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LITTLE PEOPLE POWER
Power lunchers Tim Flannery and Margaret Fulton mobilise the little people:
Our culinary correspondent Keith Austin, who wrote about the duo for yesterday’s Good Living section, tells us Margaret Fulton and Tim Flannery came up with the “Three Phone Calls” campaign in response to Fulton’s desire to do something about global warming.
The idea, explained Flannery, is simple: “The first phone call is to your local parliamentarian to ask ‘what’s your policy, what are you going to do?’ And tell them point blank, if it’s not good enough, that you’ll actively work against them. The next two phone calls are to two friends who might be sympathetic, to get them to do the same thing."
Fulton, a long-time supporter of Greenpeace, says it’s a move that would help what she calls “the little people” to make a difference.
Hit the phones, midgets! The spirit of Margo’s people’s court lives!
I trust Margo is leading by example and has packed away all those global warming kitchen appliances. Imagine if everyone went back to mixing with a wooden spoon. We’d all be saved. Even us little people living down on the flats.
Posted by the nailgun on 2007 06 01 at 10:01 PM • permalinkIs Flummery sure we’re allowed to use phones? I’m pretty certain they run on electricity, which generally means ‘you-know-what’ emissions.
I will begin rewiring my neighbourhood with Dixie cups and string. Only then can I in all good conscience make the required calls.
Excelsior!
Posted by Crispytoast on 2007 06 01 at 10:09 PM • permalinkI think ol’ Granny Fulton might have been giving the cooking sherry a bit of a nudge.
Granny used to make a nice bread and butter custard, but I am not too sure about her credentials to comment on science matters beyond the boiling point of chicken soup.Then again, airheaded actors and brain addled cartoonists get to pontificate on world affairs, why not a cook book writer?
Posted by Pedro the Ignorant on 2007 06 01 at 10:16 PM • permalinkMargo’s Peoples Court. God how I miss that. Best laughs ever.
Posted by wronwright on 2007 06 01 at 10:16 PM • permalinkWhat a great idea. It will take a lot of time, use a lot of energy and keep the Greens occupied for ages. And achieve nothing. The perfect hobby for a Green.
Just had an email from a Bush-hating friend all doom-and-gloom because May, in parts of Australia, was relatively warm, hence we’re all doomed. Such is the tunnel vision of the typical Green - ignoring the fact that the ski resorts are rejoicing because of early heavy falls a week before the official opening of the season.
Posted by walterplinge on 2007 06 01 at 10:25 PM • permalinkWe’ve got to beat the bastards, that’s all.
WHAT bastards? Is Margaret having flashbacks to World War II?
If you think you’re too small to make a difference, spend a night in a dark room with a mosquito.
Yeah, well, bite me, Margaret. But remember: I once knocked the head off a horsefly in flight with a wet towel. Whine loud, baby, I can do it with my eyes closed.
The first phone call is to your local parliamentarian to ask ‘what’s your policy, what are you going to do?’ And tell them point blank, if it’s not good enough, that you’ll actively work against them
Ummm, I wasn’t planning on voting for my local member, Kevni, but if flummery reckons I should wedgie cherub-cheeks whenever I see him, fair enough.
I knew there was such a thing as the Alice B. Toklas hash brownie, who’d a’thunk there was a Margaret Fulton one too.little people indeed. what a puffed up, addle pated, patronising prig she is. wonder if she considers herself a big person just because she’s cooked a few things & passed on a few recipes. she probably thinks she’s singlehandedly responsible for saving the world, like all these do as i say not as i do types
Arrogant tossers. A third rate celebrity, whose only claim to fame, is she can cook and a flim flam artist whose only claim to fame is he was voted Australian of the Year, which means crap, when you consider past nominees. Its just amazing how many non entities, hungry for publicity have now found their ‘bullshit’ niche and there are ‘knobheads’ out there who follow it like a line from the Goebbels propaganda sheet Der Angrif.
I’ve been baking while I’ve been doing the washing this afternoon.
In honour of Fulton and Flannery;
A boil and bake fruit cake.
She’s an old boiler, he’s half-baked, and they’re both a couple of fruitcakes.
Also, coconut and raspberry slice.
The two of them are such coconuts, they make we want to blow raspberries at them.
OT
Over at the lavatory, someone makes the mistake of wondering aloud whether there is any evidence that girls are being cut up in Australia.
Nilk says: why yes, if you google it, and provides a link. Kimmeh then performs another piece of ideological contortionism designed so that the outcome is that she can wash her hands of the issue. It’s yet another tour de force of weasel words:
It’s not possible really to tell though if that procedure was medically necessary, nilk.
Oh, medically necessary female genital mutilation?
I don’t know enough about the consequences of FGM to be able to say.
But you’re the one who made the post, and you don’t know about the consequences?
It’s not indicated what the reason for it was, so you may (or may not) be jumping to conclusions that it was because of her “cultural heritage”.
There’s another reason for cutting up little girls, and even if there is, that’s okay?
I’m with Chris - I very much doubt that assimilation contracts would have any effect whatsoever. It’s mindless symbolism. If a practice is illegal at Australian law, that illegality doesn’t get any reinforcement from government mandated bits of paper. If there is evidence that it is occurring, the law should be enforced.
Laws are useless - they should be enforced. WTF?
It would also be useful to know more about what sorts of methods those working against the practice in Australia are using. It would seem to me counterproductive to have loud denunciations of it - the key thing should be to convince people it is wrong.
The key thing for Kimmeh and her fellow Australian feminists is and remains to do nothing about girls being cut up, even those in her own country.
Memo to Kim: fuck off
Posted by Margos Maid on 2007 06 02 at 01:13 AM • permalink#6, 8 - quite so. You’ve inspired me.
As the idiot child of a very rich family I obviously am well qualified to pontificate on the gross inequalities of modern society, especially in regard to wealth and gender.
My solution is elegant in its simplicity, and simple in its elegance.
All the beautiful and rich women of the world can report to my address immediately.
Thank you. There will be no further communications at this time.Posted by SwinishCapitalist on 2007 06 02 at 01:29 AM • permalinkI have a couple of old pics, Pogria, as in old-style on paper photos. I’ll get them on disk.
Not much left of the great work now. The pieces started falling off before it was finished, and after a year of maintenance I decided it would be more interesting (and less work) to let it disintegrate.
Yes, the 1000 was indeed great fun, although I spent Sunday feeling like someone had transplanted a bowling ball into my skull. Thanks to kae and Grimmy and of course yourself for pushing me along. You carried it to a storybook ending, I must say.Posted by SwinishCapitalist on 2007 06 02 at 01:51 AM • permalinkNow, about that payrise and office with a view…
Hello, Grimmy? Call for you, line 1.Grimmy?
Grimmy?
Posted by SwinishCapitalist on 2007 06 02 at 02:03 AM • permalinkGrimmy? Hello?
Not at his desk. Perhaps he’s busy trawling Amazon for Scott and Phil and Al. (Translation: lazy middle management sob...)
Posted by SwinishCapitalist on 2007 06 02 at 02:07 AM • permalinkI’m sure that photo of Bert is a great motivator in the weight-loss campaign, kae.
Pog, look around abebooks.co.uk for Boris Vian. I’m sure you’ll find something. Also try Bookshops.com.au.Posted by SwinishCapitalist on 2007 06 02 at 02:14 AM • permalinkHow about just tossing the little people AT your local parliamentarian...?
Posted by richard mcenroe on 2007 06 02 at 02:22 AM • permalinkI know. I’ve got a photo of my mother with her two brothers and I can see the family inheritance in both of them. Thick in the middle, thin on top.
Movie time, gotta go!Posted by SwinishCapitalist on 2007 06 02 at 02:22 AM • permalinkI’ve been on the phone to the Lollipop Guild!
Posted by JJM Ballantyne on 2007 06 02 at 03:37 AM • permalinkMaggie Fulton has her mug on a sign at my local pharmacy. She has a wooden spoon and a big mixing bowl in front of her, said bowl containing a large number of jars and boxes of pills. The slogan is something like: “Mixing up your medications can be a recipe for trouble”. So, I think it’s safe, at this juncture, to say, that rather than imbibing too much of the cooking sherry or magic mushrooms, Maggie’s been mixing up her meds again.
Posted by AlburyShifton on 2007 06 02 at 04:21 AM • permalinkAs for a cookbook writer wading into the AGW debate, it’s not without precedent. Before Ina Garten became the Barefoot Contessa, she credits herself as having written Jimmy Carter’s energy policy. ‘Nuff said!!
Posted by AlburyShifton on 2007 06 02 at 04:23 AM • permalink#42
Forget Fulton, Contrail.
If you want a good Aussie cookbook, go for Stephanie Alexander, Belinda Jefferey, Maggie Beer and Guy Grossi. To name just a few.
At least Maggie Fulton’s old books would contain recipes that use MSG, the modern culinary world’s equivalent of carbon emissions.
Posted by AlburyShifton on 2007 06 02 at 04:25 AM • permalinkPogria:
he he he
I used to keep MSG in the spice rack.
Most people did, back in the day. Then all that idiocy about Chinese Restaurant Syndrome, and now MSG is the leper of the spice world. I’m probably the only person I know who still keeps it in the kitchen (albeit in a 1kg bag!)
Never mind the fact that msg occurs naturally in everything that gives food a bit of a lift, like soy sauce, vegemite, tomato sauce and puree, fish sauce, bonito flakes, konbu and dried mushrooms. I recently saw a two hour wankfest documentary about “Umami” that went to great pains to insist that the legitimate “umami” flavour can only be sourced “naturally”. It wasn’t until the second one hour episode that a chef slipped up and mentioned the dreaded “M-word” as a source of umami flavour. Man, I hate hippies!
Posted by AlburyShifton on 2007 06 02 at 04:49 AM • permalink#37 - Silent Hill. Had it out overnight, gotta get it back now, and with pleasure. Ugh - to think some people would have paid good money to see that on the big screen.
I couldn’t find Out Of The Past at my local, but I did find 3:10 To Yuma, to which I was introduced by Warren Zevon(not personally, he put it in a song). There’s a remake happening with Christian Bale and Russell Crowe. We shall see what we shall see.
Mirrormask, written by Neil Gaiman and directed by Dave McKean, gets my stamp of approval. If you like your fanstasy without burning children and dismemberment, this is the flick for you.Posted by SwinishCapitalist on 2007 06 02 at 04:51 AM • permalink#49,Albury,
agree entirely. It was used as an “enhancer”.
Damn “asthmatics” trying to get rich for free.
How the hell do you get 1k bags of it?
Swinish, Warren Zevon ROCKS!
3:10 sounds good. Christian Bale is brilliant but under utilised. Crowe has, hopefully been out of the spotlight long enough to have his acting talents appreciated again.
I hope he doesn’t sing though.I’ll try to find Mirrormask. I enjoy obscure or unpopular movies. Now that we have two tele’s, my son can watch his beloved action flicks and I can wade through my list of want to see’s.
Santa versus the Martians is on Schlocky Horror show this week!
I also enjoy crappy movies that were written and directed by “Allan Smithee”.
There are no ‘little people’ in a free society - well apart from these two, as saltydog points out.
Posted by Charles Murton on 2007 06 02 at 05:56 AM • permalinkWe took our 6 year old daughter to Taronga Zoo in Sydney today. Near the front gate is an attraction where you can be photographed standing next to (but not touching) a koala. My daughter asked the names of the 2 koalas on offer. One of them we were informed by the eager young female attendant was ‘Flannery..you know, after the famous..’.She couldn’t even finish the sentence and didn’t feel that she had to. The reverence was sick making.
As an atheist from an early age I have often found myself in religious company. I have always respected other people’s beliefs but have been long aware of the zealot. Bang! I was in the company of zealots of another religious faith.
#21 MM here’s my rebuttal to Kim. I got a bit ranty towards the end, so I don’t know if it’ll get thru mods.
“It’s not possible really to tell though if that procedure was medically necessary, nilk. I don’t know enough about the consequences of FGM to be able to say.”
Kim, it is not difficult to find the consequences of fgm on google.
For a quick look at how it’s usually done, check <a href=http://illustratedpig.blogspot.com/2006/07/evil-praxis.html>here.</a>
Please note that the above link contains photographs that leave nothing to the imagination. If you are squeamish, or believe that as it’s a cultural tradition that we should overlook, then don’t follow the link.
According the the WHO back in 2000:
The immediate and long-term health consequences of female genital mutilation vary according to the type and severity of the procedure performed.Immediate complications include severe pain, shock, haemorrhage, urine retention, ulceration of the genital region and injury to adjacent tissue. Haemorrhage and infection can cause death.
More recently, concern has arisen about possible transmission of the human immunodeficiency virus (HIV) due to the use of one instrument in multiple operations, but this has not been the subject of detailed research.
Long-term consequences include cysts and abscesses, keloid scar formation, damage to the urethra resulting in urinary incontinence, dyspareunia (painful sexual intercourse) and sexual dysfunction and difficulties with childbirth.
Psychosexual and psychological health: Genital mutilation may leave a lasting mark on the life and mind of the woman who has undergone it. In the longer term, women may suffer feelings of incompleteness, anxiety and depression.
As a woman, I consider fgm to be an outrage. As someone who no longer calls herself a feminist, I find it disgusting that there is vacillation about what feminists should do about it all.
Currently in Australia, about the only action being taken is by those working with the communities here in Oz to educate those recipients, and possible potential recipients of fgm.
After all, we can’t be seen to be condemning something like this.
I’m exceedingly angry about this hemming and hawing about it all, Kim, so please bear with me if I get a bit harsh.
This is one activity which should be condemned out of hand. The doctors that I’ve heard of who do practice it use the excuse that it’s going to happen to the girl anyway, so at least this way it’ll be done in a clean and sterile environment and cause the least amount of damage.
I guess, in the interests of celebrating my daughter’s partially chinese heritage I should have bound her feet when she was two.
Since she’s nearly five now, maybe I can find someone to cut her up so I can fit more into my incredibly multicultural neighbourhood in the municipality of Casey. You know, the one with about 150 different nationalities or so.
This disgusts me like nothing else, and I can’t understand why those who call themselves “feminists” sit back and bleat about how it’s the culture.
Fuck the culture. It is women being mutilated in order that they not participate fully in sexual enjoyment, nor take any pleasure in their bodies and natural and wonderful.
Posted by Nilknarf Arbed on 2007 06 02 at 07:08 AM • permalinkSorry, I know it’s ot, but too lazy to find the relevant thread. This is just my next post over at lp. I’m a bit pissed about this, so am a bit ranty.
The rights of men, women and children trump torture dressed up as “cultural heritage” whether religious or not every time as far as I’m concerned.
As for the laws being useless, that is because the bleeding hearts’ brigade has gutted them to the extent that when I’ve got an altercation in my neighbourhood I don’t even think of calling the police. There will be no police presence until after it’s all sorted, and nothing will happen.
If any “alleged” criminals are caught, they will be let off with a tap on the wrist.
Big whoop.
That is why this abomination occurs at all in our remarkable country.
The women and children who suffer most from these practices are not protected by our laws, because we have to respect their culture. Or their religion.
Sorry, that’s not on.
When will you people who think that all cultures are equal (except your own, of course, which should be denigrated at all turns) wake up to the fact that your culture which gives you the freedom to even have this stupid discussion craps all over the others.
Women in islam, and some animist, and pagan and even sub-saharan african cultures do not deserve to be kept lower than us because of the habits of their forefathers.
This is another country, another time, and a whole new way of life.
Leave the old one behind and join us is a brand new world.
Posted by Nilknarf Arbed on 2007 06 02 at 07:16 AM • permalinkThanks, MM, kae. This gets my goat like you wouldn’t believe. Like the feminist who tries to tell me that wifebeating isn’t sanctioned in islam.
Funny how the conversation shut down when I recited 4.34 to her. We went from spirited discussion to awkward silence in 3.7 seconds, I reckon.
I get so angry I could spit!
Posted by Nilknarf Arbed on 2007 06 02 at 07:20 AM • permalinkSite janitor Mark has closed the thread over at the lavatory despite the fact that noone has been allowed to help out Kimmeh with her limited understanding about the consequences of girl-cutting.
He is also concerned that someone somewhere else said she was “little” and told her to fuck off. Most importantly, he has noted that points have been scored against TEH LEFT, whatever that is.
Thank goodness for the likes of Mark, willing to stand up against tyranny.
Posted by Margos Maid on 2007 06 02 at 07:49 AM • permalinkWell, my comments got through, but only just. Comments are now closed.
Mark, this is for when you get around to reading this:
“Given that the contention of the post is that these arguments have nothing much to do with the actual welfare of the people concerned (Mr Strocchi’s solution being “show them the door” - so it’s all about humanitarian concern, is it?) and everything to do with scoring political points over TEH LEFT, there’s a fair degree of irony in that comment, Rob.”
I just want to know why we can’t use a bit of tough love mixed in with our humanitarian concern.
We let people in, they disrespect our laws and customs, and then we say, oh, okay. It’s been a bit harsh for you so we’ll let it slide just this once, mmkay?
If I allowed my daughter to get away with anywhere near the crap that a lot of our immigrants got away with, I’d be hauled before the courts as a delinquent parent.
We are expected to respect every other culture, well in our country they should respect ours.
If they are unable to do so, then it would be cruel to keep them in such an inhospitable and uncomfortable society, I believe.
So yeah, show them the door.
I’ll happily lend a size 8 doc to help them on their ways.
Apologies for hijacking the thread. I’ll creep off now.
Posted by Nilknarf Arbed on 2007 06 02 at 07:50 AM • permalink#51
agree entirely. It was used as an “enhancer”.
Damn “asthmatics” trying to get rich for free.
How the hell do you get 1k bags of it?
I’m a fairly severe asthmatic, and the rest of us have asthma to a certain degree, and none of us have manifested so much as a wheeze when we’ve been exposed to lashings of msg.
1 kilo bags? Most Asian grocers have it in those sorts of quantity, usually for only a few bucks, too. The bag I’ve got now was obviously repackaged from an even larger container!
Posted by AlburyShifton on 2007 06 02 at 08:01 AM • permalinkOT, BTW, WTF
According to this, Teh is a form of tea served in Malaysia.
So I guess TEH LEFT is a group of Malaysian latte lefties.
Posted by Margos Maid on 2007 06 02 at 08:02 AM • permalink#55 Nilk.
I knew about female genital mutilationj when I was 16. I was a budding(?) feminist and read a lot of feminist writers and got a good grounding in various modes of oppression etc etc. i read a few radicals, the marxists were boring.
The point is, old-school feminists got INVOLVED and di9d not hesitate to make difficult decisions. Some of them eg Phyllis Chesler are still around.
Fortunately there are many women who are still getting involved, (not me alas), but types like Kim do not like action, and more dangerously they do not like to make judgments unless it’s on very easy targets.
Like you pointed out, it is easy to look up the effects of FGM. So why didn’t she?
because once she does Kim has crossed over to the dark side of actually making a judgment about another “culture” and finding it unacceptable.
Can’t have that. It might turn her into an adult.Posted by carpefraise on 2007 06 02 at 08:35 AM • permalinkAccording to this, 6 out of 8 Australian states have laws against cutting girls (see under industrialised nations).
I guess that MPs in the other two states are being worn down by the infernal lobbying and feminist sit-ins - right?
Posted by Margos Maid on 2007 06 02 at 09:02 AM • permalink8 states? Doh - it’s late - guessing it may be the territories not covered.
Posted by Margos Maid on 2007 06 02 at 09:14 AM • permalinkI must now be one of old Margie’s little people - I was shocked to find I’ve shrunk by 2cm due to advancing years
Now I can be proud to be a little person - well littler than before - not dwarf like yet, but in the old girl’s team of little people
BTW did anyone find the SMH (saturday’s edition) to be full of anti Howard stuff, including the sports page - Peter Fitzsimons did his bit for Kevin by bagging the Government’s drug policy
This rag is becoming unreadable
Posted by aussiemagpie on 2007 06 02 at 11:04 AM • permalinkRemember, Mrs F produced so many receipe books which inturn, cut down lots of O2 green trees, which inturn destroys the “world” but still makes her rich!
Kind of like Malcom Frazer turning nutty and lefty. (rolls eyes)
Excert:A passionate traveller[/b](ozone layer), she is credited with being one of the first people to bring international cuisine to the Australian table (cut down tree for this). Both in her career and personal life, Fulton has sought out the ‘good life’(money paper money), and from this delicious interview it seems that she has finally found it.
http://www.australianbiography.gov.au/fulton/interview1.html
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What pray tell has Margaret being cooking with for all these years? I’ll bet it aint the rays of the sun.