD always score extra points in my book, too. How gorgeous is WA? Everything's so open and BIG.
This is by no means all of it, just a couple of picks that make me proud, and probably the kind of stuff you won't find in a tourist brochure X3
Kangaroo, traditionally served with a cranberry and red wine sauce. If you like your meat well-done/boot-leather/otherwise burnt to a crisp, steer away from roo. It needs to be rare or else it'll go tough. But rare? SO tender and juicy and yummmmm X9 My second favourite meat after lamb. I can't really compare it to anything, but it is gamier than your traditional red meats. Rich and tender and just awesome. I love roo.
The TimTam slam. TimTams are a chocolate biscuit made by Arnotts, made by sandwiching two biscuits together with a sort of chocolate cream in the middle, and coated in chocolate. Similar to Penguins in the UK but for some reason you can't do a Penguin slam. Anyway, for a TimTam slam, bite off the corners of your biscuit as shown, then use it like a straw for your favourite hot beverage of choice (hot chocolate, coffee or tea works best). When the liquid makes it to your mouth--or a bit longer, when you know what you're doing--slam the coffee-soaked biscuit into your mouth. It is BLISS.
Which brings me neatly to coffee shops! We have so many Australian-owned coffee chains and even more independantly-owned coffee shops and cafes that we generally shun Starbucks. Two were opened in Adelaide a few years ago, only to be closed down... last year? Year before? That's people power, there. We in my country recognise a good coffee when we see it >) In my tiny little Hills town of a main street and a pub, we have... six I can think of off the top of my head, all of them locally owned. We're awesome X)
Maccadamia nuts! An Australian native tree, with a stupidly solid and impossible to break shell that makes them annoyingly expensive. My Gran used to have a maccadamia tree, and Colin and I tried once to crack some of them with her specialised maccadamia nut cracker. We managed three in half an hour, all of which were sufficiently pulverised to mush, then gave up. But man, they're so tasty. Traditionally had straight, salted, glazéd or chocolate coated. Haigh's makes the best chocolate coated maccadamias ever~ X)~~
CRAYFISH. And also any shellfish. The best seafood in the world~ comes from the Southern Ocean, because it's cold and not polluted or overfished like the northern Atlantic or Pacific Oceans. Prawns, oysters, cray, marron, Moreton Bay bugs (from Queensland and therefore obviously not the Southern Ocean but still, Aussie shellfish), you name it, we do it best.
The cray itself is more commonly known outside Australia as a southern rock lobster, so it'll often get put on menus, especially in Sydney where they get a lot of international tourists, as simply lobster. They're not the same thing--lobsters, for starters, have HUGE claws whereas crayfish only have their big horn-feeler-things. Also, I'm told real lobsters are better, though I've never had one so I can't really comment. Crays are pretty bloody epic. We have one a year in summer and make a big event of it, complete with prawns and smoked salmon and a bottle of bubbly.
Also, note, PRAWNS. They're not bloody SHRIMP. Shrimp are the piddly little cardboard tasteless things that go on pizzas and are a waste of pizza topping. Prawns are big and juicy, as you can see in that picture there. Why they're raw when the cray is cooked, I dunno.
Aussie reds > French reds. They just are. French wines are far too steeped in tradition so they can't go forwards--and the few wineries that have? Mostly took the lead from Aussie wineries. Corks, for example. Traditionally made from cork, but not a great sealer. We make ours from plastic now, or just a screw top, because it just works better. Screw tradition, we want to make kickarse wine.
Red wine is also about the only thing my state has over the others, so allow me to blow my own trumpet here. The Barossa Valley, as demonstrated by the picture there, is GORGEOUS. The other states have all got spectacular covered, but when it comes to pretty and serene, I challenge you to beat the Barossa. I love the Barossa, for its pretty and for its wines. Both are just epic.
Because some of our footware is pretty unique, too.
These are thongs. Yes, they are. You come to my country and call them flipflops, we will correct you. The summer footware of choice, if not barefoot. Thongs are awesome X)
Ugg boots. These are not fashion, for God's sake. I mean, look at them. And the name 'ugg' tends to conjure up images of cavemen, does it not? They're slippers for bumming around the house in winter, or surfies. Also, get the ones made with real lambswool. Synthetic ones make your feet sweaty and gross and the not-wool doesn't last nearly as long. I love my uggies~ they're so stupidly comfortable. America's treatment of them makes me lol. OH NOES ANIMAL CRUELTY. Please~ 9.9
Like I say, ain't nobody does big rocks in the middle of nowhere like we do. Most of these--if not all of them--you won't have heard of. Unless you're Aussie in which case you'll go "wow, we really DO have a lot of awesome rocks in the middle of nowhere."
Uluru
The only one I have any hope people will have heard of. I'm sure the name Ayer's Rock will die out over time. It gets called Uluru now a lot more than back when I climbed it when I was about~ 12? I think? BIG ROCK smack bang in the middle of the country. It's pretty spectacular.
Kata Tjuta
Or the Olgas, which will probably also die out. Not far from Uluru, you can see Kata Tjuta from the Rock, easy as :D
The Devil's Marbles
NT doesn't have much, but they do have a lot of rocks. We never got to the Devil's Marbles, cos they're a good couple hundred kilometers on from Uluru. I'd like to at some stage, tho.
The Remarkables
In South Australia, even :D These are on Kangaroo Island, famous, of course, for sea lions and the Remarkables. See, even SA gets some impressive rocks :D
The Pinnacles Desert
Back in the desert, middle of freaking nowhere, WA. IT JUST LOOKS BIG. I want to go here, too. It looks prehistoric.
The Twelve Apostles
Which is a misnomer because they're down to I think 10 now. The one on the left fell over about 5 years ago, and I'm sure there was one missing before then, too. Anyway, Twelve Apostles are the reason you drive the Great Ocean Road between Adelaide and Melbourne. I've sadly never done it, because it does take a fair while longer than the direct route, but as soon as I can accost someone, I'm so going there.
The Three Sisters
In the Blue Mountains, NSW. The only one of these rocks I've seen twice :D Our rocks are, as I've said, in the middle of nowhere. The Three Sisters are the closest to somewhere--only about 2 hours from Sydney--hence my going there twice. So spectacular~ *.*
Unless I'm missing something, I can't think of any in Queensland or Tasmania. Cradle Mountain doesn't count cos that's a mountain, not a rock.
We're a sport-loving nation, we are. The ones we compete in internationally we tend to be pretty awesome at, which is impressive from a country of only 20mil.
Australian rules football, more commonly known simply as footy, mocked by those who don't like it as aerial ping pong because there are a lot of kicks that go 50m+ and waaaaay up, but you can't deny the popularity of this sport. It's produced some of the greatest rivalries in sport, which is what always makes these things fun, regularly attracts 100,000 people at the MCG (pictured there), and appeals equally to both men and women. This is my winter sport. I love it to pieces <3~
Cricket, our national sport, because NSW and Queensland refuse to embrace footy. Cricket has produced some brilliant characters and absolutely nailbiting finishes. I love the tradition this sport is wrapped up in, the beauty of my Adelaide Oval (which is sadly being ruined, but this is a happy post so I'll leave that alone for now), the cameraderie you can see so easily between players on the field, the way it can be peaceful and relaxing or tense and epic, everything. My summer sport <3 And part of the tradition is the Australia Day one day match, always held at my beautiful Adelaide Oval, always a sellout months in advance. I'll be watching that one later today *^^*
This is rugby. I couldn't give a shit about rugby, so I pick a picture that makes them look like dickheads. Look, he's about to bitchslap the other guy =O This is the sport NSW and Queensland choose over AFL. Buggered if I know why. It's a stupid game, but I felt it deserves a mention because we're apparently quite good at it. It makes me glad I'm neither a Queenslander nor New South Welshman.
The Tour Down Under, which I also don't really care about, but it does showcase my beautiful city to Europe so I can appreciate it more than rugby. Apparently the biggest cycling event outside Europe, often ends up being stupidly hot, but this year it was only mid-30s so they got lucky. I bet 40 degrees makes the Willunga Hill climb look just as bad as anything they do in the French Alps in more pleasant weather. Anyway yes, beautiful vistas of Adelaide, the Barossa, the Hills and down along the South Coast at Goolwa and Victor Harbor. Tends to have the final stage over the Australia Day weekend, so they just finished on Sunday.
The Australian Open tennis, played at Rod Laver Arena in Melbourne, because Melbourne is the undeniable centre of sport in this country. I like tennis, I'll watch it if it's on and I know who at least one of the players are, but I won't go out of my way for it. Despite my parochial South Aussieness, I have to admit Lleyton Hewitt's a bit of a toss. I like Federer. Even in the most incredibly stressful situations, he's SO COOL and whenever you watch him, you can't help but think "yeah, he's good." Cos he bloody is, yaknow. Aus Open is another Australia Day tradition. The middle weekend of it is always the Aussie Day weekend, so that's what Melbourne does for the day :D
These are random other things that don't fit in any category.
Yaknow how the internet has been saying the best New Year spectacle this time around was in Sydney? Yeah. That's what Sydney does. When you've got a harbour as spectacular as Sydney's already is, it doesn't take much (...okay, $5mil) to set the thing off on New Year. Sydney is just such a fun city to visit. THEY HAVE STUFF. We don't have stuff =( Sydney is just spectacularly gorgeous, there's nothing else for it.
This is a ute. They originated way back when the doting little wives of Australia wanted a car their tough farmer husband could take out to the farm during the week, and take them to church on Sundays. And then the revheads of Australia decided they wanted to chuck a thumping V8 in there. Thus, the ute, loved by bogans and tradies all over the country. Shame, really, cos utes are hot.
This is the post made of everything else that makes my country AWESOME and can be proven in picture form XD You've already seen our fabulous music, movies, television, comedians, books and beer ads, how have everything that wouldn't fit. We've got animals, food, clothing and rocks. Seriously. Our rocks kick arse. Ain't nobody can do rocks in the middle of nowhere like Australia.
This is a wobbegong, shark that lives in the tropics. I just love the name wobbegong. It's fun to say and it suits them well XD Hee. Wobbegong.
This is a numbat, one of our countless small marsupials. A lot of Australian natives look like some sort of rat or mouse thing, only prettier. And also marsupials and therefore not actually rodents. Case in point, the numbat. Aren't they pretty?
Tasmanian devil, which you probably will have heard of because of Looney Tunes's Taz. Real Tassie devils look nothing like Taz, tho. They're gorgeous~ and so dorky XD They're fun to see at the zoo cos they're always huffing around like someone's ticked them off.
WOMBAT <3 My favourite animal, as you'll recall from the books post. They're ADORABLE and I want to cuddle one but it'll probably claw my gut out if I try. Aussie animals do that. I LOVE WOMBATS~
Here I'll pick one beach from each state, except Tasmania where you'd frankly be NUTS to go swimming, Northern Territory for which I couldn't actually find a decent picture of any of its beaches, and the ACT because they have none. The rest of the country, tho, fair game. Most of our coastline is beach, and they're all beautiful and/or fantastic to swim at. Fabulous beaches, unlike Crocodile Dundee, are not a stereotype X)
Bells Beach
Starting out with the most famous beach in Victoria, which I've never been to because it's a surf beach and I can't surf. Bells Beach is where the vast majority of the surf brands started up: Rip Curl/Roxy, Quiksilver, Piping Hot, etc and so on.
Bondi Beach
I'm sure I don't need to say Bondi's my pick for NSW. The only other one I know over there is Manly, which was highly peopled >> Anyway, Bondi. PEOPLE EVERYWHERE again, but at least it's a big beach and can fit them all. Mostly. I've only been once and that was yeeeeears ago, but never mind. Surf beaches in the city are a cool concept, but I don't know that you'd really get enough room to actually surf on anything. Still, you'd get some kickarse boogey boarding happening there >D
The Whitsundays
Technically the Whitsundays are islands on the Great Barrier Reef in Queensland, but any island out there is going to be more beach than anything, so they count. Also, Queensland beaches tend to be either riddled with jellyfish, other things that sting/bite/eat you, or are the Gold Coast. Whitsundays look pretty idyllic to me. Mmmmmm tropical island <3 Mmmm, bloody expensive >>
Silver Sands
My pick for South Australia, and my favourite beach to go to ever <3 As you can see, you can drive your car down onto the sand and park it there, mere steps from the ocean. Don't let the picture fool you: you usually get at LEAST 30m either side of you. Of course, being fairly high up in the Gulf St Vincent, Adelaide beaches have absolutely no surf to speak of. Glassy flat and beautifully warm in summer despite being in the Southern Ocean, and yes. Absolutely gorgeous.
80 Mile Beach
I love how any picture you take of WA just LOOKS big. Look at that beach. You can just tell it goes for 80 miles without being told. Beaches you can drive on without the need for a 4WD always score extra points in my book, too. How gorgeous is WA? Everything's so open and BIG.
This is by no means all of it, just a couple of picks that make me proud, and probably the kind of stuff you won't find in a tourist brochure X3
Kangaroo, traditionally served with a cranberry and red wine sauce. If you like your meat well-done/boot-leather/otherwise burnt to a crisp, steer away from roo. It needs to be rare or else it'll go tough. But rare? SO tender and juicy and yummmmm X9 My second favourite meat after lamb. I can't really compare it to anything, but it is gamier than your traditional red meats. Rich and tender and just awesome. I love roo.
The TimTam slam. TimTams are a chocolate biscuit made by Arnotts, made by sandwiching two biscuits together with a sort of chocolate cream in the middle, and coated in chocolate. Similar to Penguins in the UK but for some reason you can't do a Penguin slam. Anyway, for a TimTam slam, bite off the corners of your biscuit as shown, then use it like a straw for your favourite hot beverage of choice (hot chocolate, coffee or tea works best). When the liquid makes it to your mouth--or a bit longer, when you know what you're doing--slam the coffee-soaked biscuit into your mouth. It is BLISS.
Which brings me neatly to coffee shops! We have so many Australian-owned coffee chains and even more independantly-owned coffee shops and cafes that we generally shun Starbucks. Two were opened in Adelaide a few years ago, only to be closed down... last year? Year before? That's people power, there. We in my country recognise a good coffee when we see it >) In my tiny little Hills town of a main street and a pub, we have... six I can think of off the top of my head, all of them locally owned. We're awesome X)
Maccadamia nuts! An Australian native tree, with a stupidly solid and impossible to break shell that makes them annoyingly expensive. My Gran used to have a maccadamia tree, and Colin and I tried once to crack some of them with her specialised maccadamia nut cracker. We managed three in half an hour, all of which were sufficiently pulverised to mush, then gave up. But man, they're so tasty. Traditionally had straight, salted, glazéd or chocolate coated. Haigh's makes the best chocolate coated maccadamias ever~ X)~~
CRAYFISH. And also any shellfish. The best seafood in the world~ comes from the Southern Ocean, because it's cold and not polluted or overfished like the northern Atlantic or Pacific Oceans. Prawns, oysters, cray, marron, Moreton Bay bugs (from Queensland and therefore obviously not the Southern Ocean but still, Aussie shellfish), you name it, we do it best.
The cray itself is more commonly known outside Australia as a southern rock lobster, so it'll often get put on menus, especially in Sydney where they get a lot of international tourists, as simply lobster. They're not the same thing--lobsters, for starters, have HUGE claws whereas crayfish only have their big horn-feeler-things. Also, I'm told real lobsters are better, though I've never had one so I can't really comment. Crays are pretty bloody epic. We have one a year in summer and make a big event of it, complete with prawns and smoked salmon and a bottle of bubbly.
Also, note, PRAWNS. They're not bloody SHRIMP. Shrimp are the piddly little cardboard tasteless things that go on pizzas and are a waste of pizza topping. Prawns are big and juicy, as you can see in that picture there. Why they're raw when the cray is cooked, I dunno.
Aussie reds > French reds. They just are. French wines are far too steeped in tradition so they can't go forwards--and the few wineries that have? Mostly took the lead from Aussie wineries. Corks, for example. Traditionally made from cork, but not a great sealer. We make ours from plastic now, or just a screw top, because it just works better. Screw tradition, we want to make kickarse wine.
Red wine is also about the only thing my state has over the others, so allow me to blow my own trumpet here. The Barossa Valley, as demonstrated by the picture there, is GORGEOUS. The other states have all got spectacular covered, but when it comes to pretty and serene, I challenge you to beat the Barossa. I love the Barossa, for its pretty and for its wines. Both are just epic.
Because some of our footware is pretty unique, too.
These are thongs. Yes, they are. You come to my country and call them flipflops, we will correct you. The summer footware of choice, if not barefoot. Thongs are awesome X)
Ugg boots. These are not fashion, for God's sake. I mean, look at them. And the name 'ugg' tends to conjure up images of cavemen, does it not? They're slippers for bumming around the house in winter, or surfies. Also, get the ones made with real lambswool. Synthetic ones make your feet sweaty and gross and the not-wool doesn't last nearly as long. I love my uggies~ they're so stupidly comfortable. America's treatment of them makes me lol. OH NOES ANIMAL CRUELTY. Please~ 9.9
Like I say, ain't nobody does big rocks in the middle of nowhere like we do. Most of these--if not all of them--you won't have heard of. Unless you're Aussie in which case you'll go "wow, we really DO have a lot of awesome rocks in the middle of nowhere."
Uluru
The only one I have any hope people will have heard of. I'm sure the name Ayer's Rock will die out over time. It gets called Uluru now a lot more than back when I climbed it when I was about~ 12? I think? BIG ROCK smack bang in the middle of the country. It's pretty spectacular.
Kata Tjuta
Or the Olgas, which will probably also die out. Not far from Uluru, you can see Kata Tjuta from the Rock, easy as :D
The Devil's Marbles
NT doesn't have much, but they do have a lot of rocks. We never got to the Devil's Marbles, cos they're a good couple hundred kilometers on from Uluru. I'd like to at some stage, tho.
The Remarkables
In South Australia, even :D These are on Kangaroo Island, famous, of course, for sea lions and the Remarkables. See, even SA gets some impressive rocks :D
The Pinnacles Desert
Back in the desert, middle of freaking nowhere, WA. IT JUST LOOKS BIG. I want to go here, too. It looks prehistoric.
The Twelve Apostles
Which is a misnomer because they're down to I think 10 now. The one on the left fell over about 5 years ago, and I'm sure there was one missing before then, too. Anyway, Twelve Apostles are the reason you drive the Great Ocean Road between Adelaide and Melbourne. I've sadly never done it, because it does take a fair while longer than the direct route, but as soon as I can accost someone, I'm so going there.
The Three Sisters
In the Blue Mountains, NSW. The only one of these rocks I've seen twice :D Our rocks are, as I've said, in the middle of nowhere. The Three Sisters are the closest to somewhere--only about 2 hours from Sydney--hence my going there twice. So spectacular~ *.*
Unless I'm missing something, I can't think of any in Queensland or Tasmania. Cradle Mountain doesn't count cos that's a mountain, not a rock.
We're a sport-loving nation, we are. The ones we compete in internationally we tend to be pretty awesome at, which is impressive from a country of only 20mil.
Australian rules football, more commonly known simply as footy, mocked by those who don't like it as aerial ping pong because there are a lot of kicks that go 50m+ and waaaaay up, but you can't deny the popularity of this sport. It's produced some of the greatest rivalries in sport, which is what always makes these things fun, regularly attracts 100,000 people at the MCG (pictured there), and appeals equally to both men and women. This is my winter sport. I love it to pieces <3~
Cricket, our national sport, because NSW and Queensland refuse to embrace footy. Cricket has produced some brilliant characters and absolutely nailbiting finishes. I love the tradition this sport is wrapped up in, the beauty of my Adelaide Oval (which is sadly being ruined, but this is a happy post so I'll leave that alone for now), the cameraderie you can see so easily between players on the field, the way it can be peaceful and relaxing or tense and epic, everything. My summer sport <3 And part of the tradition is the Australia Day one day match, always held at my beautiful Adelaide Oval, always a sellout months in advance. I'll be watching that one later today *^^*
This is rugby. I couldn't give a shit about rugby, so I pick a picture that makes them look like dickheads. Look, he's about to bitchslap the other guy =O This is the sport NSW and Queensland choose over AFL. Buggered if I know why. It's a stupid game, but I felt it deserves a mention because we're apparently quite good at it. It makes me glad I'm neither a Queenslander nor New South Welshman.
The Tour Down Under, which I also don't really care about, but it does showcase my beautiful city to Europe so I can appreciate it more than rugby. Apparently the biggest cycling event outside Europe, often ends up being stupidly hot, but this year it was only mid-30s so they got lucky. I bet 40 degrees makes the Willunga Hill climb look just as bad as anything they do in the French Alps in more pleasant weather. Anyway yes, beautiful vistas of Adelaide, the Barossa, the Hills and down along the South Coast at Goolwa and Victor Harbor. Tends to have the final stage over the Australia Day weekend, so they just finished on Sunday.
The Australian Open tennis, played at Rod Laver Arena in Melbourne, because Melbourne is the undeniable centre of sport in this country. I like tennis, I'll watch it if it's on and I know who at least one of the players are, but I won't go out of my way for it. Despite my parochial South Aussieness, I have to admit Lleyton Hewitt's a bit of a toss. I like Federer. Even in the most incredibly stressful situations, he's SO COOL and whenever you watch him, you can't help but think "yeah, he's good." Cos he bloody is, yaknow. Aus Open is another Australia Day tradition. The middle weekend of it is always the Aussie Day weekend, so that's what Melbourne does for the day :D
These are random other things that don't fit in any category.
Yaknow how the internet has been saying the best New Year spectacle this time around was in Sydney? Yeah. That's what Sydney does. When you've got a harbour as spectacular as Sydney's already is, it doesn't take much (...okay, $5mil) to set the thing off on New Year. Sydney is just such a fun city to visit. THEY HAVE STUFF. We don't have stuff =( Sydney is just spectacularly gorgeous, there's nothing else for it.
This is a ute. They originated way back when the doting little wives of Australia wanted a car their tough farmer husband could take out to the farm during the week, and take them to church on Sundays. And then the revheads of Australia decided they wanted to chuck a thumping V8 in there. Thus, the ute, loved by bogans and tradies all over the country. Shame, really, cos utes are hot.
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