The "'insular peninsula."
But what was your favorite of Pipeline’s 50 heaviest moments that were showcased by our World Surf League during the just wrapped event? Chris Ward riding borrowed boards whilst putting on a tube clinic? The high-five? They were all wonderfully produced and gorgeously narrated by Ron Blakey making it difficult to pick but I, personally, enjoyed Tom Carroll’s snap (as illustrated here by the great Scott Chenoweth for Inherent Bummer).
As any halfway decent student of professional surfing history knows, Tom Carroll and his more famous brother Nick, come to us from Sydney’s Northern Beaches, a normally picturesque part of Australia now teeming with Covid-19 and under strict lockdown.
While this would, or could, worry the powers-that-be, the country’s Prime Minister Scott Morrison is not worried and mostly because of the Carrolls and their notoriously rotten, heavily-localized, attitudes.
Per the Daily Mail:
Prime Minister Scott Morrison said he believes Northern Beaches locals’ reluctance to leave their region, regardless of a pandemic, will help contain the virus.
‘Those of you who know Sydney well know that the peninsula is a very cohesive community that tends to keep to itself, a bit like the (Sutherland) Shire down where I’m from,’ he said on Monday.
‘And that is certainly assisting in making sure that the Avalon outbreak is staying exactly where it is.
‘As we go into these next few days, we will be watching carefully as we endeavour to understand whether there has been further seeding, or any seeding I should say — there hasn’t been at this point — in other parts of the city.’
Chief health officer Paul Kelly agreed with the prime minister’s sentiment, and said locals on the Northern Beaches, dubbed the ‘insular peninsula,’ tend to stay in their own bubble.
Imagine thinking that Covid restrictions might present an opportunity to go surf some Northern Beaches. You pack the car, make your way in and spot a nice teepee for which to surf. You park and go to take your board off the roof when a vicious snarling sound fills the air.
A terrifying hissing.
You look all around, then down, and there, barring their teeth at your kneecaps, are the Carrolls.
Well, you would leave your board where it was, get back in and drive away as fast as legally allowed.
Super spreader event thwarted.
Better than a vaccine.
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I occasionally surf some of various Newport Spots & when I do often see Nick Carroll, or actually hear him would be a truer assessment, in my 30+ years of waveriding I have never come across a crankier more tightly wound surfer “FUCK FUCK FUCK” is his usual rant, it really does bring the vibe down in the lineup.
I don’t know why Nick is so intense & to be fair on him I can’t say I know the bloke, but the vibe he gives is not of a man who enjoys his surfing, or perhaps he is so passionate that he’s not living up to his own lofty expectations, whatever the case he gets plenty of waves, perhaps it’s all been some Orwellian attempt to keep the masses out of Newport & keep Covid away long before it was ever conceived.
Dystopian prophet or just a cranky bugger?
thanks
thank you so much
Brutus and Tex are fired up. Perhaps The Golden Ape should send The Mayor of HB For The Time Being to dy surf club at 5 to sort them out?
More as this story develops?
Spare a thought for your old pal surfads, who attended the North Narra nudie comp a couple of weeks back – the first time I’d been to that neck of the woods in a good twenty years and the result of which now means the lockdown orders also technically apply to me as well given it was the first official day of the ‘seeding’ period.
Hopefully my honorary local status might get me a wave there, or at least a smile from Bex
Word on the street is that you were pretty seedy before that trip to Narra. Possibly starting about 20 years ago. Who starts these rumours?
Oh no Ads! Now newy is cooked too.
It’s very quiet around here now.
Every now and then a semi – first one nation dikhead drives past our place yelling
Ill find you Bex you racist cunt!!
Other than that its about as good as it gets
getting bored bex …..wait till he gets out of the car and bashes bexy …that will be as good as it gets…
I’ll drop by with some eggs for your house.
And I mean the house.
The northern beaches, home of covid seedening events and kneecap yelling. Angry Anderson is another knee high northern beaches dweller who don’t take kindly to interlopers on his turf. Safeguards are in place. I’m confident this will all just blow over.
I thought he lived in the car park of Rooty Hills RSL
There and Boggo Rd are the holiday homes.
Gen Y dissin a legend
Typical,
don’t come round here no more
caught up with Brett yet?
Yeah down at dripping wet, good bloke.
ask him what my reaction would be to a racist cunt publicly calling me out as a half breed first nation fuk wit……and racially vilify indigenous Australians…..perhaps he will remember when a Racist cunt called me a black cunt…..hm broken jaw/eye socket and removed his front 6 teeth………then we get to the serious shit…you are a marked man bex!
In front of Dee why surf club 5pm.
how many of ya ……do you want fists/knives or guns?
You’ve crossed a line cunt, we found your joint in 5 minutes.
Repo boys down there are on it.
So you found my place in 5 minutes in Vicco , genius?
so back ya mouth up you sniveling coward , repo boys LOL, but I ll ask again , what type of fighting are you down for , I’ll be inSydney late Jan , let’s catch up , as I am now sure you are western suburbs kinda Homophobic racist kinda guy?
Just tell me where ya fat white cunt
you know where , you found me in 5 mins….get ya arse over here and lets see how ya back ya mouth up , or now you are calling me white……can I join your proud little boys club now I’m white?
See you’re all talk
Go kill yself
LOL , you think I got this far in life , without backing up my big mouth…the difference is I am an open book, and you are just a coward hiding behind your forum name…….you said “Found you in 5 mins so lets go ….?….unless you were bullshitting….which reading your posts , an empty vassal , being tuff on a forum LOL !
You are the one making death threats.
You are the one looking for me.
I’ve told you where I am.
I can be there within an hour anytime you like.
I can’t make it any easier for you
I’m waiting for you.
your the one who insults and thinks racism doesn’t exist , then you go on and on with ya racist bullshit….am sharpening my sushi knives , as you would know from BG and their recent headline on me claiming , ” i never killed anyone who didn’t taste good” you might be a bit old ……but it’s all in how you butcher the cadavre…..
It seems pretty obvious now bexette that you are not in lockdown on the Northern beaches , as you live in western sydney…..and are just a white westy suprmacist !
Talks over fukwit
Man up.
hahaha , not allowed to travel to the Western suburbs , so Merry Xmas Bex who ever you are praying for you and your kind , been thinking and praying for your kind a lot , as you are the most deviate examples of mankind I have met on the forums……certainly the most racist/homophobic/bully and proud of it ……..see ya after Chrissy!
Hasn’t been a happy time for Angry lately.
Yeah it sux what happened with his kid.
Are you saying the cure to COVID is to only surf your local?
Nah, the only cure is not starting.
Don’t forget BG’s very own Bex down the road.
It’s been going off.
Well my version of goin off. Which is not Gmeds idea of going off
Only the odd dead body lying around, no biggy
maybe you could be one of those “Odd dead body’s?”…..
Doubt it, I fuk cunt’s up permanently
hhaa really bexy , c’mon have ya chatted to Brett the manly local yet…..I would and will see you fucked up , and you will not surf again!
Hell have a fuken heart attack
ya see the problem is herr bexette , ya didn’t know who Brett was , played in shit band haha….. a real gentleman and one of the best surfers to come out of manly…so we think you blew in from Uncle Nev territory , land of the bananaredneck club?
I know exactly who he is ya fuken cocksucker.
I Know where he works and I know your address.
Keep it up cunt.
I’ll be there to fuk your boy up and ill have cunts observing,.
Stop talking and JUST FUCKING BRING IT!!!!!!
yeah you know my address , and if ya knows da boy s from redfern …more power to ya….weak as piss bex, as you don’t even know Brett….and he is the kindest most wonderful mellow surfer I have ever come across……just for verification bad proud boy , where did Brett work for most of his life?
Gee you get really scary when you type in capitals………a bit short notice and with those N Shore restrictions , hard to get in , but youwould know that if you lived where you say you do Manly/DeeWhy……western suburbs …??
Fuk you and your Redfern gear heads.
Come on cunt, just name a place where YOU will be, but you’re all talk aren’t ya, fuckin fairy.
oh now homophobic insults , on top of the racist ones , what a man you are bex….when you take your homophobic comments ,add a touch of racism then add some white supremacist bleach……no wonder you got stuck in Thailand trying it both ways, did one of the kiddies hurt you…now you call them faries?
You already said you found me in 5 mins , so what’s ya problem c’mon down lets dance…..yeah and I’m all talk , you obviously don’t know your surf history……
you live in manly so you say , want to meet up at Dee Why…..during a pandemic , wow what a guy , lost ya gonads in Thailand?
hmmm. more fantasies of pedo shit…..
well Bex has said transgender boys excited him in Thailand…..so really you have pedoshit fantasies….you guys are another level!
fuck it. i’m on team bex now. fuck off, maurice you useless drunk cunt. you and nick carroll should be selling pencils out of a paper cup. 2 fucking morons who are complicit in all manner of dodgy shit…
jesus. such a cunt. sad.
Good boy
oh wow , now ya making a pass at the Dr K , “good boy”…….said the priest to the choir boy!
Actually Merry Xmas Doc and no Jesus was not a sad cunt , he is the light forward !
punctuation.
jesus ignored you for 100 000 years. took whitey to teach you…….. you are like pell though…..
We found your joint in 5 minutes
wow , you know where I live in Vicco…..don’t worry you won’t have to come down here…..am coming your way soon..
Tell your boy, dy surf club at 5, hell have his ass kicked, Il be there, no fuken joke you motherless cocksucker
ha bex the dy surf club no pun intended?
no joke bex you are toast , and I am not motherless and don’t suck 10 yr olds cocks like you do………ya racist cunt!
Heard on the radio today they are splitting up into north and south at the northern beaches now.
If means nothing.
You can go whereverr you want
Did you meet up with Brutus’ henchman at DY club earlier? How did it go? Enquiring minds want to know.
Bloodfeud!!!!
Waited for 30 mins.
His mate didn’t front.
His mate probly thinks he’s a nutcase
Went surfin
haha , it’s not a mate , it’s community …and no travel at the moment..Manly’s full of covid and racism , but we know Bex doesn’t really surf , but he did find me in 5 mins….Bex it looks like I will have to be in Sydney late Jan….lets keep it up till then…and just a question…why Dee why?
Cant wait ya fat white cunt
Dee Why boy , or manly boy , now you vilify fat people ……..and call me a white cunt….is that a compliment that I have now been sanctioned by you as white or were you just plagarising Valiant Scorn…….so what do you have against fat/obese people?
ah not henchmen ,just really pissed off blackfellas who don’t like racists and for the enquiring minds I don’t think Bex lives by the beach , as there is a lockdown so howcan you travel around freely ….FFS why would you go to an infected area…he is full of unsubstantiated shit , he is an empty vassal!
He said he waited there for 30 minutes and nobody showed. The plot thickens…
Who is telling the truth?
Or does it lie somewhere in the middle?
More as the story develops!
Those 50 moments bits were probably the best content the WSL has produced. They were bound to get something right eventually
star rating please, and while you are at it can you rate the fan cam? my initial thoughts were it was dog shit but if everyone else thinks it was cool then so do I.
Your initial thoughts were spot on.
The fan cam needs more discussion. Am still waiting for Chas’ fan cam submission.
he is doing a cake.
Fanny Cam?
(Fanny in UK parlance as a semi-polite version of ‘Cunt’)
50 moments = 4 stars
Fan cam = -4 stars
I don’t even know how to tell you this, but they were the work of the ex Surfing mag super alumni team: Travis Ferre, Nate Myers, Evan, and me.
Sorta hoping the idea of drawing on actual events in surfing for the background stuff catches on for Elo and co.
oh yeah and ps fuck off you cunts!
I knew it! Was too good to be from the WSL. Nice work
talk ya self up nick. They were shit.
reckon if tom wasn’t your bro, you’d be one of those dudes with a lil amplifier hawking shit out the front of a fair dinkum bargains on george st.?
yeah that’s extremely likely, you pathetic fucken weasel kook
heh. nice.
Did you want Nick to play with you?
midget tossing?
put ya dukes away, maurice. take care of bexy first.
I thought he could join you and your lil amplifier , hawking shit out the front of a fair dinkum bargain on george st……..bexy is just a minor in the world of men!
your marketing and advertising whore mate, nick has the amp, brosef. he’ll hawk any shit for a free sample. lowest cunt in the industry.