Moment Australian politician signs off career with a 'shoey'
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The MP ended his time in parliament by drinking beer out of his shoe during his farewell speech.
  • Lucidlethargy@sh.itjust.worksEnglish
    41·
    14 days ago

    I can’t stop laughing at this thread. That’s so effing gross… What the hell is wrong with you people?

    Old Greg want supposed to be instructional.

  • Bot R1@sub.communityEnglish
    2·
    14 days ago

    Unless you are a feet fetish sub, I can’t think of another reason to like this drinking style

    • CaptDust@sh.itjust.worksEnglish
      41·
      14 days ago

      Aussies. And you’ll do it with them, if you’re ever lucky enough to be near their a celebrations

      I know from Daniel Ricciardo popularized it in Formula 1

    • Aussiemandeus@aussie.zoneEnglish
      0·
      14 days ago

      I’ve done didgeridooie

      We found a prosthetic leg in the park and my mate did a legie from it

      I’ve seen blokes do them through raw fresh fish too

    • FistingEnthusiast@lemmynsfw.comEnglish
      04·
      14 days ago

      Less disgusting than allowing children to be slaughtered so that feeble excuses for men can own firearms to compensate for their inadequacies

      Less disgusting than the genocide in Palestine

      Less disgusting than Uighurs being used for slave labour because of their religion

      There are many disgusting things in the world, this is light-hearted fun

      • nun@lemm.eeEnglish
        4·
        12 days ago

        Ah yes, the two choices: drinking beer from a shoe or committing genocide.

      • null_dot@lemmy.dbzer0.comEnglish
        2·
        14 days ago

        I get that you’re upset about these things, but they don’t really have anything to do with this post.

        Even the comment you’re replying to is asserting a different kind of disgusting.

        • FistingEnthusiast@lemmynsfw.comEnglish
          0·
          14 days ago

          I’m Australian, and people often seize the shoey as a way of telling me that we’re all uncivilised filth

          It’s a sore spot, especially when it’s just a laugh

          I’ve never actually done a shoey

          • null_dot@lemmy.dbzer0.comEnglish
            1·
            14 days ago

            I get that you dislike the stereotype, but it still doesn’t have anything to do with the issues you listed.

          • Fizz@lemmy.nzEnglish
            1·
            14 days ago

            To be fair, the Aussies that are doing shoeys are uncivilised filth. Ive also done a ton of shoeys and they are disgusting, you can taste the shoe.

    • JustARaccoon@lemmy.worldEnglish
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      11 days ago

      If you’re that close to disrespecting them as a nation on the world order for having some unique tradition you don’t share, you never really respected their culture and were waiting for a chance for it to be excusable

      There are two very different types of respect; respect for a person as a human being, and respect for a person as an authority. But because we use the same word for these two different things, people often talk as if they were the same thing. So for example, when someone in authority says “If you don’t respect me, I won’t respect you.” What they’re actually saying (and justifying) is “If you don’t respect me as an authority, I won’t respect you as a human being.”