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What pisses me off
- Pre-grated cheese
- Cars
- You say you want a revolution...
- Mr. Microsoft - don't go there
- British cars
- Broken records
- Stanley don't live hear anymore
- Packaging
- Old, conservative, rich, white guys
- God on TV
- Old, conservative, white guys with their fingers
on the perverbial button
- Ma Bell
- Don't mess with my TV
- The Axeman
- Tommy I CantfigureOut
- Give me everything but the shoes
- Gimme another hour please
- Can you email bomb snail mail?
- You just destroyed an entire community...you
deserve a raise
- Does friendly fire hurt?
- More Cars
- Sleepless in Toronto
- Pre-grated cheese in
the grocers. Are we really that lazy?
- Cars. Pretty simple...I
can't stand cars. The number of them, the amount of roads and parking lots
and traffic and pollution....Cars, ugh!!!
- The rich getting richer
and the poor getting poorer. It just can't be a good thing. Can it? I heard
yesterday (Oct 22 '98) that in '74 the rich were 21 times richer than the
poor in Canada. In '96 the rich were 100's of times richer!!! Makes you
wonder how Canada's deficit is being balanced? Wonder what Mr. Martin would
say to that? He mentioned something about the Child Tax benefit. Yeah,
20 or 30 bucks more a month should clear that up ;) I know the rich like
looking out for their best interest, so I'll offer a word of advice. "I
hear revolutions can start this way" :) There's a lot more of us than
them. I just finished reading a book about King Henry in 13th century England.
He was advised not to apply so cruel a punishment on the commoners, lest
they have nothing left to lose. They say wrath has no fury like a woman
scorned. Perhaps it should be revised, wrath has no fury like a poor people
with nothing left to lose, especially when they out-number the powers-that-be!
- Bill Gates! There's nothing
I like about this man. Do I hate him because he's rich? No. In my mind
if you make a couple of hundred thousand dollars (yeah...even Canadian
dollars) a year you are rich. There's lots of people that make that kind
of cash and I'm sure most of them are nice hard working people. There are
whole countries that could be helped with the kind of dough Gates is making.
It shouldn't be allowed. Done....end of discussion.....just simply should
not be allowed. It's viscerally disgusting. On top of that he makes an
inferior product and maintains a coercive monopoly that's not good for
anyone. More people should be pissed off be the mere mentioning of his
name.
- Did you know that if
all the cars etc. in Britain were used at the same time, there wouldn't
be enough roads to contain them. Doesn't that worry anybody? Wouldn't that
be funnier if it wasn't true? BTW....did I mention I hate the whole car
thing?
- Waiting for social systems
to come to the brink of disaster or closer before finding a solution. How
many times to we have to play the same record over and over again til we
wisen up? There are huge social problems that exist right now (or more
correctly--have been existing for some time) that we can strategize for.
We can find permanent, long-term solutions now and actually have the guts
to implement them today. But what do we do....we ignore it....we say it's
not that bad...oh it's only a problem way off in the future....we might
give it band aid solution, but that's about it.
- The Toronto Maple Leafs
haven't won the Stanley Cup since I've been alive. I know they suffocated
in the Ballard years.....but seriously it's not me is it ;)
- CD-ROM packaging. Are
you familiar with this stuff. It's huge and flashy and practically empty.
Are you familiar with the size of a CD and a warranty card? Not quite as
big is it?
- The jury system. At the
risk of sounding elitist, would you want 12 people off the street choosing
your future? Mind you the idea of one person (probably an old, white, rich,
conservative male) deciding my future doesn't sit very well either. There's
got to be a better way of deciding cases other than high priced lawyers
with questionable ethics psychologically manipulating 12 non-experts? I'm
not sure what this new system would be but I'm pretty sure the evidence
of the case would be central!
- TV evangelists. Admittedly
there's a bit of a love-hate thing with some of them. I mean, Jack van
Impe preaching Armageddon is really quite spellbindingly funny. I can't
get enough of it. But people-some people-find this a convincing monologue.
Don't get me started with the Jimmy Swaggarts of the world. Disgusting--but
again...amusing :)
- Did you know that Ronald
Reagan believed in Armageddon! Not only that but he believed it would come
about through a nuclear holocaust. Not only that but he believed it would
was inevitable and that it would happen in his life time. Not only that
but he believed that Communist Russia would be instrumental. Don't we all
( and I mean all, not just the good ole U.S. of A) sleep better knowing
that there was two terms of that guy during the cold war with his finger
on the button in the early stages of Alzeimers. How does that kind of situation
see the light of day boggles my mind.
- Bell Canada. Sprint,
AT&T and other phone companies move in and make the long distance market
competitive. Bell's long distance rate drops dramatically (after they find
they are losing costumers hand over fist...go figure the consumer wanted
reasonable rate eh!) only to coincide with dramatic increases in basic
service rates. So in the end my phone bill is the same. Great plan.
- What ticks me off almost
as much....the fact that we're not up in arms about Bell's manipulation.
When Rogers Cable did this we spoke up about it. God forbid we have the
almighty TV inferred with.
- Mike Harris....perhaps
it's because I live in Ontario, but the mere mentioning of his name brings
the bile up to a critical point in the throat. Just typing in his name
back there makes my hands sweaty. One question Mike: "How do you sleep?!"
The problem here is essentially one I ranted on earlier about. Short term,
one track thinking. Plain and simple. You may argue his policies are ruining
the health care system (probably the most revered thing about Canada--next
to hockey of course) and slashing the education system to a point where
it ceases to be recognizable and reforms welfare to a degree that you begin
to question who's welfare he's looking after anyway....but the fundamental
problem is the same. Short term, one track thinking. If there is a God,
please get us through the next year with this man. More importantly let
us not ever make the same mistake twice. Ever!
- Tommy Hilfiger. I don't
know if I have spelled that right and I don't care. Am I mistaken or is
this guy a designer. I'm not into the fashion scene but I'm pretty sure
over priced t-shirts don't have anything to do with it either! Do we really
want to be walking advertisements? Isn't that called prostitution?
- Nike.I heard that there
was a small backlash due to their over saturating the market with their
product. That's what marketing gurus call it when you unleash too much
crap on the public. Oversatuartion. Again, correct me if I'm wrong, but
doesn't Nike make running shoes. Forget for a minute that these things
are designed by people who have no (none!) expertise on the biomechanics
of feet. Forget for a moment that these things cost $11 to make in Asia.
They do make running shoes don't they? Well tell me why I see people walking
around in over-priced baseball caps and t-shirts etc...the only thing they're
not walking around in is Nike shoes....perhaps they can't afford it!!!!
- 24 hour days. I would
like 25. Just think-one more hour to sleep. Ahhhh, that's nice :)
- Flyers. Basically this
is junk mail. I get quite a stack about every second day. I, like most
people, want noting to do with this stuff. But it keeps coming and coming
and...well you get the picture. Any suggestions with what to do with stuff.
Perhaps I could create some paper machete weapons out of the flyers and
attack the distributors of this crap.
- Profitable companies
that lay people off. If that wasn't distasteful enough, this news is usually
greeted with higher stock prices. BTW, this is also usually met with an
increase in the CEO's earnings. Yeah, I would reward somebody that just
put 40,000 people (and their families) out of work.
- Sanitized words. You
know what I mean. Things like: ethnic cleansing and downsizing. One I've
heard more recently (though it might not be a recent addition) is restructuring.
Does this fool anyone? If it does then shouldn't it be stopped. At the
very least it's meant to be deceptive which is wrong. I mean what the hell
is co-lateral damage? Seems innocent enough, doesn't it. We heard alot
of this is the Gulf War. It actually means--whoops we missed the main target
and hit something else instead probably crippling non-military infrastructure
and killing innocent people. Well, now that I think about it, if I were
the US military (accepting the inherent lack of morals that come with this
hypothetical scenario) I would probably use the term co-lateral damge as
well. I people don't think this is a big problem remember other organizations
that were fond of this type of communication. Remember the Nazi doctors
and the 'selections'?
- There's a recent (Jan
8, 1999) commercial by the Ontario Provincial government the reports that
there was 300,000+ cars in Ontario in 1929 and 7.3 million in 1998. I believe
the message was something about tighter pollution controls. All very nice
but you would never hear of anything that would suggest that there are
too many cars. We are beyond our love affair with cars, we simply take
them for granted. Let the poliferation continue!!
- TV ads. The 2 main bad
guys as I see it is the Banks and the Ontario PC Party. The Banks have
started ad campaigns that have an emotional element to it. I find this
most ironic since I can't think of any institution that could be less emotional.
The commericals also have this annoying habit of whispering everything.
Why are they whispering all the time? Maybe they want to lull you while
they are nickel and diming you to death? The PC party commercials are just
pathetic. I mean it so bloody transparent. It's blantant propaganda that
often crosses that line of misinformation and deflection of responsiblity
and charters into the murky waters of lies. With all our money that they
spend on commercials they could fund the sequeal to "Sleepless in
Seatle". It would be called "Sleepless in Toronto" and would
star Mike Harris who would have the unenviable role of playing himself.
It would be the moving drama that would attempt to explain how the PC party
can sleep well at night when their conscience would dictate otherwise.
Now I would pay 8 bucks to see that!
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