Adelaide locals laugh off ‘Sht Towns of Australia’ roast

Adelaideans have defended their city after it copped a satirical roasting from the Sht Towns of Australia Facebook page – but they’ve also kinda agreed with the description. An evolving Australian city has copped a satirical bollocking but locals have defended its honour, and agree with the criticism in equal measure. The Facebook site ‘Sht Towns of Australia’, which has 636,000 followers, playfully sends up both well-loved and lesser-known locations across the nation its anonymous author decides are … well … sht. An equal opportunity offender, all states are fair game, and while the site usually singles out towns, South Australia’s capital – Adelaide – was this week the subject of some tongue-in-cheek ridicule via an excerpt from pseudonymic authors Rick Furphy and Geoff Rissole’s 2019 book Sh*t Towns of Australia. “Adelaide is known as the ‘City of Churches, Pubs and Serial Killers’,” the post reads. “The city’s roll of gory crimes includes a series of gruesome murders committed by a shadowy cabal of pedophiles, a series of gruesome murders committed by a bunch of drongos on the dole, and Jimmy Barnes’s musical career. Adelaide is known for its Malls Balls in Rundle Mall, among o...