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Old Jan 30th 2008, 5:27 am
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We are off to Rooty Hill in March, and was wondering if people had any views on what its like, can anyone recommend a place to stay, Looking at the Holiday Inn at the moment, but they will charge us £1,275 for 22 nights (3 of us) Is this good or bad.? I really am not sure.
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We are off to Rooty Hill in March, and was wondering if people had any views on what its like, can anyone recommend a place to stay, Looking at the Holiday Inn at the moment, but they will charge us £1,275 for 22 nights (3 of us) Is this good or bad.? I really am not sure.
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Is there any particular reason for you heading to Rooty Hill? Just wondering

We're in Richmond which is about 25 mins from there.

You should expect to pay around $100-$120 a night for a hotel so that seems about right.
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Rooty Hill ... , well on the positive side it has an RSL that makes Las Vegas look restrained. The place is also home to westies:

Here's what the urbandictionary.com says about them:


Pale, greasy-looking people predominantly from the western suburbs of Sydney, Australia, especially Rooty Hill, Penrith, and surrounding areas. A cousin to the USA Trailer Trash and the UK Chav. Westies have a very strict dress code: black AC/DC and Metallica shirts and blue or black jeans. Nothing else is permitted, except for the mandatory flannel shirt wrapped around their waists, kind of like a small, low cape. A sort of “Super Tea Towel Man” look. Footwear includes ankle-high leather shoes of any kind or thongs (flip-flops).

The males are usually scrawny with wispy goatee beards that they’ve never shaved, but still haven’t managed to accumulate more than a dozen hairs. However, they think they are the exact replicas of ZZ Top.

The females wear similar clothes to the males, but are also permitted spandex bike shorts and ugg boots. The larger the butt, the more chance it will be wrapped in taunt spandex, with two worn patches on each cheek showing a faint hint of white.

Both males and females wear mullets, unless the male is bald. If the male is balding he will shave his head and wear black sunglasses. It’s inevitable.

Drawn together by a strong dislike of anything that can’t be found in pubs--i.e., 70’s rock, sports on TV, booze, and fighting--they also sit around at home, watch porn and smoke bongs. They leave school too early to learn about proper birth control and the unsavoury results of incest, go on the dole and reproduce. Unfortunately, this is encouraged by the Australian government and the culling of Westies is not permitted by law.

You will not find intelligent or original Westies, by definition. Any person with higher than room-temperature IQ born into a Westie household will leave and join another sub-culture.

Westies are insecure and aggressive. However, they are safe when not in groups, since they’ll only pick fights when they outnumber you at least 4-to-1. It’s common for the females to start fights between two male Westies who are too stupid to know they’ve been set up (which is all of them).

Westies know five words and all of them are swear words. Communication is fairly difficult, since you can only express basic urges in words they'll understand. To read popular Westie sayings and slogans, visit a public toilet.

The best ways to avoid them is to live in an area that doesn’t have government housing and stay away from public transport. You will never find them on university grounds or in non-fast food restaurants.


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Rough.
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The hotel at the RSL used to be quite good value. The website has their cheapest rates as $175 a night so they look like they have quoted you less than that on current rates. Mind you, why anyone would want to spend 3 weeks in Rooty Hill is a bit of a puzzle.
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The hotel at the RSL used to be quite good value. The website has their cheapest rates as $175 a night so they look like they have quoted you less than that on current rates. Mind you, why anyone would want to spend 3 weeks in Rooty Hill is a bit of a puzzle.
or 3 days for that matter
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or 3 days for that matter
It was OK for 3 days when you have to chauffeur your kid to a swimming carnival but any more than that was a bit of a stretch!
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Originally Posted by quoll
why anyone would want to spend 3 weeks in Rooty Hill is a bit of a puzzle.
Thats why I was asking Bit of an obscure place to come to visit?
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Well AndreaK and family have arrived safe and well..........and are not staying in Rooty Hill
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Well AndreaK and family have arrived safe and well..........and are not staying in Rooty Hill
Thanks for the update
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Rooty Hill ... , well on the positive side it has an RSL that makes Las Vegas look restrained. The place is also home to westies:

Here's what the urbandictionary.com says about them:


Pale, greasy-looking people predominantly from the western suburbs of Sydney, Australia, especially Rooty Hill, Penrith, and surrounding areas. A cousin to the USA Trailer Trash and the UK Chav. Westies have a very strict dress code: black AC/DC and Metallica shirts and blue or black jeans. Nothing else is permitted, except for the mandatory flannel shirt wrapped around their waists, kind of like a small, low cape. A sort of “Super Tea Towel Man” look. Footwear includes ankle-high leather shoes of any kind or thongs (flip-flops).

The males are usually scrawny with wispy goatee beards that they’ve never shaved, but still haven’t managed to accumulate more than a dozen hairs. However, they think they are the exact replicas of ZZ Top.

The females wear similar clothes to the males, but are also permitted spandex bike shorts and ugg boots. The larger the butt, the more chance it will be wrapped in taunt spandex, with two worn patches on each cheek showing a faint hint of white.

Both males and females wear mullets, unless the male is bald. If the male is balding he will shave his head and wear black sunglasses. It’s inevitable.

Drawn together by a strong dislike of anything that can’t be found in pubs--i.e., 70’s rock, sports on TV, booze, and fighting--they also sit around at home, watch porn and smoke bongs. They leave school too early to learn about proper birth control and the unsavoury results of incest, go on the dole and reproduce. Unfortunately, this is encouraged by the Australian government and the culling of Westies is not permitted by law.

You will not find intelligent or original Westies, by definition. Any person with higher than room-temperature IQ born into a Westie household will leave and join another sub-culture.

Westies are insecure and aggressive. However, they are safe when not in groups, since they’ll only pick fights when they outnumber you at least 4-to-1. It’s common for the females to start fights between two male Westies who are too stupid to know they’ve been set up (which is all of them).

Westies know five words and all of them are swear words. Communication is fairly difficult, since you can only express basic urges in words they'll understand. To read popular Westie sayings and slogans, visit a public toilet.

The best ways to avoid them is to live in an area that doesn’t have government housing and stay away from public transport. You will never find them on university grounds or in non-fast food restaurants.


could'nt have put it better myself. i currently live in the blacktown area, although the good part(kings langley). i plan to get the hell out asap though, for the simple fact that it's the most boring shithole i have ever set foot in
90% of people here are dumb,dimwitted,ignorant, conservative, humourless twats who can't hold any form of conversation other than "ows it goin", the males and females don't mix very well cos the men are too dumb and out of touch with their feminine side, and the girls are also dumb and out of touch with their masculine side(the rough types may be masculine, but the rest r just americanised wannabe supermodels). this isn't just westies though. you forgot about the pathetic wannabe black american gangsta islanders, who by the way are a bunch of pussies who mug kids on the street in groups, who would not last a single day on the streets of hackney, east london walking around the town the way they do. why not go nearer to the city?
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i would rather live in a run down high rise council flat in peckham than stay in the blacktown area.
it might be rough but sure as hell more interesting!
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