oh for fuck's sake, I was joking
Sorry. I forgot Adelaide was the only Australian city Aussies are allowed to piss on. Won't make that mistake again sir. Sooooooooooo fucking sorry.
There, happy now?
Just keep walking, preacher-man.
River ,'Jaynestown'
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evil jimi - Apr 02, 2005 1:02:18 am PST #7597 of 9843
Lurching from one disaster to the next.
billytea - Apr 02, 2005 1:54:39 am PST #7598 of 9843
You were a wrong baby who grew up wrong. The wrong kind of wrong. It's better you hear it from a friend.
There, happy now?
Not particularly. Canberra gets flak all the time, and it's not joking. Plenty of places around the country are the butt of jokes (Adelaide is way down the list), but Canberra's the only place that deals with actual contempt. Canberra's the only one the rest of the country is actually resentful about.
Scrappy - Apr 02, 2005 5:32:38 am PST #7599 of 9843
Life moves pretty fast. You don't stop and look around once in a while, you could miss it.
Why is that, Billytea? I know lots of Americans are contemptuous of New York City, but there is also an underlying respect for it, so it balances out.
billytea - Apr 02, 2005 5:39:58 am PST #7600 of 9843
You were a wrong baby who grew up wrong. The wrong kind of wrong. It's better you hear it from a friend.
Why is that, Billytea? I know lots of Americans are contemptuous of New York City, but there is also an underlying respect for it, so it balances out.
Because it was built to be the seat of government. So, Australia treats it as being somehow complicit in said government. A high proportion of the workforce is in the public service, which also attracts scorn, and the city was planned, which leads to jibes about sterility and being a city without a soul.
DavidS - Apr 02, 2005 7:46:13 am PST #7601 of 9843
"Look, son, if it's good enough for Shirley Bassey, it's good enough for you."
and being a city without a soul
Was there a gypsy curse involved?
Frankenbuddha - Apr 02, 2005 11:01:25 am PST #7602 of 9843
"We are the Goon Squad and we're coming to town...Beep! Beep!" - David Bowie, "Fashion"
Was there a gypsy curse involved?
No, but surpsingly sex with a teenage slayer was involved.
sumi - Apr 02, 2005 12:40:08 pm PST #7603 of 9843
Art Crawl!!!
So, billytea, was Canberra built on a swamp?
billytea - Apr 02, 2005 12:46:58 pm PST #7604 of 9843
You were a wrong baby who grew up wrong. The wrong kind of wrong. It's better you hear it from a friend.
So, billytea, was Canberra built on a swamp?
No, it was built on the Limestone Plains. One politician at the time referred to it as "A waste of good sheep country".
Incidentally, Canberra today has three times as many trees than there were before it was built.
Was there a gypsy curse involved?
Yeah, let's go with that. Canberra wound up where it was because neither Sydney nor Melbourne was willing to let the other be the nation's capital, so there may have been cursing involved.
No, but surpsingly sex with a teenage slayer was involved.
Canberra is also regarded as the sex capital of Australia (first place to legalise licenced prostitution and such like), so maybe this one too.
Nutty - Apr 02, 2005 1:08:57 pm PST #7605 of 9843
"Mister Spock is on his fanny, sir. Reports heavy damage."
and being a city without a soul
I find Washington DC is often like this. Anyway, there's a certain freakish rootlessness, when the cultural winds shift at every election. We used to joke that 9pm was the best time to get a dinner reservation, because all the civil servants would be on their way to bed by then.
(Which is not to say there weren't film festivals, opera, free museums, and stuff like that; but compared to Baltimore, DC was an airport concourse.)
DXMachina - Apr 02, 2005 1:15:44 pm PST #7606 of 9843
You always do this. We get tipsy, and you take advantage of my love of the scientific method.
compared to Baltimore, DC was an airport concourse
But with better museums.