New Year, Same Shit

So the serious drinking season has come to an end and it's back to work for most people this week.  To all the bozos who have made new year's resolutions or said such insightful things as, "I'm glad to see the end of that crappy year!": have you got any idea of what you need to do to change?  My answer is probably not.  You're going to go back to your job and do everything the same way as last year, treat your wife and/or kids just the same and then do some more complaining about how tough it is to make ends meet.

Here's some hard truths:

1. Australia is probably the richest country on the planet right now - you are one of its very wealthy citizens.  Tough shit if you can't afford a third bathroom in your suburban palace or an overseas holiday.
2. Your lack of insight on point one probably makes you think you are just a battler and the world is against you.  Actually you are in a position of economic power that your kids will probably never know.  Don't waste the opportunity.  Stop wasting your money on grog and 500g steaks you can't finish.
3. If you didn't like 2011, do things differently - don't continue to whine like a fat pig.  If that's how it was always done and you're whining, change the damn record.  Your approach is wrong.  It's not the world - it is you.
4. On the subject of resolutions, did you write it down? put in a time frame, set benchmarks or even tell anyone?  If the answer is no, stop kidding yourself.  You are just a damn windbag making a crappier noise than a set of bagpipes.  Hell, I'd like to slap you!
5. New Year is basically just another rubbish Hallmark holiday.  I have no idea why it is pretty much a global public holiday.  Who cares?

Well that's pretty mean-spirited of me isn't it?  Can you actually find any good reasons to argue any of those points? 

No.

Australia, stop whinging and get back to work.  Drinking season (roughly Dec 10 - Jan 3) is done for another year and it is good fun.  At no stage in that time did you stop and think about how frivolous it all is and opt out to save the money you supposedly don't have.  Just threw in the odd sook about the government not doing enough or some such, right?

Time to spit out the dummy and sack the friggin' Nanny!