This one came from Norm and I caught it on the Tin Drummer’s site. It provides one simple, definitive reason not to settle in Australia. This is now not permissible at a cricket match, because of the threat of terrorism:[Anyone who] ... offends, insults, humiliates, intimidates, threatens, disparages, vilifies, abuses, belittles, scorns, denigrates, traduces, ridicules, dehumanizes, dishonours, defames, victimizes, contemns, disrespects, slanders, frightens, taunts, torments, wounds, derides, terrifies, terrorizes, petrifies, demeans, maligns, badmouths, and [to go with 'offends'] upsets, dismays, demoralizes, depresses, distresses or anguishes... [and anyone who does such thing will be taken outside and laden down with the waste paperwork from every unnecessary government department until he or she be dead. And may the Force of PC have mercy on them.]
Australia is a sunburnt land with cute, cuddly wildlife, wide open spaces, golden beaches, huge vistas of multi-coloured sky and a vibrant, go-ahead society, hell-bent on nobbling itself, of strangling itself into submission. Clearly admirers of Soviet Russia and missing it badly, this drivel above is what they’ve now lumbered themselves with.
Can you see the demented bureaucrats in their airconditioned offices, Thesaurus and dictionary on the desk before them, pausing and asking one another: ‘Do you think we’ve covered everything here? Anything else anyone wants to ban? Darleen? Paula?’
Lord, help them because all I can do is traduce them.
Just to clarify - the list you quote is Norm's own slightly expanded one, although the original is just as bad.
ReplyDeleteAnother reason not to go and live in Oz is that as a Pom, you will literally never hear the end of today's humiliating defeat.
Well, it doesn't put me off being a Sheila and going down under to try some scuba diving in the Barrier Reef.
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