OK, this is a rant against the mad freakazoid woman I work with who whinges perpetually about just how HARD it is to be a single mother with a young child (yeah, it’s hard, but not as impossible as she makes out…)
It’s also a rant against the bastards who flew into the WTC towers on 11/9/01, and those who detonated the bombs in Kuta on 12/10 02. It’s a curse upon the Met in Melbourne who cannot co-ordinate their public transport at peak hour, so that we wait AGES for a tram, and then 4 turn up at the same time.
It’s a bitch about the cost of books in Australia, especially since the introduction of the GST. It’s a moan about how kid’s nowadays won’t lift a finger, except to gesticulate their disapproval. It’s about the doomsday evangelists who spout their hatred of humanness at the corner of Collins St and Swanston on a Friday night. It’s about the adolescent arseholes who won’t offer their seat on the bus to a person who is obviously disabled, or just old. It’s about crappy free-to-air TV, it’s about the exorbitant costs of internet access. It’s a grievance about xenophobia and about how most people don’t want to be enlightened…they are as happy as pigs in shit about their ignorance.
It’s a rant against dead-beat husbands who don’t cough-up maintenance (alimony) , and careless mothers who leave their kids in hot cars to die. It’s my gripe against the ‘poverty traps’ that are institutionalised by government policy that make it much more difficult for me to earn a decent living than my single counterparts. It’s about how we desperately need rain here, but Og isn’t listening to our pleas. It’s that while the footy season is officially over, we still cannot escape the AFL impact, even over summer. It’s that they are building an apartment block at the back of my house that will be 5 storeys high, and will look into my (otherwise private) backyard, and the planning authorities don’t give a shit.
It’s that if men had periods, tampons would be cheap. It’s that kids in many countries are dying because of a lack of the very basic medical care that we in the west take for absolute granted. It’s a rant against the ethics of pharmaceutical companies, who are happy to test their wares in Third World Countries, but deny them the end product because their citizens cannot afford to pay for it.
It’s about dodginess the world over, and I’m dead-set tired of shitheads. It’s been a bad day, OK?
Thank you for listening to my rant, and if anyone wants to add another category, feel free!
Sincerely Yours
kambuckta