In the last years I have confronted with a lot of trends: did not found stuff to do it myself, found poor quality products for hobbyists, found overpriced hobby products but at a good quality and at the moment watching how diy gets overpriced and at the worst quality.
I like to build things on my own, helps me to cope with stress and keeps my creativity sharp. This does not mean I do not purchase ready made things but from time to time do my own because I want to have a feature that you can't find on the ready made products or you can't modify the ready made product to fit my vision or other various reasons when a "do it yourself" attitude is more fit to the job.
Today I will talk guitars, electric guitars! I know that for some is a hobby, and hobbies should be expensive, for some is a way of life, for some is to collect as many rare models as possible, for some is a job and for some they do not mean anything.
Well, I started when I had a very beaten old second-third-fourth-tenth-hand guitar, but it was the first electric guitar I have bought in high-school with my own money. It was completely messed up, someone painted over the original color with a thick layer of nitro, was dented, chipped paint, the mechanics were with two decades over the end of life - missing teeth, the sound was not the best, the nut needed replacement, the bridge looked like a piece of metal from junkyard, fret wood was dry like a desert and dirty form the years of abuse, there was a big space in the neck-pocket and the fret wires were eaten.
At this point, normally, a guitar in this condition would have ended in the trash because to revive such a mess would have costed me like 1000 EUR without too much high end stuff on it. So, to make long story short (I will write a post about how I did and what - with pictures too) I managed to repair most of the issues, repainted it, and now it has a new life, where I like to play it and look at it.
After this I said ... "what the hell, I do my own guitars" and here is where the pain starts. Since I do not have the space, the situation (I am not a company so some products I can't purchase straight from the factory), and the money to go and buy CNC machines, special wood and so on and so forth I have to rely on DIY kits.
In Germany there is a cheap Chinese "brand" sold here as Rocktile, they have let's say honestly fair ready made products, cheap but somehow well made. The main distributor (maybe he is the one who came with the branding anyways) sells also DIY kits. While you are expecting that a kit costs maybe just a bit under the finished products here comes the surprise:
Single cut model - Kit 119 EUR - Finished product 92 EUR - Cheapest Epiphone LP 99 EUR
Strat style - Kit 79.99 EUR - Finished 82.99 EUR - Cheapest Fender Squier around 120 EUR
So at least the ST style is fitting the bill, you would say, but hell no, I have seen the cheapest ST from Rocktile because I have one and looks 2 times better made than the kit. I would not blame the Chinese producer but I think that the nice German businessman looked around and said "why not!?!?" take the crappiest kits since well ... you have to work on them and sell them almost at the same price or even higher than the finished products.
Then there are some other companies that sell kits - like ML-Factory. The difference is that they also got some other wood options but at twice the price and looks like the producer is the same Chinese guy when you look at the models (some have some extra models) which you can buy ready made cheap Chinese and the bodies you can buy from the diy business.
ML goes even more pervert, I can buy a mahogany body kit at 359 EUR where at those money I can buy a good Epiphone with finished body, better electronics and same wood used for build, hell I can buy same wood even cheaper and ready to rock.
Still in guitar area: buy a ready made brand tube amp and purchase a diy tube amp kit with all the parts hanging in a bag ready for you to work next days .... guess which one is cheaper and sometimes better quality.
Buy wood to make your own furniture for garage or whatever?!?! Find better one and ready made at Ikea.
It looks like everything that you can do on your own gets expensive, I get it, the industry wants me to buy from them and if not pay the premium price. But let's face it, we turn into the iciocracy world anyways. People do not change their own lights switches anymore, power outlet!?!?! God forbid to mess up with the wires. My grandparents lived in a world where they rebuild the houses themselves, paint the fence, build their things on their own, my parents could do some of this stuff but not so much, the biggest thing was to do small repairs on the car on your own .... today you don't change a light bulb on your own. We are idiots so why the fear that 5 people will do stuff on their own?
Before, the hobby stuff was expensive because well, who had time for hobby had money too, but the materials were high quality, because he who pays has some standards and expectations.
Today is all expensive and of bad quality, or you have to pay for a bare wood the price I would usually give for a premium product.
Wonder where will go the policy of DIY pricing.
Showing posts with label life questions. Show all posts
Showing posts with label life questions. Show all posts
RTW with a blog asking for money kind of people
My criticism strikes again.
We all have seen those kind of "travelers" who always try to imply that they do what they are doing, for us the rest of the lesser people.
Few months ago I was reading how such a specimen was bubbling on Facebook about how hard is for him to travel, how many ordeals he needs to endure in order to bring us pictures. Then come home dear, no one sent you there!
How should I put it ... since the edge of civilization people traveled, some more, some less. Some even wrote books about their travels and about the cultures they encountered. Some of those writings are today the only source of historical relevance about a certain place and a certain time.
Later, when we discovered that we can make money out of it, some traveled and continued to write books about their travels. They got money by selling them, maybe they sponsored their next trip with the money from the books. Who knows?!?
There were always people who traveled for themselves and others who traveled to show off. I have no problem with both of them, each on its own they say. I have a absolute repulsion on the next stage, the modern traveler - beggar - prostitute.
If we look at details, every time we can find an excuse: what is wrong that X got sponsored by XZY company? What is wrong that some people donate to some other guy? And actually none of these are wrong! I mean I do not preach here that no one should get something unless every one gets it too, this is small minded.
What I really hate is the big picture, and let's look at it:
One guy or girl, quits the job and suddenly is being sponsored by not one, not two but more companies. Ok ... not that if you would ask any of those companies to get something, you will get it for free, even if you travel a lot.
Now, he / she has a tip-top bike with bleeding edge tech, top of the range clothing (we, the foot-folk will be happy with just half of it or with half of the money they cost so we can get fully equipped).
Some shipping companies even give a discount based on .... I do not know exactly why and how.
Now the trip starts .... he / she will travel in a part of the world for x months. Every day you get to see amazing pictures. They say they do the images themselves, I can trust some of them, I can believe that they are struggling to get that amazing pic - I do it myself and I know how frustrating is when something goes wrong, but I prefer to travel rather than to play self glorification on Instagram.
Now the big questionmarks
1. How the hell they always get good weather - I want to see them soaked, full of mud - usually this is what I get when I travel, not endless days of beautiful sky.
2. How on earth do their bikes look every time like brand new - mine is like a pig after few days, with a bit of luck and rain from the first day.
3. Always some indigenous people are around their bike or on their bike doing nice pics - I may travel in the wrong places, usually I end up with some homeless guys telling me the story of their life.
4. Why do they like to recommend parts and bike models - easy one, they would not spit on the face of their sponsors.
5. How that they get servicing first class even in the remote parts of the world, not to mention .... some of them for free - are you serious!?!?!
6. Are they able to do minor repairs on their own? I bet 90% no
7. Suddenly some locals start to show them hidden treasures of the country - ah ok .... suddenly someone says I make holidays because X is in tow so I can ride along. I do not know if we fit but what the heck ... I will get in the end a Instagram tag.
8. Real travel with having time to make video documentary, photo documentary and write a book ... these people are awesome can do more than we can .... ok ...
9. Where the hell they get internet in the middle of nowhere!?!?!
10. Where the hell do they get power supply .... editing a video takes time, rendering, cutting, post processing ... not to mention the time you work, the time you let the software do their rendering, loading all the devices ... Yes I know ... hotel and motorcycle battery ... but really, for months in the middle of nowhere!?!? how the hell you upload the video to YouTube, how the hell you update your blog daily ....
11. Are they really staying out camping or this is just for the picture, for the rest is the cosy hotel down the capital city.
12. How that their clothes look like new even after months of traveling with wild camping? This is a X files case for me.
Getting past those questions now comes the ugly personality side:
- asking money to continue travel - work you bitch, we all do, work and travel, there are people who do this, even if they take low jobs for one two three months somewhere, they spare to the last dime and then they have enough for the next leg of the travel. I respect those people.
- implying that they travel for me - seriously? I travel for myself, thank you!
- playing the victim card with how much they endure for that travel - go buck a fuffalo! Your choice, you can go home anytime now.
- opening all kind of virtual begging accounts - patreon, crowdfunding and so on ... duuude
- after the travel playing macho at all bikers meetings, being now a paid speaker and except the fact he gets money for this (shows the same ppt for years) sells also his junk overpriced stickers, books dvd
- no real human contact, unless you can be of interest - sexually or financially
- self importance
- expecting to be treated as V.I.P.
What is more disturbing is that they are setting trends, they are advertising overpriced shit which nobody needs actually, the bikes that they ride are not the most reliable but with the biggest price tag, some are talking that they even do not ride all the way, but pay a transport and then just make a picture - actually this explains the three questions I had - clean clothes, clean bike and internet all day.
And on top of that we are reminded gracefully that they are doing this for us!
Do you feel that someone is traveling for you? I certainly not and when I see pictures from the areas I have been, I can't notice that they are hanging mostly on tourist spots and kind of fake world where they are charged to make a picture with some local. After all I kind of feel sorry for them with regard to travel experiences. For the financial joker they try to pull on us ... I resent them. But that's life!
If you disagree .... Please pay for my next vacation!!!!!! I promise to send you pictures
We all have seen those kind of "travelers" who always try to imply that they do what they are doing, for us the rest of the lesser people.
Few months ago I was reading how such a specimen was bubbling on Facebook about how hard is for him to travel, how many ordeals he needs to endure in order to bring us pictures. Then come home dear, no one sent you there!
How should I put it ... since the edge of civilization people traveled, some more, some less. Some even wrote books about their travels and about the cultures they encountered. Some of those writings are today the only source of historical relevance about a certain place and a certain time.
Later, when we discovered that we can make money out of it, some traveled and continued to write books about their travels. They got money by selling them, maybe they sponsored their next trip with the money from the books. Who knows?!?
There were always people who traveled for themselves and others who traveled to show off. I have no problem with both of them, each on its own they say. I have a absolute repulsion on the next stage, the modern traveler - beggar - prostitute.
If we look at details, every time we can find an excuse: what is wrong that X got sponsored by XZY company? What is wrong that some people donate to some other guy? And actually none of these are wrong! I mean I do not preach here that no one should get something unless every one gets it too, this is small minded.
What I really hate is the big picture, and let's look at it:
One guy or girl, quits the job and suddenly is being sponsored by not one, not two but more companies. Ok ... not that if you would ask any of those companies to get something, you will get it for free, even if you travel a lot.
Now, he / she has a tip-top bike with bleeding edge tech, top of the range clothing (we, the foot-folk will be happy with just half of it or with half of the money they cost so we can get fully equipped).
Some shipping companies even give a discount based on .... I do not know exactly why and how.
Now the trip starts .... he / she will travel in a part of the world for x months. Every day you get to see amazing pictures. They say they do the images themselves, I can trust some of them, I can believe that they are struggling to get that amazing pic - I do it myself and I know how frustrating is when something goes wrong, but I prefer to travel rather than to play self glorification on Instagram.
Now the big questionmarks
1. How the hell they always get good weather - I want to see them soaked, full of mud - usually this is what I get when I travel, not endless days of beautiful sky.
2. How on earth do their bikes look every time like brand new - mine is like a pig after few days, with a bit of luck and rain from the first day.
3. Always some indigenous people are around their bike or on their bike doing nice pics - I may travel in the wrong places, usually I end up with some homeless guys telling me the story of their life.
4. Why do they like to recommend parts and bike models - easy one, they would not spit on the face of their sponsors.
5. How that they get servicing first class even in the remote parts of the world, not to mention .... some of them for free - are you serious!?!?!
6. Are they able to do minor repairs on their own? I bet 90% no
7. Suddenly some locals start to show them hidden treasures of the country - ah ok .... suddenly someone says I make holidays because X is in tow so I can ride along. I do not know if we fit but what the heck ... I will get in the end a Instagram tag.
8. Real travel with having time to make video documentary, photo documentary and write a book ... these people are awesome can do more than we can .... ok ...
9. Where the hell they get internet in the middle of nowhere!?!?!
10. Where the hell do they get power supply .... editing a video takes time, rendering, cutting, post processing ... not to mention the time you work, the time you let the software do their rendering, loading all the devices ... Yes I know ... hotel and motorcycle battery ... but really, for months in the middle of nowhere!?!? how the hell you upload the video to YouTube, how the hell you update your blog daily ....
11. Are they really staying out camping or this is just for the picture, for the rest is the cosy hotel down the capital city.
12. How that their clothes look like new even after months of traveling with wild camping? This is a X files case for me.
Getting past those questions now comes the ugly personality side:
- asking money to continue travel - work you bitch, we all do, work and travel, there are people who do this, even if they take low jobs for one two three months somewhere, they spare to the last dime and then they have enough for the next leg of the travel. I respect those people.
- implying that they travel for me - seriously? I travel for myself, thank you!
- playing the victim card with how much they endure for that travel - go buck a fuffalo! Your choice, you can go home anytime now.
- opening all kind of virtual begging accounts - patreon, crowdfunding and so on ... duuude
- after the travel playing macho at all bikers meetings, being now a paid speaker and except the fact he gets money for this (shows the same ppt for years) sells also his junk overpriced stickers, books dvd
- no real human contact, unless you can be of interest - sexually or financially
- self importance
- expecting to be treated as V.I.P.
What is more disturbing is that they are setting trends, they are advertising overpriced shit which nobody needs actually, the bikes that they ride are not the most reliable but with the biggest price tag, some are talking that they even do not ride all the way, but pay a transport and then just make a picture - actually this explains the three questions I had - clean clothes, clean bike and internet all day.
And on top of that we are reminded gracefully that they are doing this for us!
Do you feel that someone is traveling for you? I certainly not and when I see pictures from the areas I have been, I can't notice that they are hanging mostly on tourist spots and kind of fake world where they are charged to make a picture with some local. After all I kind of feel sorry for them with regard to travel experiences. For the financial joker they try to pull on us ... I resent them. But that's life!
If you disagree .... Please pay for my next vacation!!!!!! I promise to send you pictures
Targeted advertising - evil surveillance or marketing tool?
Have you ever looked after a product on Amazon and later you see an ad for that product on your Facebook? Or searched online after some things and later you see those things again and again in form of advertising everywhere you go? Well that's targeted advertising, at least a form of it.
Targeted advertising comes in many flavors, some subtle, some annoying and some more obtrusive. I wouldn't go into the direction of conspiracy theory, even if this is the easiest way and the internet is full of that, but I would go more on an analytic view or approach.
Targeted advertising comes in many flavors, some subtle, some annoying and some more obtrusive. I wouldn't go into the direction of conspiracy theory, even if this is the easiest way and the internet is full of that, but I would go more on an analytic view or approach.
(Media) Studies are teaching you just to solve first world luxury problems
I had studied civil engineering so I am a sort of engineer and afterwards I studied Interactive Digital Media followed by a Master in the same field.
During my many years of study I always wondered why we learn only things that solve luxury problems for the first world. Ok, maybe with civil engineering is not the case since you can build houses for the poor and infrastructure, even if in real life they build them by themselves since they can't afford to pay a company, so in the end even with engineering you still solve only rich people problems.
With Media studies is a different world. Since I made my studies at a university of applied sciences the whole study was focused on practice, each subject we studied had also a project attached. This is very well, nothing to complain, nothing is better than hands-on practical stuff. Now comes the part that makes me worry for all those years all the projects I have seen (from my semester, higher semesters and lower semesters) were only useless "first world rich hipster problem solvers".
Don't get me wrong, I didn't want to see save Bigfoot projects, or rain forest or other extreme social stuff. It is not my kind to believe that helping poor african kids by giving them a fish will solve their problem as long as you don't teach them to fish and as long as you interfere with their politics just to keep the money rolling into your NGO.
The thing that scares me is that my colleagues are the ones that will be at one point decision makers, trend setters and will flood the market with this kind of things. All the project I have seen or concepts are futuristic but in a wrong way, in the way that will break your contact with real world and immerse you in the digital world by purchasing gadgets, apps and useless luxury products just for fun or to be cool. I mean ... ambient intelligence for pubs and hotels, augmented reality sport apps, smart fridge, smart kitchen, intelligent car, smart dirty clothes bin, free parking places app, indoor navigation and the list can continue ... but can't we really live without them? Do I need a navigation device for shopping mall? Do I need my fridge to send me email that I need to buy milk? I can see with my own eyes! They are nice to have for fun gadgets but are not necessary, are luxury products that will help out world to become dumb and dependent on electronics.
I contributed at this thing too, was not my thing but you go with the flow, you don't want to be the biggest freak in the class. But all stopped at ambient intelligence where we wanted to combine nature with electronics and we used "real" water and was a big disappointment for everyone that our team didn't made it with digital water, it would have been cool. For my bachelor degree I was the only one to do something useless - a documentary for bikers with bikers. The other were only with augmented reality, intelligent play rooms, virtual reality games, smart elevator full with targeted advertising. This is what is expected to do, to serve the trendsetters, to dream Google glass integration, to dream virtual reality, all for the sake of money.
Why is wrong? You know you learn a lot of things from micro controllers to smartphone apps and you choose to create only things for rich people. Ok, you can't stop poverty or hunger but at least you can try to make more useful things than an app to help revolutions and riots, or a device to help you relax after one day of work that requires a separate room or at least half of it (you can relax at a lake with a book in hands).
A device maybe is never a solution for a poor man but can be for a person in need, for old people, for sick people, for blind people or for deaf people. I don't need a device to tell me how is the weather outside when I get out of bed since I have eyes to look outside and I can see if is sunny or is raining, a blind man for sure will need to know how is outside since the eyes are not helping. But which is the percentage of blind people? How many of them you can target? Maybe 5% of them? As business this is not wise, because if you can target 5% of the world you are rich, if you target 5% of the blind people you need a job.
The studies are preparing you to enter in the business world, to help big companies to go forward and earn more money ... so how can you do this if you are not learned from school to make things only for the rich, useless luxury products. Why they don't teach you about Tesla and to make you curious how to get free energy, or simple basic chemistry to make your own soap and own perfume and detergent? Because you need to produce money. And now if you say "oh, good that I studied social sciences and I help people" let me tell you that you are like me, you help people to remain in the system so you can have a job tomorrow. Social or not social studies are all making the same thing creating jobs and maintaining them by keeping other people dependent to the system and serving the rich by using the poor, and it has to stay like this, you need rich people to make the poor work more dreaming that they will get one day rich, and you need poor to have a working horse eager to spend money on useless stuff in their way of dreaming to be rich.
During my many years of study I always wondered why we learn only things that solve luxury problems for the first world. Ok, maybe with civil engineering is not the case since you can build houses for the poor and infrastructure, even if in real life they build them by themselves since they can't afford to pay a company, so in the end even with engineering you still solve only rich people problems.
With Media studies is a different world. Since I made my studies at a university of applied sciences the whole study was focused on practice, each subject we studied had also a project attached. This is very well, nothing to complain, nothing is better than hands-on practical stuff. Now comes the part that makes me worry for all those years all the projects I have seen (from my semester, higher semesters and lower semesters) were only useless "first world rich hipster problem solvers".
Don't get me wrong, I didn't want to see save Bigfoot projects, or rain forest or other extreme social stuff. It is not my kind to believe that helping poor african kids by giving them a fish will solve their problem as long as you don't teach them to fish and as long as you interfere with their politics just to keep the money rolling into your NGO.
The thing that scares me is that my colleagues are the ones that will be at one point decision makers, trend setters and will flood the market with this kind of things. All the project I have seen or concepts are futuristic but in a wrong way, in the way that will break your contact with real world and immerse you in the digital world by purchasing gadgets, apps and useless luxury products just for fun or to be cool. I mean ... ambient intelligence for pubs and hotels, augmented reality sport apps, smart fridge, smart kitchen, intelligent car, smart dirty clothes bin, free parking places app, indoor navigation and the list can continue ... but can't we really live without them? Do I need a navigation device for shopping mall? Do I need my fridge to send me email that I need to buy milk? I can see with my own eyes! They are nice to have for fun gadgets but are not necessary, are luxury products that will help out world to become dumb and dependent on electronics.
I contributed at this thing too, was not my thing but you go with the flow, you don't want to be the biggest freak in the class. But all stopped at ambient intelligence where we wanted to combine nature with electronics and we used "real" water and was a big disappointment for everyone that our team didn't made it with digital water, it would have been cool. For my bachelor degree I was the only one to do something useless - a documentary for bikers with bikers. The other were only with augmented reality, intelligent play rooms, virtual reality games, smart elevator full with targeted advertising. This is what is expected to do, to serve the trendsetters, to dream Google glass integration, to dream virtual reality, all for the sake of money.
Why is wrong? You know you learn a lot of things from micro controllers to smartphone apps and you choose to create only things for rich people. Ok, you can't stop poverty or hunger but at least you can try to make more useful things than an app to help revolutions and riots, or a device to help you relax after one day of work that requires a separate room or at least half of it (you can relax at a lake with a book in hands).
A device maybe is never a solution for a poor man but can be for a person in need, for old people, for sick people, for blind people or for deaf people. I don't need a device to tell me how is the weather outside when I get out of bed since I have eyes to look outside and I can see if is sunny or is raining, a blind man for sure will need to know how is outside since the eyes are not helping. But which is the percentage of blind people? How many of them you can target? Maybe 5% of them? As business this is not wise, because if you can target 5% of the world you are rich, if you target 5% of the blind people you need a job.
The studies are preparing you to enter in the business world, to help big companies to go forward and earn more money ... so how can you do this if you are not learned from school to make things only for the rich, useless luxury products. Why they don't teach you about Tesla and to make you curious how to get free energy, or simple basic chemistry to make your own soap and own perfume and detergent? Because you need to produce money. And now if you say "oh, good that I studied social sciences and I help people" let me tell you that you are like me, you help people to remain in the system so you can have a job tomorrow. Social or not social studies are all making the same thing creating jobs and maintaining them by keeping other people dependent to the system and serving the rich by using the poor, and it has to stay like this, you need rich people to make the poor work more dreaming that they will get one day rich, and you need poor to have a working horse eager to spend money on useless stuff in their way of dreaming to be rich.
How we survived until tech era?
Sometime I wonder how the heck did human civilization survived for thousands of years until the discovery of ABS, iPhone, iPad and Facebook.
If you look at any product review that is a bit outdated is obsolete, is a crap is the latest junk you can possibly buy or have. How did our parents survived without them?
I search now for a bike, tried on ebay but see here why I can't find things on ebay that worth the buck. Got over a Decathlon bike and trying to find out what people think about it I stumbled upon this question ... "how the heck we survived until now?" ... really, we have a problem "has no disk brakes" - no shit is half price of the cheapest merida bike that also has no disk brakes.
Do we need disk brakes? Really!?!? No shit! Think about Tour de France before carbon frames, aluminium frames and disk brakes, how the hell they even manage to ride 2 km? Maybe back then things were more harder to achieve but the satisfaction was maybe at least ten times bigger.
Why the satisfaction was bigger? Think about Mount Everest, really, now is full of old dudes full of money who can afford to pay the guys who carry their luxury (and yes, they are human too, not animals but are used like animals), latest outdoor equipment that cost more than a penthouse in London and other things to help them get on the roof of the world. But when was the first time someone on the top? 1953, that's right, 1953! They were not the first to attempt but was the first confirmed success.
If you look at any product review that is a bit outdated is obsolete, is a crap is the latest junk you can possibly buy or have. How did our parents survived without them?
I search now for a bike, tried on ebay but see here why I can't find things on ebay that worth the buck. Got over a Decathlon bike and trying to find out what people think about it I stumbled upon this question ... "how the heck we survived until now?" ... really, we have a problem "has no disk brakes" - no shit is half price of the cheapest merida bike that also has no disk brakes.
Do we need disk brakes? Really!?!? No shit! Think about Tour de France before carbon frames, aluminium frames and disk brakes, how the hell they even manage to ride 2 km? Maybe back then things were more harder to achieve but the satisfaction was maybe at least ten times bigger.
Why the satisfaction was bigger? Think about Mount Everest, really, now is full of old dudes full of money who can afford to pay the guys who carry their luxury (and yes, they are human too, not animals but are used like animals), latest outdoor equipment that cost more than a penthouse in London and other things to help them get on the roof of the world. But when was the first time someone on the top? 1953, that's right, 1953! They were not the first to attempt but was the first confirmed success.
Edmund Hillary and Tenzing Norgay in 1953 - Image source: http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/File:Hillary_and_tenzing.jpg
This was way before goretex and other tex and the other tex. Those were balls!
Let's return to the bikes, my grandfather had a bike with only one brake, no cables, just pure metal levers and the brake was not even V-Brake, was applied straight on the tire, and he made the country tour. Take one of today's so called sportsman to do this.
Motorcycles, disk brake is a standard, you have an older model with rear drum-brake? Then you should sell it! I had one with drum brakes front and rear, according to the vast majority was a piece of junk but according to history was one of the models used on Paris Dakar race. Again, pun one of the current teams to ride a bike like that, no way.
Guitars, I had a guitar from 70's, junk compared to the current ones but those guys could make music with that "crap".
Other examples are:
library - for idiots, you got wiki;
books - what!?!? you got e-readers;
cars - without assisted steering and traction, ABS and other sensors half of the population will die in an accident;
nature - that's right, how many of you can pitch a tent (old school one) and start a fire just with two matches!?!?
having fun without the world of electronics - actually get a life and stop to see how is your neighbor;
play - analog, not digital, I see less children playing outside, on streets, in forest, they have a playstation;
spending quality time with your significant other - most young couples are very busy with their smartphones even when they are together.
The list can go endlessly and everyone knows that if is older than two years is a crap. Sorry dudes, I still live in my world where is fun to achieve something with a steel bike with v-brakes (btw I can do downhill too with a crap bike, not for competition but for fun!), read books on the porcelain pony, go out and jump in the mud, repair my motorcycle because is too old for the guys from service and they have no idea how to service it without a computer, spend days with my lady while the smartphone remains untouched, get in the forest and make my own gasoline free camp fire, make my own bone rings and other "crap stuff".
The question remains ... how the heck did we survive until iPhone?
Strange human thinking - different half of measures II
Another good example of human stupidity is how racism and political correctness are judged ... yeah, right, you see them in action every day.
Lets take some examples, real ones.
1. A drunk white guy shouts in the middle of the street that the whites are superior race, you call this "white power" and other stuff that can fall into this category.
2. A black guy shouts in the middle of the street, african power, white blood weak blood and some other black empowerment things.
Who is the racist here? Note that the scenario is happening in western europe, home of the white people, home of the anti-racism stuff, fear of extreme and good home of antifa and political correctness, white neighborhood in mid day.
Well, actually in case 1 this is happening: some black guys and muslims rally against the white guy to teach him a lesson for being racist, some white trash antifa losers who are living on streets join the forces, some other white guys are swearing and tell him to fuck off, finally police arrives and takes into custody the supposed radical right extremist for further investigations.
In case 2 some brothers are cheering their brother's courage and somehow they take part at this, some muslims get offended because they are the superior race, this is what the prophet told them, but they continue their way and the white guys are passing by like nothing happens, except some hippies and antifa who are bravely scanning the area waiting for a white guy to say something nasty so they can start a fight. No police involved.
Actually ... looking from a neutral position both are "racist" according to the actual thinking and then both deserve the same treatment, the only difference is their skin color. I would say they are both proud of their inheritance and are exercising a fundamental right, the right to have an opinion, and this is their opinion. Since when is a sin to be proud that you are white but totally legit when you are black? Where is the equal sign? We try to be equal and have the same rights, right?
Ok, this scenario happened in western europe, white neighborhood. Let's move it to an immigrant neighborhood inhabited by non caucasians: case 1: the white guy would have suffered severe injures until the police arrived. Case 2 would be a fiesta and eventually with a bit of luck would have been a riot and a huge fight with police and a hunt of white trash.
In an eastern european country, the white guy would have been ignored and maybe some drunks would become his fans, while for the black guy ... he would have been told to go the fuck back in his country if he considers this, here is on their ground.
In africa, the white guy probably killed by the furious masses, the black guy ignored and some drunken fans.
Why this difference? don't tell me that us the white people are tolerant and evolved because you fall in the "racist" category. And I ask why this difference of attitude in western world, the holy ground of liberty and right to express your opinion.
Now political correctness, another "please go and never come back" thing.
Case 1. White guy starts to fuck Jesus in train, He is put to respect by the entire train, believers and non believers, because you know, is not nice to hurt the other's feelings.
Case 2. Muslim guy starts to fuck Jesus, Mary and all the christian saints by alphabet. Ok, he does not know too many so he starts to swear and curse all christians. The public resolution: this circus lasted for half an hour, at least then I had to get out of the train, but the guy remained there. With one exception, one old lady who kindly asked that guy to stop swearing, some time after 10 minutes or so, and she was called a christian whore and got her entire relatives dead or alive fucked ... no one said anything, nor called the police.
So ... where is the difference? Again skin color and muslim religion, please don't hurt their feelings on christian soil, let them treat you like they treat you when you go to their countries, like an infidel, not worthy trash. Not even other muslims got annoyed even if Jesus is considered to be a prophet by their religion, oh yeah fuck the prophet, they are infidels and deserve to die.
Political correctness and jobs.
Me and my buddy, both in a country with other language than english. He black, I white, he Africa, I Europe. Good. Time to make some money and get a job.
We applied mainly at the same jobs because we got similar skills and the same field so we were announcing each other which jobs we found, sharing the link and sending our applications. We did not know the country language so all the applications were in english. Again, I Europe, him Africa, we said that I will be the first one to get a job since he requires work permit and employers are running when comes to extra papers and take the simplest option.
What do you think? For all the answers I had to use google translate while he had 90% of them in english, while for the rest of them (10%) he complained that they are racists.
Finally? He got a job before me and double paid, with all the hassle of making work permit just to prove they are a multi-cultural company. I say the heck with all this. Since that day I still apply to jobs and I am still too white for them to take me. And is not qualification or work experience that is missing, just the local language.
Political correctness and social interactions.
I go to a party or club, people approach, they take note that they should speak english and they leave. My buddy arrives, yeah the black guy, people are afraid to leave so they chat in english.
Girls, another good experience. My buddy does not care if they are ugly, big or hairy as long as they have a wet hole to park his log. Although now he started to become picky, at the beginning nothing mattered more than the Bermuda triangle. Girls are running from me like hell when comes to english or they start to argue with me in their native language that I am just fooling them, because I must be one of them, I look like them so why this bullshit with english. And to make things worse, I understand their language but I did not had with whom to practice so they speak and I answer in english ... so I am a freak. My buddy comes, "Hey, I am from Africa" and I am like ... "no shit! I thought you are from Norway!" and then english english, sex and english. He also gets free drinks from the bartenders in a way to say "ok, I did a good deed for some undeveloped country".
Actually, after three years in another country I started to really feel the effects of "positive discrimination". Who invented this term positive discrimination? Is discrimination, end of story, is not positive or negative! But, oh, we like to split things and to judge with different points of view. There is not pleasant for my buddy or for me that we are among foreigners, we both miss home and we both feel the need to interact, the difference is again the skin and the way people relate to it.
In our first year of study he even got presents from International Student Service Center, because "aww, he is so far from home! he makes the holidays here alone!" So what? also did I and the other european students, but none of us got anything.
In the end this political correctness is just another form of discrimination, but because we like to consider the discrimination just skin related, they laugh at me when I say that this is discrimination, and I get some answers in the area oh, no you are like us, but we don't want your buddy to feel discriminated, ok so I am white I can't complain, but he can and you want to be sure that he does not complain.
Looking from the other side I ask myself why this people don't feel offended for being "special treatment" like they have a handicap or something. They go, make hunger strike for 2 days and get a visa, social help and other benefits, I go, do it for one week, they get enough of me, call the police and solve the case.
I think everyone should have the right to the same treatment. If he is proud of his white skin, black skin, his viking ancestors, the owners of african plains, bedouin, mujaheddin, owner of the great wall and so on .... we all have the same rights. Judge it with the equal sign.
Don't put the stamp racist or nazi on a white guy because is proud but a "back to the roots" cheer on the others.
Don't judge a guy that deserves less compared with other, we are all human beings, we are all proud of our family, our home land, our history.
I look for example at USA in contradiction with Western Europe. In USA you can have underpants with US flag, if you put out the US flag you are a patriot, and is tolerated even in europe. But when an european takes out his flag then he is a racist, except when the national team plays, then is ok. Even US citizens have a problem with other flags out "he is a racist or what!?!?" and my answer is "hello! You are dressed all in US flag, what's your problem? Can't I be a patriot like you?".
Maybe is time to ask yourselves some questions.
Strange human thinking - different half of measures
For some time I wonder and ask myself how that us, the human beings, judge always with two half of measures.
For example we say: You can't take a life, you are not God to decide about life and death and to decide if someone deserves to die.
Ok, agree with you! BUT for God's sake then how can you decide if someone deserves to live? For example saving someone who is almost dying or already dead, bringing him/her back to life.
Oh, I get it, life is cool, someone in history decided that life is cool but for our ancestors was a real honor to be sacrificed for some whatever Crops God. In Africa are tribes that are still letting the weak ones to go and die, like in the wild. We, the "civilized world" are saying that this is no way, they must be saved and bring them our civilization and manners, by the way which manners?!?!
So you say you don't feel God enough to take a life but you suddenly feel God enough to save a life - half measure.
Cuteness: Oh, this is my favorite! You see a nice squirrel and you pee on your pants with cuteness, you see it's kin, the rat, you jump onto the closest chair shouting that someone should kill it and kill it NOW!
Cats, another example, you see one and suddenly you are in love "oh how cute", the cat is chasing it's tail "oh, it is terribly cute", the cat enters in a chips bag "oh, adorably cute!" ... now you see a dog "cute", dog enters bag "ah, maybe is not so smart, but at least is cute", dog chasing tail "this dog is dumb!"
Even rodent lovers prefer a guinea pig instead of a rat or a white lab mouse instead of a common gray one.
Why? is beauty so important? If you are ugly and live in sewers you need to die but if you have fluffy tail or ass kissing attitude you deserve a life? Wake up people! You realize that the first hours of your life you looked like shit? Should someone killed you because you were such a nasty looking newborn?
Womanizer vs Whore: Keep in mind that I am a male but for fuck's sake why a woman who changes men like her dirty underwear is a whore, every one who does not want to show her the ceiling is hating her, sometimes even the ones who are willing to park their car still are thinking nasty about her that she is a bitch, she is a disgrace bla bla ... you know it, you do it everyday. "Who? that whore who slept with the entire class? What a bitch!" And this is equally judged my male and female population!
Now we take the male whore, here we judge him a bit different. The females are calling him a womanizer but still they are willing to be around such a successful male, if he nailed so many girls and dropped them next day ... well, then he is worthy, knows how to stick a log into the fire. "I know he loves girls, but I will show him that I can be the one to make him change", or "Oh, he is so experienced with girls, why not? He knows how to deal with a female" ... yeah right, use you, like the whore does with men. Ok, if the ladies are looking a bit weary but sill charmed at the male whore, then the male population cheers his deeds of bravery, his long list of sheets he was into, the money brought to condoms industry and probably without knowing they are also cheering the fact that he just screwed their partner / wife / girlfriend.
I say whores are whores gender independent, low characters, heart breakers, without self control around opposite sex, selfish trophy hunters. But then again it applies only with half measure. Or you can love whores ... but then again with half measure.
Try to think outside your box! Ask yourself questions, look from other angle, change the perspective, argue with yourself, doubt the morality and immorality definition but don't do it just with half measures!
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