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TGBC Monthly Challenge - #BPTest
March 10, 2023
105/75mmHg See that? That's a blood pressure reading. The first number is systolic pressure, which is the level of pressure against your artery walls when your heart beats. The second...
Mayfield Chapter Opening
March 03, 2023
Mayfield, near Newcastle NSW, is home to one of the newest chapters of the Tough Guy Book Club (TGBC); a network of men’s book clubs held in pubs around the...
TGBC Monthly Challenge - #OpShop
December 28, 2022
Op shops. Charity shops, secondhand stores, Vinnies, Salvos, the Goodwill. Call them whatever you like, wherever you are. For some they're a curiosity, a ubiquitous presence on your small town...
TGBC & International Day for the Elimination of Violence Against Women
November 25, 2022
November 25 is host to the International Day for the Elimination of Violence Against Women and we marked the occasion with a very special meeting of Tough Guy Book Club....
Seattle Chapter Opening
November 09, 2022
This article is supposed to be about the opening of one of our new international chapters, a chapter in Seattle, Washington, but we can’t do that without first talking about...
TGBC Monthly Challenge - #Short story
November 09, 2022
If you’ve been around the club for more than a few minutes, you’ll know we have a monthly challenge. The challenge is something different each month, but it always involves...
TGBC SHORT STORY COMPETITION
October 09, 2022
This months TGBC Challenge is to write a short story. By 31 October 2022, you need to write the draft of a short story (between 2,000 and 5,000 words) and...
International Day for the Elimination of Violence Against Women
October 05, 2022
Tough Guy Book Club is about men meeting in pubs to have rowdy conversations about big important issues. And one of the biggest issues facing the world is violence against...
Goon Profile - Chas Lang
September 26, 2022
Name: Chas Lang Chapter: Mornington Chapter Who are you: So who am I? I'm I pretty ordinary 30-something guy. It's hard for 30-something guys to make new friends, but I...
Sale Chapter Opens
September 05, 2022
As Tough Guy Book Club slowly takes over the towns, cities, and suburbs of Australia, one area has been an unexpected focus of our expansion plans: Gippsland. For a relatively...
TGBC Monthly Challenge - #NewBloods
August 31, 2022
If you’ve been around Tough Guy Book Club for a while, you’ll know we do monthly challenges. These challenges range from something a little strange like our unusual reading challenge,...
TGBC in the News - The Senior - 17/08/22
August 17, 2022
Tough Guy Book Club brings deep discussion back to the pub- By Rowan Cowley Retiree Vince Bartilotta's life was missing something until he joined a blokey book club in an...
TGBC Monthly Challenge - #NewBloods
August 17, 2022
August 2022 saw one of our coolest challenges yet, with goons being encouraged to give blood as part of the TGBC Lifeblood donor team. Restrictions preventing former residents of the...
TGBC Monthly Challenge - #GuerrillaGardening
July 20, 2022
guer.ril.la (noun) A member of a small independent group taking part in irregular fighting, typically against larger regular forces. From the Spanish, diminutive of guerra meaning 'war' +++ What's the...
TGBC @ ASIST Training
July 13, 2022
In June 2022, ten goons from all points of the compass and all walks of life met in Sydney’s southwest for a two-day workshop in suicide first aid. The commitment...
TGBC Monthly Challenge - #LastDrinks
June 22, 2022
The Tough Guy Book Club June #LastDrinks Challenge is a barrel aged kettle sour double dry hopped imperial triple india hazy pale oatmeal stout lager ale. It ranges anywhere from...
TGBC Monthly Challenge - #StraightArms
April 20, 2022
Is Tough Guy Book Club a drinking club with a reading problem, or the other way around? We get asked this question sometimes, but mostly because everyone’s mum used to...
TGBC Monthly Challenge - #BPcheck22
April 20, 2022
Tough Guy Book Club takes January off (who wants to talk books when you're busy breaking your New Years resolutions?) so February is our first meeting of the year. That...
Dudley Chapter Open
April 19, 2022
Make no mistake, Dudley gets into it. We've heard that not all book clubs actually talk about books. Tough Guy Book Club could easily fall into that category. We're...
2022 Floods - Goons to the rescue
April 13, 2022
Say you're at home. Doing whatever it is you do at home. Reading, we hope. Or sprawling on the couch watching TV, that's fine too. Now, say something terrible comes...
Camp of the Sunburnt River
April 02, 2022
To tell the story of the Camp of the Sun Burnt River, the 2022 Summer Camp, we have to travel all the way back to the before times of 2020,...
2022 Floods - TGBC Fundraising Efforts
March 29, 2022
February-March 2022 brought some of the worst flooding in Australia's history. Massive areas of NSW and Queensland vanished underwater. Some of them haven't emerged yet, and there's more rain coming....
TGBC Monthly Challenge - #unusualreading
March 23, 2022
You know what's tough? Finding time to read. We get that. It's one of the reasons we exist. Life is complicated, responsibilities are many, and work is sometimes the only...
TGBC In the news - The Tradie Magazine
March 23, 2022
Do you have trouble explaining to other dudes what Tough Guy Book Club is about? Is it weird telling them you're in a book club in the first place? It...
Broome Chapter Opens
March 08, 2022
Tough Guy Book Club is everywhere. You can find us in big cities and small towns, on the coast and in the hills. You can find us in pubs and...