Thread: Stop your whinging Australia!

"Well, I'm past giving a sh*t. Your electricity bill is going up? Don't live in a McMansion with six bedrooms, a rumpus room and a home theatre. Bananas expensive? Buy an apple. Soy-milk Chai latte not flavourful enough? Give yourself an uppercut."

Great Article Thanks!
Sam

I can agree with a small part of his diatribe, but when he bemoans the loss of the laconic digger after suggesting we should shut up and wear the carbon tax with the she'll be right Aussie attitude he has lost me.

The carbon tax is the highest in the World, about $540 tax for every man, woman and child in the country just in the tax, not in the mark-up we will get from vendors in their expense recovery. I'm not wealthy, I don't live in a McMansion, I don't have 6 bedrooms, I'm a nurse, one of the lowest paid professions in the country yet I will only receive $3 in tax rebate. $3 for $540 additional expense, it is an insult.

To call that un-Australian is to ignore the single most Australian event in our history, Eureka Stockade where the miners rebelled against unfair taxes.

Mr Tim Napper should take his bleeding heart back to doing his international aid work, where he can do some good rather than trying to teach us all how to suck eggs and what he thinks IS AUSTRALIAN.

Diana

And my personal favourite:

"Our whinging puts the poms to shame. We are getting soft. We stubbed our toe in the global economic crisis. America had its legs cut off and Iceland was drawn, quartered and fed to starving dogs. So stop whinging. This is the lucky country."

Originally Posted by Lotz-A-Landies

To call that un-Australian is to ignore the single most Australian event in our history, Eureka Stockade where the miners rebelled against unfair taxes.

And that is where Australian whinging began. Did you realise that one of the main reasons that they miners rebelled was to try and get the chinese miners off the gold fields?? This was soley due to the fact that they worked harder, got more gold and spent less than the lazier anglo miners. Racist and whingers. It was also the start of one of the most racist legislative changes in the history of the world - the 'White Australia Policy'. Dont let me get started......

Hmmm,
that article reminds why I choose to live as far away as possible from the big smoke

Diana, my reading was the $3 was referring to people NOT paying to offset their carbon for flights. The authors points were about the complete hypocrasy of the noisy minority pushing an agenda with no actual personal desire to change their own actions.

S

Originally Posted by gusthedog

And my personal favourite:

"Our whinging puts the poms to shame. We are getting soft. We stubbed our toe in the global economic crisis. America had its legs cut off and Iceland was drawn, quartered and fed to starving dogs. So stop whinging. This is the lucky country."

Again he is wrong, America cut it's own legs off and brought down the rest of the world.

The world has seen empires come and go, only we are doing it quicker. America has had it's day in the sun, it may not fully understand it but it is in decline and China is on the rise. Parts of our country are lucky because they are hanging onto China's progress, other parts of the country are far from lucky, what with the slump in building industries, decline in the manufacturing sector and malaise in retail. We just aren't suffering a lot yet because of the revenue brought in by mining and the spin off from that, but it will come.

Not that this has a lot to do with winging.

BTW I don't like soy chai-latte (never had or wanted one), bananas take them or leave them, but I do like brewed coffee and that doesn't make one a snob. You can buy it in Maccas, how snobbish could it be!

The teenager in Tim's story should have been clipped behind the ears and sent back to Ascham or PLC or whatever cloister she came from.

He needs to get out more. He is out of touch with what is really going on in the real world. What a hypocrite. His diatribe is a whinge if there ever was one. Talk about the pot calling the kettle black !!

Have a chat to any small business owner, particularly anyone in retail. Yes we are better off than the US, but we live here not there, and we base our comment our local conditions and established local historical standards.

Go and get a real job Mr Napper.

Pot. Kettle. Black.

He spends most of the article whingeing about food in near-erotic outraged detail.

And the rest of it picking on schoolkids.

Onya mate, you're an Aussie champion.