Hall of Infamy
Here at Are You Ready to Grumble some people just get up our noses! They are usually soft cocks of some description or people who avoid taking responsibility for their own stupidity.
It usually takes a lot to rile a Grumble .... yes really! ..... but these people have managed it with ease.
The list below is in no particular order and will expand over time. All of these people should command your contempt and scorn. Feel free to abuse them daily in your thoughts (you can bet they all have lawyers who have nothing better to do but sue the good people in the world).
This list could easily include nearly every 'celebrity' on the planet but they already get far too much press so we have turned the Grumble Infamy Light on more deserving people
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The organisers of the Big Day Out (a day long rock festival) were planning to ban the Australian flag from the Sydney show which incidentally was being held on Australia Day. In fact newspaper reports indicated that not only were they telling people not to bring the flag but that they intended to confiscate any Australian flags that were carried by people wanting to go to the Big Day Out. Their excuse was that carrying the flag may 'raise racial tension', with one member of the organising committee apparently likening the Aussie flag to 'gang colours'. Interestingly it appears people could have bought any other flag to the show and this would have been ok. Hang on, didn't members of the Serbian and Croatian communities just carry their flags and riot at the Australian Open Tennis recently?
I don't know of any other country where carrying the national flag would be banned at a public function held on the day designed to celebrate the nation to which the flag relates. This was bad enough but when the predictable out cry occurred the organisers tried to pretend that they weren't telling people not to bring the flag but that it was just a 'suggestion'. Come on people if you make an outrageous decision in the first place at least have the balls to defend yourself and not use the old 'I was misquoted' defence when you get caught.
Needless to say most people ignored the organisers, took along the flag and by all accounts had a pretty good time. No racial tension just a whole lot of pissed young folk listening to music of questionable quality and dancing in that weird way drunk people do. Note to the organisers stop being tossers and just do your job (you know book the bands, hire the venue and make sure there is lots of alcohol and drugs for the musicians) you're not paid to make judgements about how people can or should celebrate Australia on its official birthday.
Sometimes warnings are unnecessary
On a recent trip to Adelaide (capital of that fine Aussie state South Australia) I went into the Male toilet in Adelaide airport and there was a sign saying " Adelaide Airport uses recycled water for toilet flushing - don't drink the water". Who the hell is that aimed at!! I know Adelaide water is famous for its putrid taste but as far as I know your average south aussie does not drink water from the toilet. Still they are Crows or Port Power supporters and that sign must be there for some reason hmmm.......
This bozo (whose story was reported in the Australian Financial Review) we will call him Mr X left his employer and went to another marketing firm. Ah marketing a 'profession' that must of been created by lawyers so people would hate someone else. Well it didn't work. Anyway we digress. This guy (why are these idiots always men) hacked into his old employer's computer network to steal sensitive client information from his former workmates. His intention was to poach the clients and impress his new employer. Of course he got caught.
His defence was based on the brilliant idea that he wasn't to blame for the crime. The argument was that while the network had security barriers (for example passwords) this guy's former workmates had not protected every file and document within each file with passwords therefore it was their fault that he was able to access these confidential documents. Now to put this in perspective it would be like a burglar trying to get off by arguing that while your front and back doors were locked you didn't lock all your internal doors or padlock your Plasma or DVD player.
We are not sure if this defence was successful or not but we will let you know if we hear any more on this marketing guru. Do you see why we don't respect lawyers like they want us to? - they come up with this kind of rubbish because I am pretty sure he didn't think of it all by himself..
Australia Post
Now normally we like Aussie Post they get your mail to you efficiently and sometimes the mail contains letters rather than bills or junk. But recently they have covered themselves in shame. They have developed a new set of stamps called "Dangerous Australians" which contain pictures of Sharks and other dangerous fauna. So far so good but they have decided not to release the Red Back Spider stamp because the picture may frighten some people.
Yes that's right it "might" frighten "someone"! Oh Lord please save us from these types of idiots. This is the country that invented the ANZAC spirit! We should be proud that such a little spider packs so much venom and likes to live in outside toilets. If you don't like spiders don't buy the stamp. If one is on a letter you get don't look at it - open letters from the back like normal people do!