Dateline winning

Sleepy, cruisey Samoa has to do something pretty drastic to make international headlines, and they pulled out a showstopper this week when they jumped in their time machine and landed ahead of the rest of the world on the International Dateline, the imaginery line on the earth that tells us when to do stuff.  BAM! Winning.

Just in time to get to 2012 first. Or second maybe. I don’t know, and don't particularly care.

Samoa last made the news in 2009, when the Samoan powers that be decided that the citizens would be switching to driving on the right side of the road, which we all know is the ‘correct’ side of the road. Evidently not much of interest happens in Samoa.

Apparently this whole change of dateline thing was to better align itself with its main trading partners, Australia and New Zealand. Which makes a great deal of sense.  So all the coconut oil we already have in the country is only from three days trade a week?  Great, that's exactly what Australia needs; more coconut oil.

Obviously Samoa doesn’t care to align itself anymore with its previous favourite trading partner, the U.S. Take that America; dumped by Samoa.

Samoa’s Prime Minister went all Gillard on everyone’s arses and said there would be no ne-go-ci-ation or something to that effect because this jump through the space/time continuum would aid trade with its key partners and everyone should just shush.

The Samoan-shirted PM had become increasingly concerned that Samoa was losing two working days a week being so far behind the rest of the world.

Hm, no-one in Samoa thought to alter their working week? No-one at all? Only in Samoa would they not be able to come up with a solution to this conundrum.

If Samoan public servants are anything like Australian public servants, I imagine they will be super thrilled about their working week increasing from three to five days. 

And the Australian Public Service would have a total conniption at having to make such drastic changes with regard to resources and superannuation, but I guess everything is just cruisey with the budget in Samoa.

The Samoan PM thinks his townsfolk are rejoicing at the time change, saying, “You can hear the sound of a lot of vehicles going around town, going round the town centre clock and tooting their horns. People screaming”. They are screaming in distress, Mr Prime Minister. You have ruined their lives.