Come on people now, smile on your brother

There is this very large prison colony off the West Coast of New Zealand, some of y’all might know of it as Australia, we know it as the thieving mongrel colony. There is an intense amount of dislike between New Zealand and Penal Colony Dingoland, especially when it comes to sport. Probably the apex of this happened in the gentleman’s sport of cricket when the Australian captain and his brother lowered the standards for bad sportsmanship with the Underarm delivery in 1981. They are the people we love to hate, the ones we love to beat, the ones that haven’t yet supported gay marriage and their race policy towards the Aboriginals has been, quite frankly, horrendous – and let’s not mention the snakes, spiders, deadly jellyfish and dingoes eating babies. They are quite frankly a giant bag of dicks, and we have fought side by side with them forever and we always will. The ANZAC spirit (Australia New Zealand Army Corps) is a legacy that will never pass and as much as we love to hate them, they are our friends and to some they are family. We also hate the English rugby team by the way, but that is a whole other story.

Recently I have taken a bit of a break from sharing my brilliant and perceptive views on life because of a couple of things but mainly, quite frankly, because I am getting sick and tired of people. Well not sick and tired of all people but sick and tired of a few people. The wonderful thing about social media is that you can see pictures of puppies and babies and you can also use it to promote social issues like a drive for coats for the homeless when a sudden cold snap hits town. However, it seems like some people are mainly using it now to express what a fucktard anyone is with a different political ideology to them – and they are not being nice about it.

Yes, you have the right to have an opinion (and that freedom is not God given, it was given of the blood and guts of men and women who fought for it), but that also means that other people are also allowed an opinion and even if you believe that opinion to be completely fucking insane that does not give you the right to suddenly consider that person a lesser human being just because they don’t see things your way. If you do you are not part of the solution, you are part of the problem.

Let’s use a quick example. A couple of my friends recently posted the same ‘story’ about someone wanting to repeal Obamacare but wanting to keep ACA (for those of you not in the know these are the same thing – Affordable Care Act = Obamacare). One person posted the story with an LOL comment, the other posted it with more of a ‘fuck you, you stupid ignorant Trump supporter’ comment. There is already a divide, some people have been surprised that it exists, many have known about it for a while. Calling people ignorant just because they aren’t as left, right or in the middle as you might be IS NOT FUCKING HELPING. The same person posted a comment with a ‘unfriend me if you support him’ comment and got called out on it by his father-in-law – talk about looking fucking stupid. I have friends on both side of the political spectrum and guess what, you don’t need to unfriend me and I am highly unlikely to unfriend you (what a stupid fucking thing to say – damn you book of faces) unless your rants just get too fucking much – actually all I need to do is ignore you. The problem is that ignoring people is also part of the problem.

So what has this all got to do with the thieving mongrels and NZ. Well, just because we don’t like the way they play cricket, the way the still steal stuff (like our medal counts at the Olympics, Russell Crowe and pavlova) we sure as fuck don’t speak to them the way some of y’all are speaking now on the social media soapboxes you have. I am guessing it is a hell of a lot easier to tell your father-in-law to unfriend you electronically than face to face. A person I love and respect – we shall call him Cowboy – was chatting with me, face to face, and said “you and I have different political beliefs”, he didn’t say it to me in caps, didn’t unfriend, unlike or block me. We had something that people seem to be incapable of these days, a reasoned and level conversation where both parties had a chance to express their opinion without judgement, rolled eyes, hyperbole (not hyper-bolle as that is an overexcited pair of sunglasses) or screams of “you ignorant fuck”. Cowboy expressed a valid point, he had actually met the person we were discussing and I learnt something because I listened. No, we didn’t solve the world’s problems but we respected the opinions expressed, had another drink and will have another chat and drink next time we catch up. He is a friend and always will be, simple. Yes this election in the US (and the Brexit vote) has been polarizing and eye opening to some, but that does not justify the amount of hatred and bile being spewed daily by some people on both sides of the conversation.  Not only are you NOT FUCKING HELPING THE PROBLEM you are also giving me pause to write these brilliant posts that so many of you wait for evert week :) It seems like no one knows what good sportsmanship is anymore – probably started with the Aussies (dicks) :)

I am in no way perfect - probably as close as any person can be :) but (and it is a great looking butt apparently) I also know that what some people are accepting now as the norm is not acceptable. There is violence inherent in the system, people are being repressed and we really need to get together and love one another right now.

As usual there has been absolutely zero research into the content and context of this week’s post, so the only person at fault here is me. Some of the comments I really wanted to make have been tempered so that I do not sound like the people that are annoying me so fucking much at the moment. The author of this post (that would be me, James, yes I write all of this stuff) would like apologize for any offense taken, but is not going to, as it would not be true. Finally, and most importantly for all of y’all that have read this far (Hi Mom) the Poets Day clubhouse is open for business and will always be open for friends and acquaintances to pop over, have a beer, a nice cuppa tea, a shot of shine and have a chat. There will never be a time when you are not welcome with open arms, a drink and a decent piece of grey matter attached to a couple of auditory and one oratory devices. For you Trumpillary supporters that means I have 2 ears and a mouth and, unlike the more rabid of you fucks, a brain :)

Work hard, play hard and earn your inspiration. Get together, love another right now.

Happy Poets Day