NRMA recently decided that it’d be a good idea to let members of the Australian public voice their opinion on NSW and QLD roads in a blog-style format.

After 2 weeks of uptime I decided to go and have a look at what Australia was saying about petrol prices, the state of the roads and driving in general. What became abundantly clear was that either the NRMA has massively failed in reaching their target demographic or that these people have serious comprehension issues.

Seriously, could NRMA have been any clearer in naming the site Roadtube?

What I found was that 99% of people can’t tell that difference between PUBLIC TRANSPORT and the roads. The vast majority of videos featured are rants from people about how slow buses and how late trains are.

The following are comments from some of the stupidest people in Australia:




1. Bus Drivers don’t let me stuff my face


Seriously what the hell is a kanuckle? Have schools in Sydney failed that badly or is kanuckle the latest idiot me-me circulating amongst Australia’s youth?

And what’s that, the bus drivers won’t let you shove dim sims and burger rings down your throat? QUICK SOMEBODY TELL PARLIAMENT THEY NEEDS TO GET ONTO THIS NOW!




2. What’s better, CCTV or a bicycle lock?

From Cyclistmotorist;

A friend of mine (a Uni student and non-car owner) parked his expensive bike on the platform at Broadmeadow station, in clear view of CCTV cameras and station staff – only to find it gone when he returned from his journey.

Mate your friend is a moron. What idiot leaves their bike infront of a CCTV camera, toddles off onto the train and expects it to still be there when you return?

We’re talking about Broadmeadows here, I once tried to catch a late train into the city from there and the freaking TICKET MACHINE tried to rape me.




3. The traynes ah just sheet


Dear NRMA,

How in the holy hell are comments like the above even remotely constructive to your cause?

When your marketing team came up with the Roadtube campaign did they really envisage comments like those in the above video being featured  in the push for better Australian infrastructure?




4. Pedestrian crossings are footpaths

Crossings writes;

I thought that pedestrian crossing were foot paths if a person was using them, but these days it just seems to mean an area shared at the same time by pedestrians and car drivers! how have we let our living standards & mentality slip so far into third world.

Wait third world countries have roads cars pedestrian crossings?!

I know I for one gauge Australia’s living standards on effectively I can make use of our pedestrian crossings. Currently we rate somewhere between Somalian pirates and crazy Thai rioters.




5. This guy is a champion


He’s a champion because you expect so little of him but he actually is articulate (for bogan standards) and raises his points in a clear and concise manner. Sure I couldn’t stop laughing but 10/10 for effort!




6. Road fines = Medieval times

Richard writes;

THE FINE SYSTEM IS JUST ANOTHER FORM OF TAXATION AND NO DIFFERENT TO THE EARLY BRITISH TIMES WHEN THE KINGS AND LORDS WOULD SEND OUT THEIR ARMIES TO BEAT THE SHIT OUT OF THE PEASANTS FOR MORE MONEY FOR THEIR COIFFURES

From the caps to the comedic spelling mistakes (mmm koyfurs anyone?) Richard seems to fail to understand the basic principle of road fines.

Don’t break the rules and you won’t get fined. Nobody is going to come around your house and beat the shit out of you for not breaking road rules. Rocking up on your doorstep with baseball bats for making ridiculous comparisons on the internet however…




7. Like, yeah… like like yeah, yeah, like OMG SHUTUP.


I cant stand whiny females at the best of times, let alone when they don’t know what the hell it is they’re trying to say. I just wanted to reach into my monitor and slap her.




8. Taking a holiday = losing your license

double demerits writes;

what an intelligent group our goverment and beuracrats are whilst goverment is selling the idea that we should holidy in australia they are also saying if you like driving to have a holiday we will take away your licence mean spirited and unaustralian also undemocratic lot of pindicks in goverment

How do you go from taking a holiday to taking away your license? It’s not like police are driving around randomly pulling people over and confiscating licenses.

If you drive around like an A-grade imbecile plastered off your face and lose your license how is that the government’s fault? Aw the poor alcoholic got trodden on by the undemocratic mean spirited government.




9. So is possible that I am paying twice for the same journey I only took once?


Something about thick Indian accents makes me giggle like a school girl. What amazes me is that whilst most people are complaining about services being late, this gentlemen is actually complaining about the fact that HE is late.

Protip: Don’t pre-purchase your ticket if you’re running so late that you manage miss the already-late running train.




10. Building an area for burnouts will solve all our problems

Darwin Patrol writes;

darwin beening riped off big time fuel and roads r shit and fuck this Demerit point shit too y dont give a place for fuck wits to do burn outs and shit so that there not on roads doing the gov a r fucked in head and need to reliz that money need to spent on raods and not crap people wont use and make age of getten ur ls to 18 not 16

I wonder why nobody has thought of this before, clearly it is the obvious solution and needs to be given the highest priority immediately. If people had a designated area to do fully sik burnouts our roads would be infinitely less congested and everything would run on time.

It’s good to see people are still passing time by sniffing and drinking petrol in the NT.


What is scary is that all of the above comments made it through NRMA’s moderation team. If NRMA saw fit to publish these comments, then you can only imagine how bad the censored ones must have been.

I really hope the NRMA think long and hard about just how much money they’ve wasted with this latest initiative. If you want to fix Australia’s infrastructure how about we start with some common sense.

Using Roadtube to get opinions from people with IQ’s lower then the first two digits of their postcodes isn’t going to achieve anything.


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