The Collapse

[pan]

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[BO]

Shoulda said mantra instead of meme. Sorry Waldo.

[littleoldme]

I really hate the term trailer trash, I live in a trailer and I'm not trash, but every time I see a reference to a trailer it's always followed by trash.

Waldo, I could not agree more. It breaks your heart for their grandparents, you know the ones that were sprayed with fire hoses and bullets to get these useless shits a better life and what do they do with it.
I do have a rather funny story though about those huge pants.
While sitting at my kitchen table looking out to the neighbor, across the fields, yard, I noticed their teen age boy cutting the grass. He had on a pair of pants that would have fit my fat ass, and he must have weighed 100lbs soakin' wet with a rock in his pocket, anyway he's pushin' away with the lawn mower, and every few pushes he has to stop to give his drawers a yank to keep em' up, he's pushin' and pullin' and pushin' and pullin, well he pushed and didn't pull quick enough and his drawers hit the ground around his skinny little ankles. Laugh, oh my god did I laugh. I really can't say much when it comes to kids fashion choices, after all I'm a child of the sixties, remember tie dye caftans, and jesus sandals.
I went to Catholic schools, so you learned or you got the shit kicked outta ya by Sister Mary Sadist. They tried to get uniforms in public schools a while back here, but the stupid parents (and I use the term parents lightly) threw a fit, their little darling has the RIGHT to wear what they want. They didn't make it mandatory , their parents could opt them out. They are not taught about consequences.

[waldopaper]

well... bein' our "neighborhood's" token white trash... i kin dig it. Don't let the "trailer trash" bother ya dear. I had to sit thru a passel o "Womens' (scuse me... Wymn's) Studies groups where all kinds of people of every stripe railed on "Old White Men." Well... guess who was the ONLY "Old White Man" there. I had to keep tellin' meself... "they aint talkin about ME... they're talkin about people who LOOK like me."

Comes full-circle, don't it? I had a sideways-hat clown-clothes guy a while back who turned in no written work... on paper... but ON LINE he far exceeded anything anybody ever did. So I cut him some slack. His daddy even called me from the East Coast to tell me his boy was "kind of a problem." You guessed it-- old man was a former Panther. He's ALL our "problem," Brother sezeye... they don't seem to be makin much of y'all these days.

Somma these guys will kick in like MEN... and some are just cheap pistol targets. Get them to speak, get them to write... and you can tell the difference. Unfortunately... the pistol bullet don't listen nor read.

Nobody gonna escape the "consequences."

[littleoldme]

"Nobody gonna escape the "consequences."

They sure don't think 'bout the consequences.
Beat the shit out of another kid, tape it, post it on You tube.................duh.
Break in to school, destroy everything in sight, tape it, post it on You tube...........also duh.

[waldopaper]

mebbe the celebrity-status is worth more than the spanking you get from dad. I aint suggesting any kind of sophisticated cost-benefit analysis... but an intuitive one? absolutely!

[littleoldme]

true

[pan]

The entitlement generation can not imagine real consequences from their actions. They have always had their parents going to their teachers and demanding A grades for their C- work.

[curt]

"he's pushin' away with the lawn mower, and every few pushes he has to stop to give his drawers a yank to keep em' up, he's pushin' and pullin' and pushin' and pullin, well he pushed and didn't pull quick enough and his drawers hit the ground around his skinny little ankles."

we got our hip-hoppers o'er here too. man do they look silly. but I guess I do too, to them. I like to keep it practical and comfortable. No comfort in not turning in your work and expecting a bad grade. The lazy fucker in me made me turn my stuff in, read the assignments, work along and learn.....I'm so damned lazy I made good grades so I could slide through school. Just can't unnerstand today's kids. Guess I'm gettin' old. Can 48 be old? I didn't think so ten years ago. Likely won't in ten more neither.

[waldopaper]

...and that's only the stuff that makes it past the buzzsaw. ...only the tiny tip of the turdberg. The magic bullshit theory has made me a "conspiracy nut" for years... and what's funny is the truth is ten times weirder than my dinged old paranoid brain can possibly imagine... and it's capable of imagining a whole mess o' weird.

I finally started mentioning it to people... all the cops. I usually count four in the first 20 minutes leaving home... I usually stop counting at six. Those are only the marked cars. I thought it was just me... but everybody else is noticing it too... and the murder rate in this little burg has skyrocketed. Do all the cops make people "safer?" No... just the opposite... the shoot-outs between the zombies and the mercs will begin with the first hot spell.

Some are "optimistic." Count me as one of the ones beyond hope.

[BO]

There's just a weird fucking vibe in the air these days. People know something's up, things have changed and something terrible awaits us. It's palpable. Maybe it's the appearance of desperation that seems to be growing every day. Or maybe people are waking up to the bullshit they're being fed. Whatever the case, the peeps are getting depressed. And the third-worlders are coming out of the woodwork and causing havoc.

Every day my own kid asks me to clarify something he's heard at school that has to do with politics or the economy--mostly bullshit. I've had to tone down my own rhetoric because he seems to be becoming depressed and withdrawn. I suppose that's to be expected since he's exceptionally smart and aware. But, I think it's mainly because he goes to a catholic school where his rich friends are growing up republican, and he's growing up skeptical. And I'm fucking stuck because the alternative is to send him to one of the local third world crack-infested ghetto schools. Both ends are fucked, and there is no middle.

And yeah, we've got our share of murders around here too. Although it's the general level of sociopathy that one has to deal with day in and day out that wears me down. People are simply becoming ruder, angrier and more narcissistic. Most act like three year olds. I wish I hadn't seen that movie, 'Idiocracy', because--although a bit exagorated--the characters in it seem to live in my neighborhood.

Anyway, it seems the collapse is here, now, and things are deteriorating quickly. Yet, I guess all we can do is continue on with our lives like nothing's changed--until that time when we are personally affected. Stock up on food, buy a gun, and get ready for the simeon hoards. Tomorrow, maybe I'll get some shells for my old grand-pappy's shotgun.

[Mouse]

Do listen to this if you can, especially the part about farming in the Punjab and what's happened due to appalling overuse of pesticides, from today's "From Our Own Correspondent. It was a particlarly good programme.
http://www.bbc.co.uk/radio/podcasts/fooc/?focuswin

Hurt my back gardening, what a shame, resting, drugged with valium (muscle relaxant). Wonder how Curt is getting on.

Pots arrived, they're Italian. Have planted Achocha seedlings, (interesting member of cucumber family) already taken a firm grip on supports and leaping upwards. Very exciting. Must bring in overnight to keep out of the cool, weather turning cold again.

Thinking seriously of raised beds in the sunny part at the bottom, for interesting root vegetables. http://www.realseeds.co.uk/radish.html
Sowed Salsola (Italian greens) in north facing dog basket, already all germinated and looking strange and good. Sowed mizuna in recycled tins, also coming along nicely.

[littleoldme]

We've gotten the tomatoes and the eggplant in. We're trying some heirloom tomatoes this year. The hubbies hot peppers were good last year and did really well. Sorry about your back hurting, don't overdo. I'm thinking maybe sunflowers this year might be fun, and I can use them to fill my bird feeders. We're not suppose to plant any veggies here in the park, but fuck 'em, been planting them every year since we moved in, they just recently, in the last couple o' years. decided no veggie plants. Maybe some pumpkins............hum.....