Ahhh Politics
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Tomorrow is election day here in the Solomons. There's no alcohol on sale for today and the election day itself (officially) so I really don't know if we can trust a vote cast by someone who is only temporarily sober. Currently great conveys of vehicles are driving all over the capital to 'promote' their candidate. This consists of all of the vehicles blowing their horns, large PAs (running off generators) on the backs of trucks blaring music (why would you talk), and those same trucks full of people screaming (literally). It gets really funny when two conveys pass each other and start a noise war. Which seems to be happening every 15 minutes or so outside my office. One of the candidates for a local (Honiara) seat is a naturalised Vietnamese. Here's one conversation he had while campaigning. Local: Yu from wea (where are you from)? Candidate: Mi kam from Vietnam (I came from Vietnam) Local: Wat taem bae yu go bak (When are you going back)? What makes it even funnier is that the locals final comment wasn't even meant to be malicious.
Never attribute to malice that which can be adequately explained by stupidity.
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Tomorrow is election day here in the Solomons. There's no alcohol on sale for today and the election day itself (officially) so I really don't know if we can trust a vote cast by someone who is only temporarily sober. Currently great conveys of vehicles are driving all over the capital to 'promote' their candidate. This consists of all of the vehicles blowing their horns, large PAs (running off generators) on the backs of trucks blaring music (why would you talk), and those same trucks full of people screaming (literally). It gets really funny when two conveys pass each other and start a noise war. Which seems to be happening every 15 minutes or so outside my office. One of the candidates for a local (Honiara) seat is a naturalised Vietnamese. Here's one conversation he had while campaigning. Local: Yu from wea (where are you from)? Candidate: Mi kam from Vietnam (I came from Vietnam) Local: Wat taem bae yu go bak (When are you going back)? What makes it even funnier is that the locals final comment wasn't even meant to be malicious.
Never attribute to malice that which can be adequately explained by stupidity.
Sounds like High School Student Council elections to me; not that anyone cared who got elected, since the Council had no actual meaning... Is there any chance that you'll get any effective government out of this public display of idiocy?
"A Journey of a Thousand Rest Stops Begins with a Single Movement"
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Tomorrow is election day here in the Solomons. There's no alcohol on sale for today and the election day itself (officially) so I really don't know if we can trust a vote cast by someone who is only temporarily sober. Currently great conveys of vehicles are driving all over the capital to 'promote' their candidate. This consists of all of the vehicles blowing their horns, large PAs (running off generators) on the backs of trucks blaring music (why would you talk), and those same trucks full of people screaming (literally). It gets really funny when two conveys pass each other and start a noise war. Which seems to be happening every 15 minutes or so outside my office. One of the candidates for a local (Honiara) seat is a naturalised Vietnamese. Here's one conversation he had while campaigning. Local: Yu from wea (where are you from)? Candidate: Mi kam from Vietnam (I came from Vietnam) Local: Wat taem bae yu go bak (When are you going back)? What makes it even funnier is that the locals final comment wasn't even meant to be malicious.
Never attribute to malice that which can be adequately explained by stupidity.