July 19, 2006
poll #1: world going to hell
Undulating Ungulate poll #1.
Which of the following is the best evidence of the world going completely to hell?
a) English wank a thon to be televised,
b) None of the police officers in the Menezes killing are to be charged. So legally it is okay to hunt down and shoot innocent people seven times in the head due to “organisational failings” so long as you believe they are a terrorist.
c) A series of 300 islands in the shape of the continents has been created off the coast of Dubai as a secure luxury retreat investment opportunity called The World
d) World media can tell situation in Lebanon is serious because US President Bush says the word “shit“. Meanwhile, from the same tape, Juan Cole can tell Bush is an idiot because the rest of his words indicate an incredibly degraded and simplistic understanding of the situation.
e) the combination of all of the above.
Filed by billy at 4:20 pm under the moose,the world
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I think it is c is the worst, talk about a waste of energy in a country based on unsustainable energy.
And this one:
http://www.stuff.co.nz/stuff/0,2106,3724559a4560,00.html
Notice she mentions nothing about the role of the media in making her an instant celebrity…
Shit (c) reads like a JG Ballard novel :/
Re: (d).
With that story, I did feel a certain relief that billy-bob Bush was aware of Lebannon, Syria, Hizbollah, Israel and that there might be something happening there at the moment.
It’s good to know that he’s now aware that (to nick from Mr Franti) that the middle-east don’t mean Kansas.
Oh, and it’s good to know he likes his new sweater.
A/ seems to be just the latest installment in Britain’s immature and giggly attitude towards sex.
B/ is sadly just Britain catching up to American police attitudes towards shooting unarmed non-white people.
C/ is genuinely alarming in – as Tim points out – a Ballardian way.
D/ is pretty much a smoke-screen.
So I’d have to say E.
I wonder how much it would cost to buy the North Island of The World…
Q – “I wonder how much it would cost to buy the North Island of The World…”
A – A diversionary treaty followed by mass immigration seems to work just fine.
Hey, wouldn’t it be the most awesome thing ever if we took over the North Island of the World – just turn up and populate it – and from there launched a campaign to take over the entire World by piracy and pillage?
What did you do on your summer holidays? I took over the World…
Ballard will definitely write a book set there. It’s too perfect an opportunity to miss, so easy to riff off tensions between inhabitants. Hell, everyone should…
Oh, and with regards to your original ‘quiz’, I choose option (f):
“Kusmayanto Kadiman, the [Indonesian] minister of science and technology, said in Jakarta that Indonesia had received the bulletins 45 minutes before the tsunami hit but that officials had not announced them to avoid causing unnecessary alarm, The Associated Press reported him as saying.”
from: http://www.nytimes.com/2006/07/20/world/asia/20indo.html
That’s right: “to avoid causing unneccessary alarm.”
I’d like to hear his definition of “necessary alarm”.
Scott: !!!
Maybe future polls should have an option f) insert your own here.
Maybe this one needs a g) The abundance of candidates for places on the list
Pearce: If and only if you are currently being eaten by bears?
“DO NOT BREAK GLASS unless being eaten by bears.”