Random Thoughts - Part Deux [NO POLITICS]

[spike021]

Originally Posted by Spuds

I just always assume anybody whose primary occupation is based on entertainment/advertisement has a made up personality they use publicly.

Yeah, that's pretty much it.

Reminds me of when he did a video on the GR Yaris and how fantastic it is, and then a couple weeks later posted how he's looking for a new, fun car but didn't list it as an option.

So I messaged him and asked. His response was basically that the GR Yaris is super popular now and (supposedly) everyone else will be doing videos on them, so as fun as it is he couldn't choose it because he needs to keep his channel unique/whatever.

I was like.. what.. it's one of the most exciting non-typical new cars out there, and it's pretty limited, especially since most automotive YT-ers are American, and we can't get it. It'd be silly not to get one, especially for some dumb reason as it's going to be all over Youtube.

lol.

[Spuds]

Originally Posted by spike021

Yeah, that's pretty much it.

Reminds me of when he did a video on the GR Yaris and how fantastic it is, and then a couple weeks later posted how he's looking for a new, fun car but didn't list it as an option.

So I messaged him and asked. His response was basically that the GR Yaris is super popular now and (supposedly) everyone else will be doing videos on them, so as fun as it is he couldn't choose it because he needs to keep his channel unique/whatever.

I was like.. what.. it's one of the most exciting non-typical new cars out there, and it's pretty limited, especially since most automotive YT-ers are American, and we can't get it. It'd be silly not to get one, especially for some dumb reason as it's going to be all over Youtube.

lol.

Yep, gotta remember that their "fun" is a business. I'm sure they still enjoy the access/attention/driving/etc but they need to consciously sell "their brand".

[Sapphireho]

So, where would you rather live.

1. A place where people are highly educated, but rude and pushy,

2. A place where people are nice, but have on average a 4th grade level education and dealing with them is painful.

[NoHaveMSG]

Originally Posted by Sapphireho

So, where would you rather live.

1. A place where people are highly educated, but rude and pushy,

2. A place where people are nice, but have on average a 4th grade level education and dealing with them is painful.

Being a simple man, who like confrontation, this is a tough choice.


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[Spuds]

Originally Posted by Sapphireho

So, where would you rather live.

1. A place where people are highly educated, but rude and pushy,

2. A place where people are nice, but have on average a 4th grade level education and dealing with them is painful.

Lol reminiscing on CA vs ID?

For me, I think #2 is preferred, but only slightly. Dealing with "educated" people is often painful for me too...

[spike021]

Originally Posted by Sapphireho

So, where would you rather live.

1. A place where people are highly educated, but rude and pushy,

2. A place where people are nice, but have on average a 4th grade level education and dealing with them is painful.

Honestly I'm super tired of dealing with the highly educated, pretentious people.

So I'd probably prefer a change of pace with an area of lesser-educated people, within reason.

[Sapphireho]

Originally Posted by Spuds

Lol reminiscing on CA vs ID?

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[Sapphireho]

Originally Posted by spike021

... within reason.

Ahhh, yes.

[Spuds]

Originally Posted by spike021

Honestly I'm super tired of dealing with the highly educated, pretentious people.

So I'd probably prefer a change of pace with an area of lesser-educated people, within reason.

I took it to mean pick an extreme.

[weederr33]

Originally Posted by Sapphireho

So, where would you rather live.

1. A place where people are highly educated, but rude and pushy,

2. A place where people are nice, but have on average a 4th grade level education and dealing with them is painful.

3. A place where there are no people, but you live in solitude

I'll take 3 please

[spike021]

Originally Posted by weederr33

I'll take 3 please

Honestly I take that to be a more permanent, strict application of the full-time, living alone working-from-home environment some of us have been in for the past year.

If I'm really honest, a year or two ago I would have said maybe that's not too bad.

But now? I realized how important human interaction is.

[weederr33]

Originally Posted by spike021

Honestly I take that to be a more permanent, strict application of the full-time, living alone working-from-home environment some of us have been in for the past year.

If I'm really honest, a year or two ago I would have said maybe that's not too bad.

But now? I realized how important human interaction is.

Problem with that is, this year has allowed me to realize how much I can dislike people.

[Captain Snooze]

Originally Posted by spike021

I realized how important human interaction is.

This is something that I think of with regards to disaster movies. There are the survivors at the end of the movie but the whole world as they know it no longer exists. Do they all suffer from emotional breakdown 6 days, 6 weeks, 6 months after the end of the movie?
A friend of mine tells me that was a occurrence in some Netflix zombie series. Some people couldn't handle the new world.

[spike021]

Originally Posted by Captain Snooze

This is something that I think of with regards to disaster movies. There are the survivors at the end of the movie but the whole world as they know it no longer exists. Do they all suffer from emotional breakdown 6 days, 6 weeks, 6 months after the end of the movie?
A friend of mine tells me that was a occurrence in some Netflix zombie series. Some people couldn't handle the new world.

It’s honestly a very interesting situation to consider.

I mean, just in the last two to three hundred years you had American explorers who went out west toward the US west coast, and some lived out in the prairies and stuff. They probably had basically nobody for miles of farm land and fields or whatever. Maybe they had a town several miles away but it’s not like they’d constantly be there unless they specifically were selling crops or whatever.

So they must’ve been relatively okay on their own.

But with humans these days so spoiled with sprawling urban centers and instant communication even with the internet for far off friends and relatives, it’s so different. Could we revert back to that kind of isolated living?