The Aussies go to work in shorts. That`s a good reason to hate them.
But to be honest, I have found a few more reasons over the course of this Australian GP weekend.
I used to live in Australia, and loved it. It was a laid back, warm, relaxed country with gorgeous, tanned, blue-eyed, blonde-haired people, using phrases such as cobber, ripper and fair dinkum. It was open and free and nobody gave a toss about anything!
Oh how things have changed... You can`t do or say anything now without being told how or where to do it by some jumped up whining Aussie in a yellow jacket.
This weekend I had a friend who was told he couldn`t walk down the street whilst listening to an i-pod in case he couldn` t hear the car that was about to run him over.
Also a colleague who was arrested for jogging around Albert Park - it's a bloody park! And there was a F1 driver who was charged by police for doing a wheel-spin at a Grand Prix!!!!
They are insane.
So Lewis Hamilton spun the wheels of his Mercedes on the road just outside the perimeter gates of the circuit.
So what?
He is a World Champion. He is one of the best blokes (to use your terminology) in the world at driving high powered cars.
The Aussies have for a long time had slogans directed at road safety. Who can forget "Drink and drive? You're a bloody idiot!" or the not so catchy "Slow down stupid" But their latest slogan sums the county up as a whole. Can you imagine any other countries' road safety officials using; "Don't be a Dickhead!" to reduce casualties on their roads.
Although Australia is safety obsessed, there are still some instances where they just don` t bat an eyelid.
Most of these involve man eating, poisonous animals.
You can happily fight with kangaroos, wrestle with crocodiles, sleep with snakes, surf with jellyfish or like I did, scuba dive with sharks. But hey if you want to cross a road, you need at least 6 people in high-vis jackets to help you. Crikey!
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