Here in the UK, it seems that we do like our fashion, specifically the fashion in clothes.
But what happens, when a specific fashion is either stupid, or makes us look stupid ?
A good example of this, is "Ugg" boots. Yes, they do have some good points. Yes, they're probably nice and comfortable, and equally probably, nice and warm to the wearer. But, the very nature of them, means that they're only very good in cold, dry weather.
They seem to be made of some type of leather/skin product, like sheep skin, judging by the look of them. They seem to have little or no support for the foot and also have the look of a material which has little or no water proof qualities whatsoever.
In fact, they're fucking ugly looking. They have the appearance of the sort of footwear that used to aimed at old ladies to keep their feet warm while sitting in front of a fire in the winter, mainly in adverts that appeared in the magazine supplements that came with the Sunday newspapers (presumably to justify the increased cost of the newspapers printed for distribution/sale on Sundays).
But, it's rather obvious, that some so called "celebrity" has or had, been photographed wearing them, and that "celeb" had a sufficiently high profile, to be used and upheld by fashion writers/journalists, to be lauded as a "fashion icon" in the press.
Now it so happens, that as a male who spends a lot of time transporting goods around his immediate local area, that I see a lot of people. Also, being a bloke, I realise that I'm genetically programmed to notice the women in the local area as well. Yet I try and be a little objective and not only notice the women, but also how the men/blokes etc appear as well.
Womens fashions change more than mens do, or that's how it seems. Yet it also seems that certain "mens fashions" can also make men look as equally stupid, as some womens fashions make the women look.
It's become clear, that a lot of us have no idea of how we look to others and as a result, make "fashion choices" that are entirely inappropriate, and make us look like idiots/fools to others. That in turn, can make for problems/issues, in how other people react to us.
I've also noticed that you don't need to be dressed in clothes that are of the latest so called fashion, to look good. It would appear that it's more about picking clothes that are suitable to our individual size and shape - something that varies one hell of a lot. The other thing I've noticed, is that we don't necessarily need to "dress our age". I mean, do all women over, say, 50, need wear dresses that make them look like their dress is made from material that might have once been a set of 1970's curtains ? No, of course they don't.
I've concluded that it might be better to teach our kids a little more about understanding what goes with what. Why certain people of certain racial origins and appearances can get away with some styles which would look stupid on people who originate from different cultural/racial backgrounds.
For example, women who have darker coloured skin, can make a piece of clothing that's of a bright pink colour look good/smart, while lighter skinned women can't - it makes them seem like they have a "pig like" quality to their appearance, yet we seem to insist on continuing the social brainwashing of "pink for girls, blue for boys".
It's more about style, than fashion. Yet the so called "Fashion houses" continue to con us, getting fat on the riches of our purses/wallets/bank accounts.....
Me ? I'm just rather lazy with it all. With the exception of the clothes I've been supplied with by various employers, who want to portray a certain look, while they're paying me to work for them, the contents of my wardrobe are almost entirely variations of black. Not because I want to look like something out of a funeral procession, but it just means that whatever I grab to wear on a given day, if nothing else, it all matches. I never look like an explosion in an artists painting set. It just goes together, by virtue of being similar or the same colour. Any kind of accessories I need, are what then gives me a specific "image". I'm unlucky (which is relative) in being reasonably tall, which, because of the ways that the retailers work their ordering/sales practices, means that I'm often limited in the styles/types of clothes available to me. Or that I have to hunt around a lot to find stuff that fits correctly.
Will we ever change ? Not in the foreseeable future. Our youth have been too well brain washed, and it might take a few more riots in the inner cities for all of the less privileged youth to have got new, over priced, yet fashionable clothes to look good. Instead of making themselves look like some sort of sub-species.........
Saturday 20 August 2011
"Pearls of wisdom" found while stumbling around the net......
An interesting read, that I found while stumbling round the net.
Perhaps "Patriotism" isn't something to be lauded about, but should be considered as some sort of malignant canker that somehow pollutes us all.......
Perhaps "Patriotism" isn't something to be lauded about, but should be considered as some sort of malignant canker that somehow pollutes us all.......
Sunday 14 August 2011
The Recent London (and other places) Riots
This is what I found this morning, when I was stumbling around the net.
It makes, IMO, interesting reading. Prompting various different thoughts about what's been going on.
It reminded me of the attitude, that seems prevelant in society these days, that governments of all flavours, don't only want to spoon feed us with crap, but also to keep us scared.
"Keep us scared" ? I hear you say. Yes. I'll use an odd analogy.
Firearms. Yes, firearms. What was it? a decade or two ago, we had the Michael Ryan case (the link is just a memory refresher). Then there was also the "Dunblane" incident. Now, it's cases like this, that caused knee jerk legislation, which has effectively outlawed/banned all hand guns, as well as just about all firearms (as distinct from shot guns). Yes, there are cases where they're allowed (outside of "officialdom" that is).
So if it was such a necessary thing to do, why is it that gun crime is higher now, than it's ever been ? And that's not just hand gun issues. What about these idiots who seem to think that "gangsta" culture is appropriate. These are, after all, the people who seem to find very little difficulty in locating sources of illegal firearms, of a type which couldn't really be described as hand guns. Yes, I'm alluding to automatic weapons of many types.
Legally held firearms, are available for inspection to the authorities. As is the sanction of having a firearms certificate removed from a holder.
So what difference has the legislation made ? Well, IMO, no fucking difference whatsoever!
We're all supposed to feel safer aren't we, yet the various news outlets are happy to keep throwing stories/articles at us that tell us about how much danger is still "out there".
See where I'm going ? They're keeping us scared.
The hand gun thing was just an analogy, but there's many, many issues where "they" are only too happy to tell us just how much danger we're in. Especially the control freak liberal do gooder types. Hell, they're some of the worst.
Yes, those selfish, greedy, "little Englander" types that are found easily among the ranks of the Tory party, as well as the more extreme right, are to be expected to be like that. As long as they're left to live in their "chocolate box lid" home counties villages and small towns, then the rest of us can just fuck off. But to get what amounts to a similar attitude from the liberal do gooder types, in the guise of "New" Labour, you know, all smiles with shining teeth and that patronising "I know best" attitude of Mr Blair et al, really grates.
I'm not saying for a moment, that any kind of "lefty" thinking is required, because that's just "control freakery" of a different type, that gives the same result. It's just that it seems that the moderate "centerist" view is over looked in the same patronising way, whether it be Blairite types, who want to be your friend etc, or the current underhanded bastards who run the country. Lets face it, they all try and condescend to us, telling us how "they understand". Yet I say bollocks. How can a privately educated, Oxford graduate, who's rich in his own right, tell me that he understands what it's like to be working class, having to work 60 hours plus every week, for what would be a poverty wage (if it wasn't for my partner and her full time job as well)....
Sure, the bastard in the top job at the moment also works long hours etc, but in the surroundings provided for his office/position mean that he's wrapped in cotton wool of the highest, most expensive type.
Yes, I'm also aware that some of the rioters, might have had a bit of a reason to protest/complain about "their lot", but most of them are the product of continued "Americanisation" started by that old bitch Thatcher.
It's these people, our so called "Leaders", who want us scared. That way, we'll carry on buying the products of their companies, as those gimmicks/gadgets make us feel safer. They want us to keep paying for food that's tant amount to eating processed dog shit (lowest cost to produce, with the highest mark up). Hell I'm surprised that they haven't suggested reducing the road speed limit to 5 mph and re-instate the requirement for the bloke with the red flag to walk in front of the cars (ha! they won't do that will they, otherwise all the corporate oligarchs would have to slow down as well.... that's not good for business is it).
Yes, I know that for every action, there's a reaction, but these people who "lead" us, are supposed to either be the brightest of us, or have access to the brightest minds as advisors, to get things right. But they're not are they. They're just being partisan enough to keep their boots on our necks.
I mean, they wouldn't like the EU to prevent employers being able to pay a pittance, unless you sign away your right to a 48 hour working week. Because that, is apparently, the only way to keep business profitable isn't it. Of course, it's got nothing to do with keeping us working longer hours, just so "the leaders" know where we are, so we're not causing any trouble, you know, causing riots in the streets and hampering the efficiency of business to make shitloads of cash at our expense....
No, I don't agree with people tearing the various cities where the rioting has occurred apart, but at the same time, I don't entirely disagree with them either. What was initially a protest about the shooting (by police) of someone who may, or may not have fired on them first is for the courts to establish. It's certainly not for some of the various communities to use it as an excuse to bleat about how hard done by they are, and end up ripping places apart and trying to justify their actions of thuggery, thievery and criminal damage.
Ha! I can almost hear them from here, scuttling around Westminster, trying to work out whether they can just get away with tightening up some existing regulations or whether they need to think up some new ones......
Well I hope that my rant reads as if it's got some point to it and doesn't come across like some meandering tirade from my soap box.....
If it does ? Fuck it, what the hell eh! Just goes to show that while some of use don't care about a lot of stuff, because it seems so irrelevant, we do care about our own position and rights (most of which come from Europe anyway, the control freaks don't want us to have our own bill of rights or formal written constitution do they)...
It makes, IMO, interesting reading. Prompting various different thoughts about what's been going on.
It reminded me of the attitude, that seems prevelant in society these days, that governments of all flavours, don't only want to spoon feed us with crap, but also to keep us scared.
"Keep us scared" ? I hear you say. Yes. I'll use an odd analogy.
Firearms. Yes, firearms. What was it? a decade or two ago, we had the Michael Ryan case (the link is just a memory refresher). Then there was also the "Dunblane" incident. Now, it's cases like this, that caused knee jerk legislation, which has effectively outlawed/banned all hand guns, as well as just about all firearms (as distinct from shot guns). Yes, there are cases where they're allowed (outside of "officialdom" that is).
So if it was such a necessary thing to do, why is it that gun crime is higher now, than it's ever been ? And that's not just hand gun issues. What about these idiots who seem to think that "gangsta" culture is appropriate. These are, after all, the people who seem to find very little difficulty in locating sources of illegal firearms, of a type which couldn't really be described as hand guns. Yes, I'm alluding to automatic weapons of many types.
Legally held firearms, are available for inspection to the authorities. As is the sanction of having a firearms certificate removed from a holder.
So what difference has the legislation made ? Well, IMO, no fucking difference whatsoever!
We're all supposed to feel safer aren't we, yet the various news outlets are happy to keep throwing stories/articles at us that tell us about how much danger is still "out there".
See where I'm going ? They're keeping us scared.
The hand gun thing was just an analogy, but there's many, many issues where "they" are only too happy to tell us just how much danger we're in. Especially the control freak liberal do gooder types. Hell, they're some of the worst.
Yes, those selfish, greedy, "little Englander" types that are found easily among the ranks of the Tory party, as well as the more extreme right, are to be expected to be like that. As long as they're left to live in their "chocolate box lid" home counties villages and small towns, then the rest of us can just fuck off. But to get what amounts to a similar attitude from the liberal do gooder types, in the guise of "New" Labour, you know, all smiles with shining teeth and that patronising "I know best" attitude of Mr Blair et al, really grates.
I'm not saying for a moment, that any kind of "lefty" thinking is required, because that's just "control freakery" of a different type, that gives the same result. It's just that it seems that the moderate "centerist" view is over looked in the same patronising way, whether it be Blairite types, who want to be your friend etc, or the current underhanded bastards who run the country. Lets face it, they all try and condescend to us, telling us how "they understand". Yet I say bollocks. How can a privately educated, Oxford graduate, who's rich in his own right, tell me that he understands what it's like to be working class, having to work 60 hours plus every week, for what would be a poverty wage (if it wasn't for my partner and her full time job as well)....
Sure, the bastard in the top job at the moment also works long hours etc, but in the surroundings provided for his office/position mean that he's wrapped in cotton wool of the highest, most expensive type.
Yes, I'm also aware that some of the rioters, might have had a bit of a reason to protest/complain about "their lot", but most of them are the product of continued "Americanisation" started by that old bitch Thatcher.
It's these people, our so called "Leaders", who want us scared. That way, we'll carry on buying the products of their companies, as those gimmicks/gadgets make us feel safer. They want us to keep paying for food that's tant amount to eating processed dog shit (lowest cost to produce, with the highest mark up). Hell I'm surprised that they haven't suggested reducing the road speed limit to 5 mph and re-instate the requirement for the bloke with the red flag to walk in front of the cars (ha! they won't do that will they, otherwise all the corporate oligarchs would have to slow down as well.... that's not good for business is it).
Yes, I know that for every action, there's a reaction, but these people who "lead" us, are supposed to either be the brightest of us, or have access to the brightest minds as advisors, to get things right. But they're not are they. They're just being partisan enough to keep their boots on our necks.
I mean, they wouldn't like the EU to prevent employers being able to pay a pittance, unless you sign away your right to a 48 hour working week. Because that, is apparently, the only way to keep business profitable isn't it. Of course, it's got nothing to do with keeping us working longer hours, just so "the leaders" know where we are, so we're not causing any trouble, you know, causing riots in the streets and hampering the efficiency of business to make shitloads of cash at our expense....
No, I don't agree with people tearing the various cities where the rioting has occurred apart, but at the same time, I don't entirely disagree with them either. What was initially a protest about the shooting (by police) of someone who may, or may not have fired on them first is for the courts to establish. It's certainly not for some of the various communities to use it as an excuse to bleat about how hard done by they are, and end up ripping places apart and trying to justify their actions of thuggery, thievery and criminal damage.
Ha! I can almost hear them from here, scuttling around Westminster, trying to work out whether they can just get away with tightening up some existing regulations or whether they need to think up some new ones......
Well I hope that my rant reads as if it's got some point to it and doesn't come across like some meandering tirade from my soap box.....
If it does ? Fuck it, what the hell eh! Just goes to show that while some of use don't care about a lot of stuff, because it seems so irrelevant, we do care about our own position and rights (most of which come from Europe anyway, the control freaks don't want us to have our own bill of rights or formal written constitution do they)...
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