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Connsumer culture

People who focus on status focus on showing how well they are off. Often this is done by buying things, preferrably shiny new things. They are often trying to get these first or as soon as possible. Let’s call them early adapters. New things hitting the market today are often more flawed because not all flaws can be seen or fixed during development. Thus these early adapters experience these flaws firsthand and complain because they were sold a flawed prodct. The producer can take this feedback to make their product better and thus improve it for everyone. I hate status focused people but at least they are contributing to society by being the final stae in product testing

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Magie

Der Begriff der Magie ist abhängig davon, wie fortgeschritten unser Umfeld ist. Hätte jemand vor 200 Jahren eine LED-Taschenlampe gehabt, würde die Menge und Farbe des Lichtes, dass sie produziert, bisher nur beobachtet bei gelegentlichen Blitzeinschlägen jeden außer den kritischsten der Denker überzeugen, dass in der Hand des Benutzers ein Artefakt übernatürlichen Ursprunges ist. Und welches Übernatürliche werkzeug ist nicht magsich?

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German Summer Gothic

The weather forecast says a heat wave is coming. It’s never been this hot before, you feel like taking off your entire skin. The Thermostat says it’s 23 °C. The basic rules of modesty do not apply anymore. You get as naked as you can possibly afford at all times. Can you wear a bikini top and boxer shorts to university? Your professor does. Flip Flop. Flip Flop. Flip Flop. You turn around to see if someone is following you. No one in sight. You walk a little faster. Flip Flop. Flip Flop. They’re almost here. You sit next to a stranger on the bus. Your thighs are touching. When you try to get up for your stop, you cannot move. The stranger is staring out of the window, but you can’t see their face in the reflection. Your upper legs have fused together and it will only be a matter of time before one of you consumes the other. It’s 36° and it’s getting heißer. Life doesn’t feel hard at all. It’s getting heißer and heißer. You try to turn off the radio, but as soon as you turn your back to it, it’s 36° again and it’s getting heißer. The Klimaanlage in the Deutsche Bahn is broken. It’s always been broken. You’ve heard people say there is a single car where it works, but it’s never the one you’re in. The doors of the Tram open and 50 hungry lungs breathe in in unison. You don’t hear anything but the rattling over the Weichen until the next stop. You didn’t know you could hold your breath this long. You come home to find all of your shoes have been replaced with Flip Flops. Even the Sandalen you put on your own feet this morning have transformed while you were out, it seems. Or did you put them on? You can’t remember. There’s no answers. You wake up to the sun shining in your face. It’s 4 am and your window is on the north side of the house. Mom asks you to mäh the Rasen. You are sure you did it yesterday, but you also feel your nostrils longing for the smell of frischgeschnittnem Gras. How long has it been since you’ve eaten anything? The Flutschfinger at the Kiosk is 4,50€ now.

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lets just all die

i don’t mean suicide here, rather the wholesome and awesome act of perishing while doing what you love or out of the blue and being like “damn this is my time now? didnt expect that but ok if you insist...” or just because you tell cancer to go fuck itself or while being surrounded by ppl u love on a comfy bed after your skin has gotten more wrinkles than the pillow you lied down on for one last time and then just going to straight up oblivion or heaven or nirvana or whatever u want idk dying is just fucking badass

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Examples of Bad Design Intended to Trap Unsuspecting Users

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Real life Simpsons intro

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Cute music terms to name your children:

Viola

Harmony

Melody

Cadence

Carol

Hymn

Celeste

Clef

Agitato

Oboe Player

F Sharp

♮

Barbaro

Plagal

Smorzando

ii♭ 6-4

Canon in inversion and augmentation

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Remember when that cop pepper-sprayed students in 2011? UC Davis paid $175K to scrub it from the internet’s memory https://t.co/5prbgrx1WL

— Xeni (@xeni) April 14, 2016

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Terry Crews coming in with some wisdom

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Mutti watch your Dialekt

Seit und mit Luther hat der Osten sein Mitspracherecht in Sachen deutsche Aussprache für immer verwirkt

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Halloween is only several weeks away. You know what that means! PLEDGE YOUR ALLEGIANCE TO THE SKELETON WAR. OR ELSE SKELETONS WILL BLAME US IF THEY LOSE AND PUT BONES IN ALL OF OUR SOUP. IT’S AWFUL.

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Wait a second, am I tripping balls?

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does anyone want to join my midnight shovel club?  we walk around the streets at midnight with shovels

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Only islands smaller than Australia.

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“You don’t need fashion designers when you are young. Have faith in your own bad taste. Buy the cheapest thing in your local thrift shop - the clothes that are freshly out of style with even the hippest people a few years older than you. Get on the fashion nerves of your peers, not your parents - that is the key to fashion leadership. Ill-fitting is always stylish. But be more creative - wear your clothes inside out, backward, upside down. Throw bleach in a load of colored laundry. Follow the exact opposite of the dry cleaning instructions inside the clothes that cost the most in your thrift shop. Don’t wear jewelry - stick Band-Aids on your wrists or make a necklace out of them. Wear Scotch tape on the side of your face like a bad face-lift attempt. Mismatch your shoes. Best yet, do as Mink Stole used to do: go to the thrift store the day after Halloween, when the children’s trick-or-treat costumes are on sale, buy one, and wear it as your uniform of defiance.”

— John Waters, Role Models

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lily pad kitty