the world of gayeENOUGH !!!
June 17th 2008 06:28
ENOUGH !!!!
Every day I open a newspaper and am riddled with guilt. Every night I watch the news and some more guilt and shame is hammered upon me. Why you ask? Because according to the government, the fashion police, the do gooders, interfering state politicians and nearly everybody else that thinks they are a shining example to the rest of us ignorant people we are destroying ourselves with food, smoking, drinking and everything else that they can think of.
Now I am not totally stupid and neither are the rest of the population, but I am bloody sick of people telling me how to live. It has gone too far in my opinion. In fact I am at the stage now where I have regressed to my rebellious teenage years, and the more they hark at me like I am some disgusting child who needs a good talking down to, the more I will go the other way just out of spite !! I don’t want to be some 80 year old nanna with a shiny complexion and running around the block in beige lycra. Do you hear me you bunch of big brother’s?
We have all gone mad, what is a life if not to be lived? Peanut Butter might give me cancer but I like it !! If I duck into a quite corner away from everyone outside to smoke a cigarette (and I know this will horrify all you paragons of perfection, but I like smoking) unless I am blowing it in your face, mind your own bloody business. And before you say I am harming you, think about the hundreds of cars that are going past you with their fumes as you watch me in disgust. I know how harmful smoking is and I get all the messages, but I haven’t got leprosy and I am sick of being treated worse than a pedophile. I also get the argument about how much we cost the health system, but was outraged the other day when some goose suggested smokers should just be denied medical treatment or be put right at the bottom of every waiting list in the land if they are sick. Well now, listen to this you bunch of righteous soap boxers, have you taken any notice of the tax smokers pay on every packet of cigarettes. If you add it up over twenty or thirty years we have just about paid for our medical treatment out of our own pockets anyway ! When the rest of the community get ill you don’t hear us saying don’t treat them they don’t deserve it !!
As for drinking alcohol, I agree it is a massive problem. But it was always going to lead our younger people down the road they are on now. What do people expect when we have a yobbo mentality that has been passed down by us, you have to get pissed to be an Aussie.
At a certain age drinking is a choice people make, you can either drink and be responsible or drink to excess and behave like an animal and look like an idiot, but it is a choice.
As for being overweight and controlling our diets, butt out!! I also agree it is a problem and there are a lot of overweight people including me, but it sounds so bloody boring being super healthy I think I will go and have a piece of chocolate.
We must not go in the sun in case we wrinkle to early, if you feel sad sometimes, surely you are suffering depression ( I am not in any way making fun of people who really suffer depression), don’t put salt on your food even if it tastes like a boot, only select a couple of friends to have the occasional talk to on your mobile just in case you develop a tumour, everything you cook should be boiled and white, don’t wear high heels because they might put your back out, make sure teacher’s, policeman and every other figure of authority in our lives is not allowed to shout at us in case they hurt our feelings !!! GO AWAY.
It is all starting to seem a bit sinister to me, why do people want total control over everything we do? Are our lives not our lives any more? Has George Orwell’s Big Brother come true? You might think I am an idiot, but I have lived for half a century and if only I could take you back to the freedom we had growing up. All these rules that are good for us are destroying us.
There is a great show on the ABC I watch called Grumpy Old Men. One episode I recently watched was British celebrities talking about how ridiculous Britain has become because of all the rules controlling everyone’s lives and how insidious these rules and regulations are. One of the grumpy old men they interviewed was Rick Wakeman who is very funny, and the last comment he made before the show finished was “when I wake up in the morning I sit by the phone and wait for the government to ring and tell me what time I can have my first shit of the day”.
I think as a society we do need to be informed, educated (a must) and taught lessons from our past mistakes, but there has to be a happy medium, at the moment people just shove their opinions down our throats and we are expected to behave like good little children.
Well not me buddy, I am walking away to live my life the way I want, even if it’s not for very long. And if you watch me close enough as I walk away to live my life, you will see two fingers in the air saying “UP YOURS”
Every day I open a newspaper and am riddled with guilt. Every night I watch the news and some more guilt and shame is hammered upon me. Why you ask? Because according to the government, the fashion police, the do gooders, interfering state politicians and nearly everybody else that thinks they are a shining example to the rest of us ignorant people we are destroying ourselves with food, smoking, drinking and everything else that they can think of.
Now I am not totally stupid and neither are the rest of the population, but I am bloody sick of people telling me how to live. It has gone too far in my opinion. In fact I am at the stage now where I have regressed to my rebellious teenage years, and the more they hark at me like I am some disgusting child who needs a good talking down to, the more I will go the other way just out of spite !! I don’t want to be some 80 year old nanna with a shiny complexion and running around the block in beige lycra. Do you hear me you bunch of big brother’s?
At a certain age drinking is a choice people make, you can either drink and be responsible or drink to excess and behave like an animal and look like an idiot, but it is a choice.
As for being overweight and controlling our diets, butt out!! I also agree it is a problem and there are a lot of overweight people including me, but it sounds so bloody boring being super healthy I think I will go and have a piece of chocolate.
We must not go in the sun in case we wrinkle to early, if you feel sad sometimes, surely you are suffering depression ( I am not in any way making fun of people who really suffer depression), don’t put salt on your food even if it tastes like a boot, only select a couple of friends to have the occasional talk to on your mobile just in case you develop a tumour, everything you cook should be boiled and white, don’t wear high heels because they might put your back out, make sure teacher’s, policeman and every other figure of authority in our lives is not allowed to shout at us in case they hurt our feelings !!! GO AWAY.
It is all starting to seem a bit sinister to me, why do people want total control over everything we do? Are our lives not our lives any more? Has George Orwell’s Big Brother come true? You might think I am an idiot, but I have lived for half a century and if only I could take you back to the freedom we had growing up. All these rules that are good for us are destroying us.
There is a great show on the ABC I watch called Grumpy Old Men. One episode I recently watched was British celebrities talking about how ridiculous Britain has become because of all the rules controlling everyone’s lives and how insidious these rules and regulations are. One of the grumpy old men they interviewed was Rick Wakeman who is very funny, and the last comment he made before the show finished was “when I wake up in the morning I sit by the phone and wait for the government to ring and tell me what time I can have my first shit of the day”.
I think as a society we do need to be informed, educated (a must) and taught lessons from our past mistakes, but there has to be a happy medium, at the moment people just shove their opinions down our throats and we are expected to behave like good little children.
Well not me buddy, I am walking away to live my life the way I want, even if it’s not for very long. And if you watch me close enough as I walk away to live my life, you will see two fingers in the air saying “UP YOURS”
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Comment by Morgan Bell
Deep Pencil
Current Business News
Movie Train
Artist Quirk
if i want to drive around without a seatbelt on wearing asbestos underpants and drinking arsenic that is my choice!
if they really thought smoking and drinking and gambling and eating fatty foods was so unacceptable they would ban it not just raise the taxes
yeah protect kids, protect workers, protect the mentally infirmed, sure . . . but for god sake stop making a profit off the addictions of others with one hand while shaking your disapproving finger at the outcasts with your other hand
we have seen the community service announcements and taken them into consideration when making our choices . . . how could anyone miss the barrage of bad news?
it a whole industry of doom and gloom warnings . . . its not that we dont hear the advice, its unavoidable, but the do-gooders cant accept they will never be able to control how compelling an individual finds the information . . . but will that stop them from trying?
great article gaye!
Comment by the world of gaye
batty
Family Madness
bright lights greedy city
REFLECTIONS
THE WINDMILLS OF MY MIND
thanks for your comments. I am waiting for the bullets to rain down on me for daring to speak up on behalf of all us bad examples !!
Comment by Market Newbie
Stock Market Punk
The goose that uttered those words deserves to be sent back wherever it came from and should be kept there - for good!
Comment by Johnny Come Lately
Jack's Back
and hey, let's not give liver transplants or medical treatment to anyone that's ever had a drink.
stuff them all I say!
Comment by Tracy
Movies and Life
And as for chocolate, I'm never going to give that up...never!!
Phew, that felt good.
PS I never watch those shitty programs Today Tonight and A Current Affair. Talk about inducing fear...
Comment by KylieW
Celebrity Obsession
To the government who makes these decisions, I say a big F**k You. Mind your own business and stay out of my life!!
And as to the people who say lets deny smokers any treatment at all, what bullshit. Do you deny medical treatment to someone who was in a car accident because he/she was obviously driving too fast? Of course not.
F**king do-gooders, annoy me.
Whew, I feel so much better for my whine and moan. Thanks!!!