Backpackers - you either love them or hate them - but hey we were all young once...
petengail said
06:59 PM Feb 24, 2011
Personally, I find most backpackers really fun young people doing what I did all over the world. Its the yobbo True Blue Aussies that get my goat up. If your in Byron Bay, where today I wouldnt be seen.... but there was a day... once upon a time....in a life far far away.....lol
Speak for yourself PetenGail - we still are! (At least that's what it feels like on the inside....)
bill12 said
09:40 PM Feb 24, 2011
On Magnetic island , we call them blackpackers. They want everything for nothing, and seem to have the rape, pillage and leave mentality.But a lot of the tourist industry runs on them, and like everybody else , there are good ones and bad. I am talking from 19 years experience running a tourism business and had a few run ins withthe good and the bad. I suppose they keep the wheels of commerce going, and the women on the beach look good.One mob put a cloths line up in an anzac memorial park. and were unhappy when told to take it down.I could go on for days............(.I wrote this before I saw the note by pete).
-- Edited by bill12 on Friday 25th of February 2011 07:12:02 AM
jimricho said
07:48 AM Feb 25, 2011
I guess it's like any group.... The actions of a minority giving the majority a bad name.
Gerty Dancer said
08:13 AM Feb 25, 2011
Backpackers arent all like that, We've met some nice kids in those dreadful Wicked Campers (I thought they went out of business?)
Nicholstones, we think we are young too... but we were never like those kids!
jonathan said
08:27 AM Feb 25, 2011
.. I still got no idea wot I wanna do when I grows up ..!
Jon
(currently in Albany, WA)
Smokeydk said
09:46 AM Feb 25, 2011
How about being a wadio opperwaita.......Jon
we struck a bus load of back packers on our trip to Stoney Creek Bush Camp.....22 young girls............Hmmmmmm.....cant remember being that young
jonathan said
10:04 AM Feb 25, 2011
.. strewth Dave !! an' I fort they woz all followin' me ..
oh .. dave .. yu gotta tell your wife that you need a long holiday .. you folks gotta get over to the west .. different but great !
.. oops .. better not hijack the thread !
Jon
RyanMartin07 said
11:25 AM Feb 25, 2011
Ok, seeing how this post apparently is related to an article I wrote, I'm trying to find some clarification. Do people have a problem with this article or find it funny? Because it was written to be funny. Not sure if people are hating here, loving it, or somewhere in between? Clarification would be sweet. Thanks
Ryan
Gerty Dancer said
11:35 AM Feb 25, 2011
Hello Ryan... are you saying you wrote the "Misadventures in Australia " article? Is it true?
Reactions are mixed... if its true, personally I'm worried about you, didnt think it was funny.
RyanMartin07 said
11:45 AM Feb 25, 2011
Yes I did write it. And yes true. No need to worry about me, I'm doing just fine. Living life to it's fullest and loving it
ozjohn said
01:09 PM Feb 25, 2011
Luck buggers we reckon. Boy! We envy their lifestyle and free spirit. Oh to be young and carefree once again. Life's too bloody short!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!! ozjohn
RyanMartin07 said
01:38 PM Feb 25, 2011
Most definitely! I know I'm extremely lucky to live footloose and fancy free with no real responsibilities of a mortgage, kids, career, etc. Just save some cash, see the world, and meet awesome people from all over the world. It's great!
ozjohn said
03:03 PM Feb 25, 2011
RyanMartin07 wrote:
Most definitely! I know I'm extremely lucky to live footloose and fancy free with no real responsibilities of a mortgage, kids, career, etc. Just save some cash, see the world, and meet awesome people from all over the world. It's great!
Ryan. Bite ya bum mate. LOL. OJ
Happywanderer said
03:43 PM Feb 25, 2011
Yep. I can safely say bums are classier than that lot.
What a pack of losers, they give decent packpackers a bad name. I gave up reading after the soccer field incident. Have respect for your hosts when travelling in another country.
jimricho said
05:24 PM Feb 25, 2011
I hadn't read the link when I put up my previous post. Sometimes I think we GNs all need to lighten up a little!
Of course I behaved perfectly in my younger days, I did, true, Cubs Honour, cross my heart, etc, etc,
Happywanderer said
06:05 PM Feb 25, 2011
I don't mind a bit of fun jim, but that is bordering on disgusting.
petengail said
06:28 PM Feb 25, 2011
RyanMartin07 wrote:
Ok, seeing how this post apparently is related to an article I wrote, I'm trying to find some clarification. Do people have a problem with this article or find it funny? Because it was written to be funny. Not sure if people are hating here, loving it, or somewhere in between? Clarification would be sweet. Thanks
Ryan
Mate... I posted the article because I absolutely loved it. Have met lots of lovely backpackers, just wish I could do it all again (being young, foolish and irresponsible, that is)... I guess I will just have to grow old disgracefuly... lol
RyanMartin07 said
06:35 PM Feb 25, 2011
Then AWESOME! That's the reaction I'm looking for. Just having fun and living life! Glad you enjoyed it. Cheers
Ryan
Cruising Granny said
10:14 PM Feb 25, 2011
That's very funny in my cartoon mind. It's also a bit tragic in 20/20 hindsight.
I'm sure many of us have been there and done that somewhere, sometime in our long lives, even though we'd deny it if questioned.
All Wicked Campervans weren't taken off the road, just some of them. It seems a few were unroadworthy so they had to be replaced with roadworthy ones.
Most of the "artwork" is quite clever, but some is a little offensive, although Wicked Campers aren't the topic here.
blaze said
01:08 AM Feb 26, 2011
I spent over an hour reading of the laricans antics, what a great time. I can remember when, better not go there. I can tell a yarn or two but best kept for a campfire whilst having an ale or 2. Yep, grown up over the years and out too. The stories to tell the grandkids are in those pages
cheers
blaze
Delta18 said
10:46 AM Feb 26, 2011
Gerty Dancer wrote:
Hello Ryan... are you saying you wrote the "Misadventures in Australia " article? Is it true?
Reactions are mixed... if its true, personally I'm worried about you, didnt think it was funny.
I must have slept in that day, just looked and can't find the thread. Anyone point me to it?
Cheers Neil
Delta18 said
10:48 AM Feb 26, 2011
Delta18 wrote: ...
I must have slept in that day, just looked and can't find the thread. Anyone point me to it?
Cheers Neil
D'oh, dumb me, just saw the link in your first post Petengail. will go have a look.
Neil
Gerty Dancer said
10:49 AM Feb 26, 2011
Delta, its the link Petengail posted opening this thread.
Ma said
07:07 PM Feb 26, 2011
jimricho wrote:
I hadn't read the link when I put up my previous post. Sometimes I think we GNs all need to lighten up a little!
Of course I behaved perfectly in my younger days, I did, true, Cubs Honour, cross my heart, etc, etc,
Bet you said the cheques in the mail too Jim.......
Personally, I find most backpackers really fun young people doing what I did all over the world. Its the yobbo True Blue Aussies that get my goat up. If your in Byron Bay, where today I wouldnt be seen.... but there was a day... once upon a time....in a life far far away.....lol
http://followmeeverywhere.com/travel/australia-funny-friday-2
-- Edited by bill12 on Friday 25th of February 2011 07:12:02 AM
.. I still got no idea wot I wanna do when I grows up ..!
Jon
(currently in Albany, WA)
we struck a bus load of back packers on our trip to Stoney Creek Bush Camp.....22 young girls............Hmmmmmm.....cant remember being that young
oh .. dave .. yu gotta tell your wife that you need a long holiday .. you folks gotta get over to the west .. different but great !
.. oops .. better not hijack the thread !
Jon
Boy! We envy their lifestyle and free spirit.
Oh to be young and carefree once again.
Life's too bloody short!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!
ozjohn
Bite ya bum mate. LOL.
OJ
Ryan
Cheers Neil