Friday, March 31, 2006

This makes me see RED!

Melbourne City Councillor Peter Clarke has either got to be joking or he was mouthing off while pissed! (I know nothing of his drinking habits, so to be kind, I presume it is the former).
He wants quarterly auditions to be passed by buskers to operate in the CBD to ensure that they are adequately talented and skilled.
Great idea, til the proposed arbiter of acceptable ability is that pompous, arrogant, self opiniated weasel Red Symons, who:
One: Is no where near as good himself as he thinks he is
Two: Is sickening the way he acts so cute on the radio. Some GIRLS are cute, and this is acceptable only if it is natural and not bunged on. I find guys who act cute to be revolting. (In Symons case, I think it is a smokescreen to hide the fact that he is not particularly articulate or intelligent).
Anyway, Mr Clarke, why set yourself up to appear to be an idiot?, the best judges of buskers are the public, who drop the coins. No pay, no keep coming to play!!!
Yes, the buskers are noisy, and so are the spruikers, but so are Myers Christmas windows, and the ever proliferating City tickertape parades.

Worthy of more serious attention is Corporate Graffitti, where public property or airspace is defaced by insulting or offensive advertising or Government propaganda.

While the current example is the FCUK fuss, a few months ago every tram stop and railway station had the anti terrorist scam that the Federal Government is foisting on us.

In a sane and balanced society, advertising on buildings would be restricted to the logo/products of the occupant business, as long as there was nothing that could reasonably be construed to cause public offence.

Give me the colourful but inoffensive brick walls and Railway viaducts that our abandoned and bored youth express themselves with, anytime!

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