fredlet

Because people fuck up.
Regularly.
I can guarantee you that if you promise me something, you will somehow manage to screw up or something will happen to prevent you from fulfilling your promise to me… No, of course it isn’t your fault…
Its no skin off of your nose and frankly, you really don’t give a crap about the fallout that screws up my life.
(Actually, you might feel bad, but the bad thing is what I have to deal with… So if you don’t mind, I’m just going to smile at you and not listen to you promising me the moon and cover my own ass. )
I’d say its not personal, but it kind of is and I’m tired of being the one having to deal with the end result while you skip along and break your promises.
Cope with it.

Tom Waits… charismatic story-teller with a

penchant for freaky people and unusual

settings. You thrive on the concept of the

underdog coming out on top.

Which fucked-up genius composer are you?
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I can’t seem to do anything right anymore.
nothing.

not a damn thing.
I screw up everything I touch.

…and its getting a little old.

…and my mom is a lost cause
Originally uploaded by fredlet.

this is mom giving Jack and Sophie a blast of whipped cream…
She at least has enough class not to do it directly into their mouths. Cause if the whipped cream squirts our their noses, that would be really gross.

who have no imagination.
If you sit there and bemoan your fate because someone else has invented a new thing that changes the way the market buys stuff (such as NOT buying their stuff) instead of attacking the problem in a different way, then they deserve to fold.

Wake up and smell the coffee.
You aren’t entitled to our business… its kinda like Cuba whining about us not giving them our business.
Give me a freakin’ break.

My prime candidates for pansies of the year are the music execs (oh poor us! we can’t think our way out of a paper bag! we require you to do business the same way you’ve done it for the last 20 years! you must give us lots of money!) .
To a lesser extent, the tv networks, but they’ve started to actually pay attention to how people live and adapt.

This is one of those things that doesn’t make me wish that the human race would finally just blow itself up (that and Plankton on SpongeBob Squarepants…)

“After bemoaning the emergence of the iPod as children’s latest must-have toy, toy makers are now looking at the digital musical player as their own marketing strategy.”
[linky]

Phew.
Another close save.

and to all the people who buy into what the government subsidizes and calls medicine…

“The theory was that a low-fat/high-carb diet would control weight and help prevent killer diseases. But most of the studies that followed actually failed to show a direct link between fat in the diet and heart disease and cancer. But by then it was too late — even science couldn’t shake the prevailing wisdom that all fats are bad, and all carbs are good,” explained Johnson.

By investigating the genesis of this theory, Taubes found that the government’s initial decision 30 years ago to promote low-fat diets was not based on recommendations from doctors or scientists, but rather from lawyers who worked for Sen. George McGovern in the mid-1970s.

“They come out with this document and it just sets this ball rolling where finally some government body is telling Americans to eat less fat and eat more carbohydrates,” Taubes said.

With the release of the government’s “Food Pyramid” in the early 1990s, it was official: the low-fat/high-carb diet was America’s food plan.

At the pyramid’s base are the foods considered the staple of the healthy low-fat diet: refined carbohydrates such as bread, cereal, rice and pasta. At the narrow top — indicating that they should be used sparingly, if at all: fats and oils.

In the last decade, however, several leading nutritional scientists have begun to think Atkins may have neen partly right about carbohydrates, and scientists are now finally studying whether low-fat diets really work.

(emphasis my own because, really, are you fucking kidding me they NEVER looked to see if this was a good thing?)

“I think it’s quite clear that he’s onto something important. It does seem that this substantial reduction in carbohydrate for many people does make it easier to control their diet over the long run,” says Dr. Walter Willett, chairman of the department of nutrition at the Harvard School of Public Health.

Moreover, following the low-fat/high-carb diet of the U.S.D.A. Food Pyramid may not only make it difficult to control weight, it could actually be dangerous, according to Willett.

“The dietary pyramid was out of date the day it was printed, but it’s even more out of date given the evidence that’s accrued since that time,” said Willett. “We have good evidence now that the high intake of refined starches and sugars will increase risk of diabetes and heart disease,” he added.
[via abcnews.go.com]

Sound familiar?