Baaa!!!
A list of things in our society that I feel a need to vent about right now.
- The growing trend to "Adding Value" to products. Go into any grocery store and you will find very little real food that you can cook yourself. It probably started with cake mixes. Cake mixes will shave off about 1 minute and 30 seconds from the preparation time (I've timed it), but I have met some people who have made a special trip to the store just to buy one, and you still have to add your own eggs. This is not limited to food, check out home depot. I went to the cavernous "real Canadian Superstore", inflicted upon us by "the center of the universe", and couldn't find paste wax for my tools, the other day.
- The bleating people who buy these things. These mindless sheep seem to believe anything that advertising tells them, get lazier and lazier as the years go by.
- Unions, they have outlived their usefulness in society and if people only realized how they are being taken advantage of they wouldn't sign up for them. They suck the ambition out of society and force people to look inward and ignore anyone else's well being or even existence. They cause huge disruptions in the lives of others but deny any responsibility for it.
- The bleating people who succumb to these manipulative beasts. These mindless sheep seem to believe anything that they are told by the unions, they get lazier and lazier each time they are told they are owed more and more by society, and should return less and less to it.
- The beast that the automobile industry has become. If you think of all the things related as well as all the roads, the extra trucks needed to haul related products, pollution related disease treatments and thousands of other things, you begin to realize what a sore on the buttocks of the world, the automobile industry really is. We have the technology to build little fibreglass shells big enough for about six people to sit in McDonalds style seats, hang them from rails supported by steel light posts and run by little electric motors similar to the ones in a washing machine. If buttons similar to those in an elevator were put on a map inside, and call buttons were put on the posts, a $1000, computer could probably run a whole community. It could keep track of patterns of use and anticipate them by placing empty cars at strategic points around the system. I'll bet some high school kids could design a system like this and build it for less than the cost of about twenty new cars.
- The bleating people who buy cars as status symbols rather than a simple vehicle to get them from A to B. These mindless sheep complain about the price of gas but have no idea of the real cost to them. Even depreciation and maintenance costs would surprise them if they realized they existed, let alone the tax money consumed for roads and other things. People get lazier and lazier, check out the number of people who circle the parking spaces near the door of a shopping mall for hours so they don't have to walk too far. If they only knew, they could have parked a little further away, gone in, bought what they came for, come out and gone home by the time they get a "close spot".
- The cost of some services is out of control. In a certain city in the U.S. there was the famous case of the runaway bride. They searched for her over a couple of days and the cost is said to have been about $100,000 dollars US. A hundred years ago, someone would stand on a box in the middle of the street and get the crowd worked up to the point where they would all pull out those large sticks that seem to have a magical eternal flames on one end, and go off looking for the person. I have seen this in countless old movies. How did this change to a cost of $100,000. all of a sudden.
- If you come home to find someone has broken into your house, and you phone the police, they tell you to phone your insurance agent because there isn't anything they can do about it. Then they release statistics that say break and enter and theft crimes have dropped off dramatically in the last 20 years. Of course it has, nobody bothers to report it anymore.
- Schools teach to the level of the dumbest kids in the class so that everyone passes. This looks very successful in the statistics, but in reality it is causing real problems in society. My daughter ordered something on eBay from someone in the U.S. and then she asked the person what the shipping charges would be. The person said that it would be $2. in North America and $3. internationally. Since we live in Canada which is a different nation than the U.S., we both found this to be a sad commentary on the product of the education system.
- The way the news media has gone from reporting important issues to the sensational, cheap to produce issues. I think I first noticed it during the trial of O. J. Simpson (no relation to Homer). Then a few years ago the media went nuts covering the disappearance of some American congressman's mistress while there was only a back page entry about hundreds of kids who were thrown off a boat and drowned just before the boat was boarded to look for slaves destined to be forced to pick cocoa beans in Africa. Think about that next time you eat a nice chocolate.
- The bleating people who lap this type of reporting. These mindless sheep are more interested in which celebrity slept with which other celebrity than the fact that North America's supply of natural gas is going to run out in about ten years and between now and then the price of it is going to keep going up, causing huge upheavals in the economy (and their way of life).
- Why do homeless people (at least the able bodied ones) tend to congregate in the most expensive places in the center of the biggest cities. Nothing grows there. They could live a much healthier life and have a much better chance of getting a start in life, if they were to go to the fringes of society. Places where there are fewer people and more nature to live off. Places where a place to live would be affordable to someone who, with a little imagination could make a decent living. There are many people who legitimately do not have the mental facilities to do this but these are the ones who should be enumerated by society and given help. With the internet and other modern advancements in our society, we have the ability to solve this problem as well. It just doesn't seem to be a priority.
- I have many more but I better stop now before anyone who reads this, nods off.
- The growing trend to "Adding Value" to products. Go into any grocery store and you will find very little real food that you can cook yourself. It probably started with cake mixes. Cake mixes will shave off about 1 minute and 30 seconds from the preparation time (I've timed it), but I have met some people who have made a special trip to the store just to buy one, and you still have to add your own eggs. This is not limited to food, check out home depot. I went to the cavernous "real Canadian Superstore", inflicted upon us by "the center of the universe", and couldn't find paste wax for my tools, the other day.
- The bleating people who buy these things. These mindless sheep seem to believe anything that advertising tells them, get lazier and lazier as the years go by.
- Unions, they have outlived their usefulness in society and if people only realized how they are being taken advantage of they wouldn't sign up for them. They suck the ambition out of society and force people to look inward and ignore anyone else's well being or even existence. They cause huge disruptions in the lives of others but deny any responsibility for it.
- The bleating people who succumb to these manipulative beasts. These mindless sheep seem to believe anything that they are told by the unions, they get lazier and lazier each time they are told they are owed more and more by society, and should return less and less to it.
- The beast that the automobile industry has become. If you think of all the things related as well as all the roads, the extra trucks needed to haul related products, pollution related disease treatments and thousands of other things, you begin to realize what a sore on the buttocks of the world, the automobile industry really is. We have the technology to build little fibreglass shells big enough for about six people to sit in McDonalds style seats, hang them from rails supported by steel light posts and run by little electric motors similar to the ones in a washing machine. If buttons similar to those in an elevator were put on a map inside, and call buttons were put on the posts, a $1000, computer could probably run a whole community. It could keep track of patterns of use and anticipate them by placing empty cars at strategic points around the system. I'll bet some high school kids could design a system like this and build it for less than the cost of about twenty new cars.
- The bleating people who buy cars as status symbols rather than a simple vehicle to get them from A to B. These mindless sheep complain about the price of gas but have no idea of the real cost to them. Even depreciation and maintenance costs would surprise them if they realized they existed, let alone the tax money consumed for roads and other things. People get lazier and lazier, check out the number of people who circle the parking spaces near the door of a shopping mall for hours so they don't have to walk too far. If they only knew, they could have parked a little further away, gone in, bought what they came for, come out and gone home by the time they get a "close spot".
- The cost of some services is out of control. In a certain city in the U.S. there was the famous case of the runaway bride. They searched for her over a couple of days and the cost is said to have been about $100,000 dollars US. A hundred years ago, someone would stand on a box in the middle of the street and get the crowd worked up to the point where they would all pull out those large sticks that seem to have a magical eternal flames on one end, and go off looking for the person. I have seen this in countless old movies. How did this change to a cost of $100,000. all of a sudden.
- If you come home to find someone has broken into your house, and you phone the police, they tell you to phone your insurance agent because there isn't anything they can do about it. Then they release statistics that say break and enter and theft crimes have dropped off dramatically in the last 20 years. Of course it has, nobody bothers to report it anymore.
- Schools teach to the level of the dumbest kids in the class so that everyone passes. This looks very successful in the statistics, but in reality it is causing real problems in society. My daughter ordered something on eBay from someone in the U.S. and then she asked the person what the shipping charges would be. The person said that it would be $2. in North America and $3. internationally. Since we live in Canada which is a different nation than the U.S., we both found this to be a sad commentary on the product of the education system.
- The way the news media has gone from reporting important issues to the sensational, cheap to produce issues. I think I first noticed it during the trial of O. J. Simpson (no relation to Homer). Then a few years ago the media went nuts covering the disappearance of some American congressman's mistress while there was only a back page entry about hundreds of kids who were thrown off a boat and drowned just before the boat was boarded to look for slaves destined to be forced to pick cocoa beans in Africa. Think about that next time you eat a nice chocolate.
- The bleating people who lap this type of reporting. These mindless sheep are more interested in which celebrity slept with which other celebrity than the fact that North America's supply of natural gas is going to run out in about ten years and between now and then the price of it is going to keep going up, causing huge upheavals in the economy (and their way of life).
- Why do homeless people (at least the able bodied ones) tend to congregate in the most expensive places in the center of the biggest cities. Nothing grows there. They could live a much healthier life and have a much better chance of getting a start in life, if they were to go to the fringes of society. Places where there are fewer people and more nature to live off. Places where a place to live would be affordable to someone who, with a little imagination could make a decent living. There are many people who legitimately do not have the mental facilities to do this but these are the ones who should be enumerated by society and given help. With the internet and other modern advancements in our society, we have the ability to solve this problem as well. It just doesn't seem to be a priority.
- I have many more but I better stop now before anyone who reads this, nods off.