Don't go to Gympie

Поделиться
HTML-код
  • Опубликовано: 4 окт 2024
  • Gympie might just be the most oxymoronic place you've ever been to. It should be economically and culturally rich, but instead it's more akin to a beggar on the highway trying frantically to get someone to let him wipe their windscreen. It smells like that too actually, come to think of it. So how did Gympie end up like this? Let's find out.
    Follow DONG TOTO on Instagram: / dong.toto
    Generative AI used for some photos between timestamps 02:45 and 03:34.

Комментарии • 208

  • @DONG-TOTO
    @DONG-TOTO  4 месяца назад +3

    Looking for a bit of extra dong? Follow DONG TOTO on Instagram: instagram.com/dong.toto/

  • @bruceinnawoods3610
    @bruceinnawoods3610 4 месяца назад +83

    The only interesting thing about Gympie is The Amity Affliction are from there. Its no wonder half their lyrics are about dying.

    • @Soyuz2578
      @Soyuz2578 4 месяца назад +5

      W...T...F?!?!?! TAA is from fuckin GYMPIE????

    • @TMK20X3
      @TMK20X3 3 месяца назад

      Oh yeah, i completely forgot they were from there.

    • @trolleyboy2344
      @trolleyboy2344 3 месяца назад +4

      As someone who grew up in Gympie, I can attest that The Amity Affliction is indeed the biggest thing to come out of Gympie.

    • @Anex952
      @Anex952 3 месяца назад +2

      Probably the best Metalcore/Post-Hardcore band other than Parkway Drive, I've listened to them since the Youngbloods days when I was in grade 11 in High school

    • @colinvincent9101
      @colinvincent9101 2 месяца назад +1

      I have 5 of their albums here in England.

  • @kermitleforg1986
    @kermitleforg1986 4 месяца назад +64

    Good sir, I request a Logan city video. As a resident I assure you, you’ll have plenty of content.
    Keep up the good work.

    • @nicholascharles9625
      @nicholascharles9625 4 месяца назад +4

      I lost my first adult tooth in Kingston over a cigarette. Logan us wild

    • @imjustsaying6712
      @imjustsaying6712 3 месяца назад +1

      Woodridge and Ipswich also.

    • @garethjones4742
      @garethjones4742 3 месяца назад

      Blackwood Rd ex resident here. Logan on the whole needs a vid

    • @colinvincent9101
      @colinvincent9101 2 месяца назад

      Yeah nah fuck it.

  • @Mezmarr
    @Mezmarr 4 месяца назад +39

    An hour North of Brisbane? Huuuuuh? More like 2hrs

    • @Jay84476
      @Jay84476 3 месяца назад +14

      not with that attitude..

  • @sewerrat8
    @sewerrat8 4 месяца назад +24

    The funny thing about the highway that runs thru Gympie is that it was the original bypass that Gympie then got built around.

    • @k-leb4671
      @k-leb4671 2 месяца назад

      What the hell was it originally bypassing?

    • @sewerrat8
      @sewerrat8 2 месяца назад +4

      @@k-leb4671probably your grandmother’s house. The centre of town dingle berry.

  • @yeh.80
    @yeh.80 4 месяца назад +22

    The cinematography and storytelling is exquisite.

    • @lisadolan689
      @lisadolan689 3 месяца назад +2

      Yeah, he’s really good. It’s clear he has tertiary media production education and he has an English language degree.
      This kid is hella well educated but it still a LEGEND!
      The skills to produce and write, without being constrained by the real world.
      So refreshing!!!

  • @michellerolph2248
    @michellerolph2248 4 месяца назад +30

    'Bruce Willis Highway' 🤣🤣

  • @leonaessens4399
    @leonaessens4399 4 месяца назад +13

    Now that is interesting. I used to pass through Gympie from either direction and have "known" it for something like 50 years. Someone once asked me what it was like and I swear I said the following: "Well, it's kind of a strange place. It has this air about it of "who am I, why am I here...?" It's now 20 years ago that I last saw it, but from what you are saying, it seems that it hasn't changed much.

  • @flipadoodles8677
    @flipadoodles8677 4 месяца назад +19

    You pretty much conveyed my thoughts perfectly as someone who has been living in this dogshit town for several years.

  • @timothymcnaughton531
    @timothymcnaughton531 4 месяца назад +15

    I am absolutely on board with your hate for ford rangers.

    • @Paradoxical124
      @Paradoxical124 2 месяца назад

      @@timothymcnaughton531 can’t afford one?

  • @bobisu3111
    @bobisu3111 4 месяца назад +7

    Still hasn't stopped thousands of people moving there lately.

    • @jacobjgleggy1854
      @jacobjgleggy1854 3 месяца назад

      Maybe because of the current housing crisis, and also Central Queensland is know as the cheapest part of Australia to buy a house

    • @k-leb4671
      @k-leb4671 2 месяца назад +2

      @@jacobjgleggy1854 Gympie isn't in central Queensland.

  • @jouebien
    @jouebien 4 месяца назад +10

    The rattler is actually a lot better now that the line is half as long. By the third hour of the trip you've had enough which is good because that's when the train pulls back into Gimpy station. It's a nice day out of wine/beer/cheese + lunch. Well unless you buy a cheap seat, then it's just 3 hours of coal smoak and scenery.

  • @RUCCIGK
    @RUCCIGK 2 месяца назад +3

    The weird thing about Gympie is all the freemason stuff

    • @myview2222
      @myview2222 Месяц назад

      There was a massive amount of Freemasons lodges back in the early days 🤔

  • @cliffordclifffy5202
    @cliffordclifffy5202 3 месяца назад +1

    Just binged every single one of your videos after the Brisbane one appeared on my recommended. Some of the best content on RUclips, beautiful work

  • @smadge1
    @smadge1 4 месяца назад +4

    I’ve been through Gympie several times over the past few months, and I’m pretty sure barely anyone would ever visit once the Bypass is open.

    • @rw-xf4cb
      @rw-xf4cb 2 месяца назад

      Doesn't matter it costs a large fortune to live in Noosa/Sunshine Coast/Nambour they are all heading north so Struggle Town's got a new life for it mushrooming now expensive land and house packages on small arsed blocks of land just like the rest of South East Queensland.

  • @KrispyCrem3
    @KrispyCrem3 4 месяца назад +5

    Let's hope it stays that way. I'm stopping in next week.

  • @marykelly9327
    @marykelly9327 4 месяца назад +22

    Gympie makes Maryborough look good.

    • @madonnawaugh3471
      @madonnawaugh3471 4 месяца назад +4

      Maryborough is part of widebay..which is poor shaming seat in oz. Poor people hating poorer people

    • @maxkahlow8622
      @maxkahlow8622 4 месяца назад

      You're in denial mate, I'd rather shit in my hands and clap rather than spend 5 minutes in Maryborough. Thank Christ, or whoever decided to build the highway around it.

    • @ChiknPog
      @ChiknPog 3 месяца назад +3

      As a gympie resident you are absolutely right

    • @madonnawaugh3471
      @madonnawaugh3471 3 месяца назад +1

      @@ChiknPog i do hang out in Widgee most of the time.

    • @MichaelVayro
      @MichaelVayro 2 месяца назад +2

      I went to high school there in the early 90's. One day at school lunch a new student said "Gympie's a hole"... we all tended to agree... then she said "I want o go back to Bundaberg"...

  • @elgoogyob4119
    @elgoogyob4119 3 месяца назад +7

    You forgot about the gun shop, sort of a great museum run by an.....interesting man

    • @marykelly9327
      @marykelly9327 2 месяца назад

      @@elgoogyob4119 hahaha interesting??!! That’s one word for him lol

  • @WinahhTaylahh
    @WinahhTaylahh 4 месяца назад +7

    I'm from Gympie, what's wrong mate? Who hurt ya? Misso got a headache?😂

  • @Milaaq302
    @Milaaq302 4 месяца назад +5

    Me: Gympie has a beach? Oh...

    • @LimestoneCoastCustoms
      @LimestoneCoastCustoms 4 месяца назад

      Yeah, what a load of SHIT! Why show a beach when talking about Gympie? 🤣🤣

    • @rw-xf4cb
      @rw-xf4cb 2 месяца назад

      ~60km away sure...

  • @zanesmith666
    @zanesmith666 2 месяца назад +2

    i went on a cruise a few years back, sat at a table with a couple who came from Gympie. I said so what do you do in Gympie? They looked at me and said "Fuck all mate, why do you think we're on a cruise"

  • @madonnawaugh3471
    @madonnawaugh3471 4 месяца назад +5

    Gympie is also the poor shaming capital of oz. Where the locals may not be overly rich, but have a very dim view of their fellow poorer folk. We are also a very safe national party seat which is why it is the poor shaming capital of oz. I cut one of my heads off when I moved to widgee . 20 mins west of Gympie

    • @garethjones4742
      @garethjones4742 3 месяца назад +1

      I mean, you could've moved to Kin Kin lol

    • @jacobjgleggy1854
      @jacobjgleggy1854 3 месяца назад +3

      You could always move to Melbourne if you don't Gympie being run by the Nationals

  • @vinnie42ful
    @vinnie42ful 4 месяца назад +6

    I live in gympie and your pretty much spot on brother 🙏

  • @Hillers62
    @Hillers62 4 месяца назад +3

    At 2:40 ..the music in the background is "In the Jailhouse Now"

  • @MrElzebo
    @MrElzebo 3 месяца назад +2

    This fella should do Maryborough and Hervey Bay.

  • @Johnnywestoz
    @Johnnywestoz 3 месяца назад +2

    oh man I love this, new sub here, hahaha bloody love your commentary mate, big thumbs here

  • @flynnorourke7620
    @flynnorourke7620 3 месяца назад +2

    Mate your work is phenomenal keep it up squirt

  • @ChiknPog
    @ChiknPog 3 месяца назад +4

    It's a town where a highschooler shitting in a driveway gets into the news.
    It's fucking awful, my girlfriend can't walk through town to work without passing enough used needles to make you feel like you're in a hospital.

    • @pureautism5204
      @pureautism5204 3 месяца назад +2

      Not to mention the people USING said needles

    • @ChiknPog
      @ChiknPog 3 месяца назад

      @@pureautism5204 oh hi

    • @itstoastvr
      @itstoastvr 3 месяца назад

      ay my guy

    • @rw-xf4cb
      @rw-xf4cb 2 месяца назад

      I heard cat litter boxes were in school bathrooms now, though perhaps the norm?

  • @joehozzy2616
    @joehozzy2616 4 месяца назад +4

    Could be worth a visit. Even for the graffiti. Great video!

  • @flynnorourke7620
    @flynnorourke7620 3 месяца назад +1

    I was surprised they had a hardware store poor town will not be stopping again

  • @slvtbvcketz
    @slvtbvcketz 2 дня назад

    lol I was staying in gympie for a night while passing through to brisbane and a flash flood came. I was stuck there for a whole week, thank god the house had water tanks because the town actually turned off the water supply and electricity for the whole week. I cannot believe I considered settling down there..

  • @DaniPitchford
    @DaniPitchford 4 месяца назад +2

    Narration was the best ive ever heard.. Nice job.. Hahaha :D

  • @achelan
    @achelan 3 месяца назад +1

    As someone who grew up here... accurate...
    Always fucking flooding. Many childhood memories moving stuff from shops to high ground when it was going to flood.

    • @rw-xf4cb
      @rw-xf4cb 2 месяца назад

      It's sport now isn't it? Beat the flood.

  • @needmoreboost6369
    @needmoreboost6369 4 месяца назад +1

    The best part of Gympie is leaving it as it’s close to some the best big bass and Saratoga fishing in Australia!

  • @TomasUjhelyi
    @TomasUjhelyi Месяц назад

    It’s a requisite to have a pie immediately after you go to the gym

  • @plowestory
    @plowestory 4 месяца назад +2

    😂 Accurate and Hilarious as always legend

  • @Paradoxical124
    @Paradoxical124 2 месяца назад +1

    Still better than Toowoomba

  • @Adam-yp1cc
    @Adam-yp1cc 4 месяца назад +2

    So funny but true ,, great vid👍

  • @Matt-wv5xt
    @Matt-wv5xt 2 месяца назад

    That's the best most accurate description I've ever heard 🤣😁. Subscribing so I get the rest. Keep Up the fuckin awesome reviews 😅

  • @GreenPiper-el5tv
    @GreenPiper-el5tv 23 дня назад

    My pop and nan lived in Gympie, life was good for them, with the exception of one specific bloke who liked walking up and down their street, staring into houses. The bastard eventually broke in and stole a ring and necklace my mum bought for them. Non could be done because of the special status of his category of people.

  • @Lazbotable
    @Lazbotable 4 месяца назад +7

    You mean 2-3 hours north of Brisbane at best?

    • @DONG-TOTO
      @DONG-TOTO  4 месяца назад +4

      I was wondering how long it'd be until someone brought that up

  • @josefbuckland
    @josefbuckland 2 месяца назад +1

    Amity Yes. Yowie Yes. Bruce Bypass Yes

  • @jimw7916
    @jimw7916 4 месяца назад +17

    what a typical Queenslander humour ........................ disgusting.

  • @Aussanding
    @Aussanding 3 месяца назад +4

    I like Gympie

    • @markbeale7390
      @markbeale7390 3 месяца назад +1

      Tell us about thumbnail picture.

  • @familyman4202
    @familyman4202 2 месяца назад

    Never strayed more than a minute off thr highway, best to keep it that way im sure. Cool gun display at the gympie gun shop though

  • @alfinpogform4774
    @alfinpogform4774 4 месяца назад +4

    Well, that was entertaining, and beautifully filmed (except for the butt crack scene 😵‍💫).
    I have now subscribed to the channel, but with a heavy heart because of the knowledge that my civic pride will force me to unsubscribe when you one day come to my own home town and bag it out......

  • @roystad8916
    @roystad8916 4 месяца назад +4

    Did ya see any two heads?

    • @marykelly9327
      @marykelly9327 2 месяца назад

      Hope he didn’t drink the water or he’ll be sprouting a second head in a few weeks.. 🤣

  • @waynemcauliffe-fv5yf
    @waynemcauliffe-fv5yf 4 месяца назад +1

    I used to live there and liked mate

  • @michaelsangster5673
    @michaelsangster5673 4 месяца назад +2

    This is so good!

  • @chriswolter6993
    @chriswolter6993 Месяц назад

    hasnt stopped the rent increasing 200% in the last 5 years

  • @twixelll
    @twixelll 3 месяца назад +3

    do maryboroughhhhh

  • @sjdtmv
    @sjdtmv 4 месяца назад +1

    My daughters were born there in the 1990's

  • @dav4x487
    @dav4x487 4 месяца назад +4

    You should do Mareeba.

    • @rw-xf4cb
      @rw-xf4cb 2 месяца назад

      Passed that by (quickly) on the way to Atherton.....

  • @LachlanBell
    @LachlanBell 4 месяца назад +2

    It's a bastard of a town

  • @myeverythingworld8123
    @myeverythingworld8123 4 месяца назад +2

    Was this a uni project

  • @okidoke4822
    @okidoke4822 Месяц назад

    Haha, you do well on these.

  • @pearlOwisdom532
    @pearlOwisdom532 2 месяца назад

    A home is what you make it.

  • @ajcajc5429
    @ajcajc5429 3 месяца назад

    The first thing to do is change the name... Gympie? hahahahahahah

  • @Aussie1964
    @Aussie1964 4 месяца назад +2

    Try 2 hours from Brisbane, not 1.

    • @rw-xf4cb
      @rw-xf4cb 2 месяца назад

      Well Noosa is north (north) Brisbane.

  • @dreadlordhg360
    @dreadlordhg360 3 месяца назад +2

    Go to caboolture and zillmere surely

    • @rw-xf4cb
      @rw-xf4cb 2 месяца назад

      Nearly had my car up on bricks in Caboolture Station recently...

  • @djsweatshirtx
    @djsweatshirtx 3 месяца назад

    As an mid 20s British male... these videos make me want to visit the places you mention in your videos....
    I can't tell tell if your seriously telling me not go to or not 😅.

  • @abominatio9895
    @abominatio9895 3 месяца назад

    The schools in gympie are just 💀
    Edit: mispelled in

  • @bangkokstallion
    @bangkokstallion 3 месяца назад

    In high school we called them gympie rats or gimps

  • @lisadolan689
    @lisadolan689 3 месяца назад

    Dude, you’ve got some hella skills!
    🙌😎

  • @moto3463
    @moto3463 4 месяца назад +3

    Gympie is not bad as Townsville thats for sure. Been around both.

    • @rw-xf4cb
      @rw-xf4cb 2 месяца назад

      Townsville has them stingers so popular tourist destination..

  • @philipstevenson5166
    @philipstevenson5166 3 месяца назад

    named after the plant or vice versa?

  • @gutmincer2
    @gutmincer2 3 месяца назад

    saved qld because all the people with two heads moved there

  • @williamlevy6964
    @williamlevy6964 3 месяца назад +2

    Anyone here from Toowoomba?

  • @Jay84476
    @Jay84476 3 месяца назад +1

    please do a Don't Go To Ipswich

    • @rw-xf4cb
      @rw-xf4cb 2 месяца назад

      The other Struggle Town....

  • @FelixRichardson
    @FelixRichardson 4 месяца назад +5

    i think u mean fraser

  • @Yesking227
    @Yesking227 3 месяца назад +2

    i request a video on Toowoomba

    • @ronrambler
      @ronrambler 3 месяца назад +1

      Enough shit to do 3 videos

    • @Yesking227
      @Yesking227 6 дней назад

      @@ronrambler haha

  • @ooshiemaniac5188
    @ooshiemaniac5188 4 месяца назад +3

    Do nambour 😅

  • @TheShawline
    @TheShawline 3 месяца назад

    Great stories and sarcasm. I dare you to do one on Gladstone. But if you do, spend a bit of time first, go out to the reef, Agnes and Tannum Sands before hosing it in to us about coal and Industry and maybe even a nuclear power station in the future.

  • @Soyuz2578
    @Soyuz2578 4 месяца назад

    The most interesting thing i took away from this video is the fact that corellas fart.
    In the words of the great Mick Molloy - "This is champagne comedy" 😂

  • @onesimpleclik
    @onesimpleclik 4 месяца назад +1

    this was fantastic haha

  • @MrCpolzin
    @MrCpolzin 3 месяца назад

    I lived there for a year and it a complete shit hole. The bypass will be the death of Gympie.

  • @iam7712
    @iam7712 3 месяца назад

    Thier opening the gympie bypass in a month or so. Then the drive through traffic will stop for ever.

    • @rw-xf4cb
      @rw-xf4cb 2 месяца назад

      Yep and them on the highway the land prices will go $$$$$

  • @madmunga
    @madmunga 4 месяца назад +2

    Bloody Helicopters....So hard to digest, but just so damn tasty!

    • @yeh.80
      @yeh.80 4 месяца назад

      Lel

    • @LN37275
      @LN37275 2 месяца назад

      I don't get it

    • @madmunga
      @madmunga 2 месяца назад

      @@LN37275 What don't you get mate?

    • @LN37275
      @LN37275 2 месяца назад

      @@madmunga what are helicopters slang for

    • @madmunga
      @madmunga 2 месяца назад +1

      @@LN37275 No slang involved, just factual statements! Helicopters are delicious, yet very difficult to digest!🧐

  • @eddiedownunder9881
    @eddiedownunder9881 4 месяца назад +1

    Comedy gold .

  • @simonelwell9148
    @simonelwell9148 4 месяца назад +3

    Harsh but humorous....you re unlikely to get employment in tourism friend ..... plug away at oo toob where you have some talent .....

  • @setheryrockwell
    @setheryrockwell 2 месяца назад

    when are you doing mackay?

  • @arthurwatts1680
    @arthurwatts1680 3 месяца назад

    Best avoided - ditto most of Central Qld.

  • @thorstenduessler6101
    @thorstenduessler6101 3 месяца назад

    More like Dong Brain

  • @Cai-Luong-Chi-Bao
    @Cai-Luong-Chi-Bao 3 месяца назад

    except it is not Bruce Willis

  • @ISaidUSaid
    @ISaidUSaid 3 месяца назад

    hilarious! Aussiest RUclips channel ever

  • @Eli-st9gp
    @Eli-st9gp 3 месяца назад

    Good shit

  • @Combatbrickproductions
    @Combatbrickproductions Месяц назад +1

    I saw my house in this vid lol 😂

  • @casey-co5nj
    @casey-co5nj 2 месяца назад

    as a liver in gympie i have to say that is not nice

  • @Aussibob1
    @Aussibob1 2 месяца назад

    Gave me a giggle, but wtf is a K'gari

  • @kayjay4101
    @kayjay4101 4 месяца назад +3

    I prayed for this to be funny and jeebus didn’t deliver ….

  • @korndog87
    @korndog87 Месяц назад

    its an hr north of the coast....not brissy....LOVE IT HERE...well living far enough from actual town that crackheads cant reach you....and its great!

  • @Maxindifference
    @Maxindifference 3 месяца назад

    Unless you’re in mining, a truck driver or a farmer, what else is in QLD? Sounds like a good place but it’s full of nothing

    • @rw-xf4cb
      @rw-xf4cb 2 месяца назад

      Housing and being Capitalist Pig Dog Landlord. Mining is for losers, Housing is the deal...

  • @edwardzhang6439
    @edwardzhang6439 Месяц назад

    Hi Can you do bundaberg

  • @lisadolan689
    @lisadolan689 3 месяца назад

    New sub

  • @gslim7337
    @gslim7337 4 месяца назад +1

    Having to drive from Brissy to Maryborough on a regular basis, yep, Gympie is just such a nothing place.

  • @Ballterra
    @Ballterra 3 месяца назад

    It is a shith*le second only to Bowen that said I do have family there my first visit there back in the 80’s my female cousin tried her best to bonk me yeah I was young and single but…eww but hey that’s Gympie all over.

  • @henticletentai
    @henticletentai 3 месяца назад +2

    i live here bro omg 25 alfred street bro come for free suk

  • @Silvergum
    @Silvergum 4 месяца назад +3

    I go into Gympie once a fortnight to do my food shopping
    and that's about it

    • @sjdtmv
      @sjdtmv 4 месяца назад +2

      I did live down the road for awhile at Kilkivan

  • @uhhuhyeahsure
    @uhhuhyeahsure 4 месяца назад +1

    ive been to sexpo. depressing.

    • @DONG-TOTO
      @DONG-TOTO  4 месяца назад +4

      That's not what your mum said

    • @uhhuhyeahsure
      @uhhuhyeahsure 4 месяца назад

      @@DONG-TOTO um-ah, you're RUDE

    • @itookallthenames
      @itookallthenames 4 месяца назад

      @@uhhuhyeahsureum ah, you went to school in the 80s!

  • @devarmont87
    @devarmont87 4 месяца назад +3

    Gympie is where you stop for last minute fuel and chippies before you head to Rainbow or Kgari.
    🎉

    • @FelixRichardson
      @FelixRichardson 4 месяца назад +2

      Yeh typo fraser

    • @LN37275
      @LN37275 2 месяца назад

      You mean Fraser Island

    • @rw-xf4cb
      @rw-xf4cb 2 месяца назад

      @@FelixRichardson Yep Fraser agree!