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What the fuck. Back in my day gooning meant having someone pour alcohol into your mouth, typically from a bladder container such as a wine bag from boxed wine. I have fun memories of gooning with friends in hot tubs. I guess that's a sentence I can't use any more.
Well see here back in MY day gooning meant going around town doing whatever the boss told ya to do, see? Boss wants me to smash the windows of some two bit salesman who won't pay up? Done. Boss wants me to buy his wife a nice something or other for her birthday? You got it.
Aussie?
Just a victim of globalization I guess. Was introduced to it by a guy who did farmwork in Australia for a while.
Ah, that explains it. Don't often see folks outside Australia know about it. Did he explain goon of fortune to you?
I don't believe he did?
Ah so it's where you peg up a goon bag on a rotating clothes line and get a group all standing in a circle underneath. Spin the line and see who drinks.
That's brilliant. Australian culture is criminally underappreciated in Europe.
We definitely go hard.
Hahahhaha. Definitely not!
You have me laughing out loud in public.
Thanks