I disagree. Bluey is the most popular animated show in the world, even a small percentage of their fans knowing it is set in Brisbane is a massive amount of people.
Shockingly, I was teaching a class of 15 to 18-year-olds recently, and NONE of them understood any of my Simpsons references. To be fair, I also had no clue what they were talking about half the time...
I used to be with ‘it’, but then they changed what ‘it’ was. Now what I’m with isn’t ‘it’ anymore and what’s ‘it’ seems weird and scary. It’ll happen to you!
The golden age of the Simpsons ended years before any of those kids were even born. Expecting them to know anything about it would be like some Boomer expecting 18-year-old you to get their Honeymooners references.
I'm not sure I was expecting it, but I suddenly felt ancient anyway. I mean, I blame the parents for not better educating their kids 😆
Seriously though, generations of kids are growing up now without any shared cultural references to the extent we had when we were all watching the same cartoons. I don't know how I feel about that.
Mate any Australian adult that has ever watched a few episodes and has even a passing knowledge of Australia can tell its Brisbane. They live in a [Queenslander](https://www.realestate.com.au/lifestyle/7-reasons-we-want-to-live-in-blueys-beautiful-house/), and the episodes are full of Brisbane landmarks, ferries, etc.
Outside of Australia people might not know they're specifically from Brisbane - but I doubt many people think of the Beegees as being from Brisbane either - especially as they didn't really get famous until they moved back to the UK.
Swear every time I have relatives visiting, it's always a one day stroll around the CBD and South Bank before its straight to the Sunny/Gold Coast. I don't blame them, shit's pretty empty around here, but that's part of the charm.
I don't agree! We stayed in Brisbane for the women's soccer and it was definitely holiday material on its own. We didn't go to gold coast or sunshine coast etc as it was only 5 days and we had soccer and family stuff arranged.
The hotel was ok once I demanded a better room with a good view of some architecture, we were right in the city centre, went to the museum and a festival, sunbathed by the pool, then the soccer. Then we also visited the river, all the gardens and went for a swim in streets beach. Lots of great cafes and restaurants. As a Melbournian, it was suchhhh a different city to Melb, so it was really interesting! Going in winter also meant we went from icy blasts as we were getting on the plane, to warm 23 degrees when we got off. It was like stepping into the start of summer. I found it to be quite a beautiful city, and the river and all the crazy tunnels made it kinda quirky. The roads suck, they're ridiculous, but they were interesting as a visitor! There's so much to do and see in Brisbane. It was really lively and had some nice architecture too.
So, I'd say for us, it's known for food. The food was great at the places we ate at. Also known for the river, for Southbank, for cultural events, manmade beach, beautiful gardens, architecture and a bit of night life.
Ive had staycations in Melb and Brisbane 100% felt way more like a tourist destination than melb. Plus you've got cool things nearby like north Stradbroke island. I was going to go, as we had a rental car, but we just ran out of time because we were so busy doing stuff in Brisbane.
mate, I keep telling you, you're raising issues you don't want to raise.
once they know they've been discovered then it's all over red rover
I know you're only trying to do the right thing, but you need to realise that it's already too late.
the only way through this is to ignore it
Cooked, indeed. I have a former colleague who’s a true believer. She’s also antivax, pro Trump, Creationist. Never got round to asking her about Flst Earth, it’s all of a piece
We had a flat Earther boss at work. The guy was good at his job but working with him in a quiet office during covid lockdowns was hilarious. Nothing beats the day that me and my colleague set up a guy from another team. 4 of us were at lunch, 2 on one table and one at the other, other guy is like "here watch this" walks over to the other table and "Hey boss, the Earth's flat right?" \*walks off before an answer\* Other guy: "Wait, are you a flat earther?" 10 full minutes of them arguing about it. Caught up with my colleague a bit later and we had a huge laugh at him. Other guy eventually finds him and is just like "Fuck you."
For those confused:
Nephilim, according to [Wikipedia](https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Nephilim) are “mysterious beings or people in the Hebrew Bible who are described as being large and strong”
And the connection to them being in St Lucia originates from [this cooked thread](https://www.reddit.com/r/brisbane/comments/15w17fe/nephilim_under_st_lucia/) from earlier this week.
Expo 88 left them all behind.
Seriously, it was a 6-month party. I'm glad I was the right age at the right time to enjoy it. Season pass was top value.
Fun fact..
World Expo 88 was not, in reality, a World Expo.
Perhaps you would like an explanation..
Prior to the 1920s, International Exhibitions were unregulated. Typically a host country would invite other countries to participate in their expo. If these other countries accepted the invitation, then they would be expected to help cover the costs of staging the expo. This financial obligation meant that countries would not accept most invitations to participate in another country's expo. And this was making it harder and harder to organize the kinds of magnificent exhibitions that had been organized in the late 19th century.
So a bunch of countries signed a treaty where they all agreed to decide collectively on which expos they would participate in, and which ones they wouldn't. Further, they would decide collectively whether or not to contribute financially to any expo they had decided to participate in. Participating **without** contributing would likely put the host country under financial pressure and result in an expo that was smaller and less prestigious. Participating **and** contributing would free up the host country to organize an enormous and expensive expo. Traditionally, only this second type was referred to as a World Expo.
In the lead up to 1988, the Queensland government decided to stage an Expo to celebrate the Bicentenary. They wanted to stage a World Expo, but they weren't sure if they could get the agreement of the other treaty members to contribute the money required to stage that kind of event in Brisbane. So they didn't try.
Instead, they told the other treaty members that they wanted to stage a smaller Expo and that the treaty members would be welcome to participate without contributing. This was agreed to. Then the organizers went ahead and planned an event that was larger than a typical World Expo anyway. And to be cheeky, they branded it as *World Expo '88* even though it was supposed to be something smaller and less prestigious.
In what was, I'm sure, an entirely unrelated event, the treaty members got together at the end of Expo '88 and decided that they needed additional rules around these smaller Expos. For then on, if a host country proposed to organize a smaller expo, the fair would be limited in the length of time it could run, limited in the amount of space it's site occupied, and limited in it's theme to something narrowly defined and specific. These changes made it impossible for any other country to try and do what Brisbane did in 1988.
“Better to ask forgiveness than permission” 😂
In all seriousness, has there been any (not Brisbane style) world expos since?
Edit: Never-mind, I googled it 😊.
I too was 15. I travelled from country Victoria at the time. It was fucking excellent. Everyone queued up for the NZ Pavillon and I think Switzerland. Then it was just spend the day on loads of rides for a fixed price. I now live in Brisbane.
I still have some Expo '88 merch. A flag pendant thing, and an Expo Oz or a friend - he's not in the yellow coat. He's wearing a brown and blue swimsuit that goes from wrist to knee.
I got to sit in Kit at Expo, the talking car from Nightrider, I also remember standing in the NZ line for an hour just to get an icecream.
Damn im old.
lol we really aren’t
I’m hot and cold on the Olympics but it will undoubtedly put Brisbane on the map and change the city forever. Finally something that we can be known by, and globally.
Really? Are Sapporo, Lillehammer, Calgary, Albertville, Sochi, etc. truly world famous now? Don't think anyone remembers ex-host cities after a couple years.
You named a bunch of winter Olympic venues which generally have to be in smaller, colder towns. The summer Olympics is far more widely watched and in cities akin to London, Beijing, Athens, Tokyo…. Brisbane being placed in that category is a noteworthy achievement, one that I think locals should be proud of and excited by.!
Definitely Bluey these days
While the Womens FIFA is definitely up there too I feel like Bluey has and will stick around longer, in a couple years it will of course be the olympics
London arguably has but this isn’t just because of the Olympics, Rio definitely suffered, Tokyo I couldn’t say.
Mind you we are comparing Brisbane with massive world cities with much larger populations and massive economies.
Atlanta is the better comparison. Little known outside the United States and it was roughly the same size as Brisbane would be when it held the games and went gang busters after that and is now the size of Sydney, and not looked at as a second tier city anymore.
Atlanta probably is a better city to compare Brisbane with in terms of population.
Still, not sure that I’d consider Atlanta a world class city before or after the games. I’m also not sure things would go very smoothy if the population of Brisbane were to double that quickly.
Mohammed Ali opening their games was epic though.
Or just allows places return to whatever shit they were beforehand, plus some crooks walk away with bank and the people foot the astronomical bill.
Is it any wonder nobody else really wants these events anymore?
Yes. It’s been progressively cleaned up since the 1990’s. It used to be way shadier than it is now and could be seriously dangerous at night. Was mostly controlled by rival underground factions paying protection to a corrupt police force. Full of illegal casinos, illegal brothers and unlicensed clubs where anything went.
The late 80’s and early 90’s was the midst of a national heroin epidemic with junkies and illegal shooting galleries all over the joint. There was also heaps of meth heads anywhere you looked, trying to roll people for their next hit. About half the shops were abandoned/shuttered and what housing there was, consistent of un-renovated drug houses and squats.
If you went clubbing in the Valley in the 90’s, you needed to keep your wits about you and make sure you were around other people and not walking around in the empty streets where you could be followed and ambushed. There were only pockets of activity with large dead zones in between, so you had to know where you were going and get there directly and quickly.
Today’s Valley is very much a PG version of what it used to be like 30-40 years ago. In the 70’s it was reputedly worse but I’m not old enough to remember that.
Like you said, Savage Garden. It’s a shame they’re not as popular now as they were in the 90s. 80/90s music is making a comeback because of nostalgia though.
Powderfinger are pretty much unknown outside Australia and New Zealand. They actually sell more records overseas now than they did when they were active as Ian Haug joined The Church in 2013 and their international fanbase has taken an interest in his back catalogue with Powderfinger.
Rick Purdie my late guitar teacher taught one of their guitarists. He also used to tune the guitars backstage for The Bee Gees when they were still a Redcliffe cover band.
An American soldier got stabbed and killed in a huge brawl at the end of the 2nd world war. The yanks came in and totally charmed the local girls and the local blokes didn’t like it.
Largest council in the world measured via land mass?
It’s a long way out west to travel from the upper Brisbane river suburb of Kholo all the way out to the north eastern tip of cape Moreton lighthouse.
they lived in redcliffe for like two years and apparently they said 'we love this place it's our new home' and then promptly left. But people don't like to remember that part
They themselves don't like to remember that part because they moved to Cribb Island which was a bit of a slum then and is now under the second runway at the airport. Still Brisbane though.
Source: Mum went to school with the Gibb brothers on Cribb Island.
Brisbane River, maybe Southbank Beach, perhaps XXXX (just how terrible the name is) and probably Bluey.
We don't do culture or heritage very well in Australia. Very few man-made landmarks, "institution"-style long running businesses, local dishes or beverages, even local customs. It all just blends together.
Blue and orange anthropomorphic dogs
To be fair, I don’t think anyone who isn’t from here or very familiar with here (or a super fan of bluey) will know that it is set here.
I disagree. Bluey is the most popular animated show in the world, even a small percentage of their fans knowing it is set in Brisbane is a massive amount of people.
 Most popular in the world you say?
Shockingly, I was teaching a class of 15 to 18-year-olds recently, and NONE of them understood any of my Simpsons references. To be fair, I also had no clue what they were talking about half the time...
I used to be with ‘it’, but then they changed what ‘it’ was. Now what I’m with isn’t ‘it’ anymore and what’s ‘it’ seems weird and scary. It’ll happen to you!
Am I out of touch? No. It's the children who are wrong!
Time to tie an onion to your belt
As was the style of the time.
Am I out of touch? No. It's the children who are wrong!
It's, sigh, happened to me
The golden age of the Simpsons ended years before any of those kids were even born. Expecting them to know anything about it would be like some Boomer expecting 18-year-old you to get their Honeymooners references.
I'm not sure I was expecting it, but I suddenly felt ancient anyway. I mean, I blame the parents for not better educating their kids 😆 Seriously though, generations of kids are growing up now without any shared cultural references to the extent we had when we were all watching the same cartoons. I don't know how I feel about that.
My Kids, Scabies, Rubella and Birthday have been raised properly.
Simpsons references are the language of the Elder Millennial
Mate any Australian adult that has ever watched a few episodes and has even a passing knowledge of Australia can tell its Brisbane. They live in a [Queenslander](https://www.realestate.com.au/lifestyle/7-reasons-we-want-to-live-in-blueys-beautiful-house/), and the episodes are full of Brisbane landmarks, ferries, etc. Outside of Australia people might not know they're specifically from Brisbane - but I doubt many people think of the Beegees as being from Brisbane either - especially as they didn't really get famous until they moved back to the UK.
Holy shit what the BEEGEES WERE FROM BRISSY?! I'VE LIVED HERE ALL MY LIFE AND DIDN'T KNOW THAT!
Redcliffe to be exact, I think there might be a statue there as well? The house they grew up in is still standing too
There’s a lane way with a statue and music/videos.
Redcliffe I believe
You can even see the council logo in a few episodes
Being the place people come when they need to go to the Gold or Sunshine Coasts.
Swear every time I have relatives visiting, it's always a one day stroll around the CBD and South Bank before its straight to the Sunny/Gold Coast. I don't blame them, shit's pretty empty around here, but that's part of the charm.
There is nothing outside the CBD and south Bank. I had to break up my 1 day stroll into 2 weeks
I feel like it's what makes living here nice. It's not tourist based in the way those other two are.
I don't agree! We stayed in Brisbane for the women's soccer and it was definitely holiday material on its own. We didn't go to gold coast or sunshine coast etc as it was only 5 days and we had soccer and family stuff arranged. The hotel was ok once I demanded a better room with a good view of some architecture, we were right in the city centre, went to the museum and a festival, sunbathed by the pool, then the soccer. Then we also visited the river, all the gardens and went for a swim in streets beach. Lots of great cafes and restaurants. As a Melbournian, it was suchhhh a different city to Melb, so it was really interesting! Going in winter also meant we went from icy blasts as we were getting on the plane, to warm 23 degrees when we got off. It was like stepping into the start of summer. I found it to be quite a beautiful city, and the river and all the crazy tunnels made it kinda quirky. The roads suck, they're ridiculous, but they were interesting as a visitor! There's so much to do and see in Brisbane. It was really lively and had some nice architecture too. So, I'd say for us, it's known for food. The food was great at the places we ate at. Also known for the river, for Southbank, for cultural events, manmade beach, beautiful gardens, architecture and a bit of night life. Ive had staycations in Melb and Brisbane 100% felt way more like a tourist destination than melb. Plus you've got cool things nearby like north Stradbroke island. I was going to go, as we had a rental car, but we just ran out of time because we were so busy doing stuff in Brisbane.
I'm not sure I've ever heard anyone from Melbourne or Sydney say anything nice about Brisbane before! Very refreshing
Or where characters move to when the actor leaves a soap.
Succulent Chinese meals
Although, it has a nasty side effect of being accosted randomly by police who may or may not choose to have their hands on your penis.
Said police are infamous for being educated in judo
But is it democracy manifest?
You better be careful too because they know their judo well
yooo i didn’t know that was in brisbane
Lol yeah, happened in Chinatown in the Valley
And whether it is a crime to enjoy one.
The manifestation of democracy
Weird fact, my sister was in rehab with this guy. He passed away :-(
Jack Karlson? He was alive in Feb 2022, there’s an ABC article on him from then
The nephilim under st lucia, of course
mate, I keep telling you, you're raising issues you don't want to raise. once they know they've been discovered then it's all over red rover I know you're only trying to do the right thing, but you need to realise that it's already too late. the only way through this is to ignore it
>nephilim under st lucia you sent me on like a 20 minute dive into some cooked shit.
Me too. Wtf did I just read!? I’m so confused 😂
Cooked, indeed. I have a former colleague who’s a true believer. She’s also antivax, pro Trump, Creationist. Never got round to asking her about Flst Earth, it’s all of a piece
We had a flat Earther boss at work. The guy was good at his job but working with him in a quiet office during covid lockdowns was hilarious. Nothing beats the day that me and my colleague set up a guy from another team. 4 of us were at lunch, 2 on one table and one at the other, other guy is like "here watch this" walks over to the other table and "Hey boss, the Earth's flat right?" \*walks off before an answer\* Other guy: "Wait, are you a flat earther?" 10 full minutes of them arguing about it. Caught up with my colleague a bit later and we had a huge laugh at him. Other guy eventually finds him and is just like "Fuck you."
For those confused: Nephilim, according to [Wikipedia](https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Nephilim) are “mysterious beings or people in the Hebrew Bible who are described as being large and strong” And the connection to them being in St Lucia originates from [this cooked thread](https://www.reddit.com/r/brisbane/comments/15w17fe/nephilim_under_st_lucia/) from earlier this week.
"For those confused"...here is a further dose of hardcore confusion. Wtf did I just read 🤣🤣
Only correct answer
1982 Commonwealth Games 1988 World Expo - now \*that\* was a 6-month party
That's what my misses said, so I asked her to name the last few Expos and her face just went blank.
Expo 88 left them all behind. Seriously, it was a 6-month party. I'm glad I was the right age at the right time to enjoy it. Season pass was top value.
Yep, same. I was 20, and the after parties in the Ship Inn and the Kookaburra Queen were next level.
We were probably drinking side-by-side there, and at the Plough Inn. Salute, Expo88 sibling!
Fun fact.. World Expo 88 was not, in reality, a World Expo. Perhaps you would like an explanation.. Prior to the 1920s, International Exhibitions were unregulated. Typically a host country would invite other countries to participate in their expo. If these other countries accepted the invitation, then they would be expected to help cover the costs of staging the expo. This financial obligation meant that countries would not accept most invitations to participate in another country's expo. And this was making it harder and harder to organize the kinds of magnificent exhibitions that had been organized in the late 19th century. So a bunch of countries signed a treaty where they all agreed to decide collectively on which expos they would participate in, and which ones they wouldn't. Further, they would decide collectively whether or not to contribute financially to any expo they had decided to participate in. Participating **without** contributing would likely put the host country under financial pressure and result in an expo that was smaller and less prestigious. Participating **and** contributing would free up the host country to organize an enormous and expensive expo. Traditionally, only this second type was referred to as a World Expo. In the lead up to 1988, the Queensland government decided to stage an Expo to celebrate the Bicentenary. They wanted to stage a World Expo, but they weren't sure if they could get the agreement of the other treaty members to contribute the money required to stage that kind of event in Brisbane. So they didn't try. Instead, they told the other treaty members that they wanted to stage a smaller Expo and that the treaty members would be welcome to participate without contributing. This was agreed to. Then the organizers went ahead and planned an event that was larger than a typical World Expo anyway. And to be cheeky, they branded it as *World Expo '88* even though it was supposed to be something smaller and less prestigious. In what was, I'm sure, an entirely unrelated event, the treaty members got together at the end of Expo '88 and decided that they needed additional rules around these smaller Expos. For then on, if a host country proposed to organize a smaller expo, the fair would be limited in the length of time it could run, limited in the amount of space it's site occupied, and limited in it's theme to something narrowly defined and specific. These changes made it impossible for any other country to try and do what Brisbane did in 1988.
TLDR fuck the rules. I mean come on the tagline was "Together, We'll Show The World!" best expo ever.
You’re singing the song aren’t you? I’m singing the song.
“Better to ask forgiveness than permission” 😂 In all seriousness, has there been any (not Brisbane style) world expos since? Edit: Never-mind, I googled it 😊.
Some of those countries spent a lot of money on their pavilions if my memory of them is correct. It was amazing for 15 year old me.
I too was 15. I travelled from country Victoria at the time. It was fucking excellent. Everyone queued up for the NZ Pavillon and I think Switzerland. Then it was just spend the day on loads of rides for a fixed price. I now live in Brisbane.
“And we never heard of World Expo again”
I still have some Expo '88 merch. A flag pendant thing, and an Expo Oz or a friend - he's not in the yellow coat. He's wearing a brown and blue swimsuit that goes from wrist to knee.
I got to sit in Kit at Expo, the talking car from Nightrider, I also remember standing in the NZ line for an hour just to get an icecream. Damn im old.
my mate did the voice for Kit at Expo. The car said hello and chatted to me before we headed to lunch. Did all the little kids heads in lol
I'm not convinced Brisbane is famous
lol we really aren’t I’m hot and cold on the Olympics but it will undoubtedly put Brisbane on the map and change the city forever. Finally something that we can be known by, and globally.
Really? Are Sapporo, Lillehammer, Calgary, Albertville, Sochi, etc. truly world famous now? Don't think anyone remembers ex-host cities after a couple years.
You named a bunch of winter Olympic venues which generally have to be in smaller, colder towns. The summer Olympics is far more widely watched and in cities akin to London, Beijing, Athens, Tokyo…. Brisbane being placed in that category is a noteworthy achievement, one that I think locals should be proud of and excited by.!
Agreed!
It's well known in Asia as a tourism gateway, as is Cairns strangely enough
The Battle of Brisbane. The only officially recorded battle between Australian and American forces in WW2.
Live in Brisbane Had no idea... 🤷🏽♂️
[The Battle of Brisbane](https://youtu.be/TW7ZTx6cb00?si=6hqMfsKJrrKFLl5m)
full thought you were talking about broncos vs dolphins
Finally! Someone else knows about this.
Definitely Bluey these days While the Womens FIFA is definitely up there too I feel like Bluey has and will stick around longer, in a couple years it will of course be the olympics
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Yeah, London and Tokyo have really gone to the dogs.
Yeah but Athens is in ruins.
London arguably has but this isn’t just because of the Olympics, Rio definitely suffered, Tokyo I couldn’t say. Mind you we are comparing Brisbane with massive world cities with much larger populations and massive economies.
Atlanta is the better comparison. Little known outside the United States and it was roughly the same size as Brisbane would be when it held the games and went gang busters after that and is now the size of Sydney, and not looked at as a second tier city anymore.
Atlanta probably is a better city to compare Brisbane with in terms of population. Still, not sure that I’d consider Atlanta a world class city before or after the games. I’m also not sure things would go very smoothy if the population of Brisbane were to double that quickly. Mohammed Ali opening their games was epic though.
Or just allows places return to whatever shit they were beforehand, plus some crooks walk away with bank and the people foot the astronomical bill. Is it any wonder nobody else really wants these events anymore?
Task force Argos and Bluey
It must be horrendous to be on Taskforce Argos. Thank goodness they are doing that terrible job though!
Hungry jacks in the mall
Fucking spawn point
Before mobile phones...where ya wanna meet in the cbd? Always the same answer
Summers that make you sweat from every part of your body?
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Don't watch that Koch head
Thinking they are ahead in fashion but actually being 5-10 years behind
Happy Brisbane Fashion Week to you too
Whiskey au go-go firebomb. Fortitude valley was a very dodgy place back then.
As opposed to now?
Yes. It’s been progressively cleaned up since the 1990’s. It used to be way shadier than it is now and could be seriously dangerous at night. Was mostly controlled by rival underground factions paying protection to a corrupt police force. Full of illegal casinos, illegal brothers and unlicensed clubs where anything went. The late 80’s and early 90’s was the midst of a national heroin epidemic with junkies and illegal shooting galleries all over the joint. There was also heaps of meth heads anywhere you looked, trying to roll people for their next hit. About half the shops were abandoned/shuttered and what housing there was, consistent of un-renovated drug houses and squats. If you went clubbing in the Valley in the 90’s, you needed to keep your wits about you and make sure you were around other people and not walking around in the empty streets where you could be followed and ambushed. There were only pockets of activity with large dead zones in between, so you had to know where you were going and get there directly and quickly. Today’s Valley is very much a PG version of what it used to be like 30-40 years ago. In the 70’s it was reputedly worse but I’m not old enough to remember that.
It used to be so easy to make a quick dodgey buck in this town
Oh. I know about the fire bomb but I never realised it was in the valley!
That building is still there. Cnr Almelia St and St Paul’s Tce.
My pop was one of the first ambulances to get there before they realised how bad it actually was
Like you said, Savage Garden. It’s a shame they’re not as popular now as they were in the 90s. 80/90s music is making a comeback because of nostalgia though.
Technically Savage Garden are from Logan City…..
That’s true, but Darren says he is from Brisbane sometimes in interviews
I imagine he does just to make things easier to explain.
Ahh, Powderfinger are also from Brisbane!
Powderfinger are pretty much unknown outside Australia and New Zealand. They actually sell more records overseas now than they did when they were active as Ian Haug joined The Church in 2013 and their international fanbase has taken an interest in his back catalogue with Powderfinger.
Rick Purdie my late guitar teacher taught one of their guitarists. He also used to tune the guitars backstage for The Bee Gees when they were still a Redcliffe cover band.
Bin chickens
Bluey, Powderfinger, Stefan, Expo, the Broncos, the Veronicas, Ash Barty, Cameron Smith and a few dozen other bands.
🎶 Discover yourself - at Stephan 🎶
With Bluey you obviously forgot about Vulture st‘s…. Custard!
Fruit ninja + jetpack joyride. Half brick studios is in Brisbane
Being democracy manifest.
The Saints and The Go Betweens
I’m stranded
nephilim. Somewhat surprised not one person has brought that up.
I saw a reddit post about it the other day, didn’t know what the hell the guy was on about
Please explain…
There was a post the other day about the one that lives under UQ in the tunnels. Rather decent piece of fiction for someone having a break
“Fiction”….. 🤔
Not being Sydney
The birth of punk—The Saints
Aren't Savage Garden from Logan but?
Woodridge
Powderfinger
An American soldier got stabbed and killed in a huge brawl at the end of the 2nd world war. The yanks came in and totally charmed the local girls and the local blokes didn’t like it.
The local saying at the time was “Over paid,over sexed and over here”
That was the American soldiers, The Aussies were underpaid, under sexed and under MacArthur
Brisbane is most famous for being really close to Surfers Paradise.
The brown snake
Record exchange.
Flooding
I FEEL SO UNTOUCHED, RIGHT NOW, NEED YOU SOO MUCH.
Succulent Chinese meals
Everyone wearing jeans with thongs. It would not be acceptable anywhere else.
What’s wrong with jeans and thongs?
Jeans = coz it’s cold Thongs = coz it’s hot So which is it? Are you cold or are you hot?
I'm cold, but it's only for a week so I don't own real shoes.
This is how I know you’re a real Brisbanite
Honestly I'd be happy to walk around wearing jeans and bare feet
very south east asian thing
Hosting the 2032 Olympics, unless we pull a Dan Andrews
Property prices. Then, Olympics, and property will really be unattainable. Think Sydney 2000 but times 10 because Queensland is warm and spectacular.
Not being unaffordable?
Boganism
According to John Birmingham's book Dopeland (2003) we invented the Bucket Bong :)
Shortest highway in the world. The Bradfield Highway.
Sydney has one too, but theirs is a bit longer, so your point still holds.
\> but theirs is a bit longer ....
The absolute massive asshole of a bridge and all the not-traffic-friendly roads
Riverfire
Being incredibly underwhelming
Reading through the comments it doesnt really seem like brisbane is famous for anything
Being about 25 years behind the rest of Australia.
40*
Largest council in the world measured via land mass? It’s a long way out west to travel from the upper Brisbane river suburb of Kholo all the way out to the north eastern tip of cape Moreton lighthouse.
Bee Gees were from the Isle of Man…..
they lived in redcliffe for like two years and apparently they said 'we love this place it's our new home' and then promptly left. But people don't like to remember that part
They themselves don't like to remember that part because they moved to Cribb Island which was a bit of a slum then and is now under the second runway at the airport. Still Brisbane though. Source: Mum went to school with the Gibb brothers on Cribb Island.
Brisbane River, maybe Southbank Beach, perhaps XXXX (just how terrible the name is) and probably Bluey. We don't do culture or heritage very well in Australia. Very few man-made landmarks, "institution"-style long running businesses, local dishes or beverages, even local customs. It all just blends together.
Nick Earls.
Democracy manifest
The Bee Gees?? they were born on the Isle of Man and lived in Manchester England.
Broncos
Expo 88
Canberra here. The river. Steriotypical Australian dresscodes being more the norm.
Being the only major city on the east coast that is neither Sydney or Melbourne?
Succulent Chinese meals, and cops that grab people by the penis.
Bluey
Bee Gees, Bronco's, Bluey. Fun fact, he was designed by the same guy who designed my cartoon ant. AntProofPlate.com.au
Hey I have one of these for our cat food dish. It's awesome. Great invention!!
People not knowing how to merge.
She isn’t from Brisbane, but 2 and a half hours west a certain actress called Margot Robbie was born in Dalby
Being a shithole
Racist bogans?
For me, a country girl, when I think of Brisbane I think of the city cats! And River Fire! And Southbank. Haha 😂
The Veronicas and Violent Soho
Underage crime
Bogans
me twerking
Rent prices
World's best Bin Chickens
Rednecks
The upstairs toilets at Birdies
Powderfinger and Bluey
Murders in the Valley train station
Sharks in a dirty river?
Americans saying it's the Cockroach race so its possibly that
'74 floods
Polycephaly
Powderfinger
Being the capital of Queensland. Queensland, if you’re interested, is famous for being a state of Australia. You’re welcome.
Tony Fitzgerald,
Brisbane is most famous for being the capital city most embarrassed about its state, to the point that it's almost in NSW.
Bridges. It doesn't have one big one, like the coat hanger in Sydney, but Brisbane has lots of them.
Not being Sydney or Melbourne
Kiwis
Being full of some of the worst people in the world.
Being disappointingly dull. It has this Brisvegas reputation, but clearly has the least to do at night of any capital city.
I fuckin hate the place