Ridiculous World

I've been doing alot of thinking lately, and It's not good. I generally make a point of not watching or reading the news, sports news excepted, because it's just too damn depressing. I do catch the odd bit piece every now and again though, and I talk to different people all day. There is one thing I have noticed about people for along time and that is, that mostly People Suck!

These are generalisations, however I have noticed fewer and fewer exceptions to these rules recently.

Basically you either have:

Very very Wealthy people who because they are so wealthy feel they should only have to deal with people that are either very very wealthy themselves or people they pay to do things for them. Anyone else is simply an inconvenience to their very important selves and a waste of their ever so valuable time. The only mistakes these people make are hiring people that make mistakes meanig they have to deal with someone faling into the aformentioned "Anyone Else" category of whom they will treat like dirt. They don't care how things work, so long as they don't have to deal with it.

Wealthy people who think that becasue they have money they can treat other people like dirt, they are seemingly incapable of making mistakes, and if they don't work the exact way they want them to those thing are just ridiculous and must have been designed by some with significantly inferior intellectual capabilities than themselves.

The not wealthy people, named so in an effort to be PC. These people don't have much at all, but it's not their fault. Everything and everyone is against them. They spend all their money at the pub or the TAB, but it's the governments fault they can't feed their kids. Their kids normally number 3 or more, who probably get into some kind of trouble with some form of authority, which is not the parents fault, it's the TV's fault, or Grand Theft Auto's fault.

Now in the middle is your standard middle class. These are a mixed bag and financial status aside could share common characteridstics with any of the above groups. Generally though they seem to be the most reasonable group of human beings, the most in touch with human nature, and the social landscape as a whole.

As I said there are the anomolies in each group, and there are really down to earth, genuine, interesting and more implotantly Human people in all groups. People who just take life as it comes, they listen as much or more than they talk, they are reasonable. I guess what I'm trying to convey is that the number of people who display the traditionally more appealing human qualities seems to be decreasing and the number of people who display the less desirable Human Qualities is increasing dramatically. But They are too busy being self important to care.

It is now totally acceptable to expect more, of better quality, and delivered faster for significantly less.
It used to be that getting what you paid for was what was expected. Getting what you paid for was standard it could be considered good, Gettng what you paid for, meant not getting ripped off. There was a safety in knowing quality was generally linked to cost. Now you just never know. It seems that regardless how much or how little you paid for something if you don't get something for free you are being reipped off.
It's the same in everything though, products and services, are expected to be better than before and cheaper.

I mean to me it seems ludicrous that their are people in the world employed to make phone calls for people. Not even make phone calls, their job is to dial a number and when someone answers put the call through to the person who wanted the call made... I mean really. But then it also seems ludicrous to me that mothers make phone calls for their children, their 30+ year old children.

I've been ranting about this so I'm gonna stop. I will say however, people are getting dumber, more and more problems are being touted as being unsolvable, while the people who have the solutions are silenced by those who make massive profits off of those unsolvable problems. The more intelligent people don't want to have kids too early because the world is messed up, and the least most intelligent people have unearthed a recessive rabbit gene and continue to fill up trailor parks, council flats, and housing commision housing with their little rabbit gened children. Forget Global Warming, the world is fine it's us as a species that are in trouble, we will soon enter an age when finding the perfect description for what your farts smell like will be more important than well damn near anything....

Be afraid I reckon, It's not the apocolypse, It's idiocracy and it's time is nigh.

Ridiculous amounts of boredom

So I'm at work, and it's safe to say that it's not the most creatively inspiring place in the world. Seriously I'm sitting here doing nothing, I can't think of anything to write. Nothing stupid or remotely funny has happened today. I've had two coffees, and a panini for lunch. Now im sitting at my desk somewhere between, slightly chilled and a little too warm with nothing to do.

I'm looking around at these people and I just have no kind of response to them, it's weird. Maybe I'm in what a slightly older version of myself would call "A funk". Well I have no response until I see the people who have been employed for maybe 3 months coming around telling the rest of us how to do our jobs....

But really I'm just sitting typing whatever comes into my head trying to find some enthusiasm for anything other than walking out the door and taking a nap on the footpath.. Hell the tips might be worth it...

Ultimately when I think about it a little more it would suck, because people suck, and I would probably get robbed and beaten before someone gave me money. But I wonder how long i could sit in the middle of a busy footpath before anyone stopped to ask if I was ok. I wouldn't ask me, I would make a dumb joke about the guy witting in the middle of the footpath though, it would be random and funny, and if I'd seen it I'd probably be writing about it actually happening instead of writing about wondering about if I did it. It's just not the same.

Wow I really dislike those people who are just tooooooo happy. You know the ones that are just way too bubbly, they are soo happy all the time, and talk to you all the time, and don't see the irony in your cynical sense of humour.. they are the people who think they are awesome at their jobs but give people the wrong information, yep thats right, you aren't as good as you think you are.

Wow this is fun, I wonder how long I can keep this up. Probably not that long, it's bound to get boring sometime soon. But oh well it's not now, maybe if i keep expecting it to get boring it won't just to spite me.

Haha, looked left and read "I'd like to run into you later - when I'm driving and your walking."  some comedien said it once upon  a time, funny stuff...

Oops work is calling, wow Idle chatter about my location, yipee you're my best friend. yay finished enter silence!

I feel like more coffee but 2 is enough isn't it. wow I just got hissed at by a grown man.... It's ok he's religious, Ill forgive him.

Waiting for the bus "friend"

So this morning I got to the bus stop, and I was the only one there, the bus was 10 mins away so I sat down. Along came old mate, who said something about the weather, I gave a half hearted reply MISTAKE.

Obviously old mate took this as an opportunity to dive right in - In the ten minutes it took for the bus to come, I found out, his brothers name and that the brother is married. I found out that people who work in the cbd are generally rude, and that he had been treated poorly the last time he went to the post office. I got the rundown on his former Boss, whom he affectionately referred to as Chief. The fact that Chief had been disillusioned with his position of power and requested a demotion which was granted, however everyone still referred to him as Chief and called him Boss. I also got a few other little tidbits that I mostly ignored.

Now this guy, a total stranger, just rattled on about all this stuff while I sat there. I had no interest, but didn't want to be a total prick so nodded and "ah-huh" every now and again. But I couldn't quite believe the sheer volume of information he fired at me. I mean I know some happy people out there just like to have a bit of a chat, but wow this really surprised me...

I think I'll catch an earlier bus tomorrow...

Ridiculous Morning

2 things happened this morning that made it just that little bit more ridiculous than normal. First of all it's that wonderful source of so many ridiculous occurences, the bus.

Todays Bus ride seemed to be going just fine, I had a seat the bus wasn't full and it was actually running on time. Until...  We hit the busway and instead of turning left to continue into the city, the bus turns right, but not onto another street, into a carpark. A special Bus carpark. The bus gets parked and the drivers bolts out the door and disappears. At this stage everyone on the bus is turning around and looking at everyone for some clue that anybody know whats going on.
About 5 minutes later the bus driver comes flying back into the bus and without saying a word our journey continues....

My guess is it was a quick toilet stop for our driver, which I know everyone is entitled to. However when it makes me late for work I get annoyed.

Second. The elevator. I get in the elevator with 2 other people the first guy is going to floor 1, the second guy to floor 5 and me well im up in the 20's (this is no indication of how important my job is, and if it were I'd have to be working in a basement somewhere). well the first guy gets out and then the second guy starts going off about how he hates waiting for people in elevators as its such a massive waste of his time. I mutter a non commital response that he doesn't hear so he holds the door open on his floor to tell me again how he hates people who hold up the lift......

You prick!!! Shut up and let me enjoy the next 15+ floors in peace!

Nothing Ridiculous about it

Last week I had the great pleasure of going to Ballymore and watching the Classic All Blacks take on the Calssaic Wallabies. It was an awesome game of rugby, and with the proceeds going to help out the Christchurch earthquake was a great cause as well.

Sitting there watching some of my favourite players from yesteryear running around was something I won't be forgetting anytime soon. Jeff Wilson and Christian Cullen I have to say were something akin to heroes when I was younger so watching them was a highlight to the night.

Overall I was blown away at the skills these older guys still have, the speed and raw power might have diminshed a little but the ball handling and general skills were something to behold.

With a massive Kiwi presence in the stands it was great to see the Classic AB's stroll to victory, it was a hugely successful event for the folks back home so mad kudos to all who bought a ticket or ten.

It does however make me think about other classic matches around the  world that I would love to see.

How about.
Classic East All Stars vs Classic West All Stars Basketball game.

Classic Man United vs Classic Liverpool Soccer match (football)

Classic Brazil vs Classic Argentina Soccer match (football)

Classic Ashes match Australia vs England in a 20/20 cricket match.

There is so many more but I'll cut it out now. What do you reckon, what classic match would you like to see?

Ridiculous Bus Drivers

Today I have a little bit of hate for bus drivers..

Bus drivers who drive their buses past bus stops they are supposed to stop at.  Yeah I guess your job can be pretty thankless dealing with people who are often in a hurry to get somewhere, but seriously, your job is to stop and pick people up at certain bus stops, if your bus isn't full, there is no reason you should be just driving on past.

Bus drivers who can't seem to tell when their bus is full. Like really really full. The reason nobody standing in the aisle is moving to make room for more people, is because they cant move, because there is already no more room. I had a bus trip the other day, and the driver kept telling people not to stand on the red painted area at the front of the bus. he did this 3 stops in a row where he let more people on. by the third stop there were 2 of us standing fully in the red area. So if your going to fill up your bus so much that people HAVE to stand in the "no standing area", don't then have a whinge that people are standing there.

End whinge

And So It Happened

As I said in my previous post, my "My Player" in NBA 2k11 seems to be running into injury problems that I have trouble with in my own life. It started as I said with back spasms, and just last night he twisted his ankle.

So my little virtual NBA player has now had 2 injuries, that just happen to be injuries that I seem to run into reasonably frequently. Coincidence??