by Arianddu » Wed Sep 02, 2009 4:13 am
Can we please not have yet another thread of fucking bullshit and outrage? Dan said something stupid, in line with his standard comments about California. Some of us live in bushfire country and have very thin skins about it - we know what it is to live with, we don't like jokes about it. Dan doesn't live in this kind of territory and isn't going to get it. Big deal.
But for fuck's sake, can we keep this even vaguely to topic? I'd appreciate a couple of links to keep updated on this from afar - over the years I've come to be very thankful to some Californian fire fighters who flew into Australia to help us out in our summers, and I have friends here in Australia in the CFS and SES who may be called to go over there; I'd like to keep tabs on it all but it doesn't get too much reporting here, certainly not in the detail I'd like.
As for the rest of it, can we just agree that Dan's comments were insensitive and move on? Because quite frankly, the endless self-serving moaning is a fucking waste of time.
Why treat life as a journey to the grave with the intention of arriving in an attractive & well-preserved body? Get there by skidding in sideways, a glass of wine in one hand, chocolate in the other, body totally worn out, screaming WOOHOO! What a ride!