In which we discuss important issues, like imitation cow parts.

[friezaess]

I wish we had Tofurkey in Australia, it looks freaking awesome. That said, I really wanna check out a new vegetarian place at Mt Gravatt that has lots of Chinese dishes like "beef" and black bean and sweet and sour "pork". Anyone want to "check it out"?

A recent incident at work experience amused me. Newspapers are typically left wing and Quest often has articles about multiculturalism/diversity/brown people/etc. So when we went out to interview people in the street, I found it ironic how they wouldn't interview anyone but whities. As in, when I tried to approach "people of colour", I was told not to bother with them, even when the streets were barren and we were desperate for quotes. Happened like five times. O lawd.

Speaking of all things newsy, since when did the phrase "climate change sceptic" (YES IT'S SPELLED WITH A C, GODDAMMIT PEOPLE) become synonymous with "fire-breathing Nazi Polpot"? I've always figured that people on both sides of the debate have a lot of money at stake and thus take everything surrounding the debate with a grain of salt, but damn... I mean, I'm all for planting trees and shit, but apparently being against an $1100 p.a. tax hike means you are a conservative old man who wants to own 20 four wheel drives and nuke the whales.

Oh well, we'll all die in 2012 anyway I guess.

Anyway. Time to see if there's anything on Mbok worth splurging on.

Comments

[celrya.livejournal.com]

"A recent incident at work experience amused me. Newspapers are typically left wing and Quest often has articles about multiculturalism/diversity/brown people/etc. So when we went out to interview people in the street, I found it ironic how they wouldn't interview anyone but whities. As in, when I tried to approach "people of colour", I was told not to bother with them, even when the streets were barren and we were desperate for quotes. Happened like five times. O lawd."

WAT?

On the climate change sceptics thing (spelling it with a c for you. Firefox is telling me not to) when %98 of scientists believe its a big issue, giving both sides remotely equal amounts of airtime like its some sort of even debate, annoys the shit out of me. Planet is dyin' squirtle.

[friezaess.livejournal.com]

Taxing people while giving coal companies concessions ain't going to reduce our carbon greenhouse handprint and bring back Jesus.

[celrya.livejournal.com]

Oh yeah, but criticizing methods groups and organizations are going about in order to have an effect on climate change is kinda different from being sceptical about climate change, though...

[friezaess.livejournal.com]

People can question man made climate change without being nutbags, but most of the time they're met with "ZOMG HOW DARE YOU NOT BELIEVE IN THIS STUFF YOU'RE A NEO-CONSERVITARD" as opposed to "here, have some facts". The government is prone to pushing marketing campaigns about how leaving your computer on releases black balloons into the sky as opposed to stating how and why, which tends to push people in the opposite direction.

[celrya.livejournal.com]

Meh. I'm having a hard time not reading "What? Humans are being human again? Oh shi-" into that.