Globalization

I missed a political post! These optimisms are the ones that really take out the inner pseudo-honest-politic inside of me! Actually, on this subject I don’t have a solid opinion, I just think it isn’t very good though it is necessary. And why do I feel that it is mostly necessary? I will tell you in the end, as always, and show you the brightest side on this subject.

Firstly I must say that we do have to focus on the McDonalds’ spreading and the fact that it actually destroys local commerce and small town businesses. And this fast food chain is spreading very fast, contaminating the world with its food and chemically delicious fries, intoxicating our children with their obnoxious hamburgers they proudly say that are natural. Who am I to doubt is the question, and the answer is easy; someone who has tried them and felt it! As for the small town businesses, I do have to call upon Pearl Jam when they said “I changed by not changing at all, small town predicts my fate / Perhaps that's what no one wants to see” and say that this is a straw trying to bend the tendency of the rich being richer and the poor being poorer. It is the last redoubt of middle class.

Another issue is that most people do not realize this, but Portugal was really the pioneer of globalization, when about five hundred years ago we started exploring the world, killing Indians, native Brazilians and basically lying to them by saying if they don’t believed in our God they would dye unhappy and would not go to heaven. Also, we had to rape their women, Portuguese girls were already becoming dull and the ones from Brazil had better buttocks. We always liked to explore new things, even in sex.

But now here comes the brightest side of all sides ever sided on globalization, even brighter than Brazilian right sided buttocks: the fact that it allows us to have access to the good things other countries have; and by this I mean the acqua vitae, the water of life, Whiskey! And also the good old strong Vodka from Russia! I rest my case!

So, and the global message for today is... globalize for whiskey!

Traffic lights

This might just sound really stupid and I know it is, still I think I should talk about it. They’re one of those stupid traffic laws that everybody hates. Not like those BUS lanes, one of the best inventions ever, they weren’t made for buses, they were made for people like me. Because no one uses them, leaving it free for me! It’s great! Back to the subject, they say traffic lights were invented to help traffic circulate better, but that’s not true, they were made to annoy us. They always switch to red when we are closing in on them, except sometimes when they have to turn red for another guy and I am lucky enough to see the green! You might talk about a thing called pedestrians or something, those guys that walk right in front of us when we are on a hurry, what’s up with those guys, can’t they just buy a car!? I might seem selfish and egocentric, (and this only shows how transparent I am, which is a good thing, right? No? I guess it is…) but roads were made for cars, not people, or pedestrians or whatever you want to call it

And basically, as always those lighty things have a bright side! As I said we are always in a hurry, and do we really get a chance to look at our surroundings? We do live in a beautiful world, and so, next time you stop at a traffic light; look around, you have time to take notice of the little things, and as they say, it’s the little things that matter!

And the Oscar for today’s message goes to...stopping at traffic lights!

Smokers

Those polluters who only contribute to the intoxication of our planet and our lungs! I know it’s a pleasure, I smoke too, but as an ecological hypocrite, I’m against smoking! You might be calling me mad and stupid, but is true.

Now everyone cares about the environment, but what do we actually do about it? Nothing, I say. We all say that cars should pollute less but we expect the manufacturers to create better cars, instead of avoiding the sometimes useless use of our cars. I speak for myself, and I might say for most of you, because we could take a public transport for work, we could buy ourselves a Hybrid car, but no, we have to take our brand new Turbo Diesel Common Rail XPTO car that pollutes more in one mile than a whole packet of cigarettes!Back to smoking, it’s just bad for everyone’s health, though active smokers’ lungs are kind enough to filter most part of the smoke, passive smokers also get it in their face. As a non-addicted smoker I try to respect everyone around me and avoid intoxicating them, in restaurants, stadiums, small closed spaces, near children and all that stuff.

But we smokers have a good thing, I like to call it our bright smoked side, which is that when we smoke we are contributing a huge amount of taxes to our country, we are being patriotic, we are doing a great benefit to everyone.
And, therefore the message for today is... Smoke for your country!