Did he give any particular reason for this piece of “wisdom”?

Aeonsim, Wednesday 7th May 2008, 1AM #

I’m sure its a really deep and culturally important statement for him to have made, but i don’t have clue what he means by that.

brehaut, Wednesday 7th May 2008, 10AM #

It was a quote from someone else, and I think it was also a joke. Something like ‘it’s all downhill from here.’

Matt, Wednesday 7th May 2008, 12PM #

Well, I’ve heard Hamilton is hilly… :P

Christina, Wednesday 7th May 2008, 6PM #

Hamilton has bad drivers. That is all

brehaut, Thursday 8th May 2008, 9AM #

I think it was something along the lines of: western civilization was trundling along quite nicely until [some date that somebody’s singled out as the point when the tide turned towards decadence], which just happened to be the same time Hamilton was founded. Or something like that. I may have heard it wrong.

KT, Thursday 8th May 2008, 2PM #

Ok. Just from the quote, I assumed he was alluding that Hamilton is a sort of accumulation of cultural flotsam-and-jetsam, a place where the detritus of Western Industrial Civilization washes up. Like boyracers and takeaways and stuff. Not having been there, I can’t say either way.

Fraser, Friday 9th May 2008, 11PM #

I assumed it meant that that’s where the water will get up to at high tide after global warming/ climate change makes the oceans rise.

Jim, Sunday 11th May 2008, 10AM #