in the decline of American civilization.
1886 coupon marketing scheme
1939 commercial broadcast tv begins in US
May 15,1940 McDonald's opens first store.
1973 Roe v. Wade
Feb. 4, 2004 facebook launched
May 2018 SC removes federal prohibition on sports gambling.
Showing posts with label society; twtww. Show all posts
Showing posts with label society; twtww. Show all posts
Wednesday, May 16, 2018
Thursday, September 28, 2017
Outraged
Everyone these days seems to be "outraged" about something or other. I have been searching for something to be outraged about, that I might be a part of our societal fabric appearing to be "normal" in some respect.
I have found it. Nordstom offered Barracuda predirtied jeans at $425. But they are sold out. Do you see the outrage building?
Not to worry, though, they have other filthy-appearing models as low as $148.49, though they do lack some of the panache of the sold-out item.
I labored for a good many years in the construction trades prior to my late-starting career in education. I am proud to have been a working man. One goes home at night, dog-tired, jeans encaked in cement dust already beginning to turn into concrete from the activation of the day's sweat, shirt and pants perhaps riddled with metal burns if welding was part of the days work, the whole thing reeking of gasoline fumes from the forklift operating in tight spaces.
Upon entering the mudroom the clothes are shed and one staggers from exhaustion to the shower and relief from the dirt and pressure and tiredness of body, then to stagger to bed and sleep the sleep of the righteous in preparation for another shift on the job.
So someone who spends his days in a boardroom or corner office buys the above named product to emulate a real working man and why? Because he has more money than he knows what to do with. It is insulting to every person who builds the sewer tile and the sewers down which his crap flows; to every person who strikes an arc or lights a cutting torch; to every person who climbs a utility pole so he won't have to sweat on the job; to every person who swings a paint sprayer that his much-too-costly Beamer or Benz will look really good parked in front of his 6000 square foot McMansion.
Are you sensing the outrage yet?
Yes, it makes me mad even though I have not gone home caked in cement in several decades. Show some respect for the people who make your lifestyle possible, Bozo.
I have found it. Nordstom offered Barracuda predirtied jeans at $425. But they are sold out. Do you see the outrage building?
Not to worry, though, they have other filthy-appearing models as low as $148.49, though they do lack some of the panache of the sold-out item.
I labored for a good many years in the construction trades prior to my late-starting career in education. I am proud to have been a working man. One goes home at night, dog-tired, jeans encaked in cement dust already beginning to turn into concrete from the activation of the day's sweat, shirt and pants perhaps riddled with metal burns if welding was part of the days work, the whole thing reeking of gasoline fumes from the forklift operating in tight spaces.
Upon entering the mudroom the clothes are shed and one staggers from exhaustion to the shower and relief from the dirt and pressure and tiredness of body, then to stagger to bed and sleep the sleep of the righteous in preparation for another shift on the job.
So someone who spends his days in a boardroom or corner office buys the above named product to emulate a real working man and why? Because he has more money than he knows what to do with. It is insulting to every person who builds the sewer tile and the sewers down which his crap flows; to every person who strikes an arc or lights a cutting torch; to every person who climbs a utility pole so he won't have to sweat on the job; to every person who swings a paint sprayer that his much-too-costly Beamer or Benz will look really good parked in front of his 6000 square foot McMansion.
Are you sensing the outrage yet?
Yes, it makes me mad even though I have not gone home caked in cement in several decades. Show some respect for the people who make your lifestyle possible, Bozo.
Friday, October 11, 2013
C'est plus. . .
Bob Warr posted this on his blog a bit over a year ago. O. Henry wrote it over a century ago. The passage of time since either event occurred has not improved the situation. Bob doesn't mind my re-posting this. See I credited the source. Both sources.
Excerpt from "The Foreign Policy of Company 99" by O. Henry.
This was written over a century ago. The more things change, the
more they stay the same.
Jeffries is James J. Jeffries, noted boxer of the day.
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