We got pretty much all of that except the insulation. And the house, obviously.
Still, at least I've got an unimaginably sophisticated pocket computer to occupy my time as I sit shivering on a bare mattress in an airing cupboard that costs £800pcm.
That really was much more accurate than I was expecting. I had no idea Tomorrow's World could actually predict the future. Maybe they stopped making it when they discovered that we have no future.
It constantly amazes me how modern phones are simultaneously complete marvels of technology, and yet so utterly fucking disappointing, at the same time.
Nah, he wasn't, he was the exact kind of pussy his work talks about. Massive projection case. I've noticed the same kinds of people who think Father Ted was "based" tend to read Simalcrum Simcity or whatever the fuck it's called at some point, and after that become convinced the only way to reject the system and be "real" is having a tradwife and 2 kids in the suburbs. They don't ever seem to see the irony in it.
I'm not sure exactly what the trajectory there is but it's sort of a parallel inverse of the awkward nerd > programmer > femboy/furry/tranny thing; where instead of going from a conservative to a radical, being pushed into the bleeding edge of the day's most subversive counter-culture, you go from nonconformist to the ultimate conformist, transforming from a malcontent and rebel into the most desperately boring kind of utter normie.
>>5170 >I've noticed the same kinds of people who think Father Ted was "based" tend to read Simalcrum Simcity or whatever the fuck it's called at some point, and after that become convinced the only way to reject the system and be "real" is having a tradwife and 2 kids in the suburbs.
>>5170 I don't want to defend people who can't use capitalisation but I do enjoy reading primitivist arguments. You should spend less time attacking Ted Kochanski as a person and more time engaging with his fundamental argument being flawed because it calls for closing pandoras box and reverting to an idealised agrarian life that was neither sustainable or really all that good for human dignity.
There's nothing wrong with being techno-questioning, socialisation-pessimistic or anti-postman. Even if you don't really follow it, the position is a useful critique on society and one where a lot of anger can exist under the surface.
>>5170 That's a very odd response to reading S&S, given it's about how media reflects and transforms reality and isn't about "the system" or conformism at all.
