The Melbourne Cup - The Good, The Bad & The Privileged Savages.

Richard Whiteoak
Nov 3, 2015
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The Melbourne cup brings out the best in Australians. My mother for example, who won a couple of hundred dollars on the winner, is sending the money down to the brother of the jockey with Down syndrome who was allowed to lead the horse around, happy as Larry and proud as Punch.

Then we have the others, those who were raised by wolves and rabid ones at that.

Surely some of these ferals have work associates, friends or even their rabid parents (any who bothered to hang aroound in their kid's lives) who could give them some much needed advice as to how and act like civilised human beings. We all drank too much at times when we were kids, but never did we turn into a bunch of privileged savages.

Time to grow up kiddies, and have a good long look at yourselves.

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