In an article so stupid that one would heave the laptop into the pool to escape it, a couple of statements nevertheless managed to stick like burrs onto an idle brain cell.
A successful porn star has shared her expert knowledge – and that includes how men can improve during sex.
Angela White – who has been dubbed “the Meryl Streep of porn” – has 932million views on Pornhub and countless subscribers on OnlyFans.
The 37-year-old is without a doubt one of Australia’s most successful exports, having 95 awards thanks to her performances.
The rest of the article is completely pointless and forgettable, but the last statement was the burr, leading to the tangential thought: what else has Australia memorably exported from its island shores to the rest of the planet?
I’m trying to think of many, or any, Oz exports outside the sporting world (in which area the Strylians admittedly excel). So leaving aside Rod Laver, Greg Norman, Donald Bradman, Margaret Court, Shane Warne, Graham Thorpe and their ilk, what’s left?
Actors Paul Hogan, Nicole Kidman, the Brothers Hemsworth, Hugh Jackman etc. and a few directors (Peter Weir comes to mind)… novelists Patrick White, James Clavell, Thomas Keneally, Colleen McCullough, Neville Shute…
…and that’s pretty much it. (No doubt my Strylian Readers will step up in Comments to chide me, and that’s a Good Thing.)
When it comes to stuff (as opposed to people), the gruel is thin indeed. Of Foster’s Lager and Vegemite we will not speak, and I can’t think of any more Oz exports that come to mind. (There is a list of Oz inventions which is quite astonishing, but a great many of them were developed elsewhere e.g. the U.K. and the U.S.)
As for the above-mentioned Angela White we will say even less, except that if she is indeed “one of Australia’s most successful exports”, the Land Down Under needs to up its game.
Or we need to revise our definition of “successful exports”.
Here’s noted Oz export Isla Fisher:
…who is known principally for her appalling taste in husbands.
Olivia Newton-John was another very famous Australian.
or “infamous”…
Olivia Newton-John was born in England (U.K.).
“the Meryl Streep of porn”
The image of Meryl Streep doing porn makes me shudder. Her publicist couldn’t come up with a better analogy?
I’ve never been a fan of Streep’s. Her performances come across as flat to me.
JQ
how can you leave out Australia’s contribution to fine dining, Outback Steakhouse!!!
I tried a bloomin’ onion once. ONCE. A vehicle for grease & salt. The ribeye was good, though. One would have to be spectacularly inept to fuck up a good piece of beef.
Don’t forget the Owen gun. I’d like one in .45 ACP.
Head bangers AC/DC comes to mind
And sad to say, Nevil Shute started life as a Brit, so Oz can only claim half of him as a famous export.
All the good things exported don’t make up for Ken Ham.
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Ken_Ham
Some in the world of wine think highly of their vinous output. I’ve visited NSW/Sydney and made a heroic effort to validate this claim. I gotta say I don’t agree. Meh at best.
Tim-Tams and the resultant Tim-Tam Slam, Victoria Bitter and XXXX beer, Off-roader Ronny Dahl, and X-rated singer Kevin Bloody Wilson. Also Strayans have elevated swearing to a magnificent artform, surpassed only possibly by sailors. They have 4×4 rigs that we’ll never have access to here, like the Hilux, Prado, and of course those magnificent classic Land Cruisers (I’ll take an older 78 “troopie,” with a pre-DEF diesel engine, thankee.
On the other hand there’s the whole gun thing, the fact you’re prosecuted and fined for not voting, and their road traffic enforcement in certain states is even more draconian than in the Deep South here. But all of that said, I’d sell my right nut to take a Troopy on the Canning Stock Route, the old Telly Track in NT and through the Simpson Desert.
My favorite ’80s band, Men at Work, hailed from Australia.
I suspect Australian meat, because the shit they leave for the subjects is revolting. “Silver side” AKA “leg meat”? Only ever seen that under the brand name “Alpo” before. Apart from that, essentially nothing. Australia has three main industries – what’s in the land (coal, iron, minerals), what’s on the land (cows, sheep, sugar), and Government. With perhaps an unofficial fourth – “selling off Infrastructure to the Chinese”. For all their drum beating against China, they sure love having that country own power generation, mines, ports, hotels, apartment complexes, and so on.
When I moved here I thought “I would love to go back to working for a manufacturing company”. No such thing.
Now, my fellow Americans, you may be thinking this is too harsh – “I met an Aussie and he was great!”. That’s because you only meet the ones who manage to escape. The rest of the crabs in a bucket are low IQ, rage fueled inbreds.
You really should learn some manners.
Lemme see now…
CEA Technologies (www.cea.com.au) makes the most technologically advanced, powerful and flexible military phased array radar systems in the world. CEA’s radars can do things that no other radar in the world can do, and that no other radar will be doing for decades to come, if ever.
A big call? The United States has lots of gigantic radar companies. Think Lockheed-Martin, Northrop-Grumman and Raytheon for a start. None of those behemoth companies are anywhere near CEA’s tech, and the proof of that lies in the fact that the US DOD has bypassed their suppliers to purchase hundreds of millions of dollars worth of CEA’s unique radars for specialised military applications over the last few years, and those 100% Australian designed and manufactured radars are now deployed everywhere from Alaska to Florida in defence of …ahem… American freedom.
Beyond that, in no particular order, there’s the Atlassian software engineering tools (which I think are pretty shit, but lots of people like them), the black box flight recorder found on all commercial aircraft, the heart pacemaker, the Cochlear bionic ear which restores hearing to totally deaf people, the medical use of penicillin (I used to live in a suburb named after Howard Florey), the WIFI technology that you use to connect your computer to the internet, medical ultrasound scanning, Fairlight digital audio systems, Penfolds wines, the petrol powered motorised lawnmower, vapour compressipn cooling systems which are the basis of all modern air conditioning and refrigeration, wine in boxes (you may not consider that a good thing), Staysharp knives, solar powered hot water systems, the electric drill, the utility truck and shitloads of other things.
Of all of the above, Florey’s application of penicillin to the treatment of disease has probably had the most impact on the most people around the world. If you’ve ever had an illness treated…perhaps your life saved.. by a dose of antibiotics, thank that brilliant Australian scientist.
Physically–I mean other than having had sex with more men than Elton John–she seems like your type.
She’s not wrong about communication leading to better sex.
And yeah, that article could have been written *so* much better.
*** strong stomach required ***
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Knuckledraggin’ has a press-release about a gal doing the ‘eyeballs tattoo’ thing.
Apparently, the freak-show went blind:
https://ogdaa.blogspot.com/2023/01/who-doesnt-love-blue-eyed-babes.html?m=1
The ‘law-student’ with five offspring blames her ‘artist for going too deep’.
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Australia freak-show, one source of the trending fad of tattooing eyeballs:
http://www.google.com/search?q=Australian+model+Amber+Luke&client=ms-android-tmus-us-revc&sourceid=chrome-mobile&ie=UTF-8
Another successful Australian export.
I like to buy American when I can, but I’m very partial to Australia’s Akubra brand of hats. As good as Stetson’s but less expensive, even if you are paying for shipping from down under. I’ve got five different styles, and am always browsing for my next one.
And as others remarked, there’s Men at Work and Kevin Bloody Wilson. G’Day.
I second the praise of Akubra. My daily hat for the last six or seven years is an Akubra. Other than the black fading a bit, it’s still going gangbusters.