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3,764 posts
Location: limbo, Australia
Hi all... I am a complete newbie to poi, fire twirling and anything/everything related. In fact, I'll only even see it in real life for the 1st time next Friday (making it down to the Moon Fest on north side of Brissie).
Anyway, this is me...
Name: Pat... but Pogo to those that know me well.
Location: Logan City, south of Brisbane, QLD, Oz.
Hometown: As above.
DOB: 17/09/1969
Age: 36 and counting...
Sex: Wouldn't that be nice?
Occupation(s): Computer Programmer. Worked for myself from home for 2 1/2 years, but have recently had to get a "real" job.
Favorite Food(s): Hmmm... pretty much anything, really.
Favorite Color(s): Green
Toys: Acoustic guitar, Classical guitar, 3 electric guitars, 2 djembes.
Hobbies other than the obvious: Music, Reading, Keeping fit (hmmm, not so much of the keeping fit, actually)
Education: Did Bachelor of Science majoring in Computer Science and Pure Maths. Then Grad Dip Appl Computing... then started a research masters, but gave it away when life got in the way.
Favorite Book(s): Have to get back to you on that one... The Anarchist was the last book I read, quite liked it.
Favorite Movie(s): Lots... Fight Club, Snatch, Lock Stock..., Finding Nemo, Pulp Fiction, Pay It Forward...
Favorite TV show(s): Don't watch tv.
Plans for life in general: (i.e. what you want to do when you grow up) I really... wish... I knew.
Favorite Music Artists/Composers: Lately... Xavier Rudd, Jack Johnson, JBT, Blue King Brown, Donavon Frankeneiter, Rob Sawyer, The Waifs... blues/roots stuff.
Favorie ice cream flavor(s): Vanilla.
Marmite, Vegemite, or Nutella? (please choose one...this is important as it is essentially this site's equivalent of stating your religion...we have religious wars, crusades, cathedrals to Nutella, all that.)
Definitely... vegemite.
--pogo (pat) [forever and always]
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13,215 posts
Location: without class distinction, Australia
19th November! WHEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEE
i would have changed ***** to phallus, and claire to petey Petey
Rougie: but that's what I'm doing here
Arnwyn: what letting me adjust myself in your room?..don't you dare quote that on HoP...
4,728 posts
Location: The wrong place
Written by: GitasGuy
Oz terms.... "Ya'll", not one of them..... hehehehehe
I know...but Lachie likes it...
I've learned quite a few of the Oz terms, actually...so I'll at least be able to understand what the blue blazes everyone is talking about...and I do think that everyone will get quite a kick out of my accent, anyhow...it's funny, even to me, sometimes...
Rougie, you sound just like I did when I found out that we were gonna be booking the flights today...
WHEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEE!!!
EDITED_BY: fyrespirit (1187321747)
"Absence is to love what wind is to fire...it extinguishes the small, enkindles the great."
--Comte Debussy-Rebutin
Sitting down facing forward . . .
2,387 posts
Location: Christchurch, New Zealand
yeah, yeah, yeah - it's only a hunk of dirt with lots of sand and lots of creepy crawlies and other nasties waiting to bite you...
nothing to get excited about!
*waits for retaliatory air-strikes*
Written by: Doc Lightning talking about Marmite in Kichi's Intro thread
I have several large jars of the stuff. I actually like it... a little. And don't tell anyone I admitted to it. 
4,728 posts
Location: The wrong place
*giggle*...Y'know, I think I have a few jealous friends...cuz I've actually had a few that have told me that there's plants that can kill you if you even brush up against them...and that Australian me are horribly arrogant...(I think she was jilted by one)...and all manner of negative comments just as to the fact that I'm flying across the world to see someone that might be some mad serial killer...
...(obviously idiots)...but I just take it all with a grain of salt...and say 
to them...cuz I've got two tickets to paradise, with a sweet hippie waiting for me when I get there...and they have to stay here and freeze their 
off this winter...with no little hippies to keep them warm... "Absence is to love what wind is to fire...it extinguishes the small, enkindles the great."
--Comte Debussy-Rebutin
Super Gidg!!!!
8,506 posts
Location: Portland Oregon USA
Australians arrogant?!! That was never my experience, but then the people that I was visiting are a little ... different.
Growing old is mandatory; growing up is NOT.
Proud member of the HoP DPS.
Sanity is a highly overrated state of mind.
I'm normal ... it's everyone else that's crazy.
Gidg
4,728 posts
Location: The wrong place
Like I said, I think the one that said that had been jilted by and Aussie man...so she's perhaps a bit bitter...but I agree, Gidg, I think it's just the opposite...they're more laid back and open minded than anyone I've ever met from anywhere else in the world...
Another part of what I heard, in that respect was that they're that way because there's a much larger ratio of women to men...lots more women, so that the men get to thinking they're all that...
Well, they're a hell of alot better than these dumb rednecks and arseholes we've got in this country, that's for sure!!!
Arrogant??? I don't think so!!!
"Absence is to love what wind is to fire...it extinguishes the small, enkindles the great."
--Comte Debussy-Rebutin
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13,215 posts
Location: without class distinction, Australia
Nah, I've met some arogant aussies while travelling; "everyone loves me because I'm an aussie!!" and I've also heard it said that aussies are the new americans when it comes to ignorance while travelling.
i would have changed ***** to phallus, and claire to petey Petey
Rougie: but that's what I'm doing here
Arnwyn: what letting me adjust myself in your room?..don't you dare quote that on HoP...
4,728 posts
Location: The wrong place
Y'know, I think that you're gonna find it's the same wherever you go...cuz there's dumb people all over the world...we just have such a large population, that we tend to have lots of idiots...
"Absence is to love what wind is to fire...it extinguishes the small, enkindles the great."
--Comte Debussy-Rebutin
there's no charge for awesomeness... or attractiveness
3,764 posts
Location: limbo, Australia
we're not arrogant... we really are all that and a bag of those really nice, thick cut, tasty flavoured potato chips...!!
--pogo (pat) [forever and always]
4,728 posts
Location: The wrong place
*giggle*...I stand corrected...
"Absence is to love what wind is to fire...it extinguishes the small, enkindles the great."
--Comte Debussy-Rebutin
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13,215 posts
Location: without class distinction, Australia
Well I dunno about you pat, but i'm all that and a nice cold beer
i would have changed ***** to phallus, and claire to petey Petey
Rougie: but that's what I'm doing here
Arnwyn: what letting me adjust myself in your room?..don't you dare quote that on HoP...
4,728 posts
Location: The wrong place
"Absence is to love what wind is to fire...it extinguishes the small, enkindles the great."
--Comte Debussy-Rebutin
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13,215 posts
Location: without class distinction, Australia
Don't knock the beer! grrrrrrr
i would have changed ***** to phallus, and claire to petey Petey
Rougie: but that's what I'm doing here
Arnwyn: what letting me adjust myself in your room?..don't you dare quote that on HoP...
Sitting down facing forward . . .
2,387 posts
Location: Christchurch, New Zealand
Quick, someone rip the top off her! No point having a nice cold beer if you can't get into it
Written by: Doc Lightning talking about Marmite in Kichi's Intro thread
I have several large jars of the stuff. I actually like it... a little. And don't tell anyone I admitted to it.
there's no charge for awesomeness... or attractiveness
3,764 posts
Location: limbo, Australia
george, that opens up a whole line of innuendo, into places that even I can't bring myself to go... after all, the lil red dragon is my niece...
I don't really dig beer very much... unless it's guinness or kilkenny... and they're not terribly australian...
--pogo (pat) [forever and always]
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13,215 posts
Location: without class distinction, Australia
you mean I get to be topless and drink beer?
life's looking up!
i would have changed ***** to phallus, and claire to petey Petey
Rougie: but that's what I'm doing here
Arnwyn: what letting me adjust myself in your room?..don't you dare quote that on HoP...
2,303 posts
Location: Brisbane
Put your top back on young lady.... George you stop trying to take me girls top off!!!!
:admires giant wooden aeroplane: Its about time trees were good for something, instead of just standing their like jerks!!! 
Homer rocks!!!! 
.:*distracted by shiny things*:.
3,777 posts
Location: brizvegas, Australia
*ahem*
click here for an...interesting?! photo of two of pat's brood...
do not meddle in the affairs of dragons, for you are crunchy and good to eat!
if at first you do succeed, try not to look too astonished!
smile! :grin: it confuses people!
7,193 posts
Location: in the trees
hey dude, thanx for delving into my intro and bumping it from the depths of the lost intro draw
i'm in a much better place than i was this time last year
4,728 posts
Location: The wrong place
See what happens when you drink, little girl...you get dirty old men wanting to take your top off!!!
Gita, that is one very...interesting picture...love it!!!
"Absence is to love what wind is to fire...it extinguishes the small, enkindles the great."
--Comte Debussy-Rebutin
Sitting down facing forward . . .
2,387 posts
Location: Christchurch, New Zealand
Well, I was thinking "top" of a beer bottle is more like "head" for a Rouge but I thought if I said "rip her head off" no-one would've got the connection - hence "top". But yes, I guess I should've considered the audience a bit more with the obsession for nekkidness and made things a bit clearer...
Written by: Doc Lightning talking about Marmite in Kichi's Intro thread
I have several large jars of the stuff. I actually like it... a little. And don't tell anyone I admitted to it.
4,728 posts
Location: The wrong place
Yeah, Yeah...a likely story!!!
"Absence is to love what wind is to fire...it extinguishes the small, enkindles the great."
--Comte Debussy-Rebutin
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13,215 posts
Location: without class distinction, Australia
I like my head where it is!! i would have changed ***** to phallus, and claire to petey Petey
Rougie: but that's what I'm doing here
Arnwyn: what letting me adjust myself in your room?..don't you dare quote that on HoP...
4,728 posts
Location: The wrong place
Apparently you just need to make sure to not wear any hats resembling beer caps...and you might be okay...
"Absence is to love what wind is to fire...it extinguishes the small, enkindles the great."
--Comte Debussy-Rebutin
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13,215 posts
Location: without class distinction, Australia
Well then I might be safer so that way my hat gets removed instead of my head!
i would have changed ***** to phallus, and claire to petey Petey
Rougie: but that's what I'm doing here
Arnwyn: what letting me adjust myself in your room?..don't you dare quote that on HoP...
Sitting down facing forward . . .
2,387 posts
Location: Christchurch, New Zealand
If we ripped your head off, would Bubbles come out?
Written by: Doc Lightning talking about Marmite in Kichi's Intro thread
I have several large jars of the stuff. I actually like it... a little. And don't tell anyone I admitted to it.
Insert Champagne Here
13,215 posts
Location: without class distinction, Australia
Only if you got me rattled beforehand!
i would have changed ***** to phallus, and claire to petey Petey
Rougie: but that's what I'm doing here
Arnwyn: what letting me adjust myself in your room?..don't you dare quote that on HoP...
Sitting down facing forward . . .
2,387 posts
Location: Christchurch, New Zealand
the bees stapled to the back didn't rattle you?
Written by: Doc Lightning talking about Marmite in Kichi's Intro thread
I have several large jars of the stuff. I actually like it... a little. And don't tell anyone I admitted to it.
Insert Champagne Here
13,215 posts
Location: without class distinction, Australia
Is my head bubbling?
i would have changed ***** to phallus, and claire to petey Petey
Rougie: but that's what I'm doing here
Arnwyn: what letting me adjust myself in your room?..don't you dare quote that on HoP...
4,728 posts
Location: The wrong place
I could really run with this topic...but I won't...
"Absence is to love what wind is to fire...it extinguishes the small, enkindles the great."
--Comte Debussy-Rebutin
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