Townsville, Australia. Worst. Town. EVER!

[Dis]

Originally posted by Lonestar
Just Symbols, Diss, just symbols.

In any event, I live in a small room with 80 other men.

ha! that's nothing. Our berthing space had over 200 racks and 200 men.

It housed all of reactor department (not all- 1st classes had a seperate berthing for each division, and of course CPO's got their own). Reactor department consisted of RL division (mine), RM division, RO divison, and RE division. And even more, of the 5 females who were stationed on our ship, one had to pass through our berthing to get to one of her divisions offices. Our ship wasn't designed for women, and had not been retrofitted.

Kind of funny when you think of it. Over 5000 men and 5 women. hmmm

[Lonestar]

The odds are a bit better on the Hizzile. (400 men, 6 women). But at least you didn't have to live with Deck.

[Dis]

even worse our women were all officers except for 1. And the 1 enlisted was fat. I bet she still got plenty of action though. The sad fact it even though she was ugly, most of us would have no shot at her.

[Lonestar]

All the wimmim are officers.

And the CIC officer teases by talking about wrestling matches they have in their state rooms.

Whether or not there's a hidden meaning to that is a mystery.

[DaShi]

I wouldn't worry. The Powerpuff Girls will take care of everything.

[Lonestar]

Met "Perpetually drunk Aussie Fishermen" guy today.

[Lonestar]

My opinion of Australia has done a complete turnaround. Perhaps it was the fine food. Perhaps it was the fine booze.

But I'm thinking it was more along the lines of the attractive Cook University student giving me her email and asking me to show her around SoCal when she goes to USC in the Fall....

[Case]

I was up in Townsville for work a couple of weeks ago, and didn't think that it was too awful. While I was only there for 23 hours the locals were very friendly and, by and large, sober. I've certainly been to less attractive Australian provincial cities (it beats Darwin for example).

The only suggestions that I was in a less-than-perfect city were:
*The shirtless drunk white guy with a mullet hairdo who walked out of the regional office of my Department as I was walking in at 8:30 in the morning (aparently the housing commision is across the corridor and drunk hillbillies often take a wrong turn).

* The near total lack of nightlife on a thursday night.

* The appalling noisy air conditioner in my otherwise very nice hotel (a curious ommision in a hotel in the tropics which seems to mainly cater to public servants from southern Australia).

* The sad fact that the dodgy restaurant/cafe in my hotel was generally considered by the locals to be the best restaurant and cafe in the neighbourhood.

[Skanky Burns]

It beats Darwin? Thats like saying "It beats being shot in the head"...

[Dracon II]

Can't say I've been to Townsville... but I have enough problems with rednecks in Brisbane so maybe I shouldn't go there...

If you get the chance visit North Eastern NSW... visit Byron Bay, Bangalow, the Channon Markets, and score some nice weed at Nimbin .... *sigh* I miss home...

Are you dropping anchor in Brisbane?

[Odin]

Originally posted by Spiffor
BTW, could someone explain me all these American categories?

What exactly is white trash

Me and Space05us.

[Dinner]

Re: Townsville, Australia. Worst. Town. EVER!

Originally posted by Lonestar
5) The Ugliest Hookers of them all (I was informed Australia had beautiful women...I appear to have been mislead).!

That's because you arrived on an aircraft carrier man! The other guys already took all the good looking hookers so only the ugly ones were left.

You have to be the first off the ship or you get the grandmas.

[Tuberski]

Originally posted by Lonestar
Met "Perpetually drunk Aussie Fishermen" guy today.

HEY! I MET THAT GUY!!!!

Did he say, over and over, "You're American? I don't like Yanks, but I love 'em."?

ACK!

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Originally posted by molly bloom
In any case Lonestar, don't knock Townsville until you've been to Taft, California. I was served in a diner by what appeared to be the three witches from a Chernobyl sponsored production of Macbeth there. And the whole place appeared to close at 15.00 hrs.

That's because Taft is just a crappy farm town at the southern most part of the San Joaquin Valley so there isn't anything there but illegal aliens and a few old farmers. As boring as Taft is there are much worse places in this state. I'm thinking of Gormin, CA and not the Gormin off of the 5 freeway as that Gormin has five gas stations and two fast food joints so it is a world of improvement over the Gormin which I am speaking about. No, the Gormin I'm speaking about is deep in the desert on the far side of Fort Irwin and the whole town is literally a **** hole. This Gormin was originally a 19th century train stop town which never got connected to the freeway system and so spent the next century decaying, festering, and filling with some of the most mentally ill, ****ed up looking, inbreed pieces of poor white trash you can imagine. The place is so bad the illegal aliens don't even bother going there.

In the 1960's the county tried to build employment by putting a sewage processing plant for Fort Irwin there and to this day that is the only employer in town. There is one gas station in town but it was out of gas when we went there and there is one bar which has a half dozen elderly men in it all of whom are missing most of their teeth and who stink like ****! The rest of the town consisted of old boarded up homes which looked like they were builtin 1900 and then never painted again. Truly it was the worst hole I've ever been in and remember that I've been to numerous 3rd world countries and two war zones.

[Dinner]

Originally posted by Dissident
in Norfolk we always had a guy fly on board. I can't remember his title. a port something.

Harbor Pilot.

Kind of funny when you think of it. Over 5000 men and 5 women.

People used to joke that at the beginning of deployments the fairy god mother would came by and turn all the ugly chicks pretty then at the end of the deployment the ugly fairy would come and change them back.