Nice to see some things are getting back to normal after a particularly weird 2022

It was the year the price of a lettuce rose to $15. Joe Hildebrand looks back on 2022, the weirdest 12 months on record.

Ah 2022, we hardly knew you. Honestly, what do you give the year that has everything other than a wave goodbye?

It began with the nation still lurching through Covid restrictions and various chicken littles still wailing that it was too soon to open up.

Indeed a few of them still are, so it’s nice to know that some things don’t change.

Prime Minister Anthony Albanese. Picture: AAP

Then it rained a lot, then Anthony Albanese became prime minister, then it rained a lot again.

And somewhere in the middle of all of this, the Russians tried to launch WWIII but the West courageously avoided this by doing nothing.

But then Ukraine seemed to actually start beating the Russians, and so the West started helping them and pretended that this had been the plan all along.

It was a bit like how Australia was invaded by the Teals, who were just as belligerent as the Russians and just as ultimately ineffective but, to their credit, somehow more annoying.

Former US President Donald Trump. Picture: Getty Images/AFP

Meanwhile, America managed to, well, keep being America.

Joe Biden managed to stay upright most days and Donald Trump announced a comeback, which surprised many people who didn’t realise he’d ever really gone away.

Indeed, the only place Trump didn’t come back to was Twitter, even though Elon Musk paid $US44 billion just so he could. Oh well.

Elon Musk. Picture: AFP

Sir Elton John. Picture: Getty Images

In fact, Twitter actually died in 2022 — or at least that was what everyone on Twitter said.

As it turned out, their definition of Twitter dying was Elton John leaving.

And who knows? Perhaps it really is the same thing.

The price of lettuce rose to $15.

And, somewhere in the middle of all this, the price of a lettuce rose to $15, all part of an economic crisis caused by the economy going too well.

As a result, the government is capping coal and gas prices because coal and gas producers are screwing us, but the producers say the wholesalers are screwing us, and the wholesalers say the retailers are screwing us.

And so, after what is probably the weirdest year on record, it’s nice to see some things are at least getting back to normal. Happy Christmas!