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OPPORTUNITY FOR ACTIVISM
An email currently puking its way around a Sydney university:
Hi there.
You may have heard that Google intends to take high resolution photos of Sydney on Australia Day as part of its Google Earth project.
We think it’s a great opportunity for a bit of activism.
We’ll be chalking up the word “Sorry” in a bunch of places that are clearly visible from Google’s plane. Given our record on Aboriginal human rights, Iraq, Kyoto, East Timor’s Oil, &c. we have plenty to apologise for.
The author is correct: on these issues, they should be apologising like crazy.
Saying “Sorry” recalls the popular campaign for reconciliation, and will have strong resonances with an outpouring of emotion from progressive folk that followed the last US election. It’s a great opportunity for us to express our solidarity locally with the Aboriginal people here and internationally with US citizens who have also been coopted into representing their administration’s agenda of colonialism and environmental destruction. Like them, we understand that in a globalised world our policies make a difference to the lives of people everywhere.
Unlike the US movement, however, this needn’t be solely about regret.
After all, it’s an election year.
So saying sorry is also a promise - it says we don’t want to be sorry about our country anymore.
They were for sorry before they were against sorry. Via Larvatus Prodeo, which helpfully advises: “For spaces where chalk won’t adhere or won’t show up with enough contrast, remember that sheets and towels can be used to shape the letters of SORRY just as well.”
I guess they’re sorry that compassionate head-tilts won’t show up in the photos.
Posted by Patrick Chester on 2007 01 24 at 11:25 PM • permalinkIf I wasn’t going to a bbq to drink plenty of imported beer and local wine, watch the fireworks, carouse and engage in fellowship with other like minded, right thinking Australian’s, I’d gather all the towels and sheets in the place to make the following sign for Google:
SUCK MY NUTS MOONBATS
Posted by Infidel Tiger on 2007 01 24 at 11:25 PM • permalinkGiven our record on Aboriginal human rights, Iraq, Kyoto, East Timor’s Oil, &c...
...Yahoo Serious, Jacko, Paul Hogan, INXS…
Posted by Jim Treacher on 2007 01 24 at 11:26 PM • permalinkHey, instead of using chalk, wouldn’t the message be more powerful and symbolic if it were painted in human blood? Let’s say, 10 pints from each participant would suffice.
Posted by Jim Treacher on 2007 01 24 at 11:30 PM • permalinkO/T, not to distract from the fun here, but, Wronwright, you’re being slandered. At least I think it’s slander. It might be a compliment. I can’t tell.
“For spaces where chalk won’t adhere or won’t show up with enough contrast, remember that sheets and towels can be used to shape the letters of SORRY just as well.”
And here’s another great idea, guilt-trippers! Break into groups of, say, four to seven (depending on individual butt size), drop your trousers, paint the words “I’m Sorry” in flourescent paint across your cheeks, and moon the camera!
#6: Oh, and Infidel Tiger. You may want to rescind your invitation this time; that lot’s bound to have more sexually transmitted diseases than a chain of Haitian brothels.
Patrick - I was thinking they should just go whole hog and make themselves into the shape of a huge tilting head.
Posted by Matt Moore on 2007 01 24 at 11:46 PM • permalink#15 - Too true. Actually the family jewels are a little tender from the workout they’ve had lately. I need a new catch cry.
#16 - Smoke the peace pipe, eh?
Posted by Infidel Tiger on 2007 01 24 at 11:48 PM • permalinkOne of my soldiers has invited my wife and I to an Australia Day BBQ at his place. He has registered the BBQ with Camp Quality and everyone who attends is asked to make a small donation that is passed on to that great cause. Funny what actual good you can do when you put your mind to it. I haven’t been invited to any ‘Sorry’ parties.
Posted by AlphaMikeFoxtrot on 2007 01 24 at 11:48 PM • permalinkThis makes so much sense
So saying sorry is also a promise - it says we don’t want to be sorry about our country anymore.
“Sorry I don’t want to be sorry” ???
And did anyone else read about the university disastrous effects of the ban on compulsory union fees?
The childcare cost per day has gone up by $6.50 a day at Sydney Uni!
And the bars have been shut at UWS
I went to UWS - part-time in the evening after work and the bloody bar at the old Westmead campus was always shut by the time we got out of lectures anyway
Posted by aussiemagpie on 2007 01 24 at 11:49 PM • permalinkSadly for the LP mob there is a problem - Google map says they start taking photos at 9:00AM and subject to:
fine, clear weather allowing us to take hi-res photos good enough to publish.
To which I say: dream on leftards.
Can we spell out “Hang David Hicks”?
That would have by far and away the best effect of annoying the moonbats.
Posted by Jack Lacton on 2007 01 25 at 12:13 AM • permalinkMaybe I’m missing something here, but I understood that Google Earth used satellite images. In which case they might have to make that sorry about 20 feet high. Don’t think they’ve got the energy for that.
Some areas get coverage from aerial photos.
Posted by Rob Crawford on 2007 01 25 at 12:23 AM • permalink#25 Ian Deans
Why do the Left believe so strongly in these meaningless gestures?
Because they are pathetic, meaningless wankers living pathetic, meaningless lives and feel so utterly powerless (which is, of course, everyone else’s fault), that pathetic, meaningless gestures are all they’re capable of.
Taking responsibility for themselves is just war too hard!
::compassionate head tilt::
Posted by Spiny Norman on 2007 01 25 at 12:27 AM • permalinkI’m sorry that this once great nation isbeset by boohoos who think bedsheets and towels are daily garb and haberdashery, and by apologisy arsehats who should be sorry about their obvious idiocy.
Now if it was an organised campaign for a citywide browneye, I’d be on the next flight. And it’d be a sorry sight as well.
#13
You’re right Rebecca, he’s slandering Wronwright. I can’t imagine where Crittenden got the idea that Wronwright can’t hold his mead. Well I can imagine it, but I was sure that the account of that trip had been declared Above and Beyond Tip Top Secret-Code Word Limited, and had never been available to nosy parker reporters. Detective Paco may have to investigate this security leak.Posted by Michael Lonie on 2007 01 25 at 12:34 AM • permalinkSurely they’ll be scrawling their poorly spelt missives of misery with crayons rahter than chalk, after all mum won’t let them play with anything that might stich in their windpipe, or poke an eye out (mores the pity- most of these mong should have been left in close proximity to an unattented swimming pool as soon as they could crawl, about the age of 15 I’d say).
Meanwhile back at the Axis of Evil, they’re not sorry either!
Congrats on reaching 2,000 comments, Habib. And every one a gem, I might add.
:^)
Posted by Spiny Norman on 2007 01 25 at 01:00 AM • permalinkWronwright has long had a problem accounting for his mead consumption, you might say it taxes him greatly.
Cheers
Posted by J.M. Heinrichs on 2007 01 25 at 01:00 AM • permalink#12 bondo
Interesting you mention “piss off we’re full” because that is exactly what the Google Earth satellite picked up when it passed the South Coast of England
Posted by pommygranate on 2007 01 25 at 01:05 AM • permalinkI may not be around tomorrow, here in the U.S. which of course is your Australia Anniversary Day.
If I may, I wish all of you in the wonderful land of OZ, a truly delightful January 26.
May your land always be with the spirit that founded your great nation 26 January, 1788.
May our nations be forever bound, in friendship and allied in this war against these insidious evil cultists. I raise a glass that we may we win this war, together.
Cheers, OZ.
It’s obvious that you guys should have a National Sorry Day and anyone who feels so inclined can approach an Aborigine and invite him to “Please, knee me in the balls. I’m so sorry.” You know, something really meaningful, although I suspect that there’d be alot of chickencocks out there who would agree with the premise, but not carry it out to its completion.
Posted by andycanuck on 2007 01 25 at 01:17 AM • permalinkgo to that moonbat link at the top and leave a message - it doesnt appear to be moderated :-)
Posted by surfmaster on 2007 01 25 at 01:22 AM • permalinkI wanna know what the cut off date is for saying sorry to the aborigine. As an Australian of Anglo-Saxon origin of long standing it’s obvious that everything is my fault and I have a shitload to be sorry about. But what about this weeks boatload of reffo’s? Does new-Australian, Ahmed, one week off the boat have to apologise for invading as well?
Is the “sorry” done on a pro-rata basis or is it, one in, all in?
Posted by Infidel Tiger on 2007 01 25 at 01:26 AM • permalink#44 Infidel
Good point. As i have only been here a year, does that mean i should be mildly apologetic? Perhaps kick myself in the shins a few times, let the dog take a swipe at me and then it’s over?
Like Cid, i too won’t be around tomorrow so a very happy Australia Day to you all. I will be at the Manly Surf Carnival on Sat if anyone fancies a beer. You’ll be able to recognise me because i’ll be the one with SUCK MY NUTS MOONBATS tattooed in red, white and blue on my forehead.
Posted by pommygranate on 2007 01 25 at 01:55 AM • permalinkMichael—wronwright can hold his mead.
You just don’t want to let him drink it.
Ever since he decided to stage the Naked Mile through the Piazza San Pietro during the Papacy of Pope Innocent III…
Posted by richard mcenroe on 2007 01 25 at 02:43 AM • permalinkthese things can go so wrong if you can’t spell (they are protesting about deepening the shipping channel in melbourne’s port phillip bay)
One of the flaws of capitalism is that it provides so much bounty, that it doesn’t allow natural selection to occur. Combine that with restrictive gun laws, the current community standards not allowing murder and is it any wonder we have a proliferation of moonbats and asshats. There must be a better way.
P.S If anyone is unhappy living in Oz, I will be providing a free taxi service to the International Airport tomorrow on presentation of one-way ticket and cancelled visa or passport.
Posted by Infidel Tiger on 2007 01 25 at 03:06 AM • permalinkNever before have I heard of such a waste of resources and energy.
#4, I agree. I hope all these signs and protests are going to be carbon neutral.
Posted by Art Vandelay on 2007 01 25 at 03:11 AM • permalinkStrange, Moonbat Mark over at Lavatory Rodeo has called a (foul mouthed) piece ‘un-Australian’. I hope he’s not using the dog whistle as well eh?
Secondly, what makes my blood absolutely boil is self-centerd, smug do gooders like the LR team who don’t fight child rape in Aboriginal communities or even the bashing of women or even alcohol and substance abuse, but feel good by using mum’s sheets or ‘teecha’s’ chalk for 5 min while they aren’t looking.
Wanksticks, the lot of them.
Uh,oh! Hissy-fit alert!
“18. Mark on 25 January 2007 at 3:42 pm
I’m sorry, folks, I’m going to close off this thread if people (who presumably followed the link here from Tim Blair’s site) are going to post repulsive comments like this one:
i would not apologise to an abo… they are primitive, uncivilized,, look like shit, smell like shit, and they can go get f****d (edit). they’re c***s…(edit) truly abysmal ppl.
p.s. you lefties can suck my dick
This sort of thing is absolutely unacceptable and unAustralian too.
I am going out so don’t have time to stick around and moderate and sift through crap like this.
If someone is prepared to moderate the thread, perhaps it can be re-opened.”This doesn’t look like anyone here to me. Perhaps that’s why he’s failed to include the ID of the poster while accusing a Blairite?
"We think it’s a great opportunity for a bit of activism.”
If you’re all torn up about aboriginal rights, then why don’t you turn all your property over to the aboriginals and sod off back to Europe, instead of making meaningless gestures in a pathetic attempt to prove how sorry you are?
Posted by Dave Surls on 2007 01 25 at 04:48 AM • permalinkSorry. There’s nothing on the list that I need to apologise for. In fact, quite a few of the things I would like to take credit for but I can’t do that either.
But I would like to take this opportunity to say sorry to my fellow Australians for voting for Gough Whitlam in 1972, 1974 and 1975. I was young, drugged out my brain and didn’t know any better. Sooooorrrryy.
I’ve heard that Peter Garrett is SOOOOO sorry that he’s given his house and land back to the aborigines, taken his kids out of private school, made all of Midnight Oils’ music available free on the internet and decided to enrol to vote!
As if this wasn’t enough… Bono has donated one of his castles to poor Africans, stopped employing “cheap wog servants”, Moved his business base to a country that charges double tax and pays it all to the poor and, as if that’s not enough, he’s also made all of U2’s music available free to the whole world via the internet. Mo more ripping the kids of the world off.
Truly men of their word, eh?
It was almost enough to make Mufti Bob Brown smile… not.
Corr blimey!! News Flash!!
Tim Flannery and John Quiggan have decided enough is enough and they’re going to stop “drinking at the public teat”. All of their work will be self funded in future and payed for in full by the greenhouse gas credits earnt by David Koch.
Life doesn’t get much better than this folks!
It truly is Australia Day.
83# Sorry for allowing Tim Flannery to win Australian of the Year.
Myself, also.
I am going to protest tomorrow with inactivism and copious quantities of red wine and lamb.
p.s. paco and all the rest of you adorable septics, you must stop “mooning” people, and learn to execute a proper aussie “brown-eye” .
Unlike your “moon”, where all you do is drop your trousers and flash your bum,
a “brown eye” is performed thus;
find a working street light,
have three or four friends in group,
drop pants,
bend over, showing bum to passing cars and,
with both hands,
SPREAD ARSE CHEEKS AS WIDE AS POSSIBLE.p.p.s. ushie, where are you. I miss you.
The time: September 2000
The place: Sydney Olympic Games
The number: About 70,000 Australians (and a couple of thousand Kiwis, Brits etc) who volunteered and performed and generally made for a great time (besides the athletes that is) AND who managed to keep their political opinions to themselves the whole time while doing it.
The exceptions: Peter Garrett, now Labor’s Environment spokes-human but then a warbler in the Midnight Spastics band, plus one other, who thought their political opinions were so much more important than everyone else’s, that they wore costumes with “Sorry” written on them, when they performed.What the words really said to the millions watching was “Hey, we are two dickheads who decided to be the only ones to politicise the Olympic Games”.
Peter Garrett. HeHeHe. “Sorry” mate, you were blown “out of the water” so to speak by Howard’s water policy, announced today. Even the bloody Australian Conservation Foundation approved it (hmmm.. bit of a worry. I’ll have to read the policy’s fine print…
Posted by Stop Continental Drift! on 2007 01 25 at 06:27 AM • permalinkAhhh the long-lost art of the browneye resurfaces. I always knew it would.
My understanding that the “moon” involved winding up the window of one’s vehicle so that the result resembled a “half moon”.
Whereas the “browneye”, as has been rightfully pointed out by my learned friend Pogria, involves showing your “date”, “Cobber”, “Freckle”, “Chocolate Starfish”, or just plain “Dung Funell” to the observer.
Point this baby at these idiots and watch them shriek about global warming.
Posted by Young and Free on 2007 01 25 at 06:52 AM • permalinkOh, I wake up on the right side of the bed for a change and what do I find. A “tell all” by crittenden. Never trust a journalist to keep a secret. Never!
Anyway, I have responded.
Posted by wronwright on 2007 01 25 at 06:59 AM • permalink#51 rebase
Police made 70 drug seizures at Sydney’s Big Day Out, as many fans ignored a plea to leave Australian flags at home.
The police took some bad ecstasy? Or perhaps they dance like Peter Garrett and a reporter misunderstood?
Posted by flying pigs over mecca on 2007 01 25 at 07:01 AM • permalink#90 - a brown eye is doubly effective if performed against a plate glass window (such as one at the front of a restaurant) and is then followed up by a “squashed frog”. That’s where you turn around and squish your gonads against the window.
Has a most interesting effect if done by 10 or so blokes at once.
Posted by mr creosote on 2007 01 25 at 07:51 AM • permalinkPracticalities intrude. I know something about this.
First, the best material for such a purpose is called Griffolyn™, which is used by aerial surveyors for making premarks. It is available in rolls, which must be cut up into strips. It has a light side and a dark side ;-) Put the light side up on all surfaces except unweathered concrete or other glare-white materials.
If you must use paint, keep in mind that ordinary spray paint isn’t reflective enough. Pavement paint, the stuff used for the lines in the road, is available from your friendly local surveyors’ and engineers’ supply, and as a bonus is designed so that the can sprays properly when upside down. The only practical color is white, for reasons involving the fascist “laws” of physics. Hot pink isn’t as visible as you might think to the sensors being used.
Second, it’s easiest to lay out lettering in a grid, five dots wide by seven high, like an old-fashioned dot-matrix printer. AIUI the proposed survey will have a resolution of six inches (15 cm.) The letters will not be readable in the images unless each element of the 5x7 grid is discernible, which means it should occupy two pixels. This means that in order to make the words visible in the final images, each letter should be five feet (about 1.5 meters) wide by seven feet (a little over 2.1 meters) high, with the strokes a foot (30 centimeters) wide. Each letter should be separated from the next by at least a foot, and preferably two feet (60 centimeters) for a clear distinction.
Double the size if you must use a scrawl or decorative script. The nuances of such artistic expression require more pixels to register.
Anything less turns monumentally stupid ineffectiveness into pathetically stupid ineffectiveness. Get to work!
Regards,
Ric#98 - is it the famous patented Penis And Cojones Oblongated manouvere?
Posted by mr creosote on 2007 01 25 at 09:31 AM • permalinkWho are you calling “journalist?” Fighting words! “Media vulture” or “ink-stained wretch,” please.
Posted by crittenden on 2007 01 25 at 10:30 AM • permalink#90 - a brown eye is doubly effective if performed against a plate glass window (such as one at the front of a restaurant)
#97 I don’t know about south of the border, down Buffalo way, but here we call that “pressing a ham”.
Posted by andycanuck on 2007 01 25 at 11:05 AM • permalink#84 Contrail
I’m also deeply sorry for Whitlam and my part in his election. I was an ALP branch secretary from 1971 through ‘76 (when I left for Canada).
But I don’t believe the long tall streak of shit won 3 elections (with or without my help).
Maybe you’re confusing him with that other elongated commie, Mad Mal, the worst apocalyptic nightmare.
SORRY EVERYONE
Posted by Jack from Montreal on 2007 01 25 at 11:11 AM • permalink#64 richard mcenroe -
wronwright can hold his mead. You just don’t want to let him drink it. Ever since he decided to stage the Naked Mile through the Piazza San Pietro during the Papacy of Pope Innocent III…
I—did not—stage that.
I was running from a troup of Swiss Guards, each of whom wanted to place my head on their very sharp pike. How was I to know that buxom Italian woman was the pope’s wife? I thought the clergy didn’t marry.
Certainly Michael Lonie didn’t bother to mention it. One would think MentalFloss could have too. Goes to show those two don’t know everything.
Posted by wronwright on 2007 01 25 at 11:40 AM • permalinkOh, Larvatus Prodeo is still around? Sorry.
Happy Australia Day, Oz! Never apologize, never explain.
Posted by Kyda Sylvester on 2007 01 25 at 02:03 PM • permalink#28 -
“Some areas get coverage from aerial photos.”
And some of those can range over different time periods.
Roughly midway through the town in which I live, the coveraged switches between two different levels of resolution; one set taken in late summer (dry, brown, low reservoir levels), the other in mid-spring (green, high reservoir levels). Ends up looking like some junior high school science climate comparison project.
Note to self: Do not eat freddo frogs while reading Pogria et al’s descriptions of how to execute a perfect browneye.
Posted by Nilknarf Arbed on 2007 01 25 at 06:20 PM • permalinkcontrail @ #84:
But I would like to take this opportunity to say sorry to my fellow Australians for voting for Gough Whitlam in 1972, 1974 and 1975. I was young, drugged out my brain and didn’t know any better. Sooooorrrryy.Voting for the Witless Goof in ‘72 was understandable (at your apparent age). Voting for him in ‘74 was excusable (under certain circumstances).
But voting for him in 1975 ??!!? Good God! You must have been fried out of your brain. You were on the losing side of the (then) greatest electoral landslide in Australia’s history (JoHo has bettered it since).
Apology accepted - but watch it.
Posted by Stop Continental Drift! on 2007 01 25 at 06:31 PM • permalink#105
But I don’t believe the long tall streak of shit won 3 elections (with or without my help).
I know, he didn’t win the last one but I still voted for him.#113
But voting for him in 1975 ??!!? Good God! You must have been fried out of your brain.
Yes, very true. Persisted with the delusion at the ‘77 election, too. Then the delusion turned into disillusion, thanks to the Wran NSW Labor government. By 1980 I was convinced the Labor party was criminal organisation akin to the mafia. I was a public servant and horrified as political lackeys with no ability taking over departments, their children and branch members given rapid promotion under the guise of “promotion on merit.”
Left the public service to become a journalist before the 1990s, which has only reinforced by belief that Labor and the mafia work by identical principles.
92# Thank you gibbo for the recognition.
Ahhh, the days when we would go to parties as 13 and 14 year olds. When the evening had progressed far enough, about 11’oclock at night, the boys would all go out on the street, find the nearest light and “chuck” brown-eyes at the passing cars.
Don’t forget, we never ‘did’ a brown-eye, we always “chucked” a brown-eye.
And when the boys were old enough to drive cars, who can forget the western suburbs version of flirting, chucking a brown-eye right up against the window of the car to show you what they were made of,as the girl of their wet dreams was walking down the road with a bridle slung over her shoulder to the paddock where her mangy ex trotting horse was kept.
Forget the “Puberty Blues” girls of Cronulla. The westie girls would never have carted a pie for the boofheaded weeds. A westie girl would have made him chew his own chiko roll.
Ahhh, memories.
hey paco, I believe “squashed frog’ is a more apt description.
I would hate to eat a septic ham if it looked like that before it was ‘pressed”.best to paco jnr. xxxxxx
Pogria, I kneel before thee oh great oracle, oh genuine, authentic Westie. I, as a 100%, 2nd generation Cabramatta lad, fully verify your version of the browneye as something that is indeed “chucked” and never “done” or “did”.
“Chucking a browneye” was a compulsory subject at good old Cabramatta West Public School. I’m proud to say I did better at browneyes than I did at maths! This skill has never let me down in all my (almost) 45 years on this planet.
US citizens who have also been coopted
I don’t know who they’re talking about. I certainly can’t afford a co-op.
Posted by tree hugging sister on 2007 01 26 at 01:52 PM • permalink
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Is it at all possible that these losers could be any more pathetic?
Why not chalk “Wah waaaah!!!” on stuff?