Monday 24 December 2012
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Saturday 15 December 2012
Offensive Youth in Public....
On my way home late last night I stopped at a local service station to buy some catfood, but had to stand back while three early 20-something's did their business.
All good, I am a patient person and they were doing nothing that concerned me.. except I thought I heard one of them say the F-word fairly quietly.... so quietly that I did not have the right to say anything to him.
But, once these young 'men' walked away from the counter up went their volume and out came the offensive language.. so what did I do about it ?
Same as I always do.... I spoke up and said, "Hey BOYS, how about not swearing in public, in front of women and your elders." And of course they kept walking away and ignored me.
So as I was paying for my cat food the young women behind the counter.. also in her early 20's said to me, "Thank you. I hear it all in here late at night. All these young people and even kids talk loudly and say anything they want. It SCARES ME a lot because they don't care about anything or anyone."
I told her not to be afraid of anyone before I headed out the door to my car. And what do you thinkI could hear then ?
Yep.. not only the three young 'men' swearing their heads of even more loudly, yelling over the shoulders at the "stupid fuckin old biatch c-nt " (Me) and laughing about it, but just up the street there were some younger teens also being incrediably loud and obnoxious in their actions and language.
Now.. don't get me wrong here.. I swear, my mates swear.. but we don't use the F-word 6 times in a 10 word sentence, nor do we use the C-word often. In fact I have only used the C-word twice in the past year because I DETEST the word. Never do we speak like this in public.. never in front of females... never in front of Families with kids,.. never in front of the elderly (Elders) and certainly never in front of our Mothers.
But Gen-Y and the younger Gen-X do not give a shit about anyone except themselves. They do not think about anyone else being offended by their language or behaviour becasue they are the most important people in the whole wide world.
I am sick and tired of being the ONLY person who has the balls to stand up and say something to these IDIOTS. I am tired of being the ONLY one I can see in my town who is NOT AFRAID of the youth today.
Oh how I wish for the good old days when a Man would teach a disrespecting young man about manners... oh no.. can't do that today... these "kidults" are Protected by the Law.
Why doesn't the law protect my rights to not have to listen to these self-important young bastards showing no Respect for anyone with their behaviours and language ?
The world is Stuffed Up now.
We let it get like this.
People need to stop being Afraid of youth.
People need to Stand Up and be Counted before it does spiral into anarchy and really does become far more dangerous for anyone who is aged over 35.
All good, I am a patient person and they were doing nothing that concerned me.. except I thought I heard one of them say the F-word fairly quietly.... so quietly that I did not have the right to say anything to him.
But, once these young 'men' walked away from the counter up went their volume and out came the offensive language.. so what did I do about it ?
Same as I always do.... I spoke up and said, "Hey BOYS, how about not swearing in public, in front of women and your elders." And of course they kept walking away and ignored me.
So as I was paying for my cat food the young women behind the counter.. also in her early 20's said to me, "Thank you. I hear it all in here late at night. All these young people and even kids talk loudly and say anything they want. It SCARES ME a lot because they don't care about anything or anyone."
I told her not to be afraid of anyone before I headed out the door to my car. And what do you thinkI could hear then ?
Yep.. not only the three young 'men' swearing their heads of even more loudly, yelling over the shoulders at the "stupid fuckin old biatch c-nt " (Me) and laughing about it, but just up the street there were some younger teens also being incrediably loud and obnoxious in their actions and language.
Now.. don't get me wrong here.. I swear, my mates swear.. but we don't use the F-word 6 times in a 10 word sentence, nor do we use the C-word often. In fact I have only used the C-word twice in the past year because I DETEST the word. Never do we speak like this in public.. never in front of females... never in front of Families with kids,.. never in front of the elderly (Elders) and certainly never in front of our Mothers.
But Gen-Y and the younger Gen-X do not give a shit about anyone except themselves. They do not think about anyone else being offended by their language or behaviour becasue they are the most important people in the whole wide world.
I am sick and tired of being the ONLY person who has the balls to stand up and say something to these IDIOTS. I am tired of being the ONLY one I can see in my town who is NOT AFRAID of the youth today.
Oh how I wish for the good old days when a Man would teach a disrespecting young man about manners... oh no.. can't do that today... these "kidults" are Protected by the Law.
Why doesn't the law protect my rights to not have to listen to these self-important young bastards showing no Respect for anyone with their behaviours and language ?
The world is Stuffed Up now.
We let it get like this.
People need to stop being Afraid of youth.
People need to Stand Up and be Counted before it does spiral into anarchy and really does become far more dangerous for anyone who is aged over 35.
Annoyed ? Yes I am....
I got woken up yesterday morning by the sound of someone bashing hard on my front door, and thinking it must be cops since that is their usual M.O.
Guess what?
It wasn't. Turned out to be an aboriginal man about early 20's who I had seen two weeks ago asking me to pass on his mail from my address to his address across the highway from me.. mine is 1/64 and his is 64A, so there has been some problems in the past with the postman putting the wrong mail in the wrong letter boxes. So I agreed.
Back to yesterday morning...
This guy was a bit pushy, asked me where his mail was, told me Centrelink had cut him off and that his mail had been retured to sender..... and 1 month ago I did re-send a lot of mail for him and others back to sender. I stopped doing it after we talked 2 weeks ago... and had even taken mail for him to the other address since then.
But yesterday morning he was not in a good mood and before huffing off he told me to leave his mail in my letterbox and he would come get it..I said, "No mate, if I get mail for you I will put it in your letterbox." He huffed-off then.
An hour later when I had woken up properly with a coffee and my brain was working right, I did some errands on my bike before going to his house to talk to him with my now clearer mind.
Guess what?
He does not live at that address at all !!
The young white guy living there said, "Neville lives in the lane over the back in one of those houses." And that was when I started to see a little bit of Red.
I knew that in the past two years that I have been getting mail for these people that the house did have a young aboriginal women living in it for about 2 months.. who I used to take the mail to, but then they left and the house was turned into some sort of business for about one year before going back to being a rental house.
In the FIVE years I have lived here I've been getting mail for this guy and many others.. you know, unpaid fine notifications, unpaid bill notifications, Electoral Office letters and many other things, which at the time I Felt had something to do with these people AVOIDING their Responsiblities.
Turns out I was very correct about that aspect of things.
So how do you think I am going to deal with this ?
Yep. Putting a padlock on my letterbox this coming payday, and returning all mail for all of these people to the sender.
Why you may ask ?
Because he is ripping off the system, he is NOT taking Responsibility for his shit, he is USING ME to continue hiding from his Responsibilities. So I will not ALLOW him to keep using me like this. I will stand my ground, and I will tell him to take Responsibility for his own shit instead of using me to cover his tracks.
I will also explain that it is a criminal offence to be rooting around in anyone else's letterbox, and that if I catch him at it I will call the cops.
Moral of the story is........
We all have to learn how to stand up and take responsibility for our own stuff, to sort out anything that requires our attention from the Government or any of it's agencies.
It is everyone's job to NOT be used by people who will not do the RIGHT THING. How else will these slackers learn to take Responsibility if we ENABLE them to continue hiding from such responsibilities and using us to ensure they can ?
Once again it all comes down to people needing to STAND UP.
Guess what?
It wasn't. Turned out to be an aboriginal man about early 20's who I had seen two weeks ago asking me to pass on his mail from my address to his address across the highway from me.. mine is 1/64 and his is 64A, so there has been some problems in the past with the postman putting the wrong mail in the wrong letter boxes. So I agreed.
Back to yesterday morning...
This guy was a bit pushy, asked me where his mail was, told me Centrelink had cut him off and that his mail had been retured to sender..... and 1 month ago I did re-send a lot of mail for him and others back to sender. I stopped doing it after we talked 2 weeks ago... and had even taken mail for him to the other address since then.
But yesterday morning he was not in a good mood and before huffing off he told me to leave his mail in my letterbox and he would come get it..I said, "No mate, if I get mail for you I will put it in your letterbox." He huffed-off then.
An hour later when I had woken up properly with a coffee and my brain was working right, I did some errands on my bike before going to his house to talk to him with my now clearer mind.
Guess what?
He does not live at that address at all !!
The young white guy living there said, "Neville lives in the lane over the back in one of those houses." And that was when I started to see a little bit of Red.
I knew that in the past two years that I have been getting mail for these people that the house did have a young aboriginal women living in it for about 2 months.. who I used to take the mail to, but then they left and the house was turned into some sort of business for about one year before going back to being a rental house.
In the FIVE years I have lived here I've been getting mail for this guy and many others.. you know, unpaid fine notifications, unpaid bill notifications, Electoral Office letters and many other things, which at the time I Felt had something to do with these people AVOIDING their Responsiblities.
Turns out I was very correct about that aspect of things.
So how do you think I am going to deal with this ?
Yep. Putting a padlock on my letterbox this coming payday, and returning all mail for all of these people to the sender.
Why you may ask ?
Because he is ripping off the system, he is NOT taking Responsibility for his shit, he is USING ME to continue hiding from his Responsibilities. So I will not ALLOW him to keep using me like this. I will stand my ground, and I will tell him to take Responsibility for his own shit instead of using me to cover his tracks.
I will also explain that it is a criminal offence to be rooting around in anyone else's letterbox, and that if I catch him at it I will call the cops.
Moral of the story is........
We all have to learn how to stand up and take responsibility for our own stuff, to sort out anything that requires our attention from the Government or any of it's agencies.
It is everyone's job to NOT be used by people who will not do the RIGHT THING. How else will these slackers learn to take Responsibility if we ENABLE them to continue hiding from such responsibilities and using us to ensure they can ?
Once again it all comes down to people needing to STAND UP.
Thursday 13 December 2012
Bah Humbug!
I love that little phrase and only get to use it at one time of the year.
Christmas. What is it good for ?
I ask because WHY we do it confuses the hell out of me. I mean, most people spend way too much money every year on presents, decorations and food.. all for one little day of each year that really has nothing to do with when Jeshua was born in the middle east.
True that. He was not born on December 25th. Many scholars think he may have been born a few years earlier than currently Believed by Religionists, and that he was born just after mid-year.
So WHY do we do it ?
No one expects Muslim of Buddhist followers to DO christmas, but they all expect everyone else in the western world to DO it. WHY?
If I am not a christian then why should I DO it ?
Why put yourself through Shopping Hell, slaving in a hot kitchen to cook Traditional food eaten in Winter.. when it is Summer here in Oz ?
"Tis the season to be jolly"
Really ? So we are only expected to be jolly once a year ? Who thought up this crap ? And why do you all do it to death every year?
And who invented Santa Claus ? Why do we LIE to our kids about Santa ? When the day comes that they hear Santa is not real, they will KNOW you lied to them all their life.... how good is that for your kids ? Do you expect them to ever Believe you again ?
I do like the fact that many friends and family get to have some holidays at this time of the year... so I can ride around and catch up with them all..but I don't want to DO xmas.
I don't want to be expected to buy xmas cards made from Trees, p[ut them in envelpes made from Trees and pay to send them all over the country so that they can hang on a wall for a couple of weeks before being thrown into the rubbish bin.
Why do we do that ? Are we really that stupidly blind to being led by the nose and wallet every single year in December ?
Ahh December.. specifically the 25th... well, the Full Moon closest to that date. A time of the year that had major significance to most ancient peoples in the northern hemisphere.. and being six months opposed to the north, we here in the southern hemisphere see a another significant time of the year... but it is not Jesus's Birthday. Hell NO!!
Religion USURPED all the ancient days and festivals in order to convert Pagans in a less deadly way to how it had been done before that when Conversion was at the Point of a Sword normally.
I kind of feel as if by not DOING xmas, that I am heading towards the point of a virtual sword with family and others who EXPECT me to DO xmas.
Nope.. not me. I don't have to DO xmas anymore. And I won't be made to FEEL as if I am wrong or crazy for not FOLLOWING the Sheeple and their absurd ways at this time of the year.
"I'm an individual and you can't fool me."... hmmm, never really liked that song anyway, but the words certainly apply.
Christmas.......
BAH HUMBUG!!
Christmas. What is it good for ?
I ask because WHY we do it confuses the hell out of me. I mean, most people spend way too much money every year on presents, decorations and food.. all for one little day of each year that really has nothing to do with when Jeshua was born in the middle east.
True that. He was not born on December 25th. Many scholars think he may have been born a few years earlier than currently Believed by Religionists, and that he was born just after mid-year.
So WHY do we do it ?
No one expects Muslim of Buddhist followers to DO christmas, but they all expect everyone else in the western world to DO it. WHY?
If I am not a christian then why should I DO it ?
Why put yourself through Shopping Hell, slaving in a hot kitchen to cook Traditional food eaten in Winter.. when it is Summer here in Oz ?
"Tis the season to be jolly"
Really ? So we are only expected to be jolly once a year ? Who thought up this crap ? And why do you all do it to death every year?
And who invented Santa Claus ? Why do we LIE to our kids about Santa ? When the day comes that they hear Santa is not real, they will KNOW you lied to them all their life.... how good is that for your kids ? Do you expect them to ever Believe you again ?
I do like the fact that many friends and family get to have some holidays at this time of the year... so I can ride around and catch up with them all..but I don't want to DO xmas.
I don't want to be expected to buy xmas cards made from Trees, p[ut them in envelpes made from Trees and pay to send them all over the country so that they can hang on a wall for a couple of weeks before being thrown into the rubbish bin.
Why do we do that ? Are we really that stupidly blind to being led by the nose and wallet every single year in December ?
Ahh December.. specifically the 25th... well, the Full Moon closest to that date. A time of the year that had major significance to most ancient peoples in the northern hemisphere.. and being six months opposed to the north, we here in the southern hemisphere see a another significant time of the year... but it is not Jesus's Birthday. Hell NO!!
Religion USURPED all the ancient days and festivals in order to convert Pagans in a less deadly way to how it had been done before that when Conversion was at the Point of a Sword normally.
I kind of feel as if by not DOING xmas, that I am heading towards the point of a virtual sword with family and others who EXPECT me to DO xmas.
Nope.. not me. I don't have to DO xmas anymore. And I won't be made to FEEL as if I am wrong or crazy for not FOLLOWING the Sheeple and their absurd ways at this time of the year.
"I'm an individual and you can't fool me."... hmmm, never really liked that song anyway, but the words certainly apply.
Christmas.......
BAH HUMBUG!!
Monday 10 December 2012
Gen Y bad form again.
Why is this such a massive problem in our world today ?
I was standing at the ATM, about to put my card in and hit the pin number when an aboriginal boy about 19 or 20, with his girlfriend suddenly appear to my right side only two feet away from me, facing me. So I stopped what I was doing and asked, "Are you just going to stay right there ?"
He said, "Oh.. so what am I gunna do ?"
Straight away I picked up his attitude of Whites thinking Blacks are doing something criminal.
So I replied, "It's just common Courtesy mate. So why not go stand just over there please ?".. as I pointed out where I stand when waiting for the ATM.
"Why should I", he asked with a hint of attitude.
I answered, "It's what I do for everyone. It is common courtesy."
He then said gruffly, "Just hurry up, I got to get some money out!"
I turned around to look at him again, with steely eyes because his attitude was starting to piss me off. I don't take orders from anyone, not Cops, not Bikers, and certainly not from some young upstart Boy with attitude. So I put my hand up towards him and said, "Drop the attitude mate."
Was that the end of it ?
Nope!!
He then started on about, "I'm not giving you any attitude, so just get on with it."
Hmm, another order by this upstart. I stopped what I was doing and turned around to look at him again with those steely eyes.. I could see in my mind's eye his throat in my right hand after he spat the dummy and went for me.
So I turned back to the ATM and said loud enough for him to hear me, "Unbelieveable! You got no respect for elders. Got no manners and think you are the most important person in the world."
He stepped forward and said in front of the growing crowd, "You didn't even say Please or Thank You did you?"
I cancelled the selection on the ATM, pulled my card out and as I was putting it in my wallet I looked at him rush forward.. so I said, "If you had listened to me you would have heard me ask you to move over there please." And I moved away from the ATM.
He of course rushed in and couldn't help himself, "Yeah Buddy whatever!" he spat out as I walked away.
I still don't understand WHY Gen Y and the newer Gen X think they are the most important people in the world.. ALL THE TIME! I see 90% of them have NO MANNERS at all, NO Respect for others and in most cases NO RESPECT for themselves either.
How I wish for the good old days when an older man could thump a young man for being an arsehole to him... and that is what we need to pull these Self-important idiot Youth's heads in.. by learning that there are ALWAYS Consequences to your choice of action, lack of manners and common sense.
I was standing at the ATM, about to put my card in and hit the pin number when an aboriginal boy about 19 or 20, with his girlfriend suddenly appear to my right side only two feet away from me, facing me. So I stopped what I was doing and asked, "Are you just going to stay right there ?"
He said, "Oh.. so what am I gunna do ?"
Straight away I picked up his attitude of Whites thinking Blacks are doing something criminal.
So I replied, "It's just common Courtesy mate. So why not go stand just over there please ?".. as I pointed out where I stand when waiting for the ATM.
"Why should I", he asked with a hint of attitude.
I answered, "It's what I do for everyone. It is common courtesy."
He then said gruffly, "Just hurry up, I got to get some money out!"
I turned around to look at him again, with steely eyes because his attitude was starting to piss me off. I don't take orders from anyone, not Cops, not Bikers, and certainly not from some young upstart Boy with attitude. So I put my hand up towards him and said, "Drop the attitude mate."
Was that the end of it ?
Nope!!
He then started on about, "I'm not giving you any attitude, so just get on with it."
Hmm, another order by this upstart. I stopped what I was doing and turned around to look at him again with those steely eyes.. I could see in my mind's eye his throat in my right hand after he spat the dummy and went for me.
So I turned back to the ATM and said loud enough for him to hear me, "Unbelieveable! You got no respect for elders. Got no manners and think you are the most important person in the world."
He stepped forward and said in front of the growing crowd, "You didn't even say Please or Thank You did you?"
I cancelled the selection on the ATM, pulled my card out and as I was putting it in my wallet I looked at him rush forward.. so I said, "If you had listened to me you would have heard me ask you to move over there please." And I moved away from the ATM.
He of course rushed in and couldn't help himself, "Yeah Buddy whatever!" he spat out as I walked away.
I still don't understand WHY Gen Y and the newer Gen X think they are the most important people in the world.. ALL THE TIME! I see 90% of them have NO MANNERS at all, NO Respect for others and in most cases NO RESPECT for themselves either.
How I wish for the good old days when an older man could thump a young man for being an arsehole to him... and that is what we need to pull these Self-important idiot Youth's heads in.. by learning that there are ALWAYS Consequences to your choice of action, lack of manners and common sense.
Thursday 6 December 2012
New Tyre.. well almost...
Funny thing that.
Two weeks ago I ordered a new rear tyre for my bike, and prepaid half the cost. All good you would think, right ?
So yesterday arrives and I take the bike with it's now quite bald rear tyre down to the mechanics. He says the tyre hasn't shown up yet !!! And with that a van arrives in the driveway, we are both hoping the new tyre might have just arrived. So I leave the mechanic to his job and wait for the phone call to come pick the bike up.
No phone call came!
So I figure that means the tyres still didn't arrive yet (?) Heard nothing so far this morning, so I am hoping for a call before 5pm this arvo. Will not be a happy chap if I don't get a call today... but will have to be a patient chappy instead.
One thing about growing older is you have to learn patience.
Two weeks ago I ordered a new rear tyre for my bike, and prepaid half the cost. All good you would think, right ?
So yesterday arrives and I take the bike with it's now quite bald rear tyre down to the mechanics. He says the tyre hasn't shown up yet !!! And with that a van arrives in the driveway, we are both hoping the new tyre might have just arrived. So I leave the mechanic to his job and wait for the phone call to come pick the bike up.
No phone call came!
So I figure that means the tyres still didn't arrive yet (?) Heard nothing so far this morning, so I am hoping for a call before 5pm this arvo. Will not be a happy chap if I don't get a call today... but will have to be a patient chappy instead.
One thing about growing older is you have to learn patience.
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