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2020-08-13 -Short Attention Span Theater-

More than 20,000 locked-down Melburnians vow to stand on their front porches and unleash a collective scream in bizarre ploy to help deal with restrictions

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Posted by Skidmark 2020-08-13 12:04|| || Front Page|| [4 views ] Top

#1 Melbourne, Australia Population 2019: 5.191 million

0.02/5.191 = 0.004 i.e., 0.4%

Posted by g(r)omgoru 2020-08-13 14:13|| 2020-08-13 14:13|| Front Page Top

#2 So 10 times more than at risk from covid.

Posted by Bright Pebbles 2020-08-13 14:25|| 2020-08-13 14:25|| Front Page Top

#3 If the case is so strong, it should make itself instead of Voluntary Compliance Under Pain of Government.

Every US authority who nods in agreement with Australian Style Gun Control is green with envy.

Shit, at least in prison you are allowed outside for an exercise period.

At my campfire, everyone agrees it is only a matter of time before something very nasty gets going, and that the critical first moments between detection and isolation will be lost because of this absolute shredding of any moral credibility and authority.

Posted by swksvolFF 2020-08-13 15:27|| 2020-08-13 15:27|| Front Page Top

#4 I am reminded of a play I saw with my school class, back before the internet.

I can't remember its name, but it was memorable for a couple reasons. First, my first experience with the Phelps Gangs.

OK, set in the future, stage is a multi-person dwelling. There is some sort of a babysitter, not sure if was like HAL or from control room. Resident were told that the outside was deadly, I forget if it was disease or radiation, considering the era probably nuclear fallout or such. Any rate, the residents were just kind of going through their daily motions, kind of ho humm, until one gets tired of it and finds a way to escape.

He gets outside, and the world is lush and beautiful. He finds a critter, and after a bit of acting the audience realizes he found a bunny and didn't know what it was.

This is the second reason it was memorable. My class thought this was the stupidest thing ever. We were kids, when we weren't in school or bed we were outside. Never heard of a rabbit, what a bunch of bull.

Back to the story, roommate catches him sneaking back in, confronts him over a very serious no-no. He gives 'its a wonderful world out there' speech. Well, she is intrigued enough she sneaks out, brings a flower back in to show all the roommates.

Well, she makes a mistake and the authorities find the flower, now they are in real trouble. The all escape, but the rabbit guy gets killed.

The play's dilemma was that although rabbit man died, they didn't realize how miserable their past existence was and how much happier they are now.

How ridiculous! Absurd! Unpossible!

Except here we are, cheering it on, and the actors in the play are today's children.

Posted by swksvolFF 2020-08-13 16:01|| 2020-08-13 16:01|| Front Page Top

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