A fabulous characteristic of Australians is that we are far more direct and outspoken than others when dealing withthe sort of elected w*nker who wouldn't otherwise get the full drift of what we were trying to communicate.
Below is one such wonderful communication...
Dear Mr. Minister,
I'm in the process of renewing my passport, and still cannot believe this.
How is it that K-Mart has my address and telephone number, and knows that I bought a Television Set and Golf Clubs from them back in 1997, and yet,the Federal Government is still asking me where I was born and on what date.
For Christ sakes, do you guys do this by hand?
My birth date you have in my Medicare information, and it is on all the income tax forms I've filed for the past 40 years. It is on my driver's licence, onthe last eight passports I've ever had, on all those stupid customs declaration forms I've had to fill out before being allowed off the planes over thelast 30 years, and all those insufferable census forms that I've filled out every 5 years since 1966.
Also..would somebody please take note, once and for all, that my mother's name is Audrey, my Father's name is Jack, and I'd be absolutely f*cking astounded if that ever changed between now and when I drop dead!!!...
SH*T!
I apologize, Mr. Minister. But I'm really p*ssed off this morning. Between you an' me, I've had enough of all this bullsh*t! You send the application to myhouse, then you ask me for my f*cking address!! What the hell is going on with your mob? Have you got a gang of mindless Neanderthal a*seholes workin' there!
And another thing, look at my damn picture. Do I look like Bin Laden? I can't even grow a beard for God's sakes. I just want to go to New Zealand and seemy new granddaughter. (Yes, my son interbred with a Kiwi girl). And would someone please tell me, why would you give a sh*t whether I plan on visitinga farm in the next 15 days? If I ever got the urge to do something weird to a sheep or a horse, believe you me, I'd sure as hell not want to tell anyone!
Well, I have to go now, 'cause I have to go to the other end of the city, and get another f*cking copy of my birth certificate, and to part with another$80 for the privilege of accessing MY OWN INFORMATION!
Would it be so complicated to have all the services in the same spot, to assist in the issuance of a new passport on the same day?? Nooooo.. that'd betoo f*cking easy and makes far too much sense. You would much prefer to have us running all over the place like chickens with our f*cking heads cut off,and then having to find some high society w*nker to confirm that it's really me in the goddamn photo! You know the photo..the one where we're notallowed to smile?! ...you f*cking morons
Signed - An Irate Australian Citizen.
P.S Remember what I said above about the picture, and getting someone in high-society to confirm that it's me? Well, my family has been in this countrysince before 1850! In 1856, one of my forefathers took up arms with Peter Lalor. (You do remember the Eureka Stockade!!)
I have also served in both the CMF and regular Army something over 30 years (I went to Vietnam in 1967), and still have high security clearances.I'm also a personal friend of the president of the RSL.. and Lt General Peter Cosgrove sends me a Christmas card each year.
However, your rules require that I have to get someone 'important' to verify who I am; You know.. someone like my doctor; WHO WAS BORN AND RAISEDIN F*CKINGPAKISTAN!!!......a country where they either assassinate or hang their ex-Prime Ministers, and are suspended from the Commonwealth for nothaving the 'right sort of government.'
You are all F*cking idiots
"Be who you are and say what you feel because those who mind don't matter and those who matter don't mind."
In forgiving others, we are not exonerating them. They may not deserve exoneration. Rather, in forgiving others we are giving up our anger over the fact that what happened is not what "should" have happened or that our life is not the way it "should" have been.
My English teacher was Australia and would swear in class and then realized he swore with a word we didn't understand, swear with a different word none of us knew and then explain them to us. He was my favorite teacher.
He told us a stories about stupid people.
How I miss that class!
It's the children the world almost breaks that grow up to save it.
-Frank Warren
i work for youth justice and currently we're having an argument with one of the cops in the early intervention unit... they deserve a letter like this >.<
"Be who you are and say what you feel because those who mind don't matter and those who matter don't mind."
centrelink is probably one of the most bureaucratic idiocracies in australia. send you a letter saying you are exempt from job seeking activities for six months, 2 days before they send you one that says if you DON'T turn up to a job seeking interview and DON'T agree to seek 14 jobs a fortnight they will cut you off, despite you not being well enough to leave the house without being severely doped up on valium so that you don't freak out and kill yourself, but leaves you incapable of understand what the hey the person is saying.... which centrestupid already knew cos they took your medical certificate a month ago.
or
they are quite happy to dock your partners pay for a over a year cos they are your de-facto spouse, then, when you break up and move to a different town, and need some help getting on your feet so you don't STARVE, they want you to prove that you were living together for a year. which you can't, cos he took all the bloody lease agreements when you broke up, and you weren't officially on one of them.
enough ranting.
mum says the cops that she deals with here aren't too bad for the most part.
ours aren't either. this particular one is just being a bitch becasue she wants us to breach a client withOUT her charging her for something. *roles eyes*
"Be who you are and say what you feel because those who mind don't matter and those who matter don't mind."
mum's vaguely mentioned in vague terms that sort of thing (confidentiality and all that jazz). shes a casework specialist, so she only gets the truely firetrucked up cases. you'd know that just cos some DoCS workers don't (or can't cos of stupid bureaucracy and being public servantness) do their job right as they show thru the media, that not all are bad, i mean, you'd probably be tarred with the same brush, generally speaking.
oh we deal with them too... not very happily as most of our youth are teens and well... once they hit 15/15... DoCs don't want anything to do with them. >.<
"Be who you are and say what you feel because those who mind don't matter and those who matter don't mind."
