Me and KP

KP, surprisingly I’m with you on this one – see story below. It’s happened to me once and I couldn’t get in to collect my free newspaper.

However, the ‘no thongs’ rule in the Qantas lounge is designed to keep as many of the bogans out as possible. They simply drink too much of the free grog and they aren’t wanted in this particular buffet.

Essentially our society has five strata defined by their preferred airline;

1. Qantas – the deluded conservatives
2. Virgin – the noveau riche
3. Jetstar – your bog standard bogans
4. Tiger – ultra-bogans, the unemployed and the mentally unstable
5. Rex – that odd collective of rural dwellers, clearly also suffering mental issues, that haven’t migrated to the suburbs yet

Qantas filters out the undesirables in the other four categories by high pricing, their ambience (which makes bogans oddly uncomfortable), condescending geriatric staff, unbearable muzak, and the no-thongs rule. It’s all they’ve got.