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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  • @DONG-TOTO
    @DONG-TOTOАй бұрын

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  • @bruceinnawoods3610
    @bruceinnawoods36102 ай бұрын

    The only interesting thing about Gympie is The Amity Affliction are from there. Its no wonder half their lyrics are about dying.

  • @Soyuz2578

    @Soyuz2578

    Ай бұрын

    W...T...F?!?!?! TAA is from fuckin GYMPIE????

  • @TMK20X3

    @TMK20X3

    Ай бұрын

    Oh yeah, i completely forgot they were from there.

  • @trolleyboy2344

    @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

    @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

    @colinvincent9101

    16 күн бұрын

    I have 5 of their albums here in England.

  • @kermitleforg1986
    @kermitleforg19862 ай бұрын

    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

    @nicholascharles9625

    Ай бұрын

    I lost my first adult tooth in Kingston over a cigarette. Logan us wild

  • @imjustsaying6712

    @imjustsaying6712

    Ай бұрын

    Woodridge and Ipswich also.

  • @garethjones4742

    @garethjones4742

    Ай бұрын

    Blackwood Rd ex resident here. Logan on the whole needs a vid

  • @colinvincent9101

    @colinvincent9101

    16 күн бұрын

    Yeah nah fuck it.

  • @sewerrat8
    @sewerrat8Ай бұрын

    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

    @k-leb4671

    9 күн бұрын

    What the hell was it originally bypassing?

  • @sewerrat8

    @sewerrat8

    8 күн бұрын

    @@k-leb4671probably your grandmother’s house. The centre of town dingle berry.

  • @timothymcnaughton531
    @timothymcnaughton531Ай бұрын

    I am absolutely on board with your hate for ford rangers.

  • @yeh.80
    @yeh.802 ай бұрын

    The cinematography and storytelling is exquisite.

  • @lisadolan689

    @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!!!

  • @Mezmarr
    @MezmarrАй бұрын

    An hour North of Brisbane? Huuuuuh? More like 2hrs

  • @Jay84476

    @Jay84476

    Ай бұрын

    not with that attitude..

  • @michellerolph2248
    @michellerolph22482 ай бұрын

    'Bruce Willis Highway' 🤣🤣

  • @user-pz8uh7xj8b

    @user-pz8uh7xj8b

    Ай бұрын

    This Clown cant even back out off a guys driveway , he is Mong mate

  • @pewterschmidt23lord99

    @pewterschmidt23lord99

    Ай бұрын

    fucking lol

  • @leonaessens4399
    @leonaessens43992 ай бұрын

    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.

  • @jouebien
    @jouebienАй бұрын

    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.

  • @cliffordclifffy5202
    @cliffordclifffy520223 күн бұрын

    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

  • @flipadoodles8677
    @flipadoodles8677Ай бұрын

    You pretty much conveyed my thoughts perfectly as someone who has been living in this dogshit town for several years.

  • @elgoogyob4119
    @elgoogyob4119Ай бұрын

    You forgot about the gun shop, sort of a great museum run by an.....interesting man

  • @Johnnywestoz
    @JohnnywestozАй бұрын

    oh man I love this, new sub here, hahaha bloody love your commentary mate, big thumbs here

  • @bobisu3111
    @bobisu3111Ай бұрын

    Still hasn't stopped thousands of people moving there lately.

  • @jacobjgleggy1854

    @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

    @k-leb4671

    9 күн бұрын

    @@jacobjgleggy1854 Gympie isn't in central Queensland.

  • @smadge1
    @smadge1Ай бұрын

    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

    @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.

  • @MadKingJorge
    @MadKingJorge2 ай бұрын

    Let's hope it stays that way. I'm stopping in next week.

  • @flynnorourke7620
    @flynnorourke7620Ай бұрын

    Mate your work is phenomenal keep it up squirt

  • @madonnawaugh3471
    @madonnawaugh34712 ай бұрын

    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

    @garethjones4742

    Ай бұрын

    I mean, you could've moved to Kin Kin lol

  • @jacobjgleggy1854

    @jacobjgleggy1854

    Ай бұрын

    You could always move to Melbourne if you don't Gympie being run by the Nationals

  • @DaniPitchford
    @DaniPitchford2 ай бұрын

    Narration was the best ive ever heard.. Nice job.. Hahaha :D

  • @marykelly9327
    @marykelly93272 ай бұрын

    Gympie makes Maryborough look good.

  • @madonnawaugh3471

    @madonnawaugh3471

    2 ай бұрын

    Maryborough is part of widebay..which is poor shaming seat in oz. Poor people hating poorer people

  • @maxkahlow8622

    @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

    @ChiknPog

    Ай бұрын

    As a gympie resident you are absolutely right

  • @madonnawaugh3471

    @madonnawaugh3471

    Ай бұрын

    @@ChiknPog i do hang out in Widgee most of the time.

  • @WinahhTaylahh
    @WinahhTaylahhАй бұрын

    I'm from Gympie, what's wrong mate? Who hurt ya? Misso got a headache?😂

  • @DONG-TOTO

    @DONG-TOTO

    Ай бұрын

    Eternally

  • @joehozzy2616
    @joehozzy26162 ай бұрын

    Could be worth a visit. Even for the graffiti. Great video!

  • @DONG-TOTO

    @DONG-TOTO

    2 ай бұрын

    Thanks mate!

  • @kayjay4101
    @kayjay41012 ай бұрын

    I prayed for this to be funny and jeebus didn’t deliver ….

  • @alfinpogform4774
    @alfinpogform47742 ай бұрын

    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......

  • @lisadolan689
    @lisadolan689Ай бұрын

    Dude, you’ve got some hella skills! 🙌😎

  • @ChiknPog
    @ChiknPogАй бұрын

    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

    @pureautism5204

    Ай бұрын

    Not to mention the people USING said needles

  • @ChiknPog

    @ChiknPog

    Ай бұрын

    @@pureautism5204 oh hi

  • @itstoastvr

    @itstoastvr

    Ай бұрын

    ay my guy

  • @rw-xf4cb

    @rw-xf4cb

    6 күн бұрын

    I heard cat litter boxes were in school bathrooms now, though perhaps the norm?

  • @roystad8916
    @roystad89162 ай бұрын

    Did ya see any two heads?

  • @Hillers62
    @Hillers622 ай бұрын

    At 2:40 ..the music in the background is "In the Jailhouse Now"

  • @plowestory
    @plowestory2 ай бұрын

    😂 Accurate and Hilarious as always legend

  • @Adam-yp1cc
    @Adam-yp1cc2 ай бұрын

    So funny but true ,, great vid👍

  • @Matt-wv5xt
    @Matt-wv5xt10 күн бұрын

    That's the best most accurate description I've ever heard 🤣😁. Subscribing so I get the rest. Keep Up the fuckin awesome reviews 😅

  • @Lazbotable
    @Lazbotable2 ай бұрын

    You mean 2-3 hours north of Brisbane at best?

  • @DONG-TOTO

    @DONG-TOTO

    2 ай бұрын

    I was wondering how long it'd be until someone brought that up

  • @jimw7916
    @jimw79162 ай бұрын

    what a typical Queenslander humour ........................ disgusting.

  • @IC3XR

    @IC3XR

    Ай бұрын

    more like beautiful, mart

  • @charliepearce8767

    @charliepearce8767

    Ай бұрын

    Qld SUX !

  • @needmoreboost6369
    @needmoreboost6369Ай бұрын

    The best part of Gympie is leaving it as it’s close to some the best big bass and Saratoga fishing in Australia!

  • @MrElzebo
    @MrElzeboАй бұрын

    This fella should do Maryborough and Hervey Bay.

  • @flynnorourke7620
    @flynnorourke7620Ай бұрын

    I was surprised they had a hardware store poor town will not be stopping again

  • @vinnie42ful
    @vinnie42ful2 ай бұрын

    I live in gympie and your pretty much spot on brother 🙏

  • @keithdrower9120

    @keithdrower9120

    2 ай бұрын

    Heeeee haaaaaw, hahaha....!

  • @Milaaq302
    @Milaaq3022 ай бұрын

    Me: Gympie has a beach? Oh...

  • @LimestoneCoastCustoms

    @LimestoneCoastCustoms

    2 ай бұрын

    Yeah, what a load of SHIT! Why show a beach when talking about Gympie? 🤣🤣

  • @rw-xf4cb

    @rw-xf4cb

    6 күн бұрын

    ~60km away sure...

  • @Aussanding
    @AussandingАй бұрын

    I like Gympie

  • @markbeale7390

    @markbeale7390

    Ай бұрын

    Tell us about thumbnail picture.

  • @gamebriz4163
    @gamebriz4163Ай бұрын

    Your commentary is 👌👌👌👌

  • @dav4x487
    @dav4x4872 ай бұрын

    You should do Mareeba.

  • @rw-xf4cb

    @rw-xf4cb

    6 күн бұрын

    Passed that by (quickly) on the way to Atherton.....

  • @onesimpleclik
    @onesimpleclik2 ай бұрын

    this was fantastic haha

  • @waynemcauliffe-fv5yf
    @waynemcauliffe-fv5yfАй бұрын

    I used to live there and liked mate

  • @achelan
    @achelanАй бұрын

    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

    @rw-xf4cb

    6 күн бұрын

    It's sport now isn't it? Beat the flood.

  • @ooshiemaniac5188
    @ooshiemaniac5188Ай бұрын

    Do nambour 😅

  • @tommo_h20
    @tommo_h20Ай бұрын

    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

    @tommo_h20

    Ай бұрын

    nm bahahaha your f**ken crack up

  • @rw-xf4cb

    @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

    @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🤔🤣🤣

  • @familyman4202
    @familyman42025 күн бұрын

    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

  • @djsweatshirtx
    @djsweatshirtxАй бұрын

    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 😅.

  • @LachlanBell
    @LachlanBellАй бұрын

    It's a bastard of a town

  • @zanesmith666
    @zanesmith6665 күн бұрын

    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"

  • @myeverythingworld8123
    @myeverythingworld81232 ай бұрын

    Was this a uni project

  • @Eli-st9gp
    @Eli-st9gpАй бұрын

    Good shit

  • @sjdtmv
    @sjdtmv2 ай бұрын

    My daughters were born there in the 1990's

  • @Aussie1964
    @Aussie1964Ай бұрын

    Try 2 hours from Brisbane, not 1.

  • @rw-xf4cb

    @rw-xf4cb

    6 күн бұрын

    Well Noosa is north (north) Brisbane.

  • @lisadolan689
    @lisadolan689Ай бұрын

    New sub

  • @dreadlordhg360
    @dreadlordhg360Ай бұрын

    Go to caboolture and zillmere surely

  • @rw-xf4cb

    @rw-xf4cb

    6 күн бұрын

    Nearly had my car up on bricks in Caboolture Station recently...

  • @philipstevenson5166
    @philipstevenson5166Ай бұрын

    named after the plant or vice versa?

  • @Yesking227
    @Yesking227Ай бұрын

    i request a video on Toowoomba

  • @ronrambler

    @ronrambler

    Ай бұрын

    Enough shit to do 3 videos

  • @Jay84476
    @Jay84476Ай бұрын

    please do a Don't Go To Ipswich

  • @rw-xf4cb

    @rw-xf4cb

    6 күн бұрын

    The other Struggle Town....

  • @setheryrockwell
    @setheryrockwell9 күн бұрын

    when are you doing mackay?

  • @Soyuz2578
    @Soyuz2578Ай бұрын

    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" 😂

  • @williamlevy6964
    @williamlevy6964Ай бұрын

    Anyone here from Toowoomba?

  • @TheShawline
    @TheShawlineАй бұрын

    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.

  • @gutmincer2
    @gutmincer2Ай бұрын

    saved qld because all the people with two heads moved there

  • @pearlOwisdom532
    @pearlOwisdom53210 күн бұрын

    A home is what you make it.

  • @MrCpolzin
    @MrCpolzin27 күн бұрын

    I lived there for a year and it a complete shit hole. The bypass will be the death of Gympie.

  • @ajcajc5429
    @ajcajc5429Ай бұрын

    The first thing to do is change the name... Gympie? hahahahahahah

  • @Aussibob1
    @Aussibob1Күн бұрын

    Gave me a giggle, but wtf is a K'gari

  • @ISaidUSaid
    @ISaidUSaidАй бұрын

    hilarious! Aussiest KZread channel ever

  • @eddiedownunder9881
    @eddiedownunder9881Ай бұрын

    Comedy gold .

  • @bangkokstallion
    @bangkokstallionАй бұрын

    In high school we called them gympie rats or gimps

  • @abominatio9895
    @abominatio989529 күн бұрын

    The schools in gympie are just 💀 Edit: mispelled in

  • @Maxindifference
    @MaxindifferenceАй бұрын

    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

    @rw-xf4cb

    6 күн бұрын

    Housing and being Capitalist Pig Dog Landlord. Mining is for losers, Housing is the deal...

  • @madmunga
    @madmunga2 ай бұрын

    Bloody Helicopters....So hard to digest, but just so damn tasty!

  • @yeh.80

    @yeh.80

    2 ай бұрын

    Lel

  • @whocares427

    @whocares427

    10 күн бұрын

    I don't get it

  • @madmunga

    @madmunga

    10 күн бұрын

    @@whocares427 What don't you get mate?

  • @whocares427

    @whocares427

    10 күн бұрын

    @@madmunga what are helicopters slang for

  • @madmunga

    @madmunga

    10 күн бұрын

    @@whocares427 No slang involved, just factual statements! Helicopters are delicious, yet very difficult to digest!🧐

  • @michaelsangster5673
    @michaelsangster56732 ай бұрын

    This is so good!

  • @iam7712
    @iam7712Ай бұрын

    Thier opening the gympie bypass in a month or so. Then the drive through traffic will stop for ever.

  • @rw-xf4cb

    @rw-xf4cb

    6 күн бұрын

    Yep and them on the highway the land prices will go $$$$$

  • @arthurwatts1680
    @arthurwatts1680Ай бұрын

    Best avoided - ditto most of Central Qld.

  • @twixelll
    @twixelllАй бұрын

    do maryboroughhhhh

  • @charlespomfret7207

    @charlespomfret7207

    19 күн бұрын

    Yeh do scaryborough

  • @thorstenduessler6101
    @thorstenduessler610120 күн бұрын

    More like Dong Brain

  • @moto3463
    @moto3463Ай бұрын

    Gympie is not bad as Townsville thats for sure. Been around both.

  • @rw-xf4cb

    @rw-xf4cb

    6 күн бұрын

    Townsville has them stingers so popular tourist destination..

  • @simonelwell9148
    @simonelwell91482 ай бұрын

    Harsh but humorous....you re unlikely to get employment in tourism friend ..... plug away at oo toob where you have some talent .....

  • @Ballterra
    @BallterraАй бұрын

    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.

  • @uhhuhyeahsure
    @uhhuhyeahsure2 ай бұрын

    ive been to sexpo. depressing.

  • @DONG-TOTO

    @DONG-TOTO

    2 ай бұрын

    That's not what your mum said

  • @uhhuhyeahsure

    @uhhuhyeahsure

    2 ай бұрын

    @@DONG-TOTO um-ah, you're RUDE

  • @itookallthenames

    @itookallthenames

    2 ай бұрын

    @@uhhuhyeahsureum ah, you went to school in the 80s!

  • @alexrucks3082
    @alexrucks30822 ай бұрын

    😂

  • @FelixRichardson
    @FelixRichardsonАй бұрын

    i think u mean fraser

  • @henticletentai
    @henticletentaiАй бұрын

    i live here bro omg 25 alfred street bro come for free suk

  • @gslim7337
    @gslim73372 ай бұрын

    Having to drive from Brissy to Maryborough on a regular basis, yep, Gympie is just such a nothing place.

  • @Silvergum
    @Silvergum2 ай бұрын

    I go into Gympie once a fortnight to do my food shopping and that's about it

  • @sjdtmv

    @sjdtmv

    2 ай бұрын

    I did live down the road for awhile at Kilkivan

  • @charliepearce8767
    @charliepearce8767Ай бұрын

    Whatta dump !

  • @wotmate
    @wotmateАй бұрын

    The best thing about Gympie is the bypass that they're currently building.

  • @devarmont87
    @devarmont87Ай бұрын

    Gympie is where you stop for last minute fuel and chippies before you head to Rainbow or Kgari. 🎉

  • @FelixRichardson

    @FelixRichardson

    Ай бұрын

    Yeh typo fraser

  • @whocares427

    @whocares427

    10 күн бұрын

    You mean Fraser Island

  • @rw-xf4cb

    @rw-xf4cb

    6 күн бұрын

    @@FelixRichardson Yep Fraser agree!

  • @nicholascharles9625
    @nicholascharles9625Ай бұрын

    Gympy is up there for meth capital of Australia. Good contenders in grafton, Newcastle, Bundaberg. Toowoomba. Etc.

  • @flarryd9179

    @flarryd9179

    Ай бұрын

    Don't forget Gosford

  • @sundance9042
    @sundance9042Ай бұрын

    ScaryBorough is much worse than Gympie .. Maryborough.

  • @Cai-Luong-Chi-Bao
    @Cai-Luong-Chi-BaoАй бұрын

    except it is not Bruce Willis

  • @justspacegoatfarts
    @justspacegoatfartsАй бұрын

    interesting fact the name come from what first settlers found there, a GYM and a PIE shop , Fact !!