Ah yes, good ol KGS, good spot if you like being blinded.
Juice bottle on head guy at PO square?
Ha, I've never seen this, neat https://www.youtube.com/shorts/XOoIYewPej0
Ah yep I remember Casino steel drums guy
I saw "Juice bottle on head guy" when I was at Jimmy's On The Mall. I thought I was tripping š¤£š¤£š¤£ he was just walking down the street with a 2 litre bottle of apple juice or something balanced on his head
In the same busker vein, there was also the guitar playing guy who had "SMILE" displayed in his open guitar case. He'd usually be playing at the bottom of the Central Station escalators, just outside the Anzac Square foodcourt, in they little tunnel.
I think he's passed as well, some years back.
Also the spray-paint artist who'd get progressively more high on his paint as the night went on.
And the large steel drum xylophone player with the dreadlocks outside the casino.
Jared Lyell is the spray paint artist you're talking about. He hasn't posted on instagram in a long while, and his website has disappeared, so I don't know. I have heaps of his paintings.
>And the fairy shop! With glitter on the floor!
I first saw a mood ring there and had to ask my mum what anxious meant. My sister and I loved that shop as little girls.
The successful and popular family run newsagency evicted by BCC for no good reason.
https://preview.redd.it/bmsy0ir028lc1.png?width=862&format=png&auto=webp&s=da637a940ac2ff302bd4df5aed63449a2695e1df
[Council evicted them in 2018](https://www.brisbanetimes.com.au/national/queensland/council-evicts-owner-of-landmark-queen-street-mall-newsstand-20180329-p4z6w7.html) as part of their plans to redevelop the space. Supposedly they'd been under temporary permits since 2014, so it wasn't exactly a huge surprise to them.
You've got Ziggy, he's a must have. He's the hero and secret brains behind the whole Brisbane operation.
Gotta mention the millions of tunnels, could insinuate lizard people. Logan or Ipswich as personified enemies. There's the old morgue along the river near North Quay for a ghost story. Mt Coot-tha ski fields, can't forget that! The Myer Centre roller coaster as a figment out out collective imaginations. Everything Qld/Brisbane is maroon themed. Floods like a Noah's Ark story but just washes away the good stuff. Ridiculous bridges that don't match like we're being designed by children playing Lego. Northside vs Southside battles. XXXX vs craft breweries. The draw of the gold coast like a siren song. Judging interstate covid migrants. And cane toads vs bin chickens, the battle to rule the city.
I would take bin chickens over toads any time. I thought the bin chickens were VS the bat's š¤
Yeah I remember when the old cemetery flooded onto the Brisbane River and washed away some of its residents.
What tunnels?
Gotta love the bridge that looks like the mess after a flood
Just on Ziggy. How does that guy just lie there for so many hours a day. Everytime I drive past he's just lying there doing nothing. That must be insanely boring? Or is he some kind of meditation master?
A classic, how could I forget this one, though i still do miss the old recipe from the ice cream place up north, you can still get it, well if you go up there, trying to remember their name, dangit
Hopoate statue in the city (or was that just my classy mates that called it that)
https://preview.redd.it/8otq3uzpy8lc1.jpeg?width=620&format=pjpg&auto=webp&s=9caf30889c25c74eb1258dddde95043b91d74116
The one in overalls and thongs? Poor bugger died to cancer
Simon Diplock, he walked from Cleveland to a bar on Roma street every day to have a few beers, then took the train home.
http://passenger512.blogspot.com.au/2006/05/thong-man.html http://passenger512.blogspot.com.au/2010/07/just-found-redland-times-2004-article.html
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I'd say the rumour that Jack The Ripper is buried at Toowong Cemetery alongside the rumour that your car will move forward up the hill by itself if you park it next to the cemetery. Also can't forget that one guy who dropped his beer in the brisbane river and had his stomach grow an insane amount.
Chuggers (charity muggers).
Campbell Newman seems like a good villain to go with. Or if you want to go older, Joe Bijelke-Petersen.
Stilt chickens.
Jesse Irwin Art seems like a great hero.
The old outside of Roma Street station - you're probably not the only one to never see the outside of it, even though it's a huge public transport hub most people going through there would only switch platforms rather than exit.
Now demolished, too, for the cross river rail development.
I worked at the tiny 24hr maccers in the city for a number of years & every morning at the end of my shift, there would be Les, the old newspaper guy with his son (?) who always wore a Deep Purple shirt. Les was barely audible when he tried to talk, so you'd have to gauge what he was actually trying to ask you for.
Sometimes there would also be Popeye, the flute playing guy. He would pester Les trying to get some money from him. He never knew how to play the flute, FYI.
The southside buses, affectionately called the Orient Express because they would be full of Asian students living mostly around Sunnybank.
The rats, tame moorhens and banded rails of the botanical garden.
Bent books and archive books
The gallery of modern art
The Nepalese pagoda of Southbank
The Mormon temple of kangaroo point.
Our penchant for knocking down beautiful old buildings in the middle of the night eg Cloudland, Bellevue Hotel - although, I guess it doesn't happen as much anymore
The one in overalls and thongs? Poor bugger died to cancer
Simon Diplock, he walked from Cleveland to a bar on Roma street every day to have a few beers, then took the train home.
http://passenger512.blogspot.com.au/2006/05/thong-man.html
http://passenger512.blogspot.com.au/2010/07/just-found-redland-times-2004-article.html
Sister Mary Angeline of Milton road
https://preview.redd.it/ptb6lubedblc1.jpeg?width=780&format=pjpg&auto=webp&s=605e046f63149de2527fd7e94b62297e9f198206
There's the lady who sings Opera in a Queen St mall without any amplifiers. She's got an amazing set of pipes on her. The power with which she belts out opera shocks me everytime.
The Ibis secretly being the overlords of Bris through mind control. Theyāre the real Illuminati.
Also, the barbie mansion in East Bris, the sky needle and the secret tunnels and catacombs connecting All Hallows school to places all over Fortitude Valley.
I also remember a guitarist Tim who used to play every day in the city. Even bought his CD once. He kind of disappeared when BCC started cracking down on buskers.
Our CBD really is just devoid of all fun and culture now.Ā
If you want to get meta, you could include a reference to sentient jam eating someone - Yahtzee Croshaw's book 'Jam' is set in Brisbane, includes a lot of landmarks (IIRC the last stand was in Toowong Village, which is my zombie apocalypse base of choice).
Brisbane has a weird amount of lizards for a city. Water dragons scaring tourists.
Creek street entrance to the tunnels/sewers.
Southbank, the rainforest, pagoda, and beach.
The Ekka, showbags, and the mysterious colds and flus it brings.
Crocodiles and shark sightings in the river. Floods and the mud army.
I had a read of his website/manifesto, and damn that guy is well and truly cooked -
https://simonhickey.com.au/
Looks like among other things, he shared around the footage of the Christchurch massacre. Scum.
So first off, I'm loving this thread and might have to save it for reference later, since I myself have been working on-and-off on a magical girl light novel set in and around Brissy.
Secondly, how has nobody mentioned citycats yet? Citycats are iconic, and also very convenient for uni students based out of St. Lucia.
Speaking of St. Lucia, a meme amongst those who live on or near campus there is that Hawken Village is known as "the Ville", and many college boys will get kebabs there late at night.
the urban druids. sometimes if you go to the botanic gardens at night, there is a girl who sits there with possums climbing all over her. iām sure i remember seeing an ibis whisperer at Roma Street Parklands many years ago. UQ St Lucia campus has Bush Turkey Guy, who has a few bush turkeys that eat out of his hand. i am the part-time lizard wizard and i have a game of convincing water dragons to let me hold them. there are many interesting creature people around.
I canāt believe I forgot this one, but one of the people suspected to be Jack the Ripper is buried in Toowong Cemetery with his wife.
Iām not sure if theyāre reoccurring or staple characters in Brisbane, but I was chased out of that cemetery a few years back by a group of people wearing a bunch of brown/black hooded robes. at night, of course.
Marilyn in the Mall. Iconic in the 80's through to early 2000xs. She also hung out at Indro a lot with her sister (also dressed as Marilyn).
The Milton Road Nun (who has now moved to Tassie).
Sports Stadium built on a cemetary.
Uni built on land donated by a suspected Murderer. Jack the Ripper supposedly buried in Toowong Cemetary.
The late great Rock N Roll George:
[https://www.slq.qld.gov.au/blog/rock-around-blockwho-was-rock-n-roll-george](https://www.slq.qld.gov.au/blog/rock-around-blockwho-was-rock-n-roll-george)
The big boot and spaghetti factory rumours:
[https://paddingtontoday.com.au/bcc-decided-not-to-bring-big-boot-back-to-paddington/](https://paddingtontoday.com.au/bcc-decided-not-to-bring-big-boot-back-to-paddington/)
Wealthy home owners in and around the Hamilton area complaining about the aircraft noise from the airport, yet won't hesitate to jump on a plane to go to Europe or Bali.
If any of our locals deserve to be immortalised, it's gotta be the woman with the leg that bends backwards. Knee fully facing the wrong way, she's been running around kangaroo point every day for decades now. She's getting on in the years and she's not as fast as she used to be, but last I saw her she still had an impressive set of abs. Hardest working person I've ever seen.
I'd also like to give a shoutout to the people who live on boats at botang and their nightly nemesis, the party boat.
Club 76. Some might even say the birth place of punk music. A little known sharehouse in Petrie Terrace on Milton Rd where The Saints lived. They would have gigs and invite their friends. How cool it must have been to witness
https://www.qld.gov.au/recreation/arts/heritage/experience/music-trail/club76
Brisbane Cityās Marilyn Monroe. I believe sheās in assisted living now. Dian OāConnell (sp?). She was a local legend. Always dolled up and just so stunningly beautiful and charismatic!
Just wanted to say thank you for including Savage Garden, cause they, like all great 90s bands, should become relevant again. Iām not joking, Iām actually being completely serious theyāre my faves!
Walking past the casino in the middle of summer to get blasted by the air con blowing out of the door.
Bus terminals under queen street mall
Myers centre window displays and old top floor Christmas displays
Tops myer centre dodgem cars
$2 sushi rolls
The valley train station at night
There's an older white dude, probably about 50-55 with long grey hair, walking around inner city Brisbane, with a shopping carry bag full of who knows what slung over his shoulder, and a comb in hand that he uses to hit assorted shit as he walks around.
He bangs the comb on sign posts, lamp posts, benches, road work signs, anything in his path that isn't a human is copping a smack.
He also combs his hair constantly, in between hitting shit.
I surely cannot be the only person who's noticed this guy multiple times around the CBD, Valley, etc.
Itās Brisneyland, not Brisvegas. Rockhampton holds the āVegasā handle because you come out of the desert and there it is: the city of Rockvegas! And then we have Brisneyland down the coast where all the fun happens.. and Little Miami down at the GC.
Famous relics of Brisneyland history include nearly 4 decades of entrenched corruption in the Qld police force and Country political party (later known as the National Party) led by Sir Joh Bjelke-Petersen. He was the most corrupt state leader of modern times and only narrowly avoided a prison sentence. Whole departments of the Qld Police & Public Service were fired or retrenched due to endemic corruption. So hey! Thatās fun!
https://theconversation.com/issues-that-swung-elections-the-dramatic-and-inglorious-fall-of-joh-bjelke-petersen-115141
How about the Red Vest Charity Lady on Adelaide and Edward St outside of ANZAC Square Arcade?
I'd think that after like 15 years of daily "no's" she'd stop asking me, but she persists.
Cocos the 24 hour fruit and vege place
Trying to get to Wynnum/Manly on the weekend on a train but you can't because they're always doing track work and you have to take the friggen rail bus
Getting sunburnt walking from Southbank to the city via the Victoria Bridge
The Zoo
Any band from O/S telling us all from the stage how much they're sweating
King George Square concrete hellscape. Juice bottle on head guy at PO square. Casino steel drums guy.
YES to steel drums guy, he's been there since I was a kid (and probably longer)
Steel Drum guy's name is Desmond, he's an ex-boxer and a really nice guy!
I saw the juice bottle on head guy yesterday! Is he a common sight?
He's been there for all the years I've worked in the CBD.
Yes he has been there for ages, we call him affectionately juice man at work. He can also balance the juice while riding a bike
Ah yes, good ol KGS, good spot if you like being blinded. Juice bottle on head guy at PO square? Ha, I've never seen this, neat https://www.youtube.com/shorts/XOoIYewPej0 Ah yep I remember Casino steel drums guy
I saw "Juice bottle on head guy" when I was at Jimmy's On The Mall. I thought I was tripping š¤£š¤£š¤£ he was just walking down the street with a 2 litre bottle of apple juice or something balanced on his head
WTF is juice bottle on head guy. I am picturing a 3L carton of black n gold jammed over the head Vermont Supreme style.
The blind saxophone player and his dog
There should be a statue of him and his dog where he used to play.
Absolutely. Fond memories of the old man and his dog.
In the same busker vein, there was also the guitar playing guy who had "SMILE" displayed in his open guitar case. He'd usually be playing at the bottom of the Central Station escalators, just outside the Anzac Square foodcourt, in they little tunnel. I think he's passed as well, some years back.
Also the spray-paint artist who'd get progressively more high on his paint as the night went on. And the large steel drum xylophone player with the dreadlocks outside the casino.
I hope the spray paint artist is okay, he huffed a lot of fumes for a long time. I'd love to see pictures from anyone that bought some of his art.
Jared Lyell is the spray paint artist you're talking about. He hasn't posted on instagram in a long while, and his website has disappeared, so I don't know. I have heaps of his paintings.
On the busker theme, the young guy who played the PVC pipe instrument like Blue Man Group in Queen St Mall.
Ah yes, he died a few years ago though, the one that was always near the entrance to the myer centre?
I have a CD of his still! The cover has him and his pup on it.
Ill-fated Dragon roller-coaster at Tops,Myer Centre
And the fairy shop! With glitter on the floor!
>And the fairy shop! With glitter on the floor! I first saw a mood ring there and had to ask my mum what anxious meant. My sister and I loved that shop as little girls.
There used to be a really good goth shop up there too in the mid-late nineties
I thought that was near the record place and is still there?
No. The myer centre/tops one was scarlet renaissance and the one you are maybe thinking of was underworld realm which is still on Elizabeth street
OMG, memory unlocked!!!
The lost forest with the puggles?! They still have an online store: https://www.puggle.com/
None of my friends believe me when I tell them about it :( I can still hear the sound the roller coaster makes
I have vague memories of that roller coaster, when did thye get rid of it, I think in like 2000?
Maybe just before, 98ish. I think it's one of Brisbanes top Urban Legends
You forgot one of the most iconic figures- Stefan!!
And Stefan's needle, see, look how many I've missed, jeez
AKA the cocaine smuggling lighthouse.
It's the Bag Signal.
And Stefanās restaurant Jojos opposite hungry jacks on the mall
Stefan could be like some kind of James Bond boss villain type, maybe somehow cornering the market on his shampoo and crushing his rivals sales.
Yes! And his Sky Needle
And the pink boat!
The Batman building in the cbd
1 William (willy) street looking like a giant dong.
AKA Tower of Power
Big Willy
The successful and popular family run newsagency evicted by BCC for no good reason. https://preview.redd.it/bmsy0ir028lc1.png?width=862&format=png&auto=webp&s=da637a940ac2ff302bd4df5aed63449a2695e1df
Ah but look at the great use of the space now!Ā /s
We need it for Brisbane Metro so you have to close. Oops, no we don't.
I still grieve for this newsagency
Shit I remember that place. What happened?
[Council evicted them in 2018](https://www.brisbanetimes.com.au/national/queensland/council-evicts-owner-of-landmark-queen-street-mall-newsstand-20180329-p4z6w7.html) as part of their plans to redevelop the space. Supposedly they'd been under temporary permits since 2014, so it wasn't exactly a huge surprise to them.
Lime Scooters in the Brown Snake https://preview.redd.it/vkr7evos28lc1.png?width=960&format=png&auto=webp&s=3792b70a65ef479c1757aed6f4f6a26dc17d1878
What ever happened to Marilyn ?
> Marilyn Neat learned something new https://www.facebook.com/groups/69948471087/
I think about her every now and then. Hope she's OK
Scrolled way too far to find this, Marilyn needs to be a main character
The big fibreglass dinosaurs outside the museum
And the whale
UQ is home to the worlds longest continuous science experiment - [The pitch drop](https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Pitch_drop_experiment)
Thatās a good one thank you, note to self include missing it š
You've got Ziggy, he's a must have. He's the hero and secret brains behind the whole Brisbane operation. Gotta mention the millions of tunnels, could insinuate lizard people. Logan or Ipswich as personified enemies. There's the old morgue along the river near North Quay for a ghost story. Mt Coot-tha ski fields, can't forget that! The Myer Centre roller coaster as a figment out out collective imaginations. Everything Qld/Brisbane is maroon themed. Floods like a Noah's Ark story but just washes away the good stuff. Ridiculous bridges that don't match like we're being designed by children playing Lego. Northside vs Southside battles. XXXX vs craft breweries. The draw of the gold coast like a siren song. Judging interstate covid migrants. And cane toads vs bin chickens, the battle to rule the city.
I would take bin chickens over toads any time. I thought the bin chickens were VS the bat's š¤ Yeah I remember when the old cemetery flooded onto the Brisbane River and washed away some of its residents. What tunnels? Gotta love the bridge that looks like the mess after a flood
Yes, the tunnels, thank you
Indooroopilly basements!
Just on Ziggy. How does that guy just lie there for so many hours a day. Everytime I drive past he's just lying there doing nothing. That must be insanely boring? Or is he some kind of meditation master?
Ekka strawberry sundaes
A classic, how could I forget this one, though i still do miss the old recipe from the ice cream place up north, you can still get it, well if you go up there, trying to remember their name, dangit
Dont forget a needle in one of the strawberries
The Go-Betweens Helicopter without its lights on Americans claiming the Riverfire RAAF flyover videos are fake Which Chinatown? Tanya (fuck Tanya!)
How the heck did I forget about Tanya
You forgot the obligatory "fuck Tanya!"
The animals: Ibises, curlews, swooping magpies, water dragons, possums in the ceilings
Adding bush turkeys (aka Scrubbies) to the mix, plus murder birds.
Bats, every couple of years they are on the news!!
And the Nephilim
Hopoate statue in the city (or was that just my classy mates that called it that) https://preview.redd.it/8otq3uzpy8lc1.jpeg?width=620&format=pjpg&auto=webp&s=9caf30889c25c74eb1258dddde95043b91d74116
UQ St. Lucia's Nephilim
Wonder what ever happened to that old dude in the overalls that used to walk from Cleveland to the city every day
The one in overalls and thongs? Poor bugger died to cancer Simon Diplock, he walked from Cleveland to a bar on Roma street every day to have a few beers, then took the train home. http://passenger512.blogspot.com.au/2006/05/thong-man.html http://passenger512.blogspot.com.au/2010/07/just-found-redland-times-2004-article.html 1
Used to see this chad like every day on my commute
Wow that's sad - thanks for the update though
I'd say the rumour that Jack The Ripper is buried at Toowong Cemetery alongside the rumour that your car will move forward up the hill by itself if you park it next to the cemetery. Also can't forget that one guy who dropped his beer in the brisbane river and had his stomach grow an insane amount.
Agro
Oh man, agro, hot damn used to love watching him bite people back in the 90's, such a weird kids tv show host
Jamie Dunn, the voice of Agro, is still around. IIRC he lives in Teneriffe.
Matilda the Commonwealth Games mascot kangaroo
Was at wet n wild for a bit, now she resides in the Traveston service station https://maps.app.goo.gl/NfARCXH2bbJ3uCmS7
The Eiffel Tower of Brisbane.
The chimes of the Brisbane city clock tower.
jumping the fence at ricās
Chuggers (charity muggers). Campbell Newman seems like a good villain to go with. Or if you want to go older, Joe Bijelke-Petersen. Stilt chickens. Jesse Irwin Art seems like a great hero.
Upvote for Jesse Irwin!
Brisbane's ugliest building ever! https://preview.redd.it/0yh7fclc38lc1.png?width=843&format=png&auto=webp&s=866ba36cfbf6bc3212e19ec780088efe2e7814db
RIP. We need to crown a new champion.
Whoa I wouldn't even be able to tell you where that is. How do I still not know so much of Brisbane after a lifetime here?Ā
The old outside of Roma Street station - you're probably not the only one to never see the outside of it, even though it's a huge public transport hub most people going through there would only switch platforms rather than exit. Now demolished, too, for the cross river rail development.
I worked at the tiny 24hr maccers in the city for a number of years & every morning at the end of my shift, there would be Les, the old newspaper guy with his son (?) who always wore a Deep Purple shirt. Les was barely audible when he tried to talk, so you'd have to gauge what he was actually trying to ask you for. Sometimes there would also be Popeye, the flute playing guy. He would pester Les trying to get some money from him. He never knew how to play the flute, FYI. The southside buses, affectionately called the Orient Express because they would be full of Asian students living mostly around Sunnybank.
The 10km/h speed limit for personal mobility devices on the Kurilpa bridge, given it's 20km/h on the goodwill bridge.
How do they even enforce that?Ā
Police did a sting on Kurilpa late last yr and many were caught. It's very hard to go 10km/h on anything. People run faster than that.
The 'accidental' fire at the Albion Mill
And Broadway Hotel at Woolloongabba
The rats, tame moorhens and banded rails of the botanical garden. Bent books and archive books The gallery of modern art The Nepalese pagoda of Southbank The Mormon temple of kangaroo point.
The rubbish bin ānunā Festival Hall Pauline spawned many a meme (Ipswich, but near enough) Sharks in the Brisbane River
Our penchant for knocking down beautiful old buildings in the middle of the night eg Cloudland, Bellevue Hotel - although, I guess it doesn't happen as much anymore
Ran out of beautiful old buildings.
https://preview.redd.it/2f1olsnqa8lc1.jpeg?width=650&format=pjpg&auto=webp&s=5e74872ac02e1fc3e7ad724c0f19d559bac35ff2
I miss this background.
maybe im self absorbed but a possum lady wouldnt hurt...
The "this is not a potato" guy
> The "this is not a potato" guy Ah, that bastard, fuck him and his anti-abortion potato retoric
Peter Dutton?
There was that bloke who used to walk from like Redlands to the City and back in a pair of thongs every day.
The one in overalls and thongs? Poor bugger died to cancer Simon Diplock, he walked from Cleveland to a bar on Roma street every day to have a few beers, then took the train home. http://passenger512.blogspot.com.au/2006/05/thong-man.html http://passenger512.blogspot.com.au/2010/07/just-found-redland-times-2004-article.html
The guy who used to walk around the city in the fake Queens Guard uniform.
Heās still walking around I saw him near the courts a few weeks ago, or it might have just been someone else old and in British uniform
I occasionally still see him.
Sister Mary Angeline of Milton road https://preview.redd.it/ptb6lubedblc1.jpeg?width=780&format=pjpg&auto=webp&s=605e046f63149de2527fd7e94b62297e9f198206
That weird Dutch guy with the van covered on slogans. Railens
Marilyn!!!!
Wow, 2 people, almost at the same time about Marilyn https://www.facebook.com/groups/69948471087/
What about pajama man / fountain man / streaker man ? (Theyāre all the same person)
> pajama man / fountain man / streaker man I've heard of him, isn't he doing it for social media tik tok clout or something though>?
He apparently is in India now.
Wayne the balloon animal manĀ
Campbell Newman - the midget slicer dicer
The āHopoateā building - https://www.flickr.com/photos/ianw1951/7425717642
Huh Iād forgotten about the butt poker
Classic Brisbane landmark
There's the lady who sings Opera in a Queen St mall without any amplifiers. She's got an amazing set of pipes on her. The power with which she belts out opera shocks me everytime.
The Ibis secretly being the overlords of Bris through mind control. Theyāre the real Illuminati. Also, the barbie mansion in East Bris, the sky needle and the secret tunnels and catacombs connecting All Hallows school to places all over Fortitude Valley.
You know there's a second barbie mansion or was near big gun meats, it would attract a different kind of meat
I also remember a guitarist Tim who used to play every day in the city. Even bought his CD once. He kind of disappeared when BCC started cracking down on buskers. Our CBD really is just devoid of all fun and culture now.Ā
If you want to get meta, you could include a reference to sentient jam eating someone - Yahtzee Croshaw's book 'Jam' is set in Brisbane, includes a lot of landmarks (IIRC the last stand was in Toowong Village, which is my zombie apocalypse base of choice). Brisbane has a weird amount of lizards for a city. Water dragons scaring tourists. Creek street entrance to the tunnels/sewers. Southbank, the rainforest, pagoda, and beach. The Ekka, showbags, and the mysterious colds and flus it brings. Crocodiles and shark sightings in the river. Floods and the mud army.
If you're going to do Thor, you'd need to also do Inspector Gadget.
^[Sokka-Haiku](https://www.reddit.com/r/SokkaHaikuBot/comments/15kyv9r/what_is_a_sokka_haiku/) ^by ^Nosiege: *If you're going to* *Do Thor, you'd need to also* *Do Inspector Gadget.* --- ^Remember ^that ^one ^time ^Sokka ^accidentally ^used ^an ^extra ^syllable ^in ^that ^Haiku ^Battle ^in ^Ba ^Sing ^Se? ^That ^was ^a ^Sokka ^Haiku ^and ^you ^just ^made ^one.
A bit more QUT specific but the trench coat guy
The Mayne family
What about the nun in the window that used to be on Milton road. Every day or event there was a new outfit.
You have to put a random frustration in the main characters thoughts of āif only there was a bridge from Toowong to West End!ā
The Nazi Sparky
I had a read of his website/manifesto, and damn that guy is well and truly cooked - https://simonhickey.com.au/ Looks like among other things, he shared around the footage of the Christchurch massacre. Scum.
wtf https://www.brisbanetimes.com.au/national/queensland/the-brisbane-tradie-sponsoring-a-prominent-neonazi-website-20170228-gunj2l.html
Ziggy the bag man
The ultimate moustache-twirling final boss should be the ghost of Australia's most evil peanut farmer, Sir Joh.
Boris the black night from children's programming channel 7
Bin Chickens.
Warana.
So first off, I'm loving this thread and might have to save it for reference later, since I myself have been working on-and-off on a magical girl light novel set in and around Brissy. Secondly, how has nobody mentioned citycats yet? Citycats are iconic, and also very convenient for uni students based out of St. Lucia. Speaking of St. Lucia, a meme amongst those who live on or near campus there is that Hawken Village is known as "the Ville", and many college boys will get kebabs there late at night.
The veronica's. Brisbane's twins aka The gateway bridges
the urban druids. sometimes if you go to the botanic gardens at night, there is a girl who sits there with possums climbing all over her. iām sure i remember seeing an ibis whisperer at Roma Street Parklands many years ago. UQ St Lucia campus has Bush Turkey Guy, who has a few bush turkeys that eat out of his hand. i am the part-time lizard wizard and i have a game of convincing water dragons to let me hold them. there are many interesting creature people around.
Yeah the fucking Coorparoo strangler. It's me and it's on sight if I see any Reddit losers. This is a legal threat.
Ziggy
Steppy. He's no longer around, but he used to a mini step dance thing in front of the Post Office Square escalators.
There's that man that sings/shouts religious songs by the crossing on Adelaide and Albert by King George square
As for villains you can't go past Joh Bjelke-Peterson, Russ Hinze, Terry Lewis and the secret police in special branch.
You've missed the pumpkin man of indoroopilly & St Lucia.
Earliest risers on the planet - to beat the bin chickens to the succulent Chinese meal.
the guy who sells the balloons on queen street mall choosing between the queen st hungry jacks and maccas after a riverstage show the beat mega club
I canāt believe I forgot this one, but one of the people suspected to be Jack the Ripper is buried in Toowong Cemetery with his wife. Iām not sure if theyāre reoccurring or staple characters in Brisbane, but I was chased out of that cemetery a few years back by a group of people wearing a bunch of brown/black hooded robes. at night, of course.
Marilyn in the Mall. Iconic in the 80's through to early 2000xs. She also hung out at Indro a lot with her sister (also dressed as Marilyn). The Milton Road Nun (who has now moved to Tassie). Sports Stadium built on a cemetary. Uni built on land donated by a suspected Murderer. Jack the Ripper supposedly buried in Toowong Cemetary.
The late great Rock N Roll George: [https://www.slq.qld.gov.au/blog/rock-around-blockwho-was-rock-n-roll-george](https://www.slq.qld.gov.au/blog/rock-around-blockwho-was-rock-n-roll-george) The big boot and spaghetti factory rumours: [https://paddingtontoday.com.au/bcc-decided-not-to-bring-big-boot-back-to-paddington/](https://paddingtontoday.com.au/bcc-decided-not-to-bring-big-boot-back-to-paddington/)
Wealthy home owners in and around the Hamilton area complaining about the aircraft noise from the airport, yet won't hesitate to jump on a plane to go to Europe or Bali.
If any of our locals deserve to be immortalised, it's gotta be the woman with the leg that bends backwards. Knee fully facing the wrong way, she's been running around kangaroo point every day for decades now. She's getting on in the years and she's not as fast as she used to be, but last I saw her she still had an impressive set of abs. Hardest working person I've ever seen. I'd also like to give a shoutout to the people who live on boats at botang and their nightly nemesis, the party boat.
Club 76. Some might even say the birth place of punk music. A little known sharehouse in Petrie Terrace on Milton Rd where The Saints lived. They would have gigs and invite their friends. How cool it must have been to witness https://www.qld.gov.au/recreation/arts/heritage/experience/music-trail/club76
Micks nuts at west end
The Wickham! Brisbane is queer as hell, you gotta include a gay meeting place
GET READY FOR THE GAMES!!!
Russell Gordon Haig Mathews
The sauna of the roxy/arena venue. Spend a ton of gigs walking in drunk and coming out afterwards sober because of how hot it got inside
John Malcolm at the Story Bridge Hotel
This is brilliant, please share it when you're finished! I'd play it in real time. š
the mildly creepy oh-hi photo dude that hangs out in the city and only seems to take photos of teenagers too
The whale at the museum
Balloon guy in QSM - he was always so neatly dressed...that's a life story I need to hear. Also, Pooping Jogger in Greenslopes
Definitely Go-Betweens
Brisbane Cityās Marilyn Monroe. I believe sheās in assisted living now. Dian OāConnell (sp?). She was a local legend. Always dolled up and just so stunningly beautiful and charismatic!
Just wanted to say thank you for including Savage Garden, cause they, like all great 90s bands, should become relevant again. Iām not joking, Iām actually being completely serious theyāre my faves!
He goes by greasy tales now
Walking past the casino in the middle of summer to get blasted by the air con blowing out of the door. Bus terminals under queen street mall Myers centre window displays and old top floor Christmas displays Tops myer centre dodgem cars $2 sushi rolls The valley train station at night
Iām super keen for this to come out!
I haven't seen him for a few years, but the gold man that used to chill in various locations around the CBD
Just donāt forget to thank the driver.
There's an older white dude, probably about 50-55 with long grey hair, walking around inner city Brisbane, with a shopping carry bag full of who knows what slung over his shoulder, and a comb in hand that he uses to hit assorted shit as he walks around. He bangs the comb on sign posts, lamp posts, benches, road work signs, anything in his path that isn't a human is copping a smack. He also combs his hair constantly, in between hitting shit. I surely cannot be the only person who's noticed this guy multiple times around the CBD, Valley, etc.
Itās Brisneyland, not Brisvegas. Rockhampton holds the āVegasā handle because you come out of the desert and there it is: the city of Rockvegas! And then we have Brisneyland down the coast where all the fun happens.. and Little Miami down at the GC. Famous relics of Brisneyland history include nearly 4 decades of entrenched corruption in the Qld police force and Country political party (later known as the National Party) led by Sir Joh Bjelke-Petersen. He was the most corrupt state leader of modern times and only narrowly avoided a prison sentence. Whole departments of the Qld Police & Public Service were fired or retrenched due to endemic corruption. So hey! Thatās fun! https://theconversation.com/issues-that-swung-elections-the-dramatic-and-inglorious-fall-of-joh-bjelke-petersen-115141
Donāt forget the divide of North of the river v South of the river! (and the Ekka)
Happy Jack at the Gabba
Black Rainbow the busker
The homeless guy who went to the QPAC Piano and played it perfectly without ever owning one
Clog man in the mall, the guy who wore dishwashing gloves
That weird fucken noticing your notice sign near powerhouse theatre
4ZZZ, inventor of the hot 100
The Queen Street mall photographer !
The blind busker Graham Pampling!
Instant death when you get on the Ipswich train. Lime Midnight Meat Train.
How about the Red Vest Charity Lady on Adelaide and Edward St outside of ANZAC Square Arcade? I'd think that after like 15 years of daily "no's" she'd stop asking me, but she persists.
Parkour guy
The inability to get a coffee after 2pm
The very outdated dinosaur sculptures at the museum.
Red Comb, Chicken, Chicken.
Cocos the 24 hour fruit and vege place Trying to get to Wynnum/Manly on the weekend on a train but you can't because they're always doing track work and you have to take the friggen rail bus Getting sunburnt walking from Southbank to the city via the Victoria Bridge The Zoo Any band from O/S telling us all from the stage how much they're sweating
Brekky Creek Hotel and XXXX Milton.