Posted in 2005 Antarctica, Travels, culture-like | Monday, December 12th, 2005 | No Comments » Trackback
What preparations? Man, I still gotta get all the gear necessary for the vacation: gloves, jacket, rubber boots, extra set of gloves, longjohn underwear, sun tan (factor Gazillion, can you believe that shit?), waterproof overpants thingies (raingear), sun glasses (another of those things that happen to other people), snow cap/hat thing to keep the head and the ears a bit protected..
I mean, what the hell is a black (Afro-Caribbean) man doing, hauling his butt to The South Pole Continent?!? What was I thinking, could’ve been on some warm and lovely paradise beach on the tropical Asian continent (not Cronulla, of course..).
In stead I’m gonna freeze my tush with some penguins, possibly some whales and other wildlife, with icebergs and a six month daylight period and.. well.. I guess, I remember now why I’m going to that place ;o)
And maybe, secretly, I’ve always liked the cold..
Ah.. Innocence lost..
(My parents still wonder where this cute kid disappeared to..)
Next item of preparation: what music to bring along on my MP3 player.. An Antarctic Playlist, wow..
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Posted in General, This Week | Sunday, December 11th, 2005 | No Comments » Trackback
..would I be the one that’s generalizing and typecasting Australian people’s xenophobia and in doing so, being a sort of anti-Australian bigot?
In case you didn’t follow the news on this:
Technorati
Google News
No info at BBC News, weird..
I really enjoyed this eye-witness report
So some sad excuses for human beings at some beach in Australia got drunk and rowdy (another stereotype enforced..) and with the general mob mentality happening, everybody including visiting families and their children joined in singing racially-incorrect songs. This went on to escalate into violence against “people of Middle Eastern appearance”, beating up people, etc. There’s a background history of growing annoyance towards groups of Lebanese hanging around the beach, so it’s gonna turn into one of those “They started it and deserved it And Vice Versa” stories..
Still plan to go there on vacation one of these days, enjoy the Reef, the landscape, etc. And I’m sure I’ll meet plenty of locals there who don’t agree with these ignorant shites. But that’s the funny thing, you never know, do ya? See? There’s a prejudiced bastard in all of us! Thank [insert deity of choice] we use social conditioning to regulate such backwards thoughts.. and thank [said deity of choice] that ignorance is one of the universal qualities we humans share regardless of race, creed or color.
Now where’s that bottle of Forgetfullness?
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