Monday, April 2, 2018

stupid safety


STUPID SAFETY
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Remember the Age Of The Lawyers?  A time of mass litigation, where anything and everything which had any liquefiable assets would be sued.  As a nation, we have a surplus of lawyers.  China has a surplus of engineers.  Can you guess which nation builds everything for everyone and which nation gathers around a stagnant black hole of an economy and argues over the rules of which rich bitch gets more money?

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From this Age Of Lawyers came Stupid Safety, from wherein everything was labeled dangerous ( danger, this toy, a small rock in your yard, a button your child saws off his clothing with his teeth and any bug he catches constitutes a chocking hazard ), everything that was obviously dangerous STILL needed a safety warning ( warning, falling off this tall ass ladder might pose a danger.  Warning, putting smoke in your lungs might be considered by some to be dangerous ), and from then on all activities had to have safety classes ( warning, sitting in this chair all day will give you hemorrhoids.  Or cause a blood clot.  Or atrophy your muscles-so exercise.  But don’t exercise in an unapproved manner because you might get cramps!  And if you get a cramp, please go see a doctor.  In fact, if you ever feel the slightest bit bad, go see one.  But only one officially approved ).

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From Stupid Safety there then emerged the quite natural reaction of pretty much ignoring any and all Stupid Safety Rules because they were, well, pretty humping stupid.  When there is a sign every three and a half feet in a huge room, you pretty much stop reading signs, or if you do read them you cannot remember 90% of them ( talking to you, Post Office ).  When everything can harm you, well, then you can’t remember what is dangerous and what is not.  By purposely ignoring Stupid Safety Rules,  not only do we regain our slipping sanity, we also flip off the Nanny State.  I’ll live like those bad boys in the movie Jackass, so there!

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I’m not stating that a proliferation of stupid safety warning leads to abandoning common sense, but I do worry that the reaction to them might cause problems in the future.  We are so used to Uncle Sam and his fifty retarded dysfunctional cousins on the local state level nagging us incessantly on behalf of the bygone era of ravenous lawyers cashing in their law degrees for several pieces of silver, that we are tone deaf to worrying about all the small dangers life will provide after health care and medicines are no longer available. 

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Not that I’m blaming the lawyers and PC Brigades and Nanny State officials for everything ( just most things ).  We have gotten used to the cheap antibiotics that are supposed to smooth out any accident prone activities we might have, like humping a skeevy crack whore without a raincoat on, skipping gaily through a field of scrape lumber with rusty nails attached, using power tools with reckless abandon,  eating twenty three slices of extra meat lovers pizza at the buffet then exploding afterwards with a gallon of fecal soup after which you emerge from the bathroom somehow forgetting to wash your damn hands, or any number of other such activities.

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After the collapse, or even before the collapse as our medical industry implodes and just walking into a hospital sees you being attacked by Super Germs which laugh mirthfully at the puny earthling antibiotics, out inattention to basic safety rules is going to get some of us killed.  And while that wouldn’t be a bad thing, since the Darwin Awards will continue through time immemorial, dumb ass behavior tends to bite innocent bystanders on the ass.  Now, to be clear, I am NOT playing that Badly Written Post Apocalypse Novel trope of “one cut on his finger killed him by infection”. 

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That has some relevance, although the odds of a healthy person dying that way is small as long as there is basic sanitation.  I’m speaking of institutionalizing safety.  Not like we do today, such as safety campaigns everyone ignores because they are insultingly stupid, such as insisting one washes their hands should you touch anything at all, even your exposed skin.  What was that retarded movie with all the top stars about some pandemic, that essentially propagandized that merely washing your hands fifty-three times a day would stop all diseases in its tracks?

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What we need to relearn is how to slow down and do things the proper way, rather than the quick or easy way.  At a time when we should have far more leisure time than ever ( isn’t essentially every human activity commercialized, luxuriated and robotized? ) in the history of forever, why do we bounce around unrelentingly?  Go, go, go without pause or stop.  We are always rushing about accomplishing absolutely nothing.  We want to do everything and so everything is multitasked poorly and incompletely. 

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Perhaps we are so overfed, so stuffed with extra fats and sugars, that we are over stimulated with excess energy and in effect act like a tweaker sitting down and bouncing up and down in his seat.  The only time we are not bursting with energy is when we sit down to shovel more sweetened fat down our gullet.  Even when we sit in our car, we burst with energy, getting ourselves worked up with road rage, gunning the engine to be the first at the stop light, bobbing and weaving about the lanes.  And if we went to Starbucks first, or drank a Red Bull, that gets added to the sugar and deep fried calories.

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We need to learn to be slow and methodical.  Almost anal compulsive.  Don’t just throw in the dishes and scramble to wash them as quickly as possible.  First wash all the sharp knives and get them out of the way safely.  Then take the time to put on gloves so the water can be as hot as possible.  Don’t slam out of the bathroom ready for your next adventure, take your time to wash your ass and hands properly.  Don’t try to attack an entire forest, taking chances getting cut or maimed.  Take the time to sharpen dulled tools.  Take the time to NOT get hurt.  Don’t rush so you become winded or fatigued and make mistakes.

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Slow and steady wins the race.  And you use common sense.  Don’t wash your hands all day long and don’t over bathe.  Your body needs to build up its own immunity, and past washing your hands after dropping a duce or cutting raw meat, as far as washing to sterilize, let your damn body be exposed to minor unsanitary items.  It is just like parents today to immunize against minor disease, when they should be letting the kids body build up its own immune system by being exposed.  But the same parents deathly afraid of any germ will engage in plenty of other dangerous activities since they are in such all fired hurries.  Most parents drive like idiots, then worry Junior has a boo-boo on his hand and bury it under a gallon of anti-bacterial soap ( I thought all soap was anti-bacterial, but what do I know? ).

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20 comments:

  1. It's interesting that the AGe of Lawers coincided with such fads as MTV's "Jackass", when the issue was to make the most stupid stunts to impress people. Perhaps one was a reaction to the other.

    Now we can see simply through driving that people are getting increasingly stupid and also increasingly unable to relate to other people than themselves here & now.

    This is why they will be extremely dangerous with guns, and the only thing that will stop them and maybe think is to have a gun yourself.

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    1. Why can't stupid people just shoot themselves? That right there might be all the proof you need there is no benevolent deity in charge.

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  2. It is an institutional racket that turns a benign and off hand concern into a multi billion dollar industry with all of its attached hanger-ons as parasites leaching off of the excessive rules, regulations, penalty awards, diverted funding, and created government/corporate positions of employment. Bring back the 1880s with just common sense.

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    1. Are you sure the 1880's had common sense? Economic depressions and race to empire come to mind, offhand.

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  3. Monkeys don't wash their hands! They have been known to fling poo at those who bother them. Perhaps, it is the human adaptation of an old trait from our past! Humanity is nasty and has nasty habits. Nothing new or shocking about that! Those of us with an IQ higher than the outside temperature take the necessary safety measures to ensure our safety and minimize our health risks, Let the rest die, good riddance!

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    1. Uhhh, I think you would be hard pressed to find anyone in Las Vegas with a IQ above the outside temps. Not because they are dumb asses for living there, but because it is so flippin hot there.

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    2. Touche' Jimbo
      Wise words from the hairing impaired one

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  4. If you want a good rule of thumb guideline as to what you should never do in a survivalist/post apocalypse situation, spend some time watching that Bear Grylls fellow, and anything he does, do the opposite. Don’t scale cliffs, ford streams, climb mile high trees to get a better view, squeeze the juice out of elephant shit and drink it, eat carrion, etc and so on. All extremely stupid shit to do in such a situation.

    That said, the dude is probably the real deal, and I’m sure that he could survive on his own without any issues.

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    1. I read either he or his competitor was not happy inserting the Hollywood crap they had to do to spruce up the show for "oomph".

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    2. I wouldn’t doubt that at all. He’s the real deal, having been in the British Special Forces at one point, so one assumes that he must have at least some adequate survival knowledge under his belt. His latest show centers around him taking some random hollywood pussy out on a survival challenge. I haven’t watched much of the newer show, but I liked the original, even though it could be really gross at times.

      I also liked Survivorman, because it was just an ordinary dude with no military background, that was surviving in the wilderness. He was all alone, and had to haul his camera gear around while surviving and filming himself in the process.

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  5. I have no idea where you found the clip that you posted but it is mind blowing! It explains why none of the elite have to follow the rule of law. For the farmers there is no law!

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    1. Totally by accident. Thanks, YouTube, for the recommendations.

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    2. I had a look at that video, not realizing that it was Stefan Molyneux, as I’m familiar with his work, and check out his channel from time to time. Wow, that was really beautifully put. I had always understood that the richer a society became, the less freedom that you had. Sure, we have it good in a certain sense, as we don’t have to worry about our basic needs being met, but we’re screwed up in pretty much every other way.

      He had a great way of explaining the concept that runaway wealth freedom creates an entire class of thieves and leeches, that in turn became a cancerous growth to our freedoms, and it really hit home for me. I don’t think that I truly understood the concept until just now.

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    3. For me, the video just cut through many layers of analytical bullcrap and explained it succulently. It is one of those one liners that makes everything crystal clear. Like, follow the money.

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  6. Easter morning my wife and I were bored so we went for a Sunday drive out through the country. By noon we were hungry so we decided to hit the only fast food joint in the county - McDonalds. Hadn't been in this place in a year or more.

    Right out in the middle of the floor where people generally congregate waiting to order 4 new kiosks had been installed. First time I had seen this new hi-tek stuff in person. Large potrait positioned touch screen monitors with lots of smeary fingerprints on the screens. Using the back of the first knuckle of my left index finger I fired it up and commenced ordering. What a clunky piece of shit - like most modern technology that tries to make everything so simple for the simpletons but instead tries to dumb everybody else down in the process. Maybe it'll get better but I'm not hopeful. Anything to avoid the super retarded quality of people that occupy the service sector these days.

    That simple little lunch - 1 cheeseburger, 1 dbl cheeseburger, 2 small fries, 2 small drinks, cost almost $15. and took about 10 minutes to order and receive, and when opened looked like it fell off the truck. $15. Man.

    For $15 the both of us can eat our fill for 2 or 3 meals here at home. It'll be more than a year before I go to McD's again, if ever. Oh yeah, as I stood there waiting for my food to be prepared at marveled at the number of people "working" there in that they all just mostly stood around or scurried back and forth getting in each other's way.

    I worked at McDonalds when I was 15, in 1970, and EVERY order received 60 second service, without fail and the meal we ordered the other day would have cost about $1.50 max. 1/10th the cost today and about 1/10th the wait time.

    From 1970 to now, everything costs 10x more and you get 10x less.

    What happened, why is everyone an idiot, why is it all going to hell? No, it's not about oil. That's the easy way out-placing blame on inanimate objects. There's something else underfoot.

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    1. You know me too well :) It IS about oil but indirectly of course. All institutions failing with the energy supply. The schools profits go to construction and administration rather than teaching. The nightly news and newspapers ( when they print one ) never have investigative reporting but boiler plate headlines, if not just outright "info-tainment". All the books are going to dumbed down lowest common denominator to sell more copies, with editing done by software to save money. There's a very small portion of the education infrastructure dumbing down everyone ( don't get me started on Social-ist Media ).
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      Of course, you go with the Glib outline on the lifespan of empires and you can see the public prioritizing greed and money, and add that to the shrinking pie fight, and you get cultural disintegration.
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      As for the dumb terminal, I'm sure all the DOS geeks bemoaned the simplistic Mac computers when they arrived.:) I won't ever go back to Mickies unless I'm forced to-the last time I asked the stepdaughter to drive a load of plywood up to the BPOD, I bought everyone that slop as they love it. They ruined both the Nuggets ( way too much water injected now, no taste ) and the fries ( taste is off as is the texture. Forms oddly once cold. You used to be able to resurrect them, but no more ) all in about six months. Yeh, that doesn't even cover the cost increases. But now I can't eat anything there that doesn't queer my stomach. I think we ate out twice last year. Both real ( from the #10 Cisco can ) sit-down places. The last time the prices were up 15%. Still the cheapest in town, but still. We can eat at home for $4 for the both of us, treating ourselves to beef. What does three pieces of chicken and two potatoes, with one slice of butter, cost? Throw in electricity. Max $2 for two.

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    2. I know an owner of a McD's franchise. Used to shoot tournaments with him in archery competitions.
      Dude lives in a McMansion, drives a monster truck 4wd for a daily commuter, maintains two hunting leases at four thousands bucks each per year. His competition bow runs about $3,000 , and has six of them too.
      Told me once that his monthly vig was a minimum of five k.
      That's a lot of Big Mack's eh ?

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    3. I had read a franchise fee was a million. That was awhile ago-probably $2m by now. A hundred grand a year is a 5% return on your investment. Safer than the stock market. Well, until the food quality there gets so bad that the new franchise Soylent Green Hut across the street takes away all their business.

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