NO, it isn’t a joke.
You know those people who love to spoil something? You meet them as kids, telling you all sorts of things about the jolly bloke who brings presents on Christmas Eve, about the well-endowed fairy who shares her wealth when you lose a tooth.
Get older, and they’re the kids who tell you the twist about the Skywalker bloodline (assuming you’re watching in the correct order).
They’re the ones who guess what your birthday present is before you’ve opened it.
You certainly see the signs early.
When they’re older, they’re the ones who spoil the final episode of an immensely popular TV series with a worldwide following, the ending of which will be talked about at water coolers across the globe the next day.
That’s why Alipate Carlile is a terrible human being, at least for roughly 24 hours yesterday when the Port Adelaide defender spoiled the ending of the latest series of Game of Thrones to his Facebook friends.
Current and former teammates, colleagues, on-field rivals and more besides smashed the Port Adelaide defender for spoiling the ending (i.e. which fan favourite invariably dies).
“He’s the s@#$%^t bloke in the world,” one office worker at Port Adelaide said.
“I agree, put that one down for me too,” said the club’s head of finance (watch your pay packet Bobby).
“What sort of person would do that?” one teammate said walking through the halls of Alberton.
Evidently, “He’s a real scumbag,” as muttered by a livid coach sitting morosely at his desk on Tuesday morning.
And is he apologetic? No. In fact Bobby basically admits he’s pure evil.
“I don’t even watch the program and I knew a few of the boys always get together to watch the show, so it was aimed at them,” he said.
“I’ve got a few more spoiler alerts up my sleeve too.”
As one person wrote on his Facebook wall, focus on defending Bobby, because you might cop it from a few the next time you have a bad game…
