Sunday, January 18, 2009

Austrailia

Not content with the 70 million labourers, nurses and drug addicts that depart in hordes from Ireland to Austrailia every year, they've now started advertising it.
The big pilgrimage acts as a kind of hiatus between the college years and the real world-the one where you have to get a mortgage, all of your friends start getting married, and people stop carrying nagans in their purses on nights out. The last big chance to drink every night of the week, have unprotected sex, develop skin cancer, and talk with other Irish people about other Irish people that you both know back home through a friend of a friend.
But its not this that offends me.
What has really gotten under my skin is the shameless way they've taken the Aboriginal child from Austrailia (my least favourite film of 2008) and paraded him around a lavish city apartment in his fucking loin cloth. So the abbos are vogue now, are they? Its as repulsive to me as the half-hearted dedication to the lost generations at the the end of the film. Something the film made no real effort to explain or animate as it was too busy framing skeletors translucent face, or zooming in on Wolverine's steriod ridden veins to actually film something that might be interesting to a wider audience.

4 comments:

Sarah Gostrangely said...

OH GOD, that is VILE. puke.

Thank Goodness for that beautiful child...otherwise Kate may never have rediscovered her feminine self in Oz, shaggin in ox-bow lakes and all.

That'll teach women for trying to do a man's job. Or any job for that matter.

Whole thing is pretty disgusting. I hope the wee fella made a stash of white cash.

Radge said...

I believe the film is atrocious. Saw a clip where Skeletor (good one) tries to herd some cattle going 'Rah! Rah!' Fucking painful.

I too take issue with those that go to Australia for a year.

Leave Dublin - fly across the world - wake up in Dublin, now with added snakes. I was there on holidays seven years ago, not for me.

Anonymous said...

My mam actually suggested that I go to Australia the other day, I asked if she was paying, it was never mentioned again...

Radge: "I believe the film is atrocious. Saw a clip where Skeletor (good one) tries to herd some cattle going 'Rah! Rah!' Fucking painful."

-haha, you know about farming!

the dublinista said...

Sarah: They've got their claws into him deep. watch this space for Abercrombie and Fitch ads.

Radge: Everybody seems to end up there, even those who said they never would.
See you in Sydney.

Rua: Does everyone in Ireland not know about farming?