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SnokenKeekaGuard@lemmy.dbzer0.com to Not The Onion@lemmy.worldEnglish · 4 days ago

Australian politician signs off career with a 'shoey'

www.bbc.co.uk

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Australian politician signs off career with a 'shoey'

www.bbc.co.uk

SnokenKeekaGuard@lemmy.dbzer0.com to Not The Onion@lemmy.worldEnglish · 4 days ago
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The MP ended his time in parliament by drinking beer out of his shoe during his farewell speech.
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  • Viking_Hippie@lemmy.dbzer0.com
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    McGinn told local media he did it to show there were normal people in parliament

    …as he’s leaving parliament

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      Drinking beer from a shoe is normal now?

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        You never drank Bailey’s from a shoe?

        • ZombieGary@lemmy.world
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          Want to go to a club where people wee on each other?

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            Do you love me?

            Could you learn to love me?

        • StinkyFingerItchyBum@lemmy.ca
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          Creamy

        • CH3DD4R_G0B-L1N@sh.itjust.works
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          No, but I hear it goes well with a nice Chianti.

      • Viking_Hippie@lemmy.dbzer0.com
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        It is in Australia, apparently 🤷

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    The lady beside him seems like she should be chanting “Her-cules! Her-cules!”

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    Legend

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    King shit

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    I can’t stop laughing at this thread. That’s so effing gross… What the hell is wrong with you people?

    Old Greg want supposed to be instructional.

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      What’s his crime? Drinking a succulent beverage??

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    That’s fucking digusting, who thought drinking beer from a shoe was cool??

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      Aussies. And you’ll do it with them, if you’re ever lucky enough to be near their a celebrations

      I know from Daniel Ricciardo popularized it in Formula 1

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        Id rather drink a fosters than beer out of a shoe

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          I’d rather drink my own fermented piss than drink a fucking fosters.

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          That’s both Australian and I Australian at the same time. Well done. You’ve broken Aussie stereotypes forever. A real “yeah, nah”

      • Cruxifux@feddit.nl
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        Just a whole country of old Greg’s.

    • Aussiemandeus@aussie.zone
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      I’ve done didgeridooie

      We found a prosthetic leg in the park and my mate did a legie from it

      I’ve seen blokes do them through raw fresh fish too

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        That last one just sounds awful for the fish

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        Does this hurt the fishie?

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          According to Nirvana they don’t have any feelings

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      From what I know it’s mostly something you do as the loser of a bet.

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      It’s not about being cool. It was a statement.

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        it’saboutsendingamessage.jpg

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      Less disgusting than allowing children to be slaughtered so that feeble excuses for men can own firearms to compensate for their inadequacies

      Less disgusting than the genocide in Palestine

      Less disgusting than Uighurs being used for slave labour because of their religion

      There are many disgusting things in the world, this is light-hearted fun

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        Ah yes, the two choices: drinking beer from a shoe or committing genocide.

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        I get that you’re upset about these things, but they don’t really have anything to do with this post.

        Even the comment you’re replying to is asserting a different kind of disgusting.

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          I’m Australian, and people often seize the shoey as a way of telling me that we’re all uncivilised filth

          It’s a sore spot, especially when it’s just a laugh

          I’ve never actually done a shoey

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            I get that you dislike the stereotype, but it still doesn’t have anything to do with the issues you listed.

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            To be fair, the Aussies that are doing shoeys are uncivilised filth. Ive also done a ton of shoeys and they are disgusting, you can taste the shoe.

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              I don’t want to soak my shoes and have to keep wearing them, I buy good shoes and don’t want to ruin them, and I sure as shit wouldn’t do one from my work boots

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                Its funny when you’re young, drunk and stupid. Turns out its actually pretty dangerous since shoes have a lot of bacteria that you shouldnt be drinking.

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                  Oh, it definitely isn’t on my to-do list, but it’s not the worst thing in the world

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        Sir, this is a discussion about drinking beer from a shoe.

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        Those all sound like great past times, but I draw the line at drinking out of a shoe

        and yes

        It’s a fucking joke

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    That’s amazing. Good for him!

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    Unless you are a feet fetish sub, I can’t think of another reason to like this drinking style

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    Yeah… Nah…

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    Ewww!

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    Its a big thing in the whitewater community in the US as well

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      Nothing quite like a booty beer after a swim.

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    Australia expects us to respect them as a nation and then they pull this shit

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      If you’re that close to disrespecting them as a nation on the world order for having some unique tradition you don’t share, you never really respected their culture and were waiting for a chance for it to be excusable

      There are two very different types of respect; respect for a person as a human being, and respect for a person as an authority. But because we use the same word for these two different things, people often talk as if they were the same thing. So for example, when someone in authority says “If you don’t respect me, I won’t respect you.” What they’re actually saying (and justifying) is “If you don’t respect me as an authority, I won’t respect you as a human being.”

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      And may I ask which oh-so-respectable nation you’re from?

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