Disenchantment is just like your opinion man
Jeff Apter of Keiraville wonders if all the good chants have been taken. âA smallish group of climate change protestors marched down Crown Street Mall in Wollongong last weekend, yelling, âScoMoâs a wanker.â While I admired their stance, I was let down by their chant â" it didnât even rhyme! Iâd love to know what Column 8ers regard as the best chants of yore.â
Reading of Bob Hallâs encounter with âsit hereâ stickers on every seat in the train carriage (C8), Dave Beach of Cooyal hopes that âBob enjoyed his exercise as he followed instructionsâ.
When all else fails, perhaps just tell the truth. Helen Atkins of Hamilton South received an NBN speed-check call from the subcontinent, aka North Sydney, where, after a lengthy conversation where she questioned the validity of the call, the caller âasked if I could afford $100. When I asked why, he said $100 meant he wouldnât have to work for a scam company anymore.â
The hate continues. Caz Thompson of Mosman is ânot sure if itâs a word (C8), however I am 100 per cent over hearing â100 per centâ as the current alternative to âyesâ.â From John Elder of Annerley (Qld). âWhat really rips ma knittinâ is when a TV reporter refers to some press conference they were covering with âtake a listenâ. Why, oh why, not just, âHereâs what was saidâ.â
From watching TV and listening to the radio Louise Robinson, also of Mosman, has discovered that âalmost every item, every edifice, every event has become âiconicâ (C8). This word is so overused and wrongly used that it makes us nauseous. Isnât an âiconâ a religious symbol?
âLikeâ (C8) a generational thing? Yeah well, thatâs just, like, your opinion, man. When Richard Murnane of Hornsby âwas a school kid in 1960s New York, the teachers admonished us for adopting hippy speak, like âlikeâ and âmanâ. Speaking of which, whatever happened to hippies?â
As an employee at the Australian Consulate in San Francisco in the 1970s, Margaret Nash of Randwick remembers a box of passionfruit (C8) being ordered from Australia as a treat. âAfter numerous inquiries as to why they hadnât arrived, we finally got the answer: âThey were all brown and wrinkly, so we threw them out.â The Americans had never seen a passionfruit before. Very disappointing.â
From personal experience, Richard Hale of Paddington suggests the best plan for passionfruit (C8), and mangoes, is âwash after useâ.
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