Comments on: The Rats that Ate Mill Park http://www.ballardian.com/the-rats-that-ate-mill-park Tue, 07 Feb 2012 23:59:09 +0000 hourly 1 http://wordpress.org/?v=3.3.1 By: Tweets that mention Ballardian » The Rats that Ate Mill Park -- Topsy.com http://www.ballardian.com/the-rats-that-ate-mill-park/comment-page-1#comment-4460 Tweets that mention Ballardian » The Rats that Ate Mill Park -- Topsy.com Fri, 22 Jan 2010 07:53:57 +0000 http://www.ballardian.com/the-rats-that-ate-mill-park/#comment-4460 [...] This post was mentioned on Twitter by simon sellars, Film Notebook. Film Notebook said: Autogeddan: hoons wake to find hotrods all burnt-out: http://is.gd/6MPnZ / c.f. The Cars That Ate Paris⇝ http://is.gd/6MQ1k ⇝@ballardian [...] [...] This post was mentioned on Twitter by simon sellars, Film Notebook. Film Notebook said: Autogeddan: hoons wake to find hotrods all burnt-out: http://is.gd/6MPnZ / c.f. The Cars That Ate Paris⇝ http://is.gd/6MQ1k ⇝@ballardian [...]

]]> By: tex lumbago http://www.ballardian.com/the-rats-that-ate-mill-park/comment-page-1#comment-732 tex lumbago Thu, 29 Mar 2007 06:04:47 +0000 http://www.ballardian.com/the-rats-that-ate-mill-park/#comment-732 Trouble in quiet old Mill Park? No way! Anyhow what's wrong with a little tyre buring? Just guys letting off steam I say. We used to do it without the cars attached; up on Kew Boulevard. It was like our own little check point. Throw a burning tyre on the road and wait for the cars to stop. Then we'd run off into Yarra Bend Park and hide. The fun we had when we were young. Trouble in quiet old Mill Park? No way!

Anyhow what’s wrong with a little tyre buring? Just guys letting off steam I say.

We used to do it without the cars attached; up on Kew Boulevard. It was like our own little check point. Throw a burning tyre on the road and wait for the cars to stop. Then we’d run off into Yarra Bend Park and hide.

The fun we had when we were young.

]]> By: FJ Torres http://www.ballardian.com/the-rats-that-ate-mill-park/comment-page-1#comment-731 FJ Torres Thu, 29 Mar 2007 01:59:48 +0000 http://www.ballardian.com/the-rats-that-ate-mill-park/#comment-731 "... I remember the man they called the road warrior..." One of JGB's favorite SF films! “… I remember the man they called the road warrior…”
One of JGB’s favorite SF films!

]]> By: cfsmtb http://www.ballardian.com/the-rats-that-ate-mill-park/comment-page-1#comment-730 cfsmtb Wed, 28 Mar 2007 14:08:38 +0000 http://www.ballardian.com/the-rats-that-ate-mill-park/#comment-730 And it will possibly get even uglier with the spector of Peak Oil looming out there. Somewhere. <i>Be still my dog of war. I understand your pain. We've all lost someone we love. But we do it my way! We do it my way. Fear is our ally. The gasoline will be ours. Then you shall have your revenge. </i> And it will possibly get even uglier with the spector of Peak Oil looming out there.

Somewhere.

Be still my dog of war. I understand your pain. We’ve all lost someone we love. But we do it my way! We do it my way. Fear is our ally. The gasoline will be ours. Then you shall have your revenge.

]]> By: FJ Torres http://www.ballardian.com/the-rats-that-ate-mill-park/comment-page-1#comment-729 FJ Torres Wed, 28 Mar 2007 03:08:31 +0000 http://www.ballardian.com/the-rats-that-ate-mill-park/#comment-729 "...initiatory consumerism..." That is what this is all about. In my country I see guys earning minimum wage expending thousands of dollars to "improve" their cars, yet they have to live with their parents because they can't afford to rent an aparment so they try to prove their standing among their peers by expending thousands of dollars improving their cars.... On and on... The future-as Ballard observed about suburbia back in the 70s- turned out to be very boring.And also turned out to be very ugly. To think that to some people the high point of their week is to join a crowd at a Mickey D parking lot to watch as some bloke burnis rubber is ghastly beyond belief. Braudillard sure picked a fine moment to exit the stage. “…initiatory consumerism…”
That is what this is all about. In my country I see guys earning minimum wage expending thousands of dollars to “improve” their cars, yet they have to live with their parents because they can’t afford to rent an aparment so they try to prove their standing among their peers by expending thousands of dollars improving their cars…. On and on…
The future-as Ballard observed about suburbia back in the 70s- turned out to be very boring.And also turned out to be very ugly.
To think that to some people the high point of their week is to join a crowd at a Mickey D parking lot to watch as some bloke burnis rubber is ghastly beyond belief.
Braudillard sure picked a fine moment to exit the stage.

]]> By: Lonnie S http://www.ballardian.com/the-rats-that-ate-mill-park/comment-page-1#comment-728 Lonnie S Tue, 27 Mar 2007 23:16:08 +0000 http://www.ballardian.com/the-rats-that-ate-mill-park/#comment-728 So it appears that the alienation, ignorance and fear churned by the government's manufacture of 'us and them' finds a new tangent. We've got the dob-in hotlines and one of the country's highest rating TV shows is a reality program about protecting our borders. Now, pushed to extremes you can see how these suburbs would become increasingly proud of their vigilantes - wild west style - like protectors in the absence of order. This truly is self-regulation and perhaps carburettor-polishing grannies aren't so far away. The more hollow the war on terror becomes the more 'we' search for an enemy within - anything and anyone tangible. Climate Change has even become a target, in a bizarre twist. It seems the 'new politics' are a DIY war on terror. It's a new version of find your own adventure only more like define your own terror. So it appears that the alienation, ignorance and fear churned by the government’s manufacture of ‘us and them’ finds a new tangent. We’ve got the dob-in hotlines and one of the country’s highest rating TV shows is a reality program about protecting our borders. Now, pushed to extremes you can see how these suburbs would become increasingly proud of their vigilantes – wild west style – like protectors in the absence of order. This truly is self-regulation and perhaps carburettor-polishing grannies aren’t so far away. The more hollow the war on terror becomes the more ‘we’ search for an enemy within – anything and anyone tangible. Climate Change has even become a target, in a bizarre twist. It seems the ‘new politics’ are a DIY war on terror. It’s a new version of find your own adventure only more like define your own terror.

]]> By: gnothe seauton http://www.ballardian.com/the-rats-that-ate-mill-park/comment-page-1#comment-727 gnothe seauton Tue, 27 Mar 2007 05:40:08 +0000 http://www.ballardian.com/the-rats-that-ate-mill-park/#comment-727 Despite the seemingly universally held belief that you're little better than pond scum if you dob, I think the reality is quite different, as the article demonstrates. My (former) mechanic used to work from home until he was dobbed in to the local council by someone (he suspects a jealous mechanic); he had a steady stream of happy customers, his neighbours didn't complain (all work was done in his very spacious garage, during business hours), he was reliable and his prices were very competitive. This was before 2001; it's unfortunate that there have always been people out there who will happily try and shaft others, for no real reason. Despite the seemingly universally held belief that you’re little better than pond scum if you dob, I think the reality is quite different, as the article demonstrates.

My (former) mechanic used to work from home until he was dobbed in to the local council by someone (he suspects a jealous mechanic); he had a steady stream of happy customers, his neighbours didn’t complain (all work was done in his very spacious garage, during business hours), he was reliable and his prices were very competitive.

This was before 2001; it’s unfortunate that there have always been people out there who will happily try and shaft others, for no real reason.

]]>