I'm a very patriotic person alright. I am proud of my American heritage but I grew up in Adelaide and love my country and my state a great deal. I know there are a lot of jokes made about South Australia and, yes, they do upset me especially when they are made by people who have spent very little time here and make assumptions based on very little evidence.
So when news like the following comes out I feel like banging my head against the wall:
Did you HAVE to be South Australian! Really, consider the rest of us, we've worked very hard to defend ourselves. We put up with years of jokes about
bodies in barrels made more frustrating by the fact that SA news outlets were barred from reporting news the rest of the world knew so a lot of the time we didn't know what the fuck you were talking about. Now things calm down and we go on about our lives then you selfish selfish people have to go and have incest babies! Fuck you. Seriously could you have not moved to Tasmania or Queensland let them deal with this.
The video of the pair on 60 Minutes is available here (see what else you've done to me creepy people I have to link to 60 Minutes, I HATE that show). Some choice quotes:
"We're normal intellectual adults who have had careers" - His career involves armed robbery and prison.
"Like you might look at a man across the bar at a nightclub." - I'm going to quote Defamer here "
what kind of bloody nightclubs are you going to, woman, where a man who looks like that is considered a right spunk?"
"The child is not deformed. It had no mental difficulties. Quite normal, healthy child." - This child is but you actually had
another baby that died after birth you seem to conveniently forget about when ever you try to justify your relationship.
It is typical of the shoddy "journalism" 60 Minutes is known for that after they show this story more accurate information comes out. The other child that died of congenital defects, the father's ex-wife's claim that the pair had
more than fleeting contact over the years. The fact that he never bothered to tell the rest of his children he was going to be on national tv talking about having 'fantastic' sex with their sister. These are the things that 60 Minutes should have a) known about and b) asked them about. How about instead of a fluff piece about something illegal and dangerous you bother to ask some hard questions huh?
In summary these people are crazy and disgusting but not at all indicative of South Australian society as a whole. If you want to know about incest ask a Tasmanian.
I'm a very patriotic person alright. I am proud of my American heritage but I grew up in Adelaide and love my country and my state a great deal. I know there are a lot of jokes made about South Australia and, yes, they do upset me especially when they are made by people who have spent very little time here and make assumptions based on very little evidence.
