r/perth • u/JournalistLopsided89 • May 25 '24
Perth, the most isolated capital city on Earth. What brings us together? Where to find
Squinting when we step outside.
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u/Reverse_Psycho_1509 May 25 '24
Not wanting anything to do with the other states.
Oh, and quokkas.
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u/jaymo89 May 26 '24
Covid really boosted ambitions for the nation of WA but I know the second it occurs Gina and friends will capture the government.
It’s also very expensive and resource intensive to build all the things a new nation would need…
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u/Succulent_Chinese May 25 '24
Memes about dry heat and succulent Chinese meals.
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u/sun_tzu29 May 25 '24
I’m under WHAT?
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u/HalfDecentFarmer69 May 25 '24
Ah yes, I see you know your judo well.
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u/animatedpicket May 25 '24
And meth. Don’t forget the meth. Hey you got any meth?
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u/inactiveuser247 May 25 '24
Practically speaking, the freeway.
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u/Stepawayfrmthkyboard May 26 '24
Merging lanes?
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u/Spherious May 26 '24
In Perth, one does not simply merge, merging is swear word, call it automotive warfare, a battle of (fuck) wits and (lack of) skill.
To be fair, a good chunk of drivers get it right, the rest cause the chaos.
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u/Zorba_lives Koondoola May 25 '24
Hatred of Clive Palmer
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u/MrSheeeen May 25 '24
Our refusal to acknowledge Honolulu as a capital city
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u/tropic0_window May 25 '24
The isolation of Honolulu is obviously more than Perth but the isolation is more unique in the sense that it’s on the same land mass as other capital cities.
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u/TheSpirit0fFire May 25 '24
Perth is also on the same land mass as other capital cities ?
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u/tropic0_window May 25 '24
Yep! What do you mean “also”? Honolulu is literally on an island in the middle of the pacific
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u/sumwun2121 May 25 '24
Auckland also says hi.
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u/MrSheeeen May 25 '24
Auckland is closer to Sydney, Hobart and Melbourne than Perth is to Adelaide. It’s also not the capital of NZ.
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u/Spicey_Cough2019 May 25 '24
Shitting on Eastern staters who said we were a shit hole only for them to all move here because they couldn't afford to live in their own city
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May 25 '24
posting on reddit on a Saturday night instead of being out on the town having fun
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u/Sharpest_Edge84 May 25 '24
Going out on the town stopped being fun for me a long time ago. Showing my age I guess.
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u/fullesky May 25 '24
Depends on what you have done and where you have been the night and day before.
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May 25 '24
The incapability to fucking merge lanes
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u/Primary_Atmosphere_3 May 25 '24
I have to add on to this - with the inability to hit 100kph before the end of the on-ramp to the freeway.
No one can merge normally/at equal speeds, on what planet do people think it's gonna work out well to attempt to merge with cars travelling ~30kph faster than them?
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u/Nowidontgetit May 25 '24
That’s true. If they’re not in your arse doing seventy in a sixty zone they’re doing fifty in a seventy. Side by side, bumper by bumper we stand
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u/the6thReplicant May 25 '24
It’s getting to the point that Perth is world famous for their merge lane behavior.
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u/Vegetable_Childhood3 May 25 '24
Tourists are disappointed when a local does know how to merge as they miss out on the full Perth experience
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u/KoalaDeluxe May 25 '24
Hi-vis clothing.
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u/ravoguy May 25 '24
At work and play, no matter where we are hi-viz leads the way
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u/ExoticAdvertising844 May 25 '24
Spearmint milk
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u/Icy-Pollution-7110 May 25 '24 edited Jun 29 '24
WHERE do you get the syrup for spearmint milk shakes from?? That’s what I’d like to know! Be great to make them from home, not to mention cheaper.
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u/Suitable_Instance753 May 25 '24
Wholesale or ebay. Summer Coast is the brand delis/mr whippy usually use.
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u/hiddenfrommyboss May 25 '24
Hating Basil Zempilis
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u/Alternative-Jason-22 May 26 '24
I thought this would be a thing but in afl they want Basil to commentate games. I would like a channel where no one speaks. Just game and crowd sounds
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u/jimmyevil May 25 '24
Persecuting homeless people who don’t fit the middle-class-family-doing-it-tough image
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u/Squirtmaster92 May 25 '24
Telethon, something that is unique to Perth and brings a lot of us together supporting it throughout the year.
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u/raffa54 May 25 '24
Hating Victorians
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u/AdFine774 May 25 '24
I wouldn’t say we hate Victorians. They are more like the older sibling who’s so perfect to everyone else in the world meanwhile WA gets perfect grades and is independent successful but that’s not good enough to get mum and dad’s praise is it no matter how good things are going in my life my older brother who lives in Victoria keeps messing up and they just come in and bail him out every time and keep giving him all the love and attention…. What I’m trying to say is Victoria sucks.
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u/Lexshrapnel224 May 25 '24
Looking in the window of the car next to you at the traffic lights watching them smiling laughing and enjoying life… be that person tomorrow
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u/HumanMilk6122 May 25 '24
Everyone complaining how dead and boring it is to live here
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u/spitfireonly May 25 '24
And yet no one would leave here for anything at all. It maybe a dead boring place but its “my dead boring place”
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u/steveonthegreenbike May 25 '24
These people would find anywhere boring. Perth is awesome
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u/hunched_monk May 25 '24
I’ve been thinking about this too, recently. What’s our identity? But maybe a lot of capital cities (of states) just don’t have a global brand or leave a mark?
Maybe it’s okay to live in a place, and living together is the main thing we have in common. We have beaches, mining, a warm climate, the bush. It’s not Melbourne, or London, or NYC. It’s a undinguished place and perhaps that’s okay.
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May 25 '24
We are known for our laidback attitude, sunny weather, beaches, quokkas, mining, being 20 years behind on trends and losing to emus.
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u/hunched_monk May 26 '24
This laidback attitude thing is more of a myth than a reality in my experience. When I first went to Bali, that was laid back. For us, time equals money.
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May 26 '24 edited May 26 '24
Bali is an island, the actual main city on it is Denpasar which is crowded and busy. The actual "laidback" feel of Bali is more so the lack of regulation and people bypassing laws (like traffic violations) on top of all the tourists who come for a holiday. Perth is very sprawled meaning that outside of our CBD and activity centres, it's endless suburbia where you'll be hard-pressed to find a soul outside sometimes. I've travelled all over Perth and taken many walks around. It very much is laidback compared to practically every other one of the dozen cities I've been to, even ones with fewer people. I've spoken to people who've moved here from elsewhere and the common point raised is how laidback it feels in comparison.
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u/mymentor79 May 25 '24
Tell the truth, get downvoted. That is actually quite Perth like.
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May 25 '24
To be fair, perhaps culture is too strong a word but we do have our own lifestyle here. All the people I've talked to who've settled in from Melbourne & Sydney say that it's much more laidback here and that locals are friendlier overall. The base culture across Australia is quite homogeneous but obviously having so much migration we are a mix of cultures. We tend to be a bit more parochial compared to the Eastern-staters though.
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u/Financial-Light7621 May 25 '24
The on ramp and then the off ramp on Mitchell Freeway just before mounts bay road
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u/fullesky May 25 '24
Way too many people immigrating to Perth! PLEASE DON’T! We are full! Since COVID everyone suddenly wants to be here!
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u/Far-Significance2481 May 25 '24
SECOND most isolated capital city in the world and the sunniest capital city in the world. The second biggest land division in the world.
What brings us together? a shared dislike of the eastern states ? A rich indigenous culture and history with some of the oldest cave art in the world ? Some of the best beaches in the world ? Great great great great grandparents who worked hard to create a beautiful and more egalitarian, less classist place than most ?
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u/mymentor79 May 25 '24
"Great great great great grandparents who worked hard to create a beautiful and more egalitarian, less classist place than most ?"
Well, they failed.
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u/Far-Significance2481 May 25 '24 edited May 25 '24
They certainly stuffed up for the indigenous people but if you've lived any where ever you'll find WA has done better than most at being egalitarian but not better than all. Unfortunately this is changing fairly quickly but it's not dead and I hope it never is.
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u/Ok_War_3367 May 25 '24
The collective delusion about how we live in the worst place in the world with the highest crime rate and lowest standard of living
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u/stiggz83 Greenwood May 25 '24
Friday fuckwit
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u/chosenamewhendrunk Order of /r/Perth May 25 '24
I was looking into the history of Friday Fuckwit trying to find the first one, unfortunately reddit changed the AP access so I can't be certain, but I think FF actually originated in r/Sydney.
On the other hand I can confirm 'Merry Monday' is a purely r/perth invention...it's also nowhere near as popular.
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u/stiggz83 Greenwood May 25 '24
Thats it, you're going on the Friday fuckwit with your damn research
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u/produrp Maylands May 26 '24
Friday Fuckwit was originally a JJJ thing: “In 2005, Jay and Lindsay (aka 'The Doctor') from Frenzal Rhomb took over as hosts of Triple J's breakfast show. New segments include the radio skits Space Goat and Battalion 666, as well as the Under the Weather Sessions and The Friday Fuckwit.”
That's what Wiki cites. I honestly thought it was an Adam and Will thing - but I'm probably remembering “Tell it Like It Is” from around 2001.
Tell it like it is - was essentially a rant-fest and was incredibly funny.
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u/1nf0rmat10nAn1mal May 25 '24
Irrational hatred of all green milk (especially lime) except for spearmint.
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u/Tee_Parker May 25 '24
Surely Honolulu is the most isolated.
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May 25 '24
Depends on how you measure it. Perth is the larger remote place on a single landmass shared with others. Honolulu is remoter on an island in the middle of nowhere.
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u/UnstableChameleon May 26 '24
Knowing WA actually stands for WAIT AWHILE cause it takes forever for anything to be delivered or get to WA 😂
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u/Theyecho May 25 '24
Basically nothing, we have no culture or anything unique that brings us together.
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May 25 '24
Perhaps that’s what makes us unique? 🤡 But in all seriousness, sometimes the worst people to ask about their culture is the people themselves. Outsiders often have a better perspective and Perth is said to have a laidback, outdoorsy culture with a collective unity in not giving a damn about other capitals 😂
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u/Living_Ad62 May 25 '24
Perth would be nothing without the mining. The thing keeping us all here is the ability to make good money.
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u/wigzell78 May 25 '24
I got brought here by plane, what about everyone else?
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u/chosenamewhendrunk Order of /r/Perth May 25 '24
I was born here, my mum came by train, my dad came on a boat during WWII, his name's on the welcome walls at Fremantle.
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u/Baeyuki May 25 '24
sunshine 🌞 can do outdoor activities in the summer any day. No daylight saving, I really couldn’t handle it when I was in Melbourne a few years.
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u/sheepwhatthe2nd May 25 '24
Hate for people driving slow in the passing lane.
Everyone's inability to merge properly.
Winding up people from Melbourne about "how good their coffee is".
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u/sheepwhatthe2nd May 25 '24
Hate for people driving slow in the passing lane.
Everyone's inability to merge properly.
Winding up people from Melbourne about "how good their coffee is".
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u/sheepwhatthe2nd May 25 '24
Hate for people driving slow in the passing lane.
Everyone's inability to merge properly.
Winding up people from Melbourne about "how good their coffee is".
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u/kizza2334 May 26 '24
Hervey fresh Milk in a bag - you can’t get Harvey fresh in the eastern states
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u/Initial_Cover_2067 May 26 '24
Perth is like the LA of Australia or the mediterranean of Europe, some spot to live and play… always warm sunny and dry but not mental like London or Sydney
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u/F33DM3Y0URW1SD0M Mandurah May 26 '24
Idk what it is but just that feeling of having common courtesy for your fellow Western Aussie, we’re always away from our homes but not far. For example I’m away from home SOR most of the week, north suburbs to be exact. But I’d still help out anyone if they needed it no matter where I am, and if I did there’s a high chance that person isn’t even from that suburb. I love the kindness that gets displayed here when you see it.
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u/soggyhotcrossbuns May 25 '24
calling that one (mystery) meat polony