{"id":191,"date":"2006-01-27T16:39:46","date_gmt":"2006-01-27T06:39:46","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/machinegunkeyboard.com\/?p=191"},"modified":"2007-01-07T15:53:19","modified_gmt":"2007-01-07T05:53:19","slug":"australia-for-tourists-a-spotters-guide","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"http:\/\/machinegunkeyboard.com\/?p=191","title":{"rendered":"Australia for tourists; a spotter&#8217;s guide"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>When visiting Australia, you should not be surprised to hear that Aussies are enthusiastic about the place. What&#8217;s not to love about a sunny spot on the planet with people who are good natured, pragmatic and daggy in a laconic kind of way?<\/p>\n<p>Despite the recent race riots in Cronulla and the attempts of Australia First to capitalise on fear and hatred under the guise of loving good ol&#8217; Australia, it&#8217;s still possible to run into &#8216;real&#8217; Aussies; good people who talk up the place like they love it, because they do- without being racist, xenophobic nutbags.<\/p>\n<p>If you&#8217;ve just gotten off the plane, here&#8217;s how to spot the difference between an Aussie patriot and a species we know as the &#8216;yobbo.&#8217; Stick figures should make this understandable in any language.<\/p>\n<p align=\"center\">\n<p align=\"center\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" width=\"400\" height=\"418\" border=\"0\" align=\"middle\" src=\"http:\/\/machinegunkeyboard.com\/blogimages\/patriot_yobbo.gif\" \/><\/p>\n<p>Please don&#8217;t feed the yobbos. Photography merely encourages them. Do not give beer to yobs under any circumstances, unless of course, they are on fire.<\/p>\n<p>-weez<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>When visiting Australia, you should not be surprised to hear that Aussies are enthusiastic about the place. What&#8217;s not to love about a sunny spot on the planet with people who are good natured, pragmatic and daggy in a laconic kind of way? Despite the recent race riots in Cronulla and the attempts of Australia [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[2],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-191","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-general"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"http:\/\/machinegunkeyboard.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/191","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"http:\/\/machinegunkeyboard.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"http:\/\/machinegunkeyboard.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/machinegunkeyboard.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/machinegunkeyboard.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=191"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"http:\/\/machinegunkeyboard.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/191\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"http:\/\/machinegunkeyboard.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=191"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/machinegunkeyboard.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=191"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/machinegunkeyboard.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=191"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}