I asked RubyRuby to confirm my predjudice that Broome was a craphole, (an opinion held by someone who had lived there) but she claimed the place was wonderful. Wrong answer RR. And yet, and yet she offers this from Chinatownthat that would curl the lip of any arrondissement hepster. Didn’t that public phone used to be a pizza hut? Brings back memories of a racist firebombing.
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- Dog movie “racist”.
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The Worst of Perth 
I agree with RubyRuby.
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Ling Ling.
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This photo neatly encapsulates my experience of Broome. Although I haven’t lived there for almost 20 years; (where did those kerbs come from, and where’s the pindan), it had some great aspects, (as demonstrated by the fact that they actually have a public phone), and yet a perth of worsts, (see stupid roof). Not much in between.
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I like the phone box lid. I suspect I would also like Broome.
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Freo of the north
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But futurers would note that Freo doesn’t have the exciting vibrancy of Broome North.
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Some nice Ooshta in WAtoday.
“Roberts, who was with Harvey at yesterday’s breakfast event, confirmed to Perth radio station 6PR that Harvey never saw it coming.
“He called me in the afternoon and said ‘I’ve just been sacked as Fremantle coach’,” Roberts said.
“I had to ask him to repeat it three times.
“I had the same reaction when Princess Diana died. I was in the newsroom when the bureau called to say the princess had been killed in a car accident and I just couldn’t believe it.”
http://www.watoday.com.au/afl/afl-news/harvey-shot-by-one-of-his-own-sheeds-20110916-1kcv4.html
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Harvey was one of the central tunnel supports that killed Di
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We can all remember where we were when we heard the news. Freo’s JFK moment. But who was in the Book Depository?
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Book depository? You mean Amazon.com don’t you?
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This is where I simultaneously LOVE and LOATHE the interwebs.
That’s either LOL funny, or I am appalled and need to hit things.
Not sure. Will go with both.
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laugh whilst you hit things – much more efficient use of time and therapies.
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We’ll all remember where we were when we heard Harvey was sacked by the Dockers. I was on my couch, watching The Renovators. I knew at that moment, everything had changed, forever.
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Hah, that guy was on TV last night, comparing Harvey’s sacking to getting hit by a tsunami in the back of the head, and cancer.
I’ll add that Harvs gets a nice 500k payout for not having to work the last year of his contract.
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Now I loathe the whole concept of the Dockers and laugh at every one of their bumbling un Australian fuckups, but even I thought that the cunt desrved one more year.
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So those Freo cunts who “feel betrayed” are going to support the club that Harvey goes to?
How many memberships are being handed back?
blah blah footy blah blah, reckon small brain Freo cunts will blockage CHOGM now
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I’m a Freo cunt but I don’t feel betrayed. I’ve long since resigned myself to the reality of corporate interests. Come the first home game next year it will all be forgotten. Unless they lose.
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Un Australian??
That very concept is a fuck up.
Cheap copy of American McCarthyism.
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The Dockers have made un-australian Australian. That’s part of their modus dockerandi.
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That’s modus and rockerus?
Or dockerus?
Operandum?
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That’s my thinking Snuff.
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There’s long been a
hippy dope smuggling networksongline from the south west to Broome which runs directly along South Terrace.LikeLike
Cairns of the West
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More like Kuranda, unfortunately.
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Chinatown. Pfft. Not even a real town, more like a collection of shops. It doesn’t even have a Mayor.
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Broome Chinatown is one row of shops. Travel all that distance to get to this shithole, and find Chinatown is smaller than Manji’s main shopping street.
Broome is now pretty much fucked with the gas hub, going to turn to it into North Karratha.
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That’s the spirit. I did hear that China town was about as big as a phone box anyway.
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I blame the Jews.
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Opus Dei have their fingerprints all over the Harvey sacking.
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Harvey’s sacking was an inside job – will forever be known as 9/15, it was a controlled demolition
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Harvey imploded.
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Oh, c’mon: Opus Dei don’t leave fingerprints. Those shadowy fuckers are far too professional. Meanwhile, Broome demands that pedestrians give way to cars. Maybe it’s not such a bad place. At least it understand power relationships, Foucault-style.
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have you got a photo of the Gwalia whore Peri?
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I think my request for same was ignored.
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I’ve tried, God knows i’ve tried, but my brain just won’t let me go there, metaphorically or, like, for real.
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might be worth the trip, does she have a schedule of fees?
hessian sack and button eyes PHWOARRRR!!!!!
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Pull yourself together. Until you do, this is all we have.
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The James Price furore has been turned into a cash cow at the Court House markets – lotsa artists putting stickers on photos and paintings of JP Point with the idea that you’d best buy this picture of it because it may not exist in future.
BTW – does anyone know if Broome actually implemented a ban on hi vis clothing in the streets? Didn’t see much around, esp compared to the Pilbara or even Perth, but far too much tie-dye and goddamn hippies with dreadlocks. More hula hooping than stiltwalking going on, though.
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hula-hooping is good for the pelvic floor. allegedly
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Kwinana of the north?
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The original’s disappeared, but the animation lives on.
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This is so awesome it’s off the hook!
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so, Freo on a Friday night, and again early saturday morning…
What should I look for and expect?
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Can you see if you can record the flashing sign outside the Hope and Anchor or whatever it is near the markets – the one that says that you’ll get a fine for public upchucking?
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The Ale and Chancre? OK
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The Scaly Wanker?
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Sail and Anchor is best kept clear of after 8pm. Actually anywhere on the main drag.
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Post 9pm biff at the market taxi rank/bus stop. Bizarre bar in the middle of the market.
Sat am – silent as that first time you & dougie free dived down into the cray hole. Tourists wandering around bewildered.
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Not one of youse pigs has picked up on the Worst of Shire of Broome notice here – ubiquitous on the major intersections of Broome (heh heh) is the warning to tourists that they are fair game for cars if they step off the kerb.
Yeah, that pretty much was alla Chinatown, I think. Will see what else I might have on the phone camera thing, now that I’ve finally had a small win in getting some pics from off of it…
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I did – assumed it was a sign for tourists, since none of the locals ever went to school
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Broome SHS has a lovely mural in the yard, facing the bus route. But in this modern world, feel a bit iffy standing around taking photos of school grounds… and staying at liberty.
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And only ever slow down for pedestrians when they go for a perv on north Cable Beach.
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While doing the Cable Beach Triathlon, there were cyclists belting it up and down with a marked off lane with traffic cones down the road. So, local 4WD dickheads were slaloming along in and out of the race course… Sounds like theCue triathlon didn’t have THAT problem…
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Breaking news: International cruise swingers can buy rainbow dolphin statuettes at every Albany shop on a two sundays!!!!
http://www.mediastatements.wa.gov.au/Pages/Results.aspx?ItemID=144159
Vibrant!! – locals will boglap York Street
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Credit where it’s due – Broome artists have found an effective means of rendering dolphins (they’re the red bit).
http://au.news.yahoo.com/thewest/a/-/breaking/10263091/dolphin-slaughter-art-pulled-to-appease-japan/
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“Raise questions”, my arse. Art’s supposed to not look like crap.
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Not heir best effort. pretty bad really. And I’m a total Rosalie fan.
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Ah, you’re a Fighting man. I like ’em all, but then again I have a framed photo of the Ace of Bass on my mantlepiece.
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What wrong with a Payphone in a Chineese Temple Box?, Why was it posted here?
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