Archive for January 18th, 2008

That is a question that, in one form or another, never fails to irk me to no end. The Internet may have brought people from around the world more closer to each other, but by golly have the ignorant come out from the woods.

If you’re a local like me, and you’re online, combining the magic words “Fiji” and “From” will net you the following questions from a few people who have a fair idea of what kind of place you come from, if albit skewed:

“Fiji? WOW! Do you live in a hut beside the sea?”

“How the hell are you even online?”

And my personal favourite:

“So…do you surf?”

I’ve decided, enough is enough. No more bullcrap about having only one website for the whole country, no more nonsense about having coconut trees and nothing else. It’s time to stop the mis-education and begin the training on what exactly Fiji is all about.

I searched the net, scouring websites the world over, looking for that one place that has honesty, integrity and most importantly, the facts and nothing but the facts. Wikipedia? No way. Anything with an edit button cannot be trusted. Those countless ask websites? Are you kidding? They’ve got hired monkeys who’s astronaut days are over manning those workstations ><

I was loosing steam when I stumbled across this little germ in the vast world of know-it-alls.

Encyclopedia Dramatica (NSFW) is basically Wikipedia given the lolz treatment. What kind of treatment you may ask?

A quick search for ‘Fiji’ will yield the following article:

Fiji is a small island nation in the South Pacific that can’t stop fucking itself over. It is expected that Fiji will soon blow itself up and sink to the ocean floor next Thursday.

It then goes into great detail on how exactly the two coups went down, with Rupert Murdoch and Australia (XD) getting involved in the whole mess, and people going to jail, including good ol’ George.

It then ends with a thoughtful note.

Nobody will ever trust Fiji.

True dat ^_^

Interestingly enough, after reading that absolutely factual, ‘true-dat’ write up on Fiji, I was curious as to which other pacific nation received the lulz treatment. Turns out, besides New Zealand and Australia, Fiji is the only pacific country that gets the Internet make-over. Other countries such as Tuvalu, Papua New Guinea etc are spared of the attention.

Cool. And so the education continues.

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