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In a day and age where everyone loves having a whinge about ‘not being able to say anything anymore’ – North Queensland remains the last bastion of red hot humour.
However, despite this reputation for political incorrectness, there is still a line in the Deep North. Even if they don’t like to admit it.
As local skip bin operator Michael Morgan explained, it’s also a very firm line, that you shouldn’t cross – unless you wanna blue.
The explanation came in a rather blunt form this afternoon, as a blown-in chippie decided to call Morgan’s hometown “Clownsville,” to his face.
“What did you just say?” he reportedly said after hearing the loudmouth from down south drop the reference that only people from Townsville can make.
Sheepishly looking around, the confused chippy repeated himself, slightly more quietly before shuffling back on his toes and pretending to check a message he just received on his phone.
“First and final warning,” said Morgan.
“Unless you want me to hop out of the saddle and we do the Strand Shuffle”
“And I won’t take your overfilled skip bin either”
The chippy subsequently pulled a few faces before apologising and trying to make small talk about the Cowboys.
Morgan then ran us through his thinking on the situation a short time after that.
“If you aren’t from here, you don’t get to call it Clownsville,” explained that man who has heard some of the most red hot shit to come out of the mouth of a human being.
“Unless you wanna cop hands”
“Simple”
“I’m not sensitive, that’s just the way things work around here”
“Now, if you don’t mind I wanna drop this bin off and knock off”
