Official: WA now the most backward state in Australia

happy sandgroper says:

07:25pm | 31/05/09

“For starters, it might have made your state a bit of a laughing stock in the rest of the country.”

Pffft.  And we weren’t *already* a bit of a laughing stock in the rest of the country?  And since when has *that* worried us?

Never mind.  We’re happy to give you all in the gloomy corrupt over-crowded bucket-watered electricity-less gang-infested near-bankrupt Eastern States some light relief - lord knows anyone living over there probably needs it.  No, don’t thank us.  We’re people-persons; it’s what we do.

We’ve still got an average of 10 hours of sunshine per day, beaut beaches with even beaut-er girls, a budget in surplus, a working public transport system, a public health system where toilets are for 1s & 2s, not DIY maternity suites, no obnoxious pokies in our pubs & clubs,  and we keep all of our extreme greentards in a self-sufficient little enclosure called “Fremantle” where they’re well-contained and handy for day-trips (so cute at feeding-time, bring your own mung-beans).

So yes, Mr P, I’m ever so glad we’ve given you all a smile or two.  The fact that we live in the best place on earth and we know it helps give us the patience to forbear the scoffs and sneers of you self-proclaimed ‘sophisticates’ of the East. 

And the fact that the wide empty expanse of the Nullarbor helps dissipate most of your Smug emissions before they even hit Cocklebiddy helps some, too.

happy sandgroper says:

07:55pm | 31/05/09

“...to reject the devilish communist plot known as daylight savings.”

P.S.  It’s not a communist plot but a neo-Puritan one:

“I object to being told that I am saving daylight when my reason tells me that I am doing nothing of the kind… At the back of the Daylight Saving scheme, I detect the bony, blue-fingered hand of Puritanism, eager to push people into bed earlier, and get them up earlier, to make them healthy, wealthy, and wise in spite of themselves.”

  - Robertson Davies, The Diary of Samuel Marchbanks, 1947

Shelly says:

10:59am | 01/06/09

And WA had the balls and the brains to give bad ALP state government the finger.

For example; NSW keep voting for state ALP. It doesn’t look like there’s any brains there to follow

This reminds me of a joke I was sent.

The gist of it is on old Indian fella is told about daylight saving and says

‘...only a politician would think that cutting a foot off the top of a blanket and then sewing it on the bottom of the blanket would make the blanket longer.’

Getting up early doesn’t give you more daylight. It just gives me less sleep.

Luke says:

09:58pm | 09/02/11

Of all the stuff that happens in western australia… daylight savings is the thing you write about?
The only reason we have so much discussion on daylight savings is because the WA people say no… and the eastern staters keep bringing it up because they arent getting the answer they want.
Sorry east… but we live here… and we say no. DEAL WITH IT.