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Tents come in a range of sizes. These sizes range from something big enough only to be used as a virtual body bag, to a roof over the heads of a small colony. The sizes of these tents are measured by how many ‘men’ it will accommodate. However anyone who has ever bought or used a tent can tell you that it is quite difficult to comfortably fit as many ‘men’ into the tent as the packaging says it can.
For example: A four man tent can accommodate four men, but they will not be comfortable overnight. This sized tent is better suited to three men, giving those three a much better night’s sleep, and a great story to tell later about how they got rid of the other guy.
If four people were fitted into there, they would have been as squashed as sardines. The companies that manufacture these tents, have chosen this means of measuring tent sizes.
This means of measuring tents is not suitable for actual people, but better suited for how many bodies/corpses can be fitted without arousing suspicion. So if this is seen as an acceptable way of expressing the useable space of an area, why not use it in the same manner for other things that don’t yet have a measurement of their own? Car salesmen have never had a way of expressing how big the boot of a car is other than; compact, practical, or large. But if they used the ‘man’/corpse measurement, they can confidently say to their customers: Yes well it’s a highly spacious three man boot, but if you’re putting that much into there, make sure that you’re careful when you’re shutting it.
In this way, tent companies are doing Australia’s mafia a favour, because after all, don’t we make life hard enough for them already?
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Upon reaching the point of poverty you have nothing left to lose, meaning you can now do anything because nothing is holding you back, that is why crazy people are so motivated.
Common stereotype of elderly people is of somebody sitting out the front of their house yelling at young people about countless self concluded faults with the world today. The concept of somebody yelling at young people all day long builds a picture of which we all carry portraying somebody that no longer cares what anybody thinks any more, and acting simply according to what they see fit. Surely then these people’s life experience would have played a role towards the way they are now, because after all, we are all a product of our past, not a part of it, and throughout life we all are constantly acquiring wisdom, whether we retain it or not. Not all people however, whether old, young at heart, or on their way there are like this, most people in fact are nicer than that. These people hold a common trait known as politeness.
Politeness is going out of your way so as to be nicer to everybody else, and has always been taught perhaps to the point of enforcement enough even for it to be impolite in itself. What then is to be gained through politeness?
Life has always been filled with minor inconveniences; people who ring while you’re on the toilet, letting people cross the road at crossings, the incessant nagging of advertisement, anybody out to complain thinking you actually want to hear about it, and door knockers.
Why then do we put up with this sort of thing? Empathy, we picture ourselves in their position, and conclude that it is better to act “nice” and polite rather than to go off doing whatever it is you want, whenever you want, regardless of the way people feel. Whenever confronted by such situations as door knockers interrupting your dinner, the usual process of emotions experienced is to; agonise, empathise, sympathise and finally compromise. It is because of empathy that you stay on the phone while the telemarketer babbles on about what a wonderful offer it is he/she has to present to you today. What then is stopping us from saying; I’m sorry but I was just about to let the kids outside because they’ve become all white again from being left alone in the downstairs room for too long, would you mind never calling me again and not telling anybody what I just said?
The reason we have been taught politeness is because the same people who explained table etiquette and all its pointless customs have been taught the same things themselves, and so it continues through the generations.
As for the elderly people who don’t appear to care anymore they too were once taught politeness; however wisdom often comes with age. These people have learned that politeness is holding the world back. They have concluded that there is nothing to be gained in explaining why they can’t do something, going to somebody’s party just because they were invited, and feeling obliged to help people when they clearly don’t need it.
In the end, old people truly are the wisest of them all.
Send your emails now to i_am_sam_1234@hotmail.com to put forward your thoughts on The Daily Struggle.
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If what goes up must come down, lasting success has been deemed ultimately impossible.
Commercially sold bicycles come in several main categories: Mountain bikes, often overpriced which is nothing the sales people don’t know, as most people seeking to buy a mountain bike have no idea what they’re going to be using it for exactly. Road bikes, for people who are stuck in a concrete paradise and want to be able to brag to their mates about how much better a Road bike is than a Mountain bike, and Dirt bikes, for people who want to do tricks, however are of no practical use.
As nearly everybody has experienced the pain and frustration of having a rock in their shoe, so nearly everybody who has been in car has had somebody on a road bike in their way slowing not only them but also every other motorist behind you in the constantly building line stretching from the highway exit. The culprit referred to here is what is known as the road biker. It is easy to judge just how serious the person is about doing what they’re doing by the attire they wear, ranging from clumsy looking beginners to self obsessing tight bike pants somehow holding a body in them.
What is the mindset of these people? Don’t they know they are taking up other people’s time and in some cases projecting an unsightly image we can’t obscure from our imagination?
Most Road bikers start off as people wearing a daggy jumper and a helmet covered in quick ties for bird protection. Through time they progress to super tight pants and shirt wearing sports glasses with an iPod speaker coming out of their right ear, a seemingly useless backpack only just big enough to contain their water bottle in spite of their better judgement, the helmet they have somehow convinced themselves is “aerodynamic” but at that speed makes minimal difference anyway, they think that they are somehow entitled to the road just as much as any car is, they glance back occasionally just to make sure they’ve got somebody behind them but pretend not to know.
Nearly anybody who has younger siblings has to some extent known what it’s like to have a younger sister or brother hanging around you all the time, will not leave you on the times you want to be alone and whenever you have your older friends over, will stick around like gum on the carpet. So it is with the Road bikers you are constantly trying to shake off your leg. They like to think that somehow they are part of the flow of traffic, and to feel accepted into whatever it is they see as special about the road.
Motorists have even gone out of their way just to spite Road bikers. In recent years there have been more and more frequent car/bike incidents, one particular instance involving a car deliberately stopping in front of a group of Road bikers simply out of frustration. The driver was successful in their endeavour of bringing harm to the unsuspecting riders. Too successful in fact, one particular rider was killed who was training for the Olympics. This is not an isolated incident.
Why then don’t they just drive? What has fuelled motorists to perform such acts of hate against anybody on their road without a motor inbuilt?
If you truly have ever experienced the frustration of having a road biker hold you up on a narrow road, you too would to some extent understand what that driver must have felt as they put their foot on the brake and saw all the people behind them stop and crash over themselves.
The reason Road bikers do as they do is because they have managed to put off learning to drive for so long that in their mind there is no other way to be able to use the road the same way cars do other than to make themselves as fast as they possible can do, by wearing skin tight clothing, an “Aerodynamic” helmet, and anything else they possibly can do to improve their speed so as to be able to ride on the road.
There are two solutions to this problem:
1. That all Road bikers should at least respect drivers and ride on their side of the road. Not riding on the line and where possible to ride on the sidewalk.
2. Build cars with a snow plough and revoke all rights from Road bikers upon entering public roads.
Free of charge only because no one is willing to pay it.
Tents come in a range of sizes. These sizes range from something big enough only to be used as a virtual body bag, to a roof over the heads of a small colony. The sizes of these tents are measured by how many ‘men’ it will accommodate. However anyone who has ever bought or used a tent can tell you that it is quite difficult to comfortably fit as many ‘men’ into the tent as the packaging says it can.
For example: A four man tent can accommodate four men, but they will not be comfortable overnight. This sized tent is better suited to three men, giving those three a much better night’s sleep, and a great story to tell later about how they got rid of the other guy.
If four people were fitted into there, they would have been as squashed as sardines. The companies that manufacture these tents, have chosen this means of measuring tent sizes.
This means of measuring tents is not suitable for actual people, but better suited for how many bodies/corpses can be fitted without arousing suspicion. So if this is seen as an acceptable way of expressing the useable space of an area, why not use it in the same manner for other things that don’t yet have a measurement of their own? Car salesmen have never had a way of expressing how big the boot of a car is other than; compact, practical, or large. But if they used the ‘man’/corpse measurement, they can confidently say to their customers: Yes well it’s a highly spacious three man boot, but if you’re putting that much into there, make sure that you’re careful when you’re shutting it.
In this way, tent companies are doing Australia’s mafia a favour, because after all, don’t we make life hard enough for them already?
The Daily Struggle
Upon reaching the point of poverty you have nothing left to lose, meaning you can now do anything because nothing is holding you back, that is why crazy people are so motivated.
Common stereotype of elderly people is of somebody sitting out the front of their house yelling at young people about countless self concluded faults with the world today. The concept of somebody yelling at young people all day long builds a picture of which we all carry portraying somebody that no longer cares what anybody thinks any more, and acting simply according to what they see fit. Surely then these people’s life experience would have played a role towards the way they are now, because after all, we are all a product of our past, not a part of it, and throughout life we all are constantly acquiring wisdom, whether we retain it or not. Not all people however, whether old, young at heart, or on their way there are like this, most people in fact are nicer than that. These people hold a common trait known as politeness.
Politeness is going out of your way so as to be nicer to everybody else, and has always been taught perhaps to the point of enforcement enough even for it to be impolite in itself. What then is to be gained through politeness?
Life has always been filled with minor inconveniences; people who ring while you’re on the toilet, letting people cross the road at crossings, the incessant nagging of advertisement, anybody out to complain thinking you actually want to hear about it, and door knockers.
Why then do we put up with this sort of thing? Empathy, we picture ourselves in their position, and conclude that it is better to act “nice” and polite rather than to go off doing whatever it is you want, whenever you want, regardless of the way people feel. Whenever confronted by such situations as door knockers interrupting your dinner, the usual process of emotions experienced is to; agonise, empathise, sympathise and finally compromise. It is because of empathy that you stay on the phone while the telemarketer babbles on about what a wonderful offer it is he/she has to present to you today. What then is stopping us from saying; I’m sorry but I was just about to let the kids outside because they’ve become all white again from being left alone in the downstairs room for too long, would you mind never calling me again and not telling anybody what I just said?
The reason we have been taught politeness is because the same people who explained table etiquette and all its pointless customs have been taught the same things themselves, and so it continues through the generations.
As for the elderly people who don’t appear to care anymore they too were once taught politeness; however wisdom often comes with age. These people have learned that politeness is holding the world back. They have concluded that there is nothing to be gained in explaining why they can’t do something, going to somebody’s party just because they were invited, and feeling obliged to help people when they clearly don’t need it.
In the end, old people truly are the wisest of them all.
Send your emails now to i_am_sam_1234@hotmail.com to put forward your thoughts on The Daily Struggle.
The Daily Struggle
If what goes up must come down, lasting success has been deemed ultimately impossible.
Commercially sold bicycles come in several main categories: Mountain bikes, often overpriced which is nothing the sales people don’t know, as most people seeking to buy a mountain bike have no idea what they’re going to be using it for exactly. Road bikes, for people who are stuck in a concrete paradise and want to be able to brag to their mates about how much better a Road bike is than a Mountain bike, and Dirt bikes, for people who want to do tricks, however are of no practical use.
As nearly everybody has experienced the pain and frustration of having a rock in their shoe, so nearly everybody who has been in car has had somebody on a road bike in their way slowing not only them but also every other motorist behind you in the constantly building line stretching from the highway exit. The culprit referred to here is what is known as the road biker. It is easy to judge just how serious the person is about doing what they’re doing by the attire they wear, ranging from clumsy looking beginners to self obsessing tight bike pants somehow holding a body in them.
What is the mindset of these people? Don’t they know they are taking up other people’s time and in some cases projecting an unsightly image we can’t obscure from our imagination?
Most Road bikers start off as people wearing a daggy jumper and a helmet covered in quick ties for bird protection. Through time they progress to super tight pants and shirt wearing sports glasses with an iPod speaker coming out of their right ear, a seemingly useless backpack only just big enough to contain their water bottle in spite of their better judgement, the helmet they have somehow convinced themselves is “aerodynamic” but at that speed makes minimal difference anyway, they think that they are somehow entitled to the road just as much as any car is, they glance back occasionally just to make sure they’ve got somebody behind them but pretend not to know.
Nearly anybody who has younger siblings has to some extent known what it’s like to have a younger sister or brother hanging around you all the time, will not leave you on the times you want to be alone and whenever you have your older friends over, will stick around like gum on the carpet. So it is with the Road bikers you are constantly trying to shake off your leg. They like to think that somehow they are part of the flow of traffic, and to feel accepted into whatever it is they see as special about the road.
Motorists have even gone out of their way just to spite Road bikers. In recent years there have been more and more frequent car/bike incidents, one particular instance involving a car deliberately stopping in front of a group of Road bikers simply out of frustration. The driver was successful in their endeavour of bringing harm to the unsuspecting riders. Too successful in fact, one particular rider was killed who was training for the Olympics. This is not an isolated incident.
Why then don’t they just drive? What has fuelled motorists to perform such acts of hate against anybody on their road without a motor inbuilt?
If you truly have ever experienced the frustration of having a road biker hold you up on a narrow road, you too would to some extent understand what that driver must have felt as they put their foot on the brake and saw all the people behind them stop and crash over themselves.
The reason Road bikers do as they do is because they have managed to put off learning to drive for so long that in their mind there is no other way to be able to use the road the same way cars do other than to make themselves as fast as they possible can do, by wearing skin tight clothing, an “Aerodynamic” helmet, and anything else they possibly can do to improve their speed so as to be able to ride on the road.
There are two solutions to this problem:
1. That all Road bikers should at least respect drivers and ride on their side of the road. Not riding on the line and where possible to ride on the sidewalk.
2. Build cars with a snow plough and revoke all rights from Road bikers upon entering public roads.
