Superthread LXXIV: Remembering Dead Musicians Who You Now Pretend to Like

[Misanthrope]

http://www.theguardian.com/world/20...e-years-in-indonesian-jail-for-visa-violation

You would be amazed at how little long term thinking ranges into the Indonesian government mindset. For super fun pissing off of foreigners, read about how a court took the testimony of a shaman over one of the worlds top path labs in the Jakarta International School case.

It sounds like a big group though, so are they five starring you? If so, no problems are likely.

Edit - I do love the place, but it is always a matter of keeping your wits about you. Just because the government is doing something means nothing. This is a tourism ministry that has to date been unable to sell Belitung (look it up) to a global audience. And when you add in rough seas, it pays to be doubly careful. Not that they would, but run for the hills if they put you on Lion Air, because the pilots have managed to run over a cow landing a plane.

Sounds like it'll be an experience. I've had a friend get shipwrecked there when her boat sank, but that was her own fault for booking with a dodgy operator.

From the looks of it we're getting the five star treatment, but we'll see. Most of these fam trips make a huge effort to gloss over the ugly and paint a place rosy, but I've done a few less than stellar ones.

Spending a night in Rwanda and having a rat fall out of the roof and onto my bed wasn't quite what I was expecting, and the Chinese definition of 'five star' is wildly varied from city to city.

 

[muzby]

No heroes have ever lived in Ipswich son

what about SuperHanson?

 

[t-ba]

Sounds like it'll be an experience. I've had a friend get shipwrecked there when her boat sank, but that was her own fault for booking with a dodgy operator.

From the looks of it we're getting the five star treatment, but we'll see. Most of these fam trips make a huge effort to gloss over the ugly and paint a place rosy, but I've done a few less than stellar ones.

Spending a night in Rwanda and having a rat fall out of the roof and onto my bed wasn't quite what I was expecting, and the Chinese definition of 'five star' is wildly varied from city to city.

Five star in Bali, Lombok and Java is superb. Ymmv outside of it.

It is an amazing place.

 

[sensesmaybenumbed]

what about SuperHanson?

Please explain?

 

[muzby]

Please explain?

money can be exchanged for goods and services.

 

[Chicken_Hunter]

Ipswich is the place to be tbh.

 

[madunit]

No.

 

[Chicken_Hunter]

No.

Massive growth area, new hospital, university, a shopping centre to rival queenslands biggest, family friendly lagoons that rival southbank parklands and all within half an hour of Brisbane city. There really is everything going for Ipswich and nothing going against it.

 

[sensesmaybenumbed]

money can be exchanged for goods and services.

Or many peanuts.

 

[Twizzle]

Massive growth area, new hospital, university, a shopping centre to rival queenslands biggest, family friendly lagoons that rival southbank parklands and all within half an hour of Brisbane city. There really is everything going for Ipswich and nothing going against it.

No surf in Ipswich, unless we get a really super king tide

 

[Bazal]

Global warming will take care of that mate, beach front real estate in ten years time

 

[Chicken_Hunter]

No surf in Ipswich, unless we get a really super king tide

We?

 

[madunit]

Massive growth area, new hospital, university, a shopping centre to rival queenslands biggest, family friendly lagoons that rival southbank parklands and all within half an hour of Brisbane city. There really is everything going for Ipswich and nothing going against it.

Two massives against it
1. It's still Ipswich
2. It's near Brisbane

You can take a homeless bum and put him in an armani suit, but he's still a filthy homeless bum.

 

[madunit]

Global warming will take care of that mate, beach front real estate in ten years time

We'll need filters on the coastline to get all the Gold Coast plastic, oil and shit out of the water.

 

[Bazal]

We'll need filters on the coastline to get all the Gold Coast plastic, oil and shit out of the water.

Oh yeah, I forgot about all drowned bimbos

 

[Twizzle]

We?

well yeh, if it hits Brisbane Tweed will cop it as well

 

[Twizzle]

Oh yeah, I forgot about all drowned bimbos

can't get in the water for all the schoolies atm

 

[Bazal]

Need a shark scare?

 

[t-ba]

International departures at Sydney Airportwas rotten with Schoolies on Monday. Took me a while to figure out until I ran in to a cousin of mine already sheathed in his bintang singlet. The shame.

Forgot how shit Chinese internet is.

 

[Twizzle]

Need a shark scare?

Gold Coast beaches have shark nets

Ballina and Byron however dont and lots of schoolies at Byron