Don't go to Gympie
Gympie might just be the most oxymoronic place you've ever been to. It should be economically and culturally rich, but instead it's more akin to a beggar on the highway trying frantically to get someone to let him wipe their windscreen. It smells like that too actually, come to think of it. So how did Gympie end up like this? Let's find out.
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The only interesting thing about Gympie is The Amity Affliction are from there. Its no wonder half their lyrics are about dying.
@Soyuz2578
Ай бұрын
W...T...F?!?!?! TAA is from fuckin GYMPIE????
@TMK20X3
Ай бұрын
Oh yeah, i completely forgot they were from there.
@trolleyboy2344
Ай бұрын
As someone who grew up in Gympie, I can attest that The Amity Affliction is indeed the biggest thing to come out of Gympie.
@Anex952
Ай бұрын
Probably the best Metalcore/Post-Hardcore band other than Parkway Drive, I've listened to them since the Youngbloods days when I was in grade 11 in High school
@colinvincent9101
16 күн бұрын
I have 5 of their albums here in England.
Good sir, I request a Logan city video. As a resident I assure you, you’ll have plenty of content. Keep up the good work.
@nicholascharles9625
Ай бұрын
I lost my first adult tooth in Kingston over a cigarette. Logan us wild
@imjustsaying6712
Ай бұрын
Woodridge and Ipswich also.
@garethjones4742
Ай бұрын
Blackwood Rd ex resident here. Logan on the whole needs a vid
@colinvincent9101
16 күн бұрын
Yeah nah fuck it.
The funny thing about the highway that runs thru Gympie is that it was the original bypass that Gympie then got built around.
@k-leb4671
9 күн бұрын
What the hell was it originally bypassing?
@sewerrat8
8 күн бұрын
@@k-leb4671probably your grandmother’s house. The centre of town dingle berry.
I am absolutely on board with your hate for ford rangers.
The cinematography and storytelling is exquisite.
@lisadolan689
Ай бұрын
Yeah, he’s really good. It’s clear he has tertiary media production education and he has an English language degree. This kid is hella well educated but it still a LEGEND! The skills to produce and write, without being constrained by the real world. So refreshing!!!
An hour North of Brisbane? Huuuuuh? More like 2hrs
@Jay84476
Ай бұрын
not with that attitude..
'Bruce Willis Highway' 🤣🤣
@user-pz8uh7xj8b
Ай бұрын
This Clown cant even back out off a guys driveway , he is Mong mate
@pewterschmidt23lord99
Ай бұрын
fucking lol
Now that is interesting. I used to pass through Gympie from either direction and have "known" it for something like 50 years. Someone once asked me what it was like and I swear I said the following: "Well, it's kind of a strange place. It has this air about it of "who am I, why am I here...?" It's now 20 years ago that I last saw it, but from what you are saying, it seems that it hasn't changed much.
The rattler is actually a lot better now that the line is half as long. By the third hour of the trip you've had enough which is good because that's when the train pulls back into Gimpy station. It's a nice day out of wine/beer/cheese + lunch. Well unless you buy a cheap seat, then it's just 3 hours of coal smoak and scenery.
Just binged every single one of your videos after the Brisbane one appeared on my recommended. Some of the best content on KZread, beautiful work
You pretty much conveyed my thoughts perfectly as someone who has been living in this dogshit town for several years.
You forgot about the gun shop, sort of a great museum run by an.....interesting man
oh man I love this, new sub here, hahaha bloody love your commentary mate, big thumbs here
Still hasn't stopped thousands of people moving there lately.
@jacobjgleggy1854
Ай бұрын
Maybe because of the current housing crisis, and also Central Queensland is know as the cheapest part of Australia to buy a house
@k-leb4671
9 күн бұрын
@@jacobjgleggy1854 Gympie isn't in central Queensland.
I’ve been through Gympie several times over the past few months, and I’m pretty sure barely anyone would ever visit once the Bypass is open.
@rw-xf4cb
6 күн бұрын
Doesn't matter it costs a large fortune to live in Noosa/Sunshine Coast/Nambour they are all heading north so Struggle Town's got a new life for it mushrooming now expensive land and house packages on small arsed blocks of land just like the rest of South East Queensland.
Let's hope it stays that way. I'm stopping in next week.
Mate your work is phenomenal keep it up squirt
Gympie is also the poor shaming capital of oz. Where the locals may not be overly rich, but have a very dim view of their fellow poorer folk. We are also a very safe national party seat which is why it is the poor shaming capital of oz. I cut one of my heads off when I moved to widgee . 20 mins west of Gympie
@garethjones4742
Ай бұрын
I mean, you could've moved to Kin Kin lol
@jacobjgleggy1854
Ай бұрын
You could always move to Melbourne if you don't Gympie being run by the Nationals
Narration was the best ive ever heard.. Nice job.. Hahaha :D
Gympie makes Maryborough look good.
@madonnawaugh3471
2 ай бұрын
Maryborough is part of widebay..which is poor shaming seat in oz. Poor people hating poorer people
@maxkahlow8622
Ай бұрын
You're in denial mate, I'd rather shit in my hands and clap rather than spend 5 minutes in Maryborough. Thank Christ, or whoever decided to build the highway around it.
@ChiknPog
Ай бұрын
As a gympie resident you are absolutely right
@madonnawaugh3471
Ай бұрын
@@ChiknPog i do hang out in Widgee most of the time.
I'm from Gympie, what's wrong mate? Who hurt ya? Misso got a headache?😂
@DONG-TOTO
Ай бұрын
Eternally
Could be worth a visit. Even for the graffiti. Great video!
@DONG-TOTO
2 ай бұрын
Thanks mate!
I prayed for this to be funny and jeebus didn’t deliver ….
Well, that was entertaining, and beautifully filmed (except for the butt crack scene 😵💫). I have now subscribed to the channel, but with a heavy heart because of the knowledge that my civic pride will force me to unsubscribe when you one day come to my own home town and bag it out......
Dude, you’ve got some hella skills! 🙌😎
It's a town where a highschooler shitting in a driveway gets into the news. It's fucking awful, my girlfriend can't walk through town to work without passing enough used needles to make you feel like you're in a hospital.
@pureautism5204
Ай бұрын
Not to mention the people USING said needles
@ChiknPog
Ай бұрын
@@pureautism5204 oh hi
@itstoastvr
Ай бұрын
ay my guy
@rw-xf4cb
6 күн бұрын
I heard cat litter boxes were in school bathrooms now, though perhaps the norm?
Did ya see any two heads?
At 2:40 ..the music in the background is "In the Jailhouse Now"
😂 Accurate and Hilarious as always legend
So funny but true ,, great vid👍
That's the best most accurate description I've ever heard 🤣😁. Subscribing so I get the rest. Keep Up the fuckin awesome reviews 😅
You mean 2-3 hours north of Brisbane at best?
@DONG-TOTO
2 ай бұрын
I was wondering how long it'd be until someone brought that up
what a typical Queenslander humour ........................ disgusting.
@IC3XR
Ай бұрын
more like beautiful, mart
@charliepearce8767
Ай бұрын
Qld SUX !
The best part of Gympie is leaving it as it’s close to some the best big bass and Saratoga fishing in Australia!
This fella should do Maryborough and Hervey Bay.
I was surprised they had a hardware store poor town will not be stopping again
I live in gympie and your pretty much spot on brother 🙏
@keithdrower9120
2 ай бұрын
Heeeee haaaaaw, hahaha....!
Me: Gympie has a beach? Oh...
@LimestoneCoastCustoms
2 ай бұрын
Yeah, what a load of SHIT! Why show a beach when talking about Gympie? 🤣🤣
@rw-xf4cb
6 күн бұрын
~60km away sure...
I like Gympie
@markbeale7390
Ай бұрын
Tell us about thumbnail picture.
Your commentary is 👌👌👌👌
You should do Mareeba.
@rw-xf4cb
6 күн бұрын
Passed that by (quickly) on the way to Atherton.....
this was fantastic haha
I used to live there and liked mate
As someone who grew up here... accurate... Always fucking flooding. Many childhood memories moving stuff from shops to high ground when it was going to flood.
@rw-xf4cb
6 күн бұрын
It's sport now isn't it? Beat the flood.
Do nambour 😅
as someone from tin can bay (saw you went out to rainbow) you did a phenomenal job, and watching something that a i know half the places was wigging me out haha glad i stumbled across this gem (p.s howd you get on the unopened bypass? bahahahahah)
@tommo_h20
Ай бұрын
nm bahahaha your f**ken crack up
@rw-xf4cb
6 күн бұрын
What gets me is the Cabin Boy (Carlo) sand blow must have been an awfully good cabin boy to get something named after him - just saying....
@tommo_h20
2 күн бұрын
@@rw-xf4cbhahaha didn’t even know about it being called cabin boy only ever known it as Carlo, definitely makes you think tho🤔🤣🤣
Never strayed more than a minute off thr highway, best to keep it that way im sure. Cool gun display at the gympie gun shop though
As an mid 20s British male... these videos make me want to visit the places you mention in your videos.... I can't tell tell if your seriously telling me not go to or not 😅.
It's a bastard of a town
i went on a cruise a few years back, sat at a table with a couple who came from Gympie. I said so what do you do in Gympie? They looked at me and said "Fuck all mate, why do you think we're on a cruise"
Was this a uni project
Good shit
My daughters were born there in the 1990's
Try 2 hours from Brisbane, not 1.
@rw-xf4cb
6 күн бұрын
Well Noosa is north (north) Brisbane.
New sub
Go to caboolture and zillmere surely
@rw-xf4cb
6 күн бұрын
Nearly had my car up on bricks in Caboolture Station recently...
named after the plant or vice versa?
i request a video on Toowoomba
@ronrambler
Ай бұрын
Enough shit to do 3 videos
please do a Don't Go To Ipswich
@rw-xf4cb
6 күн бұрын
The other Struggle Town....
when are you doing mackay?
The most interesting thing i took away from this video is the fact that corellas fart. In the words of the great Mick Molloy - "This is champagne comedy" 😂
Anyone here from Toowoomba?
Great stories and sarcasm. I dare you to do one on Gladstone. But if you do, spend a bit of time first, go out to the reef, Agnes and Tannum Sands before hosing it in to us about coal and Industry and maybe even a nuclear power station in the future.
saved qld because all the people with two heads moved there
A home is what you make it.
I lived there for a year and it a complete shit hole. The bypass will be the death of Gympie.
The first thing to do is change the name... Gympie? hahahahahahah
Gave me a giggle, but wtf is a K'gari
hilarious! Aussiest KZread channel ever
Comedy gold .
In high school we called them gympie rats or gimps
The schools in gympie are just 💀 Edit: mispelled in
Unless you’re in mining, a truck driver or a farmer, what else is in QLD? Sounds like a good place but it’s full of nothing
@rw-xf4cb
6 күн бұрын
Housing and being Capitalist Pig Dog Landlord. Mining is for losers, Housing is the deal...
Bloody Helicopters....So hard to digest, but just so damn tasty!
@yeh.80
2 ай бұрын
Lel
@whocares427
10 күн бұрын
I don't get it
@madmunga
10 күн бұрын
@@whocares427 What don't you get mate?
@whocares427
10 күн бұрын
@@madmunga what are helicopters slang for
@madmunga
10 күн бұрын
@@whocares427 No slang involved, just factual statements! Helicopters are delicious, yet very difficult to digest!🧐
This is so good!
Thier opening the gympie bypass in a month or so. Then the drive through traffic will stop for ever.
@rw-xf4cb
6 күн бұрын
Yep and them on the highway the land prices will go $$$$$
Best avoided - ditto most of Central Qld.
do maryboroughhhhh
@charlespomfret7207
19 күн бұрын
Yeh do scaryborough
More like Dong Brain
Gympie is not bad as Townsville thats for sure. Been around both.
@rw-xf4cb
6 күн бұрын
Townsville has them stingers so popular tourist destination..
Harsh but humorous....you re unlikely to get employment in tourism friend ..... plug away at oo toob where you have some talent .....
It is a shith*le second only to Bowen that said I do have family there my first visit there back in the 80’s my female cousin tried her best to bonk me yeah I was young and single but…eww but hey that’s Gympie all over.
ive been to sexpo. depressing.
@DONG-TOTO
2 ай бұрын
That's not what your mum said
@uhhuhyeahsure
2 ай бұрын
@@DONG-TOTO um-ah, you're RUDE
@itookallthenames
2 ай бұрын
@@uhhuhyeahsureum ah, you went to school in the 80s!
😂
i think u mean fraser
i live here bro omg 25 alfred street bro come for free suk
Having to drive from Brissy to Maryborough on a regular basis, yep, Gympie is just such a nothing place.
I go into Gympie once a fortnight to do my food shopping and that's about it
@sjdtmv
2 ай бұрын
I did live down the road for awhile at Kilkivan
Whatta dump !
The best thing about Gympie is the bypass that they're currently building.
Gympie is where you stop for last minute fuel and chippies before you head to Rainbow or Kgari. 🎉
@FelixRichardson
Ай бұрын
Yeh typo fraser
@whocares427
10 күн бұрын
You mean Fraser Island
@rw-xf4cb
6 күн бұрын
@@FelixRichardson Yep Fraser agree!
Gympy is up there for meth capital of Australia. Good contenders in grafton, Newcastle, Bundaberg. Toowoomba. Etc.
@flarryd9179
Ай бұрын
Don't forget Gosford
ScaryBorough is much worse than Gympie .. Maryborough.
except it is not Bruce Willis
interesting fact the name come from what first settlers found there, a GYM and a PIE shop , Fact !!