Posted: 2010 Apr 27, 05:56
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Rant: All these time-saving conventions humans are so fond of will ruin the human race, I so swear. Time was people actually had to work for their wares... now it's all "Save time here" and "Save money there" and all the rest of it. With all this "Saving" going on you'd think we'd be better off as a species - but there seems to be no real sign of it. They sell us on "Convenience" and "Luxury" and all the other catch-words the marketing machine can contrive - and we slobber all over it. My kid needs new shoes, my wife needs a new car, I need a holiday. Who are all these people? Don't they watch disaster films? Don't they know when they die in a plane crash the insurance company executive will be messing with their grieving wives? When the volcano opens up under their house, do they really think they deserve compensation? What does "Deserve" mean anyway? Once upon a time it was derived from "to serve", with an implied absence of personal gain. But now everybody thinks they "deserve" everything just on principle. I should be able to deal drugs just because it's real capitalism. I should get emotional comfort just because I'm "a nice guy".nikos wrote:hint: <alt+printscreen> copies only the active window so you don't have to crop from your whole desktop
Nice goggles.nikos wrote:i don't know if that's a real or imaginary back yard of yours...
Or, to paraphrase, I am Off-Topic, I consider nothing Off-Topic to be foreign to me.Publius Terentius Afer (Terence) wrote:Homo sum; humani nil a me alienum puto
I am human; I consider nothing human to be foreign to me.
No deal! While your arena looks idyllic to visit, I wouldn't want to attempt upkeep on it. What I have has enough to do to make it interesting, but is small enough to be manageable and give time off to go fishing. Which I did yesterday. The 3-1/2 lb, 21 inch lake trout will be good eating tonight. :)kilmatead wrote:And Fred, just for good measure, I'll see your home renovations and raise you one mill-race waterwheel. And this is supposed to be "spare time" work. No wonder I get bored.
Which pretty much is how most men feel every day, if they were honest with themselves. Not the supercilious art history reference, but the bit about being captured by gypsies at birth, and torn from the perfect life we were supposed to be living, yet somehow instead finding ourselves in a horrible twisted world of melting clocks which we ourselves did not design.Wikipedia wrote:Writer Vladimir Nabokov sneered that Rockwell's brilliant technique was put to "banal" use, and wrote "That Dalí is really Norman Rockwell's twin brother kidnapped by Gypsies in babyhood".
That's her. As opposed to CAT, you see. Colloquialisms are peculiar - for instance though there are many types of "Vacuum Cleaners" in the world, here, colloquially, they are all called "Hoovers", regardless of who actually makes them. Not sure if there's a grammatical term for creating verbs from proper nouns ("he hoovers, she hoovers, they all hoover together"); Ireland and the UK just love their verbifications. Thus, all forms of diggers are JCB's - in fact, Mr. Joseph Cyril Bamford there would be highly amused to know that millions of people know his initials, but probably none could repeat his actual name from memory. Such is the price of fame in the decadent capitalist wonderlands. Either that, or all "Joe's" are genetically and culturally doomed to be generic, regardless of fame.fgagnon wrote:JCB ?
ah yes the joy of "Made In England", cars made in England in those days required one to definitely R.T.F.M to determine what the toggle switches randomly placed on the dashboard were for, especially those located on the passengers side, the Mini, the Jaguar, etc. the advantage of this scintillating ergonomically designed dashboard was that the passenger could stress their point by toggling the wipers on and off, very clever to include the passenger in the driving process, load shedding, excellent concept, the only down side was when driving solo. Then there was made in France, who took being different with ergonomics to the extreme, sublime to the ridiculous, All early french cars had window winders that worked opposite to the rest of the world, the door locking mechanisms also opposite to the rest, they just HAD to be different, thank the stars for electronics. Now that I think of it their woman were also opposite, they didn't get turned off by smelly garlic, ashy, boozy breath, including armpits whose odour could raise the dead, that was a good thing, and yes I did go where many had been before.Kilmatead wrote: just a JCB and the most counter-intuitive control panel known to mankind.