AS people get older, they get crankier.
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This is perhaps an observation more than a proven fact, we will concede, although we’ll be Exhibit A.
As a youth we were charming company and always pleasant to be around. Nothing much ever fazed us as we happily meandered through life. Then we turned 30 and everything started to go pear shaped. These days you can find an angry tiger snake with a happier disposition.
For there are so many people and things that annoy us as the world spins towards the third decade of the 21st century. For example:
Not having a council to blame things on: Damn Backflip Mike Baird and his local government amalgamations. Once we could blame everything on Greater Taree City Council – rate rises, bad roads, heavy Rooster defeats, the weather. True, there’ll be a new council in September, but everything’s going to be based at Forster-Tuncurry somewhere, so it won’t be the same.
People having loud conversions on their mobile phones: No-one knows better than this correspondent that the path of true love never runs smoothly. However, do (usually) young lovers have to have turbulent conversions on their phones in public places? Go into a mall on any given day and you’ll hear an animated conversation that usually ends one on calling the other a name that rhymes with hunt.
Right wing columnists/broadcasters: You can’t escape them. They now dominate all forms of media, angry middle aged men and women ranting on about how good Tony Abbott is while saying there’s no such thing as climate change. Nut jobs the lot of them. At least we have Kristina Keneally (sigh) on Sky News to bring provide some balance.
Pauline Hanson/One Nation: No further explanation required.
That TAB ad on the telly where the punter starts singing ‘I will always love you’ to Mark Geyer et al: It was at best mildly amusing the first time we saw it. Now it’s irritating. Dump it. Immediately.
XXXX Gold: We often have nightmares about a world where XXXX Gold is the only beer on tap. We generally wake up screaming and in a cold sweat. If XXXX Gold was the only beer available we’d gladly join the Temperance Movement.
Queenslanders: See Pauline Hanson and XXXX Gold. And they’re even more obnoxious at State of Origin time.
Awesome: It’s now the most overused word on the planet. Everything that is moderately good is now universally described as ‘awesome,’ especially by anyone born post 1990. Please be a bit more original. Or just don’t make a comment at all. That would really be awesome.
There, we’ve vented. Yet we don’t feel any better for doing so. Now that’s just annoying.