I've never been sure why so many people make fun of the old "Duck and Cover" campaign. Sure, it won't help those within the immediate vicinity of the bomb much, but there's a certain donut-shaped area where you're a hell of a lot better off ducking and covering than not ducking and covering.
That's quite a funny joke if you think about it.
Australians are taxed far too much, but have never been taxed at 50% in a time far I know of. Perhaps during wartime.
What do you mean when you say 'designed exclusively'. Surely not that nationalist authoritarian states with nuclear weapons and decades of stand-off are the result of an Australian government conspiracy to give night terrors to children?
I think he meant that a lot of his tax dollars went to the military (or maybe he was talking about Americans?), not that he was taxes at a rate of 50%.
I am not trivializing the danger of nuclear war or authoritarian states. My point is to clarify that humor does not imply triviality, in my case on this subject it implies anger.