Maybe, maybe not. When the chips are down they buckle down to it just as good as ever Throw a crisis at them and watch the reaction
Surveys are full of holes anyway
They do tend spend a lot more on their appearance,(urbanised types) and some, you could say, spend more on their grooming than the females they are partnered up with

Go for a run in the bush, do the same survey and it will come out near on 180 degrees from this one. Never been much different since the early 1900's in the variance between the city blokes and the bush blokes. But as I said, let there be a crises and watch the Aussie, and the Kiwi for that matter drop the shoulder to the wheel and give his all.
Oh, and I dont drink beer, its got a shocking taste a few cans of whishky and dry, do me OK

I'll keep doing my bit for the Aussie male.....there's still some of us here!

And as for taking Quiche to a barbie....That guy should get a fair slap across

....I mean, should get a 'punch in the guts'!

What bloke drinks champagne over beer?

I don't mind some quiche, but as a side to some snags and a steak, not the whole meal!

And who would go to a restaurant/club over a cheap/big/yum pubfeed?

Geez

This survey is either a tool to promote beer sales/the brewing company and has probably been rigged to get a result

Either that, or the city folk are getting worse

What a load of rubbsh, who was asked these questions, probabily a bunch of poooofs from adelaide

Ha ha - nothin to do with being blokey.. it is more an awarness that taste buds and olifactory senses are to be spoilt, not abused with cr@p quality offerings

Anyone fancy some blue castello? It goes a treat with some quince paste and the wooded semillon.. Or you can have the mystery bags (party pies) and some beer (not sure if the over-chemicalled fizzy urine precursor brewed in Oz would pass most countries definition of beer).. Or of coursre you can eat some organic fertaliser over on the garden.. your choice sweety

getfunky said...




Ha ha - nothin to do with being blokey.. it is more an awarness that taste buds and olifactory senses are to be spoilt, not abused with cr@p quality offerings

Anyone fancy some blue castello? It goes a treat with some quince paste and the wooded semillon.. Or you can have the mystery bags (party pies) and some beer (not sure if the over-chemicalled fizzy urine precursor brewed in Oz would pass most countries definition of beer).. Or of coursre you can eat some organic fertaliser over on the garden.. your choice sweety

I like Your Style Funky..Get a couple of Caperberries on the Plate with the Blue Vein and Quince Paste... Yumm...

This reminds me of a book I read recently, and searching for Hugh Mackay's term 'new bloke' led me to find this:

The Aussie bloke

October 2005

Sociologist Dr Andrew Singleton asks whether the traditional Aussie bloke has disappeared -- or is he just hard to spot behind the optimistic rhetoric of social commentators?

Is the old-fashioned Aussie bloke an endangered species? You know, the fella clutching the beer at the barbie, gut hanging over his shorts, earning an honest 9 to 5 living, unfussed about whether he had spent quality time with his kids, blissfully unaware that his psychological wellbeing may need attention.

Popular media often gives the impression that several new male sub-species have evolved in these post-modern and liberated times, rendering the traditional bloke a relic.

We have the 'metrosexual' -- hairless and tanned, swanning from inner-city bar to waterfront apartment on his shiny Vespa. The 'new lad' -- a self-employed tradesman who reads Ralph magazine and whose earning power in the new economy is signified by his metallic-blue, mud-free Holden SS ute. And finally, the 'new father' -- up to his elbows in baby poo, vomit rag tossed over one shoulder as he vacuums the house for his working wife.

Beyond these facile media stereotypes, however, social circumstances over the past two decades have spawned the earnest belief that men are changing, and for the better.

Social researcher Hugh Mackay recently wrote about the existence of the 'new bloke', who is "comfortable both with his masculinity ... and with the new meanings of female liberation". A recent article in The Age carried the sub-head: "From delivery room to daily grind, the modern dad is more than just a breadwinner". In the mid-1990s, psychologist Steve Biddulph's book Manhood: An Action Plan for Changing Men's Lives, which offers a solution to the masculinity crisis, became a best-seller.

Despite this widespread optimism and myth-making, a careful reading of the evidence suggests the elements that have traditionally defined manhood -- breadwinning, fatherhood, men's assumption of superiority over women -- remain largely unaltered.

There are three pieces of evidence that support this notion.

Rather than scaling back their professional commitments to spend more time with family, Australian men apparently care about work more than ever before. Recent figures show Australians now put in the second-longest working hours among OECD nations. The unprecedented and extraordinary level of household debt creates a powerful imperative for men to stay at their desks, workbenches or sales meeting.

Contemporary fathers might, in theory, be more interested in quality time with the kids. But in practice, this idyllic picture crumbles. Australian men are not actually spending much time in their children's company. A recent report by the Australia Institute found 30 per cent of Melbourne fathers spent more time commuting each week than they did with their children. US research tells us that, on average, a man actually increases his annual hours of paid, outside work by 38 hours per year after the birth of a child.

Equality between the sexes? Even with equal opportunity legislation, men on average still earn more than women for performing the same kind of work.

Evidence of the existence of the so-called 'new man' is usually anecdotal, or based on an optimistic reading of research, such as the finding that men now spend one hour more per week on housework than they did 30 years ago.

All this means we should treat the 'changing man' imagery with suspicion, for this new-age creature seems to be more a product of wishful thinking than a reality. Though some progress has been made, the traditional Aussie male, far from being extinct, may in fact merely have disguised himself in the sheep's clothing provided by the notion of 'changed masculinity'.

Dr Andrew Singleton is a sociology lecturer in the School of Political and Social Inquiry at Monash.

From http://www.monash.edu.au/pubs/monmag/issue16-2005/opinion/opinion-bloke.html

mineral1 said...

a few cans of whishky and dry, do me OK

sounds like you just had a few

Dawn Patrol said...

Amen.

Denim shorts - at least 1.5wks in them without a wash

hair cut - when trying to get a job or approx 6-8months

But then again, we are uni students!

Why is everyone metro now?

Who gives a rat's anyway. Is someone having an identity crisis?

Dude it was because it was reported on adelaidenow.com.au

Lighten up

airush geoff said...

Sorry just sick of all the ****e being flung around here lately... my bad- angry statements withdrawn...

I actually kinda like Vicco every now and then...

I am from Adelaide I posted it to see what people would say I read the article and had a laugh because I have witnessed this my self with kids at my school and camps taking ages to get ready. it was put up purely to debate over and have a laugh over.

Cheers Pittsy

next thing you know people will be wearing boardies over their wetties.

Jeeeze do you blokes iron your kalvin klien jocks too?

These things may be tasty but there is no way it beats the taste of a slab of pork cut from the sizzling carcass of a pig spit at 10 pm when you've had a skinfull.Or the taste of a kebab,with sour cream and chilli sauce,at 3 am after a night on the town.

Mate - that is like comparing a steak burger and a grogan sammy. You need to get out and chow down a bit more

Late night lamb sammies are the sole comfort for someone who has lucked out with the ladies (or blokes if that tickles ya) and are not phased if another human being is rendered unconscious by their breath for the next few days. Of course after a skinful and a luckless night they can be handy

What two consenting adults get up to with a late night lamby sammy should be kept private.