Ursula Le Guin...
January 24th, 2018
Arguing with someone who has the words "GunGirl" in her Twitter handle about gun control.
They were going off about how vehicular homicide was so much greater, and 'media lies' (fake news!)
In the end, I told them "A++ derailing. Have a nice day."
If she's going to avoid the matters of licencing, training, purpose/use, and frequency of use in ordinary daily urban life regarding cars vs guns, then there's no point. You can't talk logic to someone who's foaming at the mouth.
They were going off about how vehicular homicide was so much greater, and 'media lies' (fake news!)
In the end, I told them "A++ derailing. Have a nice day."
If she's going to avoid the matters of licencing, training, purpose/use, and frequency of use in ordinary daily urban life regarding cars vs guns, then there's no point. You can't talk logic to someone who's foaming at the mouth.
The Iced Vo-Vo is an Australian biscuit (cookie) that has long been a favourite with Aussie kids. Raspberry marshmallow, coconut, etc.
Apparently people have been making cakes reminiscent of it:
Iced Vo-Vo Tart: I like that this one seems almost like a cheesecake, only instead of cheese in the middle, it's marshmallow...
Iced Vo-Vo Ice Cream Cake: PERFECT FOR SUMMER
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Australia/Invasion Day has been particularly controversial this year; kind of like the issue with Thanksgiving in the USA. There's a movement to change the date, but the usual people are clinging to "our way of life" and "nobody cares about that anymore".
Interestingly, the argument that 'it's historical' apparently doesn't add up - there are posters in the early 20th century that listed it being in July sometime (I think it was the last Friday or Monday in July). It's only in the last forty years that it became the day Governor Phillip and the First Fleet made land at Sydney Cove and executed a "cunning use of flags" (thank you Eddie Izzard), and even that's under a bit of a questionmark right now.
Personally, I really want a holiday somewhere between June and October, when we have a huge dearth of public holidays. Personally, I think my birthday in August would be PERFECT. But, you know, can't have everything. (Plus, another kind of massacre happened on my birthdate: Australia was not involved, but let's just say it was pretty much a million shades of awful. Then again, we're the West. What days haven't we been slaughtering people who don't look like us or who don't submit themselves appropriately to our authority? Possibly only on a day not ending in 'Y'.)
Anyway. For Friday, I'd kind of liked to have gone down to the Block at Redfern (used to be a big area for Indigenous people in the city before it got gentrified, but there's still some spaces) for the Invasion Day party, but the trains aren't running very well over the long weekend (union's on strike, and the new increased timetable is shit - basically the govt is trying to run the urban rail service into the ground so they can say it's crap and privatise it and have more taxes for their paychecks and paying off coal companies), and the families are church are throwing a party at a house a couple of streets away.
Australia's "alternative" radio station, Triple J (run by the national broadcasting company - govt run although barely - the ABC) switched the day of their 'Hottest 100' as voted by listeners from the 26th Jan to the day after. Naturally, conservatives FREAKED.
A religious conservative tried to make his own 'Aussie 100' which is going to be played by Triple M on the 26th...I think. Who even knows now? But you could internet-vote for the songs, and let's just say that the internet was having fun naming Aboriginal, queer, and all-female bands singing songs of protest and with anti-conservative sentiments...
But a friend is hosting a "Hottest 100 Day" at her place on the 27th, and I'm thinking about making one of those Iced VoVo cakes and taking it along. Mmmmmm....
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Australians rate the most significant events of their lifetimes.
Apparently people have been making cakes reminiscent of it:
Iced Vo-Vo Tart: I like that this one seems almost like a cheesecake, only instead of cheese in the middle, it's marshmallow...
Iced Vo-Vo Ice Cream Cake: PERFECT FOR SUMMER
--
Australia/Invasion Day has been particularly controversial this year; kind of like the issue with Thanksgiving in the USA. There's a movement to change the date, but the usual people are clinging to "our way of life" and "nobody cares about that anymore".
Interestingly, the argument that 'it's historical' apparently doesn't add up - there are posters in the early 20th century that listed it being in July sometime (I think it was the last Friday or Monday in July). It's only in the last forty years that it became the day Governor Phillip and the First Fleet made land at Sydney Cove and executed a "cunning use of flags" (thank you Eddie Izzard), and even that's under a bit of a questionmark right now.
Personally, I really want a holiday somewhere between June and October, when we have a huge dearth of public holidays. Personally, I think my birthday in August would be PERFECT. But, you know, can't have everything. (Plus, another kind of massacre happened on my birthdate: Australia was not involved, but let's just say it was pretty much a million shades of awful. Then again, we're the West. What days haven't we been slaughtering people who don't look like us or who don't submit themselves appropriately to our authority? Possibly only on a day not ending in 'Y'.)
Anyway. For Friday, I'd kind of liked to have gone down to the Block at Redfern (used to be a big area for Indigenous people in the city before it got gentrified, but there's still some spaces) for the Invasion Day party, but the trains aren't running very well over the long weekend (union's on strike, and the new increased timetable is shit - basically the govt is trying to run the urban rail service into the ground so they can say it's crap and privatise it and have more taxes for their paychecks and paying off coal companies), and the families are church are throwing a party at a house a couple of streets away.
Australia's "alternative" radio station, Triple J (run by the national broadcasting company - govt run although barely - the ABC) switched the day of their 'Hottest 100' as voted by listeners from the 26th Jan to the day after. Naturally, conservatives FREAKED.
A religious conservative tried to make his own 'Aussie 100' which is going to be played by Triple M on the 26th...I think. Who even knows now? But you could internet-vote for the songs, and let's just say that the internet was having fun naming Aboriginal, queer, and all-female bands singing songs of protest and with anti-conservative sentiments...
But a friend is hosting a "Hottest 100 Day" at her place on the 27th, and I'm thinking about making one of those Iced VoVo cakes and taking it along. Mmmmmm....
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Australians rate the most significant events of their lifetimes.
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