"I'm a bit of an idiot..."
Now, to be quite fair, I don’t know if Wurtulla Beach, just south of Julian Wilson’s Coolum, is actually famed. Surf-Forecast.com describes it as “an exposed beach break that has fairly consistent surf” that offers lefts and rights and also shares that it can get crowded, which means it is at least well-known. It almost became better known as the site of a World War II bombing 81 years after the Japanese formally surrendered.
So there Sean Mackney and a lady friend were waltzing, just before midnight, when she discovered something odd sticking out of the base of a sand dune.
“She yelled out to me and she thought that she’d found a bomb and I was like, ‘What?'” Mackney shared with Australia’s Broadcasting Corporation.
Being Australian, and a man, he marched over and picked the thing up.
“I’m a bit of an idiot … I was shitting myself,” he continued, adding, “I didn’t really know what to do … we called the police and they were down there pretty quick. I’m surprised nobody else had seen it and [wonder] how long it was exposed.”
The police, ever fast, raced down and confirmed the thing was “a 25-pound High Explosive projectile (25 Pounder) from World War II.”
The Defense Bomb Squad was called in and blew it up, right there on the sand, at 4 am, waking the neighbors.
Local Rhiannon McPherson, who lives nearby, declared, “I thought maybe a bad car accident or something … it sounded like something really big had dropped onto cement.”
Two questions for you:
What is the most dangerous thing you have ever found on the beach?
What is the biggest thing you have dropped onto cement?
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The BLOCKFEST is on – whew, just in time, these Australians are very obnoxious!
Excuse me as I block every cunt on here for lulz.
…….
Gonna take them awhile to get that function working correctly.
Most dangerous thing I’ve ever picked up on the beach was this hot little Italian chick when I was over in the SW of France. She was a full psycho but the hellest root.
Only knew her for about two weeks and on me last last night we are sat in this little bar/restaraunt and I’ve told her its me last night and I’m flying home to Straya the next day. She’s proper lost it and starts blowing up at me, then stands up, throws her drink in me face and storms out.
I’m left there with white wine dripping down me, with all the cunts in there staring at me thinking did she really think I was gunna move to Italy with her? She had the most cracking set of the most perfect brown boobs though that I still often think of all these years later
Italian girls are best in my opinion… no lube …just spit and take it in the arse ! How goods that !!
“I’m on the paint but you can put it in me dumpa”
Hahahahahahaha
Poetry.
Back in my grom days my mate lived on the 5th floor in an apartment building on the beach where we used to throw 2litres coke bottles filled with water out the window near people walking past and watch from behind tinted windows as they shat themselves.
Fuck, that was fun!
A surfboard leading to existential angst à la Hip
And a used toilet
Most Dangerous thing on a beach is myself… after I stubbed a TOE on a rock…
Biggest thing I dropped onto cement? My Login. I am going back to lurking, you bunch of fucking SAD CUNTS
OHH they changed the FONT, ad the layout… Do your words still not STAND?
All you cunts are too fucking serious and are “Anti-Australiamentic” fools
This is our land now.
We got promised it on the back of a MILO TIN decades ago
CUNTS
See you when moral improves.
It’s “morale”, you illiterate convict.
And Americans have Nesquik – they don’t know what “Milo” is –
“Aside from the International section of specific grocery stores and certain Asian grocery stores, Nestlé does not market Milo in the United States. In 2017 Colombian-manufactured Milo started appearing on shelves in supermarkets in the United States such as Walmart“
I spelt it that way on purpose, ya fa fuckn brown owl muncher
Maybe this helps AI lover
Moral vs Morale
Are you Edwin Morales?
A black bear. 2012 @ Noneyabiz Beach.
https://www.instagram.com/reel/DeDV24qPGCs/?stkn=MWltMHY4ZTZoNnU0OA==
Still not saying about I said?!!!
In small-kine little-kid days we lived in Okinawa – there was war debris everywhere, just lying around as it was only twenty-something years since the end of the ferocious fighting for the island and there had never been an organised cleanup.
No doubt there were (and still are) unexploded ordnance on Okinawa. We collected brass .50 caliber machine gun shells by the thousands, they had no value for trading other than an add-on.
Ammo boxes, rusty bayonets and dog tags had value, but human body parts were the most valuable – femurs and shinbones were common to find in the dirt and jawbones were the best and had the highest trading value, especially with teeth.
If the teeth were good, the jawbone was likely from a dead American Marine – Japanese jawbones had bad teeth.
Rather macabre hobby for little kids, but everyone in our neighbourhood near Kadena had a big collection.
Ayyye g’day me old mate John Semen Cunt! Finally a use for the old platform. Bless.
Xox
Farken hell diary entries from the crypt. What have I done to deserve this.
He’s obviously pissed off that he can’t block any cunt so he’s decided to double down and bore the fuck out of everyone.
A true semen cunt.
When blocking is (finally) activated, you can be the first to be BLOCKED
Hey!! Are you forgetting something here !!
If you insist, I can block you too. I don’t want you to feel excluded –
I’m no.1 . cunt .
BLOCK number 2 – see youse later
I enjoyed not being able to read your comments. That day can’t come soon enough.
cheers Joanie – have an upvote, the only one you’ll ever get from me.
well look at that – I’m a good cunt. Hahahahahr
My book is doing very well, thanks – SOLD OUT on Amazon Australia, all the stock copies were purchased.
Went to the Singapore National Library yesterday and whooooppp – there it is, on the shelves!
Looking forward to your book, when do you plan on learning how to read and write coherently so you can make a book or is that a cognitive impossibility?
Sorta looks like ” sexplore ” John… I won’t elaborate.
DEZ – bring back the block !
You got my upvote to bring back the BLOCK, shitcunt – enjoy it, it’s the only one you will ever get.
See, I’m a fair-dinkum, good Aussie bloke who takes off behind the peak and looks after his mates –
Here’s another view of THE BOOK, on the shelves at the Singapore National Library – not a complimentary copy either, they bought *5* copies!
Does this view work better for you?
Still looks like ” sexplore ” to me. Maybe it’s just me John….
Its on the shelves because no cunt wants to read it.
The BLOCK is BACK – see ya, and yes, you are the First! Be proud and stand tall, ya wanker.
Cheers bro
I kinda like em.
Glad he decided to stop complaining about unauthorized memoirs and joined in with one of his own.
Prerty sure he has a bunch of em that are way more macabre than this one.
I found a WW2 hand grenade.
Back in primary school ( about 12 years old) , we were playing school cricket at a local oval. The ball went over a neighbour’s fence and I jumped over to grab it. I found a hand grenade laying in the long grass of the unkempt yard and brought it back to the field wth me. On the way back to school, myself and the other kids were checking it out. None of us were exactly respectful of the item but I recall one particularly dumb kid trying to pull the pin but it was rusted shut.
When I got home I showed my mum. She shit herself and called the cops. They arrived and gave it to the army who blew it up. It was in the local paper.
Decades later i told this story to my wife whom I didn’t know at the time of the event. She told me she’d heard the story already from her cousin who was the bomb disposal expert in the army charged with destroying the hand grenade back in the day. He went on to be a contracted bomb disposal tech in Iraq where he was later killed on the job of disposing another explosive device.
Bombs are bad…..Mmmmmkkk.
In other news: Water Is coldest it’s been all year around here. Green and high salinity. Four shark incidents in the last six days amongst a group of about 30 local surfers. Feet up, ladies and gents!
Edited version >
Found a grenade…didn’t go off. The chick did.
Sharks are cunts !
The despicable Blowin’ is BLOCKED –
Get over yaself cunt. Fuck me
The most dangerous thing you will find on the beach is Strayan Cunt post surf vigorously typing on his motorola flip phone trying to max out allowable comments per article.
I thought you might say he does something else vigorously so I’m pleased that isn’t the case.
One hand strokes the other etc..
Ahhh Bond my days of tapping a comment my phone are long gone on here me dear mate. Laptop works perfect but every time I try and sign in on me phone it just sends me to a completely blank white screen where nothing happens. The soft cock comment police on here are delighted cuz it cuts out on me being able to post anything unless I’m at home. Suits me fine but the live chats will drive me mental hahaha
Two possibilities for dangerous things on the beach:
Item two seems like a typical BG poster.
A Wavestorm with a surfer attached to it
What is the most dangerous thing you have ever found on the beach?
An x girlfriend What is the biggest thing you have dropped onto cement?
An x girlfriend.
Reminds me of my favorite Australian movie… The Square.
Wow just read the wiki on it. Never heard of it til now. Thanks man I’ll have a look!
I had meant to watch it when I saw an interview with the actor who can imitate an ape. A unique talent, and he’s gotten a lot of roles in huge movies as a result.
thanks for the reminder. Added to the list. Not sure if I knew that it won the Palm d’Ore.
Blue is the Warmest Color and Pulp Fiction are my two favourite winners of that prize.
That is actually a different Square. That movie is very very good as well though. I am talking about this one-
The Square (2008)
Never heard of it before. Will check it out. Cheers.
In 9th grade we spent a lot of time inside the boarded up condemned powerhouse in Del Mar. Had been flat for a while, so a little crew of us decided to burn a board inside the powerhouse as an offering to the wave gods.
Once board was ablaze with charcoal fluid we commenced to leaping around like savages incanting wishes for large clean surf. A fringe member of the tribe Dirk, most punk rock of the bunch, landed a leap right on a broken Heineken bottle and a wide fin of green glass emerged from the top of his foot. He was standing there howling in the orange firelight, toxic yellowish smoke billowing like a sulfurous hellscape, 8-in green mohawk on his head mimicking the green glass Mohawk splitting his foot lengthwise.
The next day the surf came, big and clean, and lasted almost a week.
Great story! Makes me wonder if the waves were big after I stepped on a piece if trim with a 12 penny nail it that poked out of the top of my boot
Jordy recently referred to Dylan Greaves as “that guy who chases around strange waves”. He didn’t know that the interviewer, Sterling Spencer, and Dylan go way back to the very beginning.
Finally made it back after a long hard ride down what is left of the road they are rebuilding. Once it is done change is going to come hard and fast, but for now it is still the savage piece of paradise I call home. I’ll leave you all with a stock photo of the surf, cause that is what it looks like most of the year anyway.
Hope you all get your chance to strike it out on your own golden road sooner tgan later.
It’s out there waiting for you.
Wave looks fun. Glad that you found one of those.
When I was around 3 years old my parents were remodeling our house and I ran over a bunch of freshly poured foundation slabs. I think they were able to quickly smooth it out.
Dangerous stuff washes ashore in California all the time. Some dumbass in Ventura area picked up a spent canister of phosphorous that burns at 5000 degrees that the US navy uses as a marker and brought it to his house.
trod on a syringe at north steyne back in the day. got stuck in my toe, had to pull it out. went to the docs office in my wetsuit.