Okay, so Australia is rubbish at cricket. We get it, and that's enough to deal with in its own right.
It's bad enough to watch.
But due to the tightarsedness of free-to-air providers in this country, now our ears also have to suffer incompetence as Sky's gaggle of former English captaincy failures gloat over success they never had any stake in.
As the home side romps around the field like zoo-bred orangutans given five days in a banana plantation and unlimited poo to fling, the likes of Nasser Hussein, David Gower, Michael Vaughan and co seem ever more determined to ignore the constant stream of poor sportsmanship, arrogance and unapologetic cheating not seen since, well, since Australia dominated the Test arena so many eons ago.
When we finally get a few to the boundary, the pitch is suddenly a highway. Aussie milestones worthy of a mention in Wisden are brushed aside to make room for jokes about Botham's sandwiches.
At least Sky's camera operators have the sense of humour to flash to Alastair Cook in the field every time he's knuckle-deep into the well-polished interior of one of his nostrils.
Bitter? Yes.
When we're so desperate that we'd rather listen in live to the slow process of Tony Greig's body returning to the earth, you f**king bet we're bitter.
Here's why…