How dare you suggest I be treated by the standards I set?

Australian Royal Commission into Aged Care, an executive summary:

Boomers are now terrified that their children will treat them like they treated their parents.





(I know, I know, Not All Boomers. I know my parents went above and beyond for my grandparents, on both sides. But, like when the Boomers complained about GenX, or when the Boomers complain about Millennials, or when Boomers complain about Children These Days, it's not about individuals.)

Newscorp delenda est.

Murdoch media at Dan's Presser today: "What's the point of a road map if you don't follow the road map?" (very loud subtext: "you said we'd open all the businesses on this date and it's this date and you're not opening the businesses, why are you Stalin?".)


The thing is, oh twerp from the Herald-Sun, that's not how road maps work. It's not "drive west until midnight on the 27th and then turn right, and lets just assume we were travelling at the correct speed that whole time and ignore those traffic jams": you keep driving until you get to the correct intersection, even if you should have been there hours ago. We are in lockdown until we are in the correct place to do so, even if the predictions made on when that would happen turned out to have been optimistic.

Remind me never to go driving with you, especially through Richmond. If you drive a car like you're demanding the state be driven, we would have ended up roof-down at the bottom of the Yarra months ago.