16 January 2009

What do we think about frangipanis?

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The new plague on Canberra Streets – Frangipani Girls…

What is it with the girls that have Frangipani’s on their cars?

Why are they so psycho on the road teamed up with the bad driving?

Has anyone else came across these new ‘Canberra’ drivers???

Please share your pain with me to ease mine!

[ED – And are they that new? When did you become aware of the phenomenon?]

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Note to self, don’t have kids for many many many years.

tylersmayhem said :

$5000 by the number of kids? we get… wait for it, 125 per fortnight, sorry per month from the govt for Tax A & B,

Oh right – so you didn’t get a grand per little one lik the Gov. promised (or did I miss something – it’s quite possible)?

of course i did. it will be gone in no time, on my mortgage payments.

calculated my monthly costs out last night, for just nappies and formula alone….

8x tins of formula, @$22 per tin: $176.00.
4 boxes of nappies @$34 per box (on special)$136.00.
total: $312 per month.

minus $125/month for govt payment, not very much, and soon to end as i will be working 3 jobs, scored an early morning job, 6-8.30, and we will be on top at last, and able to start saving for a bigger house.

150k per year? hardly.

Speaking of bogan nationalism and Eureka motifs, this weekend down teh coast I saw umpteen cars going around with Aussie flags stuck on them. Soem had one, and some had two, on some kind of mounting device on the front door roof guttters. What’s that all about?

current baby bonus is $5000 per kid. Tehy did means test it now… all the strugglers on $150,000 per year and below qualify. I’d sure like to be struggling on $150k. What gets me is that the taxes paid by people who’ll never earn that much are being handed to people who have more money than those doing the paying. That’s just wrong.

tylersmayhem said :

$5000 by the number of kids? we get… wait for it, 125 per fortnight, sorry per month from the govt for Tax A & B,

Oh right – so you didn’t get a grand per little one lik the Gov. promised (or did I miss something – it’s quite possible)?

Recent changes to the baby bonus have meant that it is paid in installments rather than a lump sum. A decent step but not as good as abolishing probably the most ridiculous spending program the Howard Government initiated (and boy were there some doozies).

I haven’t looked at the scheme in a while so I’m not sure if it works out to be $125 a fortnight, and for how long they space it out.

tylersmayhem11:54 am 19 Jan 09

$5000 by the number of kids? we get… wait for it, 125 per fortnight, sorry per month from the govt for Tax A & B,

Oh right – so you didn’t get a grand per little one lik the Gov. promised (or did I miss something – it’s quite possible)?

Woody Mann-Caruso said :

If things are so bad the midwife needs to do 30 over the limit, maybe they should send an ambulance instead.

What? Hell, no! Two things that suck … 1) being moved while in labour 2) having strangers turn up.

Sometimes it’s necessary, but if the midwife can get there in the same time, just move out of the way and leave her alone. Likewise, if somebody is driving the woman in labour to hospital, or someone is driving their kid to the accident and emergency department.

I thought ambulances kept to the speed limit, they get there faster because other traffic gives way to them especially at intersections.

Woody Mann-Caruso11:47 am 18 Jan 09

If things are so bad the midwife needs to do 30 over the limit, maybe they should send an ambulance instead.

While we’re talking about car fads, anyone else noticed the recent rise in 1990s Audis lowered with chrome rims, fully sick exhausts etc? The last year or two it was 1990s BMW 318is that suffered the treatment, but the drivers must’ve heard Jeremy Clarkson say on Top Gear a month or so ago that c*cks in the UK have ditched BMW and now drive Audis, and followed suit…

tatts of frangipanii?

tactfully arranged in a southern cross, mai oui

Frankly, I’ve got to say I’d be about as happy for my midwife to be doing the speed limit as my ambulance!

Woody Mann-Caruso10:14 am 17 Jan 09

Might have to get one of those ‘proud to be a midwife’ stickers – if the white Falcodore I saw the other day was any indication, they entitle the driver to do 110 in an 80 zone.

danman – yes southern cross tatts ARE the official new bogan tattoo. agree 100%!

GottaLoveCanberra1:13 am 17 Jan 09

I think tatts a wonderful idea Granny. ^_^

What we need is a tatt thread, where people send in their tatt pics!

I got another tatt recently (custom jobby) and whilst waiting, two sheilas came in browsing the books and wall etc, not really knowing what they wanted except that they wanted a tatt.
First off the mark in terms of choice was southern cross. It was tactfully pointed out that this has been the most common tatt of the past few months and she should really choose something else.
Then, in came a father and son who did the stat dec thing as the son was only 16 and booked in for a southern cross, huge down his left torso.

It was Queanbeyan.

I’m happy with mine and plan to go back for additions.

I guess it kind of goes hand in hand with the road rage, really ….

My daughter gave me a Bebo sticker saying, “These anger management classes are really pissing me off” ….

How rude!!

my fav is the “team-shit box” sticker – that’s actually a good one, and a fact

Granny said :

I’m almost too scared to put my anti-frangipani sticker on my car now … but what the hell!

Well I’m scared to admit that I proudly display a Southern Cross on my car, and wear a Eureka flag t-shirt…

But there’s only one way to reclaim the symbols; use them yourself! If you apply a symbol like the Southern Cross or Eureka to something that isn’t racist or bogan or in any other way offensive, the symbol’s connection with those concepts is weakened.

But frangipanis are not worth redeeming. They are a perfect symbol for feminine boganity.

I’m almost too scared to put my anti-frangipani sticker on my car now … but what the hell!

I was doing so well with the road rage too ….

; )

I always wondered about the southern cross as a racist symbol. I guess it shows how stupid these people are. Do they know that the Southern Cross is on several other flags? Including NZ, Brazil, PNG and Samoa.

So what they’re really saying is ‘Southern Hemisphere Power!!’ ‘Northern Hemispherians Out!!’

“I’m sure we all agree that we ought to love one another, and I know there are people in the world who do not love their fellow human beings — and I hate people like that!” – T. Lehrer

+1 for reclaiming the Southern Cross from moronic yobs. I don’t care for frangipanis so they psychos can keep them.

Mr Evil said :

I support the Dutch only if both dykes are hot……

LOL!

I want that on the back of my car window!

I support the Dutch only if both dykes are hot……

at least it isn’t afrikaans…

Hee Hee! He’s speaking funny talk!

p1 said :

There is only two things in this world I can’t stand. People who don’t tolerate other peoples cultures, and the Dutch!

Excuseer!

Nederland is een prachtig land

There is only two things in this world I can’t stand. People who don’t tolerate other peoples cultures, and the Dutch!

ant said :

la mente torbida said :

Maybe the ‘Baby on Board’ signs are indicating that the massive 4wd has been subsidised by the taxpayer.

Too right. Whenever I see (all too often nowadays) young women with a horde of young kids, pushing a pusher with the latest, I multiply $5000 by the number of kids. My maths aren’t up to the family Tax A and B, childcare rebate and other payments and deductions though.

I guess the stickers for them is “I Breed and I Vote”.

$5000 by the number of kids? we get… wait for it, 125 per fortnight, sorry per month from the govt for Tax A & B, and i work 2 jobs, my wife works weekends. when i buy a new car, we will base it on the number of kids, amount of cr4p accumulated for the kids, comfort and safety, and what we can afford. It works out that if we stuck all 3 kids into childcare, i would have to pay more than 50% to the childcare centre, just for the privilege of having them there…

we have new prams, high chairs etc, at least they were 2 years ago, but we won’t upgrade our house or car till we can afford to.

and we need to upgrade the house, the boys are able to escape their cots now…

no baby on board signs, as i mentioned before, due to the numbers of ferals who become very interested when you have twins…..

la mente torbida said :

Maybe the ‘Baby on Board’ signs are indicating that the massive 4wd has been subsidised by the taxpayer.

Too right. Whenever I see (all too often nowadays) young women with a horde of young kids, pushing a pusher with the latest, I multiply $5000 by the number of kids. My maths aren’t up to the family Tax A and B, childcare rebate and other payments and deductions though.

I guess the stickers for them is “I Breed and I Vote”.

tylersmayhem2:39 pm 16 Jan 09

Does Southern Cross tattoo scream bogan to anyone else ?

No, more so f**kwit to me!

la mente torbida2:32 pm 16 Jan 09

Maybe the ‘Baby on Board’ signs are indicating that the massive 4wd has been subsidised by the taxpayer.

I hate those stupid fish stickers…

what about “thou shalt not worship any false idols”??

ant said :

Makes sense, caf. Just look at all those lunatics with christian fish stickers, and “baby on board” things. You want to clear a path for those cars.

a family member bought a sticker for us that says “twins on board”. it is still in its packaging.

I don’t want to advertise to the nutjobs how many kids i have.

Makes sense, caf. Just look at all those lunatics with christian fish stickers, and “baby on board” things. You want to clear a path for those cars.

There was a study done by a Colorado State University social psychologist that found that drivers who put “territory markers” on their vehicle, like stickers, are far more likely to succumb to road rage. The most interesting thing is that it doesn’t actually matter what the stickers say – “Magic Happens” is just as much an indicator of rage as “From My Cold Dead Hands”.

See this article.

Or “I fish and I vote” and “I voted for a dragway”????

Holden Caulfield2:03 pm 16 Jan 09

I wonder how many frangipani haters had Oakley stickers on their windscreens back in the day.

Both shit me, haha.

I’m a Barbie girl in a frangipani world,
Blooms in plastic are fantastic,
You can stick them every-bloody-where!

Peterh – you can grow frangipanis in canberra. You’ll have to keep them in a pot and bring them inside when they drop their leaves till the frosts pass. I’ve had mine for a few years now and they flower every year.

i actually saw an anti-frangipani sticker yesterday – 2 frangipanis with the red circle around them and a red line through the middle (think No Smoking).

i thought it was fantastic!

I saw a lot of the trees in Wagga… in fact, I saw one in a real estate picture of a house in Qbn!

ant said :

You know the car frangipanis aren’t new because a lot of them are now fading and look even worse. I like the flower, but since the stickers I can’t stand them as a motif for anything.

The trouble with the frangipani stickers is, they are almost always employed by the alley-cat style of female, driving cheap nasty cars such as Excels and Lancers extremely badly, with almost hysterical levels of anger towards other road users and who also place on their cars stickers announcing that the driver is a b!+ch.

and to think, i actually thought that this was a gardening thread. I would love to grow a frangipani tree here, but the frosts would kill it off…

You know the car frangipanis aren’t new because a lot of them are now fading and look even worse. I like the flower, but since the stickers I can’t stand them as a motif for anything.

The trouble with the frangipani stickers is, they are almost always employed by the alley-cat style of female, driving cheap nasty cars such as Excels and Lancers extremely badly, with almost hysterical levels of anger towards other road users and who also place on their cars stickers announcing that the driver is a b!+ch.

Delish said :

Whilst on the ‘nationalism’ thing does anyone know why there are 5 stars on the boxing Kangaroo flag and 6 on the Australian?

Well the 6th star is the star of federation so I guess its more of a ‘nation-state flag’ symbol.

Mr Evil said :

Kramer said :

The ever increasing use of the southern cross on car stickers & tatoos screams “I’m using this iconic Australian symbol to disguise my racist attitudes”. I quite like the southern cross, and I want the red necks to give it back.

And they can hand back the Eureka flag too, while we’re at it!

Bloody oath. The Eureka Flag is a powerful symbol of anti authoritarianism and protest against unfair taxes. It’s a shame how so many different groupings have tried to lay claim.

Whilst on the ‘nationalism’ thing does anyone know why there are 5 stars on the boxing Kangaroo flag and 6 on the Australian?

Kramer said :

The ever increasing use of the southern cross on car stickers & tatoos screams “I’m using this iconic Australian symbol to disguise my racist attitudes”. I quite like the southern cross, and I want the red necks to give it back.

And they can hand back the Eureka flag too, while we’re at it!

I just realised that Kiva’s slogan is ‘loans that change lives’. When I said “going to http://www.kiva.org and changing lives” above I didn’t even think about it. The power of marketing.

No no no no no no no.

not new news!

FAIL!

My fiancee likes frangipani flowers and has since she was a wee girl. Back when she got her frangipani carseat covers they were fairly rare. Now its the new fad. These things happen.

I liked Cypress Hill long before they became mainstream, then they broke and everyone likes them. It’s annoying but I’m not going to stop listening to them.

The time people spend on RiotACT whingeing about frangipani girls would be better spent either exorcising their collectivist demons or going to http://www.kiva.org and changing lives.

Either option is acceptable.

Thank you pain has eased slighty, yes I have noticed there existance but I started taking the back roads as they never venture to far from the bright lights of the city. Why I am complaining today is my need to use Northbourne Ave and was annoyed by an attemped dived bombed by one of them in front of my car whilst sms and looking the other way – not the way or lane that she was merging into! Grrrr!

As for the Southern Cross tat’s they seem to meet at the big splash, I took my little one for a slide and the amount of Southern Cross tat was ridiculous…

southeeplace12:22 pm 16 Jan 09

Extremely well put Kramer. I couldn’t agree more with that statement.

I now expect something nasty or strange to happen whenever I see the southern cross on a car.

The ever increasing use of the southern cross on car stickers & tatoos screams “I’m using this iconic Australian symbol to disguise my racist attitudes”. I quite like the southern cross, and I want the red necks to give it back.

I only support the use of battery-cage produced Frangipani stickers when both chick are hot 🙂

Does Southern Cross tattoo scream bogan to anyone else ?

Just for kicks I might get a tattoo of the big dipper 🙂

The following Riotact posts all reference frangipanis

The city that ate a truck

Canberras disgraceful drink drivers contribute less to the road toll

Snowy Hydro SouthCare’s Base Open Day

It appears there is no god.

Candidate Questionaires for 29 September

Images of Canberra – And she can’t park either

So not exactly a new phenomona. I believe I first noticed the existance of Frangipani popularity about two years ago. F*%ked if I know where the idea came from.

Frangipani stickers in the shape of the southern cross is the sign of the devil.

Frangipanis on cars, Australia says No!

I used to think that they were nice flowers, now I hate them.

I only support the use of battery-cage produced Frangipani stickers.

Girls? It often looks more like a mutton dressed up as lamb phenomenon.

This is very old news, and in fact not really news. I believe most people have removed them as they are shit.

Frangipanis on cars should be banned.
They were nice to begin with now they are so common.
Be original people.

Its the same with Southern Cross stickers.
Every second car seems to have one.

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