Venting.... lazy idiots

Laziferous wrote:
See... this is why I prefer animals over people

Now there's a sentiment with which I wholeheartedly agree. I'll take animals over people any day. Well, I'll keep the wife.. but the rest can be animals. Oh, and other photographers are okay too.. but other than THOSE! :P

Watch the Crying Indian Commercial


January 4, 1999
Web posted at: 8:52 p.m. EST (0152 GMT)
LOS ANGELES (AP) -- Iron Eyes Cody, the "Crying Indian" whose tearful face in 1970s television commercials became a powerful symbol of the anti-littering campaign, died Monday. He was in his 80s or early 90s.

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Wow....

Thanks for that info Moses...

"Iron Eyes"... how perfect ...

It Mentions the old "wild west" shows,. and his Family had adopted the name "Cody".. I wonder if his Father worked In "Buffalo Bill" Cody's Wild West show? There was also Colonel Samuel Cody,. who worked with Buffalo Bill before taking up flying and designing kites...

I too am rather irritated buy yobs as they are known over here (or hoodlems on the other side of the Atlantic Ocean). I have many times wanted to check out the insides of the churches here as a lot of them are from the medieval time and some Saxon (Dark Ages, 300-900AD approx) ones are still about. One comes to mind, in Brixworth in Northamptonshire (NHants) that is Saxon dating to 680AD. Just to put this in perspective, it was standing for a few years short of 1100 years when the US declared indpendence from England, 4th July 1776. I went up to go check it out as I have been intrigued by Romanesque, Norman, and Gothic architecture and was wondering what Saxon architecture was like. Well it was locked. That was a real bummer! I go by the "Take nothing but pictures, leave nothing but footprints" and that has served me well so far. Another such church in NHants, in Grafton Underwood we had to sign out a key to go inside. Only think I am going to ever do it take pics and be in awe and appreciate it. It truly amazes me that they did this stuff w/o cranes as we know them and suchlike.

And it doesn't even look as cool! 8)

NOT EVEN CLOSE!!!!!

....and the 1969 with it's 472 CI V8 and irresponsible amount of horse power and low end torque will blast down a quarter mile a lot faster! (while getting better milage!)

I was always adamant about buying American until about 1996 when I finally got tired of my American cars falling apart. That's when I went to Toyota Camry and haven't looked back since.

When us Americans start making better cars, and prove it, I will go back to American cars. Until then, I have gone elsewhere for car manufacturers like Germany (BMW), Sweden (Volvo/Saab), Japan (Honda/Toyota) and UK (Lotus). Ok, so that last one I was dreaming, but we all can dream can't we? Although on a smaller scale, anyone that has a Toyota MR2 Mk I essentially has a Lotus...it was a Lotus car till Lotus decided not to go on with it, sold the blueprints to Toyota and Toyota made the MR2. And you wonder why it looks very Lotus like, now you know.

If you want to see messy, visit a third world country...ahem...devel​oping nation. You will never complain about US pollution ever again. 8)

As far as litter is concerned I couldn't agree more, you bring it in you can take it out. I've seen a sign on some trail heads that I think says it all "take only pictures, leave only foot prints" that about sums it up...

I'm sorry to say I think it's only going to get worse. From what I observe littering is a way of saying "I don't give a damn about anybody, and particularly about anybody and any society that's gonna tell me what I should or should not do. Screw you!"

Right or wrong, people are getting fed up with their lives and their environment and actually get off on littering and defacing beautiful things and places to spite others. "If I can't have a beautiful and care-free life, well here, I'll screw yours." A perverse way of striking out or getting back at an obscure something they can't grasp or confront. Destructiveness and self destructiveness at the same time. If you take the risk of showing a litterer the way to a trashcan, you might get punched, cut or shot for your trouble, or at least a dirty look.

The other thing is that society's values are changing. Beauty is only valuable in terms of what you can get for it. The only things that are valuable are those that can be turned into money, fame or status. What costs money is valuable and respected. Anything that is free might be nice, but not valuable, nor worthy of respect. Nature is free.

I don't think there is anything conscious or deliberate about what is happening to people and their respect for nature, themselves and others. They are just drifting more and more that way without any particular interest or hope of change for the better. Nobody litters or destroys what they love or care for, so it must mean they are beyond loving and caring. Guilt, blame and condemnation will only harden people. Things will only change when people wake up and realize that littering, defacing, exploiting and destroying their environment is destroying themselves, directly and definitely.

I don't know where things are going or what its going to take, but something has gotta change. In the meantime, I can only watch me and change what I do.