Clubs and Counter-Culture

You can’t go past Canberra’s Rat Patrol Oz – an anarchist collective of bicycle-modifying beer drinking funsters. Check them out at http://www.rat-patrol.org/RPOz/RatPatrolOz.html

A particularly Canberran one that I’ve heard of is SNOG.

“No, but they used to have overseas working holidays to the middle east….” – Thumper

That was a 1000-800 years ago or so wasn’t it. I understand they started the scheme again recently.

i was asked if i was ignorant or apathetic. i said i didnt know and dont care.

Atheists try too hard. Become an apathist like me.

According to the wiki link Straight Edge is “(deemed both counter culture and subculture)”

I’d say the choice of post title was just due to it rolling of the tongue better 🙂

‘clique’

The correct term you should be using here is sub-culture.

Counter-cultures rejected traditional norms and values, and adopt their own i.e. cults like the Raeleons or just plain old hippies; as opposed to sub-cultures who usually contiue to operate with tradational societal norms and values.

Of course this all becomes blurred if you start considering it from a marxist-feminist contstruct, where traditional paradigms are superseded by a humanist, liberalist framework.

;-P

There are a large number of clandestine groups who congregate after dark in Canberra’s forests. They usually meet weekly to lurk in the forest for a couple of hours with their mountain bikes. In between chatting and checking out each other’s bikes, they occaisionally ride on the single track trails. These night gatherings cuminate in a mass orgy of mountain biking, which includes riding throughout the night as part of this 24 hour event.

There is slowly forming a nice little group of atheists who go out for a laidback drink and chat irregularly – I will post info on next gathering for anyone interested when I get the time to organise another.