Posts by Che Tibby
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Morrissey (? questionable?)
ROFL! [wipes tears from eyes]
what about Prince.... awfully tight pants going on there.
and the Beatles. you can't convince me lennon and mccartney didn't have a drug-addled fling, "i'd love to turn you on" indeed...
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a quick note. rival white motorcycle gangs warring in australia is relatively common.
back in 99 there was spate of bombing of gang HQs in SA and Victoria.
also, italian gang warfare ("mafia") warfare is pretty entrenched too.
likewise vietnamese rivals in the heroin trade.
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paul, an academic called andrew markus wrote a book on howards use of race called (not surprisingly) 'Race:..." a few years back. he points out the obvious, that howard adopted all of hanson's approach to the race issue to win votes. something hanson has happily verified.
and alex, those were my thoughts exactly on the ex-gay video. funny as all hell, but i can't imagine a born-again singing, "god hates fags". it must be a piss-take of some kind. if it's not, then god help us all.
speaking of which, if god says "a man shall not lie with a man", does that mean it's ok for girls to get with it? maybe the next video will feature something like, "GOD: keeping het men excited since 4000 BC"
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the (un?)fortunate thing about working on a computer is that the micropausese between bouts of high productivity are often computer related.
on the race thing. i think we need to acknowledge that racism is actually normal. doesn't matter whether you like it and practice it or not, it occurs in near any society that has contact with outsiders.
the difference is whether the society has leaders who actively exploit a groups natural racist tendencies for their own gain. nzl has a fairly good pedigree in that regard.
the main difference between here and oz seems to be that they've actively backed away from public policy that minimises or seeks to undermine racism, and we *tend* not to elect leaders who do so. and that backing away in australia is what (IMHO) is leaving plenty of space for nutters and boofheads to express themselves.
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one, a mate has been to a few Millwall FC games, and he reckons they're "pretty bloody full-on mate".
but two, i've been to AFL at the MCG, and was pretty bloody shocked by the things blokes were yelling at the aboriginal players on the field. i've never heard a nzlers yell, "f###ing niggers" to a maori player from the terraces at Eden Park.
but then, that doesn't mean it hasn't happened. you only have to look at the anti-treaty, or anti-invAsian groundswell to see the real nzl.
the other thing is that while these boofheads were screaming from the ground floor in the MCG, two levels above them grandmothers were sitting eating sandwiches with their grandkids in complete peace, and just enjoying the game.
bit of a microcosm really.
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one of my brothers had his front door smashed in, and was assaulted by an off-duty cop while i was in melbourne. his girlfriend had verbally abused the cop's son, and this was a little payback.
we were able to follow up the the incident (to get victims compensation) because all police records disappeared.
100% true story.
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mikaere,
on point a), it worked the other way too. aboriginal nations saw little value to many aspects of european culture and ignored it (floggings, hangings, indentured labour and christianity), and europeans themselves, while happily and enthusiatically uptaking technological advances like metals.
this lead to untold frustrations on the part of the colonisers, and has been directly attributed as one basis of the more 'vigorous' assimilation policies like 1850s genocide and 1870s-1970s child removal.
and in regard to point B. [hand goes up] guilty as charged. in fact i sometimes find myself slipping into a mild 'strine when talking about melbourne...
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something interesting occured to me this morning.
in a way, the white australia policy was correct. the admission of 'ethnics' into australia does result in division, non-assimilation, and social unrest.
strangely though, the instigators of these troubles (are time and again, but not always) the dinkim australians themselves.
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weston, not sure whether you mean "white man" or "atheist".
i can see i'd better start shaving my head, pronto...
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i read that chain too. i wanted to say 'shocking', but then thought... no, not really.
also, looks like howard is positioning to remove multicultural policy once and for all, as he did with distinct aboriginal policy.
http://www.theage.com.au/news/national/integration-is-howards-aim/2007/01/23/1169518710208.html