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Launceston looks like a place where people live. Unlike Sydney which is a place where you are either a tourist or spending your entire life either working or travelling to and from work.
My grandfather was in the navy and sailed throughout the South Pacific and he said that Bass Strait was the most dangerous stretch of water he ever sailed in. He hated going out through the heads because he knew they'd be in for a rough time.
My partner and I fell in love with Launceston! Wonderful people, atmosphere, and food! All of Tassie is beautiful, but we would happily move there. Totally over living in Sydney. :(
@@centralcamel that stereo type is long gone. We are as much multi cultural as any modern city or town. And before you accuse me of the same my mum is south Australian. ABC is growing more and more irritating. They think they are funny.
I’m an American and the first Golly dolls I saw were in that Umbrella Shop window. I openly gasped when I saw them! You’d get your shop burned down in the US for having those. :o
I'm from New Jersey, and years ago I visited an antique shop with my friend and found similar dolls like those. I was surprised, but have a dark sense of humor so I thought it was funny at the time. Don't recommend buying them though
Launceston is like the rest of Australia just without the abundance in crime every small town on the mainland I went to I found no shortage of people sleeping rough I don't think its to bad in Launceston by that comparison
we were there for a day last year and the first thing that happened right next to us, was a few police cars screech to a halt, a group of teens are dragged out of a store and searched... apparently they were selling drugs right inside the store... not sure what the average day is like in Launceston crime wise, but that day was at the very least entertaining for a couple of tourists lol
Haha you’re so funny. Launceston is ok with lovely architecture. I live in St Helens. Beautiful town. 😂 Beautiful state. I really enjoyed seeing you at Brunswick Heads.
Especially a Draught. I live in Hobart and it tastes like horse urine. It used to be drinkable. Boags Draught was tonnes better until they changed it recently. Now it just heaps better.
Just the other day I walked past the old umbrella shop with my mum. Remembering this video, I say quite loudly to her "I really don't like this shop, I can't believe they would have those racist dolls in the front window." One thing I didn't realise was that the owner of the store was walking right past me as I said that. I recognised her, looked back, and surely enough she was walking into the shop and looking right at me. Oops.
i grew up with robertson's jam golliwogs, they were part of my childhood. now i live in tucson and have lived, worked, and been shot at by people from all over the world. golliwogs are part of my treasured childhood in a gentle land. i never correlated them with black people in my mind and never treated black people like golliwogs even though when i was a kid, "the black and white minstrel show" was still on. whether it started off right or not, people do this because it's part of their heritage that they love. teddy bears aren't meant to be bears, black people aren't *black* please try and have a broader consideration so that you won't hate people trying to remember their childhood. i seriously doubt any melanated person is going to see those in a window and feel hated unless they're part of the current generation of crazy young really crazy mental people.
good question and one i'm not sure I want to answer.Possible towns like Leigh Creek and Ceduna for being over 8 hours away from Adelaide and probably not worth the journey. I am definitely no expert when it comes to which town to joke on here in S.A. hell you could probably go the whole way and joke on Adelaide itself being a pointless capital city to visit.
MOST CITIES HAVE TRAFFIC ISSUES.THATS JUST THE WAY IT IS. LTN & HOBART ARE NOTORIOUS FOR ONE WAY STREETS. BUT I REAKON HOBART TAKES THE CAKE! THE LARGER THE CITY THE MORE LOONY THE DRIVERS. THEY DRIVE AT ONE SPEED ONLY.FLAT OUT.AND IF YOU DONT KNOW THE AREA THAT WELL..GOOD LUCK GETTING SO EONE TO LET YOU IN OR BE PATIENT.
Hahaha, that boags vs cascade thing is great. 20 years ago he would probably be lynched for doing that. I remember some northern pubs wouldn't even stock cascade just coz it was from the southern/hobart brewery.
THEN YOU NEED TO GET OUT MORE AROUND TAS AND THE MAINLAND MORE.THEN YOU WILL SEE WHAT A HOLE REALLY LOOKS LIKE. LTN HAS AN AQUATIC CENTRE, BEAUTIFUL GORGE...LOTS OF FACILITIES MOST SMALLER PLACES DONT HAVE.
I visited in 1990, enjoyed myself a lot. The museum was great. I thought it was better than Melbourne's. Is it still good? It had an excellent planetarium. If you weren't half the planet away, I'd visit again!
THEN VISIT SMITHTON..OR CRESSY...OR PORT AUGUSTA...YOU PEOPLE JUST DONT KNOW WHAT BAD REALLY IS. GET OUT MORE AND YOU MIGHT APPRECIATE WHAT YOU HAVE IN LTN.
Launceston looks like a place where people live. Unlike Sydney which is a place where you are either a tourist or spending your entire life either working or travelling to and from work.
Launceston is the best place
Lol I live in Sydney
I grew up there❤️
Sydney is great
I've lived in Launceston for most of my life.
I however didn't know we had a mayor
Among us
You are lucky
that’s very funny
Same
I feel like this man is doing for Australia what Australia is doing for Australia
TheKudos50 Que?
I have a feeling that Toowoomba is going to end up on this show
Hopefully.
Caboolture would be funny to see.
My grandfather was in the navy and sailed throughout the South Pacific and he said that Bass Strait was the most dangerous stretch of water he ever sailed in. He hated going out through the heads because he knew they'd be in for a rough time.
Bring it back Tom. These were brilliant 💎😂💎
My partner and I fell in love with Launceston! Wonderful people, atmosphere, and food! All of Tassie is beautiful, but we would happily move there. Totally over living in Sydney. :(
this guy irks me, was this meant to be a hit piece? not even the fake canned laughter makes him funny
Do you like dead wildlife on the side of the highway on the way to Hobart as well?
When i lived in Launceston my neighbors were first cousins and had three kids. True story.
yes there are many small towns all around Australia that have that problem... Tumbarumba in NSW would be one of them
Inceston
I've been to Katherine NT everyone is inbred there
Which suburb was that?
They’re not really disproving the tassie stereotype
Hahahaha I’m such a proud Launcestonian and I absolutely love this!! ❤️
Incestonian*
@@centralcamel Damn you should see Queenstown - everyone who lives there shares one pair of false teeth.
Love Launceston
@@centralcamel that stereo type is long gone. We are as much multi cultural as any modern city or town. And before you accuse me of the same my mum is south Australian. ABC is growing more and more irritating. They think they are funny.
I love my home in Launceston.
As for your upload? Brilliant ! And Mr Poke is is iconic round these parts.
I've been to Launceston and it's a wonderful place. Will definitely go there again in my travels.
Master Yoda i love there, will happily meet you one day !
Bloody beautiful
you guys need to make more of these..truly fantastic lol
More Go Aways please!
Loved it!!
Good on you Albert! Love that you have a great sense of humour. #launcestonproud
wait until the Americans see the dolls
Lol! That would be hilarious!
Yeah, so hilarious. Those old women think the dolls are still relevant.... lol
I’m an American and the first Golly dolls I saw were in that Umbrella Shop window. I openly gasped when I saw them! You’d get your shop burned down in the US for having those. :o
I'm from New Jersey, and years ago I visited an antique shop with my friend and found similar dolls like those. I was surprised, but have a dark sense of humor so I thought it was funny at the time. Don't recommend buying them though
Eh we saw them on jim Jefferies t.v show in America
Tasmania is actually the best state in Australia to live now. Still true Blue Australia.
I’m from Brisbane but I’d rather live in Launceston any day
He didn't visit Burnie then
No, Launceston was bad enough!
hahaha burnie is classic
Bur
He could have visited an even bigger shithole than Burnie or Launceston, that of course would be Smithton!
Burnie and Launnie ain't shit (when ya compare em to Devonport)
Launceston is Awesome! 👍☺️🌈
Imagine someone actually taking this video seriously.
Oh, wait....
Well most of it is true
Love Launceston ❤ 🏙️
We stayed at Launceston for 3 weeks, great atmosphere.
Please please please make a go away video of Perth, please make one it would make your awesome collection complete
Beautiful of Tasmania
Launceston is like the rest of Australia just without the abundance in crime every small town on the mainland I went to I found no shortage of people sleeping rough I don't think its to bad in Launceston by that comparison
we were there for a day last year and the first thing that happened right next to us, was a few police cars screech to a halt, a group of teens are dragged out of a store and searched... apparently they were selling drugs right inside the store... not sure what the average day is like in Launceston crime wise, but that day was at the very least entertaining for a couple of tourists lol
@@meheretoday6968 probably over a ounce of weed as well. They then publish the kids names in the paper so boomers can have a chuckle over breakfast.
Just watched the place I live in get roasted and I couldn’t agree more 😂
Love it
Haha you’re so funny. Launceston is ok with lovely architecture. I live in St Helens. Beautiful town. 😂
Beautiful state. I really enjoyed seeing you at Brunswick Heads.
Proud to be a launcestonion ... 😂😂😂😂
Zebra Warrior same
Exactly
gross
When you fully embrace your own nastiness of being from Inceston LUL
I thought it would be Launcestrian?
When are you going to do one on Port Pirie?
Drinking that Cascade outside Boag's brewery was just too far though.
Damien Miller To be honest, it didn't look like he was enjoying it very much...
I'm a Melbournian and my husband prefers Boags to Cascade. It's personal taste I think.
Just proves he doesn't know what he is talking about. Everyone in the north know they piss stronger than Cascade.
Boags is shit though.
Especially a Draught. I live in Hobart and it tastes like horse urine. It used to be drinkable. Boags Draught was tonnes better until they changed it recently. Now it just heaps better.
Gold !!!!
In 2021 in the Year of Rona, Tasmania is the place to be.
Please please please, make one of Perth, Perth is a great place to do a video on,
In seriousness I quite liked Launny. Quaint and kinda English feeling, nice architecture, the gorge is pretty cool.
As someone who lived in England I don't see or feel anything English in it. Could you elaborate?
@@bernicerogers2383 a lot of colonial buildings, the parks etc.
Yeah I live in Launceston
Our family simply say trips are going to Hobart
Just the other day I walked past the old umbrella shop with my mum. Remembering this video, I say quite loudly to her "I really don't like this shop, I can't believe they would have those racist dolls in the front window." One thing I didn't realise was that the owner of the store was walking right past me as I said that. I recognised her, looked back, and surely enough she was walking into the shop and looking right at me. Oops.
The racist dolls are gone from the shop window
Sounds like a real highlight story from someone who lives in this hole
@@Heather-hg8qh What a shame. I grew up with those dolls and loved them. Never thought they were racist until the pc police made a who har out of it!
@@catcannizzaro1679 Yep those PC people being against racist symbols. Who would have thought.
i grew up with robertson's jam golliwogs, they were part of my childhood. now i live in tucson and have lived, worked, and been shot at by people from all over the world. golliwogs are part of my treasured childhood in a gentle land. i never correlated them with black people in my mind and never treated black people like golliwogs even though when i was a kid, "the black and white minstrel show" was still on. whether it started off right or not, people do this because it's part of their heritage that they love. teddy bears aren't meant to be bears, black people aren't *black* please try and have a broader consideration so that you won't hate people trying to remember their childhood. i seriously doubt any melanated person is going to see those in a window and feel hated unless they're part of the current generation of crazy young really crazy mental people.
lol not enjoying this town is thirsty work
Come To Hobart
That sums it up aye...... Still love it :D
What a pity he didnt do a tour of Ravo...
Launceston was so awesome that I had time to do 7 subjects a semester.... crushed 3 years into 2 at uni.... So so accurate this piece lol
Callum Gillman
Ah what did u study in Launceston?
@@pebblepod30 His driver's licence.
I just love his sarcasm! 🤣
Kudos to these mayers for taking the slog to the gut LOL!
*mayors
Tom and Go Away are the only redeemable features of the weekly.
legend
out of curiosity southern launcestonians, why did they name it after a town in cornwall uk but change the pronunciation?
Proud to have been born/live in Launceston
Proud to be bogan and inbred
I'm waiting for a Town in my area of the country (South Australia) to be covered. I wonder which town they would choose?
Which town are you nominating?
good question and one i'm not sure I want to answer.Possible towns like Leigh Creek and Ceduna for being over 8 hours away from Adelaide and probably not worth the journey. I am definitely no expert when it comes to which town to joke on here in S.A. hell you could probably go the whole way and joke on Adelaide itself being a pointless capital city to visit.
Murray Bridge :-D
Port Pirie ;-)
where is the Sydney one ?, or is this a Sydney show ?
Hahahaha haven't laughed this hard in awhile.
Actually, Launceston is a superb little city, better than Hobart. It's pretty and relatively quiet but the traffic system is crappy.
MOST CITIES HAVE TRAFFIC ISSUES.THATS JUST THE WAY IT IS. LTN & HOBART ARE NOTORIOUS FOR ONE WAY STREETS. BUT I REAKON HOBART TAKES THE CAKE! THE LARGER THE CITY THE MORE LOONY THE DRIVERS. THEY DRIVE AT ONE SPEED ONLY.FLAT OUT.AND IF YOU DONT KNOW THE AREA THAT WELL..GOOD LUCK GETTING SO EONE TO LET YOU IN OR BE PATIENT.
@@studentofabrahamiamavibrat3615 launceston is worse traffic but the best city out of the 2
Really gotta do Alice Springs!
Launnie is a mixed bag, it is gradually developing but you have to be here for like 20 years before they regard you as a 'local'
Lonnie is good
Why no Hobart? 😭
110 people are definitely Launcestoners!
I walked on that bridge in the beginning of the video
Do Gosford nsw cbd
Hahaha, that boags vs cascade thing is great. 20 years ago he would probably be lynched for doing that. I remember some northern pubs wouldn't even stock cascade just coz it was from the southern/hobart brewery.
I found that to be the case in 2018!
“Whatever ya like..” 🤣
Can't wait to go there. Thanks for steering some of the other tourists away, I'm not fond of crowds.
Truth
No queanbeyan n.s.w
I found this video looking for something to do today but it seems I was right and will roll back over and wait to leave tomorrow
Noo
this place looks beautiful :D
but im in railton tas
PLEASE DO PERTH
Damn right this beers better!
He forgot to mention the Invermay fragrance
Not built yet
Launceston does get 200 more hours of sun a year than Hobart. So there's that.
Tom makin' friends everywhere he goes.
Oh, how are your herpes, btw? Did that cream work?
New Message you know abt that too? He told me "in confidence", he said I was the only one who's "seen it". Nasty.
TOM, you're full of shit.
the guy is a dick
Do the Yarra valley
I was in the libary watching tuem walk @00.51
Laugh I nearly did
Do a Broken Hill episode...
My wife grew up in Launceston. I’ve been there 2x. Although pretty at times, it really is a hole
As someone who grew up their yes
THEN YOU NEED TO GET OUT MORE AROUND TAS AND THE MAINLAND MORE.THEN YOU WILL SEE WHAT A HOLE REALLY LOOKS LIKE. LTN HAS AN AQUATIC CENTRE, BEAUTIFUL GORGE...LOTS OF FACILITIES MOST SMALLER PLACES DONT HAVE.
@@studentofabrahamiamavibrat3615 it’s still a hole
Pease don’t come back.
@@ladybayside7547 Trust me, I won’t
He might like Bangkok. Big crowds and lots of traffic.
Please go to Perth haha
You have to do Mackay.
You wouldn't be able to go, Launceston's closed for business.
DAAAAAMN!!!
do one of Alice Springs
I went to Tasmania for the first time a month ago, I thought Launceston is beautiful place.
At kings meadows
You know a town's pretty crap when a shop is a tourist attraction.
for some reason I thought this was on the English Launceston which is where I’m from...
Tas launceston is named after it but it's actually a good city
he should have visited ravenswood
Yep....you do see that place on tour bus stops.
This is f**king hilarious!! Love Tom, he's a comic genius!
This man is funny 😂
Launceston is the *best* place in Australia
I visited in 1990, enjoyed myself a lot. The museum was great. I thought it was better than Melbourne's. Is it still good? It had an excellent planetarium. If you weren't half the planet away, I'd visit again!
Ha ha ha... fuck this I love there
Live*
Ghosts are real tho...
It's a wonder he didnt ask anyone where they hid the extra head...and im one third Tasmanian.. I left mine at customs..and never went back to claim it
best part is that its all true
He's right, Launceston really is shit but unfortunately I live in devonport which is way way worse
THEN VISIT SMITHTON..OR CRESSY...OR PORT AUGUSTA...YOU PEOPLE JUST DONT KNOW WHAT BAD REALLY IS. GET OUT MORE AND YOU MIGHT APPRECIATE WHAT YOU HAVE IN LTN.
Haha watching this while sipping on Carlton in Launceston 😂 I personally like launii tho its not bad at all
0:52 🤣
thats funny but educational
Launceston actually seems really nice from this clip