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  • POTENTIAL DEATH OR SERIOUS INJURY: True Stories #19

    Ken, my boss, asked me to help him move one of those large double metal lockers downstairs. The locker was upstairs in a spare room near the kitchen. We shimmy slid it across the floor until we got to the top of the stairs. These stairs where the L shaped type with a 90 degree…

  • EMPIRE OF RELIGION: Rise of the Tycoons #16

    As far as I know, every empire worshiped a god or gods in some form. As they expanded, they may have invited or insisted on the conversion of their new citizens. However, the religion was a part of the empire, not the basis of it. To my knowledge there are only two major religions that…

  • WE NEED TO DIG A LITTLE DEEPER: The Brainwashing Business

    I have had a deep-seated contempt for advertising going back a long time and it is only the logistics of compartmentalising and organising my thoughts that have led to this being post #71. I find it irritating and terrifying just how inundated we are with this perpetual persuasion. It is fucking everywhere we turn and…

  • MUSINGS ON THE JOB ABOUT THE JOB: Get a Job You Bum!

    Growing up in the west certainly has its advantages, but comfort can breed complacency. Going back as far as the end of the Great Depression, in Australia it has not been too hard to earn a living. Maybe not ‘living it up’, but enough to get by on. Jobs (in the cities at least) were…

  • WHEN I WAS YOU AGE: Home Entertainment Minimalism

    So, you say there’s nothing to watch. 2026 and you can’t find anything to watch? When I was your age, we had four channels to watch on the television; 5 if you had really good reception. 3 commercial stations: Channels 7, 9 and 10. These were the channels that had the money to pay for…

  • CORPORATE CONFUSION: The Underworld Economy

    As long as there have been laws, there have been those who disagree with them. Most begrudgingly comply and pretty much everyone breaks a few ‘little’ ones now and then. A few others will break the law by ignorance or accident; others again may disobey as a form of defiance or protest. However, we usually…

  • POTENTIAL DEATH OR SERIOUS INJURY: True Stories #18

    Thinking back to Kevin’s bucks’ night from a few instalments ago I recall it was the middle of winter. Pretty much all the antics he was the brunt of involved him stripped down to his underwear. He was tied to the clothesline in his underwear and spray painted. He was tied to the headboard of…

  • ALL THIS IS MINE! I MEAN OURS, OURS OF COURSE: Rise of the Tycoons #15

    It is a scathing paradox that the rise of ‘civilisation’ would coincide with such unbridled subjugation. Once the numbers start to swell it becomes almost as inevitable as it is dreadful. The only way to avoid it is to put as much distance between your ‘primitive’ people and ‘civilisation’ as possible. The quest for power,…

  • Hostel (2005) & Hostel Part II (2007): CORPORATE CONFUSION MEETS MOVIE MUSINGS

    The concept is sickening yet simple, and with the revelations coming out from the Epstein Files, nowhere near as farfetched as we would hope. A savvy entrepreneur has thought of another way for the mega rich to entertain themselves at the expense of the peasants. Hunting humans is so blasé and exhausting. Why not just…

  • WHEN I WAS YOUR AGE

    Reckon it’s time to start a new thread. Feels like I have been trying to squeeze a few ideas into some categories where they don’t quite fit. This one will be a little more random in some ways, but it will basically be what you expect from the title. I was born and a kid…