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(News.com.au) Scary This is why you never perform Men at Work's "Down Under" in an Australian karaoke bar   (news.com.au) divider line 106
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I Have The Touch of a Shocked Monkey [TotalFark]
2011-11-19 08:08:40 PM
 
dahmers love zombie [TotalFark]
2011-11-19 09:19:13 PM
"It's believed about 10 men began assaulting a large group of patrons leaving the premises, armed with baseball bats and metal poles, before fleeing," police said in a statement.

Well, if a bunch of bar patrons came out towards me armed with baseball bats and metal poles, I'd probably fight back too.
 
Di Atribe [TotalFark]
2011-11-19 10:04:26 PM
Were they 6 foot 4? Full of muscle?
 
Rich Cream
2011-11-19 10:08:48 PM
As if I needed two reasons.
 
ArkAngel [TotalFark]
2011-11-19 10:22:24 PM
Never insult Vegemite in Australia
 
Lando Lincoln [TotalFark]
2011-11-19 10:51:01 PM
Damn. I'm a bad karaoke singer, but not "10 men waiting for me with baseball bats and metal poles" bad.
 
pack999
2011-11-19 11:28:52 PM
Sounds like a slow night in Australia.
 
BronyMedic [TotalFark]
2011-11-19 11:29:32 PM
Lando Lincoln: Damn. I'm a bad karaoke singer, but not "10 men waiting for me with baseball bats and metal poles" bad.

Or, as Austrailians know it, another Saturday Night.
 
Gunderson
2011-11-19 11:31:12 PM
If it wasn't for VH1's pop-up videos and this song, I would have never of known what "Chunder" means
 
here to help
2011-11-19 11:33:32 PM
Most karoake bars are run and frequented by very bad people. Be polite, pay your tab, tip well and don't hog the stage. Also leave relatively early and if you see something skeetchy going down while you're there just move on to the next bar or go home.
 
JasonOfOrillia
2011-11-19 11:33:33 PM
And here I thought it would be an article about Australian copyright laws.
 
Millennium
2011-11-19 11:41:04 PM
Di Atribe: Were they 6 foot 4? Full of muscle?

I heard something about a slack jaw. Not much to say, I guess.
 
StoneColdAtheist
2011-11-19 11:46:49 PM
Lando Lincoln: Damn. I'm a bad karaoke singer, but not "10 men waiting for me with baseball bats and metal poles" bad.

I must admit that I've never been so drunk as to be tempted to sing in public.
 
Lone Stranger
2011-11-19 11:47:23 PM
If 10 armed men are coming in the bar you better run, you better take cover.
 
video man [TotalFark]
2011-11-19 11:48:17 PM
When I was in Australia, none of the bars had Foster's in them. I've never had Foster's, but I took it as a hint.
 
blondski
2011-11-19 11:48:52 PM
When I lived in Michigan, the 2 Aussies I knew there sang this song at the bar on Australia day.

No assaults occurred- just a bunch of confused Michiganders.
 
video man [TotalFark]
2011-11-19 11:49:42 PM
StoneColdAtheist: Lando Lincoln: Damn. I'm a bad karaoke singer, but not "10 men waiting for me with baseball bats and metal poles" bad.

I must admit that I've never been so drunk as to be tempted to sing in public.

That's a lie and you know it. I don't dance, but I'm the damned Down Syndrome twin brother of Michael Jackson when I'm drunk.
 
Pestifer
2011-11-19 11:50:49 PM
To be fair, I've had to sit through "My Heart Will Go On" four times over the course of a dinner. You'd better believe that if I'd had a bat or some iron pipes this would've been my reaction, too.
 
John Henry Eden
2011-11-19 11:51:22 PM
dahmers love zombie: "It's believed about 10 men began assaulting a large group of patrons leaving the premises, armed with baseball bats and metal poles, before fleeing," police said in a statement.

Well, if a bunch of bar patrons came out towards me armed with baseball bats and metal poles, I'd probably fight back too.


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dg41 [TotalFark]
2011-11-19 11:52:10 PM
They were surprised how legibly he could write on his own butt.
 
blondski
2011-11-19 11:53:51 PM
The suspects



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antron
2011-11-19 11:55:04 PM
I'd have called them chazzwozzers
 
blondski
2011-11-19 11:55:06 PM
opps too big

media.ticketmaster.com
 
Kurmudgeon
2011-11-19 11:56:30 PM
here to help: Most karoake bars are run and frequented by very bad people. Be polite, pay your tab, tip well and don't hog the stage. Also leave relatively early and if you see something skeetchy going down while you're there just move on to the next bar or go home.

Even better, screw that shiat, stay away and keep my money in my pocket. Laugh when they go out of business and the doors get shuttered.
 
AverageAmericanGuy
2011-11-20 12:05:52 AM
video man: That's a lie and you know it. I don't dance, but I'm the damned Down Syndrome twin brother of Michael Jackson when I'm drunk.

Well, you're no friend of mine. Hey!
 
StoneColdAtheist
2011-11-20 12:07:47 AM
video man: StoneColdAtheist: I must admit that I've never been so drunk as to be tempted to sing in public.

That's a lie and you know it. I don't dance, but I'm the damned Down Syndrome twin brother of Michael Jackson when I'm drunk.

Now don't take me wrong. I've been plenty drunk before. And drunk plenty of times. I've even been drunk enough to make a jackass out of myself more than once. Just never drunk enough to attempt to sing.
 
signine
2011-11-20 12:08:36 AM
They should have smiled and made them a vegemite sandwich
 
here to help
2011-11-20 12:09:45 AM
Kurmudgeon: Even better, screw that shiat, stay away and keep my money in my pocket. Laugh when they go out of business and the doors get shuttered.

A live band is better anyway. Even if they're crappy.

However, a lot of karoake clubs have awesome food. The really skeetchy ones don't care about your money though. You're just atmosphere.
 
JohnAnnArbor
2011-11-20 12:11:39 AM
dahmers love zombie: "It's believed about 10 men began assaulting a large group of patrons leaving the premises, armed with baseball bats and metal poles, before fleeing," police said in a statement.

Well, if a bunch of bar patrons came out towards me armed with baseball bats and metal poles, I'd probably fight back too.

In other news, baseball bats are more common in Australia than you'd think, apparently.

/no cricket bats?
 
TheRoamingGnome
2011-11-20 12:11:40 AM
You better run, you better take cover...eooow
 
LoneWolf343
2011-11-20 12:11:50 AM
They better run. They better take cover.
 
JohnAnnArbor
2011-11-20 12:12:34 AM
LoneWolf343: They better run. They better take cover.

10 seconds.
 
LoneWolf343
2011-11-20 12:13:07 AM
*shakes tiny fist at TheRoamingGnome*

/10 farking seconds.
 
LoneWolf343
2011-11-20 12:15:37 AM
JohnAnnArbor: LoneWolf343: They better run. They better take cover.

10 seconds.

Goddammit so much! If I didn't skim the thread to make sure no one else said it, I would have made it and avoided this embarrassment!
 
jimpoz
2011-11-20 12:16:02 AM
Lone Stranger: If 10 armed men are coming in the bar you better run, you better take cover.

That's just overkill.
 
video man [TotalFark]
2011-11-20 12:21:55 AM
StoneColdAtheist: video man: StoneColdAtheist: I must admit that I've never been so drunk as to be tempted to sing in public.

That's a lie and you know it. I don't dance, but I'm the damned Down Syndrome twin brother of Michael Jackson when I'm drunk.

Now don't take me wrong. I've been plenty drunk before. And drunk plenty of times. I've even been drunk enough to make a jackass out of myself more than once. Just never drunk enough to attempt to sing.

You just don't remember it.

/I've been known to sing Sinatra when I'm drunk.
//Fourth o' bottle of Bacardi will do that.
 
Last of the Crazy People
2011-11-20 12:24:11 AM
video man: When I was in Australia, none of the bars had Foster's in them. I've never had Foster's, but I took it as a hint.

Foster's is persona non grata down under, next time try a tinnie of VB. (new window)
 
calgar99
2011-11-20 12:24:19 AM
Lone Stranger: *two claps*

Anyone better than Lone Stranger? Who can it be now?

Ah, yes... jimpoz: *three claps*
 
video man [TotalFark]
2011-11-20 12:31:19 AM
Last of the Crazy People: video man: When I was in Australia, none of the bars had Foster's in them. I've never had Foster's, but I took it as a hint.

Foster's is persona non grata down under, next time try a tinnie of VB. (new window)

Wasn't of age yet when I was there, sadly.
 
saturn badger
2011-11-20 12:35:06 AM
JohnAnnArbor: LoneWolf343: They better run. They better take cover.

10 seconds.

Fark has comment post time monitors? I did not know that.
 
LeroyB
2011-11-20 12:39:52 AM
JasonOfOrillia: And here I thought it would be an article about Australian copyright laws.

Perhaps the men with bats were the lawyers for the Australian equivalent of the RIAA.

// "That's not a lawyer.... THIS is a lawyer."
 
chookbillion
2011-11-20 12:46:01 AM
dahmers love zombie: "It's believed about 10 men began assaulting a large group of patrons leaving the premises, armed with baseball bats and metal poles, before fleeing," police said in a statement.

Well, if a bunch of bar patrons came out towards me armed with baseball bats and metal poles, I'd probably fight back too.

Came to say approximately this.
 
StoneColdAtheist
2011-11-20 12:53:11 AM
video man: StoneColdAtheist: Just never drunk enough to attempt to sing.

Fourth o' bottle of Bacardi will do that.

Never touch the hard stuff. I'm a California wine and micro/home brew snob.

/would try your John Daly recipe, tho... ;)
 
FerneJohn
2011-11-20 12:53:20 AM
Can't you hear, can't you hear that thunder?
 
video man [TotalFark]
2011-11-20 12:59:29 AM
StoneColdAtheist: video man: StoneColdAtheist: Just never drunk enough to attempt to sing.

Fourth o' bottle of Bacardi will do that.

Never touch the hard stuff. I'm a California wine and micro/home brew snob.

/would try your John Daly recipe, tho... ;)

I live by a friend's saying: "Brew for some buzz, distill for some fun"

/It really turns you into John Daly. I used to have the Putt-Putt score card to prove it.
 
give me doughnuts [TotalFark]
2011-11-20 01:00:16 AM
JohnAnnArbor: dahmers love zombie: "It's believed about 10 men began assaulting a large group of patrons leaving the premises, armed with baseball bats and metal poles, before fleeing," police said in a statement.

Well, if a bunch of bar patrons came out towards me armed with baseball bats and metal poles, I'd probably fight back too.

In other news, baseball bats are more common in Australia than you'd think, apparently.

/no cricket bats?

Are baseball bats actually sold as sports equipment in Australia, or simply as "negotiating tools"?
 
give me doughnuts [TotalFark]
2011-11-20 01:02:10 AM
Who the fark knew?! Link (new window)
 
video man [TotalFark]
2011-11-20 01:02:31 AM
give me doughnuts: JohnAnnArbor: dahmers love zombie: "It's believed about 10 men began assaulting a large group of patrons leaving the premises, armed with baseball bats and metal poles, before fleeing," police said in a statement.

Well, if a bunch of bar patrons came out towards me armed with baseball bats and metal poles, I'd probably fight back too.

In other news, baseball bats are more common in Australia than you'd think, apparently.

/no cricket bats?

Are baseball bats actually sold as sports equipment in Australia, or simply as "negotiating tools"?

From what I've been told, they're sold as "Sports equipment", but often never used for such a purpose.
 
Kuta
2011-11-20 01:06:31 AM
Settle down and eat your peas and gravy, my boy.
Settle down, settle down my boy, settle down.
 
Harv72b [TotalFark]
2011-11-20 01:07:40 AM
Di Atribe: Were they 6 foot 4? Full of muscle?

You're thinking of that man in Brussels.
 
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