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I'm sure more British people know who Lynton Crosby is than do Australians. But any Australian could have told you that 'Are you thinking what we're thinking?' is a Bananas thing.
I like to look at it in the context of the appropriation of cartoon theme songs by primary/high school students to show off how cool and unchildish they are. Ie "Postman Pat, Postman Pat, Postman Pat ran over his cat." Or "There's a bear in there, and an electric chair/There's people with AIDS, and hand grenades."
And the complaints about Disney (etc.) movies, how they're dumbing down adults and forcing kids to grow up too fast. When they feed the same information to everybody, people will be so gratified they understand the core themes they won't bother to consider context or substance.
So it figures that that's what Crosby's using to peddle his BULLSHIT immigration agenda.
I do love elections, I really do, but I think that's only because I don't believe they give the victor a mandate, I think they're a truly appalling mechanism of democracy. And I'm used to them being mediatised, but that doesn't make the Conservatives' slogan any more palatable - not because it might be from Bananas in Pyjamas, but because it is so meaningless a three-year-old can interpret it to mean what they will. And I'm not saying that immigration isn't an issue that might feasibly have to be addressed in some nations in some circumstances, but we can NOT allow another Woomera, or another Baxter, or anything of that ilk. And I know I've mentioned this before, but - Manus Island, in Papua New Guinea, where an Australian detention centre kept a SOLITARY ASYLUM SEEKER for SIX MONTHS. 24 hours a day under armed guard, with no real interpersonal contact...it must be a vile violation of human rights. I refuse to understand how a country like this could do that.
(I didn't mean to go into that diatribe. Sorry)
I like to look at it in the context of the appropriation of cartoon theme songs by primary/high school students to show off how cool and unchildish they are. Ie "Postman Pat, Postman Pat, Postman Pat ran over his cat." Or "There's a bear in there, and an electric chair/There's people with AIDS, and hand grenades."
And the complaints about Disney (etc.) movies, how they're dumbing down adults and forcing kids to grow up too fast. When they feed the same information to everybody, people will be so gratified they understand the core themes they won't bother to consider context or substance.
So it figures that that's what Crosby's using to peddle his BULLSHIT immigration agenda.
I do love elections, I really do, but I think that's only because I don't believe they give the victor a mandate, I think they're a truly appalling mechanism of democracy. And I'm used to them being mediatised, but that doesn't make the Conservatives' slogan any more palatable - not because it might be from Bananas in Pyjamas, but because it is so meaningless a three-year-old can interpret it to mean what they will. And I'm not saying that immigration isn't an issue that might feasibly have to be addressed in some nations in some circumstances, but we can NOT allow another Woomera, or another Baxter, or anything of that ilk. And I know I've mentioned this before, but - Manus Island, in Papua New Guinea, where an Australian detention centre kept a SOLITARY ASYLUM SEEKER for SIX MONTHS. 24 hours a day under armed guard, with no real interpersonal contact...it must be a vile violation of human rights. I refuse to understand how a country like this could do that.
(I didn't mean to go into that diatribe. Sorry)