"I just have to address your glorious beach balls - they're very impressive. The only thing that kind of shocks me a little is there's been more fuss made about me offending beach balls than there has about 20,000 Palestinian kids who are now fucking under the dirt."
"So whilst the Brits are busy cooking up some kind of crazy, like, Antichrist rhetoric, I would just like to remind you all what's actually important in this life. Maybe a beach ball brings you joy, and for that I apologize. If I upset you about your blessed beach balls, I humbly apologize. However, I would really like it if the governments of the day apologized for what the fuck is happening in Palestine."
"I joined a band because I HATED THE FUCKING BEACH. I joined a band because I wanted to listen to Siouxsie and the Banshees and The Cure and be dark and beautiful. Continue listening to Spotify and toss your stupid beach balls around like you are ten years old."
During Garbage's Good Things Festival performances, Shirley Manson reacted to fans using beach balls in the crowd, calling out a concertgoer and insulting the behavior. At the subsequent Brisbane show, many fans filled the crowd with beach balls and Manson addressed them, calling the beach balls impressive but noting disproportionate media attention. She contrasted the controversy with the humanitarian crisis in Palestine, pointing to thousands of Palestinian children killed and urging governments to apologize. She apologized to fans who find joy in beach balls while maintaining that global suffering deserves greater outrage. She also restated her longtime dislike of beach culture on Threads.
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