23/09/2024
I noticed something in South Africa commerce, a strange practice.
I was shopping at a national retailer recently when upon reaching the cashier I tendered payment in cash. Not unusual but I mostly pay for things electronically. I noticed my change being rounded off to what I conclude is the nearest 0.50 to the total. I know the international standard of rounding off to be the nearest 0.05 to the total. Upon my inquiry the cashier simply shrugged reply of insufficient cash change in their till. Having noticed something I began my observation. Many cashiers at various retailers practice short changing customers paying cash fairly frequently. Some consumers complain, others do not. I tested my theory. Of the ten retailers where I paid cash for my purchases I was short changed four times, forty percent of the time. On the fourth occasion I asked the cashier if it was normal for cashiers to not hold sufficient denominations of change in the registers for cash payments. I was it was normal practice. I asked why that was, I was shrugged off. I further asked if it was acceptable to defraud forty percent of consumers with dishonest practice, withholding change owed is fraud or theft depending on outlook. I was told it's always been done like that and everyone does it that way. When I asked why that is I didn't receive an answer.
251
27/09/2024
An instantaneous nosebleed from the left nostril certainly indicates the onset of Pronoun Tantrum Social Disassociatian. Incurable but only if the left nostril bleeds at least once every other day ending with y. Identification misdiagnosis is trending, your sister is no longer your cousin if their pronoun is not your brother from another mother. Your smart device identifies as sentient as science officially determines thinking as really hard and we shouldn't be thinking so much. An age of everything is made up and the rules no longer matter. Witness society divide itself by I think therefore and I am and you're ignorant, I don't care, whatever...
I certainly hope we break ground on Mars within my lifetime, I can pass in peace having watched Earth breathe a sigh of relief knowing a burden has been lifted, that people rather than pronouns will continue to care for natural balance and living. Let all the digital age crap rebuild version 2.0 on the red planet, away from earth, with nothing to destroy upon arrival. A barren space comparison to their online virtual presence. It's a one way trip, face hug a xenomorph when you land. The analog rebellion.
1306
09/10/2024
Twelve years of formal schooling wasted on me. I am a disappointment to the English speaking world. My appologies to Shakespeare, Yeats, Tolkien and Lovecraft. Please report my abuse on punctuation, my blatant brutality towards adverbs and my inexcusable excess of vocabulary to the Grammer Police. Try me before the Grammarly judicial commity, throw my in stocks, locked, shackled like a man condemned. I face judgement from inferior minds with limited vocation. I refuse to dumb it down for the feeble masses. I was taught by linguists, thespians, passionate protagonists the importance of annunciation, pronunciation and propagation. Were my school books and examination papers not riddled with corrective red pen illustrating my errors?
Death before dishonour, my oath to master the English language, nay shall I break it.
930
21/10/2024
My dad, bless his soul always told me when it comes to a situation of team dymanic breakdown the fish always rots from the head first. I'm pained by such a breakdown. The team is not the problem, they have their faults but the dynamic functions cohesively. Someone at a Management level is breaking things down. I've seen this play out many times, the ambitious outsider determined to make their mark in the big leagues overshoots trying to make good on overhyped mediocre abilities. A team weathers the storm. It will pass, sometimes you stay and other times you move on. Always go with a clear conscience. When I quietly reflect on these matters I'm again drawn into battle. Fight those standing as my adversary. Stand up when required, oppose injustices, accept your own accountability. Do the right thing. I consider the actions of those I see in opposition to me, are they decent folk?
I think of what pains me most, does it pain them?
When small children cry, it pains my heart. When animals suffer, it pains my spirit.
What then is required when your opponent has lost their moral compass?
The toxicity is overwhelming, it has the ability to drive you into the darkness. Fight it. My generation was taught to fight for what's right because indifference is the greatest evil you will require the fortitude to see this through to the end. Be it in victory or defeat walk away with a clear conscience.
2410
26/10/2024
Who really gives a shit?
According to online resources there is a generation war being fought online and while I disagree with the defined chronological definitiona listed I'm mildly irritated by their pigeon hole classification. I was born on the 80s raised on 80s culture, I was a teenager in the 90s raging against the machine, a young adult of the millennium uncertain about Y2K and today I'm a miserable old fart constantly complaining about the pronouns. I consider myself Generation X and I define anyone born from 2000 a Millennial, how y'all sub divide the generations is your business. I believe the global shit show started in 2005 when Apple put an iPhone on everyone's pocket and Zuckerberg installed Facebook on all of them. The Generation War had began. I'll simplify things; society is divided into two groups, those born before the creation of Google and those born after the creation of Google. I'm the generation before Google, before smartphone convenience, before digital garbage and before social media. But who really gives a shit?
3110
01/11/2024
Look after yourself.
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28/11/2024
While driving behind a slow moving combine harvester on a country road I was listening to a podcast about the Gore / Bush presidential election of 2000 when two things came to mind.
The countryside is quite beautiful when I take the time to admire it. This got me thinking about the farrmers in England are heroes. In fact farmers everywhere are the unsung, unappreciated, unassuming heroes dedicated to keeping the world going. Small holdings, large commercial, backyard homesteading, all of it matters.
The other being I don't really care for American politics or the podcast discussing it.
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