Michael Thornton 
Pissed Off [EPUB ebook] 
3300 Baby Boomer Gripes

Australia has five million baby boomers. Seventy-one-year-old Michael Thornton is one of them. He is so pissed off about the state of things,

he’s listed 3, 300 gripes.

Among them:

• otherwise bright folk, from the PM down, who say ‘amount’ of people instead of ‘number’


• Australia’s richest person is said to earn $33, 000 per minute


• being beaten at Scrabble by his Filipina mother-in-law, English being her second language


• leaf blowers


• lowlife who put needles in fruit to try and kill us


• greed


• when the pathology nurse says, with a deep sigh, ‘Let’s try your other arm!’


• Michelangelo didn’t endow David a little more generously


• the link between his dentist’s fees to extract his teeth, and the dentist’s kids’ school fees


• wanting to know if Dynamic Lifter works the same as Viagra


• asking for a friend


• the exorbitant cost of building Australia’s major roads:$155 per inch per lane


• wanting cave rescuers Drs Richard Harris and Craig Challen as joint Governors-General


• will the in-studio panel on ABC TV Insiders ever drink the coffee?


• half a large pizza is never enough


• not knowing how to use most of the functions on his phone


• five-year-olds, who get away with murder


• after coronavirus, the millennials plan to do away with all remaining baby boomers

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