(Reposted from 27 December 2014)
Доброе утро мои друзья
RESURRECTION
http://youtu.be/WMglp_VaTaE
A miracle
ERECTION Get up stand up! http://youtu.be/mteVudR5HMw
The “If U want porn go to Canberra” signs are back up!
I’m not against Canberra, some of my best friends are Canberrans……
This exchange of letters took place in the Alice Springs News Online (in response to an Article featuring our signs)
LETTERS
Porn in Canberra?
Sir – I was puzzled to see the debate in your paper about Canberra being the capital of porn. I live here and I don’t think Canberrans are very interested in porn. We just go to work, come home and watch the news like everyone.
The ugliest stuff we have here is that some people listen to radio shock jocks from Sydney. These petrol heads have no respect for facts but spout endless rubbish about how bad the carbon tax is. We are so lucky to have a Prime Minister who is willing to tackle the difficult but vital task of moving us into the new green world economy.
Rosemary Walters
Palmerston ACT
Stereotyping
Sir – I’m glad that Rosemary Walters took umbrage to the Yuendumu “if u want porn go to Canberra” signs. She proved the very point we tried to make.
To stereotype whole communities as being dysfunctional and infested with drunks and paedophiles, as was done with the Northern Territory Emergency Response (The Intervention) is highly offensive and unjust. To paraphrase Rosemary: ‘I live here and I don’t think Yurntumu-wardingki are very interested in porn. Before the Intervention many people here had never heard of pornography.’ Yet we’ve lived in the shadow of the ‘No Alcohol No Pornography’ signs for over three years.
Frank Baarda
Yuendumu
From my dad’s anecdotes:
JAN.’08- When dad returned from holidays in Holland he’d usually bring back some Dutch cigars to give to his teacher Herr Hubers. One time he’d completely forgotten. Not to worry, dad was a collector, and as well as postage stamps and the then very popular ‘swap’ cards that came with certain products and you could stick in albums (sports figures, places around the world, animals, etc.) he had a collection of cigar ‘bands’. So he promptly got some cheap German cigars and replaced the bands with Dutch ones (he thinks they might have been Schimmelpennink).
The next day Herr Hubers found the cigars on his desk and thanked Marinus (on such occasions he wasn’t ‘Hollander’). Ich gehe jetzt etwas tun dasz ich nich tun sollte. Ich rauche in der klasse. Now I’ll do something I ought not to. I’ll smoke in the classroom. He then proceeded to light a cigar and smoke and appreciate it. Ahhh das könen die Hollander, zigarren machen! Ahhh, the Dutch sure know how to make cigars! Albert Walz was in the know er stiesz mich anhe prodded me and we both savoured the joke as much as Herr Hubers savoured the ‘Dutch’ cigar.
So again I hear you ask, what has this got to do with Yuendumu?
Just as my father helped Herr Hubers believe what he wanted to believe, so bureaucrats that come to “engage” with Warlpiri communities ask leading questions and the accommodating Warlpiri tell them what they want to hear, and they go away believing what they wanted to believe.
INSURRECTION
http://youtu.be/QK6Rhgqkx8Q ….nadie es mejor que nadie….. (no one is better than anybody else )….
When some Warlpiri are not in the mood to play this game, and raise voices of dissent, the bureaucrats (or politicians) suddenly become what in the Netherlands is known as Oostindisch Doof (East Indian Deaf). In Warlpiri they say Langa-pati. ‘Langa’ is ear(s) and ‘pati’ is hard compacted soil. The end result is the same.
The Warlpiri also have the word warungka; it means both ‘deaf’ and ‘insane’
Dozvitanya…
до следующего раза
Frank
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