Unsurpassed cheapness and RCG course
First of all the answer to the cliff hanger of my last entry; did the Master Hunter manage to pick up and lay the only woman at the gay bar? No he did not apparently she remembered that she had a “boyfriend” after a few hours. Better luck next time!
And so to the title of this entry about unsurpassed cheapness; a friend back home is gathering money for a flower arrangement from Acid Santa’s friends for the funeral. He suggested some flowers which would cost $40 a head which some people found “far too much” I find this attitude disgraceful and an example of unsurpassed cheapness. Since its tradition to bring expensive flowers to a funeral one has to just suck it up and pay instead of disgracing oneself.
From a logical point view I think the entire concept of funerals is useless. Spending a lot of time and money arranging a function that will not make anyone happy, why is that tradition?
When it comes to traditions I have identified a major difference between Sweden and English speaking cultures; the attitude to marriage. In Sweden people usually don’t marry unless there is a reason to do so, I.E. to buy a wife from Asia. My sisters had children with guys and were with them for like ten years without ever getting married. (They still have children but they are both separated from the fathers to the children) The same pattern I see with a lot of people back home that simply does not get married. Of course some people actually do get married but the ones I knew got married in front of their close family in let’s say Thailand and did not spend three months of planning and half their annual salary in order to host the perfect function in order to prove to everyone that they are the perfect couple.
I don’t know why people would do that. I mean I can see two reasonable reasons for doing so.
1. It’s part of the English speaking culture and thus expected from them.
2. They have serious doubts about the relationship and try to convince themselves by convincing others.
For the first reasons I would argue that there is no point in putting all that pressure on oneself just to meet some untold expectations from one’s peers. As reason however it’s a lot better than reason 2 is. As for reason 2 it would be interesting to find out if there is a negative connection between the happiness in a marriage and the relative wealth spent on the marriage (relative wealth as it’s a lot bigger deal for an average worker to spend $20k on a wedding than it would be for a multimillionaire) I think there is and if there is actually research on the subject I would be happy to read it.
As for my own experience there was a Swedish community site for teenagers called Lunarstorm which was similar to MySpace back in the days when it was more appropriate for me to hunt on teenagers. I think in total I slept with like 8 woman from that site which makes it far superior to any site both before and after. 3 of these women had profiles dedicated to prove the point that woman in question had such a great relationship with her boyfriend which she apparently was cheating on. I have also seen loads of more recent examples of people exaggerating how good their relationships are in social media just to see it collapse a house of cards just a short while later. Conclusion: If someone is exaggerating how great their relationship is its most likely going to collapse shortly; No-one who actually believes in their relationship is that desperate in convincing third parties how good it is, they are too busy enjoying it.
Among other events this week I can mention that I went to a RCG course (responsible conduct of gambling) basically a course that allow one to work in a bar that has gambling machines. A paper that might come in handy I reckoned, but only future will tell. Oh well for all those who have been fortunate enough to miss out on this great course this is the summary.
You pay $65 to listen to a boring guy bore you death with the mantra “gambling is baaaad, mmkay?” This nightmare could have been over in five minutes enabling the guy to wash his car or whatever he does for fun. But no it went on for 8 hours! But unlike the equally dreadful RSA course “Alcohol is baaaaad mmkay? “The RCG course does not expect staff to do anything so it’s ten times more useless. So the Learning point from 8 hours of RCG course is: If someone comes up to you and complains about have gambled away all his money: Offer him a brochure with a number he can call to whine about his problems. Also offer him to sign a non-committal ban list to your venue.
// The Master
