Hobbit celebrates July 4

[The Hound]

Lots of Lebanese migration in the late 70's and throughout the 80's and most of it came to south west Sydney close to where I grew up in southern Sydney. The migrant Lebanese were fine it was the second and third generation that were born here that became degenerate shit cunts, lebanese gangs were a big problem in the mid to late 90's and I grew up right on the outskirts of where they were. Obviously it's nothing like American gangs, you wouldn't get shot by them but you'd definitely get bashed by about a dozen of them and robbed. My school which was co-ed ended up merging with the locals girls only school and boys only school for our final 2 years of school, the boys only school was a majority lebanese school so that was shit having to co-exist with them. If you ever got in a fight with them they'd go and get knives or make phone calls to da cuzzinz bro and bring like 2 dozen people to school, they were trash. Apparently in the furthest western reaches of Sydney it's all Islander gangs that are getting bad but I don't have to deal with that.

West of the M5 and especially west of Canterbury road were not places to go, I am glad I grew up east of the M5. There's a famous street called Telopea St which even the cops didn't go to lol that was like Lebo Grove St which was like 15 minutes drive from me. I remember an Asian kid who was 13 or so got murdered for going to the wrong house on that street in the late 90's which is when it got all the attention and there was the Skaf gang rapes and K brothers gang rapes in 2000 and 2001 I think which really was the height of anti-Lebanese/Muslim opinion and frankly a lot of it was justified opinion. No other migrant group were on the level of the Lebanese, we had Asian gangs in the 90's too who were big especially the Vietnamese but that was further west and I wasn't exposed to it as much, where I grew up was mostly Chinese immigrants (the largest in Australia I believe or one of) and the Asian gangs seemed to keep their shit to within gang related stuff where as the Lebos would especially target innocent civilians.

[Goldenchild]

Lebanese are chill in America, so I don’t know what the Australian air is doing to them. One of the most laidback middle easterners based on the ones I met in the Midwest

Anyway too many blue eyes and blonde hair in Australia, so they need the Sicilian, Spanish, Armenian, Portuguese treatment that the Moors gave them…if you know what I mean

[The Hound]

To be fair the Lebanese immigrants were expected to contribute to society without raping and murdering people so it's little surprise they fit in well in the USA and not in Australia.

[Goldenchild]

Australians are shocked that other humans exist. We've got Mormons and the Nation of Islam here, who amazingly don't kill each other, but that's how comically diverse America is. Australians aren't used to non-blue-eyed blonde hair people, so it freaks them out when they see non-white people. But they have their own Indigenous genocide story, just like America, Tasmania, New Zealand, Siberia, the Caribbean, South America, etc. But they sweep it under the rug better than other countries. Anyway, Australia is literally a CONVICT country. Literally. But they're cool with Brits now because of cricket and...you know...they're both crackers

[brock]

golden child, your racism is showing again. take that elsewhere.

[The Hound]

Did you know that 30% of Australia is born overseas which is more than double the % of foreign born people in the USA? Sydney has an even higher rate of people born overseas than the national data, I've probably socialised with people from cultures you've never even heard of.

This is what happens when you get a Poppa Wu education but it's not too late in life to smarten up Goldenchild, btw completely unrelated but has anyone got the black on black violence statistics from the USA?

[Goldenchild]

New York City probably has every culture known to man...and that's just one city. Not that it matters

[IrOnMaN]

ironman, i'm sorry that you don't have many friends. i would have had attended your bbq.

People had last minute changes and some people had to work. No big deal. Lots of leftovers.

Ironman do you smoke meat or grill it on a gas bbq?

Charcoal only. Food taste better. I'm not much of a gas person.

[IrOnMaN]

there are tons of shootings every week in chicago, mostly gang related. the mayor is terrible

Agreed. They figure let the gangs kill each other but when innocent people get caught in the crossfire, that's when it's a concern.

I still have to get my CCW. It's an eight hour class along with a ton of paperwork.

[The Hound]

Good stuff Tectrus that's the right answer although gas has its place. Just make sure you don't use lighter fluid to start the coals, I don't know why that's common in the USA.

I fire up the weber 4 or 5 nights a week but I might build an Argentinian parrilla in my backyard

[Rev Jones]

Agreed. They figure let the gangs kill each other but when innocent people get caught in the crossfire, that's when it's a concern.

I still have to get my CCW. It's an eight hour class along with a ton of paperwork.

is that Carrying a Concealed Weapon?

[IrOnMaN]

is that Carrying a Concealed Weapon?

Yes. Michigan is open carry but the laws with that are weird. If you are carrying a gun in your car without a CCW, you have to place it in the truck with the mag separated from the gun. If you are stopped and the cops search your car and find a loaded gun inside, two years in prison.

[Rev Jones]

Uvalde footage



law enforcement officers get paid by the hour or something?