The truth list

(this may be updated from time to time)

• Your local evening television news is purposely dumbed down to a 7th grade level. You will notice that newscasters never use any “big” words. This is done on purpose because America is that stupid.
• The most popular songs of the world are either about love, dancing, sex, and/or partying. So if you ever wanted to write a hit song, it must be one of those four topics.
• Recycling is a complete waste of time. The cost it takes to do it serves no significant savings and the result does not save the environment at all. If you want to truly do good for the environment, participate in clean-up projects and plant trees (properly).
• Buying all-American products will do nothing but make you go broke. And even if you can afford it, the quality of product is substandard compared to manufacturing processes in other countries, so you pay more for nothing.
• Many people get depressed simply for the reason they don’t get enough sleep.
• If you only consume food and drink products labeled as “diet”, you will get sick over time.
• Anyone who complains there is an overpopulation problem in the United States has obviously never been to Idaho, Wyoming, Maine or Alaska.
• Every generation thinks theirs was the best. The best cars, music, television shows, etc.
• Renting is always cheaper than owning.
• Rent-to-own on the other hand is the worst way to buy anything.
• The way to not pay income taxes is simple. Don’t work.
• Fiscally speaking, driving a motorcycle is the cheapest way to get around – assuming you can drive one year-round where you live.
• Nobody wants to hear the truth, but rather only what they want to hear.
• Anyone who says “I don’t care what other people think about me” is a liar, because if they truly didn’t care they wouldn’t have said that in the first place.
• If you want to improve your life in one simple step, stop watching television.
• Jeans and t-shirts will never go out of style.
• The USA is predominantly white to the tune of over 220 million white people. Black people only account for 37 million (source).
• There is absolutely nothing good about getting old. Ask any old person.
• The people with the best jobs in the world are illegal drug dealers because a) they always have customers, b) they get paid of a lot of money and c) they never have to pay taxes.
• A technology where people get ripped off on a daily basis is with cell phones. People are convinced that spending at least $75 a month for a phone that drops calls, has poor audio quality and a handset that breaks every year is a good deal. News flash: It isn’t.
• A true computer nerd knows what he or she is doing and never BRAGS about it.
• There is absolutely no reason to spend over $500 for a new computer. None. You could list all the reasons in the world why you should spend more but you’d be wrong.
• It is totally worth it to buy a car with as many options in it as possible.
• There is a very thick line between the online world and the real world.
• A mobile home is the only dwelling that decreases in value over time.
• For some strange reason, most people adjust the side mirrors on their cars so that half of the view is of the car and not the road. The proper way to set up a side mirror is to see nothing but road so you can see more traffic behind you (duh!)
• An “old” video gamer is anyone over the age of 21. Sad but true.
• People say that censorship on the internet is wrong and it shouldn’t happen – yet these same people will readily block anyone that pisses them off on their forums, blogs, etc. And no there is no difference.
• If someone decides to block you off their forum or blog, that DOES NOT curtail your “free speech” because that forum/blog is the property of someone else and NOT a government-run place. Also, anyone who types it as “free speach” is a fucking idiot that doesn’t know how to spell a word like speech correctly.
• The worst offenders of blocking/censoring people on the internet are nerd cliques. On any popular forum anywhere on the internet there is the “elite” staff (or so-called staff) that is comprised of anywhere between 5 and 20 people. These 5 to 20 people will only allow people into their little circle if you do nothing but kiss their ass and always agree with them (oh.. God forbid if you actually have an opinion that differs from theirs!)
• Many IT system administrators got their IT training by stealing software via the internet, installing it at home, learning it, then getting a sys-admin job later for $75,000 a year. Several of them never graduated high school.
• The internet does have generations of users, each separated by 3 years. 1st gen = 1992-1995, 2nd gen = 1996-1999, 3rd gen = 2000-2003, 4th gen = 2004-2007, 5th gen = 2008-2011 and so on. The year you first starting using internet dictates what generation you are. I am a 2nd gen (1996). Each generation spawns new types of users. For example, 1st gen: “Nerds and Programmers”, 2nd gen: “Dial-up age”, 3rd gen: “Broadband age”, 4th gen: “Blog age”, 5th gen: “Video age”, What will the 6th gen be? No clue. But it’ll probably suck.
• Those who cannot spell simple words correctly are genuinely stupid people. If you spell tomorrow as tomarrow, weird as wierd and the like – you are stupid. Always remember: You have spell check available at any time. The Firefox browser has it BUILT-IN. Your instant messenger has spell check BUILT-IN. Your word processor has spell check BUILT-IN. YOU HAVE NO EXCUSE. And by the way, the worst case of a misspelled word is grammar as grammer. If you write to someone “Don’t you know proper grammer?”, consider yourself a complete idiot, because you are.
• Anyone who corrects my grammar from the above point is an asshole.
• All children on the internet use the exact same excuses when they get caught doing something they shouldn’t, with the most popular one being “My friend did it.” However that kid forgot to say imaginary friend, because that “friend” doesn’t exist.
• Nobody cares what computer or operating system you use.
• It is cheaper to buy an old car and fix it rather than buy a new car.
• It is cheaper to insure an old car compared to a new one.
• No matter the styling, a station wagon will always be a dorky car. Same goes for the minivan.
• YouTube has the absolute worst internet community that exists. Read comments there and you will be absolutely disgusted at how stupid people can be. Actually, scratch that. Never read comments on YouTube. Ever.
• Any dating web site that states you must take excruciatingly long “personality tests” or “quizzes” only does so for one reason: To show more ads and target you for products in email. It does not increase “compatibility” with anybody. Instead you’re suckered into telling anonymous people you’ll never see (as in the admins of the site and not the users) every single thing about you so you can be blitzed with ads and spam.
• Any email address you list in public will be spammed ruthlessly.
• The best way to create a spam-free email address is to never show it publicly (such as on a web site like this one) and include dots and/or dashes in the address, such as your.address@example.com.
• The #1 thing that makes any woman more horny than anything else is money.
• If you want to feel skinny, hang around people fatter than you are.
• A good looking face counts more than a good looking body.
• There are more women than men in the world.
• The average bra size in America is a 40-inch bust. This is because our women are fat.
• If you want a popular blog, write about at least one popular topic of the moment twice a week. Keep doing this and over time and your blog will get popular by default. Why? Because most people start a blog and give it up after less than six months. Yours will rise in popularity simply by existing and being updated regularly – even if your content sucks.
• If every community in America developed a volunteer home builders group that would build quality homes for people, averaging one home erected or fixed every 30 days, nobody would ever have a mortgage.
• Most couples have absolutely nothing in common; they are only with each other because they are afraid of being alone.
• The only reason why a diamond is the rock of choice for marriage rings on women is due to the fact that the jeweler’s industry tricked everybody into believing it. Where do you think “Diamonds are a girl’s best friend” comes from? In reality, diamonds are worthless rocks.
• The only bastion of purity left in worldwide electronic communications is amateur radio, a.k.a. ham radio. It is the only communications medium left that is completely free and has absolutely no corporate involvement whatsoever. And the only reason for this is because there are laws prohibiting it, otherwise corporations would infiltrate and completely ruin it.
• By and large, the government is only aware of your existence based on solely your social security number. If you elect to live in such a way where everything you do has absolutely no ties to that number whatsoever, you don’t exist as far as the government is concerned. This is not as difficult as it sounds, but it does take some planning.
• As an individual, all banks will treat you as if you’re worthless. As a business, you will get perks you never dreamed you could get before. How to do it? Simple. Register a public business telephone line with your local Telco, then wait for offers to come in the mail (it will happen quickly.) And yes, it’s that easy.
• The grand champions of nickel-and-diming are small towns. This is done in the form of itty bitty taxes that are small enough to escape people’s radar. A one-dollar tax here, a three-dollar tax there, and so on. If you live in a small town and see these, contest them every time, because if the town gets away with it, those little taxes will stay and never go away.
• There can never be complete peace in the world as long as money exists.
• Donating money to charity is worthless. Donating your time to charity on the other hand is priceless.
• The reason people buy bottled water over drinking from the tap is because it tastes different. This is only because it’s chilled on purchase. If you chill your tap water before drinking it, you will get the same “refreshing” taste the bottled water has. In addition, if you let bottled water get warm, it has the same “flat” taste regular non-chilled tap has.
• Talking about personal finances with anybody is and always has been a really, really bad idea. Don’t do it.
• Writing about personal finances on a blog is even worse.
• If you talk or write about anything you bought that cost you more than $10, the people that hear/read what you have to say will instantly become jealous and hate you for it because you have something new and they don’t.
• Your baby, should you have one (or more), is not cute. Never was cute. Never will be cute. Your baby is a loud, annoying, stinky poop-filled projectile ralphing abomination that should be banned like asbestos.
• Children are not funny. Ever.
• Anybody who wears NASCAR hats or shirts is instantly pegged as a redneck – even if you work in NASCAR.
• When you don’t read or watch the news, the world is a happy place.