Bad Santas

[wendybeth]

Santarchy Down Under! Raging Santas

[blueerica]

The remaining Santas entered another downtown convenience store and carried off beer and soft drinks.

I'm just trying to picture this...

[CoasterMatt]

Where's the mashed potatoes?

[Drince88]

The remaining Santas entered another downtown convenience store and carried off beer and soft drinks.

I wonder what they were going to do with the soft drinks?

[Cadaverous Pallor]

I noticed this in the article:

Alex Dyer, a spokesman for the group, said Santarchy was a worldwide movement designed to protest the commercialization of Christmas.

So I found this:
http://santarchy.com/

It turns out that the controversial New Zealand Santarchy event, was organized by the online skateboard magazine Muckmouth in their forums.

This comment was left on our previous NZ blog post by one of that event’s organizers:

Hello from Auckland, New Zealand, the international home of Santarchy!!!

Despite the moodiness on national radio over here, I assume you lot are stoked at the free publicity!

Santarchy in Auckland has been going for 6 years over here, and rather than being clueness idiots, we are hunky and sensible and it was more a case of a few bad eggs poisoning the eggnog…

There was some major misreporting and chinese whispers. Breaking bottles and urinating under a bridge, became throwing rocks at buses and urinating on cars from an overpass.

The ‘organisers’ as they were, saw little in the way of crime other than one santa attempting to board a foreign vessel by scaling 20 metres along a rope 60 feet in the air. The difficulty and motor skills involved in this task alone should be a defense in itself of being “drunk” and “disorderly”.

We expect to be fully vindicated by a documentary screening on Sky One in New Zealand on Christmas Eve.

We would certainly appreciate a little more unity and understanding between Santas and ask not to be judged on the behaviour of a few.

I know you're thinking what I'm thinking - "chinese whispers"??

[wendybeth]

Originally Posted by Cadaverous Pallor

I noticed this in the article:

So I found this:
http://santarchy.com/


I know you're thinking what I'm thinking - "chinese whispers"??

Where is UVA Girl? We need an interpretor-stat!

[€uroMeinke]

Originally Posted by wendybeth

Where is UVA Girl? We need an interpretor-stat!

I believe Steph can also speak New Zealander

[Capt Jack]

Chinese Whispers

The idea of the old children’s parlor game Chinese Whispers (or maybe you learned it as Broken Telephone or Russian Gossip) is to pass a message by whispering into your neighbor’s ear. Your neighbor whispers into her neighbor’s ear, and so on around a circle of players. Inevitably, the message changes from ear to ear to ear. For instance, My sister has skinny legs becomes My system’s have skinny eggs becomes My cistern’s thinly pegged becomes My assistant Sidney Haig. We thought we’d try it with a poem. So Denise whispers (by way of e-mail) her poem in English to Luisa, and Luisa translates Denise’s poem to Tagolog and whispers it to Nick, who then whispers his Spanish version to Nina, and so on. And finally Astrid tells us in English what she heard from Suzanne who heard it from Andree.

so basically, word of mouth leading to misinterpretations of the original message.

[Not Afraid]

It is like a Chinese Fire Drill only you whisper instead of run.

[Cadaverous Pallor]

Chinese Whispers, Russian Gossip...man, the world really is out to get us.