Millennial couple fails to GoFu__Themselves
Posted On: Thursday - July 11th 2019 3:47PM MST
In Topics: General Stupidity Internets Curmudgeonry
The title is in reference to the social media "sharing economy" GoFundMe site. I sure hope the reader would not erroneously assume that Peak Stupidity has a cuss word right up in the post title.
A friend sent me a link to a ZeroHedge article a while back about this young German couple that have have the not-even-close-to-mitigated gall to use GoFundMe not for a political cause, not for hardship of any sort, but for a trip to Africa. They want to bicycle through Africa, and they would like you to go ahead and fund them with 11 thousand bucks. Dammit, it ain't cheap down there in the Dark Continent anymore.
(Sorry for small image, as the file-type conversion caused it to be pretty large data-wise.)
If you are in the mood for some humor, go to the ZH post, as, for a change, "Tyler Durden" gives lots of credit to commenters associated with the original instagram, uh, gram(?) No, I'm not going there, but I also recommend clicking on ZH's [SHOW COMMENTS]. These are not the awesome ZeroHedge commenters of yesteryear, but it's still bound to be a hoot.
Now, I'm all awfully close to going ahead and making a topic key called "Millennials", but the posts that I would attach the key to would probably turn-off a large majority, or at least a quorum, of Peak Stupidity's Millennial audience. Therefore, I'll keep this stuff under the Curmudgeonry topic key.
My problem with you people is not the $11,000, but the tattoos. It's one thing to have something to cover up a bad spot, or a small little memento on the shoulder blade or thigh. Look at this guy. He's basically one big tattoo! How much does that stuff cost? Thankfully, the wife or girlfriend is not covered with modern art. "You know, Fräulein, you coulda done a whole lot better." Then again, anyone who sticks with this walking doodle must not have it all on the ball either. "You know, you both could have done a whole lot better!"
Then there is the whole Social Media angle in this story and this young couple. The Instagram, Tweets, and comments that go with it are not the real world, Herr and Frau Illustrated Man. Perhaps you should get back into the real world to earn that money for your trip. It'd take something called work, which is, no, no, it's not a phone app.
I hope these 2 do earn their money though, possibly having to even scrimp on the weekly tattoo money, and end up in Africa for a spell. When you're down in the bush, in oooga-booga land, hungry for a snack of monkey brains, well, they don't take Visa, they don't take Mastercard, and they don't have wifi for you to Instagram your friends about it. Peak Stupidity and 8 billion other humans would be glad to not hear from you all for a month or two, and from the end of the ZH article, I find that it's likewise, after a little feedback:
Cat has now posted that the couple will be taking a 30 day break from social media to do some "soul-searching".Arguing for hours on the internet is not very productive, as I found out just this very afternoon on another site. I hope Illustrated Man and his squeeze will get back into the real world and earn their own money, especially before they do something stupid like ride a bike through Africa!
* If you've been any kind of serious Zerohedge aficionado you've got to use that "Bitches" appropriately (usually "Bitchez" if used in a friendly manner).
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Suspicious Stupidity at the Gas Pump
Posted On: Wednesday - July 10th 2019 7:30PM MST
In Topics: Economics Scams
BP was the brand of gas at one of the two local stations that is up to no good, so I don't mind putting that picture up. Peak Stupidity has written a 2 part series (Part 1 and Part 2) on the long-term changes in gasoline prices, associated with our Inflation topic key. Gasoline is a volatile product in both the literal and figurative sense. It can be a wild ride, keeping up with that, and there may often be some kind of big-time geopolitical scams behind some of it. However, what bugs me is simply getting scammed at the pump, whether intentional or due to stupidity of some sort.
I'd mentioned the problems with employees who neither care about honoring prices nor often have an easy way to deal straight with the customer, in a post yesterday. Here are 2 incidents that made me lately realize that:
a) Most people obviously don't run the numbers, or don't care if they do (I think the former).
b) Big-Biz and their local minions must feel they can get away with more now.
At a BP station, I paid inside the station to get the cash/debit price. It turned I that I got very close to an even 10 gallons, so the calculation of what price the pump gave me was easy. It did not match even the higher credit price. I went inside to talk to the guy, and he told me that "yes, you got the price on the sign." I had not, though, but there was no way I could show the guy, as he wasn't going outside to look at the numbers on the pump, as he was the only employee in there.
At the 2nd place, the problem was as simple as that the price on the pump did not match the price on the sign. I'd already paid and started pumping gas before I noticed.
Yeah, you can try to get a phone number of a manager, come back to show him (in the latter case it'd been easier to prove), but, well, ""You need to know how to pick your battles.", I've been told. I just make a mental note to never come back.
Is this part of a slide into 3rd-Worldliness, or is it just my becoming better at arithmetic and noticing?
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Putting the Peter in Peter, Paul, and Mary
Posted On: Wednesday - July 10th 2019 7:01PM MST
In Topics: Music Humor Orwellian Stupidity
This post is a week-old story now, but what does it matter when the event happened just under 50 years ago, and the Orwellian modern-day Red Guards of the ctrl-left go back that far for cultural investigations? The trio here, Peter, Paul and Mary, of 1960's fame, wrote and sang some great folk songs at the height of the folk-music revival.
Per Fox News here, Peter Yarrow, who is still hammering in evening with that folk music at 81 years old, was disinvited from the Colorscape Chenango Arts Festival by this arts festival's board president, one Melissa DeCordova. The festival is held in upstate New York, somewhere near Binghamton (just N. of Penn.). This is upstate New York, mind you, where the kind of stuff that went on for a few days in the late 1960's could have a million people marked for investigation, and for a lot worse than young Mr. Yarrow showing up at the hotel room door to sign autographs with no clothes on.
It is not even clear if the guy meant to show his magic dragon to a 14 y/o girl and her 17 y/o sister in 1970. He sure never asked the girl to puff on it ... Anyway, a jury must have thought he was up to no good, as he was sentenced to 3 months jail time, though subsequently pardoned by President Jimmy Carter at the end of his term in 1981*.
Now, coming right up on 5 decades later, this Mary DeCordova (translation "of the Cordova, with fine Corinthian leather") seems to think that Mr. Yarrow should pay for his mistake now. It sounds like she wasn't a big fan of Mr. Yarrow, or she would have known about the incident and kept it simple by not inviting him in the first place, were she really worried. Sure, you know an 81 year-old folk singer may just pull it out before, during, or after the show - when all you have is a hammer, even in the morning ... everything looks like ...
This is how it works now, though - you just read this stuff, and it ought to awaken you to the reality of Peak Stupidity:
"When booking this artist we were not aware of news stories about an incident involving Yarrow in 1970."I don't know. Maybe the board had a musician friend they wanted to get up on stage and used this 49 year-ago incident as an excuse. Still, the fact that this is taken seriously means we are pretty far gone. Everyone is fair game, when stuff from that distant in your past can be used to culturally revolutionize the living shit out of you. It's possible that Mr. Yarrow may be having second thoughts about his 5-decade-ago support for the 1960's cultural revolution. Peter, his peter, Paul, and Mary, along with the thousands of other great musical artists and acts of the 1960's were part of a movement that drastically changed American society, and the long-term consequences are the hard-core ctrl-left of today that apparently take their cues from Chairman Mao.
Has even 81 year-old Peter Yarrow realized the damage that his crowd did to America? How much stupidity will it take till they know, they caused this great country to die? The answer, my friend is blowin' in their wind ... the answer is blowin' in their wind.
After just listening to John Denver's version today of what I though was PP&M's Leavin' on a Jet Plane, I learned just now that he wrote this one. In that case, John Denver's version ought to be the one featured for the music to go along with all of this music talk:
* First of all, I don't get that - if he had served his sentence, what was the pardon for 10 years later? That notwithstanding, weren't American politicians much more small time in a good way back in Jimmy's time? Since the Clintons, the deal has been to pardon anyone you can as a reward for shutting one's mouth and that sort of thing. What a more innocent time it was!
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Illegal Price Switching - It's the 3rd-World Way
Posted On: Tuesday - July 9th 2019 6:40PM MST
In Topics: Economics Big-Biz Stupidity Scams
Note: 00's prices shown.
Do not hold Peak Stupidity responsible for price increases!
- PS Legal Department
Yeah, Peak Stupidity had to add a new topic key today, with the label Scams. Things are very much approaching 3rd-World ways when you can't even believe the prices at the chain food joint. I mean, they are right up there on the fancy plastic menu board.
I went to a semi-regular chain place (no, it's not the burgers and fries shown above, but pasta and such), and ordered something different for a change. As the surly broad mumbled something from behind the sneeze guard, I tried hard to figure out what the price was that she was telling me. OK, let me just look up there, since it didn't make sense. "OK, for this pasta and the one big meatball, it's $7.95 ... says so right up there."
"Nope, but that's not the price now." "What? Look up top, see." She refused to look up at the plastic menu board. "The price up there is wrong. It's $9.95" Well, listen, I know what the reader may be thinking: It's illegal to do that (that's what a friend maintains), they should honor the price on the menu, of course! Etc, etc. Nope, there is no honor anymore in Big-Biz America. There was no regard for it here. You pay up or leave, no matter what the menu reads.
This was not the first time. In the last such situation, a few years back, there was a simple price card for a muffin that was 40 cents lower than what it was rung up as. After some simple questioning and pointing at the card ("look, see there!") the cashier and manager would simply not honor the simple deal. I wouldn't have minded if the manager had simply told me honestly "look, pricing in our software has been changed, but we forgot/haven't had time to keep up. Let me just put a card up now. Sorry about that." That'd been just fine with me. Nope, he told me how the computer was just plain right, kind of a precursor to the "auto-generated" excuse described in this scam post. KEEP YOUR MUFFIN! SEE YA!" said I, and I never went back.
I did end up buying the item here, because of hunger and my running late. There was no manager this time to explain the rules of business to, if I had had the time.
It's just the big corporate world - some marketing people put pricing data into the computer without waiting for the chain stores to get new menu boards. No, you don't do that in a 1st-world country where somebody actually cares about these types of errors. If it happens, most likely even a decent manager who understands the concept of honoring the price would have a hard time overriding the computer, formerly cash register, known as a POS system (not quite what "POS" normally stands for). He could just refund money all day, but almost no boss has that much integrity anymore. It puts him in a bad spot, but hey, maybe a call to corporate - "Hey, revert the database. My customers are pissed" would be in order.
After the above thoughts, I recalled that lots of big chains have the menus made of flat-screen TV's anyway. Those could easily be changed at the same time as the pricing data (maybe even linked together by good, non-H-1B-visa IT people, like Americans?). So, I suppose this problem may not occur that regularly after these place go all-electronic like that. That is, of course, unless they purposefully try to cheat you, a la the Bank of America.
I've twice run into slightly different price "discrepancies" (to be generous) lately at gas stations. If they are scams, they seem to work great, as Americans are mostly still too proud to calculate a price out. No we are all too well-off* to stoop that low and call anyone on it, even if we knew.
It may be time for Americans to realize that things are going 3rd-World and act accordingly. One of the things one must put up with is attempted rip-offs left and right, and one must be ready to call it out.
Anyway, Peak Stupidity will have more on the gasoline station scams tomorrow, if possible. This was going to be "girl-picture week", with good reason, of course! It looks like it'll end up as "scam week" or another "curmudeonry week".
* More on Americans' habit of living paycheck-to-paycheck here.
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H. Ross Perot, RIP
Posted On: Tuesday - July 9th 2019 10:53AM MST
In Topics: History Americans
The above images is from Peak Stupidity's post over 2 years back called The Deep State vs. Donald Trump - remember Candidate Ross Perot?. It wasn't THAT awful long ago, but a full 27 years, since that summer in which Mr. Perot was a strong 3rd candidate for President (his non-party later to become the "Reform Party"), his dropping out and then rejoining of the race, and still getting 19% of the popular votes of Americans.
Mr. Perot died this morning of Leukemia at 89 years old. You can read about his life elsewhere. Peak Stupidity would just like to point out that this country really still had a chance with guys like this, and Americans who would vote for him, back in the early, and even mid 1990's. Look at the ineffectual blowhard we have now, who patriotic Americans had really put their hopes on. Look at the sick, anti-white-American hard-Socialist crew of scum that are running for D'nomination - the Old Pharts and Young Turds described Ocasio-nally herein.
Mr. Perot was a former computer-biz executive who really did know what was going wrong with the country and had plans to do something about it. He was not the first (that might go to '92 D-candidate Paul Tsongas) to talk about how important manufacturing is to the American, or ANY, economy, but he laid his opinion out there. "NO NAFTA" for starters - there'd be a "giant sucking sound" - he was referring to good jobs. Yes, they've been sucked, but the NAFTA deal sending manufacturing to Mexico was just the John-the-Baptist of the trashing of American manufacturing might, with the Clinton/Bush/US Congressional China agreements knocking the BeJesus out of it a few years later.
There was room for argument back in 1992. Arguing for a future for traditional America was still allowed and not tweeted as shamefully racist. Though the picture below of the 3 '92 Presidential candidates is all smiles, it's too bad only one of the 3 was not a traitorous or neocon scumbag bent on destruction of the country. We thought there was still a chance back then.
"♪♫♬ Where have you gone, Ross Perot?
Our nation turns it's lonely eyes to you ♪♫♬ ...
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Courting the "Goldfish" vote
Posted On: Monday - July 8th 2019 10:22AM MST
In Topics: Elections '16 - '24 Media Stupidity Americans
Now here's that same guy - he's anti-electric eel. You got my vote!
The infotainment that I've been reading about regarding the Blue-squad of the party and the current crop of Old Pharts and Young Turds, along with an unz commenter's excellent point, got me thinking of this post's subject. It's the primary election season, at least for the D's (Blue-squad). The amount of stupidity that's been introduced by these useful idiots has been mighty intense (see posts on the vetting by pro race hustler Al Sharpton and on reparations to slaves from masters).
The political wonks and pundits will tell you that, yes the ctrl-left candidates of the Blue-squad have to go hard-left during the primaries and the cuckservative candidates of the Red-squad have to go hard-to-the-middle(?) during their primary elections. They have to get the hard-core side of their voters, the ones that care the most and will come out to vote in the primary, on-board at this point, damn the optics to the rest of the American voters. Then, after they've got it nailed down, they start easing off and spouting rhetoric that is just slightly more sane to get those independent voters on-board. I don't at all disagree with this opinion of how the process works. My beef is with the American voters themselves.
How short are the memories of Americans when it comes to politics? I get it, that 50 or 100 years ago, whatever went on, other than Declarations of War, were not really going to affect the average American. The American of yesteryear could afford not to give a tinker's damn (I think that was the expression of yesteryear?) about politics. Now, things are coming to a head here, so you'd think an American who was up for voting would at least pay attention to what's going on. Paying attention means not forgetting what was done or said some years back, or at least 6 months ago during the primaries!
You've got Joe Biden in the lead (of the Old Pharts coalition). Does nobody remember that the guy was caught plagiarizing and flat-out lying during the 1988 D-primary? OK, that was 30 years back, but it's like it never happened. Has he been forgiven? Nah, it's just that nobody remembers, and the Lyin' Press will not bring up anything that hurts the ctrl-left. How about Squaw Elizabeth of the Warren Nations of the upper Massachusetts? Within Peak Stupidity's post Another Native American succumbs to alcoholism, we mentioned that the squaw had written what sounds to be a very conservative and anti-feminism book only 15 years ago. All of what she wrote in it may not be her present opinion, but has anyone ever asked her? No, the voters don't remember squat about this squaw. The Lyin' Press wants this squaw as she is now, to they won't bring it to the voter's attention.
Let's go to the much shorter time-line mentioned in the beginning. A candidate says hard-left opinion A during the primary, but then blows it off or even disavows opinion A during the general election. Does this candidate just assume that the American voters are like goldfish and won't remember what he said 3 to 6 months ago, or does he just figure they don't mind candidates who lie blatantly? I don't think it's any better if it's the former, really. Things are coming to a head, as I said, and it'd behoove the voters to pay the hell attention. It's not like people have terrible long-term memories for all things. Ask an American about the times their college basketball team got in the final four. You'll find out who the coach was, what scandals he was involved in, who beat out the team, or who they beat, each time, and more than you ever wanted to know.
When it comes to politics, though, it seems that Americans are like that goldfish in the bowl, not remembering what he saw last time around the tank. The politicians at the high level pretty much count on that. They are courting the valuable goldfish vote, each and every time around.
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The Dead - Big River
Posted On: Saturday - July 6th 2019 6:28PM MST
In Topics: Music The Dead Geography
The Grateful Dead played plenty of cover songs, along with their great original music. This one was written and sung by Johnny Cash way back in 1958. Now, Johnny Cash is one of my favorites, and though good lyrics aren't what makes for a great song, these are great lyrics, as the narrator tries to catch up with the girl, going from St. Paul down to New Orleans, down the mighty Mississippi. This is another in Peak Stupidity's very short list of Geography songs starting with #1 Stand, by REM, and ending, for now, with #2 here.
As much as I like Johnny Cash, there's no way he could have sung this one, played it, and jammed on it like this All-American Band. That's Bobby singing this one, and he does a great job:
Now I taught the weeping willow how to cry,cry,cry.
I showed the clouds how to cover up a clear blue sky.
The tears that I cried for that woman are gonna flood you, Big River.
Then I'm gonna sit right here until I die.
Why all the black and white old videos of the band, when they played through 1995 when there was plenty of color footage? To me, this was their best sound, in the 1970's, in general. (Nope, I wasn't there, sigh...) There's at least one Peak Stupidity Dead-Head commenter who could correct me, if need be.
Note that this show was only a month and a half after that show with the US Blues we featured on the 4th - and every July 4th.
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More on the Congressional Retard Caucus
Posted On: Saturday - July 6th 2019 1:08PM MST
In Topics: General Stupidity Humor US Feral Government
Peak Stupidity discussed some unintentionally-Orwellian unforced stupidity out of Congresstard Fredrica Wilson yesterday. I'd like to add a little bit more today, with the appropriate humor, especially on the ongoing stupid vs. evil debate, which if very relevant to this site's purpose.
If you don't recall from yesterday, Rep. Wilson had the gall to tell Americans that they are not allowed, or should not be allowed, to criticize members of Congress. I've never before heard of that extreme stupidity, but this type of claptrap out of our elected leaders has been around for quite some time, as the US Constitution, supposed law of the land, has been ignored for years now. Sure, you'll hear something out of the SCROTUS, and maybe a few words from a Rep. or Senator about Constitutionality now and again, but it's usually just to justify a law, not to really obey the document. In this Alice-in-Wonderland clown country of ours, the Constitution means what they say it means and nothing else.
The useful idiots of today (and maybe it WAS the same last time around) are not just located at the low level of the Antifa thugs. The term would apply to quite a few people high up in US government, as standards are, if I may, not quite those of the First Congress in 1789, or even 1989, for that matter. The AA and gerrymandering, along with the allowance of all citizens and some illegal aliens to vote, has produced electees as stupid as their electors, which is to be expected.
So, you've got these people with the moronic tyrannical statements that do make us angry at the logic and consequences of their proposals. As I wrote yesterday, people like Fredrica Wilson aren't even spouting managed stupidity from some evil handlers behind the scenes. No, this stuff is organic stupidity that just happens to coincide nicely with the Orwellian stuff that the brighter-but-evil people like the Soroses and such types arrange.
It doesn't matter though. Stupidity + Power = Evil - this is a new equation from the PS Theoretical Stupidity department, located in the basement of our headquarters. It's not the only way evil is created, but this exothermic reaction is one of the bigger sources leading to Peak Stupidity.
Sure sometimes we can laugh it off, as the fate of Guam really doesn't mean a rat's ass in terms of the fate of the world. However, what if they let this guy join some other committees in the "halls of power" in Washington, FS? This is Congressman Hank Johnson below, and I can't believe I haven't included this clip before, some truly classic stupidity here.
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Current-Era Espionage and Immigration
Posted On: Friday - July 5th 2019 5:57PM MST
In Topics: Immigration Stupidity Political Correctness China
Maybe we shoulda' had "Chinese" in the title, but it's really that twhich country of origin of the perpetrator this latest bout of espionage of US military/trade secrets is not important. It's the massive immigration and the PC, period.
Per the Lyin' Press, as VDare references here, this "California Professor", "UCLA Professor", and "Electrical Engineer" (no mention of his origins and pre-immigrant status*) faces 219 years for smuggling military hardware computer chips back to the old country. We know where his loyalty lies, but how about the ~ 5 million other Chinese immigrants in the US, or from anywhere for that matter?
This spy was from Taiwan, but there have been numerous mainland Chinese, such as "LA Woman" Si Chen, who fill up the grad schools of engineering and computer science and, later, in their careers, the government labs. In a sane country, you'd really want to limit this sort of thing to people who have at least grown up, maybe even been born, in the country. You especially would not hire people who aren't even freakin' citizens, such as "California Professor" Yi-Chi Shih from the article referenced above and his accomplice "Kiet Ahn Mai of Pasadena, California", apparently from that appellation, not from any kind of foreign country or anything himself, well, just Pasadena.
During the Cold War of 30 to 72 years back, there was none of this stupidity by the somewhat different crowd that ran the Military-Industrial Complex. Call them whatever names you want, but at least they didn't sabotage their own industry and their country via Political Correctness. They went overboard on the D,I.S. background checks and so forth. But no, what this is, is PC over sanity in the defense of the nation. Now you may rightly argue that this is no Cold War era and we don't have any enemies. Well, really we shouldn't have any military enemies, but that's not what our Deep State and Neocons have arranged for us. Even without military enemies, our biggest economic challenger (most likely larger than us in the REAL economy) is China. Why give the rest of our technology away?
Oh, it's just a few bad apples, right? Sure, it is. Most of the Chinese immigrants are not here for espionage, but just to take advantage of the lifestyle of the Western world. (It's not like they all revere the Constitution either, BTW.) It's just a matter of large numbers. You let in millions, and you're gonna get a few hundred spies. The grad schools admit 1/2 a million, and then the research labs hire 10's of thousands and give out security clearances. Did they even notice that UCLA Professor Yi-Chi Shih was NOT EVEN A CITIZEN?! The guy is not an American. So, yes, we'll get more bad apples.
It's not just the Chinese that we import willy-nilly in large numbers, so this is not any particular disparagement of them. It's just that, well, the Moslem world may send their best, but, as we have seen from the lack of easy-to-implement terrorism incidents, they are just not that bright. (Sure, there was Ahmed the clock boy, but President Øb☭ma already outed him ... with a medal or scholarship or something.)
The Chinese do have some smart people, so should we not keep a better vetting system in place? Nope, the PC rules, and you know that none of the HR ladies** would dare to question the loyalty of one green-card holder Yi-Chih Shih, recently of Taiwan, but known only as "California Professor" Shih.
* Another perfect example of what VDare has been pointing out for years, the purposeful failure to provide the reader with appropriate nomenclature for non-ordinary-Americans in headlines and lede(?) lines when reporting on wrongdoing. Peak Stupidity pointed out an example brought up by VDare just this Tuesday.
** More on the HR ladies in Part 2 and Part 3.
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South Florida Congresstard spouts Orwellian Stupidity
Posted On: Friday - July 5th 2019 3:45PM MST
In Topics: General Stupidity Lefty MegaStupidity Websites Pundits US Feral Government Race/Genetics
Here, look at her. Does she look like a character from George Orwell's 1984 Oceana? Of course, we expected this part of the world to stay mostly white, and the USSR-like totalitarianism to be implemented by some smarter people than this Dade/Broward country (FL) Congressional Aunt Esther:
Aunt Esther: "Who you calling ugly, sucker?"
Fred Sanford: "I'm calling you ugly, I could push your face in some dough and make gorilla cookies."
Nobody said all the Big-Gov, PC, Police-State, Orwellian that's been coming down on the US of A was going to be that of the old USSR or the East German Stasi. No, retards can play a big part too. We must be inclusive here, even, or ESPECIALLY, in our selection of "our" elected folks in the House of Representin'. An organization full of just the normal screwballs, sleezbags, and psychopath-Americans is not diverse enough for the current American era. Diversity is our strength, so a mix of the former with some retards brought into the House of Representin' through the back entrance on those short buses will only increase our diversity, hence our strength.
One of these short bus riders is the ugly-assed CongressEsther from S. Florida who, per Mac Slavo of SHTF*-Plan has informed Americans that they better not make fun of "members" (hehehe, she said "members" /Butthead) of Congress. [ Quick note, PS, when does that shit start? - Ed.] Uhhh, yeah, where was I - yeah the article is FLORIDA DEMOCRAT: WE SHOULD PROSECUTE ANYONE WHO “MAKES FUN” OF MEMBERS OF CONGRESS.
(Read below** for a quick site note on Mac Slavo, owner/operator of shtfplan.com.)
Here's the words of our Congresstard in question, per Mr. Slavo's article:
“Those people who are online, making fun of members of Congress, are a disgrace and there is no need for anyone to think; that is unacceptable. We’re going to shut them down and work with whoever it is to shut them down, and they should be prosecuted.”Now, maybe being still somewhat of a foreigner, foreign at least to the ways of some of the more ignorant groups of Americans, Mr. Slavo takes this a little too, well, not seriously, but takes them as the words of a serious person.
“You can not intimidate members of Congress, threaten members of Congress. It is against the law in this United States of America.” – Rep. Frederica Wilson (D-FL)
So much for free speech. The thought police are here and trying desperately to make things worse for us than they were for those living in the Soviet Union. The slaves can’t make fun of the masters without punishment. This is the future of the democrat party. Moving to prosecute people for voicing their opinions and making jokes is dangerous and it’s a slippery slope. Not only that but it’s arbitrary. Who gets to decide what qualifies as “being made jun of?” Is calling Hillary’s pantsuit ugly now aginst a law and those who say so are going to spend time in jail? Welcome to the new USSA, where democrats are actively attempting to kill free speech.Well, it could go that way, Mac, don't get me wrong. However, these are not the words of some shrewd evil Kommissar of the old East Bloc. These are the words of an black American errand girl sent by Broward County grocery clerks. All involved are too stupid to even understand the implications of what Mrs. Wilson spouted off. Do you think this lady has ever read, much less UNDERSTOOD Amendment I of the US Constitution? You're killing me,
Now there are evil people behind the scenes who just love this stuff and encourage it, but the words out of this south Florida Congresstard are like poo flung from a gorilla. She's pissed, she may bare her teeth even, but all that 1st Amendment stuff one may want to bring up to argue with her on this stupidity would just fly over her Dollar Tree cowboy hat. No, you really have to get to the source to deal with the Orwellian stupidity.
* Old prepper term folks, old prepper term ... Shit Hits The Fan.
** I used to read this, what was solely a prepper site, back 5-10 years ago. Back than Mr. Slavo's English was what you expect of a recent East-Bloc (he came for Yugoslavia and experience the Balkans wars - somewhat East-Bloc, right?) immigrant who couldn't afford spell and grammar check. It was cute for a while, and maybe added some realism. I guess, he either got a writer or editor, learned to edit himself, or it was all an act before, because he seems to magically have gotten much better at English. Now there are ads all over the site, and he's got many more of these purely political articles (the latter in the same mode as the change in Zerohedge). I think he's trying to emulate Zerohedge. I'll have to visit SHTF-Plan more regularly.
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Them US Blues - 2019
Posted On: Thursday - July 4th 2019 8:31AM MST
In Topics: Music The Dead Americans US Feral Government Holiday from Stupidity
"Check my pulse, it don't change,
stays seventy-two come shine or rain.
Wave the flag, pop the bag.
Rock the boat, skin the goat.
Wave that flag, wave it wide and high
Summertime done, come and gone, my, oh, my."
As is now a Peak Stupidity Independence Day tradition, we're posting The Dead's classic US Blues, same as last year and the year before.
Go ahead, enjoy the fireworks, the grilling out, and especially the day off from your support of The Man, Uncle Sam, and all of his more privileged subjects than you. I'd have still been pleased to celebrate this holiday with some good thoughts about this nation and its American Exceptionalism were it just 15 years ago even (though it does seem that the events just after 9/11/01 were the big final turning point.)
Right now, I think of the phrase "love it or leave it", which I never did agree with anyway, depending on what "it" is (the government or the people), and the latter often does not seem like too bad an idea. There's a post on that which has been waiting on the back burner for a long time, coming soon. More specifically, blogging will pick up later this week.
As we wrote about long ago on this blog, The Grateful Dead may not be thought of as such, but they were a real All-American Rock & Roll band, and the video below shows a performance just 2 weeks before the 200th birthday of this formerly great US of A. Even had there been blogs on the internet, there would have been no reason during that time to write much of the negativity seen in Peak Stupidity posts on America, or more accurately, the American Feral Government.
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Lying in the Lede
Posted On: Tuesday - July 2nd 2019 6:59PM MST
In Topics: Immigration Stupidity Political Correctness Media Stupidity
What do they call it, the lead, or the lede? What is that? I don't really give a crap about the "real" journalists and what their "professional" terms are. It's the headlines that they use now to obscure the truth and in this case it's the first two lines in the article that Cincinatti.com uses to flat out lie to the readers. I doubt Pravda of the old USSR was this clever.
VDare often discusses the Lyin' Press coverage of the events and crimes in which the bad guy is not mentioned by race or ethnicity, unless he's white. "Kansas Man shoots 7" with no other information on this man anywhere near the headline usually means that the shooter is either black or a foreigner. That's become so common, that it's basically a meme. "Lake City man", hahaha, yeah, right, that's the ticket.
Well, with the story that VDare's James Fulford posted today on another immigrant mass murder, Sikh Truck Driver Charged With Killing Four Family Members, it gets even stupider. I suppose I should say even more wicked and duplicitous, but stupidity is the theme of this blog, and there's plenty of it involved too.
This time, after it was suspected that the killer of the four Sikh immigrant family members above was the husband Cincinnati.com had the following first two lines, as Fulford noted, and Peak Stupidity confirmed was on that Lyin' new site:
West Chester police have made an arrest in connection to the April shooting that killed four members of a Sikh family.Are they counting on most readers to read just the 1st line and click elsewhere? As VDare follows and notes on, victims who are foreigners always have their ethnicity noted, but foreign perpetrators do not. VDare writers have even noted that with 3rd-world immigrants that keep SLAVES. The slave will be mentioned by ethnicity, and as being held by that "New Jersey woman", who one later on finds is from that same shithole where slavery is still kind of a thing.
Gurpreet Singh, 37, is charged with four counts of aggravated murder in the killing of four members of his family.
In this case, Mr. Fulford notes "the writer could have said, just as easily, that a Sikh was charged with killing four members of a West Chester family, but that never happens." It sure would have been an easier way to write the lead line to the story. These Lyin' Press folks spend a lot of time to obscure things, don't they?
Read the rest of that VDare post to see more details of the case and this murderous family of Sikhs, and also to know even more of the immigration stupidity that the American people put up with.
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iSteveFan with great immigration-invasion analogy
Posted On: Monday - July 1st 2019 8:21PM MST
In Topics: Immigration Stupidity Trump Pundits
That's a damn good question, Senor.
Where ARE your documents?
If you need to read this in Spanish, perhaps you are undocumented, si??
(No kidding, the above is a flyer from the US Passport Office. What serious
country does this ?)
Some commenters on the good websites are as good, or nearly as good as, the writers themselves, and are pundits in their own writes (homonym error intended). There are the guys I agree with EVERY, or maybe only 98% of the, time that write well too. I've seen great stuff from this commenter with the handle of iSteveFan under iSteve, that is Steve Sailer on unz.com. Under one article of Sailer's comes this great comment by iSteveFan, with an analogy of the > 50 year-long now immigration invasion with the D-day invasion of Europe by the Allied armies on June 6th, 75 years ago. What was the point in defending freedom around the world when you're going to give up you country without a fight 21 years later?
This analogy compares the numbers of the German's impossible defense of their occupied Western European territory with the numbers of invaders upon American soil during this slower, but just as deadly in the long run, invasion. As the comment wrote afterward, this analogy is a good one to bring up to older patriotic Americans who maybe just don't get it. I should say "just don't get THEM", the numbers that is.
Here's iSteveFan's excellent take:
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It’s brilliant. Just watch this play out over the next couple of weeks. It’s the first great move by Trump in awhile. [NOTE: This was from another comment, and the following is in reply.]I disagree. Every day we are taking in over 2700 LEGAL immigrants. That’s over 1 million a year. Currently we are getting tens of thousands of illegals per month. He has done nothing to change this. I think the only area where he has done some good is in the reduction of the refugee resettlement program.
Since we remembered the 75th anniversary of D-Day earlier this month, let’s use that as an analogy to what is happening to us today. Over the course of 4 weeks, from the invasion to the 4th of July, the allies landed 1 million men. They averaged landing over 35K men per day over this period. Of course the landings continued after 4 July, but this was the approximate date we hit the 1 million mark.
If you were a German officer in France in June 1944, you received reports that the US Sherman tanks were not very good. The Panzerschreck, and Tiger and Panther tanks took a toll on them. Your men told you how many tanks they took out on a daily basis. However, you knew it meant little so long as the allies could land 35K men each and every day nonstop. Eventually they would overwhelm with pure numbers alone. And that is what happened.
This is our position today. You might think Trump acted brilliantly in this action. Or you might be happy about some of his policies which have been good. I like his attempts at trade adjustments and court picks. But I know so long as the other side lands 2700 legal immigrants per day, and a like number of illegals per day, we are doomed. We’ve already allowed them to land 60 million since 1965!!!!
We can’t continue down this road. Either Trump reverses this tide and starts to send them back, or we will inevitably march on to electoral and demographic oblivion.
And no, he does not need to round up everyone. I posted this link before, a good piece in the Christian Science Monitor from 2006 about Ike’s Operation Wetback and how the illegals self-deported when Ike cracked down. Border agents only nabbed a few thousand, while almost a million self-deported when they knew the jig was up.
The bottom line is the other side is landing thousands of new troops per day and so far that has not been reduced at all. The killer is legal immigration, which enables illegal immigration since it creates pockets of foreign nations within our own, which allows the illegals to “swim among the fish” and avoid standing out. So long as they are allowed to land this many troops per day, we are like the Germans in June 1944. No matter how good they were individually, or how good their equipment was, they could not overcome the allies’ numbers. And we won’t be able to overcome globo-homo’s numbers either. We should have put our collective foot down years ago, but no one wanted to listen to Pat Buchanan.
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To convince numerate people, which is not all Americans, by ANY means, but still a lot, you must give them numbers. Peak Stupidity has taken this tack in writing about
Nice work, iSteveFan!
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Heart of Gold or Glass, I dunno, but still beating
Posted On: Saturday - June 29th 2019 5:54PM MST
In Topics: Music
After a week of mostly curmudgeonry, I guess Peak Stupidity can lighten the hell up for one evening, at least. Stuff is starting to suck though ... I'm just sayin' ...
I could have just briefly updated Monday's post about the exercise machine electronic stupidity, but I'll just add one note here, with some music to go along.
It's just that a machine that I used this morning was pretty solid mechanically and gave out not a lot, but the right numbers, with one exception. Before my heart rate showed up on the display, the machine displays the heart rate as 0. Yeah, a big ZERO. A little beating heart to show the machine is trying to sense a reading, or just some dashes, would probably have been the way to go here. When you have no data, you don't show numbers. Someone could have told the manufacturer that, for a few bucks. I mean, it's not me, but some people may really get worried when seeing that "0" - "OMG! What's happening to me?!"
Anyway it's time for some music, and there are loads that fit in the post now with "heart" in the title. How about Neil Young's (a Peak Stupidity favorite) Heart of Gold and then Blondie - from later in the 1970's - with Heart of Glass?
From a ballad,
(exercise machine STILL shows 0 bpm!)
to a disco-rocker with a great bass and beat:
(How about now? I'm gettin' a reading, Houston!)
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CongressBulb Omar and "the enemy of my enemy"
Posted On: Saturday - June 29th 2019 8:18AM MST
In Topics: Immigration Stupidity Lefty MegaStupidity Race/Genetics ctrl-left
Before I even get started, I don't intend to imply that the country of Israel is the enemy of America, or Peak Stupidity, by any means. It's the best thing going over in that part of the world and a home for the Jews, albeit in a terrible spot. (Location, Location, Location, people!) In the title and theme of this post, the 2nd enemy is the neocon contingent in American politics that is in the process of destroying America in order to keep a "common defense" of that small democracy in the Middle East - more on this in another post.
The 1st enemy is this Incandescent*-Bulb-headed Bitch here:
and has no idea what that Constitution behind her is about.
Last week, Steve Sailer, in Rep. Omar's Family Values (yes, his titles kick ass), brought up more information about the likely immigration-fraud scam marriage of Rep. Omar to a brother of hers. It'd really not be much more of an American family value if she did it NOT out of fraudulent intent, but because she was IN LUV! Whatever happened there is a subject for another post, but it'll take hard-working bloggers to get into this, as the Lyin' Press does not dig dirt on it's colleagues in Congress.
The point here is the talk/writing out of traditional Conservatives (aka, pro-American) who are impressed with Omar's having bad-mouthed the Israel-first policy of the American government. Sure, she is right about this. Why she brought it up is, of course, because the Moslems are sworn enemies of Israel and the Jews. Pundits have claimed that this was a very courageous stand by this young towel-headed representative. Bull! It would have been courageous out of any white man, surely. He'd never work in dis bidness again, I'm guessing.
However, this Omar has loads of diversity points due to her femininity (minus a few small lady parts, per custom) and her Moslemity. She can't be criticized without the criticizer being called a xenophobic anti-Islamic bigot. It wouldn't matter if she was in favor of the Federal Reserve Bank's lowering of interest rates, assuming she somehow knew what that meant, you would be called the same names for calling her out on that one. So, no, it didn't take any courage for this lady to speak out when others don't.
CongressBulb Omar is supposedly the enemy of our enemy for that one statement a few months back. The point is that you support the enemy of your enemy (which was, in hindsight, probably not the best idea in WWII with the Russians though). At least, you don't interfere (as in the stupidity in the 1980's of the US getting involved between the Iraqis and Iranians). Stay out. Yes, that was a good idea for the political squabble among the ctrl-left when Omar spoke out against the massive military effort in support of Israel. You buy more popcorn, and you sit back and enjoy.
That one kerfuffle is over though, and Peak Stupidity does not support a pro-Moslem-Invasion traitor** just because for an instant, she was an enemy of the neocons. Omar Ilhan is enemy of Americans. She came to America, and to the land of Snowflakes, as a 9-y/o refugee as her family was in trouble back in "the old country" Somalia due to the GrandDad having killed a bunch of political enemies and stuff. She should be sent back to straighten some of that shit out and not start it over here, as I imagine it runs in the family. Omar Ilhan has no business being in America, much less being in the US Congress. Wait, I've got that backwards: Omar Ilhan has no business being in the US Congress, much less in America. We have plenty of traitorous, sick, immoral psychopaths in high office, but at least they're OUR traitorous, sick, immoral psychopaths, dammit!
* Yes, we've got to be politically correct now, what with the ubiquitousness of compact fluorescents and LEDs.
** Possible that's the wrong term, unless you actually think of her as an American. She's no traitor to Islam - I'll give her that.
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Dress for Egress
Posted On: Friday - June 28th 2019 11:44AM MST
In Topics: General Stupidity Humor Curmudgeonry Race/Genetics
It's been 5 years since the "Pants up, don't loot" meme first heard of by Peak Stupidity during those Ferguson, Missouri and other riots started based on false injustices. However, we have observed the black men with pants worn way down below their butts for 2 or 3 decades. The problem doesn't seem to be abating.
I get bugged enough when my shoelaces or belt are loose, and I would not be able to function with my pants not in place (OK, most functions). It's stressful for me to even look at this stupidity, in the same way that my right foot may get sore imagining putting the hammer down in the car when riding on the road with a slow poke.
I've heard many theories of why this extremely stupid mode of dress is a thing with many of the young black guys. Some of them are too unsavory to even repeat here ... about showing one is ready for some butt-sex in prison, or something to that effect. (Like, I said, unsavory ...) I think wearing the pants down is something that gives these guys credibility with other black guys, who spend an inordinate amount of time in prison. I'll get the details some other time.
Whatever the cause, as reminded by a commenter on the unz site last week, for years I have thought that the main stupidity of this mode of dress is simply that it's hard to run with your pants falling down. It's one of those things you learn in your pre-school years. Now, the younger black guys are the proportionately large majority of the criminal element, and it would behoove any street criminal to be in a condition to run like hell, wouldn't you think? I mean, I'll admit that these guys are mostly in good shape otherwise. Why hinder yourself with this stupidity if you have any interest in limiting the amount of time you spend under arrest or in prison?
Well, as I was also reminded (about thoughts I'd had years ago), there's plenty of this type of stupidity to go around. It's a multi-racial phenomenon, this dressing for
Imagine having just made off with some vaping items, or having just done a tattoo-and-run, or whatever these young accessorized white kids may have been up to. Here comes "the fuzz" around the corner. Time to egress and exit the scene. Run! Oh, there's a 5 foot chain link fence in the way. No problem, there's no barbed wire, just get one shoe in, grab the top vault up, owwww! Crap, there went a piece of your nose! Whew, glad it wasn't the earlobe too that got ripped after your little chains got caught on the top of the fences. The failure occurs at the weakest link, and that's bound to be a piece of your flesh.
Hey, far be it for some 3,000 visits-per-month blogger to dictate to you young fools how to dress. It IS your business. Next time I ever see someone try to nab the hedge trimmers, I hope it is one of y'all. I CAN run too, but I have my pants in place, and I have no loose metal parts to catch on anything. We'll see how these modes of dress hold up in the real world.
Wise up and listen to your elders, young whippersnappers, when they give you life advice, such as "Dress for Egress".
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I'm not "lovin' it".
Posted On: Thursday - June 27th 2019 7:43AM MST
In Topics: Salesmen Curmudgeonry Race/Genetics
For health reasons alone, it's really best to keep away from the fast food, and Peak Stupidity has done fairly well on that score over the last few years - once or twice a week max, perhaps. It's nice to have some encouragement in this matter from the employees themselves.
It's always the black girls that just have absolutely NO UNDERSTANDING of customer service. I understand that pretty much none of the people working in fast food behind the counter enjoy the work. It's just a job, and the best many people can get nowadays in this middle-class-genocidal shitshow of an economy we have (when you don't do manufacturing - meaning creating wealth). I don't expect to have my ass kissed or get any kind of smile. I could not keep a smile up for more than a few minutes at a time myself. Further, I don't expect any rapt attention to customers while the employees stick new fries in, put food in the bags, and all that stuff. They are not stewardesses, and it's not First Class on a 777 to Hong Kong.
However, the deal is, when a customer is ready to interact with you, you look and you listen. It just takes 10 seconds for a guy who has already looked at the menu up there, while in line. No, these girls will just keep their conversation going, while I'm trying to order something. Since it goes on, and the girl has not even looked at me, I can't tell if she caught the "no onions, no mayo" or not, bringing the chance of the order being correct even lower. They WILL NOT STOP talking to each other, which would be damn rude in any setting, much less right while you're in the process of selling something.
One could say that it's what you get for the money - meaning the low pay they get. That doesn't explain the non-black girls and guys that just take those 10 seconds to do the customer service part of the job. Some will even get a joke, but it's kinda rare, and maybe a little too much to ask.
Surly, rude black employees are very good for my health. Kudos, ladies!
Back in the early 1980's, Fast Times at Ridgemont High demonstrated the art of customer service:
It's one of my favorite movie lines of all time!
(Yes, that is a young Nicholas Cage back there making breakfast biscuits.)
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[UPDATED 06/28 AM:] Added Fast Times video clip.
I cannot believe that I forgot this. It's one of my favorites of all time.
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Pushing for Reparations - "Gimme your money, please!"
Posted On: Wednesday - June 26th 2019 8:09PM MST
In Topics: Music Race/Genetics
There hasn't been time for any thoughtful blog posting today, and tomorrow doesn't look to be any better - hopefully Friday and Saturday will have more. Peak Stupidity apologizes, though our 2nd favorite blogger links to data that says apologies don't work (that's apologies in the political world only). I'd like to keep up posting at least once per day, so an apology is indeed in order.
How about some music, at least? This BTO - Bachman Turner Overdrive song was something I'd first heard on their Greatest Hits album, and, though it was a single, it was not any kind of hit on the radio, back in their day in the mid 1970's.
I'll relate this song to politics in just a couple of quick ways. The current stupidity about reparations to be paid out of taxpayers' money to people, but only CERTAIN PEOPLE, who's far-off ancestors had been harmed in some way. Well, Peak Stupidity's counter-offer of a very reasonable and literal reparations plan has been on the table for a few months now. It is eminently fair, as it does not try to punish men for the sins of their fathers. C'mon, ctrl-left, if you really want to go all Old Testament and shit, there's a lot of other stuff we'd like to bring up ...
It seems to be the same groups of people (albeit with new immigrants piling on now just due to intensely unmitigated gall) who have been wanting the free stuff for years now. Over the last 50 years , this theft has been done via the Welfare State, and more recently, this reparations talk. Any which way, attempted robbery is attempted robbery, and it may as well just be the old-fashioned kind described in the song here "Gimme Your Money, Please!"
The lyric line saying "Being born and raised in New York, there ain't nothin' that you won't see." is sure not autobiographical, as BTO was formed by 3 brothers and the singer in Winnipeg, Manitoba, Canada. Before they got really famous, their territory included Thunder Bay, Ontario, and as far east as Toronto, Ontario, nowhere near New York City! (I'm sure it was just as well.) At the time this song was written, 1973, NYC was in the beginnings of it's high crime era, which went on until Rudy Giuliani was elected mayor in the 1990's. The song fit very well. The heavy-duty no-nonsense policing brought about by Mayor Giuliani helped whatever was still left of the ordinary working man (a favorite of BTO songs, BTW, such as Blue Collar), though it was probably pushed by the rich elites that make NYC their homes.
It's all falling right back apart again, with the almost complete exodus of the white working class and the administration by the Commie DiBlasio. Maybe someone like Paula Abdul or Lady Gaga can make a remake - Lord knows these types can't write their own decent music! BTO could now take this same kind of material directly from their experience in modern-day Toronto, as it is not the Great White North anymore.
"Gimme Your Money Please" has a great heavy guitar sound, and I really like that guitar lick that goes right along with the vocals, when Fred sings "Wasn't that strange, wasn't that strange, indeed."
The 3 Bachman brothers, along with Fred Turner, played until Tim Bachman wasn't fitting in with the band anymore, and was replaced by Blair Thornton on guitar.
Fred Turner - bass guitar, lead vocals.
Randy Bachman - lead guitar, lead vocals.
Tim Bachman - guitar, vocals, later replaced by Blair Thornton.
Robbie Bachman - drums.
Music sure runs in the Bachman family, as Randy Bachman had originally played in The Guess Who (as opposed to The (Just Plain) Who*, and his son is a musician, with his great 1990's song She's so High having been featured on Peak Stupidity already.
* Itself having been featured here and here.
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"The Clock was Ticking ..."
Posted On: Tuesday - June 25th 2019 7:31PM MST
In Topics: Music Feminism Female Stupidity
It's time to revisit the stupidity of Feminism, as it's been a while, and this post has been on the back burner for a while. Peak Stupidity's 3rd post on feminism, It's Not Nice to Fool Mother Nature, already discussed the strict age limitations that Mother Nature has built into human females, with some more details that the reader may very well want to skip, in Feminism 102 - Mother Nature expresses herself monthly.
For this post on the regrets and emotional pain of childless women, I'd first like to point out that those who are truly involuntary childless, or are not complaining are, of course, excepted from our accusations of stupidity. Regarding the former, there are medical problems that effect a small percentage of woman, almost all not the fault of said woman (or husband for that matter). Of these, some can't conceive, and others can't carry babies to term - multiple miscarriages can be very hard. Some problems are due to genetics, in which a wise decision may be to not even try, as the chances of a miserable life with a deformed or otherwise non-normal child are just too great to take.
Regarding the latter, though it could be considered an obligation to society for a woman to make babies, I don't have any problem with a choice made wisely with no complaints later on. The problem is that young women are not very often wise, yet Nature says the young women should make babies.
The article that I'll basically "fisk"* here, ‘The clock was ticking, and I didn’t realise that it had probably stopped for me’: One woman's story of childlessness in a 'mummy-mad' world, tries to convince us that most women without children are in that position due to no fault of their own. It is "not-by-choise childlessness", a large fib, which is the norm now in the Lyin' Press. (Long-ass article titles and bad spelling because "British" seem to be the norm too.)
Jody Day can remember the day her world fell in. She was ‘44 and a half’, divorced and her five-year relationship had just ended in a ‘horrendous, stormy break-up’.I'll give her credit for that last part - it is indeed hard to conceive, carry a baby to term, and deliver, at that age. However, by "at that moment" she meant that she obviously had not realized that she was even near this point a decade ago, in her mid-30's, when it was already time to put up or shut up. That's 10 years of denial and stupidity. Mother Nature is just not forgiving like her Psychology Professor was. Who knew? Her Mom, OK, Mum, I mean, may have known, and maybe even told her, a time or thousand, but who listens to Mum, when you're a hard-charging womyn breaking the glass ceilings?
At that moment she knew conclusively she would never be a mother. The emotion was like a bereavement.
‘I’m amazed I managed to keep my fantasy going as long as I did,’ Jody says. ‘But even in my denial I realised: “That’s it. If I met someone else tomorrow, we’d need to know each other at least a year before we could even consider IVF. I’m too old. It’s done.”’
Six years after that momentous day, Jody, 51, has a life full of friendship and fulfilling work. She retrained as a psychotherapist and set up the Gateway Women group to support and empower women aged 35 and over who are either still living in hope of becoming mothers or coming to terms with the knowledge they never will.More power to her, seriously. However, I think an even more important book to write might be an advice book to young women instead, urging them to give some thought to how things may turn out. They may not have to get into Jody Day's situation at all. Of course, the book would be called "conservative" and "archaic", hindering sales in the modern UK. Still, it sounds like Miss Day is doing this for "fulfillment" so reaching even one young woman and helping her not to "feel her (Miss Day's) pain" at all should be cause enough and worth those insults of "conservatism" and archaic". Right? You may be better off working out Plan A better, before you revert immediately to Plan B.
And now she is publishing a book of advice, Living the Life Unexpected: 12 Weeks to Your Plan B for a Meaningful and Fulfilling Future Without Children.
Childlessness is a huge issue in the UK. Data released by the Office for National Statistics reveals that one in five women born in the 1960s has turned 45 without having children, a rate nearly double that of their mothers.See, now there's your problem. These choices are, to be nice about it, unsound. You CHOSE that "fulfilling" (apparently not fulfilling enough) career, you CHOSE cohabitation over marriage, and you CHOSE to take out a mortgage. (Oh, I know, you want a "take-charge" guy, but for most that doesn't mean taking all the charges.) All of these decisions are ones that make motherhood more difficult to attain.
Only once before has the UK childlessness rate reached one in five – in the 1920s, a decade overshadowed by war and economic slump.
Of course, women born in the 60s have had far more freedom of opportunity: going to university in hitherto unprecedented numbers, having fulfilling careers, choosing cohabitation over marriage, taking on mortgages. Not everyone wants to be a parent.
But, of the 1.5 million women in the UK in their 40s and 50s that Jody estimates are childless, she says that only ten per cent are so by choice.There's the big lie, in bold. These 80 percent MADE their erroneous choices. They are absolutely childless by choice, usually by lots of stupid choices.
Another ten per cent are childless for medical or infertility reasons. That leaves 80 per cent who have ended up ‘childless by circumstance’, she says, borrowing a phrase from new research by Professor Renske Keizer of Erasmus University Rotterdam.
Many in the 45-plus cohort of women (and I include myself here) will say they didn’t consciously choose not to have children, it just crept up on them. Jody calls it ‘the non-decision that becomes a decision’.I'll just have to quote Rush on this one, the Canadian Rock band, not the Conservative radio host: "If you choose not to decide, you still have made a choice."
So are we too picky? Obsessed with our careers? Jody argues that there is no single reason, ‘but one of the biggest is not meeting a partner, or not meeting one in time,’ she says.Too picky for the wrong qualities and not picky enough for the right qualities, that's how I see it. A decent-looking woman CAN be picky in her flowering youth - that's Mother's Nature's way of showing the men (in their unconsciouses, that is) that she is fertile. It is the time to be picky, but to pick wisely. Most don't. Jody Day didn't, and the rest of the article is just a sad story of her bad choices. The clock was ticking. Mother Nature narrows down these choices drastically as the woman's body fades out from it's glory in short order.
‘Or your partner not wanting children, or not wanting more children. A lot of women spend their 30s going through unpromising relationships.’
It's too depressing to fisk the rest of her story, and I can't say I feel sorry for her either. Almost all of these women, due to the great influence of the feminist stupidity in modern society, are the ones that blow off the good guys. I put myself in that category, so I feel justified in saying "tough luck, toots."
Unfortunately, it's been proving tough luck for society too, as the Western women lose out to the fertility of the women of the immigration-invasion.
Depressing as this all is, here is Rush with their antidote:
Rush:
Geddy Lee - Lead Vocals, Bass Guitar, Keyboards
Alex Lifeson - Guitar
Neil Peart - Drums
*The term "fisking" is an old blogger's term, explained in the 3rd paragraph of A Visual Fisking of Cortez the Killer
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Peak Torque, Wattage, and Exercise Machine electronic stupidity
Posted On: Monday - June 24th 2019 8:27PM MST
In Topics: General Stupidity Curmudgeonry Artificial Stupidity
Please skip this post if a) you are not into the Peak Stupidity pet peeves of the week, or) you don't like basic physics. I promised this post, I like this stuff, and Gosh-Darn-It, I'm gonna damn well write it.
We discussed the mechanical problems with the otherwise-sound China-made Sears exercise bike last week. While traveling around lately, I've gotten to sample a whole gamut of different workout machines, with special attention to the treadmills and exercise bikes. It's a better way to shop than even the store and the on-line reviews, as I've been using these machines.
As I wrote in that previous post, there is mechanical soundness, and then there is the display/electronics portion, to be looked at in judging the usability of these machines. It's pretty easy to feel the looseness in parts and hear scraping, grinding, and all sorts of other noises and feels to observe mechanically crappy stuff, though, granted some of these have been used more than others at the time I use them. If you're going to buy a mechanically sound one, then the electronics display AND calculations are important. Some of these damn things are annoying due to having SO MANY features, and of course the TV on top is not something I'm gonna want to pay for. (Sure, I could take it off my own machine, but I just don't want to pay extra for its cost.)
Next, I don't want a display in which the numbers toggle back and forth every 10 seconds, because, well it's just annoying, but I don't mind lots of numbers up there. Those all help me concentrate on my goals during the workout.
OK, fine, and then there are "busier" displays with touch screen toggling in which one can make whatever is more important prominent on the screen, with cool fake gauges, or fake 1/4 mile tracks, and even the go-pro-camera- )or motor vehicle-) taken video in which your ride the bike on a course. Yeah, it sounds a lot like TV, but, in fact, there is NO sound, and no distractions. That's all very well, and I have a few favorites, were I to buy one of these expensive machines. But, but, ... the physics.
Here's the part that may bore the reader. [You have only a minute or two invested in this post, so bailing out now may still be worthwhile - Ed] OK, the point in using an exercise bike and/or treadmill for me, rather than a run/ride outside is to get an intense and very controlled work-out in for cardio. The point for me is to reach some goals, and the numbers need to be, if not exactly accurate, CONSISTENT. Calories burned are not as easy as one might think, even if one enters his weight per the prompts. That's not what I need so much, though. I simply want the goals, such as x number of miles in 20 minutes on the bike to be attainable consistently, and it'd be nice if Wattage or METS would be accurate to judge power.
For the treadmills, well, so long as the the incline angle is correct (hard to screw that up, if the machine starts level), the speed is, and the heart-rate readout that I look at, at the end, are right, then that's all I need. Calories burned are another story, and a subject for another post that you may also want to skip. ;-}
On the bike, here's my beef. I start off slow to warm up, so I rightly get behind on my goal, per the machine's display. Fine. As I speed up, usually the "speed" goes up linearly with rpm, the least they could do. As I adjust resistance, some of the bikes see that as an uphill run, and show an increase in power (W, METS, kCal/hr, etc.), as one would have if not slowing down. In this case, I have to use vertical climb, if available, or calories burned, as part of my goal, as the speed will only go up with rpm's and one can only pedal so fast (90 rpm is about tops). That's all fair, but I like the other type of interpretation - most of the bikes act as though a change in resistance is like an increase in the gear ratio (sprocket ratio, really), as in a real bike on level ground. I like that better, but dammit, sometimes the speed will not go up linearly with the increase in my torque (how do I know, I can feel it). That's still workable, but, worse yet, I'll see the speed go up on the display, but notice that I am NOT catching up or even falling behind on my 5 miles/20 min goal, even when faster than 15 mph (the average for that goal). The numbers are not being calculated correctly.
The method of creating resistance to force the exerciser to generate more torque may vary between being friction-based, electrical-resistance created, or air drag. I don't see it much, but that's one thing I really do like about the Sears bike that I wrote about (still not grinding the bearings, yea!) That one uses a 20" or so wheel with paddle blades to dissipate energy via air drag. As opposed to especially the friction methods, I don't see much of a way for this resistance to change over time or temperature or wear of the machine. (Possibly dust on the blades is a factor, increasing drag). This would all be great if the manufacturer had gotten the calculations right. They absolutely have not!
It would be a fairly difficult project to calculate the drag on those blades. Even for one blade, an aero expert may take a few days or so to model it and use CFD software to come up with good numbers, which would still need to be tested in a wind tunnel to prove them out. How about 8 blades, one following the other? A better way, completely experimental, would be to measure torque as the paddlewheel is turned with an electric motor.
Even the latter is something I wouldn't expect the company programming the chip that displays an exerciser's workout numbers to do. I don't need to know the actual torque as much as I just want the display of calories being burned or watts of power to go up in the right proportion to how fast I pedal (see, this resistance is not set separately, of course, it just goes up with the speed.) Here's the deal: Drag goes up proportionally to the square of air speed. Power in rotation motion is equal to torque x rotational speed* (just as in linear motion it is the force x linear speed). Since the drag (hence, torque) goes as the square of the speed, power being exerted goes as the cube of the rotational speed. If I pedal twice as fast, I should be burning 8 times as many calories per hour, and putting out 8 X the wattage.
Nope, though, the thing doesn't work like that. It's not like there's anything difficult required mechanically, as all they needed was a couple of magnets that go around and a sensor. That's it! You get not-quite-instantaneous speed, and the rest can be obtained from that. You program it on the chip that runs the displays. The stupidity, to me, is, why couldn't they get this right? It would take not but a few hours of an undergrad mechanical engineering or physics student's time. Pay the kid 200 bucks to give you all the math you need to make your product. This goes for all those machines, such as the treadmills that don't show any higher rate of work (calories/hour or watts) when the slope is set higher.
This is NOT rocket surgery. Just get someone to do the math right, and you program it in, and that way I can get a fair workout.
(Well, as I wrote up top, you may be sorry you read all this. More politics will come soon enough, but it's my blog, and I wanted to get this off my chest. Hey, I should be happy the machine still works, I know ...)
Oh, these displays are quite a bit busier than the ones with the LEDs, but I kinda like seeing all those numbers, and the track's cool:
* From the derivation one would see that the rotational speed must be in radians/second. 1 rad/sec = ~ 9.6 rpm.
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