9-gag meme dump!
Even since leaving "traditional" social media a few years ago I find that I am a lot more productive just generally speaking. I no longer waste time getting into debates with strangers and I no longer scroll for ages in order to achieve nothing in the hours that it takes to do so. The only thing I really miss out on is some events that I don't end up knowing about and also, funny and interesting things that some of my friends would post like memes.
Thankfully, 9-Gag has got me covered for the most part on the meme side of things and it is really the only social media that I even pay any attention to.
Unfortunately 9-Gag has become a center for political propaganda lately as well and hunting for funny or inspiring stuff isn't all that easy. In the 9000 or so things that I looked at I would say at least half of them are about US politics, the Russia / Ukraine conflict, and transgenders in sports. I have no interest in hearing other people's opinions about any of these things. I did find a few inspiring and funny memes in the past few weeks and now I would like to share them with you.
I'm not seriously old or anything but I am in my 40's. I have somehow managed in all of that time to never get married, not have kids, and also not have any silly financial obligations other than students loans that due to the complete unwillingness of the loan holders to accommodate the fact that I live overseas, I have defaulted on and have no intention of ever paying them. That's another story though.
This meme hits me in the "yeah that's me!" feels because as I get into the back 9 of life I find that I break easier, I am slower whenever I try to do most anything, but yet I still live the life of a person in their 20's for the most part. I have no intention of ever getting old, and most of the people that live the expat life end up the same way.
Sticking with the topic of old people, this meme reminds me of when I was a teen and seriously started to get into metal - like the really hard stuff. Adults at that time would assume that this music was a sign of violence or satanism and one day I actually came home to find my parents digging through my CD collection and reading the lyrics. I tried to explain to them that I don't take the lyrics seriously, and if they were to listen to most of the bands I was really into, you can't really understand what is being said anyway. The "Satanic" bands that I did listen to like Deicide and Slayer.... I don't believe that any of those guys are actually Satanic - I think it is all a gimmick and it is one that has worked for a lot of metal bands over the years.
This was a meme until I accidentally over-cropped it. The title was simply "do you know anyone that ever had a setup like this? If you do, you are old." Well not only did I know someone, I was someone that had a setup like this and they were kind of the only option we had at the time for a good sound system. They were also remarkably expensive if you got all of the components. When I think about the amount of money that I spent on my Pioneer setup I want to kick myself for it. It was easily thousands of dollars and in the end when the industry changed, none of these gigantic components were worth anything at all. I suppose the same could be said for the hundreds of CD's and prior to that, cassettes that I accumulated over the years.
This one is funny to me because I will admit that I have a borderline problematic drinking problem. I would say that I am a functioning alcoholic. I drink nearly every day and it's hard to believe that when I was in high school and for the first year or so of college, I really didn't care for alcohol or being drunk (or high.) Well that all went out the window around the age of 19 for me.
These days, it is virtually impossible for me to go out for a "few drinks." It always ends up being a slobberknocker and my only real option to avoid that is to just avoid basically everyone that I know. It would probably benefit me immensely if I were to quit drinking but if I did that, I honestly don't know what I would do with all my time.
I am very lucky and fortunate to have accidentally developed a skill that allows me to not have a full time employer or an office that I have to report to. Most people do still have traditional jobs though and out of all of the people that I know that do have jobs like that, virtually all of them loathe going to work. I think that most jobs are soul crushing and for the 7 years or so that I spent in the professional world, the last 2 of them I was routinely late, would take really long lunches, and would disappear some days and just not come back. I basically was trying to get fired. It might surprise you how difficult it is to get fired from a government job though and eventually I resigned and moved away to Thailand. It seemed like a huge gamble and perhaps a big mistake at the time but as it turns out it was probably the best move I ever made in my life.
For the most part I believe that traditional 4-year colleges are a waste of time and money. I know that I wish I hadn't gone because I used nearly none of the things that was part of my coursework in university. I think the only thing I ever did get any use out of was a speech class and some class that I took regarding spreadsheets.
However, there were a couple of professors that really stuck out in my mind and I still remember them to this day. One of these people was Dr. Cal Christian and he taught a number of accounting classes. Now can you imagine an accounting class being interesting? Well neither could I until I met Dr. Christian. I absolutely loved going to his classes and so did everyone else. He is one of those rare individuals out there that is exceptionally good at what they do because later accounting classes that I took were devastatingly boring. I would imagine that most accounting classes are. Dr. Christian went on to get some serious accolades for his excellence and although I have not kept in touch with him, I am sure he is inspiring people to this day.
Well, I hope some of those resonated with you as well because they made me laugh, made me think, and made me happy. I'll end these things like I normally do, with a picture of my baby girl Nadi.
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Dude, I agree to disagree with all those memes. I got a 16 year old at home, and I have accepted that I need to NOT discriminate horrible music so I can BE current.
That HIFI setup is not required anymore. With the current electronics and wave processor in built software, there's no need for all that bulky stuff anymore. I understand nothing can replace the old warm sound, and the unique sound of magnetic tapes, but who listen to Genshin BGM with a 150k processor?
oh i suppose with a teenager at home you don't really have much choice but to get involved with current trends. Do you hear any of the teenager's music that you actually genuinely like?
Generally, I don't "listen" to music anymore. I'm now hearing them 🤣 more like,
Oh it's good.
How good?
Good good.
No I mean what makes you think it's good
Just trust me on this one. It's good.
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Satanic metal music... I think there was an interview where Tom Araya actually said he was a Christian which was one in the eye for all those denouncing their blatant satanism!
I would imagine that most of the "satanic" bands are probably agnostic but it wouldn't surprise me if they were Christian or something else but just use the satanic edge to garner an audience. I never knew that about Tom Araya though, nice tip!
I had a professor who taught a history class that was pretty cool. I still think a lot about some of the stuff that he presented to us. It was really interesting stuff. Most of my other professors I remember for other less happy reasons! I've found that most of the stuff we used to listen to that was "bad" is pretty tame compared to what is out there these days. Take rap music for example and compare any NWA song to something like WAP. NWA looks pretty tame now right? I think that component setup is awesome. I had one too and I got so much use out of it. I don't regret it at all. I still have a Sony receiver sitting on my desk at work. I've got an old Radio Shack receiver hooked up to a record player at home. It's awesome stuff!
The old sound systems were pretty amazing. I remember going to Crutchfield and just looking at the various options for long periods of time and really contemplating whether or not it was worth the $300.
I was once at a garage sale and found some massive speakers that the owners were selling for something crazy like $5 and they were just as good as my friends' speakers that cost hundreds of dollars. Score!
Ah yes, I used to get the Crutchfield catalog and pour over that thing like it was some lost tome of the ancients. All the stuff I dreamed about buying and putting in my home or car! Those speakers sound amazing. I used to work at Radio Shack, so I took full advantage of the 25% employee discount when I was there!
Radio Shack was a shop that I would go into while my mom was in the grocery store. The employees there became very familiar with me and they didn't even mind that most of the time I didn't even buy anything. I haven't live in the USA for a long time but I wonder, is Radio Shack even open anywhere anymore?
No, well, sort of. They went bankrupt and all of the corporate stores closed down. There are still some franchise stores that are open and Radio Shack still has an online site. I'm not sure where the franchise stores get their inventory from. Someone tried to launch a DeFi platform with the Radio Shack branding, but I don't think it amounted to anything. All I know is the stock certificates in my safe are worthless. If only I had invested in Apple stock back then instead of Radio Shack stock!
Ooof, that hurts. It reminded me of a time that I was working for a company that unbeknown to me was owned by parent company Tyco. I had opted for a pre-tax 50% company matched stock purchase in lieu of some of my salary. You might recall that there was a massive financial scandal involving many companies back in the early 2000's where the various companies got into trouble, thankfully, for insider trading as they made out like bandits while basically robbing all of their employees of their retirement. One of those companies was Tyco and all of my investment was almost completely worthless. I was one of many people who was involved in a class action lawsuit and we won, kind of. The settlement wasn't anything near the buy in value of the stock.
Some executives were prosecuted and a couple of them actually did jail time but I am sure it was in some resort and not the type of prison that you or I would go to if we committed a crime.
I kind of remember that yes. I was a bit late to the investing game but I have tried to make up for it over the past couple of decades.
The only thing I don't get is the older you are the quicker time seems to fly and the years are ticking by. When you were younger you wished to be older and now you wish to be younger so you are never happy lol.
There is a line in a TV show I saw recently where a person said something along the lines of that time goes quicker the older you get because when you are one year old, that year is 100% of your lifetime and 1-10 a year is still a very large portion of your total lifespan. Once you hit 30, 40, 50 the years seem to fly by because it is a relatively insignificant portion of your overall lifespan. I'm misquoting but it was a pretty powerful line in my book.
I remember back in the 80s my parents had me scared of these guys that used to hang out in a clearing in a cornfield near where I lived. They said they were all worshipping the devil and sacrificing animals in a bonfire. When you would walk down the the country road nearby at night time, you could hear the 'devil music' playing far off, and see the light from the fire. I used to panic and walk super fast to get past.
One day me and my friend Kenny were walking by and decided to sneak over there. We tried to hide in some corn, but when we got close some dudes saw us and invited us in. It was literally just a bunch of older teens making out and listening to heavy metal while cooking food on a large fire. That was one of the most fun nights of my life. haha!
that's a great story haha. I think that most of the time people are afraid of things they do not understand. I would be willing to bet that as I get older I will do the same. I'll have to try to not become a grumpy old man as the years creep up on me.
Interestingly, as I get older I become more open minded. But I have to admit, I do tent to get more annoyed with young people who behave similar to myself at that age. It feels paradoxical, since I should understand how they feel. I wonder what a psychologist would say about that.....
I try to sympathize with young people "being young" because yes, we were all like that at one point but sometimes it gets to be a bit much and I get angry. I don't think a psychologist would have a lot to say about it because I would imagine that it is extremely common and almost everyone is like that. :)