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Kath Day-Knight's guide to isolation
Title (Dublin Core)
Kath Day-Knight's guide to isolation
Description (Dublin Core)
I found this really funny. It’s a very Australian Covid19 meme, using screengrabs from Kath & Kim, an iconic Australian TV show. Part mockumentary, part sitcom, the show’s eponymous characters are an outrageous mother-daughter duo who live in the fictional outer suburb of Fountain Gate.
On reflection, the boredom, banality and mini-dramas of suburban life are actually a strangely perfect parallel to our lives in lockdown. Many of us feel like we are going slightly loopy. We may spend unusual amounts of time engaged in mindless activities around the house or garden. We used to squeeze thirty minutes of exercise or a trip to the supermarket into our busy schedules. Now we shape our weeks around these events. Once allowed to drink and smoke in the world’s bars and beer gardens, we are now, like Kath, forced to uncork the chardonnay night after night (or, let's face it, midday) in our own kitchens.
Upon discovering this meme, I had been spending a lot of time drifting around the garden gazing at trees from different angles, watching birds and trying to speak to my chickens (Kath 4). My friend’s brother was sitting on an exercise ball in a work Zoom meeting, and a colleague asked him, “Are you sitting on an exercise ball?” He didn’t realise he had been bouncing up and down (Kath 1). Another friend has been on a reading craze in lockdown, devouring about one book per day-and-a-half (Kath 3). Which Kath are you today?
#HUM402
On reflection, the boredom, banality and mini-dramas of suburban life are actually a strangely perfect parallel to our lives in lockdown. Many of us feel like we are going slightly loopy. We may spend unusual amounts of time engaged in mindless activities around the house or garden. We used to squeeze thirty minutes of exercise or a trip to the supermarket into our busy schedules. Now we shape our weeks around these events. Once allowed to drink and smoke in the world’s bars and beer gardens, we are now, like Kath, forced to uncork the chardonnay night after night (or, let's face it, midday) in our own kitchens.
Upon discovering this meme, I had been spending a lot of time drifting around the garden gazing at trees from different angles, watching birds and trying to speak to my chickens (Kath 4). My friend’s brother was sitting on an exercise ball in a work Zoom meeting, and a colleague asked him, “Are you sitting on an exercise ball?” He didn’t realise he had been bouncing up and down (Kath 1). Another friend has been on a reading craze in lockdown, devouring about one book per day-and-a-half (Kath 3). Which Kath are you today?
#HUM402
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Type (Dublin Core)
Screenshot
Publisher (Dublin Core)
Facebook
Controlled Vocabulary (Dublin Core)
English
Social Media (including Memes)
English
Home & Family Life
Curator's Tags (Omeka Classic)
Curatorial Notes (Dublin Core)
Added hashtag to the description field for class; Added to Australia Collection; added publisher as Facebook;item curated in response to a request by the person who initially uploaded material; a response was emailed back to initial contributor; JD 05/26/2020
Youngbin Noh
Changed class from still image to image. YN 11/06/2020
Britton McNerlin
Changed to pandemic template, added curators tags BM 04/25/2021
Date Submitted (Dublin Core)
04/18/2020
Date Modified (Dublin Core)
05/26/2020
11/06/2020
04/25/2021
07/09/2021
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