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[amber_fluid]

Probably a Ben Lee fan

Is he still relevant in the music industry(other than in his own little head)?

[Footy Chick]

Rate? I f*cking love it. Join us, you'll love it over here.

Nick Ryan

Why I’m bucking the trend on Daryl Braithwaite’s Horses

It’s hard to pin down the notion of nations, that intangible bond that links disparate people and tells them they’re countrymen. In some places it’s a bond forged by historical hardship, in others it’s adherence to a big political idea.

In Australia it’s an inexplicable fondness for cheesy soft rock.

And it’s got to stop.

Can we please, PLEASE, stop with all this Horses rubbish. It never was a good song and it’s certainly not improved by mass-scale choral conformity.

One voice belting out Horses is an abomination. Thousands belting it out is a crime against humanity.

Horses mania reached its apogee recently when Harry Styles decided to play the song as part of his Hormone Overload Australian tour.

You can just imagine the conversation with his minders when that decision was made.

“Hey Harry, sure, the stadium is full of teenage girls who adore you but if you sing this confected piece of crap written long before any of them were born, they’ll absolutely lose their minds.

“And if you wheel out the old bloke who originally sang it, a guy these girls’ grandmothers thought was a hunk of spunk, you’ll get blanket coverage in every newspaper in the country because the weird Australian obsession with this song has become a bit of a thing.”

Horses mania is the most significant outbreak of a peculiarly Australian need for collective connection through rubbish songs.

Like everyone in the pub dropping their daks when Eagle Rock comes on the jukebox, or mobs of boozed-up blokes belting out the lyrics to a song about a Vietnam veteran with PTSD and a penchant for Chinese prostitutes.

The desire for connection is fundamental. Our brains need it and our hearts want it. In Australia we use our tin ears to get it.

The great mystery is why this bobbing turd of a tune brings so many people together. Pedants love to point out Daryl Braithwaite’s recording of the song is actually a cover of Rikki Lee Jones’ original.

Now if we’d co-opted her best tune, Chuck E’s in Love, this might all be different. But instead we bellow Horses, a tune Jones co-wrote with Walter Becker. Becker was in Steely Dan and for those lucky enough to have no idea who they are, imagine cocaine transformed into soundwaves played through a 1970s hi-fi while you sit in a beanbag filled with pellets of self-loathing and regret. That’s Steely Dan.

Some call Becker a genius. I don’t, but he may have stumbled on a songwriting technique that taps directly into brains of drunken Australians and their need for repetition, affirmation and instruction.

From its halfway point Horses is nothing more than a chorus repeated five times. It doesn’t take a lot of mental capacity to remember that.

Especially when most of it consists of just shouting “Yeah, yeah”.

And then, when the drinking that led to the singing finally knocks you off your feet, the song directs your companions to “Lift you up”.

This is what some are calling our de-facto national anthem. But even that tedious dirge of an official anthem has to be better than this.

These Horses need to go to the knackery.

He's an old Ignatian, say no more

[am Bays]

The Yank Bakery

You go away and you wonder if it’s nostalgia or just an over-reaction to how good it is due to being away for too long but then you go back

OMG their pastry and the subtle seasoning in their pies and pasties, **** Me get me back here!

[mighty_tiger_79]

The Yank Bakery

You go away and you wonder if it’s nostalgia or just an over-reaction to how good it is due to being away for too long but then you go back

OMG their pastry and the subtle seasoning in their pies and pasties, **** Me get me back here!

The best Vanilla Slice anywhere...

[amber_fluid]

The Yank Bakery

You go away and you wonder if it’s nostalgia or just an over-reaction to how good it is due to being away for too long but then you go back

OMG their pastry and the subtle seasoning in their pies and pasties, **** Me get me back here!

The best Vanilla Slice anywhere...

I was there 2 weeks ago on a Sunday at 3pm and it was packed still.
Pie, pasty and a vanilla slice.

[Vamos]

The Yank Bakery

You go away and you wonder if it’s nostalgia or just an over-reaction to how good it is due to being away for too long but then you go back

OMG their pastry and the subtle seasoning in their pies and pasties, **** Me get me back here!

The best Vanilla Slice anywhere...

I was there 2 weeks ago on a Sunday at 3pm and it was packed still.
Pie, pasty and a vanilla slice.

Fst C***

[amber_fluid]

The Yank Bakery

You go away and you wonder if it’s nostalgia or just an over-reaction to how good it is due to being away for too long but then you go back

OMG their pastry and the subtle seasoning in their pies and pasties, **** Me get me back here!

The best Vanilla Slice anywhere...

I was there 2 weeks ago on a Sunday at 3pm and it was packed still.
Pie, pasty and a vanilla slice.

Fst C***

Was just a lil arvo snack

[Thiele]

Being under 150kgs for the first time in a long time

[Vamos]

Reckon I might go for a drive Sundsy to the Yank Bakery, never been. I rate the pies at Clarendon Bakery.

[Pseudo]

Being under 150kgs for the first time in a long time

You should celebrate with a trip to the Yanky bakery...

[mighty_tiger_79]

golf in a few weeks at Lady Bay, so the obligatory pit stop at the Yank bakery beforehand and will also grab a pastie slab on the way home.

[Dutchy]

Reckon I might go for a drive Sundsy to the Yank Bakery, never been. I rate the pies at Clarendon Bakery.

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Yank Bakery is good, however Clarendon is much closer and just as good

[mighty_tiger_79]

Reckon I might go for a drive Sundsy to the Yank Bakery, never been. I rate the pies at Clarendon Bakery.

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Yank Bakery is good, however Clarendon is much closer and just as good

Not in the vanilla slice stakes

[Booney]

That dick bag Perrotet losing in NSW making another Liberal loser.

[Jim05]

That dick bag Perrotet losing in NSW making another Liberal loser.

Good to see the god botherer gone

[Mic]

Reckon I might go for a drive Sundsy to the Yank Bakery, never been. I rate the pies at Clarendon Bakery.

Never hot though, sadly.

[amber_fluid]

Reckon I might go for a drive Sundsy to the Yank Bakery, never been. I rate the pies at Clarendon Bakery.

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Yank Bakery is good, however Clarendon is much closer and just as good

Haven’t been the bakery at Clarendon so I’ll have to give it a go.
Went the Clarendon pub 2 weeks ago and the food was average at best.
Was nice sitting outside as the sun went down though.
Nice little pub.

[Brodlach]

Married 25 years today.

We are not the most talented, beautiful or rich people however we made great kids who make me proud all the time.

[MW]

This could be in the Sh1ts thread, the Sad thread or this one, but I'll be positive about it.

Big Miss Jase was due to have her first Level 6 gymnastics competition on Saturday arvo, and was having g the teams final traininsession Friday night.

The very last tumbling pass before the cool down started at the end of the session, she misjudged her Back Sault and fell on her arm/wrist.

We ended up I hospital at 8:45 pm and ended up leaving after inconclusive xrays at 3:30am.

She was devo about missing her comp, and potentially another 2 comps ,but still wanted to go and cheer on her team.

You could see her little (big) heart breaking when her teammates where competing but she kept on cheering for them...

Hopefully thr follow up xrays on Wednesday will be clear and a couple of weeks she'll be back.

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Hope she’s ok. You’ve taught her well Jase, always support your team mates.

My daughter was at the same comp, level 6. Failed to upgrade by 0.04 overall...

She had another comp on the weekend and upgraded convincingly! Between last comp and this one, worked hard on one skill to add to her bars that guarantees another 0.5 point.

[gadj1976]

I've managed to be nominated for a Carlton coaching course at Unley Oval on Wednesday night.

CANNOT wait.