Friday February 12, 2021
No cones for me
NEWS
Cairns Local News
ECO SOCIAL JUSTICE
WAYNE’S WORLD WELCOME to yet another amazingly world-shattering Wayne’s World. The weekly column where all the big issues are debated and resolved. Well if the truth be told, the place where I take a few minutes of your week and enrich it with my wonderful indepth analysis of life in FNQ. Editor: Wayne, you are gilding the lily a little bit. My raving lunatic rant for this week is all about the dribbling outcome of eating ice cream from a cone here in the tropical north. Now here in the great land of never ending fantastical, all-year-round warm weather clothes wearing tropical North bloody Queensland we must live in reality. I am not talking about that reality crap we cannot hide from on TV, I am talking about the life changing reality of ice cream in a cone melting and dribbling down, all over our hands reality. I love my ice cream almost as much as bacon (mmm bacon ice cream) but I have nev-
er liked eating ice cream from a cone here in the tropics. It dribbles all over your hand while you eat it, and you can’t set it down if you need both hands to do something (or, in the case of flat-bottomed cones, setting it down means dribbling ice cream all over whatever you set it on). To eat it you have to either glob your mouth over the scoop like a bottom-feeding fish, or slather your tongue over it and leave behind a disgusting sheen of drool. Either way it gets all over your hands, face, shirt, shorts and thongs and even worse if you have a beard and to top it off, the “edible” cone left behind tastes like sugar-flavored Styrofoam. I remember the great old days PC19 (pre-COVID 19), when at the movies you would grab your popcorn, twisties, frozen cokes and chockie coated ice cream cones, head into the darkened theatre, sit down and start pigging out on your treats like Scooby
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Doo gobbling down some burgers. The only problem is when walking out after the movie and there it is for everyone else to see all the melted chocolate and dribbled ice cream over your good clothes and all the other patrons with the big smirks on their dials.
This would never happen if you played smart and used a bowl and spoon as this is just way less messy way to eat with, plus you can pile on much more ice cream, like instead of 2 scoops you can aim for 5 or more and all the toppings as well.
Many cold weather southerners reckon we are a bit mango-fever slow up here, but tickle a leprechaun green we know cold beer and delish ice creams are good up here all year long. Wayne.
Cairns social services organisation Centacare Multicultural Services is hosting an “Eco-Social Justice” gathering next Thursday, February 18, from 5:30 -7:00 pm at their office, 212 McCormack Street, Manunda. “These gatherings bring together people who are passionate about the environment as well as issues around social justice,” said Centacare Community Development Worker Sally Husek. The first Eco-Social Justice meetings were held last year after a survey of the Cairns multicultural community found that the environment and social justice were top issues of concern. This month, Narayan Goplakrishnan will give a short presentation on what Eco-social justice is and the benefits of working from this framework. Father Neil from Australian Religious Response to Climate Change (ARRCC) will also talk about the ‘Sacred People and Sacred Earth’ campaign and their global rally on March 11. “At these gatherings everyone is encouraged to speak about their actions, projects and ideas,” said Ms Husek. “So far at our gatherings we have had many groups involved, including various environmental groups, youth groups, Cairns for Refugees, Cairns Anti-Poverty Network, and many more.
