Introducing…
Posted by Jerome on | April 11, 2006
Hi. My name is Jerome Moscicki and this is my first contribution to a Blog. I feel wierd because I have spent the last four years excercising marked disdain for the concept and its participants. For reasons unknown, I now feel the urge to express opinions in a public forum that doesn’t lead to the eventual loss of my voice. It was interesting timing then, when Ben told me about this Blog.
I am going to begin with a gripe (undoubtedly the first of many). It’s actually more of a question.
I am a regular commuter on Melbourne’s public transport system. Don’t worry, this isn’t a rant about the inadequacy of the ticketing system or the ignorant and boorish mentality of its enforcers. That will be a drawn out post that I will save for later. The question I wish to ask is the following:
Why are there no bins at tram stops?
I don’t catch buses but I’m pretty sure that bins are scarce there aswell. It seems ludicrous to me that we are pressured into a state of public responsibility about our environment yet we are not provided with the simple convenience that would expediate its practice. This is fundamentally wrong. I can accept no argument about the cost of instalation and maintainance as I’m sure on a yearly basis there are many major expenditures that are useless yet given more priority.
If you are searching for an example you need look no further than the cost of changing the logos on letterhead for Cranbourne when it went from being a council to a city (for the blink of an eye) before being usurped by a larger council.
Nonsense tastes bad.
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April 11th, 2006 @ 4:13 pm
Welcome Jerome. Very nice post.
You are a changed man. You have finally become one of “those people”.
I dare say that bins at tram stops pose a thread to our national security. We can’t be too careful!
April 11th, 2006 @ 4:48 pm
Thanks Ben,
I can’t believe I am one of ‘those’ people now. Stranger things have happened I guess.
Of course you’re right about security. That’s why I propose that all clothing be designed from a soft material that clings to the body with no accessories… maybe something like Lycra? There is just too much of a threat to public safety tied into the accoutrements of the modern person. Shoe-lace garrottes, Hair-pin eye gouges, bracelets and rings for scraping and cutting flesh, Whip-like key chains… need I go on?
Yes, this is just one of the initiatives that I am proposing. I now just have to correct my body image so that I can get a Lycra wardrobe.
Just little steps for moving forward. We all benefit in the end.
April 11th, 2006 @ 6:37 pm
You want everyone to look like they are in star trek.
Anyway you should not be catching trams because you should be riding your bike.
April 13th, 2006 @ 2:29 pm
There are no bins because people set them on fire.
June 27th, 2007 @ 12:24 pm
over a year late, but i just wanted to say “holy shit, welcome to teh internetz”. good to see in another post that you’ve reached the point of sinking time into youotube. next you’ll start posting captions on photos of cats.