bad part
Hijacking of once great Australia day to what it has become now.

Good part.
prawns on the bbq.
W

Hey elcoco,

Tall Poppy is an ugly side of Australian culture. It's a "look at that bloke, he has more than me, I therefor must tear down and discredit him until he is back in the dumps like me" attitude.

What's wrong with celebrating or admiring someone's success. Usually success comes from hard work, ....... a lot of it.

There's a great analogy I subscribe to. There are two ways to have the tallest building in a city. You can design, build and work to build the biggest most impressive building, or you can tear down all the other tall buildings around your much smaller building to be the same height or smaller than your own.

This is a very negetive means of attaining success, or hiding your own failure.

Tall Poppy seems to be getting worse as Australians get lazier and more self absorbed. Once a long time ago, Australians believed in hard work and a fair dinkum go for everyone. We have a fair system where if you put the work in, you get the benefits. This is true for EVERY person in Australia.

Problem is, many people feel they are owed success or blame whatever sociological issue and use it as an excuse for not succeeding.

Tall Poppy is based on the negetive emotions. Envy, jealousy, lack of self respect, anger and hatred.

Unfortunately, I think it is only going to get worse. Poor Australia in the future. Our forefathers would be ashamed.

DM

i am the best at everything

CMC said...
He blows his own trumpet.

So he would fit in nicely, in the sup forum

Your one of the good ones CMC

I do not find it's part of the culture.
It might be so in the media with personalities, I don't know.

We hear about it, but in the streets, at work, etc. some jealous turds are like that, but most aren't turds or jealous. None of me mates are.

i am the best at finding out what really goes on,with the doc,japie,cisco and flysurfer running a distant 4th.

why then am i so much smarter?

can't figure it out myself,just know i am

petermac33 said...

i am the best at finding out what really goes on,with the doc,japie,cisco and flysurfer running a distant 4th.

why then am i so much smarter?

can't figure it out myself,just know i am

There we go. Right there is a great example of what motivates the conspiracy nuts. Ego. It's all about trying to prove to the world that they're smart.

Scenario:
Working hard at my new casual job, I'm now getting most of the shifts that'd otherwise go to a few other guys (they don't work as hard preferring to muck around a bit). They've picked up on this and have been giving me crap about it. We're all mates so I know they are joking but this 'tall poppy syndrome' is out there.

As much as I'll laugh it off it does get to you because you don't know what to say. Ain't gonna change though, my work ethics whats got me so far and I ain't gonna become a doctor by being lazy .