An Australian Webfriend explained that to me some years ago. Before that, I figured it was some Haruhi-forsaken hellhole in the Outback, on the basis of this skit.
At the time this skit was filmed I was studying Philosophy at the University near Woolloomooloo. It was rowdy and contentious, actually splitting into two separate Philosophy Departments. Poofters were well represented. The Bruce in-joke is that all Australian hairdressers were supposedly gay and named Bruce. This is typical MP cross-over humor but they did a remarkable job of capturing the Genius Loci. My mates and I drank Tooheys Export Pilsner. I never heard of Fosters until I returned to the US.
ikr :) we arent homophobes .. nor are we notably superstitious re gods and whatnot .. and we are probably the most socialist country IN the fukin commonwealth :) The bruces here didn't do their research eh
Yeah, you and every other Aussie I’ve ever heard from say that you guys don’t actually drink Foster’s and that it’s unclear where the idea that you do came from. My friends said that Victoria Bitter was the actual Aussie beer.
My father actually *was* an Australian philosopher. So ever since childhood I have been frequently overwhelmed by the urge to sing (usually in the least appropriate environments) 'Iiiiiiiiiiimannuel Kant was a real piss-ant and was very rarely stable ...'
@@lervish1966 in you're own time reboot your internet and come again. Thanks Brucette. Much obliged. Got a busy day on. Must feed the pet kangaroo and the kids but not in that order.
How to be Australian 1. Throw a boomerang 2. Cruelly kill kangaroos 3. Have a barby every day 4. Be racist towards Aboriginals 5. Be obsessed with sport 6. Say g'day 1000 times a day 7. Be very chauvanistic 8. Get eaten by a great white shark 9. Wear a cork hat 10. Die from a snake or spider bite
Look at John Cleese's face when he reads the rules, he is so close to laughing his arse off, that sketch probably took a day to record with all of them randomly laughing every line
I'll be using that in the right settings when they arise. A great sketch from these mad loonies and this is the first time I've seen it in donkey's yonks.
First rule of Bruce Club: You do not talk about Bruce Club. Second rule of Bruce Club: You do NOT talk about Bruce Club. Third rule: Everyone is named Bruce. Fourth rule: No poofters.
How did Monty Python do it? They continually wrote what should have been (at a cursory glance) unfunny drivel, yet it managed to be continually hilarious, and is, to this day, utterly timeless. It just never gets old. And to me and quite a few other people, Monty Python's Life of Brian is still the best and most hilarious comedy film of all time, even after forty years. I suppose Monty Python is literally comic genius. And possibly the funniest comedy act of all time.
At the University near Woolloomooloo around 1970 there were a number of popular Marxist lecturers and courses, but I think the split in the Philosophy Department was due more to the underlying Epistemological differences.
@@davidjstreader You definitely won't find them in big cities. They'd probably be arrested for being "offensive". However, the countryside is a different story.
@@henrysevern most of the names in vogue in 2023 my want to vomit. The are so many girls names Taylor or variations like Tahlier or Talar. Why can't we have some Sandra or Joans. What is Australia coming to if this goes unchecked. [when I was a kid we have Barrys and Marys. Which brings to mind, one we called 'hairy Mary from the Dairy'.]
As a Bruce begat from a Bruce by a Bruce under the Southern Cross I stand with a piece of wattle in my hand, named a Bruce in the Bruce of a land..Australia.. your a bloody little beauty..amen
In the first place, you couldn't accurately or honestly define "woke" if someone duct taped an alarm clock to your head. In the second place, on the subject of using the word "snowflake" as an insult, no less than John Cleese opined: "‘Yes I’ve heard this word. I think sociopaths use it in an attempt to discredit the notion of empathy." In the third place, as someone who leans liberal and left himself, this skit is funny as Hell. And in the final place, the only people who are as obsessed with "poofters" as right wingers are often often in the closet "poofters" themselves. Have a lovely life being miserable.
