IT: An’ we did wheelbarrow racing, while waiting for lighting setups, you know what I mean..?”
MP: What you mean..?
IT: You know, wheelbarrow racing, you know? You Brits don’t have that here? C’mon!
MP: No, no, we do, we do. Like at fetes and ah, we’d have it at ahh, village sporting contests. At school. I’m not sure how it works in America…
IT: I don’t know what a fete is, but you do them from behind, you do them hard, and you’re holding their butt way off the ground while you are standing, like at that level and their hands are on the ground. While you’re doing them. Wheelbarrow racing? Do I have to explain it?
MP: Let’s ask Clive James.
Ice Tea & Michael Parkinson. Parky’s Last Interviews
Now this is what Perth historians of the distant future will be glad to find in the State Library archives, the confirmation of their hypothesis that Perth people once used the carcasses of wheelbarrows as stands for their letterboxes. From L Asivious. A nice photo of a classic worst. Wanneroo Rd Balga.
The Worst of Perth 
Balga…. This won’t last. By the end of the week I predict a vanished worst.
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Looks like it’s been there a while already.
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It’s Balga, everything looks like that.
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can someone please refresh my memory?
is “Balga by the Sea”, Rockingham or Mandurah?
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Most commonly, ‘Balga by the Sea’ refers to Merriwa or Clarkson.
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thanks, going to have to look them up. don’t think they existed back when i was a local.
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mp, Rockingham makes sense, but anywhere between those two place could be called such.
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Someone answer me this, why is a big white blob of paint on a horrible grey asbestos fence considered better than some young punk scribbling his name on a horrible grey asbestos fence?
Said young punk should paint his name on the grass, it might get them to mow their bloody lawn and put some hydrangeas in to smarten the place up a bit.
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and some purple agapanthas
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Don’t forget the Cocos.
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Because young punks should express themselves into a tissue, in their bedrooms with the door firmly closed, not across someone else’s boundary fence.
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BTW, WTF is doing an armshelf in bed, anyone, anyone?
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Onan , see here for definition.
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I think it is holding yourself up with your arm to “strike a pose”.
Just like this fat cunt warnie is doing here
if you can bear to imagine him nuded up.
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ty master.
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it used to read “please fix this fence”
it was easier to piant over it
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When the English brickie finds out where his barrow has gone…..
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I *like* arty things made from recovered objects; the term “found art” is used, I believe. (Please correct me if I’m wrong – I often am.)
This, however, fails the ‘arty’ test by a mile. (See how well I remember! Up you Alzheimer.)
Practicality and improvisation might get a tick as would reducing their ‘carbon footprint’.
More grass; less CO2 from the lawnmower.
There be good folk in Balga.
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I think the term you are groping for Rolly is Found Objects which refers to using utilitarian things to create art. I am not sure it extends to using utilitarian things to create letterboxes.
I don’t mind it although I would prefer it if it could stand on it’s own rather than leaning kinda lazy like on the fence.
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“……….leaning kinda lazy like on the fence.”
Typical of the ‘laid-back Aussie’ surely, Cimbali.
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they are called “readymades” rolly
origionally in the form of a urinal… but I suspect that all the toilets in Balga are chained to the wall
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That Bert Newton tweet is brilliant TLA.
I have gone right off “The Only Gay in The Showbusiness Village” since he hasn’t bothered to confirm my friendship offer on facebook.
Bastard.
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A-a-a-h-h-h, Facebook; the rational for which eludes me completely.
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It’s a wonderful thing, rolly. It gives people the chance to fail, fail, fail, and fail again.
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I hope that’s meant to be oldfart comedy gold rolly . . .
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Well if I don’t laugh, I cry.
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FB’s only any good if you’ve got other people who want to talk to you PL.
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No good for misanthropists and rational thinkers, then.
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Does this reply function seem different?
Rolly, people said that about twitter, but I think I have demonstrated its value.
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…and very ably at that.
My panel beating acquaintances just love SMS and twitter.
A bit like the funeral parlour operators.
The Emergency Ward could do with a little less of it though.
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Yep, the reply function has gone to shit TLA.
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Thread comment depth had reset itself. Should be back to ten levels deep again now.
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Prolly had difficulty finding any depth at all.
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I hope Snuff’s not feverishly trying to find that quote.
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yes. it only has the one vertical line leading down from the original post, rather than dozens of little ones.
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Looks like you can only reply to the original.
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The reply function has imposed work bans after the weekend’s activities.
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the letter box/wheelbarrow combination is to allow for a quick midnight flit from the premises with all ones possessions. Quite standard for Balga really.
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is that so you don’t have to change your postal address with Centrelink?
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There’s not much to understand about Facebook’s rationale, rolly. As you’d recall, in days gone by market researchers made a living by gathering information and selling it to advertisers. The only difference is that Facebook tell you that your privacy is important to them.
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I think the (registered) wheelbarrow needs the counterweight of the letterbox to hold up the fence.
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