Oh thank God, someone's got something sane to say about the whole Big Day Out flag le gasp omg zounds the world is ending brouhahahahahahahahahem. Tunes Not Hoons from The Age's music blog (I know, Fairfax has far too many blogs and not even remotely near enough news - journalism schmournalism obviously - but this blog entry's pretty good). I'm so sick of bogan nationalism getting paraded around as patriotism, especially when it involves the national flag (which makes it really hard to criticise without people going "Oh, you just hate Australia, you must be one of them communists! Get him/her and beat him/her with your patriotically Made In China Australian flags!").
Although the way the BDO people have managed it seems so very,very publicity stunt-y, the responses to it from politicians and others who might have been to a music festival when last they still played madrigals at them is also a bit over the top.
Oh well. If Australia really is going to become a total bogan nation, can we at least change the country's name to Timminsland?
And this morning I read Answer is Aussie values, says PM, because apparently multiculturalism is the root of all the problems here, not racism, intollerance and a lack of understanding about other cultures, let alone our own.
*I mean that in the photographic sense rather than the technique of painting in a shades of a single colour.
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