^(something I generally say to people from the suburbs visiting the city lol)
GBTWYCF is currently being shown on SBS1 @ 8.30pm. The second of three episodes shown over three nights was on air thisevening.
During the first episode the 6 Australians, only one of which isn't anti-refugees/racist, spent a week with refugees granted assylum. 3 of them including self proclaimed racist and Afro hater Raquel stayed with a Congolese family who had waited in a refugee camp till they were resettled in Australia. The other 3 stayed with a group of Iraqi men who where "boat people".
The group then got on an Indonesian fishing boat that looks like a death trap and would usually house 50 or so refugees. After an evening on sea with tempers getting a bit out of control the vessel started to leak severley and at day break caught fire however they where never in danger.
In tonights episode we met a family of 50 'The Chins' who are UN certified refugees waiting for resettlement. However they dont have any rights in Malaysia, if they are stopped on the street or working they will get arrested and very possibly tortured. The group lived with the Chins in their two bedroom apartment for a week.
On the groups last day in Malaysia the group said very teary goodbyes to the Chins only to find out they were going to participate in a raid on a group of refugees later that evening.
I won't go into all the details but SBS encouraged people to 'have your say' on their website. Below is 'my say' which apparently wasn't suitable to be posted on the discussion...oh well.
Re: The surf life savers behavior during the raid.
First he says he hopes it's not the Chins and he won't have anything to do with it if they are, then he snitches on so many people including women during the raid then he turns around and says he would jump on a boat. Its like why would he snitch on people with exactly the same problems and desires as the Chins? What a hypocrite! If I was there I would have subbed for the person in the bush and under the floorboards and helped them get away!
Raquel is a dead set gronk. She chose to go on the show with an idea of what would happen and she's being a whingey, stubborn little itchbay.
Also why is the guy who's great grandparents or whatever are Muslims (the one with the horrible sunnies) being so religionist against muslims?
It's an amazing show but by god the people on it are pissing me off! However they are the ones that need to live this experience so that they'll hopefully learn something.
Wednesday, June 22, 2011
Wednesday, June 15, 2011
Disney Adventures in Fine Dining
My mother told me about a letter, probably my first of this nature, I wrote to Disney Adventures magazine around 1995.
The previous christmas holidays had been spent in France where we had dined on delicacies such as wild boar and truffles, me for the first time.
A Disney Adventures magazine had an article about the different types of food people eat around the world and for the French or Belge section they had wild boar (my mother thinks, could have been another meat) and truffles. The editor wrote a note saying something along the line of "ewwww yuck I can't imagine eating chocolate with that" . Apparently I was very upset by it and wrote them a letter.
This is not the actuall letter but a mock up of what it might have been.
Dear Disney Adventures,
The truffles in the wild boar and truffle dish wouldn't have been chocolate truffles but real truffles . They are kind of like a mushroom and they use pigs to find them in the wild. I was in France on the holidays and had truffles a few times and wild boar and they are very yummy and taste very good together.
Also here is a picture of me at Euro-Disney
[insert really dorky photo of me sticking my head through a cut out Minnie thing here]
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My mother says I was really disappointed that they never printed either my letter or my picture especially as there were pictures of lots of other kids at Disney Worlds. Nor did they put in a correction or write me back. However can you imagine the shame of a little kid correcting you about fine cuisine!
Although they would only have had to ask one or two people before they were corrected in the first place. Surely the publishing house they were with did a food magazine. If only it was ten years later they could have googled it!
The previous christmas holidays had been spent in France where we had dined on delicacies such as wild boar and truffles, me for the first time.
A Disney Adventures magazine had an article about the different types of food people eat around the world and for the French or Belge section they had wild boar (my mother thinks, could have been another meat) and truffles. The editor wrote a note saying something along the line of "ewwww yuck I can't imagine eating chocolate with that" . Apparently I was very upset by it and wrote them a letter.
This is not the actuall letter but a mock up of what it might have been.
Dear Disney Adventures,
The truffles in the wild boar and truffle dish wouldn't have been chocolate truffles but real truffles . They are kind of like a mushroom and they use pigs to find them in the wild. I was in France on the holidays and had truffles a few times and wild boar and they are very yummy and taste very good together.
Also here is a picture of me at Euro-Disney
[insert really dorky photo of me sticking my head through a cut out Minnie thing here]
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My mother says I was really disappointed that they never printed either my letter or my picture especially as there were pictures of lots of other kids at Disney Worlds. Nor did they put in a correction or write me back. However can you imagine the shame of a little kid correcting you about fine cuisine!
Although they would only have had to ask one or two people before they were corrected in the first place. Surely the publishing house they were with did a food magazine. If only it was ten years later they could have googled it!
Sunday, June 12, 2011
You call THIS coffee??!!
After a long early morning train ride back to the city from Goulburn we decided to get off at Macarthur for a cigarette break. As the next city bound train had about 45mins to arrive we thought we'd have a look around Macarthur Square and get some caffeine to go with our nicotine.
So we went to San Churro cafe thingy and I ordered a "coffee". If one could call it that as you will understand from my email below;
Hi,
I purchased a "strong flat white" from your store on the 23rd of September around 9.30am and was warned it "may be too strong" as they'd made it with a double shot. Well it was weak as piss! I've had stronger coffees made with instant stuff.
My "strong" coffee tasted like warm watery milk with a slight coffee aftertaste. I'm scared to think of what a normal or weak coffee would be - just warmed milk perhaps? It was atrocious.
If you're going to sell coffee you should teach your staff how to make something that would pass for coffee.
Sincerely
E
Later in the day they replied by offering me a free coffee voucher -um why would I want another shitty coffee?- so I told them they could put the cost of the coffee towards barista lessons for their employees.
So we went to San Churro cafe thingy and I ordered a "coffee". If one could call it that as you will understand from my email below;
Hi,
I purchased a "strong flat white" from your store on the 23rd of September around 9.30am and was warned it "may be too strong" as they'd made it with a double shot. Well it was weak as piss! I've had stronger coffees made with instant stuff.
My "strong" coffee tasted like warm watery milk with a slight coffee aftertaste. I'm scared to think of what a normal or weak coffee would be - just warmed milk perhaps? It was atrocious.
If you're going to sell coffee you should teach your staff how to make something that would pass for coffee.
Sincerely
E
Later in the day they replied by offering me a free coffee voucher -um why would I want another shitty coffee?- so I told them they could put the cost of the coffee towards barista lessons for their employees.
Who even likes Cherry Ripes anyway?!
I received one of the big (500g?idk) boxes of Cadbury Favourites for my bday last week which only had ONE(!) Caramello, which is my personal fave, so of course I had to write a letter.
Letter:
Yesterday I received a box of Favourites and was very disappointed to find only one Carramello yet 3 Turkish Delights and 4 Cherry Ripes.
At any occasion where a box of Favourites has been passed around the Turkish Delights & Cherry Ripes are always left at the bottom. In fact I don't think I've ever met someone who would go out of their way to eat either.
Maybe your market research contradicts what I've seen but can you at least put more than one Carramello in?
Letter:
Yesterday I received a box of Favourites and was very disappointed to find only one Carramello yet 3 Turkish Delights and 4 Cherry Ripes.
At any occasion where a box of Favourites has been passed around the Turkish Delights & Cherry Ripes are always left at the bottom. In fact I don't think I've ever met someone who would go out of their way to eat either.
Maybe your market research contradicts what I've seen but can you at least put more than one Carramello in?
Saturday, June 11, 2011
Footpath Nazi!
Sydney City Council and mainly Sydney's most hated woman, as voted by participating readers of The Sydney Morning Herald's The (sydney) Magazine, Clover Moore have been very pro-cyclist of late including building numerous bike paths around the city.
I live on one of these bike path roads and the amount of cyclists on the footpath is so fucking infuriating -here is my letter to the council re cyclists. Note that when I say I "tell them to get off the footpath" it's more like yelling at them to "get the fuck off the footpath! they built bike lanes for you fuckwits and you don't even use them you fucking gronks"
I am aware that you sent out a pamphlet about the laws for cyclists when you completed your cycle paths, it seems as though few people took any notice of the fact it is illegal to ride on the footpath if one is over the age of 12 (unless with accompanying a person under the age of 12).
As a pedestrian I have not had one day in the past year,at least, where I've not had to tell someone to get off the footpath(and no not in shared zones I know how they work). When I tell them that what they are doing is illegal they don't believe me.
I have had instances where someone will be riding on the footpath down Bourke St parallel to someone in the very clearly marked bike lane who will yell abuse at me when I tell them to use the bike lane.
Only the other day on George St , which is hard enough to navigate as a pedestrian because people can't seem to figure out the notion of keeping to the left, a cyclist was trying to barge his way through people and shouting at them to get out of the way (when surely it would have been much easier to just go on the road and not deal with any pedestrians, but a lot of people lack common sense)
I'm not hating on all cyclists,the majority of them are not inconsiderate arseholes but can you please put some HIGHLY VISIBLE signage up about it being illegal to be on the footpath and hand out a couple of (highly publisiced) fines to drive the msg home - especially as a lot of the people I see on the footpath are young so they'Il probably suffer most from a fine.
NB4BLOG: although they probs won't pay it anyway.
I live on one of these bike path roads and the amount of cyclists on the footpath is so fucking infuriating -here is my letter to the council re cyclists. Note that when I say I "tell them to get off the footpath" it's more like yelling at them to "get the fuck off the footpath! they built bike lanes for you fuckwits and you don't even use them you fucking gronks"
I am aware that you sent out a pamphlet about the laws for cyclists when you completed your cycle paths, it seems as though few people took any notice of the fact it is illegal to ride on the footpath if one is over the age of 12 (unless with accompanying a person under the age of 12).
As a pedestrian I have not had one day in the past year,at least, where I've not had to tell someone to get off the footpath(and no not in shared zones I know how they work). When I tell them that what they are doing is illegal they don't believe me.
I have had instances where someone will be riding on the footpath down Bourke St parallel to someone in the very clearly marked bike lane who will yell abuse at me when I tell them to use the bike lane.
Only the other day on George St , which is hard enough to navigate as a pedestrian because people can't seem to figure out the notion of keeping to the left, a cyclist was trying to barge his way through people and shouting at them to get out of the way (when surely it would have been much easier to just go on the road and not deal with any pedestrians, but a lot of people lack common sense)
I'm not hating on all cyclists,the majority of them are not inconsiderate arseholes but can you please put some HIGHLY VISIBLE signage up about it being illegal to be on the footpath and hand out a couple of (highly publisiced) fines to drive the msg home - especially as a lot of the people I see on the footpath are young so they'Il probably suffer most from a fine.
NB4BLOG: although they probs won't pay it anyway.
Fun Female and Boring!
Today I voted for the finalists in Cosmopolitan-aka: how to have an orgasm-magazine's Fun Fearless Female competition. The remaining nominees (and by the looks of it the earlier ones) consisted of models, actresses, designers, authors of chick-lit, tv cooks and other dull non fearless careers. The majority of whom were from commercial television/radio and were Caucasian. The designers clothes were about as boring and "right now" as you could get, not sure what's fearless or fun about designing carbon copies of everyone elses stuff for stick insects.
I'll stop now before you're too out-ranted to read my official rant.
After voting they offered a chance to win a couple of packets of tampons and panty liners from Libra and A nail polish, which are definately female products however everyone knows there is nothing remotely fun or fearless about having your period, except maybe wearing white pants, neither is painting ones nails particularly exciting. All you had to do to win the exciting prize pack was to write (in 24 words or less- which mine is clearly not) about your favorite "FFF".
Below is my entry.
My favorite FFF's are Carly Crutchfield, Kate Ellis, Anna Bligh & Jessica Mauboy. The first three because they are involved in areas with little female representation and are making more of a contribution to womens empowerment than say a fashion designer or model. I chose Jessica Mauboy not only because I prefer her music but because she was the only Indigenous person I could vote for and I feel that like the female politicians and property developer she is another woman breaking stereo-types which is very important.
I must say in regards to the TV personality it was hard to choose between a woman who hosts a dating show, a woman in a kitchen and a travel show host- none of which do anything to celebrate women.
I doubt I'm going to win the tampons now but I thought you ought to know that I feel your nominees are lacking in the fearless department - they may be fun but they're not doing anything to celebrate or promote women , which is what I thought this was about ( I could be wrong).
I'll stop now before you're too out-ranted to read my official rant.
After voting they offered a chance to win a couple of packets of tampons and panty liners from Libra and A nail polish, which are definately female products however everyone knows there is nothing remotely fun or fearless about having your period, except maybe wearing white pants, neither is painting ones nails particularly exciting. All you had to do to win the exciting prize pack was to write (in 24 words or less- which mine is clearly not) about your favorite "FFF".
Below is my entry.
My favorite FFF's are Carly Crutchfield, Kate Ellis, Anna Bligh & Jessica Mauboy. The first three because they are involved in areas with little female representation and are making more of a contribution to womens empowerment than say a fashion designer or model. I chose Jessica Mauboy not only because I prefer her music but because she was the only Indigenous person I could vote for and I feel that like the female politicians and property developer she is another woman breaking stereo-types which is very important.
I must say in regards to the TV personality it was hard to choose between a woman who hosts a dating show, a woman in a kitchen and a travel show host- none of which do anything to celebrate women.
I doubt I'm going to win the tampons now but I thought you ought to know that I feel your nominees are lacking in the fearless department - they may be fun but they're not doing anything to celebrate or promote women , which is what I thought this was about ( I could be wrong).
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