This article is best accompanied with the animated gif featured
here (I originally found it
here).
Man, you can have some serious Thoughts staring at this machine.
In a few ways it’s like:
What a cool and interesting idea. I wonder if the person who built this has a good-looking partner?
But in other ways it’s like:
An old lady works all week in a crappy cafeteria only to spend her pay on lunchbox-sized packs of Holidays and playing Aztec Dreaming at the Leagues Club. They made the gaming area “semi-enclosed” to afford members and their guests the opportunity to drink, smoke and gamble their dollars all at once. She is wearing a lavender tracksuit. It has a stain.
For all that work she’s broke, sick, addicted and needs to go back to work on Monday, just to make it all happen again.
Granted, I haven’t mentioned the heart-warming bits – like when a family down the road once invited her to dinner. I guess my point is that the thought of things happening, only to be neutralised by an equal counterforce isn’t always cute and bloggy.
Regardless of aspirations, a person basically only gets out of bed to expend all his or her accrued energy doing thing like online browsing and incidental exercise. 16 hours later, with the crap tired out of them, they return to bed only to repeat the process. Skin it anyway you like, at best they break even.
Just saying. But let’s not try and pretend that for every action there isn’t an equal reaction. Push something enough – it falls. Don’t pay a bill – you get cut off. Someone says “y’all” in an Australian accent – an honest man wakes with a cricked neck.
I know things are more complicated, but sometimes they aren’t. Sometimes ‘linguistics’ is just what happens when Weezy rhymes ‘purple’ with ‘purple.’ Ya know?