Definitely.  For me at the grocery store or even a gas station.  I always want to ask, 'Can you really not see through the glass to decide what flavor of Pepsi you want?'.

So I live in insignificant, and far-off Croatia, in an insignificant town in the least interesting part of the country.

This "six-seven" rot has reached us even here.

There's no creativity, no meaning, not a thought to be found, you cannot even justify it as some sort of revolt against what was before. It's just blind imitation of the contents of social media, manic and mindless.

It fills me with horror, to be honest.

What the heck!?  I guess we're not too far from doctor's wanting a tip after a routine checkup.

    Earlier in this thread I said that diamonds are the biggest scam on earth.  They are.  The second biggest is designer handbags. 
https://www.bing.com/search?q=top+10+most+expensive+bags&FORM=QSRE11
    It costs approximately twenty five to eighty dollars to manufacture a quality bag per Gemini Flash.  Yet some people will pay up to $94,500.00 for one.  https://www.whatgoesaroundnyc.com/s/WGACA/en-us/buy-metallic-gold-chevre-kelly-s...
     People are starving.  Does somebody really need a $94,500.00  handbag!?

Rat Man wrote on Jul 30^th, 2026 at 11:05am:


i think this sentiment is very applicable in a wide sense to our world. i dont necessarily want to bring politics into our lovely slinging community but it affects us all and is the reality of the world I am coming to age in.

one "pet peeve" of mine is how 12 people own more wealth than 4,000,000,000 people. half the global population has less than a dozen men. can you ethically achieve that level of wealth? without exploitation of the land, of the law, of the workers (us). do you think your vote counts as much as theirs? this is not a partisan issue.

think of the good we could do if this literally inconceivable amount of wealth was put to better use than hoarding for the very few.

i could go on but ill refrain. these topics weigh heavily and constantly on my mind.

this is a fairly well known statistic by now but here is the source. please do your own research.

https://www.oxfam.org.uk/get-involved/campaign-with-oxfam/fight-inequality/oxfam...