You're in Australia, you're in Manitoba, you're in your mom's basement and you're in Calgary (and also have no idea that I find you to be the funniest, most awesome person ever). Why can't anyone ever be where I am?
You're in Australia, you're in Manitoba, you're in your mom's basement and you're in Calgary (and also have no idea that I find you to be the funniest, most awesome person ever). Why can't anyone ever be where I am?
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"Personal note: When I was a little kid my mother told me not to stare into the sun. So once when I was six, I did. At first the brightness was overwhelming, but I had seen that before. I kept looking, forcing myself not to blink, and then the brightness began to dissolve. My pupils shrunk to pinholes and everything came into focus and for a moment I understood. The doctors didn't know if my eyes would ever heal."
-Pi
blech.
Do, or do not. There is no try. - Yoda
Why did my first English class last year have to be about the stolen generation?
We could have started on something less controversial.
Why did I leave getting both discerning stares and hi-5s for my bravery?
For I have known them all already, known them all:
Have known the evenings, mornings, afternoons,
I have measured out my life with coffee spoons;
I know the voices dying with a dying fall
Beneath the music from a farther room.
So how should I presume?Eliot
ARGH!!!
Just hurry up already!!!
Why won't my desk just clean itself?
And why is this song so tediously boring?
For I have known them all already, known them all:
Have known the evenings, mornings, afternoons,
I have measured out my life with coffee spoons;
I know the voices dying with a dying fall
Beneath the music from a farther room.
So how should I presume?Eliot
Why should I go into the water... I hate the beach, seaweed, stones, creepy crawlies, sand in everything. And I forgot "A thousand splendid Suns" in the car. No book, everyone forcing me to go into the water. Why didn't you all just leave me alone. Piff!!!
Really????
Do, or do not. There is no try. - Yoda
But Mummy loves me. So she must come in the water.Originally Posted by Maryd.
My desk is clean.
BUT THEN WHY DOES MY ROOM STILL LOOK PATHETIC??
For I have known them all already, known them all:
Have known the evenings, mornings, afternoons,
I have measured out my life with coffee spoons;
I know the voices dying with a dying fall
Beneath the music from a farther room.
So how should I presume?Eliot
Is the floor clean? Something about a clean floor does wonders.
Do, or do not. There is no try. - Yoda
Ahh... I don't think it is.
Only vaccuuming is the thing I won't do. I'll scrub toilet bowls but I won't vaccuum.
For I have known them all already, known them all:
Have known the evenings, mornings, afternoons,
I have measured out my life with coffee spoons;
I know the voices dying with a dying fall
Beneath the music from a farther room.
So how should I presume?Eliot
Age is not synonimous to superiority.
The Moments of Dominion
That happen on the Soul
And leave it with a Discontent
Too exquisite — to tell —
-Emily Dickinson
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=TVW8GCnr9-I
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=ckGIvr6WVw4
Welcome to my world.
For I have known them all already, known them all:
Have known the evenings, mornings, afternoons,
I have measured out my life with coffee spoons;
I know the voices dying with a dying fall
Beneath the music from a farther room.
So how should I presume?Eliot
What is with all these books... And we still had to buy the boy a laptop as well.
I've been there.
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"Personal note: When I was a little kid my mother told me not to stare into the sun. So once when I was six, I did. At first the brightness was overwhelming, but I had seen that before. I kept looking, forcing myself not to blink, and then the brightness began to dissolve. My pupils shrunk to pinholes and everything came into focus and for a moment I understood. The doctors didn't know if my eyes would ever heal."
-Pi
If there is one thing that bothers me, being a consumer whore in the modern world that so many of us are, its companies pricing products with no distinguishable reason or logic. Take for instance shoes. I am not an overly large man, size 9 shoes. I will never be a size 13 shoe wearer. I may stretch to a 10 in some cases, but I absolutely swim in anything above that, convenient though it is for others who are of a larger stature to have such a diverse selection.
But why does a pair of shoes cost, say a size 7, 120 dollars, and yet a size 12 or 13, pays that same 120 dollars. Put next to one another it is extremely evident that the former is using almost half the materials of the latter. Am I absorbing the costs of the materials for people with bigger shoes then me? You would think price is determined by the cost of the goods and the time to make the shoes, the equipment needed to do so etc. add on a tidy profit margin for myself and again for the retailer, and you would have your final sum. So it would make sense that a bigger shoe should be substantially more expensive (or my shoes cheaper preferably) seeing as they use inches more of leather, rubber, cotton, etc and as such would take longer to construct. If I am not absorbing the prices for my larger brethren, it means that the larger foot wearers are getting more at a discounted price.
Pants are the same way, if I am using a foot less material per leg, you would think I would be afforded some sort of financial compensation. I’m not asking to thrash into profit margins; I am not asking for special treatment, I am just asking that the price be reflective of the product actually received.
We buy groceries by weight, liquids by volume, external hard drives and USB’s by storage capacity, why is it that something like clothing, which absolutely everyone uses and has used for eons, is charged by some magical mean price decided without any thought for the “little guy”, this is Australia isn’t it? Land of the wee battler? Home to the most prized underdogs, lovers of the Cinderella story, the little guy fighting for his fair share? Well I say to you, I am a little guy, and I deserve to pay my fair share and nothing more.
Yeah, I think the overwhelming part of the cost is not the raw material but the labor and equipment to make it. The raw material difference between a large and a small size of anything is probably pennies, and there's probably no difference in time of labor.
I did find it funny where you wondered if you're paying for people with bigger feet.
Of course that's a sixteen year old saying that.
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