It was the best of times, it was the blurst of times….Actually no, 2025 sucked in so many different ways, and as ever The Gurgler website have moaned about most of the people and things that caused this all year long. And as is now traditional, and in the 10th edition we assemble the blurst of the blurst and offer up our 2025 Jerk of the Year Nominations.
Every year since 2016, The Gurgler has picked out the worst people, groups and things from the year that was, full of bias, with some of that unfair, but there’s one thing in common, being a jerk. So it’s really not us, it’s you (to the jerks). We get that list of jerks and hand it over to the few reader that the website has, and let a democratic vote of the people crown the 2025 Jerk of the Year.
But you should always vote with some background, so we have provided the 2025 Jerk of the Year form guide before our official 2025 Jerk of the Year voting art the bottom.
And always, Vote Early, Vote Often.
2025 Jerk of the Year Nominations Vote Now
Vote early, vote often. And follow the form guide below.
2025 Jerk of the Year Nominations Form Guide
Here’s a quick run down of all the nominations and the reasons they are part of this exclusive club.
POLITICS
It would be so easy to nominate one person from politics, and lord knows that certain people would deserve a solo nomination but is it really the person or the game they are in – politics?
The quick answer is f–k no, it’s person for sure, but the long answer and the one we are taking for 2025 Jerk of the Year is that all politics and most politicians as jerks.
There’s a few we like, and some of them make it to our 2025 Person of the Year, but not many. If any. And also too many.
And we really don’t wanna clog this voting process up with hundreds of people.
Politics have become so ferociously one side over another that people are blind to good and bad. Some as mild as Australia’s Albo are the worst thing that has ever happened, but others will tell you that a gentleman in charge of the USA is, and then others will tell you he is the greatest thing to happen ever. Then you work out that most politicians suck anyway.
All of that get tiresome after a while, especially but this time of the year when Jerk of the Year noms need to be finalised. So here is your first 2025 Jerk of the Year Nomination, all politics.
TWITTER AKA X
Following on from the politicians is the airspace that they live and breathe. Or that allows politics to be so awful.
In fairness, most social media probably deserves a nomination for Jerk of the Year, but no one and nothing on earth peddles hate, from both side of politics like Twitter.
It doesn’t help that one of the most unlikeable people on the face of the earth runs the show, who could very well have been up for a personal nomination as well.
Below him are people that use free speech as a cover for being truly awful. The end result is a mix of hate, racism, ignorance, sport clickbait, virtue signaling from big companies and any sponsored content.
And a Jerk of the Year nomination.
NEWS LIMITED ONLINE COMMENTS SECTION
One step lower than Twitter for ignorance is any News Ltd Comments section for Australian based websites.
Spoiler alert – everything is Albo’s fault.
CHANNEL NEIN
For their insistence on Wednesday State of Origin, Sunday night Grand Finals, and Mat Thompson screaming instead of commentating. And for any sports broadcasting of theirs this decade. And before.
SKY F1
The most biased sporting commentary team in any sport in the world. Their obsession with certain drivers has made the pre and post session coverage almost unwatchable, and for some slightly tarred their reputations as superior broadcasters. Although, must exclude Karun Chandhok who has been a shining light. But they got what they wanted, which might make 2026 even worse.
DANICA PATRICK
Talk about getting worse, the Sky F1 coverage did on multiple times in 2025 as Danica Patrick joined in. The worst sporting special comments person in the world. A conversation killer who adds to Sky’s unwatchable-ness when in America. And this is no bias that you have to be an ex-F1 driver or Champion, or have to be from Europe, and is certainly not biased against females as most in the Sky F1 cast are excellent. This is purely that Danica Patrick is the worst motorsport contributor around. She’s the Lance Stroll of F1 punditry.
LANCE STROLL
Lance Stroll is the Lance Stroll of F1 Drivers. With places on the F1 grid are so limited, what a shame one is wasted on this pathetic Daddy’s boy. How someone who appears to outwardly hate being an F1 driver so much is beyond belief as it is one of the greatest jobs in the world alongside beer quality control officer, the guy who designs the patterns of lawn mowing on sports grounds and train driver. The sooner he retires himself the better for everyone. Including the hundreds of better drivers in multiple racing series around the world who deserve an F1 seat more.
FIA PRESIDENT – MOHAMMED BEN SULAYEM
Is as popular in F1 as a McLaren team order or Lance Stroll, the FIA President has ruled F1 miserably being disliked by fans, drivers and teams alike, with his only fans being the people he tells to be. Sacked key people, mostly for no good reason, threatened bans for swearing and wearing jewelry, and for others merely breathing. Sadly looks like he might run unopposed and let his awful reign continue. Tis the year for awful people being in charge.
FIFA PRESIDENT – GIANNI INFANTINO
And we all though Sepp Blatter was the worst sporting president ever. The latest has asked the world to hold many beers. Whereas Blatter appeared to be just plain corrupt, Infantino looks to be next level comedy bad guy boss. The FIFA Peace Prize is among the largest acts of public arse kissing seen in history.
BUZZ ROTHFIELD
An annual inclusion for rugby league’s most pitiful contributor. Disguises his hatred of rugby league through dropping half hints and knowing stuff. Maybe he does, and maybe we just don’t believe it. How someone can do a job for so long in an industry he appears to hate is amazing. The fact he works for News Ltd doesn’t help.
FOSSIE BEAR
The Muppet Show isn’t funny, just a collection of muppets crazily going about things pretending to know what they’re doing. But of all the Muppets in the Muppet Show Fossie Bear is the very worse. A comedian who isn’t funny is about the most useless thing on earth. Not that he doesn’t make you laugh, just not for the reasons he is intending.
JONESES
Problem with Joneses is you only get a small amount of time to enjoy their jerkdom. One minute they’re your best friend, happy to take advantage of your generosity and friendship, the next minute they’ve upgraded and found something better as they always do. Once your usefulness to them is complete, you get nothing but empty death stares for no reason other than they are now better than you. Of course you’ve done nothing wrong, but that doesn’t matter. You no longer matter. The only thing is left to wonder what you’ve ever done wrong and wonder if you were just being used the whole time, and hand them a vote for Jerk of the Year.
BOM
For changing a perfectly good website over in the middle of the traditional severe storm season. And paying $95M to have a website that was worse than the predecessor and not better than a 35 year old single man’s blog about the worst overgrown public footpaths in Sydney. You’d think that the BOM would have been able to forecast when to changeover a website and predict that people wouldn’t prefer it.
PEOPLE
Finally, at the heart of an awful 2025 are people. Most people. Awful people. And people being awful. Not just big, awful things. Lots of little awful things, by awful people or people being awful.
