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Well, This Is New To Me

submitted by Panic to Newsoftheweird 6 monthsOct 24, 2023 09:36:02 ago (+9/-0)     (www.theguardian.com)

https://www.theguardian.com/culture/2021/aug/15/a-way-to-be-heard-the-new-zealand-pasifika-youth-subculture-devoted-to-emergency-sirens

“It’s us having fun at the park, keeping away from selling drugs, from getting into gangs, following the wrong path. It keeps our mind off the struggles that we go through.”

“It’s a form of our own peace,” says Purp Ci’i, who also goes as The Last Soundbender.

The kicker: >Siren kings: New Zealand city plagued by Céline Dion ‘speaker battles’

Celine Dion???


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[ - ] goatfugee12 6 points 6 monthsOct 24, 2023 09:38:38 ago (+6/-0)

are aboriginal niggers the same as pineapple niggers?

[ - ] Panic [op] 2 points 6 monthsOct 24, 2023 10:09:15 ago (+2/-0)

Yes. Polynesians.

[ - ] SmokeyMeadow 5 points 6 monthsOct 24, 2023 10:50:04 ago (+5/-0)

I noticed that the article makes a great effort to describe this vibrant new youth subculture with flowering verbiage. This is what it actually sounds like:

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=MWgtVN-Xn78

It's about fighting gentrification! Ever notice how primitive "cultures" seem obsessed with being loud and annoying? Sign me up for gentrification if it means a precipitous drop in the number of cars with stolen air raid sirens strapped on.

[ - ] SocksOnCats 1 point 6 monthsOct 24, 2023 12:25:28 ago (+1/-0)

All that loud noise would easily camouflage the report of a firearm.

And it would only take a few instances of this for it to all go away.

[ - ] deleted 0 points 6 monthsOct 24, 2023 11:16:25 ago (+0/-0)

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[ - ] ModernGuilt 4 points 6 monthsOct 24, 2023 10:09:41 ago (+4/-0)

Whatever keeps them from immigrating to America

[ - ] dulcima 2 points 6 monthsOct 24, 2023 10:38:30 ago (+2/-0)

They immigrate to Australia though.

[ - ] bobdole9 2 points 6 monthsOct 24, 2023 11:44:16 ago (+2/-0)

New Zealand niggers want to be the loudest niggers in the world.

Hope it doesn't catch on here.

[ - ] Spaceman84 1 point 6 monthsOct 24, 2023 11:22:24 ago (+1/-0)

I hate shitskins so much it’s unreal