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forgive me for my ignorance

but ive only been in Aus for a 5 or 6month now and me and the fiance take regular trips to the gold coast through the week for a look around, only this week we were welcomed with "schooliesl" what the hell is it???

i thought it would be one big piss up for all the school leavers but as the police are involved and there all 17 the drinking may not be a big part of it(un like the UK)

anyone care to fill me in???

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well i dont know if this will help but this is my interp for it

kids who finish grade 12 have the option to go to a thing called schoolies week which is on the gold coast its practically a massive piss up(u cant do it on the street though so they do it in there apartments)

people go there to relax after completing the final 2 most important years of there schooling in high school

they hold competitions and have bands playing and stuff down there to keep the kids entertained its just a place to relax meet people get pissed and have sex pretty much....

im 18 atm i had my schoolies last year so yeh for me it was just a time to go out with ur mates before u split up and dont see them ever day, and get pissed and ocasionally meet a girl down there :huh:

hope this helps

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as above think of it as the hippy era where everyones off their face and rooting like rabbits....you;ll get them on the news all week too and when u sit back and watch ull think to urself and here is the future....

and def stay away from there especially with ur car we went through there couple of years ago to get to the casino and we forgot it was on all we got was glass bottles and fod thrown at mates car wasnt pretty....

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glad i did'nt stay around for to long, my party days ended a few month ago :) ..lol

gotta say though i seen a hell of a lot of nice Skylines cruising around, especially a rather tastey green R32 with what looked like a R34 wing on the back and the rX7 following looked even better :huh:

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hrm.... i've always wondered about this toolies thing....

what 'defines' a toolie?

is it anyone over the age of 17 on the goldcoast during these 2 weeks?

my schoolies was 5 or 6 years ago... yet i have been down there during schoolies probably 2 or 3 times since.... but to go clubbing etc, not to try and get into some 16-18 y/o chicks apartment... though i wouldn't be complaining if that did happen :))

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yeh toolies are considered to be any 1 who isent in grade 12 going down there doing the same thing as the grade 12s <--- if that makes sence

like i finished grade 12 last year and went i was a schoolie if i went this year id be called a toolie

but like jdfnq said toolies go there to start fights and pray on little girls :)

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This whole "schoolies/toolies" thing really p*sses me off

I spent 9yrs living on the Gold Coast, it was my home & when Schoolies started ramping up we, the locals, were basically stereotyped as "toolies" regardless if we were doing EXACTLY what we would of been doing for the other 50-odd wks of the yr. If you're in Surfers during those wks for ANYTHING, you're a "toolie" etc.

What we got to put up with were hordes of pathetic, wannabe 17yo's with no clue & no respect for anything around them. Add to that the potential hassles from the cops etc & it really does become something to avoid. I still can't quite understand how such a minority group can be given such a free reign over a public space, especially considering their behaviour. Maybe they should put them all on an island somewhere & leave the rest of the public in peace. Oh hang on, the island owners DON'T WANT THEM EITHER!!

It does bring a heap of $$$ in though, & that is the ONLY reason schoolies still exists. I know this sounds very stereotypical & it's more a case of the few spoiling it for the many maybe but if you ALL understood the meaning of respect you would all be welcome. "til then, take your sh*t elsewhere........

/rant

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schoolies = do not drive ur pride and joy thru surfers

Depends if you like attention.

I was down there last night in my car, and the amount of groupie love was awesome. By the end of the night I was getting sick of people yelling out “oi LXU55” (Lexus) and the ones that knew my name border lined on “stalkers” haha :)

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glad i did'nt stay around for to long, my party days ended a few month ago :) ..lol

gotta say though i seen a hell of a lot of nice Skylines cruising around, especially a rather tastey green R32 with what looked like a R34 wing on the back and the rX7 following looked even better :)

ahh Chantels green 32 looks the goods, we were down there with the HighRollers boys, to many drunken tossers...

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Don't even bother trying to drive anywhere near surfers this or next weekend, I had to goto Sea World Drive to pick up some clients from Palazzo and the amount of imbred f**k-wit scrubs on the road has increased ten fold, this afternoon Southport Smash had no less then 6 tow trucks before the Marine Parade bridge that meets Southport and Surfers and those were going all day picking up the deadshits who tailgate and cause pile ups. Spoke to one of the truckers while waiting in traffic and said they had almost 50 cars come in and that was from Saturday morning only....

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This whole "schoolies/toolies" thing really p*sses me off

I spent 9yrs living on the Gold Coast, it was my home & when Schoolies started ramping up we, the locals, were basically stereotyped as "toolies" regardless if we were doing EXACTLY what we would of been doing for the other 50-odd wks of the yr. If you're in Surfers during those wks for ANYTHING, you're a "toolie" etc.

What we got to put up with were hordes of pathetic, wannabe 17yo's with no clue & no respect for anything around them. Add to that the potential hassles from the cops etc & it really does become something to avoid. I still can't quite understand how such a minority group can be given such a free reign over a public space, especially considering their behaviour. Maybe they should put them all on an island somewhere & leave the rest of the public in peace. Oh hang on, the island owners DON'T WANT THEM EITHER!!

It does bring a heap of $$$ in though, & that is the ONLY reason schoolies still exists. I know this sounds very stereotypical & it's more a case of the few spoiling it for the many maybe but if you ALL understood the meaning of respect you would all be welcome. "til then, take your sh*t elsewhere........

/rant

hahaha beautiful rant there. I believe theres is an island and its on TV, temptation island hahahaha.

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I think many of those toolies have serious issues. I went with some friends down the coast last year during schoolies and there were just lil hardnut wannabes and drunk horny 16 year old girls everywhere. I dont care if there legal i was 19 at the time and i thought youd have to be sick for someone my age to take advantage of someone so young and drunk.

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Gordo = Wish he was me hahaha, it's all good, your just sour I didn't get you for some 17 yr old poon tang.
I dont care if there legal i was 19 at the time and i thought youd have to be sick for someone my age to take advantage of someone so young and drunk.

:)

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