Saturday, June 23, 2007
Disclaimers
This will probably be a very short post but,here goes.
If you have to have a disclaimer for your product, your product is crap! How many hours a day to we have to waste listening to the disclaimers at the end of commercials? "Tax, tags and title extra!" "Some side-effects may include nausea, diarrhea, vomiting and death!" "If you experience an erection lasting more than 4 hours, call your doctor! (only if my doctor is really hot!) If your disclaimer has more information than your product ad, you don't need to be selling your crap! Of course, this all relates to our society becoming a massive group of sue-happy, ignorant, babies! "I spilled acid on my face and it burned me! Why didn't they tell me acid would burn me?". "I put my hand in the fire and it hurt! Why didn't it have a warning label?". I guess it all goes back to my basic theory on life. "People are stupid!" If you don't believe me, look around you at any moment in your life and I'll bet you will find someone doing something stupid! If you don't see anyone doing something stupid, guess what......................
Turbo Ghost
If you have to have a disclaimer for your product, your product is crap! How many hours a day to we have to waste listening to the disclaimers at the end of commercials? "Tax, tags and title extra!" "Some side-effects may include nausea, diarrhea, vomiting and death!" "If you experience an erection lasting more than 4 hours, call your doctor! (only if my doctor is really hot!) If your disclaimer has more information than your product ad, you don't need to be selling your crap! Of course, this all relates to our society becoming a massive group of sue-happy, ignorant, babies! "I spilled acid on my face and it burned me! Why didn't they tell me acid would burn me?". "I put my hand in the fire and it hurt! Why didn't it have a warning label?". I guess it all goes back to my basic theory on life. "People are stupid!" If you don't believe me, look around you at any moment in your life and I'll bet you will find someone doing something stupid! If you don't see anyone doing something stupid, guess what......................
Turbo Ghost
No matter how much you owe!
How stupid do car dealers think people are? A better question might be: How stupid are people?
Every car dealership has the same damn add. "We'll pay off your trade no matter how much you owe!". Well, DUH! Sure! They'll pay it off and then you owe them. They get to drain your account for not only the price of the car they sold you but, for the car you GAVE them! They sell your old car for a profit then, STILL have you paying for it! I don't know which is worse, that they pander to our low mentality or that we fall for it!? Anyway, I just wanted to rant for a moment. I'm sure there will be others soon.
Turbo Ghost
Every car dealership has the same damn add. "We'll pay off your trade no matter how much you owe!". Well, DUH! Sure! They'll pay it off and then you owe them. They get to drain your account for not only the price of the car they sold you but, for the car you GAVE them! They sell your old car for a profit then, STILL have you paying for it! I don't know which is worse, that they pander to our low mentality or that we fall for it!? Anyway, I just wanted to rant for a moment. I'm sure there will be others soon.
Turbo Ghost
Joy
Recently, I was driving my rig down the highway when out of the corner of my eye, I noticed a vehicle pacing me. I looked down and there was a pickup-truck with a young boy in a car-seat probably about 1-1/2 to 2 years old and his father who was driving was holding the boy's arm and pumping it up and down in the traditional "please blow your horn" motion. When I hit the air-horns, the boy went into an absolute seizure of joy! His arms and legs were thrashing and he couldn't possibly have grinned any wider! Although, I couldn't hear him I knew he was squealling with delight. It had been a bad day and that moment really helped.
The big question is: What happened to unbridled joy? When did we lose the ability to become overwhelmed with pleasure? Are we so jaded by life tragedies we no longer feel joy or have the individual moments become so commonplace we need more and greater experiences to elicit that pure emotion?
I rarely exhibit emotion. I am a very level, calm person. If I say something is good, that is a pretty high compliment. (I figure if God can create everything in a week and say it's "good", then, it's good enough for me) I do laugh easily at good humor but, not everything results in an out-loud burst.
I've found the only things that appear to bring out the joy in my life deal with power and speed and adventure. When I had my turbo-bike which had over 200HP, there was nothing like the feeling of pinning the throttle at over 130mph (on a closed-course with police supervision of course:) and having the front-end snap skyward! When I had my jet-ski, I spent more time out of the water than in. I loved to pass a large (the larger the better) boat and turn around and accelerate towards their wake and at the right moment, snap the trim up and pin the throttle and aim for the sky! I've been probably over 15 feet in the air on some jumps and loved every minute of it! I don't have any powerful vehicles at the moment but, my motorcycle handles well and I love pushing through the twisties rather quickly. My ultimate wish is to build another turbo-bike and go to Bonneville and attempt to set a record over 200mph in my class. I've driven 165mph before but, I want more.
John Denver spoke of the "Rocky Mountain High". I understand it completely. I love to be in the mountains surrounded by lands the way God made them. It is a feeling of joy yet, oddly calm and serene. I love to sleep in the woods and wake in the early morning when there is a cool fog in the air. I also had the opportunity to camp and ride off-road with an old friend of mine. It was a great weekend filled with both pleasant calmness and exciting thrills. Good times!
All in all though, I have yet to feel like that little boy again. Perhaps when I break 200mph I'll become the child again and they'll have to remove the smile from my face with a pry-bar!
Turbo Ghost
The big question is: What happened to unbridled joy? When did we lose the ability to become overwhelmed with pleasure? Are we so jaded by life tragedies we no longer feel joy or have the individual moments become so commonplace we need more and greater experiences to elicit that pure emotion?
I rarely exhibit emotion. I am a very level, calm person. If I say something is good, that is a pretty high compliment. (I figure if God can create everything in a week and say it's "good", then, it's good enough for me) I do laugh easily at good humor but, not everything results in an out-loud burst.
I've found the only things that appear to bring out the joy in my life deal with power and speed and adventure. When I had my turbo-bike which had over 200HP, there was nothing like the feeling of pinning the throttle at over 130mph (on a closed-course with police supervision of course:) and having the front-end snap skyward! When I had my jet-ski, I spent more time out of the water than in. I loved to pass a large (the larger the better) boat and turn around and accelerate towards their wake and at the right moment, snap the trim up and pin the throttle and aim for the sky! I've been probably over 15 feet in the air on some jumps and loved every minute of it! I don't have any powerful vehicles at the moment but, my motorcycle handles well and I love pushing through the twisties rather quickly. My ultimate wish is to build another turbo-bike and go to Bonneville and attempt to set a record over 200mph in my class. I've driven 165mph before but, I want more.
John Denver spoke of the "Rocky Mountain High". I understand it completely. I love to be in the mountains surrounded by lands the way God made them. It is a feeling of joy yet, oddly calm and serene. I love to sleep in the woods and wake in the early morning when there is a cool fog in the air. I also had the opportunity to camp and ride off-road with an old friend of mine. It was a great weekend filled with both pleasant calmness and exciting thrills. Good times!
All in all though, I have yet to feel like that little boy again. Perhaps when I break 200mph I'll become the child again and they'll have to remove the smile from my face with a pry-bar!
Turbo Ghost
