Quote Originally Posted by Double_Adapter View Post
You blokes are getting fucken soft and all doom and gloom over nothin'. We’ve copped way worse and still managed to crawl out the other side alive, kicking, and somehow with still enough money for a punt. Two world wars, Vietnam, Korean, Cuban missile crisis, Chernobyl melt down, the war on terror, the “where are the WMDs" crisis, Desert Storm, AIDS, the Y2K bug that was meant to delete civilisation, 911, the 2012 “end of the world” cataclysmic events, global financial crisis, tsunamis, floods, bushfires, earthquakes, pestilences, plagues, Covid, the great toilet paper crisis, Albo becomes PM….and now we’re meant to fucken crumble over a fuel crisis? WTF!
Agree. When people start complaining they might have to take PUBLIC ("the horror, the horror") transportation (share my space with unwashed masses), might have to walk far (across the street, 20 meters uphill) from the bus stop to the shop, might have to cut back on the prime beef (and I'm not referring to the providers) - forgetting or not knowing what it's like to be a poor student (rice+beans, ramen)... Of course, punting is a luxury that should be one of the first things to cut back on, or forgo, but ... Life's a bitch; then you die.

You want to put it in perspective? Talk to a PRC. That's ingrained across generations: occupied by a brutal foreign power (OK, "Indigenous Australians", your exception is noted), Cultural Revolution, Tiananmen Square, be a Uyghur, etc., etc. Or, just travel in the 3rd world... Not in the 5 star hotels, guided tours, but out amongst the locals... And you don't even have to go 3rd world. Holiday in Ukraine... "Incoming..."
Moving from weekly to monthly punt, or skipping a year, put it in perspective. They ain't coming thru the wire...