Midnight Oil

Subject: Re: [powderworks] Re: Re: Fuck this shit
From: Cheryl H
Date: 26/09/2019, 10:20 am
To: "powderworks@yahoogroups.com.au" <powderworks@yahoogroups.com.au>

Midnight Oil

Hey all -

There was a scene on The West Wing where Josh and Donna were going back and forth about the legality of something.  I'm paraphrasing, but he was talking about a reason to make something legal, and she said that in a free society, you don't need a reason to make something legal - you need a reason to make it illegal.

I was reminded of that when thinking about the old days when I moderated this site, versus all the banning going on over on the FB page.  I use the word "moderating" pretty loosely.  Aside from a minor incident or two, everyone enjoyed chatting with each other - they were respectful about differences of opinions, and there really were no dramas.  It's still the same now Emoji  The people over at FB seem to be using any excuse to ban people, instead of allowing them to speak freely, and just enjoy the Oils.  I mean, seriously - Oils fans are a pretty small group in general - why would anyone want to shut us down?  I can't believe it's come to that, but if it weren't for this kind of mindset, we wouldn't be in the mess we're in having this guy as president Emoji

I wouldn't be the least bit surprised if the Oils themselves got banned for being too outspoken!

BTW, I watched this video from the Big Red Bash - https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=g0_OQv-kdGA
Jeff Scott - it's nice to finally meet you! (so to speak lol)  We, along with a few others, did a lot of work on the Oils Live Project.  I'm wondering now with all of the new live recordings if we can do an updated version, especially since we now have Maralinga and Bakerman.   I think it'd be a fun project - I certainly had a great time on the first one! Emoji

Cheers,
Cheryl


On Wed, Sep 25, 2019 at 11:56 AM, 'Powderlurker .' powderlurker@hotmail.com [powderworks]
<powderworks@yahoogroups.com.au> wrote:
 

Yup. Sorry... when my wife told me she was chatting with Jon, & I did the usual 'yeah, sure... you've got the ''big-kid'' stuff wrong...' look, darling...' - and I embarassed myself.
She showed me the emails. He said he was rubbed out for saying his brother was a better bass player.

Now.... as Brian says... two thirds of the group would PROBABLY say Giffo's the ultimate Oils bass player... even if that's not so, the purpose of the forum, I think, is so we can banter about EXACTLY this kind of stuff...
It's fun talking with like-minded fans about the 'detail'. Everyone's got their own opinion... and it probably changes from time to time... Or so I thought.

So... Jon's sin was he actually said it out loud!  (on the "official" 'powderworkers' forum)

As mine was, apparently, for saying 'selinas tickets?¿? huh??' (yes, I admit that I'm axe-grinding) But I got a ticket to the selinas gig because of the awesome (& fair) comeradeship of THIS group (which, i THINK, got allocated THREE tix, as opposed to 80 ( ? - please correct me if I'm wrong ) ).

So, since then, I've spoken to a few oils peeps & apparently, the list goes on about being 'blocked' for just chatting (& NO - for the moment -  I'm ignoring the MENTAL racist, mysoginistic, hateful stuff that seems to have turned up in that place).


Anyway... I was getting to the point that, considering the way the facespace group was going, maybe they should have named themselves the 'Redneck Wonderland' and just left us to do our stuff?


So, yeah, I check that stuff out & ROLF all over the place!!!    : D
I'm looking forward to the new music!