Seems i've got the Swine.
Reason not to come to Victoria. Number 1.
Victoria's up to about 900 swine sufferers at the moment.
Below is a warning published at Singapore Governments crisis website:
Affected AreasYep, seems my fair city is fourth in the list of places not to go to... after a bunch of small, unpopulated and inconsequential places which don't really count for much, called Mexico, the USA and Canada.
As of 3rd June, Singapore's Ministry of Health has classified the following as affected areas [that is, areas with evidence of community transmission of Influenza A (H1N1-2009)]:
Mexico
USA
Canada
Melbourne & the state of Victoria, Australia
Kobe & Osaka, Japan
Chile
The public is advised to avoid non-essential travel to the above affected areas.
Reason not to come to Victoria. Number 2.
Melbournians are attacking Indian students...
No sh*t. Last Sunday I was heading to St. Kilda from Brunswick via public transport. It took 1.5 hours instead of 40 mins because thousands of Indian students were marching in the streets, screaming for justice and protection after a spate of racist attacks on public transport and university campus'.
It caused all public transport through the city to stopp running.
The protesting students didn't leave the intersection of Swanston Street and Flinders until they were dragged away by relatively violent force at 5am the next morning.
It made worldwide news... This from an article in Time Magazine
a disturbing side to Indian student life down-under has come to light, sparking allegations of widespread racism in Australian society, and a failure by law enforcement authorities to act. The first incident occurred in the early hours of May 24 at a suburban party in Melbourne, Australia's second largest city in the country's south.I feel ashamed.
Reason not to come to Victoria. Number 3.
We're dumb.
I always thought that Victorians were the most cultured and intelligent people in Australia...
Which is what I said to a bunch of Queenslanders before the State of Origin Rugby League snooze fest on Wednesday. Here's edited highlights from an essay on the matter I received from a Queenslander.
Me (ever so smugly, via email):
Ha! ever wondered why Queensland needs to call itself "the smart state"
Fagan (a Queenslander, via email):
The principal at my sisters school recently made a joke about Queenslanders being slow in front of all the staff. This kinda pissed her off seeing she was spending her first year of teaching as a Queenslander in Victoria and she was quick to point out in front of everyone that whilst Queensland has the third worst literacy and numeracy rates in schools they are still better than Victoria (who are only marginally better then the Northern Territory)
You guys are allowed to be proud of your cultural capital though. It is the envy of every artistic person in Australia and as envy turns to desire you get thousands of intelligent artistic types moving to Melbourne from all over Australia and New Zealand thus making Melbourne the fastest growing city in Australia.
Queenslanders are proud too though, proud of our tropical climate and slower paced lifestyle. It too is the envy of many (it’s the second fastest growing city in Oz). Unfortunately though these are mostly over 60's or not so intelligent lower class bogans who don’t care for Melbourne’s artistic culture and realise that instead of living in the cold and working in a factory in Cranbourne they could be living in the tropics and working in a factory in logan.
So whilst our brothers and sisters up north of the tweed are doing their level best to improve their states Numeracy and literacy rates handicapped by the 1000s of stupid Victorians that move their each month, Victoria’s education rates will be benefiting from the children of artistic intellects that move to its cultural capital from interstate and a-broad.
Ouch...
Seriously, get ya shit together Melbourne...
I'm gonna drown my sorrows tonight with other Swine sufferers at the Gershwin Room at The Espy while listening to "seminal" Punk/Rubbish/Grunge/Sludge band Flipper play this uplifting song. Should be RAD.
my biggest issue with the indian racism taunts and allegations is that they are by and large true. tell me honeslty, in all of the imagery of the protests including the sit down infront of flinders street station, did you see one white or even non-indian face in support? no - not one. Including mine but the point is that wider (whiter) Australia just did not really give a toss. they may have said: "oh that's terrible" or "poor things" but the fact is most people really didn't give a shit and THAT my friend is what irks me. To top it off, Rudd's clear concern was that each student is worth $30k to the economy and that with each attack 5 more Indian students woin't come to Oz - who could blame them really.
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