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It’s often said that the world is overpopulated. I don’t believe it. The real problem is that most people take up too much space. Let’s face it, half of you eat enough for two and occupy double the space of normal-sized people such as myself.
If there’s one human behaviour I could eradicate, it’d be gluttony. Apparently the colour yellow makes people hungrier, so I’d ban that outright and repaint everything in blue to suppress appetites.
D’y’know yesterday, we drove four hours round trip to score 20 litres of raw milk. It’s a scarce commodity here. In that time, my oversized half-sibling managed to demolish six jam tarts, two Magnums, and two Caprisuns, while I sipped a single bottle of water. If only everyone were more like me.
I’m sure there are some studies somewhere that show diets loaded with artificial flavours and preservatives dull intelligence and concentration. Needless to say, I didn’t get an intelligent word out of the bugger before he nodded off in a sugar coma.
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Another behaviour I’d happily consign to the dustbin is the blind habit of voting, that little game where you’re presented with a row of shovels and told to take your pick. It’s the illusion of choice. The faces may change, but the agenda stays the same: coercion, oppression, and subjugation. Worse still, the very act of participation is taken as consent. What if they held an election and no one showed up? Now that would be democracy worth having. Vote with your feet!
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Which brings me to the most destructive behaviour of all: paying income tax. You waste years studying, get a decent job, and work hard, all so the government can redistribute your money to someone who didn’t. That's madness, not to mention robbery. If this yoke around people’s necks were removed, I believe the world would be a profoundly different place.
Not that it’ll matter much longer. In a few years we’ll all be replaced by robots anyway, left to sit at home, snacking on bugs while we watch Love Island and dutifully vote on which bronzed Ken and Barbie get another week in the dollhouse.
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Posted in response to galenkp's weekend experience
prompt asking 'What three behaviours do you wish you could eradicate from humanity and why?'
The images are mine
Rule by force is the disease, who and how are symptoms.™
Indubitably!
Coffee, water, and unfortunately still beer. Okay, that Oat-Chia-Peanut-Smoothie in the morning after destroying my stress symptoms by macho-pumps in the gym. That's about all of my physical liquidity needs. Grarrrrrr! (I first wanted to write Harrr, but the GR sounds a lot better in my mind)
Oat-Chia-Peanut-Smoothie? Macho-pumps in the gym? You may as well cease reading my blogs. I have nothing to teach you!:)
What can I say, I never claimed to be perfect 🤣
As usual, ditto. People wanting, wanting, wanting, and submitting to desires. Fucking taxes.
Is it okay if I have a squeeze of lemon in my water, or is that too much? :P
Hahaha, I'll allow that, since it's as closer to punishment than pleasure.
Normal-sized people, huh? Didn't know there was such a thing. I'm not that, not huge either, let's say I can go unnoticed in matters of size violation detectors. I do eat too much in some seasons, this one above all after quitting cigarette.
I wonder, what would a Zumo Restler would think about that normal -sized people concept. :)
Probably they see the rest as yoo skinny compared to their normal size. :)
Well. That is a big family.
Hahaha. I rest my case!
This post made me smile while also making me think. The way the author points out human habits with humor is really clever. Sometimes joking about these issues shows just how real and frustrating they are.
So the author is funny, clever and made you think? Wow. I'd say that's a fine author indeed!:)
I'd eradicate people going to medical facilities for every little illness and for yearly "wellness checks," wherein they are nearly always prescribed some poisonous substance to ingest, inject or slather on their skin.
What are you going to do with all that milk? Lucky for me, I only have to drive 16 miles to get the raw stuff, and buy no more than a gallon, once a week. These days, peach galore days, I also buy cream so I can have it whipped with my daily peach cobbler. Yum. Is that gluttony?
While I eat well, remain fairly small in size, and have ceased voting in national or state elections, I still pay income tax. I will pay a small fortune in capital gains tax this year. Real estate taxes on three properties. Sales tax on what few things I do buy these days. We are taxed up the wazoo, when we make money as well as when we spend it. But who would build the roads if we didn't, right? More roads! We need more roads! Pave the earth with them, so that consumers can continue to consume, and taxpayers can continue to pay taxes. That's the only way we can live on this earth, no?
You might like this way of determining what ones life could be:
Raw cream? You lucky thing! We get through 40 litres of milk a month and since our local supplier gave up, we have to drive all over the country to get it. Most people are terrified of unpasteurised milk. You can catch brucellosis from it, don't ya know!
I heard the problem was listeria. In the US, don't ya know. News flash: RAW MILK TASTES MUCH MUCH BETTER THAN PASTEURIZED/HOMOGENIZED. Get it from a reputable source, keep it cold, and you will have no problems whatsoever, other than non-raw-milk will no longer be palatable to you.
Prior to 2015, the sale of raw milk was banned here. There's still very strict regulation, so there aren't many producers. Dairies pay the farmer as little as 35 cents a litre, but raw milk sells at the farm gate for anything from 2.75 to 3.50 euro and is almost impossible to get. You'd think the farmers would cop on.
"gluttony" first time i see this word! insane your sibling lol
so bloody true...and they call it "inclusion income" for them to make it sound less shitty
If you give me a list of the words you don't know, I will include one in my post each week so you can learn them.
Hm i should think at which words in Italian I've never seen in English, then translate to English? It could be very challenging make a post though
Ignore me. I was just being silly, suggesting that you write a list for me, in English, of words that you don't know:)
Hah sometimes I don't get jokes in English
No worries. I never get jokes in Italian!
My friend... My dear, dear friend...
So much of what you laid out here will change in the mid-term future I promise! There a huge number of global trends that back up my optimistic proclamation... Soonish people will not believe the world around them in the most wonderful way imaginable...
You will note however that I did not cite any sources 🤣
I have almost no doubt in the words I have said here...
Make me a promise, do not vote on this response and then I will wholeheartedly believe your stance on voting, milk lady (who also does a rip roaring trade in eggs distributed throughout the Hiveosphere... despite the occasional rogue pallet that may get in the way of this...)
Have a bloody stunningly, rip-roarin' week Madam! 😎
There is a certain logic to what you say. The pendulum can swing only so far in one direction, but I fear we have a lot more shit to endure before we come out the other side.
I do apologise for the vote however, I never make promises I can't keep and I upvote all replies. Dems the rules and I never break rules.
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