It was just after the owner of the caravan park said that she didn't like my t-shirt because of her "strong ties of Buddhism" that I stopped communicating with fully-formed words and started using my wide command of grunts, nods and smiles.
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An explanation of The Joy Division Litmus Test
Although it may now be lost in the mysts of thyme, the poll below is still relevant to this blog. In the winter of 2008, Mele and I went to live in Queensland. In order to survive, I bluffed my way into a job at a Coffee Club.
It was quite a reasonable place to work: the hours were regular, the staff were quite nice, it wasn't particularly taxing on my brain.
There were a few downsides: In the six weeks or so that I worked there, there was about a 90% staff turnover (contributed to by my leaving). This wasn't seen as a result of the low pay, the laughability of staff prices or the practice of not distributing tips to staff, rather it was blamed on the lack of work ethic among Bribie Island's youth.
However, one of the stranger aspects of the cultural isolation that touched our lives during our time "up there" was the fact that nobody at my work had heard of the band Joy Division.
The full explanation is available here.
But please, interact a little further and vote in my ongoing poll. The results are slowly mounting up, proving one thing: people read this blog are more well-informed about Joy Division than anyone who works at the Coffee Club on Bribie Island.
It was quite a reasonable place to work: the hours were regular, the staff were quite nice, it wasn't particularly taxing on my brain.
There were a few downsides: In the six weeks or so that I worked there, there was about a 90% staff turnover (contributed to by my leaving). This wasn't seen as a result of the low pay, the laughability of staff prices or the practice of not distributing tips to staff, rather it was blamed on the lack of work ethic among Bribie Island's youth.
However, one of the stranger aspects of the cultural isolation that touched our lives during our time "up there" was the fact that nobody at my work had heard of the band Joy Division.
The full explanation is available here.
But please, interact a little further and vote in my ongoing poll. The results are slowly mounting up, proving one thing: people read this blog are more well-informed about Joy Division than anyone who works at the Coffee Club on Bribie Island.
You've already got this cool Dali Llama tee and now I see we are mortal enemies vying for the blue tee on Squib.
ReplyDeleteAvast yer loinclith! Avast yer 21 generations of purgatoried ancestors!
Arrrrgh!
-- Jannie
(P.S. Your blog is cool. Always uplifting to find high humor in good writing on the web. Whee-hoo)
As to yer loinCLITH, make that double for your loinCLOTH.
ReplyDeleteArrrgh.
I like Pirates, So *AHOY* to jannie funster!
ReplyDeleteI also Like my FUTURE LLAMA T-shirt, even if I did leave it in Adelaide...
Jannie - Well, thank you! And may fling a little sentence envy your way for your blue-tee-deserving monster over at squibbie's? I don't often show people my loinclith, I'm surprised you've heard of it.
ReplyDeleteTooS - I bet you don't get many disgruntled Futurama fans giving you icy glares and telling you that The Great Groening would not not approve of your Tibetan barnyard-based japery.
Before you left it in Adelaide, that is.
True Buddhists might enjoy your Tshirt like a lotus in bloom.
ReplyDeletePaul - I dunno man. I don't think blooming lotus' enjoy t-shirts ...
ReplyDelete*nyuk nyuk*