Wog dads - you gotta love them!

Syndrome · 27-01-2020, 04:55 PM

I was working with my father this morning. There were a few plastic bottles in the rain gutter some tenants kids threw on the roof. As we did not bring a ladder and the property is only one storey, I improvised by using one of the rubbish bins. Positioned it and ensured that it was on firm ground. Climbed on top of the bin and removed the rubbish. Then as I was coming down, the bin rotated on the wheels and I went down like a bag of spuds. As I lay groaning on the ground my father says to me "at least you didn't break the window".

WTF! Seriously? Where is the "are you OK son"?

Anybody else have similar experiences?

roKWiz · 27-01-2020, 04:58 PM

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Originally Posted by Syndrome

"at least you didn't break the window".

Glad the bins Ok too.

Craig@AUDI · 28-01-2020, 03:26 PM

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Glad the bins Ok too.

Or squashed his tomatoes and cucumbers...

raceteam · 27-01-2020, 05:39 PM

So is the gutter all clean then?

.:4:. · 27-01-2020, 05:51 PM

Back when your dad was your age the bins were twice as high and the gutters were twice as high......

Blue Ice · 27-01-2020, 07:18 PM

https://youtu.be/Olz8wMA8v3Y

guzzis3 · 10-02-2020, 04:53 PM

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https://youtu.be/Olz8wMA8v3Y

A Greek friend posted that on facebook today. Absolutely hilarious...

Syndrome · 10-02-2020, 05:33 PM

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A Greek friend posted that on facebook today. Absolutely hilarious...

My father has the vegie garden. And he does the farking annoying thing of banging on windows to make you jump out of your skin.

CoupeKing · 27-01-2020, 09:49 PM

Retire the bin. Fill it with grapes and jump in and stomp them.

jaydee · 28-01-2020, 01:57 PM

Hospital emergencies are filled with people standing on bins, get a ladder.

Syndrome · 09-03-2020, 02:56 PM

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Hospital emergencies are filled with people standing on bins, get a ladder.

Ditto. See post above.

kaniSS · 10-02-2020, 04:36 PM

Yep my old man is the same (I pay cash).

I fell off the garage roof when young, right onto the tomato garden and had a timber stake puncture my lower chin, he ran to picked up the damaged tomatoes.

falcon_bandit · 10-02-2020, 07:07 PM

Doesn't sound like my dad. But it does sound like me haha

Blue Ice · 10-02-2020, 07:24 PM

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=791SxeuIh2A

Syndrome · 23-02-2020, 08:59 AM

A new one. My father ended up in hospital this week and was diagnosed with atrial fibrillation. Thursday morning he looked very unwell and we measured a resting heart rate of 150 beats per minute. Apparently he was up all night struggling to breath and collapsed a few times when he tried to walk around the house. I asked him "why didn't you call 000"? To which he responded "what will the neighbours think"? WTF? You're health is more important than the local gossip! But to the wogs reputation is everything and you don't show your frailties or vulnerabilities as these as regarded as signs of weakness.

Thankfully he is still with us.

kaniSS · 24-02-2020, 12:31 PM

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A new one. My father ended up in hospital this week and was diagnosed with atrial fibrillation. Thursday morning he looked very unwell and we measured a resting heart rate of 150 beats per minute. Apparently he was up all night struggling to breath and collapsed a few times when he tried to walk around the house. I asked him "why didn't you call 000"? To which he responded "what will the neighbours think"? WTF? You're health is more important than the local gossip! But to the wogs reputation is everything and you don't show your frailties or vulnerabilities as these as regarded as signs of weakness.

Thankfully he is still with us.

Classic wog dad, you got lucky there.

Mine won't see a Dr until he is on his death bed.

We got lucky when the blood test method for checking the prostate came in effect. He was willing to die rather than having a Dr's finger up there.

Pis-ton broke · 23-02-2020, 11:35 AM

superwogs dad
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=6gHPVXOZwjY

MethodX · 06-03-2020, 09:53 PM

Wog dads love to yell....... you would think they were related to pavarotti

**FTE217** · 06-03-2020, 10:28 PM

I love wog Dads, mines one, I lol at the political correctness today/bullying/bit of a solid back hander or 3 now and then etcetc.....
School was easy, home was where I copped it the most lol.......
When I got in the $hit I knew he was coming for me, I'd bolt out of the house up the driveway like a rabbit and he tried to keep up with me and all I heard was, I'll kill you ! in italian giving up the run and his leather sandels going past my head lol......
So many times through my young to teen years.
God love him.

MITCHAY · 07-03-2020, 12:41 AM

My best friend growing up was from Spanish background and his dad was a top bloke. Always felt at home there.

My grandparents came here from Hungary on mum's side. My mum and her sister lived in a shed until our pop built a double brick house in Queanbeyan.

So I will always have that part of me but I think I'm more bogan. I don't really know my dad's history but it would be definitely one of the home nations.

**Fordman1** · 07-03-2020, 08:29 AM

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Originally Posted by Syndrome

I was working with my father this morning. There were a few plastic bottles in the rain gutter some tenants kids threw on the roof. As we did not bring a ladder and the property is only one storey, I improvised by using one of the rubbish bins. Positioned it and ensured that it was on firm ground. Climbed on top of the bin and removed the rubbish. Then as I was coming down, the bin rotated on the wheels and I went down like a bag of spuds. As I lay groaning on the ground my father says to me "at least you didn't break the window".

WTF! Seriously? Where is the "are you OK son"?

Anybody else have similar experiences?

Next time don’t be stupid.

Always use a ladder.

There are many crippled and dead people that didn’t.

mick taylor · 07-03-2020, 01:17 PM

The first day that I met a mates Italian dad, he came to me and said what do you think you do ea ! I was like what ! ? I said that I was a Tiler and he said to me, I was a Tile for X many years beat that !

Good bloke he was and I remember that he would say many a time was, all you young boys will make good soldiers for the Socialist and talk about the Locust.

Syndrome · 09-03-2020, 02:55 PM

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Next time don’t be stupid.

Always use a ladder.

There are many crippled and dead people that didn’t.

You are looking for the "I wish I didn't do that" thread as you clearly missed the point.

Yellow_Festiva · 07-03-2020, 06:05 PM

Geeze... where do I start.....

"3rd gear in the automatico is for the freeway only, if you get to 3rd you are driving too fast".

"Jason, find me a goats for the backyard to eating the grass down. What? They want $170, they used to be $30".

"Hello Mr Jason's dad says the NRMA person (after attending due to flat battery) - your car battery is 14 years old!" He replies "Very good, it cost me $59, sell me anothawon the exactly same as my old one".

"Dad, your rear tyres are almost bald". His reply "Whadayatalkingabout - they still have rubber! Will new ones make the car go faster?"

"What the bloodyhell you doing!! Minkya, you were meant to give away to the right at the round a bowt".

The fuzz pull my dad over "Hello mr Jason's dad, it appears your tow ball is covering your number plate, I will need to give you a warning". He smartly replies "Whats wrong with you - I been driving like that 20 ears... no pr1k eva stopped me before.. how old you are anyway"?

Police officer proceeds to write up a ticked for several hundred dollars for bald tyres, frayed seat belt, blown headlight, obstructed plate....

Dad arranged to buy a ride on lawn mower from a place that opens at 7:30am. Apparently told the shop owner to "Come early because I gottooa taken the kids to school afta".
We get there 6:30am... wait in the car till 7:25 when the guy shows up. Dad blows his stack that he didn't come early - guy replies - yes I did, 5 min early! Of course, do you think dad ever bloody specified a time frame as to what early is?

25 years ago he pulled my old pair of Colorado boots out of the bin. Still wears them to this day in the garden...

Dad was cutting up some steel with the grinder - (guard removed of course). Slices his finger to the bone - blood going everywhere. "Hey Jason, get me a tissue and a bandaid, and don't tel your blo0dymudda".

God more will come to me....

.:4:. · 07-03-2020, 06:24 PM

My grandpa (not a wog) had similar traits i remember when i was a young kid. He died 20 years ago. He was red green colourblind so a salad made from things from his garden often consisted of green tomatoes. He would get up us grandkids for not eating his tomatoes. Because red arrows at traffic lights werent a thing when he learnt to drive, he refused to acknowledge them. My dad, as a child, found out a day after his pet chicken went missing, the night before his family invited guests over for a roast chicken dinner, turns out my grandpa accidentally reversed over the chicken in the kingswood. Although the best story is one my aunty tells. I know the laws are different these days, but in the 80s you could drink whilst driving provided you didnt get drunk whilst driving. My grandpa was driving, my brother who was 4 at the time sitting in the middle (bench seated kingswood) and my aunty in the passengers seat. Grandpa cracks a beer and my aunty gets up him. True form, my grandpa looks to my brother and says 'hold this for me'.

zilo · 15-05-2020, 09:19 PM

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My grandpa (not a wog) had similar traits'.

Oh?...you're part Aboriginal like me?

Which tribe you from brudda?

.:4:. · 15-05-2020, 09:42 PM

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Oh?...you're part Aboriginal like me?

Which tribe you from brudda?

Nah, im mostly convict. But my my grandpa was extremely resistant to change.

zilo · 15-05-2020, 09:48 PM

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Nah, im mostly convict. But my my grandpa was extremely resistant to change.

So you pommie wog or mick wog?

guzzis3 · 16-05-2020, 11:39 AM

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Oh?...you're part Aboriginal like me?

Which tribe you from brudda?

How much aborigional, and how many of your ancestors were born overseas ?

If you go back 6 generations you have 126 ancestors. Almost all of mine were born in Australia. I guess because none of them were "aborigional" (which really means an earlier wave of invaders) I'm not a "real" Australian.

Just another immigrant eh ?

roddy1960 · 17-05-2020, 08:00 AM

My crowd are mostly Celtic on Dad's side. I found records back to 1797 for relatives from Ireland about 20 years ago but didn't follow up on it. Dear old Shirley a second cousin now no longer with us also traced Scottish heritage back to the early 1700's once until the records got really hard to confirm . On Mum's side it's Irish with a little bit of English and French . My Great Grandmother was an immigrant from France and Mum recalled as a very young girl she used to have a sip even at Mass of spirit hidden in the hem of her long skirt pretty often .

As far as convict history , that'll be something to look into one day but I expect if no direct link somewhere there will be a marriage link in the spider web of most families..
As far as I know my only indigenous relative was my Auntie Agnes who was born on Cape Barren Island which hosts a fair degree of ethnicity to the First Australians and Agnes's family date back a fair way there . Of course not a blood relative as she married my Dad' older brother , Colin .

Off topic a tiny bit but Dad's younger sister Jean married Leon and one of their six kids, cousin Dianne , married and her eldest son was until fairly recently the Carlton Head Coach in the AFL . I knew Brendan Bolton when he was a little bloke but haven't seen him for a long time . What was he thinking coaching Carlton!!!