[UA] Adelaide, Aussies and other Assonance (RE: [UA] Ritual killing in London)

[James Knevitt]

> -----Original Message-----

> Goddamn, I knew there were a few Aussies on the list, but I didn't realise
> how many.  I guess that we just live in a pretty bizarre and surreal
> country.  Speaking of which, James, a while ago, you mentioned some UAable
> weirdness in an Adelaide train station, but I can't seem to track the
> reference down.  I get down to Adelaide (I'm in Sydney) every so often, and
> I wouldn't mind checking it out for myself sometime.
>
> Actually, come to think of it, Adelaide is a pretty weird place.  Seems
> fairly sedate on the surface, but with the Adelaide Effect and the Family
> and Snowtown and what not...  Not quite on the same level as Canberra and
> its geomantically inspired design, but it's up there.

Oh yeah, Adelaide is bizarre.

One thing (which I'm sure isn't unique to Adelaide) is that for a city of a million
people, it's just ike a small town in that someone you've just met is bound to know
someone else you know. Everyone knows everyone else. Scary.

As for the train station, there's some wacky stuff there that's too bizarre not to be UA
(I might see if I can get some pictures sometime and then you'll see what I mean).

Hmm. Other stuff:
-I live across from a Freemason's Lodge that is publicly and actively recruiting (the
Freemasons have a really strong presence in Adelaide).
-For a while our State Museum had the oldest artifact to ever come out of Egypt on
display on the front lawns (Matthew, you remember that obelisk thingy?), and for some
bizarre reason a lot of our public memorials and monuments are in the form of obelisks.
-Countless old cults and sects that have been here over the ages
-Gentlemen's clubs that seem to exist only once you've been invited in
-A suburban layout that lies on a North-Northeast axis

And so on.

As for Aussies, on the list, how many of us ARE there? Better put: what percentage of
the UA list is Australian?


James

"We have a world of pleasures to win, and nothing to lose but boredom."
-Raoul Vaneigem, "The Revolution of Everyday Life"


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