Those Aussies…. Heavens, They Just Ain’t Right…

If you aren’t from the South you might not be familiar with the little phrase ‘he (or she) just ain’t right!’ This phrase describes a person who suffers from some sort of mental disease or imbalance which causes behavior outside sensible or appropriate. To use it in a sentence, for instance, one would say ‘Chris Tilling just ain’t right’ which means ‘Chris Tilling is mentally unstable and his behavior manifests that instability.’

So, when I note that the Aussies just ain’t right I’m forced to this opinion because of things like this:

An Australian man has been fined after buckling in a case of beer with a seat belt but leaving a 5-year-old child to sit on the car’s floor, police said Tuesday. Constable Wayne Burnett said he was “shocked and appalled” when he pulled over the unregistered car Friday in the central Australian town of Alice Springs. The 30-can beer case was strapped in between two adults sitting in the back seat of the car. The child was also in back, but on the car’s floor. “The child was sitting in the lump in the center, unrestrained,” Burnett told reporters Tuesday.

That, dear friends, is a doubtless demonstration of someone who is seriously impaired, mentally.

And yet, so that no one imagine that I ‘have it in’ for an entire population, I do know one Australian who is clever, intelligent, mentally astute, and just outright brilliant and his name is Ben Myers and Wednesday is his birthday! So, Ben, Happy Birthday to the one Aussie who has sense and of whom it can never be truthfully said ‘he just ain’t right,’ because he is.