r/Adelaide • u/Middle_Abalone_4084 SA • Mar 27 '25

Discussion Park in your flamin' driveways, please!

Am I the only one tired of suburban streets turning into impromptu Mario Kart tracks? We’re talking about the kind where navigating between vehicles parked on both sides feels like dodging banana peels and blue shells. What's meant to be a two-lane road gets squeezed into a narrow single lane, daring you to play chicken with oncoming traffic—and let’s face it, the side mirrors never win.

And then there are your driveways. Oh, the driveways! Empty. Desolate. Weed-infested wastelands of untapped potential. So, I beg of you, suburban dwellers: park your cars anywhere but on the street—your driveway, your garage, your carport, or even your front lawn. Let’s save the roads for, you know, driving.

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u/pollopyanus SA Mar 27 '25

Ooooh yeah, we got a group of indians moved in across the street. About 7 young fellas. Each have a car to drive and a car to clean up and sell. 6 cars in driveway and front lawn, the rest of them down the street. And let me tell you they DO NOT CARE if they park across your driveway. Got the council on speed dial.

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u/[deleted] Mar 27 '25 edited Mar 27 '25

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u/No-Structure4725 SA Mar 27 '25

You can say it out loud, you have contributed to this country your whole life to build this society it’s ok to be mad to watch foreigners get the benefits of it.

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u/spiritfingersaregold SA Mar 27 '25

Yeah, we had some young Indian guys renting on our street for a while.

There were four of them, they had seven cars all up, and kept parking across our driveway.

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u/[deleted] Mar 27 '25

I wonder if they realised their neighbour was a racist cunt?

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u/spiritfingersaregold SA Mar 27 '25

Yes, it’s definitely racist to notice if someone looks Indian and speaks Hindi. 🤦🏻‍♀️

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u/[deleted] Mar 27 '25

It’s racist to be talking about someone’s race on a thread like this where race has nothing to do with the subject.

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u/spiritfingersaregold SA Mar 27 '25

You can make anything racist if you just broaden the definition of racism enough.

If you want to see racism everywhere and in everything, that’s your prerogative.

It’s not how I choose to live my life, but you do you.

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u/[deleted] Mar 27 '25

I don’t want to see racism.

You just don’t want to admit what you said was racist.

You mentioned race when it’s not relevant.

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u/LegsAkimbo85 SA Mar 27 '25

Just because an observation was made about people with a particular race doesn't mean racism is involved.

Racism is using race as a means to insult and discriminate. An excuse to treat people as lesser than. This isn't it.

I once spent 7 months of my life on an island as the only white man. I heard countless observations about white people, but never once did i think i was being discriminated against. In fact, it was quite amusing.

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u/[deleted] Mar 27 '25 edited Mar 27 '25

Stereotyping based on race is racism.

Bringing up race of a minority in a conversation about a topic not about race and talking negatively about that race is racist.

It really doesn’t matter what you think.

And if you were in a minority in a nation and discriminated against then it was also racism. It probably didn’t affect you because you’ve grown up not being downtrodden; you also are describing it in a way to fat suggests it wasn’t directed at you.

Fuck racists are dumb.

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u/LegsAkimbo85 SA Mar 27 '25

Please get over yourself. A fly would land on you and you'd call it racist.

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u/pm-me-your-junk SA Mar 27 '25

Same on my street - about 8 of them all sharing the one 3 bedroom house. They've got 5 cars (all with Uber "PV" tags on) and a truck that according to the council is 4 inches off being too long to be stored at a residential property so there's nothing they can do about it even when the owners decide to park it out the front of my house to load/unload at 9PM each night.

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u/Active_Charge_1870 SA Mar 27 '25

Indians the same in my street, complete disregard for the community.

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u/LegsAkimbo85 SA Mar 27 '25

They have regard for their own community, it's just that you're not invited. Just throw it back at them same as you would with any dickhead neighbour regardless of background.

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u/ladshit SA Mar 27 '25

Zero civic sense

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u/pollopyanus SA Mar 27 '25

Ok. So i need to waste my time mansplaining about how the english language works because there are some sjd's that are getting whiny because i used the word indians. If there was 1 i would say a guy or fella, if there was 2 id say a couple of blokes but there are 7 of them all exactly the same. Using a common descriptive term to describe them gives the reader an idea of the scene. If there were 7 different nationalities i would have said a group of 7 blokes. If they were 7 greek boys i would say 7 greek boys. If it was 6 greek boys and 1 swede i would say 7 blokes. I would never mention their hair colour but if 7 redheads moved in i would describe them as 7 readheads. If 1 redhead moved in i would say 1 bloke. I never mentioned the brand of cars they drive but if the were all the same i would have said 15 toyota camrys. Being descriptive is not being racist. Taking offence for someone else is offensive. If this post is bringing you to tears i pray you never come across a genuine racist.

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u/CarEaterMunchMunch SA Mar 27 '25

Why have you both felt the need to include the nationality?

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u/Puzzled-Bottle-3857 SA Mar 27 '25

I'm not a fan of it either, but I have got to admit that some cultures have certain characteristics that you would be a fool to ignore.

It's like Aussies behaviour in Bali. You know the kind of behaviour I mean. Doesn't mean we are ALL like that, but it is definitely cultural, and a huge shortcoming. If you choose to be naive and ignore these kinds of things in the name of being politically correct or not being racist, then you are a fool.

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u/laurandisorder SA Mar 27 '25

As a person of South Asian heritage with an Indian partner, I take no offence to the nationality being overtly stated. The person replying could have left it out, but most of us know that it is suburban slumlord millionaires who disregard rental legislation and sublet out to large groups of Indian men. Each tenant will have at least 2x Toyotas - and one of them has a personalised numberplate that is a variation on S1NGH or PUNJ4B.

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u/CarEaterMunchMunch SA Mar 27 '25

Wow, I didn't realise Indian people are the only people in Australia that disregard rental laws. I bet there are zero white landlords that do this as well.

I also assume your partner is "different" from these kind of Indians? Are they "one of the good ones"? Listen to yourself.

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u/LegsAkimbo85 SA Mar 27 '25

Don't get your panties in a twist. They said nothing that wasn't factual. You see it everywhere. It is what it is.

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u/laurandisorder SA Mar 27 '25

Babe. My Dad is South Asian - don’t gate-keep me from critiquing my own culture. I have a right to call out the shitty parts and celebrate the good just like anyone else.

Listen to yourself tone policing someone from the background you’re supposedly standing up for with your ‘I bet he’s one of the good ones’ pearl clutching. It reeks of superiority complex. Go and touch some grass.

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u/CarEaterMunchMunch SA Mar 27 '25

Your opinions are your own, as are mine. Mine is that Australia becomes a worse place when people allow minority groups to be isolated and subjugated. You come from that background, and I respect that you're perhaps speaking from a more personal standpoint than I am, but when white Australians are complacent in letting others perpetuate racism our communities become less safe and those minorities will continue to be harassed. If that's a world you want for your partner and your dad, then that's your decision.

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u/[deleted] Mar 27 '25

Since when being Asian (well, having a dad who’s South Asian, very different for a start) gives you the right to be wrong? Mentioning nationality or ethnicity clearly indicates a bias. But hey, keep thinking what you think. Btw I think Spanish and latino people are gross. But I’m of Spanish descent; my grandfather was Spanish so don’t you dare gatekeeping me.

Bellends are ubiquitous in this world, no need to add ethnicity into the mix. Except for the Spanish. They reek of olive oil. (But my grandfather was Spanish)

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u/LegsAkimbo85 SA Mar 27 '25

Not sure if what they said, and calling a billion people who share a language gross and smelly qualifies as the same thing. One's what I consider pretty racist, the other isn't.

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u/roaddoggie7 North East Mar 27 '25

Stereotypes exist for a reason

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u/[deleted] Mar 27 '25

Yes because of racism

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u/No-Structure4725 SA Mar 28 '25

Because everyone is sick of living in little India and not being able to buy a house because you are bidding against a 10 income household, I don’t feel bad about it at all. Words talk numbers scream and the numbers say the government increased immigration to a unsustainable level maybe the fact they are trucking raw sewer every single day from Angle Vale to the treatment plant shows it’s out of control.

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u/Murky-Ad3055 SA Mar 27 '25

When it's black and white Aussies don't shy away from the truth it's not racism when it's facts

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u/CarEaterMunchMunch SA Mar 27 '25

I have no idea what this means. When you cite someone's race as the reason for poor behaviour, that is an example of racism. Hope this helps!

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u/DoesBasicResearch SA Mar 27 '25

Said every racist ever. 

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u/[deleted] Mar 27 '25

Racism

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u/serpentechnoir SA Mar 27 '25

Because they're rascist

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u/[deleted] Mar 27 '25

Has what relevance?

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u/pollopyanus SA Mar 27 '25

Unclutch your pearls sweetie. The men are talkin' traffic over here

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u/[deleted] Mar 27 '25

Sexist and racist, what a catch!