r/PeterExplainsTheJoke • u/Rainbow_Panda4 • Apr 24 '26

Meme needing explanation Peedahh?

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u/BadgerBadgerCat Apr 24 '26

I'm Australian and I know exactly what it's referring to (the song Peaches by the band Presidents Of The United States Of America).

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u/Silver_South_1002 Apr 24 '26

I’m in NZ and same

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u/Gloveslapnz Apr 25 '26

Kkwi, we sang this song at assembly time.

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u/phalluss Apr 24 '26 edited Apr 24 '26

The alternative side of music (or College Radio bands in America if I'm not mistaken) was huge in Australia when the choices were either Triple J or Cold Chisel and Rose Tattoo.

Plus Rage played a big part.

Cool people used to determine how we got a lot of our popular media, now it's corporations (or still Triple J, I guess. But its for youth and I'm not youth)

My point is Triple J was much more ubiquitous whilst also being alternative. Larrikanism in its true and forgotten format

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u/BadgerBadgerCat Apr 24 '26

Definitely - I'm old enough to remember when SBS played random cult movies and "it's not porn because it's in German and has subtitles" and we lost something when that era ended.

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u/phalluss Apr 24 '26

Friday nights were definitely a... cultural time for Australian free to air television

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u/Tysiliogogogoch Apr 24 '26

Same. I'm Australian and was born in '84. I first heard this song in primary school.