20 Things The World Would Be A Better Place Without

16. Whiners

Name one world change that came from a grumble. That's right, you can't. A whine bears no substance; no meaning; no reason to be respected. Moaners are everywhere: emotional vampires of society that need a good staking. There's a quote in the movie Pollyanna that should stick with everyone. During the film Pollyanna says "When you look for the bad in mankind expecting to find it, you surely will." Damn straight. If all the misery guts incessantly grumbling - turning FaceBook into MoanBook - just took the time to let that finger linger, think whether that stale, stodgy gripe is going to change anything, then the world would be a better place. Shut the hell up and do your own head in.

15. Political Correctness

Let's face it - we're going to be offended at some point in our lives - there's a lot of shallow people in the world who open their mouths without consulting the mashed potato in their skulls first - but how far do we really need to go with political correctness before we become nations of verbal tip-toers? Some of the worst cases of PC gone barmy include Santa Clause staff in Sydney being told to quietly say 'Ha Ha Ha' as an alternative to St Nick's jolly 'Ho Ho Ho' - for fear it would be derogatory to women. Aw c'mon, we all know he's doing a festive chuckle and not blatantly hailing every female in the room a prostitute. You'll probably remember the childhood nursery rhyme 'Baa Baa Black Sheep'? That little ditty is no more, deemed racist, and has been changed to 'Baa Baa Rainbow Sheep'. Not that many exist any more - but blackboards are now formerly known as chalkboards, for the same racial connotations. Nonsense. Then there was the Xbox gamer, banned for saying he lived in Fort Gay, West Virginia, and breaking their code of conduct. Microsoft were forced to apologise to the genuine user, needless to say they must have felt pretty silly.