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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.
Yes, but all of these are outweighed by a single factor - mobile pornography.
ReplyDeleteGood point. On another, unrelated topic, I'm never touching anyone's smart phone ever again.
ReplyDeleteI recently read an article in which a guy griped that 50 years ago technology gave us the moon landing and today it's given us 140 characters. Unfortunately, the guy who said that was the inventor of PayPal, and he sort of doesn't see any irony in that. What a great modern age indeed.
ReplyDeleteMy favourite modern age acronym is still PEBCAK and it will always be the way until we all become androids.
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No matter how glorious and modern the human race becomes, we're still going to be mostly a bunch of monkeys who hit our opposable thumbs with hammers.
I have an ancient phone too. I can make calls on it and receive them and, if pressured, will send an SMS even though I hate doing so. It's good enough for me.
ReplyDeleteLove PEBCAK!
I think they should start selling Dumb Phones with reduced capabilities for plebs like us.
ReplyDeleteAt a reduced cost, of course!
Franzy - they do. You can buy dumd phones on eBay. That's where I got mine. I liked it so much I bought a 2nd one to stash away for when the first one died. #2 son inherited one of them, I have the other now. About 6 years later they are both still going strong. (Unlike #1 son's moderately smart phone that died... replaced at his request by a Very Smart Phone. With no data plan !!!)
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