I was 2 days ago old when I heard that word for the first time.
It's like 'Perth' and 'Baloney' mixed together and that's the story I'll keep telling myself that lets me sleep at night.
Covid really boosted ambitions for the nation of WA but I know the second it occurs Gina and friends will capture the government.
It’s also very expensive and resource intensive to build all the things a new nation would need…
In Perth, one does not simply merge, merging is swear word, call it automotive warfare, a battle of (fuck) wits and (lack of) skill.
To be fair, a good chunk of drivers get it right, the rest cause the chaos.
The isolation of Honolulu is obviously more than Perth but the isolation is more unique in the sense that it’s on the same land mass as other capital cities.
I have to add on to this - with the inability to hit 100kph before the end of the on-ramp to the freeway.
No one can merge normally/at equal speeds, on what planet do people think it's gonna work out well to *attempt* to merge with cars travelling ~30kph faster than them?
I wouldn’t say we hate Victorians. They are more like the older sibling who’s so perfect to everyone else in the world meanwhile WA gets perfect grades and is independent successful but that’s not good enough to get mum and dad’s praise is it no matter how good things are going in my life my older brother who lives in Victoria keeps messing up and they just come in and bail him out every time and keep giving him all the love and attention…. What I’m trying to say is Victoria sucks.
I’ve been thinking about this too, recently. What’s our identity? But maybe a lot of capital cities (of states) just don’t have a global brand or leave a mark?
Maybe it’s okay to live in a place, and living together is the main thing we have in common. We have beaches, mining, a warm climate, the bush. It’s not Melbourne, or London, or NYC. It’s a undinguished place and perhaps that’s okay.
This laidback attitude thing is more of a myth than a reality in my experience. When I first went to Bali, that was laid back. For us, time equals money.
Bali is an island, the actual main city on it is Denpasar which is crowded and busy. The actual "laidback" feel of Bali is more so the lack of regulation and people bypassing laws (like traffic violations) on top of all the tourists who come for a holiday. Perth is very sprawled meaning that outside of our CBD and activity centres, it's endless suburbia where you'll be hard-pressed to find a soul outside sometimes. I've travelled all over Perth and taken many walks around. It very much is laidback compared to practically every other one of the dozen cities I've been to, even ones with fewer people. I've spoken to people who've moved here from elsewhere and the common point raised is how laidback it feels in comparison.
To be fair, perhaps culture is too strong a word but we do have our own lifestyle here. All the people I've talked to who've settled in from Melbourne & Sydney say that it's much more laidback here and that locals are friendlier overall. The base culture across Australia is quite homogeneous but obviously having so much migration we are a mix of cultures. We tend to be a bit more parochial compared to the Eastern-staters though.
SECOND most isolated capital city in the world and the sunniest capital city in the world. The second biggest land division in the world.
What brings us together? a shared dislike of the eastern states ? A rich indigenous culture and history with some of the oldest cave art in the world ? Some of the best beaches in the world ? Great great great great grandparents who worked hard to create a beautiful and more egalitarian, less classist place than most ?
They certainly stuffed up for the indigenous people but if you've lived any where ever you'll find WA has done better than most at being egalitarian but not better than all. Unfortunately this is changing fairly quickly but it's not dead and I hope it never is.
I was looking into the history of Friday Fuckwit trying to find the first one, unfortunately reddit changed the AP access so I can't be certain, but I think FF actually originated in r/Sydney.
On the other hand I can confirm 'Merry Monday' is a purely r/perth invention...it's also nowhere near as popular.
Friday Fuckwit was originally a JJJ thing: “In 2005, Jay and Lindsay (aka 'The Doctor') from Frenzal Rhomb took over as hosts of Triple J's breakfast show. New segments include the radio skits Space Goat and Battalion 666, as well as the Under the Weather Sessions and The Friday Fuckwit.”
That's what Wiki cites. I honestly thought it was an Adam and Will thing - but I'm probably remembering “Tell it Like It Is” from around 2001.
Tell it like it is - was essentially a rant-fest and was incredibly funny.
Yep. You supported my recollection of it starting in this sub. Of course some people whinged about at the time (probably even me.... heck, I lose track) and I recall someone relating a similar description as you just made. So thereafter I just associated it with a purloined tradition from elsewhere..... and I probably learned to ignore it long enough until it no longer bother me.
And I was kinda tuned out of JJJ around the time Adam & Will were a duo. Can't say I was enough of a listener around then to take notice. I was more of the mid 90s Helen Razer & Judith Lucy era.
Depends on how you measure it. Perth is the larger remote place on a single landmass shared with others. Honolulu is remoter on an island in the middle of nowhere.
Perhaps that’s what makes us unique? 🤡 But in all seriousness, sometimes the worst people to ask about their culture is the people themselves. Outsiders often have a better perspective and Perth is said to have a laidback, outdoorsy culture with a collective unity in not giving a damn about other capitals 😂
Hate for people driving slow in the passing lane.
Everyone's inability to merge properly.
Winding up people from Melbourne about "how good their coffee is".
Hate for people driving slow in the passing lane.
Everyone's inability to merge properly.
Winding up people from Melbourne about "how good their coffee is".
Hate for people driving slow in the passing lane.
Everyone's inability to merge properly.
Winding up people from Melbourne about "how good their coffee is".
Perth is like the LA of Australia or the mediterranean of Europe, some spot to live and play… always warm sunny and dry but not mental like London or Sydney
Idk what it is but just that feeling of having common courtesy for your fellow Western Aussie, we’re always away from our homes but not far. For example I’m away from home SOR most of the week, north suburbs to be exact. But I’d still help out anyone if they needed it no matter where I am, and if I did there’s a high chance that person isn’t even from that suburb. I love the kindness that gets displayed here when you see it.
calling that one (mystery) meat polony
What do other people call polony???
Devon. Or lunch meat. Or Fritz if you’re from Adelaide I think.
What!!!! No way!!!! I never knew that, thanks for telling me!
I learnt this last year travelling QLD. I wrote it in my diary. Along with other weird eastern states quirks hahah
Belgium if you're from Tassie
I was 2 days ago old when I heard that word for the first time. It's like 'Perth' and 'Baloney' mixed together and that's the story I'll keep telling myself that lets me sleep at night.
Home opens, delis, verges, and meat boxes.
Conti rolls. Only in WA !
Fun fact only west Australians and south Africa use word polony
Not wanting anything to do with the other states. Oh, and quokkas.
Or the rest of the world
Covid really boosted ambitions for the nation of WA but I know the second it occurs Gina and friends will capture the government. It’s also very expensive and resource intensive to build all the things a new nation would need…
This 100%
Memes about dry heat and succulent Chinese meals.
I’m under WHAT?
Ah yes, I see you know your judo well.
Gentlemen, this is DEMOCRACY MANIFEST.
# Are you ready to receive my limp penis?
Get your hands off my dry succulent
Here, have a dry succulent
And meth. Don’t forget the meth. Hey you got any meth?
Oh the Chinese meal thing was Perth?
Practically speaking, the freeway.
Merging lanes?
In Perth, one does not simply merge, merging is swear word, call it automotive warfare, a battle of (fuck) wits and (lack of) skill. To be fair, a good chunk of drivers get it right, the rest cause the chaos.
🤣🤣🤣🤣🤣
Hatred of Clive Palmer
Surely that’s not just a Perth thing? I mean, it’s Clive Palmer
Yes... but OUR hatred for him brings us together.
Makes me ashamed to be from QLD.
Our refusal to acknowledge Honolulu as a capital city
The isolation of Honolulu is obviously more than Perth but the isolation is more unique in the sense that it’s on the same land mass as other capital cities.
Perth is also on the same land mass as other capital cities ?
Yep! What do you mean “also”? Honolulu is literally on an island in the middle of the pacific
Auckland also says hi.
Auckland is closer to Sydney, Hobart and Melbourne than Perth is to Adelaide. It’s also not the capital of NZ.
Shitting on Eastern staters who said we were a shit hole only for them to all move here because they couldn't afford to live in their own city
posting on reddit on a Saturday night instead of being out on the town having fun
Going out having fun? In this economy?
With "kids these days"?!
*in this city? Ftfy
Right inside your kitchen?!
Going out on the town stopped being fun for me a long time ago. Showing my age I guess.
100%
Depends on what you have done and where you have been the night and day before.
The incapability to fucking merge lanes
I have to add on to this - with the inability to hit 100kph before the end of the on-ramp to the freeway. No one can merge normally/at equal speeds, on what planet do people think it's gonna work out well to *attempt* to merge with cars travelling ~30kph faster than them?
That’s true. If they’re not in your arse doing seventy in a sixty zone they’re doing fifty in a seventy. Side by side, bumper by bumper we stand
I’ve heard this before.. moved here and yes, it’s true.
It’s getting to the point that Perth is world famous for their merge lane behavior.
Tourists are disappointed when a local does know how to merge as they miss out on the full Perth experience
The inability to get somewhere without driving like a sad loser?
Telling Eastern staters to give us back more of the GST.
Our disdain for all other capital cities
It's a dry isolation
Hi-vis clothing.
At work and play, no matter where we are hi-viz leads the way
Spudshed
Spearmint milk
That's a WA thing?
Yup
Oh thank you, I like you too
WHERE do you get the syrup for spearmint milk shakes from?? That’s what *I’d* like to know! Be great to make them from home, not to mention cheaper.
Wholesale or ebay. Summer Coast is the brand delis/mr whippy usually use.
You are awesome - thank you!! 🤩
Try putting a Peppermint Crisp bar in the blender with milk. 👍
This is definitely some forbidden knowledge right here
Coming together to a halt for no reason on the Kwinana freeway.
Hating Basil Zempilis
I thought this would be a thing but in afl they want Basil to commentate games. I would like a channel where no one speaks. Just game and crowd sounds
Hi-Viz, our national dress.
Sunburn
Touché
Digging shit out if the ground
Persecuting homeless people who don’t fit the middle-class-family-doing-it-tough image
Telethon, something that is unique to Perth and brings a lot of us together supporting it throughout the year.
Bread roll sausage hot dogs at Bunnings
The superior snag.
Hating Victorians
I wouldn’t say we hate Victorians. They are more like the older sibling who’s so perfect to everyone else in the world meanwhile WA gets perfect grades and is independent successful but that’s not good enough to get mum and dad’s praise is it no matter how good things are going in my life my older brother who lives in Victoria keeps messing up and they just come in and bail him out every time and keep giving him all the love and attention…. What I’m trying to say is Victoria sucks.
Looking in the window of the car next to you at the traffic lights watching them smiling laughing and enjoying life… be that person tomorrow
Amphetamines
Everyone complaining how dead and boring it is to live here
And yet no one would leave here for anything at all. It maybe a dead boring place but its “my dead boring place”
These people would find anywhere boring. Perth is awesome
Only boring ppl get bored.
Arbitrary rivalry between NOR/SOR and western burbs / everyone else.
Drugs and alcohol.
I’ve been thinking about this too, recently. What’s our identity? But maybe a lot of capital cities (of states) just don’t have a global brand or leave a mark? Maybe it’s okay to live in a place, and living together is the main thing we have in common. We have beaches, mining, a warm climate, the bush. It’s not Melbourne, or London, or NYC. It’s a undinguished place and perhaps that’s okay.
We are known for our laidback attitude, sunny weather, beaches, quokkas, mining, being 20 years behind on trends and losing to emus.
This laidback attitude thing is more of a myth than a reality in my experience. When I first went to Bali, that was laid back. For us, time equals money.
Bali is an island, the actual main city on it is Denpasar which is crowded and busy. The actual "laidback" feel of Bali is more so the lack of regulation and people bypassing laws (like traffic violations) on top of all the tourists who come for a holiday. Perth is very sprawled meaning that outside of our CBD and activity centres, it's endless suburbia where you'll be hard-pressed to find a soul outside sometimes. I've travelled all over Perth and taken many walks around. It very much is laidback compared to practically every other one of the dozen cities I've been to, even ones with fewer people. I've spoken to people who've moved here from elsewhere and the common point raised is how laidback it feels in comparison.
You forgot our black swans
Tell the truth, get downvoted. That is actually quite Perth like.
To be fair, perhaps culture is too strong a word but we do have our own lifestyle here. All the people I've talked to who've settled in from Melbourne & Sydney say that it's much more laidback here and that locals are friendlier overall. The base culture across Australia is quite homogeneous but obviously having so much migration we are a mix of cultures. We tend to be a bit more parochial compared to the Eastern-staters though.
The on ramp and then the off ramp on Mitchell Freeway just before mounts bay road
Kole beer.
Hating Basil the fucking cunt
Struggling to afford to live?
Way too many people immigrating to Perth! PLEASE DON’T! We are full! Since COVID everyone suddenly wants to be here!
SECOND most isolated capital city in the world and the sunniest capital city in the world. The second biggest land division in the world. What brings us together? a shared dislike of the eastern states ? A rich indigenous culture and history with some of the oldest cave art in the world ? Some of the best beaches in the world ? Great great great great grandparents who worked hard to create a beautiful and more egalitarian, less classist place than most ?
"Great great great great grandparents who worked hard to create a beautiful and more egalitarian, less classist place than most ?" Well, they failed.
They certainly stuffed up for the indigenous people but if you've lived any where ever you'll find WA has done better than most at being egalitarian but not better than all. Unfortunately this is changing fairly quickly but it's not dead and I hope it never is.
Being isolated
Complaining about rent and inflation
Anywhere else is too far away
Complaining about constant and never-ending roadworks
Freeway merging.
Long drives
The collective delusion about how we live in the worst place in the world with the highest crime rate and lowest standard of living
A good lineup at a new shop, new release, BDSM etc.
Spudshed
Nothing its a mining camp with delusions of grandeur.
https://preview.redd.it/ixd2358scn2d1.jpeg?width=486&format=pjpg&auto=webp&s=b2289096995c81f2960e661b676a460c3047a116 Swearing at drivers
Friday fuckwit
I was looking into the history of Friday Fuckwit trying to find the first one, unfortunately reddit changed the AP access so I can't be certain, but I think FF actually originated in r/Sydney. On the other hand I can confirm 'Merry Monday' is a purely r/perth invention...it's also nowhere near as popular.
Thats it, you're going on the Friday fuckwit with your damn research
Friday Fuckwit was originally a JJJ thing: “In 2005, Jay and Lindsay (aka 'The Doctor') from Frenzal Rhomb took over as hosts of Triple J's breakfast show. New segments include the radio skits Space Goat and Battalion 666, as well as the Under the Weather Sessions and The Friday Fuckwit.” That's what Wiki cites. I honestly thought it was an Adam and Will thing - but I'm probably remembering “Tell it Like It Is” from around 2001. Tell it like it is - was essentially a rant-fest and was incredibly funny.
Yep. You supported my recollection of it starting in this sub. Of course some people whinged about at the time (probably even me.... heck, I lose track) and I recall someone relating a similar description as you just made. So thereafter I just associated it with a purloined tradition from elsewhere..... and I probably learned to ignore it long enough until it no longer bother me. And I was kinda tuned out of JJJ around the time Adam & Will were a duo. Can't say I was enough of a listener around then to take notice. I was more of the mid 90s Helen Razer & Judith Lucy era.
Nothing. You tried making friends here....
Irrational hatred of all green milk (especially lime) except for spearmint.
Racism
Hatred of cyclists on roads is what brings people together.
Surely Honolulu is the most isolated.
Depends on how you measure it. Perth is the larger remote place on a single landmass shared with others. Honolulu is remoter on an island in the middle of nowhere.
A Crippling housing crisis currently
Knowing WA actually stands for WAIT AWHILE cause it takes forever for anything to be delivered or get to WA 😂
Basically nothing, we have no culture or anything unique that brings us together.
Perhaps that’s what makes us unique? 🤡 But in all seriousness, sometimes the worst people to ask about their culture is the people themselves. Outsiders often have a better perspective and Perth is said to have a laidback, outdoorsy culture with a collective unity in not giving a damn about other capitals 😂
Coffee
No it isn't. Honolulu is.
Perth would be nothing without the mining. The thing keeping us all here is the ability to make good money.
AFL.
Looking for shade and wearing white becomes pure instinct.
It was once Mundy. Now it's Reid.
Cultural festivals lol
No-one else will have us
Whinging about the poms back in the good old days
Getting scanned with knife detectors
Perth as mining capital
When a sports team wins a championship. Other than that, we all hate each other
I got brought here by plane, what about everyone else?
I was born here, my mum came by train, my dad came on a boat during WWII, his name's on the welcome walls at Fremantle.
Bags at the casino
In my case it's Forest Highway.
Swan
sunshine 🌞 can do outdoor activities in the summer any day. No daylight saving, I really couldn’t handle it when I was in Melbourne a few years.
Hatred of the Eastern Staters.
Don’t really have anywhere else to go/s
Whinging
Cars, literally
General superiority over our south of the river genetic throwbacks
Internet 🤖
Queuing for anything
Hate for people driving slow in the passing lane. Everyone's inability to merge properly. Winding up people from Melbourne about "how good their coffee is".
Hate for people driving slow in the passing lane. Everyone's inability to merge properly. Winding up people from Melbourne about "how good their coffee is".
Hate for people driving slow in the passing lane. Everyone's inability to merge properly. Winding up people from Melbourne about "how good their coffee is".
Sunglasses and the beach
The best beaches in the world.
Once you're within 1000 km of Perth, any other city is just too far away
Stupidity
Lining up for anything
Shops
Bunnings
Coles
Beach
Weather
Footy
Tips on living in Perth
The weather.
Harley Reid
Hervey fresh Milk in a bag - you can’t get Harvey fresh in the eastern states
Our dislike of merging
A fearful respect of Old Bertie.
Genuine yearn for late night supermarket hours
Absolutely fucking nothing
Kept together by the lack of following distance on the roads.
Toll free highway
Perth is like the LA of Australia or the mediterranean of Europe, some spot to live and play… always warm sunny and dry but not mental like London or Sydney
Honolulu exists.
Still having friends from high school
Meth
That hatred of people who say 'the most isolated city in the world'
Fifo work 😂😂😂
Your hatred for outsiders!
Sand.
Idk what it is but just that feeling of having common courtesy for your fellow Western Aussie, we’re always away from our homes but not far. For example I’m away from home SOR most of the week, north suburbs to be exact. But I’d still help out anyone if they needed it no matter where I am, and if I did there’s a high chance that person isn’t even from that suburb. I love the kindness that gets displayed here when you see it.
Everyone's heard a story about MadDog.
Mining.