Hipsters always go on about the virtues of these suburbs but I've found myself walking up and down High Street Northcote and Sydney Road Brunswick feeling like I'm in some kind of hell. Boring, ugly, scrappy roads with no discernible character.
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You spelled mousache wrong.
you spelled Ma*nyouaresuchad*ouche wrong
No it's manouche
As in manouche jazz guitar
golf claps
Sydders Road:
Tiba's
Edinburgh Castle
Sydney Road IGA
Mediterranean Wholesalers
Thom Phat
High Street:
All Sorts Books
Penny Farthing
Cafe Bedda
Pizza Mein Liebe
Harvest's Beer Cabinet
Great coffee, Nice moustaches...heh...
Brunswick:
MIX (AZN SPRMRKT)
IGA
Bike path
tram and train
close to Brunswick East
close to city
Thank you for the suggestions.
You spelled La Bouche wrong
The best thing about them is that you can sit in the tram and keep a healthy distance from the rabble as you make your way to Preston.
It's great there. The air is clean, the water's clean, even the dirt, it's clean. Bowling averages are way up, mini-golf scores are way down. And we have more excellent water slides than any other suburbs we communicate with. I'm telling you these places great!
Syd rd truly is a shit place. But go closer to Brunswick East, much better there.
way better than Shelbyville.
Brunswick:

Northcote:
high street has a hill that you can go fast down on a bike. I'm afraid I can't say the same thing about sydney road
This place is great. Try the Rice flour crepes topped with duck, prosciutto & radicchio, finished with pomegranate kernels...it's the best.
Christ that sounds tasty.
Yeah, everything at the Penny Farthing is delicious. Some of the best coffee I have ever had as well...they roast their own beans.
(Note: I am quite good friends with the owners, but this does not effect how delicious everything is)
my Their coffee is great but I've always found the good a bit blah. By the sounds of it, I think I've just been choosing the wrong things...
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Coz - I know it wasn't directed at me - I'm cool with that. I'm trying to tear you a new one or anything - what you typed was just a little bit confusing. I think I largely agree with you about Funswick BTW.
Nah, you're cool wit' me tramdriver :) Fair enough if you were confused. But I thought everybody referred to any place on their route as ''their tram stop'' when they're using it?
How can you be bothered typing all that?
Catching up for lost time pops!
Coz - Yeah I think we do; it is perhaps the context of the thread that got us confused.
poprocks - Snap!
I have never heard a linguist, nor a linguist specialising in Australian linguistics, nor have I ever in the time I spent studying linguistics, come across the 'bogan accent' as in anyway a codified, analysable distinction. If you are sure you can hear something no one else can, perhaps you will have a very successful career as a linguist waiting for you? Or at least one with a massive break through. I doubt it though.
Also, if large amounts of people can say you have an accent which is obviously a glaringly wrong if not stupid assumption, perhaps you have made an incorrect inference as well?
Also, where are all the single people that you said populate this place? It seems to be comprised of annoying couples hanging off each other and who make miserable single people like me walk to the side of the path when they are lovingly passing by in their perfect, loving, coupled way, on their way home to give each other hours of oral pleasure after hours of aural inanity.
And there are people with babies all the time as well! Why do people who have children all of a sudden think they are important and the central focus of the universe? What the fuck is so special about pumping out another hungry, all-consuming mouth to suck life away from people not fortunate enough to be born in a rich, developed country and who will, given 5-10 years, simply be a unfulfilled, depressed, confused, pain-stricken faced with the gloomy prospect of facing another 50 years of misery before they recline into nothingness? You selfish arseholes should think of others before you fart out another overgrown sperm.
Good grief.
Also- anyone else come across the perception that Northcote is full of lesbians? I don't think i've ever found that; despite hearing it so many times.
outoftheaircrash, I think it's Thornbury.
Morris, feel better now?
Westgarth is lesbian city still, though I like to think they all actually live in Dennis and walk there.
I love lesbians. Especially if they don't adopt. If only Northcote were full of lesbians. Not that 'lipstick' lesbian shit either, raging, bulldyke lesbians.
Ocelotl - are you one of these couples?
Thornbury is still the domain of the old Mediterranean couples who steal fruit from each others' trees...and mine.
Morris - I am not.
i live in thornbury and have a finely tuned gaydar... i can confirm that northcote/thornbury is indeed full of homosexual women.
happy to answer further questions on the matter.
Do they like your music?
i'll take a poll and get right back to you.
I met a older neo lesbian the other day. She was hot. And she had her own house in northcote.
Lesbian couples are good though, it's heterosexual couples that piss me off.
Has Coz's account been hacked or are her posts always that convoluted & ridiculous?
@ everything Morris Iemma wrote - Yes! Keep on keeping on!