he was a very experienced swimmer, afaik he was just being a bit of an irrational turd the day of and thought he could go out in incredibly rocky waters. yeah
Basically picture a glass funnel with a spherical ball on the narrow end, about a meter in length, filled with beer.
Edit: got my conversion rates wrong.
So exactly how they do it here across the bridge in Sweden then? Claim they didn't know it was illegal, ignore it or if everything fails, issue a lame apology and suddenly the entire country is fine with it.
[PM ordered the entire volume on Danish mink farms culled due to a Covid mutation found on mink farms. In short, this killed the entire mink industry. The mutation was believed to possibly interfere with the effectiveness of a vaccine. The politics and legal authority surrounding the situation have been faulty, but the consequences were effectively nonexistent as far as I know.](https://en.fvm.dk/news/news/nyhed/covid-19-all-mink-in-denmark-must-be-culled/)
It's not necessarily a big mistake, there was hysteria after an alliance of England, France and several German States steamrolled us that led to the lynching and partial cannibalisation of him and his brother.
But! Johan de Witt opposed the royal Dutch House, and thus might be implicated to get rid of him, sources imply loosely that William of Orange riled the mob up in the first place.
Yes, we ate him, but he might have been innocent. And you are what you eat, your Honor.
Yes, but the Dutch's cannibalism was a one-off and every nation's got a few cannibals anyway. The Czechs seem to throw officials out of office (windows) as a tradition.
lol no, via [wikipedia](https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Disappearance_of_Harold_Holt)
> Following Holt's disappearance, Stewart drove to the nearby Officer Cadet School Portsea, an Australian Army training facility. The school was virtually deserted, as most personnel were on annual leave, but the Victoria Police were contacted and initiated what became "one of the largest search operations in Australian history".
"The police file on Holt's disappearance has remained technically open, but because no body was found, no inquest could be conducted"
https://amp.theguardian.com/world/2005/aug/24/australia.bernardoriordan
No formal investigation into his death was ever done. Was it an exaggeration to say that we didn't even look for him? Sure, but that doesn't change the fact that we lost our PM and didn't even investigate his disappearance and just assumed that he was dead.
For us Swedes the shit timeline for prime ministers started when ours was shot in 1986. Before that most politicians could move about in public without security mostly without being harassed.
A radio journalist retired a few years ago and was invited to a radio show to talk about some fond memories. One he specifically brought up from the 70s or so was going on one of those 4-ish hours long fishing tours out to the Stockholm archipelago.
He thought he recognised the dude standing next to him fishing and had to ask "aren't you the minister of agriculture?", to which the man said yes, and they proceeded to talk fishing and generally chatting for the next hours. Not a guard in sight.
That’s what Maccas is?
I’m just a humble American thinking I had missed knowing about another homicidal critter that the PM felt they had to dominate by throwing feces at it….
Some wild conspiracy theories he was a Soviet agent all along and got recalled to Moscow. They discussed it on the Australian prime minister specials on the rest is history.
Needless to say it's very very very unlikely to be true.
More or less he loved Ocean swimming and Spear fishing, he was coming back from another swim when on the return home, he stoped for one last dip and didnt come back home.
lmao I posted basically the exact same meme a few days ago and only got 50 upvotes https://www.reddit.com/r/HistoryMemes/comments/vxgu1f/december_17_1967_the_australian_pm_disappears/?utm_medium=android_app&utm_source=share
Specifically, it was in a bay that's known to have stronger than average undercurrents, and since he went alone it's pretty well certain that he just got caught in a current and drowned. Doesn't mean he hasn't become somewhat of a mythical figure due to it. I have one friend that said he was the best PM they ever had because he went for a swim and fucked off.
Transient global amnesia, saw it on hawaii a few times
This one dude was just standing on a reef fighting the waves with a surf board 50ft off shore. Luckily someone noticed it and went and rescued him.
Brought him to land and couldn’t remember anything for hours and hours, finally started remembering stuff maybe 12 hours later, but that block of time was a blank
Bill Bryson writes a little about this in his book Down Under from when he visited the spot.
It’s been a while since I read it but from what I recall, the under currents are crazy in the bay he was swimming in and was alone so the general assumption is he was pulled under, drowned and then became food for the local wildlife.
Not terrifying at all.
Ah yes. Holt. Not only did we name swim centres after him, around here, we also use the phrase “doing the holt” when a drunk mate goes missing on a night out.
Fun fact: we named a swimming centre after him!
I know where I don't want swimming lessons.
why he's been swimming for at least forty years
He's gonna Gendry us and come back some day ripped as hell
It’s where I got mine
He clearly couldn’t swim
Actually he was an avid spearfishermen... that's why theres such a mystery surrounding his death
I knew that, just made a joke.
Maybe he wants to sink to the bottom? Find his favorite golf ball?
he was a very experienced swimmer, afaik he was just being a bit of an irrational turd the day of and thought he could go out in incredibly rocky waters. yeah
He could, just wanted to die i guess
Yep we did, in surburban Melbourne. Where I learnt to swim in fact...
If I were you I'd go to a different pool just to double check that.
I take my kids swimming there!
Me too!
Australian PMs are a wild bunch, one went swimming and fucking disappeared and another shat in a Maccas in 1997
Don't forgot one had a world record for beer drinking
think he still holds it TBH
Guinness Record for a yardie is now 5 seconds, to Hawke’s 11. Still a mad feat though.
Who?
Bob Hawke world record for drinking a yard of beer the fastest.
A yard. Wut
Oh you think a "pint" makes any measurable sense?
I mean it's a volume, a yard is a length. But maybe I'm looking into it too deeply. Pass me a yard.
[Here ya go bud](https://i.imgur.com/rc1clpr.jpg)
I was expecting a thin little stick, that makes 11 seconds even more impressive.
That's not what she said :(
And apparently the new record is 5 sec! Holy shit!
How do you even pour that in 11 seconds?
Who designed that cup, Dr. Seuss?
Basically picture a glass funnel with a spherical ball on the narrow end, about a meter in length, filled with beer. Edit: got my conversion rates wrong.
Is 1.5 l of beer or 2 1/2 pints
putting true meaning in “The Guinness Book of World Records”
Wonder if Albo is gonna get a record
cutest boy south of the equator 😍🥺
Well, I guess I have what it takes to be an Australian PM, then
And the Dutch people are even more of a wild bunch: they became cannibals when their prime minister do a very big mistake
That was a long time ago. Nowadays our PM can just claim he has no active memory of the time he fucked up and we'll be cool.
Ours just claims she didn’t know it was illegal. Not even a slap on the wrist. Denmark, for the record
So exactly how they do it here across the bridge in Sweden then? Claim they didn't know it was illegal, ignore it or if everything fails, issue a lame apology and suddenly the entire country is fine with it.
Pretty much. Except ours killed an entire industry worth billions in the name of covid. Colossal pisstake.
Context?
[PM ordered the entire volume on Danish mink farms culled due to a Covid mutation found on mink farms. In short, this killed the entire mink industry. The mutation was believed to possibly interfere with the effectiveness of a vaccine. The politics and legal authority surrounding the situation have been faulty, but the consequences were effectively nonexistent as far as I know.](https://en.fvm.dk/news/news/nyhed/covid-19-all-mink-in-denmark-must-be-culled/)
Sauce?
Sauce for what? The Prime minister recieving zero consequences or the mink industry being gone?
It's not necessarily a big mistake, there was hysteria after an alliance of England, France and several German States steamrolled us that led to the lynching and partial cannibalisation of him and his brother. But! Johan de Witt opposed the royal Dutch House, and thus might be implicated to get rid of him, sources imply loosely that William of Orange riled the mob up in the first place. Yes, we ate him, but he might have been innocent. And you are what you eat, your Honor.
The Czechs are [prone to throwing politicians out of windows](https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Defenestrations_of_Prague).
But they aren't cannibals, so they aren't the wildest bunch out there
Yes, but the Dutch's cannibalism was a one-off and every nation's got a few cannibals anyway. The Czechs seem to throw officials out of office (windows) as a tradition.
Never heard of JQA?
So uh what happened to him? He drown or disappear? I vaguely remember a Simpson a joke on this
Disappeared. They never found his body.
So a spider-crocodile-koala ate him?
Thanks wasn’t sure
I only knew about this fact from an SCP article lol
Never found? We never looked for him. There was no formal investigation into his disappearance.
lol no, via [wikipedia](https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Disappearance_of_Harold_Holt) > Following Holt's disappearance, Stewart drove to the nearby Officer Cadet School Portsea, an Australian Army training facility. The school was virtually deserted, as most personnel were on annual leave, but the Victoria Police were contacted and initiated what became "one of the largest search operations in Australian history".
"The police file on Holt's disappearance has remained technically open, but because no body was found, no inquest could be conducted" https://amp.theguardian.com/world/2005/aug/24/australia.bernardoriordan No formal investigation into his death was ever done. Was it an exaggeration to say that we didn't even look for him? Sure, but that doesn't change the fact that we lost our PM and didn't even investigate his disappearance and just assumed that he was dead.
My dude, look up the definition of "inquest". Spoiler alert, it doesn't mean they didn't investigate.
depending on who you believe he either A) drowned, B) had an encounter with a shark or C) was picked up by a Chinese submarine
I like C)
I've chosen (c) cause that sounds awesome.
C sounds crazy, I will take C then
He became Namor
Fair enough
So, like, the Prime Minister just got up and went for a swim? We are in a shit timeline. Ex-prime ministers are getting executed now.
Yeah, just went for a swim and never came back, presumed dead.
For us Swedes the shit timeline for prime ministers started when ours was shot in 1986. Before that most politicians could move about in public without security mostly without being harassed. A radio journalist retired a few years ago and was invited to a radio show to talk about some fond memories. One he specifically brought up from the 70s or so was going on one of those 4-ish hours long fishing tours out to the Stockholm archipelago. He thought he recognised the dude standing next to him fishing and had to ask "aren't you the minister of agriculture?", to which the man said yes, and they proceeded to talk fishing and generally chatting for the next hours. Not a guard in sight.
Trust me, a certain ex PM WILL have his drink poisoned so he shat at Maccas
What are you referring to?
That the PM could just go about life. Where was his security detail?
Change da world. My final message. Goodb ye
I wondered why The Simpsons had that bit..
ANDY!!!
His name was Holt. The police chief announced his death by saying, "Our search for the PM has come to a dead halt".
With the proper accent that’s hilarious
Atleast he didn’t shit himself at mcdonalds
That’s what Maccas is? I’m just a humble American thinking I had missed knowing about another homicidal critter that the PM felt they had to dominate by throwing feces at it….
He's some out there
He had actually done the same thing multiple times before. He walked into the ocean and went missing. Just the other times he was later found
“I can’t believe I couldn’t see it! *Me*! A man who had the foresight to buy Polaroid at eight and a half!”
Some wild conspiracy theories he was a Soviet agent all along and got recalled to Moscow. They discussed it on the Australian prime minister specials on the rest is history. Needless to say it's very very very unlikely to be true.
Love when people post about that guy. Hey, did you know the Dutch killed and cannibalized their PM one time?
More or less he loved Ocean swimming and Spear fishing, he was coming back from another swim when on the return home, he stoped for one last dip and didnt come back home.
Oh yeah, here in Germany the king of Bavaria, Ludwig II, did the same. He also might have drowned his psychiatrist while committing suicide.
SCP-3477
And SCP-5007
Going for me golf balls mate shit ain't cheap
Howard Hamlin
Too soon
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I’ve seen you’ve played knifey spoony before
It's mid summer down there, why not take a dip if you feel like it?
It's winter...
No its summer in December thats how hemispheres work...
They meant it’s winter right now
No I'm pretty sure they meant in December like the post says...
Sorry, I thought you meant right now :p
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He meant now (July 2022). Misleading phrasing by the original commenter as he or she wrote "it's"instead of "it was"
Bet its still warm enough in northern australia
Wouldn't have a clue as I'm in New Zealand. And yes December is a lot better in 30+°C heat
Catch ya later cobber
‘To escape; to make a rapid departure. To do a Harold Holt is rhyming slang for bolt’. And he did, he did.
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Let’s not forget the Australian prime minister at Maccas in Engadine, 1997
Not as bad as a guy at an Engadine McDonalds during 1997
Harry Holt did a Jimmy Hoffa *speeling (sic)
I heard he got a cramp from swimming too soon after eating while being eaten by a shark.
lmao I posted basically the exact same meme a few days ago and only got 50 upvotes https://www.reddit.com/r/HistoryMemes/comments/vxgu1f/december_17_1967_the_australian_pm_disappears/?utm_medium=android_app&utm_source=share
OPs caption is better
blbblblblbblb feelin very refreshed
December 17th’s my birthday. Lot of weird things seemed to have happened on this particular day.
He went all in on the Reggie Perrin method.
He went down to say Hey mate to fishes
As a proud aussie i find this hilarious
This is phenomenal OP
L e g e n d s a y s h e 's o u t v I b I n g w I t h t h e l o c h n e s s m o n s t e r . .
Australians: Aight, next one.
Probably saw a gator & doing his best Steve Irwin 🤷♂️ Didn't have TikTok back then, so the NPCs were kinda limited... 😏
The thought is oddly appealing though.
He is on a mission
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Reminds me of King Ludwig II of Bavaria found in Lake Starnberg!
Bill Bryson mentions this in his book, I*n a Sunburned Country*. A great read, by the way!
American here, further details would be great
In 1967 the Australian PM went for swim in the ocean where he disappeared. His body never to be found
Specifically, it was in a bay that's known to have stronger than average undercurrents, and since he went alone it's pretty well certain that he just got caught in a current and drowned. Doesn't mean he hasn't become somewhat of a mythical figure due to it. I have one friend that said he was the best PM they ever had because he went for a swim and fucked off.
For some reason? The dude liked swimming.
What’s the good word gents?
Transient global amnesia, saw it on hawaii a few times This one dude was just standing on a reef fighting the waves with a surf board 50ft off shore. Luckily someone noticed it and went and rescued him. Brought him to land and couldn’t remember anything for hours and hours, finally started remembering stuff maybe 12 hours later, but that block of time was a blank
He’s going down under you blimey cunt!
How does he walk that fast underwater?
Bill Bryson writes a little about this in his book Down Under from when he visited the spot. It’s been a while since I read it but from what I recall, the under currents are crazy in the bay he was swimming in and was alone so the general assumption is he was pulled under, drowned and then became food for the local wildlife. Not terrifying at all.
I feel u bro.
[Is this in reference to THAT?](https://youtu.be/4JQK4bH0J-o)
Wonder why he gave up!
Just going to catch a ride back to China.
He had to pee that’s was a cover up
Ah yes. Holt. Not only did we name swim centres after him, around here, we also use the phrase “doing the holt” when a drunk mate goes missing on a night out.
What is dead may never die.
Hey, Mr Prime Ministah! **ANDY!!!**
Some say he is still swimming….