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We have lived in Cairns for 10 years and I do agree with Gleeson on most of it. My sister recently here from NSW, so we went on Skyrail and after 5 minutes she said 'how long does this last' - totally unimpressed. She did other trips too, Port Douglas, the 'live' reef. Well the upshot of her visit was 'seen it once' - twice would be like watching paint dry.
Cairns was a stunning little city about 50 years ago. Then someone decided to make it 'better' and do tourism. It's an utter shocker. Everything destroyed that was once beautiful. In fact, that goes for Mossman, Port Douglas and all the beaches from Cairns to those desinations as well. This was, not long ago, fairly pristine, certainly Mossman Gorge was simply glorious. Utterly hideous now with the bus loads of totally disinterested tourists 'on tour' and the garbage they now call a harbour in Cairns. Horrible. Never going back. Did my head in seeing the wholesale destruction in the name of making gratuitous dollars.
As a Victorian, as Southern winter starts to bite and energy heating costs go through the roof, we start to fantasise about life in warm, beautiful tropical paradises up north, like Cairns. I thought I might one day get there. But, forget it now. My illusions have all been shattered. Ah well, better put on my woollen beanie hat and scarf and gloves. Looks like more rain and the temperature is falling. Gonna be another cold one tonight... No Backpackers come here to be picked up for a quick lay. Too bloody cold and hard...
Annemarie May - It’s beautiful here. Port Douglas over-rated. Palm Cove is gorgeous. This video is just for a laugh. You should come here. I’m from Victoria, and have now been here for 14 years. I moved back to Vic last year for family, I only lasted 6 months and now I’m back in Cairns and love it even more. 💜
Annemarie May I live on the Sunshine Coast and it has it all, beaches, mountains, ticks all the boxes.....aside from those negatives he spoke of, North Queensland has some of the most beautiful rainforests, tropical fruits, blue water and reef that is second to none, yes there are crocs and stingers and hot weather but it’s so beautiful, the reef will regenerate and you can’t help but appreciate the beauty. where I live ticks all the boxes as well but unfortunately is unaffordable to live and has developed into a very clicky place, I loved living up north and I wouldn’t cross it off your list, you just have to get used to the heat :)
I'm from Melbourne and I must say that the Daintree is beautiful and well worth visiting. Cairns ain't so bad, it just doesn't have a good beach to draw in heaps of tourists.
I like Gleeson, he is hilarious, I love a bit of dark humour and really hate to be a buzz kill but is there seriously anything funny about the dead reef and the fact that we are loosing one of our seven natural wonders of the world? A shame your kids won't have a reef to laugh about. Bit tastless Tom...
I know this is supposed to be sarcastic. But I live in cairns and, well... It's all quite true. The only good thing Cairns is a place for is snake-like businessmen from down south to own a shop up here and rip people off.
The quality was fine the first go around I still laughed my ass off the first time as much as the second! So it didn't matter to me! I absolutely love this guy!
He's not funny like the idiot abroad . I'm a local and take it as a joke . If anyone really thinks this is a shithole then you need help and moving to a padded cell along with this fake twat .
I live in cairns and i can confirm the sweaty armpit part
I live in Cairns aswell
I love Cairns but yeah you take a shower on Monday, Friday you still ain’t dry
I also live in Cairns and can confirm it is a tropical shit hole. This is a very accurate review.
I was speaking with my uncle about this because he lives in Cairns. He said that this was very accurate to what Cairns is like.
I don't think I've ever heard a local from Cairns say it is not a shit hole.
Accurate video, I'm stuck here.
Kurt Bell Same, I could be in Wollongong with my friends but I’m stuck here rip.
IM LITERALLY MOVING TOMORROW WHOHOO
We have lived in Cairns for 10 years and I do agree with Gleeson on most of it. My sister recently here from NSW, so we went on Skyrail and after 5 minutes she said 'how long does this last' - totally unimpressed. She did other trips too, Port Douglas, the 'live' reef. Well the upshot of her visit was 'seen it once' - twice would be like watching paint dry.
Do Adelaide
All 43 of Cairn's local population disliked this video lol
Lol people who say lol are gay
76 n0w
I live in cairns and I'm watching like this😂🤣😂
I’m a cairns local and I love this
Nicky Bennett same lol
Cairns was a stunning little city about 50 years ago. Then someone decided to make it 'better' and do tourism. It's an utter shocker. Everything destroyed that was once beautiful. In fact, that goes for Mossman, Port Douglas and all the beaches from Cairns to those desinations as well. This was, not long ago, fairly pristine, certainly Mossman Gorge was simply glorious. Utterly hideous now with the bus loads of totally disinterested tourists 'on tour' and the garbage they now call a harbour in Cairns. Horrible. Never going back. Did my head in seeing the wholesale destruction in the name of making gratuitous dollars.
I live 3 beaches to the north on the Knob & I love it hehehee
You live on a knob?
Yep lived there 15 years this clip is accurate.. funny but 100% right
>thinking port Douglass is better than Cairns
>thinking port Douglass is good fullstop
EDAN EW PORT DOUGLASS IS FUCKING SHIT BYE CUNTS
not a backpacker, didn't use a condom :D
I agree
As a Victorian, as Southern winter starts to bite and energy heating costs go through the roof, we start to fantasise about life in warm, beautiful tropical paradises up north, like Cairns. I thought I might one day get there. But, forget it now. My illusions have all been shattered. Ah well, better put on my woollen beanie hat and scarf and gloves. Looks like more rain and the temperature is falling. Gonna be another cold one tonight... No Backpackers come here to be picked up for a quick lay. Too bloody cold and hard...
Annemarie May - It’s beautiful here. Port Douglas over-rated. Palm Cove is gorgeous. This video is just for a laugh. You should come here. I’m from Victoria, and have now been here for 14 years. I moved back to Vic last year for family, I only lasted 6 months and now I’m back in Cairns and love it even more.
💜
Annemarie May I live on the Sunshine Coast and it has it all, beaches, mountains, ticks all the boxes.....aside from those negatives he spoke of, North Queensland has some of the most beautiful rainforests, tropical fruits, blue water and reef that is second to none, yes there are crocs and stingers and hot weather but it’s so beautiful, the reef will regenerate and you can’t help but appreciate the beauty. where I live ticks all the boxes as well but unfortunately is unaffordable to live and has developed into a very clicky place, I loved living up north and I wouldn’t cross it off your list, you just have to get used to the heat :)
Port Douglas is overrated. Palm Cove is my favourite place in Cairns.
I love Cairns and I’m originally from Victoria 😀
you must be from adelaide
You must do Adelaide!!!!!!!!
I'm from Melbourne and I must say that the Daintree is beautiful and well worth visiting. Cairns ain't so bad, it just doesn't have a good beach to draw in heaps of tourists.
anythings better than the shithole known as melbourne
Yes it does it just filled with bloody jellyfish
LJY08 the beaches are literally 10 minutes drive away.
It has great beaches. You just cant swim unywhete unless youre a nutcase.
Are you some sort of tree hugger? Get back to Melbourne.
Can I request you do a Go Away about Airlie Beach. It would make so many ppl including me happy :)
Why isn't that boat called Sailor Swift?
It's nice and Cold now
Why did you re-upload this?
There was a technical glitch. We re-uploaded so it was better quality. No changes to the video.
Gotta love cairns ,, my home ,,
Hi I was born and raised in Cairns.
Cool story hansel
Chloe. So I guess you speak with a rising intonation at the end of each sentence?
I cracked up ...love your videos..)))
Please do Katoomba
Says alot for local tourism
Yeah pretty accurate except I've never seen a condom in the lagoon lmao
Hes bloody right, it is a dump of a place.
No shit though... That Skyrail thing is pretty awesome.
You really gotta do Alice Springs!
That might be racist.
Best holiday place in the world. Beautiful weather.
So funny and so true...
Best cairns video
Pleas do ipswich QLD
This would be perfect Ipswich is a garbage city
Ipswich is becoming more modern now they've really done it up
hahaha please do a Sydney one.
I like cairns and it is the best so....
I like Gleeson, he is hilarious, I love a bit of dark humour and really hate to be a buzz kill but is there seriously anything funny about the dead reef and the fact that we are loosing one of our seven natural wonders of the world? A shame your kids won't have a reef to laugh about. Bit tastless Tom...
He's drawing attention to it at least mate. He could be doing things behind the scenes to help.
Do Newcastle
Sksksk I live in cairns and I wanna move so bad
Australia is so good and diverse it's almost pathetic
Why its pathetic?
@@jonimaar__2023 basically what I wrote makes no sense
I thought it was great and I live in cairns and if people can't take a joke well to bad
gotta say, I like calling the people of cairns, "the cairns scrubs". only been living here for 5 years
I live in cairns and portdougles is shit it is so boring
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He left out the C&@&s
Comment section is just people defending cairns. Its a joke you muppets.
I live here and in no way would I defend it - it is a very ordinary place to live, my opinion of course.
Theirs a place for cairns haters it's called HELL
So Good Coffee, so you will plunge to your death in melbourne
Todd the captain was funnier than Tom.
What the point of making this video
For a bit of a giggle mate, do you not understand comedy? Albeit it isn't very good but cmon at least a person with 60 IQ could figure that one out
Reef is dead, onya Oz.
nilpoint no it’s not at all. Bleeching is natural reef is growing.
@@ZacGolus well you get the prize for the dumbest reply of the day.
Boneheaded pseudo-comedy that, lazily, relies for the most part on cheap laughs of recognition.
Even Beethoven had his critics. Name 3 of them
It's almost like Russell Coight but with a twist!!
Agreed, tacky as...
*was captain cook doing a nazi salute..*
It was the Roman salute
Many years ago that same statue was painted as an aboriginal.
Cairns has beds for 5000 backpackers most live in vans an crap in the flower beds on the esplanade
Guess they havent noticed the toilets and showers on the esplanade.....dickhead backpackers
Cheap fertiliser.
@@rae-rae4507 The toilets rarely work. Plus, the council can't be bothered to pay for fertiliser anyway.
Im from Cairns. Its all true lol.
I would love to be there
Same lol
Oh you're from a shithole!
Cairns is still amazing. The nature is incredible.
Surely this was reported to add more well deserved insults to the world renowned composting toilet that is Cairns.
Scared to see how many people in the comments live here, and scary to see that he actually was near my neighbourhood, LMAO
where's the one about sydney and coffs harbour D:
Dude707LoL I’m definitely waiting for a Sydney one
Do one on Coffs. Went out with a Sheila from there once, that place is devolving
Is a Sheila name of the lady, or is that a word to describe a female from Coffs? ... lol
Bloody marvellous! So refreshing!
Can you do "go away Edinburgh" one day? Ta.
You gotta do Invercargill in New Zealand. Anti depressant capital of the world.
you been to adelaide yet? heres a tip...dont
I live in cairns and when im on a boat i always yell at the slower boats 😂
Do Frankston. The big pottie down south
needs more COMMMEDYYY!!!
I live in cairns
Go to bankstown in sydney thats the best tourist place
fivedockboyz Cheap flight to Lebanon
At least you can get good coffee in Bankstown.
Joseph. You bitchin' or braggin'?
Lol
Puttin Cairns on the map mate! I'll check it out, just for a root in a really big swimming pool, sounds like a good experience
I know that its a joke but c'mon marijuana isn't a gateway to meth
I know this is supposed to be sarcastic.
But I live in cairns and, well... It's all quite true.
The only good thing Cairns is a place for is snake-like businessmen from down south to own a shop up here and rip people off.
That's gold. I'm local but laughing hard
The quality was fine the first go around I still laughed my ass off the first time as much as the second! So it didn't matter to me! I absolutely love this guy!
I agree - Tom is a very under rated comedian.. I grew up in Cairns and everything he said here is funny cause its true..
Hhehe I love it hehe we watched you filming this episode by the lagoon 😂😂😂awesome job !!:)
Jesuit arrived in Sydney and by looking at these comments I should get my arse home, Aus is lost.
Don’t know why so many people come to cairns it’s a shit whole unless you live here better then Rockhampton though
Cairns is a good and interesting place
The best
"Welcome to the biggest urinal in Cairns" HAHAHAHAHHAHAHAHAHAAHHAHAHAHAHA I spat my drink out 1:23
you should go to cairns
Haha, Love it mate 👍😂
love this so true, all the cairns so called business leaders must hate you! hahaha
Why is no one talking about the damn peeping sound in front of some house to keep away homeless people trying to sleep there?
Im up for moving to Cairns
Why.
Fucking amazing classic skit series
I swear to fucking god....
Need to re-name it Trash Cairns.
did he
enjoy his time?
I live here this is accurate
So funny....
You had to take it down and remove the comments. 😂😂
Gleason is funny in this.
But his stand up is crap.
Bollocks
Its hot
PLEASE DO PERTH
Omg this is gold
No one like you
EPIC!!!
Do Perth lol.
i love tom
This was the funniest one yet
Love it
The laughs
Should do Cobram
Living in Cairns, we got a comedian.. ok.. better than those farking clowns from Brisbane 😎😎
He’s like an Australian Karl Pilkington
He's not funny like the idiot abroad . I'm a local and take it as a joke . If anyone really thinks this is a shithole then you need help and moving to a padded cell along with this fake twat .
Wow I know Trent toomey!!! Small world.
Small town.