This morning Grumpy dropped me into work and we were listening to a country music station where people were singing about going back outback and how they missed the sunlit plains extended and droving on the Lachlan, so on and so forth, and after about the fifth song Grumpy finally said, "Why don't they just call all of these songs, 'I hate the city and all the people who live in it'?"
Probably because that's where the majority of the cashed-up, record-buying, soulless folk live.
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I really can't stand country music. Of course that does make me wonder why I have a Dwight Yoakam CD at home that I love.
I like some of the good ol' good ones, as well as a bit of yodelling.
But cripes, even back in the day when Banjo Patterson was writing Hazel's title for her, Australia was already about 80% urbanised.
So why all the hard cuttin' jive from the half dozen or so remaining Aussie cowpokes about the ills of the city? No-one's stopping them going back to the bush and their banjo if they can't hack it in the big smoke.
I for one love the city and all the creatures in it.
(Not that I've been following the Nic/Keith thing)
but it did strike me as funny that a country singer is called Urban.
This is one point that really gets my goat. Official ABS stats have it that approx 10% of people live in rural areas but they only produce 5% of GDP. This effectively means that farmers work half as hard as the rest of us.
OMG I didn't realise that everyone who lived in the country was a farmer.
Must tell retirees, teachers, nurses etc to all get back in the city where they belong.... ;)
Hmm.. emotive issue
Working in the mining industry I will put my ore in (pun intended)... Mining also only produces 5% of GDP, but would be on the hole a small part of the 10%, maybe 10%, therefore my lot, say 1%, produces 5%... therefore if all we did was mine we would have 500% GDP!!
So "Dig a hole for Australia today"
I've always thought of AB and Hank as being kind of the fore runners of good ol boys like Slim, so I kind of liked the irony of your whole blog Haze. ANd I am very bemused by how emotive the whole thing was!
ps and Iwasn't trying to be coy the other day, I just hit the wrong button. sorry
I'm never sorry when I press the wrong button... maybe that's my problem
Where's 'farm boy' when you need him?
He seems to have dropped off the face of the planet!
seeding. Its that time of the year.
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