Spuds over-rated!

Is it just me or is everyone absolutely fed up with groovy labels putting modern Australia into neat little boxes?

This mornings papers are full of something called a SPUD – I think it stands for single professional urban dweller.

Apparently for the first time in the history of the Australia – single women outnumber married women – and the nations social commentators have started waxing lyrical about young women shunning relationships for the good life without commitment or children….

It takes me back to year nine maths with Mrs Pollard – the uses and abuses of graphs.

I’m willing to bet my mum and my sister are part of the 'single' women statistic – one of them is a widow – the other is divorced – one has four children the other has three and neither one of them could be described as a commitment phobe, a 'freemale' or a cross between Bridget Jones and Sex in the City.

I don’t know if people get paid for making up dumb acronyms like snag, dink and spud – but just in case, here's mine - I’m a cob-sob-cat-fah – loosely that stands for 'Cranky Old Bag Sick Of Being stereotyped by Chardonnay sipping Academics and Tabloid journalists looking For A Headline'

What's yours?