Some cool Calling Card images:
time over toys [aka - freedom of choice]
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freedom of choice [aka - time over toys]
i like reversals!
here’s one that could ruffle some plumage on a quiet sunday evening!
firstly, the caveat:
i am well aware, on a very personal level, that an individuals freedom of choice can be drastically curtailed by circumstances that are absolutely beyond their control.
i am also aware that there are huge numbers of people around the globe who bust their chops and work their asses off to support families on a tight or limited budget.
these are not the issues i wish to address.
onward.
you will be familiar with the [almost universal!] song:
i just have no time! i don’t even get any time to think! i have to work so many hours! we bought this big house [well tooo big really!] on a 99% mortgage that has to be paid! we bought those three cars on the drive using finance deals! we have personal debts to service from borrowing so much money! we have those maxed out storecards to pay for! we have our credit card bills to pay! i just have no time. life is so hectic i can’t think straight! i don’t get to see the children enough! i just have no time!
shut your mouth.
and stop fucking complaining.
because……….
here’s the deal [1]:
nobody put a gun to your head and forced you to get a mortgage that would cripple you financially if the interest rates shifted a quarter of a percent.
nobody put a gun to your head and forced you and your partner to shuck out three children.
nobody put a gun to your head and forced you to borrow all that money and run up that big fat personal debt you can hardly service.
nobody put a gun to your head and forced you to buy those two or more cars on finance.
nobody put a gun to your head and forced you to have a flat panel tv in every room, including the fucking kitchen.
nobody put a gun to your head and forced you to go abroad on that expensive holiday, add that to one of the loans by any chance?
nobody put a gun to your head and forced you to get that ten grand kitchen ‘makeover’ when there was fuck all wrong with the previous kitchen [except of course it was not 'now', it was so 'last season']
nobody put a gun to your head and forced you to work a 65 hour week to pay for the above!
nobody put a gun to your head and forced you to make a single one of the decisions which have since resulted in you having ‘no time’.
you.
you made those choices.
you, reading these words this very minute. you made all those decisions.
here’s the deal [2]
‘you’ have a little thing called ‘freedom of choice’. if you had excersised it in a different way, you would have plenty of time.
or was……
the peer pressure just getting too much for you?
that little demon envy getting the better of you?
greed chewing and gnawing away in your gut?
did you want to……
show your peers around that ‘oh so expensive’ new kitchen and bathroom?
park those shiny new 4 by 4′s right where the neighbours could see them?
raise a glass with ‘friends’ in that spacious credit financed conservatory?
you understand the principle of slavery?
you should.
because…..
you are a slave.
a fact.
and that big consumerist/peer pressure hook is buried so deep in your lip you think it’s just a natural part of being alive.
you probably think that you were born with it.
you talk about time, and the lack of it.
you moan, whine, whinny and squeal about your lack of time.
here’s the deal [3]
‘if you want more time make do with less.’
end of transmission.
the|G|™
Birthday
Image by lLikePi
I’ve had quite a good birthday so far; At least 100 students at school said/sang happy birthday to me, I got a card in my math class, I did well on a math quiz and a booklegger English presentation, got from a friend (he had it lying around in his pocket :p), got free candy from two teachers, and probably some other stuff I forgot about. I also got Lotso’s Dump Truck, 30040 Octopus, and from my favorite aunt and uncle earlier in the week, as well as having dinner at a restaurant called Red Lobster on Sunday. I’m also going to have a birthday party on Saturday! I’m also waiting for the collectible minifigs to be released so I can get all sixteen. 
