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How depressing. If only we could export ignorant rednecks instead.
I blame:
a) The parents
b) The teachers
d) The Media
e) John Howard
f) Gnomes in Geneve
g) Society
h) All of the above
Ignorant rednecks? A tautology, Jenny.
What makes a redneck’s red neck red ?
Is it pure stupidity ? With a dash of pig ignorance perchance ?
Or a lack of heart instead ?
I might be broke from playing the machine of poke.
I might spend my kids’ food money on smokes and dope,
or booze or ponies with no race day hope.
The problem that I choose to see is never something close to me;
It’s always serious I know, and good of me to take on so
Many problems, global scale.
And comment sagely without fail.
And share my thoughts with Alan and John
Be taken for a goose
And never catch on.
So we’ll shut the door, eh – so none can see
That these wogs and reffos are better than me.
Magnificent FD!!
It was only the other day, as I was listening to Judy on the wireless,
that I immediately thought of you and wondered….
What would FD say about this?
So now I know……
It’s good not to feel quite so alone.
Meski - yes, good point. I think I was just so annoyed that I needed to add a nasty adjective even if it was superfluous.
Mark Latham called it “downward envy”. Holy cr*p! Mark Latham might have been right about something…
I feel really sad about the lack of compassion in some people and I honestly don’t understand it…
Who Knows.
Will ‘they’ know…
will ‘Judy in Darwin River’ know…
will this careless government know….
this is a joke…
if joke is what
we can call our bloodied comment
reflecting how satirists think
so gut deep*
keen.
Well done dog.
*a redneck is a redneck and no hope of a rose.
How sad.
Very.
MJ’s on fire these days.
At my next grooming I’m going to get one of them refugee um you know perms.
… on the nose
I feel ashamed.
You know, I proudly wear my ‘queue jumper hoodie’ and have got a couple of comments - usually in the queue at coles - and I have said ‘yes, it’s just a little bit political’ as an opener for conversation. And people just look confused! I even wore it to vote - no comments there and the queue was huge(ish). And I live in Canberra where most people including their cat and dog have some sort of political view. Just what is happening to our compassion?
Gee, Judy had a close brush with the real world there. But I’m heartened to hear it didn’t cause her daughter too much of a traffic delay heading into town. And how about those Afghanis, eh!? They gave absolutely no consideration to the plight of others.
FD: Brilliant, but infinitely depressing.
MJ: Ditto
RECEIPE FOR ONE REDNECK
I quasi-human being
I brain devoid of all imagination
I check shirt
I pair dark green shorts
I pair of thongs (on holiday) boots (at work)
I pair of last year’s but five sunnies
I pair ping-pong-bat ears
I base-ball cap
Mix thoroughly. Add beer to taste
Now, the most vital ingredient of all.
AN AUDIENCE
@MJ: That one sounds as if it should be performed by a man on a stool with a microphone in his hand.
just while we’re stereotyping rednecks gang, do you think there might be a waft of irony in treating people a particular way because the live somewhere or look like something? There’s as many people in Stonnington who hate refugees.
not a rose among ‘em, SBH, just tellin’ trewth.
Why are our peoples so angry that they can stand there, arms crossed, arrogant, defensive.
They begrudge the attention they never receive.
What a shit society.
Sorry FD but you drew it.
Judy’s twin sister: http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=s2ExOAjAOBM&feature=related
Apart from venting our spleens here what action can we Dogonauts take to counteract Judy? For days my thoughts have flashed back to the TV news images of those Afghani men, several of whom were weeping in desperation and despair. Surely, with the collective nous on this superior blog, we can concoct a Cunning Plan to help them?
Normally I would contact my federal member but, as it’s Kevin Rudd (and it was his policy which marginalised these Afghanis), it doesn’t seem the best idea. Perhaps the new Greens senator would be more effective.
First Dog has inspired us, what can we now do, in a practical sense, to redress Judy - any ideas?
Zut: I’m thinking.
SBH: Just as many rednecks in Stonnington? Absolutely correct. In fact the worst specimen I have ever met used to live around the corner from me.
But the urban variety don’t have the miles and miles of empty countryside and an eager journo with a microphone in their hands seeking a rural opinion on a subject.
Which is why I mentioned AN AUDIENCE as being a vital ingredient in the make up of a redneck. Starved of an audience the urban redneck just sorta melds into the background.
I never fail to be surprised at FD’s genius. The Storm Troupers look riveting with their WWI Bi-planes doubling at hats and sunnies.
ANDREW Le C: I’m not quite sure what Mark Latham meant by that crack. Do you?
Or do you think I should just let her rip?? 
It sounds very witty, but I don’t want to laugh if I don’t understand it.
EMC: Oh for Pete’s sake take that thing out of your beautiful puss cat’s mouth!
Zut: I too am thinking, but it hurts.
Venise: I thought the moustache gave an air of mystery and sophistication. Hercule Purrot.
And Andrew LC is right. Latham did identify that strange sense of entitlement that many privileged people feel whereby they begrudge help for those well off. The Howard government exploited it shamelessly.
Thank you Zut. Yes. Have been thinking but it does. Really hurt. OK. I will gather resources.
Think about:
(1) my networks.
(2) who helped out last time this happened in South Australia (network).
(3) overcoming exogenous depression.
(4) the use of brainstorming.
(5) if EMC puts paw wrong sandshoe fears she can’t cope (sandshoe, get over it!)
(6) notice to EMC! It still looks perfidious! Cats don’t have moustaches!
Sorry … did mean purrfidious.
EMC
Not the purrierrot in the loose white costume and white face?
Bring on the clowns!
I must have misunderstood the remark. I took it to mean that the people with money envied the people without it?
Trust me to be the clown.
SANDSHOE: (6) But a good set of whiskers almost counts.
Zut:
This calls for a FDOTM Existential blog, possibly called Downward Envy.
Alternatively we could petition Ms Blue Wren for ‘Out on the Side of the Road’
a hilariously clever but probably debauched, once a week Dogonauts interactive (BYOG) like Crikey Question time Participants could sling dastardly retribution at rednecks, unicorns, poodles, kittys and boatmen. Dogonauts (at the invitation of FD’Jason’OTM) would earn the right to display (in perpetuity) the Golden Jasper avatar.
Well thats as far as I’ve got.
Ah yes…here in this reasonably civilised Victorian country town, most people don’t care to even nod or smile at the recently arrived Sudanese families, in particular, as they walk down the street or in the supermarket aisles.
Meanwhile, the local trublu Aussie lads scream around in their hoon cars, lurch and swear along the footpaths trying to knock little ole ladies over, smash unsuspecting random shop windows and whatever else takes their fancy, beat each other up outside the nightclubs, and generally uphold Western Civilisation.
Hurrumph!
Re: the Afghanis. I’ve decided to write to the 12 Queensland senators (the same letter but individually addressed) highlighting the incongruity of sending Afghan refugees back to a war zone while we continue to maintain Australian troops in their country as we deem it unstable and a terrorist threat. Once it’s clear who the new Immigration Minister is (possibly still may be Chris Evans) I’ll also write to him.
Unfortunately, I can’t think of anything else to do. If I feel this helpless it pales into insignificance compared to what those poor Afghanis are feeling.
Zut:
Please don’t think I was being flippant - the helplessness requires an injection of hope and humour for sanity’s sake.
Your letter to the Senators is a very good idea.
Fascinated,
I’ll also send a letter to Rudd - would hate him to feel left out. Just wish I had Judy’s address too but am unsure about her literacy level.
Venise: Latham’s “downward envy” is (I think) the increasing tendency of people (dare I say - in the lower socio-economic-education world) to expresss envy of any sort of government funded assistance given to refugees, the mentally ill, indigenous Australians etc.
I have often encouraged and assisted individuals put their case for a social justice forward by letter or that individual’s appearance. I have believed their individual voice has the greatest chance of any of achieving timely redress of an injustice.
An individual’s letter with many other individual’s letters-I accept-can effect redress.
In full-face of perpetrators of these international crimes against human rights, I fear the letters of many individuals are blowing in the wind.
@ Zut
re what to do, you could try Get Up
DavidK,
Thanks. Get Up! had occurred to me since that last posting so you’ve now given some extra impetus to the idea.
Item 2 in today’s Crikey, ‘Sitting With Asylum Seekers’, paints an even grimmer picture about the plight of the Afghanis and provides more background detail. No wonder some were weeping. And the police purposely withheld water from the heat-exposed men…no doubt Judy would’ve approved.
Get Up! The very kind of kind place to go about this where there are many more individuals than just many.
It has to be collective action. Funny eh I thought too about stage play (as I did once before on a anothr subect and Venise howled she was given the huge parts).
Kind Regards
‘shoe.
Sandshoe, you have surpassed yourself:
“…where there are many more individuals than just many.”
FASCINATED: I like your thinking. Keep it up!
VIX: “”Meanwhile, the local troubled Aussie lads scream around in their hoon cars, lurch and swear along the footpaths trying to knock little ole ladies over, smash unsuspecting random shop windows and whatever else takes their fancy, beat each other up outside the nightclubs, and generally uphold Western Civilisation.
Hurrumph!””
People like you just don’t understand the amount of ingenuity it takes to behave like this. How would you like it if people talked about you in the terms used for these poor, sensitive, future adults, and voters, in such dismissive terms? You wouldn’t.
I believe these admirable young men should be encouraged to fulfil their future destinies as potential Rhodes scholars. And is it their fault that little old ladies keep throwing themselves as these poor kids? Some people call them hoons and drunks. Never. They are just the misunderstood flowers of our Oz future.
I’m sure these affable young creatures would willingly risk their lives to fight for American ideals, and Oz metooism- if they could read the enrolment form. And if they had the guts to behave in private, as they do en masse, they would be splendid warriors. Let Oz re-introduce compulsory national service. That would slow the little bastards down a bit.
ZUT: Hear hear.
Sandshoe, you have surpassed yourself:
””“…where there are many more individuals than just many.”””
I fess up Zut and I fess up as well to you, Venise. I had a quiet chuckle like a great gulfing sea lion honking and rushing to get around when I thought of how many ‘many’ might arbitrarily needs be.
Thank you Zut and Venise for your kind inclusion that a small thing I wrote came so well to your notice.
I think that is a nicely written compassionate piece over at Hot Topics
Sitting with asylum seekers on the side of the Stuart Highway
by Pamela Curr, campaign co-ordinator, Asylum Seeker Resource Centre (Monday, 6 September 2010).
I didn’t like to swing in there. I didn’t feel comfortable to stay. Commenters fighting over there. This is an emotive subject of course and there will be squabbling in response.
SANDSHOE: That’s a dog of a name for a campaign coordinator ASRC.