I don't like my last post, so I'm going to do another one...
This might sound like I'm whining, because I'm going to address certain gripes I have with people in this day and age.
1) If you refuse to support conglomerates... Throw out your cell phone, you iPod, your television, your video game console, your digital camera, your computer (definitely cancel your internet service), and pretty much everything you own. Then abandon your dwelling, because any house or building constructed in the last, let's say, 40 years was done by a real estate company. Then walk around naked, because even if your clothes were made locally, chances are the cotton was provided by a large company. Then walk everywhere (no shoes though; they're all mass produced), because buses were mass produced, bikes are massed produced and pretty much any form of modern transportation has been mass produced by a conglomerate. Then stop eating, because even if you only go to local grocers, chances are you're buying food that was purchased by a large shipping company and sold to them. And remember to only drink from streams, because water services are definitely provided by big companies, and most bottled water is produced by a known food stuffs company (ie. Dasani = Coke, Aquafina = Pepsi Co., Aberfoyle (Canadian) = Nestle etc.). Unless you live naked in a field where you grow your own food, and do nothing but tend your farm and drink rain water, you're supporting a large company. Get over it and realize it's not going away, regardless of how much you want it to. I do understand the logic of not frequenting international chains in favour of local vendors, but don't get high and mighty about being a better person than me because you do so.
This applies to North America. I can't comment on places I've never been. That's mostly eveywhere but North America.
2) I'm not you. In fact, no one is you but you. I really couldn't give a shit less what music you like, stop saying my taste "sucks." My music isn't bad in general because you don't like it, it just doesn't sound good to you. I don't care what you like, I won't say it sucks, because there's clearly something about it that you like. I don't like it, but I don't have to listen to it if I don't want to. In summary, no one should project their own tastes into a general statement about something they don't like.
3) Why aren't there any freaks where I live? I go to school, and I'm surrounded by 18 year olds all day, but I've seen one fucking mohawk and no dirt bag punk rockers since I quit life. It's fucked. Where'd all the freaks in my neighbourhood go? A lot of dirt lips, though.
4) Why are Canadians so afraid of snow now? The world keeps shutting down for a foot of snow, and everyone is driving 40 km/h on the goddamn expressway. We're Canadian! We should LOVE the snow.
5) Highways are everywhere. Major routes (in Ontario, it's 400 class roads) are called either Freeways or Expressways. This indicates that there are no stop signs or traffic lights on them. Highways can have these above mentioned stops frequently. A highway is just a really long road.
I got a lot more, but since no one cares,
J.R.
P.S. Favour, neighbourhood, honour and words such as these have "u"s in them. Americans spell them wrong. The most common offence is "colour."
This might sound like I'm whining, because I'm going to address certain gripes I have with people in this day and age.
1) If you refuse to support conglomerates... Throw out your cell phone, you iPod, your television, your video game console, your digital camera, your computer (definitely cancel your internet service), and pretty much everything you own. Then abandon your dwelling, because any house or building constructed in the last, let's say, 40 years was done by a real estate company. Then walk around naked, because even if your clothes were made locally, chances are the cotton was provided by a large company. Then walk everywhere (no shoes though; they're all mass produced), because buses were mass produced, bikes are massed produced and pretty much any form of modern transportation has been mass produced by a conglomerate. Then stop eating, because even if you only go to local grocers, chances are you're buying food that was purchased by a large shipping company and sold to them. And remember to only drink from streams, because water services are definitely provided by big companies, and most bottled water is produced by a known food stuffs company (ie. Dasani = Coke, Aquafina = Pepsi Co., Aberfoyle (Canadian) = Nestle etc.). Unless you live naked in a field where you grow your own food, and do nothing but tend your farm and drink rain water, you're supporting a large company. Get over it and realize it's not going away, regardless of how much you want it to. I do understand the logic of not frequenting international chains in favour of local vendors, but don't get high and mighty about being a better person than me because you do so.
This applies to North America. I can't comment on places I've never been. That's mostly eveywhere but North America.
2) I'm not you. In fact, no one is you but you. I really couldn't give a shit less what music you like, stop saying my taste "sucks." My music isn't bad in general because you don't like it, it just doesn't sound good to you. I don't care what you like, I won't say it sucks, because there's clearly something about it that you like. I don't like it, but I don't have to listen to it if I don't want to. In summary, no one should project their own tastes into a general statement about something they don't like.
3) Why aren't there any freaks where I live? I go to school, and I'm surrounded by 18 year olds all day, but I've seen one fucking mohawk and no dirt bag punk rockers since I quit life. It's fucked. Where'd all the freaks in my neighbourhood go? A lot of dirt lips, though.
4) Why are Canadians so afraid of snow now? The world keeps shutting down for a foot of snow, and everyone is driving 40 km/h on the goddamn expressway. We're Canadian! We should LOVE the snow.
5) Highways are everywhere. Major routes (in Ontario, it's 400 class roads) are called either Freeways or Expressways. This indicates that there are no stop signs or traffic lights on them. Highways can have these above mentioned stops frequently. A highway is just a really long road.
I got a lot more, but since no one cares,
J.R.
P.S. Favour, neighbourhood, honour and words such as these have "u"s in them. Americans spell them wrong. The most common offence is "colour."