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[–] 5 points 9 months ago* (15 children)

I just don't know anything about Queensland. I got bashed there once. Spent two weeks laid up in a bed, being dressed and washed by someone else during that time, waiting for the all clear from a doc that my kidneys weren't shot from the assault. I've never thought to think about Queensland or Queenslanders much ever since. When the cops came to interview me they lost interest when I wouldn't corroborate their theory that it was Aboriginal kids that did it. No officer, they were all white and all in flannel shirts.

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  • [–] 2 points 9 months ago (3 children)

    wtf has that got to do with car ferries mate. Don't be weird.

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  • [–] 2 points 9 months ago (3 children)

    I've managed to live here for quite some many years without being bashed at all! I mean I've done a few bashings, but was never the bashee.

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  • [–] [S] 3 points 9 months ago (2 children)

    Oh Gawd it was you that bashed him wasn't it !?!?!?

    I always suspected that you were a big mean dude.

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  • [–] 2 points 9 months ago (1 child)

    Hey now, only if they do something to provoke it.... Like look at me funny, or say something disparaging about One Nation, or try to tell me footy isn't the greatest sport in the world, or be born in a different place than me.

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  • [–] [S] 1 point 9 months ago (5 children)

    Sorry to hear about your plight, and good of you to dismiss the cops. Well it's not terribly unsafe up here, but bad things do occur at times.

    May I ask where you live ? You don't have to be specific of course.

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  • [–] 3 points 9 months ago (4 children)

    We moved from Sydney to Adelaide. We don't drive so it slipped my mind that car ferries are a thing and that people live on Islands.

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  • [–] [S] 0 points 9 months ago (2 children)

    Cool. But wait, "we don't drive" !?!?!?!

    And you don't even consider cars or transporting goods, and people living on Islands ???

    That's some kind of solitary kind of existence going on there for sure.

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  • [–] 3 points 9 months ago* (1 child)

    Live in big city. Public transport helps. We once bought a flat's worth of furniture from IKEA (double bed, three seater couch, tables, chairs and all the smaller items) and wheeled it all home from a few ks away with a gorilla cart. That was fun. When I lived in regional NSW I used to hitch everywhere. The only issue I had with that was carrying too many groceries on my shoulders once and hurting my back. I also got to spend a day delivering eggs and shooting the breeze with a farmer who picked me up. That wouldn't have happened if I had a car and drove everywhere. Didn't seem so solitary at the time.

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  • [–] [S] 0 points 9 months ago

    Yes that all sounds like quite an adventure. Still, I've been driving for decades and I couldn't imagine life without personal transport. But I wish you all the best of that's how you like it.

    Each to their own.

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