Summernats is a car show held in the first week of January every year in Canberra.
Events include burn out competitions, Miss Summernats, tattoo judging, strippers, and other such boganry.
As this festival of all things bogan, hedonism and waste rolls into town every year, I avoid the areas they might be like the plague. Along with the fuel chugging, fume creating, rubber destroying cars come their sexist, racist, fat, smoking, mulletted drivers who whistle, shout and sexually harrass you everywhere you go.
With the airing of the catch cry "show us ya tits" 224531 times a day, I once denied such a request outright, instead of ignoring it. "Yeah- fuckin' slut" was the reply. Wait a moment... so you're calling me a slut for NOT getting my tits out?!
A corresponding influx of southern cross tattoos, bumper stickers and Australian flags as attire arrives, and the multiculturalism level drops.
This year a day pass to Summernats was $70. I would like to know if ANY of the attendees at Summernats make $70 or more in donations to charities per year!? I would bet $70 on the odds that 70% of attendees would receive well and truly more than $70 in child welfare, centrelink or other such Government support in a year!
As thick layers of rubber are deposited on roadways and tyres torn apart more waste- resources and money alike- all sense disappears in a noxious cloud of sheer and utter stupidity.
Backwards to a Foreword
I started these writings with the intent of making mostly comedic style social observations. But opinions are like arseholes- everyone's got one- and as if often the way- the original intent is not what has eventuated, as the darker side of my mind has been very much in control lately.
All my writings are essentially a point of view or recollections of lived experiences. As with witness statements, which are not admissible as evidence in court due to the high rate of inaccuracy- sometimes what I feel, think or remember won't be the same as other people who may have been present for the same events.
They are my thoughts, feelings and memories, and may not necessarily represent those of people represented in them.
All my writings are essentially a point of view or recollections of lived experiences. As with witness statements, which are not admissible as evidence in court due to the high rate of inaccuracy- sometimes what I feel, think or remember won't be the same as other people who may have been present for the same events.
They are my thoughts, feelings and memories, and may not necessarily represent those of people represented in them.
Wednesday, 11 January 2012
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