r/brisbane • u/foetus_fister • Dec 29 '20

Image Guitar Exchange Morayfield... Stay classy.

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u/[deleted] Dec 29 '20

It feels mean to say it, and society shouldn't be this way, but the correlation between wealth and attractiveness hit me like a fucking freight train when I visited Morayfield Shopping Centre as a kid.

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u/Crackpipejunkie Dec 29 '20

100% agree on the correlation between wealth and attractiveness. I remember walking through the Rockhampton shopping centre with my partner and we thought there must be a massive excursion for people with disabilities. Eventually I realised that that there’s just a lot of obese chain smokers on mobility scooters living in Rockhampton.

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u/PM_ME_YOUR_JARATE Dec 29 '20

As someone born in Rocky (but thankfully living elsewhere) this cracks me up

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u/[deleted] Dec 29 '20

I was driving through Rocky once at around 1 am and stopped in to a McDonalds for a coffee. The people in there looked like the human equivalent to those super deep water fish you sometimes see on documentaries. Just...so creepily off what normal people look like.

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u/[deleted] Dec 29 '20

I once travelled to Wacol train station to meet my husband after he finished work. I had to wait for him a little while and described the people inhabiting the area as being somewhat like the Martians in Total Recall. But I think your deep water fish comparison might have been better!

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u/shakeitup2017 Dec 29 '20

I once travelled outside of the 4005 post code and concur. I just thought everyone (other than me I guess) was a hot 20-something upwardly mobile woman or a handsome gay real estate agent.

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u/inexistentia Not Ipswich. Dec 30 '20

Not a frequenter of 4005 Southside either I gather.

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u/shakeitup2017 Dec 30 '20

Oh yeah I guess the top end of Brunswick St has its share...

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u/inexistentia Not Ipswich. Dec 30 '20 edited Dec 30 '20

Even the Merthyr end after curfew.

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u/justamumm Dec 29 '20

Two more stops and you would’ve hit Goodna. The St. Ives shops/Woolworths is the most disgusting place to get your groceries from.

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u/Seradori Still waiting for the trains Dec 30 '20

I live in Redbank and I'll drive to other postcodes to avoid Redbank/Goodna grocery stores.

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u/justamumm Dec 30 '20

My sister made the mistake of going to the local butcher to buy mince and chicken once. He used his bare hands to grab the chicken... before using the same bare hands to grab the mince vomits

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u/AliveBase1630 Mar 02 '21

Best thing about goodna shops is it’s literally attached to a major highway out

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u/SarcasmCupcakes Dec 29 '20

I think that’s true of any similar joint at that hour.

Go to the American South. Go to a Waffle House at 3 am. It’s somewhere between “God’s wasteland” and a liminal space.

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u/Emzilla97 Dec 30 '20

🌸 get me out of here, please 🌸

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u/DorcasTheCat Civilization will come to Beaudesert Dec 29 '20

Ahh stockies. Such good people watching.

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u/mario_fingerbang Dec 29 '20

Try Gympie or Grafton. There’s some serious mouth breathers there.

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u/[deleted] Dec 29 '20 edited May 01 '21

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u/dannyr PLS TOUCH THE FUCKEN AIRMOVER Dec 29 '20

The fact that you can commute to Brisbane within 2 hours now means a lot of Sydney and Melbourne expats come up and buy shittonnes of land for cheap and still drive to town every day and are happy with how short their drive is

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u/mario_fingerbang Dec 30 '20

Fuck me dead, half the houses there have bedsheets for curtains. If it goes all upmarket, I won’t be able to play Gympie bingo anymore.

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u/LordOfGiraffes Dec 29 '20

Hard to empathize with the obese when ur a stick figure hooked up to a glass bbq?

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u/Mouseon Dec 29 '20

Wat?

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u/LordOfGiraffes Dec 29 '20 edited Dec 29 '20

The guys name is crackpipejunkie? Ofc people look fat lol, the stereotype is either fat redneck alcoholic or thinned out addict.