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| 12 January 2014, www.dftours.com.au |
It is often used for a cheap laugh after a
topical joke fails. But the question remains how soon is too soon.
I was at Woolworths today in time to see
the first arrival of Easter eggs, only
18 days after Christmas and 98 days before Easter. Some would argue that this
is too soon. I say is it perfect as I can now have mince pies (also still on
sale) and Easter eggs for dessert.
Why was Jesus born if not to die for us all?
So who can begrudge retailers for encouraging us to celebrate is as soon as possible.
Besides as soon as we kill him off again the sooner we can get to selling food
and decorations ready for celebrating his birth.
As long as neither the Easter eggs nor
their ingredients arrived in the Australia by boat as the Prime Minister Tony Abbott
has declared boat arrivals as un-Christian.
When it comes to interpretive dance the
world declared that 7 days is too soon for it to be included in a memorial
service. Tamzanqa Jantjie provided his interpretation of the speeches at Mandela’s
public memorial, deaf communities around the world signed foul describing his
movements as gibberish.
One would argue it is always too soon for
interpretive dance, regardless of the circumstance – international memorial or
no.
20 weeks. That is all it took to prove that
England cricket celebrated its 2013 Ashes victory too soon. England won the
series 3-0 (though commentators will debate for generations to come that if not
for the English weather Australia would have won the two drawn tests). 20 weeks later England had lost the ashes 5-0
in arguably the most one sided Ashes series ever.
Also in the sporting arena, New Zealand
learned that being 8-0 up, and only one race win away from a famous victory, is
too soon for celebration. In 2013, the Emirates Team New Zealand snatched
defeat from the jaws of victory, eventually losing 9-8 to Oracle Team USA in
the best of 15 sailing race.
Facebook relationship status updates are
updated way too soon. A drunken party-pash or one night stand does not a
relationship make. Despite this, the urge to tell the world is too strong for
so many. Changing their status so quickly one questions if it was post or
during the deed. One hand busy pleasuring the other busy posting.
You can always tell when the update was too
soon as it will be follow up by another update it changes to “it’s
complicated”. This change represents the time when the other person realises
they have been linked online to a relationship they did not know existed to a
person whose name they previously did not know.
The only person whose relationship status
does actually change this quickly, according to the magazine covers, is
Jennifer Anniston.
