Society & Culture Things in life you just don't understand - Part 3

[Scotland]

C'mon, bro braves the unwashed masses every day on the Freo line with a $4k suit!

Pfft, Freo line. Sir Charles Court had the right idea demolishing that.

(jk)

 

[Kram]

No, thats Karl Malone.

Unless its' Sunday!

 

[RedmanWasHere]

Why so many player watch threads get off topic soooo bloody much.

 

[Scotland]

I don't understand how Karl Malone didn't go to jail.

 

[drd23]

I don't get dress standards at all. Why the fu** do city workers need to wear suits? Are you a better lawyer or stock market guru because you wear a shirt and tie instead of boardies and thongs?

This is why

In a Split Second, Clothes Make the Man More Competent in the Eyes of Others | Princeton School of Public and International Affairs

People perceive a person’s competence partly based on subtle economic cues emanating from the person’s clothing, according to a study published in Nature Human Behaviour by Princeton University. These judgments are made in a matter of milliseconds, and are very hard to avoid.

wws.princeton.edu

 

[PT Bar None]

I've done both the PT / city and car / suburb commutes in recent jobs, and y'know, I actually prefer the PT.

Cost wise it was a wash. Fares roughly equivalent to petrol. I got or found free parking.

For me the biggest thing is sitting in a tram, the time is effective. I'm reading, emailing, slacking, etc. In the car I'm driving and listening to the radio in the hope they announce the collision on Hoddle St before I'm committed.

When you travel on PT every single f****** day, you get to know how it really works. You know which doors will likely have the most room. You know in the evening your trams tend to arrive in clusters, so wait 2 minutes for the next one and you won't have to do your best sardine impression. The key is options. If something upsets your plan A, what is plan B? I have 3+ ways home that I happily invoke when plan A goes pear shaped. Plus, I always have plan P - which states in perpetuity: if the third tram remains uncomfortably full, decamp to the nearest acceptable public house and make use of their custom. Try the PT later in the evening after a parma(i) and refreshing beverage(or few).

Yeah for sure crazy and stinky people are a challenge - although crazy people are still a challenge in the car. And as a grumpy middle aged bloke, I don't have to put up with being grabbed on the snag in crowded PT like the ladies do. That would change my view. I f****** hate people and go out of my way not to touch them, so that works out for me there too.

And ties, yes. Ties are very versatile. You can hang them in the wardrobe or leave them lying on the floor. Perhaps even drape them over a chair. I've even heard of people hanging them off a door handle. But that's about it I reckon.

 

[Shell]

The key is options. If something upsets your plan A, what is plan B? I have 3+ ways home that I happily invoke when plan A goes pear shaped. Plus, I always have plan P - which

You gotta have that driving also. I have about 3 alternate routes home if the freeway is stuffed. Actually make that 2. One way i went this one time when there was an accident was a fking nightmare. The main road/s werent actually even that bad, its when i got ironically enough, about 15 mins from home everything just stopped. Absolute grid lock- am talking like sitting at one roundabout for 15+ mins, no one moving. So ive done away with that route.

The OTHER alternative is to just chuck in going home altogether- ive got a gym i can use near my work, have also just gone seen a movie or gotten dinner near to where i work instead of going home. Have done that only once or twice tho.

 

[Deliverance]

This is why

In a Split Second, Clothes Make the Man More Competent in the Eyes of Others | Princeton School of Public and International Affairs

People perceive a person’s competence partly based on subtle economic cues emanating from the person’s clothing, according to a study published in Nature Human Behaviour by Princeton University. These judgments are made in a matter of milliseconds, and are very hard to avoid.

wws.princeton.edu

Yeah, still don't get it. Surely by now most adults realise the guys in suits are worse than the guys in trackies.

 

[Procrastinator35]

Yeah, still don't get it. Surely by now most adults realise the guys in suits are worse than the guys in trackies.

Nope....The West & Capitalism are prefaced upon the superficial image as the sine qua non of one's identity.....A diet of advertising & propaganda creates a culture of rank narcissism.....The suites have hopped on board what the forum dictates = impressionable winners….The trackies don't care = Comfortable Losers.

These articles are merely grist for the mill in selling that Western zeitgeist to the impressionable & confused masses, lost in the miasma of a complex world not of their making....Note the source....The Ivy league.....Home to the establishment churning machines.

 

[HahnPremium]

in selling that Western zeitgeist to the impressionable & confused masses, lost in the miasma of a complex world not of their making....Note the source....The Ivy league.....Home to the establishment churning machines.

LOL. That was epic. Bolded particularly haunting and sorrowful.
Gotta give it to you procas. You spin words like a...
like a ..
plate spinner.

*

*May or may not be Ivy League. Bow tie ambiguous.

 

[Procrastinator35]

I'm glad you liked it.....But lets not get lost in the eloquence of the narrative at the expense of the underlying meaning....By confusing the accidental for the essential.

As Huxley noted....Alienation is the only true & authentic existential state of being, in this Brave New - man made - World.

The ad men are the narrative spinners for a manufactured, socially engendered pseudo world of the simulacra.

 

[HahnPremium]

I tend to always slide with Huxley rather than Orwell when it comes to true bleakness.

 

[Cruyff14]

I've done both the PT / city and car / suburb commutes in recent jobs, and y'know, I actually prefer the PT.

Cost wise it was a wash. Fares roughly equivalent to petrol. I got or found free parking.

For me the biggest thing is sitting in a tram, the time is effective. I'm reading, emailing, slacking, etc. In the car I'm driving and listening to the radio in the hope they announce the collision on Hoddle St before I'm committed.

When you travel on PT every single f****** day, you get to know how it really works. You know which doors will likely have the most room. You know in the evening your trams tend to arrive in clusters, so wait 2 minutes for the next one and you won't have to do your best sardine impression. The key is options. If something upsets your plan A, what is plan B? I have 3+ ways home that I happily invoke when plan A goes pear shaped. Plus, I always have plan P - which states in perpetuity: if the third tram remains uncomfortably full, decamp to the nearest acceptable public house and make use of their custom. Try the PT later in the evening after a parma(i) and refreshing beverage(or few).

Yeah for sure crazy and stinky people are a challenge - although crazy people are still a challenge in the car. And as a grumpy middle aged bloke, I don't have to put up with being grabbed on the snag in crowded PT like the ladies do. That would change my view. I f****** hate people and go out of my way not to touch them, so that works out for me there too.

And ties, yes. Ties are very versatile. You can hang them in the wardrobe or leave them lying on the floor. Perhaps even drape them over a chair. I've even heard of people hanging them off a door handle. But that's about it I reckon.

Spot on.

Some carriages are more emptier than others, where each carriage will stop at your designated platform, where to stand if the train is packed. You learn the system, then play it to your advantage.

 

[Run n Spread]

I don't get dress standards at all. Why the fu** do city workers need to wear suits? Are you a better lawyer or stock market guru because you wear a shirt and tie instead of boardies and thongs?

Like most things it is people apeing the upper classes. Suit and tie = status so let's all do it and hope the manic rubs off. Same for royal/ formal weddings and cocaine.

 

[Run n Spread]

Nope....The West & Capitalism are prefaced upon the superficial image as the sine qua non of one's identity.....A diet of advertising & propaganda creates a culture of rank narcissism.....The suites have hopped on board what the forum dictates = impressionable winners….The trackies don't care = Comfortable Losers.

These articles are merely grist for the mill in selling that Western zeitgeist to the impressionable & confused masses, lost in the miasma of a complex world not of their making....Note the source....The Ivy league.....Home to the establishment churning machines.

Deep but I'm becoming a cynic. This seems to be the world the masses want
Instinctively we know something is wrong but we're quick to fall in line with whatever the tribe or loudest voice dictates.

 

[fanuch]

Drug amnesty bins at festivals. Do Govt really think people will ditch their drugs?
If they want zero tolerance or decriminalisation legislate it. Don’t try half pregnant laws.

 

[Scotland]

Drug amnesty bins only work if the alternative is police and sniffer dogs. If given the choice between binning their drugs before entering and potentially being arrested for possession inside the festival, some people will choose the former.

If you just have amnesty bins and don't police drug use then they don't really serve any purpose. A girl died at the Perth Big Day Out 10 years ago because there were cops at the entrance and she panicked and took two ecstasy pills. That sad outcome doesn't help any side of the drugs argument.

 

[Gough]

They'd rather kids die than admit the war on drugs is bollocks. Gladys B. was channeling her inner Nancy Reagan today.

 

[Procrastinator35]

They'd rather kids die than admit the war on drugs is bollocks. Gladys B. was channeling her inner Nancy Reagan today.

The opioid crisis in the U.S currently, is proof positive that governments couldn't give a shit, just as long as they & their big pharma mates are getting rich off the slew of dead bodies of the under-classes....The Chinese opium wars all over again…..It's how John Kerry's old man made the family fortune.

The war on drugs is merely the governments cover for their attempt at an appropriation of a monopoly on the market.....But we all know that.

 

[Billy ray]

When you step on something say in the kitchen and it feels like its huge yet its like a grain of rice.
why does your foot make something feel bigger than it is?

 

[Cuzz09]

I dont get the whole music festival drug thing... If you decide to take drugs then you risk the consequences.

If you are unlucky enough to get bad drugs then thats a bit shit.

Peoples mates need to watch out for each other

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[Dav]

I dont get the whole music festival drug thing... If you decide to take drugs then you risk the consequences.

If you are unlucky enough to get bad drugs then thats a bit shit.

Peoples mates need to watch out for each other

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I think the idea is that people are going to take drugs regardless of laws and so it is better to make sure they're safe.

 

[Dav]

I don't understand why they got Albert Brooks to voice an entirely different villain in the Simpson Movie instead of just bringing back Hank Scorpio.

 

[revo333]

I don't understand how Karl Malone didn't go to jail.

Some say he was on roids.

 

[Cuzz09]

I think the idea is that people are going to take drugs regardless of laws and so it is better to make sure they're safe.

I feel like they wont take them if they have to be tested first.

Too lame bro

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