Read For Free Theyre A Weird Mob Conceived By Nino Culotta Distributed As Online Book

of the writing seems a little racist to modern sensibilities, but taken with an historical perspective, an enjoyable read.
The last chapter spoiled it a little for me, My Maltese parents thought that the movie was hilarious racist bits and all, A riotous comedy.
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Nino Culotta encouraged Australians to laugh at themselves, while providing a walloping hint for the New Australians who were gracing our shores: Get yourself acceptedand you will enter a world that you never dreamed existed, he wrote.
And once you have entered it, you will never leave it, The book remains just as relevant today: Weird Mob is about good people trying to make a go of things.
With its rollicking and affectionate humour, it showcases our manners, our wit and our distinctive vernacular where they open their mouths no more than is absolutely necessary.

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a rollicking comedy about an Italian journalist in Fifties Australia trying to get his head around the natives vernacular.
Anybody who has the subtitles on for Kath amp Kim will get the joke,
Telegraph I heard about this book on a television show talking about Australian books.
It was recommended as a humorous book from the perspective of an Italian new to our land back in the lates/earlys.
I was told in a second hand bookshop I had Buckleys chance of finding it, However, just two weeks later I came across it at a tip shop, for one dollar.
I thoroughly enjoyed every page, From the very beginning I was intrigued by the authors narrative, As a new Australian Nino explains every conversation and experience in his new home as you would for an alien visiting Earth.
As a sixth generation Australian I am pleased to say these descriptions rang true for the time period of the book.
The ocker slang and sense of mateship was very much like the Australia I grew up in.
In the final chapter, Nino talks about how grateful he was to be living in such a free place.
I have to admit it was a little saddening to reflect on those carefree times and compare life now replete with mandates and restrictions.
Nevertheless, I believe this is a fun read for old and new Australians alike, Totally enjoyed this Australian Classic! At times it was a little dated but it took nothing away from the sheer joy of the story.
Nino isnt perfect but he makes the perfect New Australian, I enjoyed this lighthearted glimpse of the culture of workingclass's Australia, The characters are caricatures rather than stereotypes, especially the Italian narrator, so don't expect realism, Instead, prepare for something short, easy to read, and funny,

Surprisingly, there are a few moments of depth addressing racism and antiimmigrant bigotry interwoven with the Theyre a Weird Mob's humor, and they're appropriately tasteful.
Giovanni 'Nino' Culotta is an Italian immigrant, who comes to Australia as a journalist, employed by an Italian publishing house, to write articles about Australians and their way of life for those Italians that might want to emigrate to Australia.


In order to learn about real Australians, Nino takes a job as a brickie's labourer with a man named Joe Kennedy.
The comedy of the novel revolves around his attempts to understand English as it was spoken in Australia by the working classes in thes ands.
Nino had previously only learned 'good' English from a textbook,

The novel is a social commentary on Australian society of the period specifically male, working class society.
Women mostly feature as cameos in the story with the exception of Kay whose surname is not revealed in the novel, who becomes Nino's wife.
In the novel, Nino meets Kay in a cafe in Manly and their introduction is effected by Nino trying to teach Kay that she cannot eat spaghetti using a spoon.


The final message of the novel is that immigrants to Australia should count themselves fortunate and should make efforts to assimilate into Australian society, including learning to speak Australian English.
However, there is also a satirical undercurrent aimed at Australian society as a country of migrants.
If youre Italian or Australian or a bricklayer or a builder or a sociologist you will probably like this book.
I am none of those but enjoyed it immensely, I was encouraged to read this by my dad, when I was in high school, and it was enjoyable and humorous but I think resonated more with his own migrant experience than mine.
It was interesting as an historic social commentary as well, by giving me a greater appreciation of what dad and his family experienced as Italians in/s insular, conservative, white British Melbourne.
Laughed myself to tears!!! I was in absolute stitches from start to finish! Taught me how to eat spaghetti the proper, Italian way.


Later I found out that the book was actually written by an Irishman, and that real Italians over the age of five don't eat pasta that way at all.


I read this because of the movie, which was about Sydney in a time when nothing on TV was about Australia except the news, and I had not long before found out that I didn't actually live in America, despite what my TV had so insistently implied.
This revelation made, I was intrigued by this place I now knew I lived in, and more than a little proud that Graham Kennedy, that famous Melbourne person, was in the movie, and so therefore so was Melbourne, for about twelve seconds.


Apart from that, it's a pretty lame and obvious "satire", and probably more than a little bit racist.
Sort of like Chris Lilley's "Jonah from Tonga" but without the Fgrenades, Laugh out loud funny! They're a Weird Mob follows the story of Nino, an Italian immigrant fresh off the boat in Sydney.
I'm thinking the time frame is lates earlys but I honestly can't remember if they tell the reader the date.
Pure hilarity and enjoyment with this read, Nino is an eloquent observer and to see the Australian vernacular captured through the eyes of a newly arrived Italian who thinks he can speak English but cannot grasp what people are saying is highly entertaining.
review soon Howsthebookgoin' mate orright orright, i exclaimed,.cause it's funny. This is a funny and clever book, I had read it many years ago, but I still laughed all over again when I chose it for the Read Around Australia challenge.
Insightful and accurate about the Australian character, it is a forerunner to the delights of comedians like Paul Hogan when he first climbed down from Sydney Harbour Bridge.

If only we had more migrants like Nino Culotta who so enthusiastically embraced his new life.
“They're a Weird Mob” by Nino Culotta John O'Grady

This book is iconic, I laughed so much reading, The best quotes I haven't had time to type up, but so many of the characters I have seen personified in the Aussies that I have known.



“There is no better way of life in the world than that of the Australian.
I firmly believe this. The grumbling, growling, cursing, profane, laughing, beer drinking, abusive, loyaltohismates Australian is one of the few free men left on this earth.
He fears no one, crawls to no one, bludges on no one, and acknowledges no master.
Learn his way. Learn his language. Get yourself accepted as one of him and you will enter a world that you never dreamed existed.
And once you have entered it, you will never leave it, ”


Most Australians speak English like I speak Hindustani, which I dont, In general, they use English words, but in a way that makes no sense to anyone else.
And they dont use our European vowel sounds, so that even if they do construct a normal sentence, it doesnt sound like one.
This made it necessary for me, until I become accustomed to it, to

translate everything that was said to me twice, first into English and then into Italian.
So my replies were always slow, and those long pauses prompted many belligerent remarks, such as Well dont stand there like a dill dyer wanta beer or dontcha Now that I have had five years of practice, I find that I am able to think in English, and often in the Australian kind of English, so that when some character picks me for a dill, he is likely to be told quick smart to suck his scone in!


That episode of Friday night and yesterday illustrates the informality of the Australian way of life, and the Australians unquenchable energy and thirst.
He works hard, with much cursing and swearing, and is most unhappy when he has no work to do.
He loves beer and tobacco, and impassioned arguments, He is kind and generous and abusive, He will swear at you, and call you insulting names, and love you like a brother.
He is without malice. He will fight you with skill and ferocity, and buy you a beer immediately afterwards, He is a man of many contradictions, but his confidence and selfsufficing are inspiring, If he is beaten in a fight or an argument, he laughs about it the next day, and tells his mates, The bastard was too good fer me.
He doesnt resent a defeat of that bastard who done me over, It takes a European a long time to begin to understand him,


Goodo. Well wash up an scrape off the whiskers an knock over a few more bottles before we go, eh Best part of a dozen still left.
Decent feed, Nino. Yer cd get a job as a shearers cook any time,

Theyd all go on strike, Pat said

I hate sheep, Dennis said.
Stupid bastards.

You was a jackeroo once, wasnt you, Den

Yeah, Walgett. Nothings worse.

Worse than layin bricks

Yeah

Must a bin crook, then.


Sheep! Worse than bloody turkeys,

Seen a mob o turkey tryin ter get out through a nail hole in a tin shed once.
Killed emselves. Pat said

Yeah, said Dennis, a hawk cn come an pinch all their young uns, an they take no notice.
Bit o paper blows along the ground an they get the tom tits an fly into a fence an knock emselves cold.
They have turkeys in Italy, Nino

Yes, Dennis

Yaint saying much, Wots the matter, mate Tired

No, Im not tired,

Keepin awful quiet,

I am sure the conversation is very interesting, but unfortunately I cannot understand it.



Australians like giving people tea and advice, The tea is always very good, and sometimes the advice too, "
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