Howard delivers the kiss of death to Melbourne
Melbourne's world class "news pictorial" the Herald Sun — coincidentally the most popular brand of toilet paper in the country — makes a lot out of one of John Howard's minor pronouncements at the Commonwealth Games this weekend. Our esteemed leader obviously misspoke, uttering "Sydney" when he meant his city of non-residence, Canberra, which is clearly so much more aggregated (bleached) than either of the others.
Some malcontent writing for The Australian has tried to intellectualise it, cataloguing some of Sydney's successes and claiming them to be failures. He obviously prefers the supine civic pride of Melbourne, and has a need to boost his self-esteem by siding with the public statements of the big boys.
While muttering about some Abbott-sanctioned cleansing of the gene pool, a nameless Trashograph hack took out the Dictionary of Cliche and did Sydney the disservice of attempting a defence. Being nowhere as keen as the Mexicans on the subliterate tabloids, we Sydneysiders really should retain our self-satisfaction through silence, as no-one has so far pretended to do more than pulling an opinion out of their arse. Heh, move along, nothing to see here...
The PM, a long-term Sydney resident, obviously prefers disaggregated urbanity over flying trams and community cohesion, and there are several million other Australians who have a similar unfamiliarity with the warm hand of friendship. We've got a world class police force up here that knows all about the plot, so what do we care for all this comparative nonsense? It is but the whine of those who don't yet know they have lost.
Some malcontent writing for The Australian has tried to intellectualise it, cataloguing some of Sydney's successes and claiming them to be failures. He obviously prefers the supine civic pride of Melbourne, and has a need to boost his self-esteem by siding with the public statements of the big boys.
While muttering about some Abbott-sanctioned cleansing of the gene pool, a nameless Trashograph hack took out the Dictionary of Cliche and did Sydney the disservice of attempting a defence. Being nowhere as keen as the Mexicans on the subliterate tabloids, we Sydneysiders really should retain our self-satisfaction through silence, as no-one has so far pretended to do more than pulling an opinion out of their arse. Heh, move along, nothing to see here...
The PM, a long-term Sydney resident, obviously prefers disaggregated urbanity over flying trams and community cohesion, and there are several million other Australians who have a similar unfamiliarity with the warm hand of friendship. We've got a world class police force up here that knows all about the plot, so what do we care for all this comparative nonsense? It is but the whine of those who don't yet know they have lost.
posted by Mr Sydney at 10:51 PM
2 Comments:
Kylie Minogue is from Melbourne (and Wales, apparently), that moron from the Telegraph should note.
Firstly I (and I'm sure Mr Melbourne) would like to thank you for reading this blog. Secondly I apologise for linking to the Telegraph. I am sure the Herald Sun is above making mistakes such as these.
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