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The proud, culturally-minded people of the Harbour Capital have today begged their State Government and City Council to take it one further in making sure the iconic Sydney Opera House remains sacred as a treasured landmark.
By that, they mean, ending the $8 million tax-payer funded exercise that is VIVID – because, when you look at it objectively, it sucks.
“I mean, the racing ad is pretty bad” said one Sydney resident Brook Vale (33).
“But Vivid isn’t exactly the running of the bulls. It started like a couple years ago and it’s pretty fucking bad for the environment”
Another resident, Ava Lonbeach (29) says Vivid sucks and everyone from Sydney knows it, but now even people from outside of Sydney know it, because it happens once a year and lasts a month and might have been a bit overdone by now.
“Yeah, fuk it off.” she wrote on Facebook.
“It sux. The only people who like it are the brands that sponsor it? How bout some live music? How bout a pub that stays open past 10pm?”
“It’s just a bunch of weird Ken Done rip-offs. Save the money and maybe find some home for all those homeless people Gladys tried to have kidnapped in Martin Place last year”
This comes as New South Wales premier, Gladys Berejiklian, calls for critics of the plan to promote Sydney’s richest horse race, the Everest Cup, on the sails of the Opera House to reserve judgment, saying that the plan was “a good compromise” as critics would see on Tuesday night.
Her comments came as the prime minister, Scott Morrison, said the decision was “common sense” and that he did not understand “why people are getting so precious about it” because Baird-era neoliberalism has privatised Australia’s biggest city to the point where the property market has taken priority over any form of a night time economy, and there actually isn’t anything else to make money out of because everything has been sold to private corporations.
“Come on. I’m an every day bloke. I love a punt” said Morrison
“Lets have a punt”
“Puntttttttttt”
At a press conference, the NSW premier defended her decision, which has been widely criticised by anti-gambling campaigners and prominent Sydney figures, and has since been likened to her very own ‘greyhound moment’.
