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5 Complaints About Modern Life That Are Statistically BS
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02-03-2011, 11:10 AM | #2 |
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02-03-2011, 11:12 AM | #3 |
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I actually like this article. I need to show it to my dad. I've tried to argue these things for a while, but I never could dig up any evidence (or pseudo-evidence) to support my claims.
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02-03-2011, 11:16 AM | #4 |
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some things are a bit skewed though.
Yes, things may not be more expensive today comparatively, but the average person has a LOT more stuff. In the 50s, a man might have 3 or 4 suits and some casual clothes, but todays man on average has a lot more wardrobe I'd imagine. Same with household items...in the 50s a household may have had 1 tv if they were fortunate, now most have several. No household appliances beyond a stove and refrigerator....no vacuum/blender/food processor/quesadilla maker. It is that perceived need to keep up with modern amenities that makes modern life seem more expensive. |
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02-03-2011, 11:18 AM | #5 |
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A lot of that is bullshit, loochy.
Your average steak has six times the amount of saturated fat in it now as opposed to the past because of the way our modern production techniques (corporate farming) raise the cows on a diet of corn rather than natural grasses. That's not to mention the antibiotics they put in those cows in order to prevent disease spread and acidosis, which also contributes to resistant bacteria.
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02-03-2011, 11:19 AM | #6 |
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Nickelback sucks. They do.
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02-03-2011, 11:22 AM | #7 |
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The biggest problem with current music, IMO, is that it takes no talent to produce anything. You can go into the studio, sing a song once, run it through autotune, and all of your voice problems will be fixed. From there you can lip sync all of your "live" appearances, and as a result, a lot of the "popular" musical acts are people who can neither play an instrument nor sing.
It's not a coincidence that almost all of the top female solo acts are hot. In the past, you actually had to have a modicum of talent. Now, if you look good, everything else relating to the production of music can be fixed.
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02-03-2011, 11:24 AM | #8 |
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Interesting article.
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02-03-2011, 01:32 PM | #9 |
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Interesting point about the TVs. Even from a few years ago, the prices have dropped dramatically. I paid $1,000 for a 32" tube TV in 1997. I paid $500 for a 42" HDTV about a month ago.
And of course the food thing always cracks me up. All you hear about is how we just can't survive unless we get our daily allowance of this, that and the other thing, and how too much of this, that or the other thing will ****ing kill us. I wonder what a guy stuck in the middle of the ocean on a 17th century sailing vessel, drinking piss and eating shoe leather because the brackish fresh water and rancid salt pork had run out, would have given for a Happy Meal and extra large Coke? |
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02-03-2011, 01:39 PM | #10 |
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Yeah, go ahead and try to tell me times were better:
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Those weren't even the GOOD games.
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THAT MUCH? OMG I wnat to snabbs teh......wait. 24 pts? With computers and cell phones and instant-innerwebs and everything else we've improved.........24 pts in 100 years? THAT IS ****ING FAIL!1!!!!!
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I somehow suspect that common sense has seen double digit drops.
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02-03-2011, 01:57 PM | #14 |
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Can you imagine paying $63.99 for any of those pieces of trash? Back then you did have Super Tecmo Bowl, Final Fantasy 3, and Sim City 3 which were all pretty fantastic on the SNES. In some ways better than the products we have to replace them today, relatively speaking of course.
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02-03-2011, 01:57 PM | #15 |
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Moore's Law.
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