In short…
Been to two different Bunnings today in rural AU, and to my shock… neither had any bangers on a BBQ?!?!
What the actual F#(&…?!?!?
Weekend or not, I don't care. This is AU day and no BBQ AT BUNNINGS!?!?! I don't think I can imagine of many things more unaustralian than this in this day and age…
SOMEONES HEAD NEEDS TO ROLL FOR THIS ONE!
On another note. Happy AU day all, however you celebrate, see the day or believe in the public holiday or not…
You could've volunteered to throw your own sausage out there…..
Id have done so, 100% if
a.) "My" sausage wouldnt have gotten me locked up.
b.) I had of known no charity group didnt already book.
Very disappointed in this…
Bunnings gone woke!!!!!
/s
Where I was it was Boomer/Gen-x/Millenials volunteering on the BBQ. My teens helped set up so count in Gen Z too, I guess.
Bunnings don’t staff the BBQ.
Your anger has made you confused. You obviously don't know how the Bunnings bbqs even work so maybe leave your outrage at the door and calm the f down.
Invader
aka, civilization won. deal with it
I know this is a bit of a joke post, but most of the volunteer groups are out turning sausages at the parks or the pools today.
Our council had free swimming pool entry and free sausage sizzle.
We did 200 snags before 12:30, and the big pool did 500.
I was serving kids with wide eyes getting 3 at a time!
Epic! Congrats and great effort.
Also glad someone ID the humour in the OP.
Having said that. Still a little disappointing not to see some charitys at bunnings today. Id have grabbed a few bangers.
Well that explains it. You can't compete with free sausage sizzles.
That’s a bloody outrage, that is!
Hahahaha. F'1NG cracker of an add! Epic!
The dude on the BBQ would've cost them $80/hour in wages & penalties.
The dudes on the BBQ don't work for Bunnings - they're volunteers from (typically) community groups, and they get all the money. Bunnings only facilitates the barbeques, providing the space, BBQ & gas.
Bunnings just supply the BBQ and the gas - volunteers provide everything else, including the snags
We need to move Australia Day to another date. I don't see why it matters what date it's on. The holiday is fairly recent, younger than most users here, so it's not some ye olde tradition or anything.
It’s been a big topic in my pretty woke house.
I think the issue is there isn’t an alternative day to celebrate what is good in Australia. Nearly everyone can agree it is justifiably a bad date for our indigenous Australians, but until there is some leadership that recognizes there needs to be a date that can celebrate the good stuff (not so much the founding of a colony ) it will remain a big problem.
I expect that when we become a republic this can be resolved with a new national Independence Day.
Personally, I would like 26th of Jan to remain a holiday, but become one for reflecting on our history including the bad bits - more like ANZAC day than a party day. But that doesn’t mean it can’t include a picnic or a BBQ.
Just invent a new holiday and call it Australia Day. The only people who complain about more public holidays are greedy business owners. Everyone else loves them.
I don't get why people cry about public holidays either. I'll happily take a day off, people who complain should put their money where their mouth is and go to work.
Why does it need to move? History teachers will know that we celebrate Australia Day on the 26th Jan as that is the day Australia became an independent country from Great Britain in 1949. It has zero to do with the 1st fleet or Captain Cook (FYI - He landed in Botany Bay on the 18th Jan!!!!).
So all those crying "invasion day" please learn the facts. Wake up & stop being a lemming.
Proud to be Australian on Australia Day…..with or without a Bunnings snag! :-)
The 1949 date is a furphy as well. Apparently it really occurred in early March. However, on 1948 we still had citizens that weren’t treated the same as others. That needed another 20 years to be remedied.
History teachers have taught the significance of Phillip raising the flag in Sydney cove , so it is a bit of a stretch to back form a vote, on a law that went in to force in December 1948 as the thing we celebrate:
https://www.foundingdocs.gov.au/scan-sid-30.html
But regardless, there needs to be a day that we celebrate Australia, and the anniversary of our founding as a British colony isn’t an especially good one, as it Carrie’s plenty of colonial baggage.
I don’t propose we forget that history, but having a national day to celebrate that isn’t divisive is better.
I think a part of this is that Australia becoming a nation has been gradual, and we still don’t fully govern ourselves. It might make more sense to celebrate a republic day if that finally occurs.
@Indiana I think you need a history lesson.
Where'd you get your information?
The First Fleet made camp on January 26th, 1788. That's where the date comes from.
The Commonwealth of Australia Constitution Act (UK) (1900) was signed July 5th, 1900 (and ascented to by HRH Queen Victoria on July 9th, 1900). It was then proclaimed on January 1st, 1901. (which is the date generally given for "Federation").
The Statue of Westminster Adoption Act (1942), which gave total legislative indepence to Australia, was signed on October 9th, 1942 (with effect September 3rd, 1939)
The Australia Act (1986), which closed some of the loopholes remaining after the Statute of Westminster, was signed March 3rd, 1986
Personally, whilst I abhorr "wokeness", I kinda get the point against it being Jan 26. Any of the above mentioned dates could be considered suitable.
Is it just me, or do your first 2 sentences contradict each other?
Bunnings snags are done by a charity group, normally. Maybe they couldn’t find a group that was interested.
I was more horrified when my local voting booth was sans Democracy sausages. I mean I’d voted well before the day but I ventured out to buy a sausage on voting day. Nada at a couple of booths.
The democracy sausage is tricky because a lot of booths are pretty small, and the elections typically coincide with Bunnings day etc.
One of our local schools is a polling place and wanted to get us doing snags, but they get 400 voters between 8am and 6pm.
We can sell 300 snags in the Woolies car park between 10am and 2pm.
My tip for an assured sausage is to go to a bigger polling place, ideally at a school or scout hall or similar where there is a natural pool of volunteers. There is a web site that maps them too.
Yeah, we checked the website and they said they had snags but it was a no go. The booth was in Fitzroy so there should’ve been a lot of patrons. However, I think we were the biggest pre voters in the state.
Thanks for the background info. They’d changed the voting booth location to a church hall, rather than a school. Maybe the church is getting enough of our tax free moolah without having to put on a sausage sizzle and cake bake :). Next time a school FTW.
Surprised at Fitzroy! I have heard you can get a Camembert truffle snag or quinoa with organic Lima beans options, albeit at $10 a throw!
Primary school with an active P&C is the usual safe bet.
@mskeggs: We do have our standards. We have a warehouse we converted in the early 1990s. You’d be amazed at how different our area was back then. Gertrude St was Asian video stores and only a handful of restaurants. We live near Gertrude St and the first order of the day was to collect the syringes in our street, and there were plenty to pick up. Now we get the odd syringe and Gertrude St has been labelled the second coolest street in the world. In February we will have our second Midsumma and the last one was an absolute hoot.
Previously the voting booths have been at schools and the cake stalls were a, very, interesting collection of different styles. I grew up WASP in the 60s so my view of migrants is “come in and bring your cuisine style with you”.
@mskeggs: https://www.theshovel.com.au/2022/05/20/bunnings-announces-h…
Also thought you might like this.
I was more horrified when my local voting booth was sans Democracy sausages.
Rookie mistake, always check www.democracysausage.org before heading to your local polling booth! Or, if the booth you've gone to doesn't have a sausage sizzle on, walk to the next one. That's what I'd do haha.
i went to Bunnings today, sausage sizzle was on at my local one
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Thats all i got!
May be dominion got too popular ? IDK dude
Unfortunately the group scheduled to host the Bbq today at my workplace cancelled last minute. Sorry 😢 🌭
Our Local Bunnings in Wollongong, is actually closing down.. Last day of trading is on Australia Day, and they haven't had Sausage Sizzles there for the last couple weeks.. 😢
80% Australians support Australia day including many first nations. Simple dont listen to the noisy minority
If you say so….
Nations? Why use that term when there were no nations in a paleolithic society? Not even villages or tribes. The actual first nations arose, in West Asia and the Nile, thousands of years after the Neolithic revolution.
But would they put the onions on top of, or underneath the sausage
And…. this took a whole new tone and discussion topic.
Ugh!
I heard the sausage sizzle groups were all at the Invasion Day rallies.
Hopefully they are celebrating Australia Day with family & friends…