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Fuck off arseholes!

Correct me if I am wrong, but Australia is a mostly democratic society. Sure we're technically held in thrall to that Queen chicky over in England, but it's not like she actually really governs us, except as a figurehead only. The question I've been asking myself lately however, is why is my government beginning to treat me as though my opinions don't matter and that my ability to choose my own actions is questionable and hiding it behind a facade of "protection"?

Firstly, Belgian Gardens State School in Townsville has banned children from doing cartwheels, handstands or basically anything that could be considered to be of a 'gymnastic' origin. Education Queensland, naturally run by the government, has defended the principal's decision. What a crock of shit.

It's a ridiculous decision for the principal to have made and I most certainly violently oppose it. What gives us the right to stop kids playing at being kids? Oh that's right. We're a litigation happy culture, that's why people are making stupid decisions like this, all because some stupid bitch got her knickers in a knot because her kid fell over playing tiggy or hurt themselves in an athletics carnival. It's all part of being a kid and growing up! Shit, if I had to count the number of times I'd hurt myself playing tiggy, in an athletics carnival, being naughty when nobody was looking or just being a kid it would be an integer of monumental proportions. I think I sprained/twisted ankles and wrists on average about once a month, broke a few bones here and there and fell over, cut myself and got covered in bruises somehow just about every other day. If I sued Education Queensland or my gymnastics coach every time I hurt myself I'd have single handedly bankrupted the state. And that's just me! If my brother Connor had done it he'd have bankrupted the entire country, that kid is made of stitches I swear.

Kids are kids and I reckon half the reason that teenagers today are such useless little fuckwits is because years ago the Government decided that mummy and daddy are no longer allowed to smack them when they're being shits because that's "child abuse" so we've got all these apathetic little twits running around with God complexes because nobody has been able to take them down a peg or two and properly discipline them. We all got smacked as kids, it sure as hell didn't do us any harm. It's how we train animals for God's sake - what dog or horse hasn't got a whack around the nose when they did something wrong?

So basically  we've taken away childrens rights to be children, and the parents rights to discipline them. I don't really want to contemplate what kind of monsters this is going to produce in the years to come.

Secondly, so-called 'experts' are all up in arms because Hungry Jacks have decided to sell a burger titled the 'Quad Stack'. Basically it's four meat patties, four bits of cheese, apparently only two bits of bacon (which kind of ruins the whole quad theme), BBQ sauce and a bun. No salad. That sounds fucking awesome to me, who routinely chomps a double bacon cheeseburger as a hangover cure with lots of refill post-mix coke. Oh yeah, I hate salad so I always make them take if off the burger and get rid of the tomato sauce and mayo because that's gross too. So people are now saying HJs are 'irresponsible' for bringing out an approximately 1100 calorie burger and that it's promoting obesity, blah blah blah. I call bullshit.

HJs are not saying "Everyone must eat this for dinner, every night of every day" are they? No. Is anyone attempting to force people to eat this burger? No. If you don't want to eat it, then don't fucking eat it! Go much on a carrot stick you miserable, calorie counting, shit-brained, do-gooders!

Thirdly, along a very similar line actually, I noticed today that for some fucked up reason the hospital I work for has decided to remove all their vending machines. One coke machine got replaced with one that stocks only bottled water in a variety of flavours. We don't even sell Red Bull or V in the cafe. Where the fuck am I supposed to get my caffeine fix from now? Coffee tastes like shit and if I want a pep-me-up I'll go a coke or Red Bull and a chocolate. But apparently the hospital is on this crazy "healthy initiatives" scheme and had decided to be a complete fucking nazi about selling anything remotely tasty. The staff kitchen has gone health mad and the public cafe has stopped stocking chocolate and has downsized it's softdrink collection. Where the hell has my freedom of choice gone? Oh yeah, it's a PUBLIC hospital, which means it's owned by the government who've taken it upon themselves to fuck up my life even more.

Seriously, I have the right to choose what the fuck I eat. I do believe I may have scared a few people at work when I loudly exclaimed that while stamping my foot in protest today. Luckily we've got a box of fundraising chocolates on the front desk, but apparently even that has been threatened with removal. If people choose to eat nothing but HJs quad burgers and die from heart attacks or obesity-related illnesses, so be it. If people want to eat nothing but rabbit food all day and make snarky comments at everyone who even looks at anything above 2 calories, so be it. And if you're like me and are somewhere in the middle, so be it. Allow us the choice at least and don't hide it behind the smokescreen of "acting in my best interests", because that's my job, not anyone elses.

Every time I read another story about some new restriction or new 'safety measures' or similar removals of freedom with a ridiculous politically correct sounding name I cringe in horror because the more I think about it, the more I realise that we really are going to turn into the society that Aldous Huxley envisioned. Technology will advance, everyone will be happy and healthy because that's what they're told to be and slowly any traces of freedom, creativity, innovation and individuality will die a long, painfully agonizing death. Huxley wrote Brave New World way back in 1932 and set the story in 2540, but I don't think it's going to be another 500+ years before we see his nightmare become reality if things continue as they do.