World's sweetest surf family to sell redundant Sydney beach house…
As noted previously, it’s a very easy thing to fall under the spell of Sabre Norris and her family, Olympian Daddy Justin, wife Brooke, kids Socki, Biggy, Naz, Disco and Charm aka the Norris Nuts.
First time I met ’em ten years ago, they were living in an industrial estate called Thornton, thirty minutes drive inland from Newcastle, which is hardly New York City let’s face it.
Their dad, the Olympian swimmer Justin Norris who beat Michael Phelps at the 2000 games, built a swim school out there and the family lived in a two-bedroom apartment attached to the rear of the compound.
The apartment was attached to the swim academy is small, maybe fifty square metres. Two bedrooms.
In the main, a mattress hit three of the four walls. In the kid’s room, it was bumper to bumper. Nazzie against one wall, Sabre the other, Biggie and Sockie in the middle. When Sabre got scared at night and she worried that someone was gonna come in and kidnap ’em, she wrapped her arms around her sister to keep her safe.
The main room was an open-plan kitchen and living room. There was one lounge chair, in red velvet, rings hanging from the roof that Justin used to train with, half-a-dozen guitars (the kids busk in Newcastle to raise cash) and the world’s tiniest Christmas tree.
Fast forward five or so years and after a wild run on social, 4.6 mill Instagram followers between ‘em and 6.69 mill YouTube subscribers and deals with Nintendo, Mattel, Disney, Lego, Hasbro, Woolworths and the Cartoon Network that nets ‘em ten gees a day, Christmas started looking a lil more glitzy.
You might remember in 2022 when the Norris’ bought a six-bedroom fifteen-mill house one street back from Bondi Beach and with views over a pretty lawned park and into the blue Pacific.
Earlier that year, the Norris’ had scooped up a block of six apartments nearby for $10.5.
The original plan had been to move from Newy to the Gold Coast and the fam bought up two waterfront blocks with a hundred feet of riverfront frontage for $11.5 mill with plans to build a wild modernist joint complete with “a bright red winding interal slide, floating wine cellar display, and massive pool with sunken sun loungers and marked swim lanes.”
Now, the Norris Nuts have put one of their two side-by-side North Bondi houses on the market, and according to the Australian Financial Review they’d sure be happy if it hit eighteen mill.
The house going is the one next door to the family home: five bedrooms, four bathrooms, double garage, on a 348-square-metre block. Per the AFR, the fam picked it up in 2023 for $14.3 mill.
The big dream was to bowl both houses and throw up one giant Norris compound across a site worth close to thirty mill.
That dream shifted a little.
The kids grew up. A few are living in the US, others have flown the nest, and a compound for eight don’t make sense when half the bedrooms are empty.
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Crayfish Popsicle where are you? Not on here or on the clubhouse chat which is unlike ya so just checking you’re all good brother?
Did he win a mossad pager watch ? Maybe he got mine.
I’m assuming because our former moderator Negatron was so disgusted by some of the comments about Keala Kennedy that time he was embarrassed to be a straight, white man that after these latest allegations about a surfer on his beloved WSL tour he has now paid the money for the op and transitioned into being a large dark skinned lesbian who goes by the name of Crystal?
Know idea what all the local sheep are making of it
Slow news day gents. Surely another article on the 4 alleged pedo rapists would get more clicks and fire us up.
Does anyone else get this when they try to unsubscribe?
You can check out any time you like, but you can never leave.
Good to see ya mate I thought you might have left me. Sorry I mean us!!
I just needed a short break from the latest news.
Don’t blame ya at all, been pretty sad reading all the vile shit coming out about this ay and a very bad few years for the WSL and the wall of positive noise.
First we had ELOgate, then the Cole sucking off the Tates thing and now this completely fucked up event. No idea where they go from here? Fuck me they’ve got that what 15 year old French girl who is only a year younger than that poor girl who allegedly got gang raped just around the corner of the event site on Finals Day.
Fucking sad state of affairs
You beat me to the punch!
Wouldn’t surprise me, mate.
The fucked up Hotel California of social media. Good luck trying to contact an actual human with any problems.
Yep
I’d never wanted notifications before
For good reason
Now I’m having to look at email to stop clogging it
And I NEVER look at emails haha
Ha! I fucken did it! Logged on to old discuz hit unsubscribe. Unchecked the box saying email notifications. . Funny thing is beef all those old upvotes are still there. GAF anyway.
Some Sheila has really done a number on this fart blossom fella at some point ay, sounds like a proper twisted and angry cunt judging by his comments over this Al Cleland incident
That sort of money for a small bit of dirt and and a couple of houses in a pretty average-looking suburban beach-adjacent area full of similar plain places, that Mick Fanning or the trendy knob-end who made the (average but cheaply built and expensively sold to fashionable people who dont know much) boards with the black rails, and his advertising mother and wife would like, is just bloody obscenely stupid.
Heck, with that much money to spend why the fuck would ya want ya neighbours so close…
Keys in a bowl parties?
There’s three reasons:
1/ Tax-free store of wealth
2/ You’re Jewish.
3/ You never read about The Sneeches when you were a kid.
THE SNEETCHES , by Dr. Suess
Now the Star-bellied Sneetches had bellies with stars.
The Plain-bellied Sneetches had none upon thars.
The stars weren’t so big; they were really quite small.
You would think such a thing wouldn’t matter at all.
But because they had stars, all the Star-bellied Sneetches
would brag, “We’re the best kind of Sneetch on the beaches.”
With their snoots in the air, they would sniff and they’d snort, ”
We’ll have nothing to do with the plain-bellied sort.”
And whenever they met some, when they were out walking,
they’d hike right on past them without even talking.
When the Star-bellied children went out to play ball,
could the Plain-bellies join in their game? Not at all!
You could only play ball if your bellies had stars,
and the Plain-bellied children had none upon thars.
When the Star-bellied Sneetches had frankfurter roasts,
or picnics or parties or marshmallow toasts,
they never invited the Plain-bellied Sneetches.
Left them out cold in the dark of the beaches.
Kept them away; never let them come near,
and that’s how they treated them year after year.
I’m glad I sold my house in the city and bought 250 acres 13 yrs ago
Closest neighour is a km away
And I never have to hear there toilet flushing haha
Would never go back
If I had more money I’d just get a bigger boat…
Gooses and ganders. Speaking of colonial capitilism, and ‘alarming combinations’, the infamous swillnut club mens shed is examining the alarming expose of a wsl surf star horrendous, sexual abuse of a teenage girl. Which comes on the back of AFL, NRL, and now Royal Australian Navy exposes of the same type of attitude towards, and blatant abuse of women. All highlighting the culture that enables, supports and perpetuates women as objects of abuse.
The old cultural standby has unconsciously been employed, raised by the swillnuts. That is, that those traits are a part of human nature. Which is absolute swillnutty bullshit. It has been comprehensively debunked. For instance, many Traditional Cultures, Balinese, Tahitian, Indigenous Australian, to name just a few, had exceptionally low levels of rape and abuse of women, despite it being normal for women to not cover, or hide their bodies. Men in those Cultures were not conditioned to ‘naturally’, totally lose control of themselves at the mere sight of a woman’s particular body part. No, that’s a western, cultural, conditioned trait, a hallmark of the ‘advanced’, ‘wild west’, ‘colonial wild boyz’. As is viewing women as useful objects to be exploited by men. That isn’t saying the other Cultures were perfect, but like can be easily demonstrated in other aspects of supposed ‘natural’ human behavior, there isn’t one.
But there’s this.
‘I have been told by Harry Bryant that my
story that features his comment is
“exploiting him”
He has asked for my sympathy and “to find some decency in my heart” to
remove my post.
THIS IS THE PROBLEM As if asking men in our community to consider how they can respond better to violence is
indecent?!’
Where have we seen this before?
‘Then the red mist came over me
It was the assumed resentment of the women that really got me.
The smug superiority of some small minded no- one cunt moll that set me off. I turned to face Loud Mouth in front of his cunting piece of shit friends and with every ounce of will ,energy and misdirected anger from every point of my life i drove my fist into that cunt’s putrid face and punched him to the sand.
I was standing over Loud Mouth’s form bellowing that he was an imposter king presiding over a weak, gay wave, raising my fist for another blow when i realised my hand was broken . Then i heard a lady screaming and i was back in my head, concious of what i’d done , aware of where i was.’
‘I looked up to see four hundred sets of eyes willing me in gaol. I walked towards the path that led to the carpark, unrepentent, as i approached my car a smiling mother said to her young son “look at that mans face honey! ” , i stared at her and tried to fathom what type of person would be so insensitive to anothers situation.Then i told her to “shut the fuck up , mole,”‘
https://www.swellnet.com/forums/wax/12736
This was heralded as a zen like, swillnut article of brilliance. Any criticism was seen as an affront to the swillnut club mens shed (wimmen fokes welcome but…) culture.
Then of course, this. Unbelievable as it is. Stalking a woman because? Again, viewed as just one of the zen like, swillnut club deep down sweet boyz… ‘expressing a welcome alternative’… fuck knows what.
‘BTW. i saw a women at the market in Dandenong the other day with a burqua or maybe it was a Niqab it was kind of in-between couldn’t see her face though, i was waiting for my missus so did a bit of people watching with her, to be honest she didn’t look oppressed like the full black robe ones I’ve seen in Indonesia that look like servants of the men, actually looked the opposite in this case she had her little middle eastern guy following her around and from the body language she looked like she was wearing the pants so to speak.
It was quite crowded and was thinking maybe i will accidentally go bump into her and say sorry etc and see if she will interact with me and see the reaction of her husband, but by that time my missus had finished.’
https://www.swellnet.com/forums/politico/307178?page=63
Again, anyone that raised alarm bells, any questioning of that, that stalking a woman, planning to assault her, and the obvious misogyny, racism and stereotyping, was viewed as an attacker, an affront to swillnut ‘culture’. Which obviously is alive and kicking. Neither post was removed, or really questioned, on the contrary, both were protected, explained away, and promoted.
I raised my concerns early on. It’s not popular. Like discussing peds in sport or gyms. All the old colonial conditioning rears up. To smash the ‘offender’. As it always has. It is simple, black and white. Western colonialism was/is outright brute force war, invasion, plain and simple. Any actions by Indigenous Peoples are simply defending themselves against brute force war and invasion. The rest is just brute force, enforced western culture mind games. Propaganda. So this ‘latest’, outburst, which it obviously isn’t, as highlighted by free/longy/tom tom in raising and showcasing the Nat Young biography, is inevitable. As is selling surfing down to the last whatever. Because, yeh, capitalism is ‘natural’ too. Advanced… or fucking else. The trump card.
So yeh, its important in the colonial wild west for the boyz to be seen as squeaky clean. The trump card. Including down at the swillnut menz shed. Who even claim morality over here, which they openly label a bottom of the barrel cesspit. The good ‘ol lookaway. Coz what else is there without it? Too horrifying and empty, too compromising to even imagine?
Thats a fucking brilliant read sir if I am reading it correctly
too big, pass…
Very famous for rescue, now terror.
The ISA runs on Olympic ideals.
French is the official Olympic language.
Tahiti is owned/run by France.
So it probably took a lot of traditional French foot-dragging, many croissants dipped in coffee, long baguette lunches etc for them to make the decision to go public.
Could also mean the Tahitian cops are about to start discussing the potential to maybe investigate the matter now it’s become so public…
What the f?????ck
I made this comment under the (sh)article about the ISA, after a longer more detailed (with photo) one got wiped from it.
Straaaange stuff going on here.
Looks like some of us are being investigated more than others are in the Society Islands…
What happened to Sabre?
What was the angle on social media?
I thought they’d faded into happy obscurity.
I investigated further.
Seems the Norris clan are still big on YouTube for….something?
The two minutes I watched had Sabre talking about how she’d gotten so pissed she’d spewed in her own hair.