This Is Why You Are Alive: Fuck you Barbara Someone was wrong on the internet. Someone did a post. In which she was wrong. About how she is responsible for her own safety and society and the community should in no way interfere with people to insure the safety of others. See what I mean? WRONG And that’s when I saw red because I just. I mean, how can someone, like, what the fuck Barbara. Do you grow your own crops? People are fragile things. Very fragile, squishy things. Too much of one thing can kill us while not enough can also do so. Things fall on us and we break. So I have created a list, a list that is by no means exhaustive but a list nonetheless called THIS IS WHY YOU ARE STILL ALIVE: FUCK YOU BARBARA Although her name isn’t Barbara, I just choose it randomly because it’s an older lady name. ANYHOW. You are alive today because hundreds of thousands of people have and are working on keeping you safe every single day. You are alive because humans actually care about shit happening to other humans or at least, don’t want shit happening to them. You are alive not just because of fucking rockstar maverick scientists and quotable heads of state but because thousands of people are working and have worked to keep you safe in small and minor ways. We don’t notice the work unless it stops working, that doesn’t mean it’s not there. That people aren’t there interfering and meddling in people's lives, poking fingers into marriages to say “domestic violence kills, let’s try to stop that”, shoving into workplaces to say “people shouldn’t sacrifice their lives to save someone a few bucks”. From the food you eat, to the roads you drive, to the people you interact with, to the work that you do, to the buildings you live and visit and work in-all of those things can kill you. But they don’t. Unless you take great risks, live in a 3rd world country or some post apocalyptic prepper homestead or have an extreme fucking job or hobby you are alive, not because of you and you being such a goddamn badass, you are alive because of other people taking responsibility for your safety and comfort. In conclusion, fuck you Barbara, you are wrong rationally, scientifically, historically and provably. You are still alive because we have food standards in 1st world countries, unlike developing countries like China where you might end up with melamine in your baby milk formula. Food poisoning kills 420,000 people globally each year but please, keep going on about health regulations that stop rat shit being in your takeaway being too onerous on small business owners because everyone needs to take responsibility for their own choices. There are more than 250 different foodborne diseases but I’m sure you know all about them from growing and processing your own food there. BARABARA http://www.bbc.com/news/10565838 http://www.businessinsider.com/annual-food-poisoning-deaths-2015-12/?r=AU&IR=T Building standards You are still alive because we have building standards, here in Australia we have the National Construction Code which means that investment companies can’t build fucking death traps. They still try, I mean Macquarie Capital and GIC are got pissed as hell at the Queensland government because it refused to give them occupancy permits for their new student unit building in Brisbane. Turns out, it had the same panelling that helped turn buildings into infernos around the world, including the Lacrosse fire at Docklands. Although, side note: if they can stop a fucking wooden necklace from entering the country the should be able to stop illegal building materials from making it in, like there are only two answers as to why you’d be importing cheap but incredibly flammable cladding and the answers are one, having the big fuck off bonfire ever-no marshmallows, you will poison yourself, and two, burning the poor to death. 71 people died in the Grenfell tower, which took less than an hour to burn almost the entire 24 story building because of the fucking cladding and more would have died if not for the Muslims next door staying up late for the first night of ramadan. Booyah Godbotherers, the muslims get to be holier than thou over that because they literally ran into and climbed up a burning tower to help save the poor. BUT OVER ALL BARABARA, you can’t build a building that can kill it’s occupants by burning, poisoning or collapsing on them. AND I LIKE TO THINK THAT THAT IS A GOOD THING. A good thing. http://www.abc.net.au/news/2017-06-19/london-high-rise-building-materials-banned-in-uk-ministers-say/8629106 https://www.thefifthestate.com.au/innovation/building-construction/non-compliant-building-materials-back-in-spotlight-as-occupancy-permits-refused-for-iglu-student-units https://www.theaustralian.com.au/national-affairs/state-politics/fire-alarm-sparks-panic-in-death-trap-lacrosse-tower/news-story/5705aa4da00a07e429e3f789ecde6112 Building Material Standards You are still alive because we generally don’t use fucked up building materials like we did in the past. America lost 17,648 people to asbestos between 2004 and 2010, not lost like Harold Holt, lost like DIED. They are dead. Families mourning-the whole shebang The world health organisation estimates that globally there are 143,000 deaths from lead, mostly in paint. BUT NOT YOU BARABARA, I BET YOUR CABINETS ARE PAINTED IN GREY CASHMERE by BENJAMIN MOORE (also while researching for a paint brands I found an article in Elle Decor called, I shit you not, 24 BEST GREY PAINTS ACCORDING TO TOP INTERIOR DESIGNERS) so congrats Barabara. Your kids are unlikely to be retarded from lead paint unlike the 600,000 new cases annually. GOLD STAR. Oh, wait that’s right, you are personally responsible for keeping yourself safe so I guess that means you also make your own fucking paint. Can’t rely on the community and government now, can we? As a side note: I do use the word retarded which is an ugly word but there is no nice word for partially destroying the brains of healthy children so that they will never live independently, will always require care and will never be able to pick up a book and lose themselves in it because a bunch of people didn’t want to spend the money to get lead free paint or to make money creating cheap paint for those bastards. Retardation is an ugly word, it is an ugly word but it is an ugly situation. You can soften it by saying “intellectual impairment” or whatever the fuck you like but those kids are fucked mate, they’re fucked. And I think softening the situation by using softer words is also fucked. https://www.upi.com/WHO-143000-deaths-per-year-from-lead-poisoning/11551382150700/ https://www.asbestos.com/mesothelioma/australia/ https://www.asbestos.com/mesothelioma/death-rate/ WTF 24 BEST GREY PAINTS ACCORDING TO TOP INTERIOR DESIGNERS https://www.elledecor.com/design-decorate/color/g3233/grey-paints/ The Haber Bosch Process We have enough arable land, Barbara, using traditional farming techniques to support roughly 4 billion people and yet the current global population is 7 ½ billion. You are alive today Barabara because of the Haber–Bosch process. The Germans who invented it (and also some other shit that had one of them a convicted war criminal when it came time to win the Nobel Prize thus proving to be multifaceted indeed and possibly the most German overachiver) call it Bread From Air. In brief, crops need nitrogen to grow and we take the nitrogen out every time we harvest the crops because it’s now in the plants and Haber and Bosch were like fuck, 78% of air is nitrogen WHY DON’T WE JUST EXPLODE THE AIR UNTIL IT GIVES US WHAT WE WANT and thus one of the greatests technological substitutions of all time came about. I’m only partially fucking joking about the exploding the air thing, to make the nitrogen that grows the crops we all love and eat, it takes 1% Of all the enery generated IN THE WORLD. ONE PERCENT. Fuck. I don’t understand the science but I do understand explosions. BOOM. But for those do science it’s meant to take the heat of a pizza oven with the pressure of being two miles under the ocean. That means something to someone. I am not that someone. ANYHOW so Barbara, unless you’re using compost stew and bat poo you’ve carefully harvested your fucking self to grow your own goddamn crops safe from government interference and the tryanny of correct labelling then you are alive today because two german jacks decided to explode air and then a bunch of people distributed it and then a bunch of people decided you couldn’t label shit as shit unless it was the shit on the label. You are still alive today because we have WORKPLACE STANDARDS AND BELIEVE IN OCCUPATIONAL HEALTH AND SAFETY TRAINING 3,414 died in Australia in the 13 years from 2003 to 2016 while working. Which is shithouse but imagine what the numbers would be like if we didn’t have those stupid videos and OH&S training-oh wait, we don’t because we can look at DEVELOPING economies which don’t have our namby pamby fucking laws and see how they treat their surviving workers. In Bangladesh 1,242 recorded deaths in the workplace in two years. TWO YEARS. Fuck. And that’s just what’s recorded because for some fucking reason they regard 89% of workers as working in the “informal sector” (??) which is NOT regulated or recorded. It doesn’t help that a lot of workplaces use expired boilers, which explode and exploding boilers have killed 18 men at a time, I shit you not, 18, and they’re still urging the government to take initiatives to ban “the indiscriminate use of asbestos”, I mean ⅓ of ship-breaking labourers sampled are affected by it so that’s another ticking time of workplace fatalities. And that’s just one job. To quote a tumblr post, because I need people to think I am hip and know the internets, a workplace officer wrote about his training and how he scoffed at rule that toxic material should not be stored where the crew sleeps on ships which just seemed PATENTLY OBVIOUS THAT PEOPLE SHOULDN’T SLEEP WITH TOXIC MATERIAL and his teacher was like “every rule we have was written in blood”. So remember every time you read through OH&S guides that every single one of those rules is because some poor bastard was injured, maimed or killed because that rule wasn’t there. Oh wait, Barabara, I bet you, being responsible for your own safety and in no way believe that rules should be imposed for safety of others just ignore that shit. Good luck with your new stump hands and getting a lung transplant. https://www.safeworkaustralia.gov.au/statistics-and-research/statistics/fatalities/fatality-statistics http://www.dhakatribune.com/bangladesh/2017/12/30/workplace-hazards-bangladesh-killed-1242-workers-2017/ Do you have a man in your life Barbara? A husband or son or brother or father? He might still be alive because of changing ideals of masculinity. This isn’t wishy washy nonsense, here’s a quote from an oil rig worker about watching his work colleague-well you’ll see “The man kicked the handle, and the tension on the pipe released. It caught the man's ankle as it whipped around. "In about three seconds, it spun him around about 80 times," Chreene says. A few feet from the man was a post, and "his head was hitting that post like a rotten tomato." They got 15 minutes to mourn after watching their friend and colleague die, but that was it. "I mean, that hole cost a lot of money," he says. "We got to go to work."” This was at a point that Shell was building the biggest goddamn oil rig of all time and they needed to reduce fatalities and injuries and you know how they did that? By hiring a small, half blind French woman who taught all the managers to cry, that’s right, she got them to open up and show vulnerability in front of their colleagues and do you want to know what the result of that was? AN EIGHTY FOUR PERCENT DROP IN WORKPLACE INJURIES AND DEATHS. Learning how to be vulnerable, ask questions, admit to ignorance saves lives and is also anathema to many traditional forms of masculinity. https://www.npr.org/sections/health-shots/2016/06/17/482203447/invisibilia-how-learning-to-be-vulnerable-can-make-life-safer Friendship Hey Barbara, do you have friends? As a woman, I’m pretty much betting that you do even though chances are they’re more like a black hearted coven of bobble headed logically challenged boomers nodding along while you spew ignorant bile about personal responsibility like you aren’t one federal law change or a single bureaucrats spelling mistake away from painful injury or death. You might like to think that you’re so healthy because you eat right, jog and don’t smoke but those prejudiced crones around you are also helping you. Loneliness kills, it’s bad for cardiovascular health, mental health, shortened life spans, higher rates of infections, higher rates of cancer, as well as problems with learning and memory. Basically, being lonely will fuck you up 20 ways to Sunday. Having friends though? They’ll help you hold off dementia longer, improve your mental, and basically do wonders for your body. Also, men are at greater risk of dying of loneliness than women. Because you know, we don’t teach our boys to make and hold onto their friendships. So if you're one of those people who get aggressive about their partner talking to people of the gender they are attracted to, I hope you know that by restricting who someone can and cannot be friends based on jealosy-you're also helping send them to an early grave. GO YOU BABARA https://www.livescience.com/18800-loneliness-health-problems.html https://www.sciencealert.com/widespread-loneliness-is-killing-people-and-we-need-to-start-taking-this-seriously https://www.forbes.com/sites/quora/2017/01/18/loneliness-might-be-a-bigger-health-risk-than-smoking-or-obesity/#503fc79225d1 https://www.bostonglobe.com/magazine/2017/03/09/the-biggest-threat-facing-middle-age-men-isn-smoking-obesity-loneliness/k6saC9FnnHQCUbf5mJ8okL/story.html http://time.com/4682031/how-to-prevent-dementia/ Education
You are still alive because of public education-or at least you are likely to live longer. Part of the problem is if people can’t read they can’t read the instructions for medications, the other part is guesswork as the more education you have the more likely you are to outlive people with less education. Being able to read and write lengthens people's lives (so governments cutting funding to schools can be viewed as governments wishing those kids to die young) and the more education you have the longer you are likely to live (so making attending universities expensive is another way to insure the only old people around to make decisions are snobby buttflaps from wealthy families). AGAIN, an interconnected community is what improves and lengthens lives and acting like you owe nothing to society or the community is beyond bizarre. “Low health literacy was the top predictor of mortality after smoking, also surpassing income and years of education, the study showed. Most of the difference in mortality among people with inadequate literacy was due to higher rates of death from cardiovascular disease. "It's a matter of life or death," said David Baker, M.D., lead author of the study and chief of general internal medicine at the Feinberg School and at Northwestern Memorial Hospital. "The excess number of deaths among people with low literacy was huge. The magnitude of this shocked us." https://www.northwestern.edu/newscenter/stories/2007/07/health.html http://www.ibtimes.com.au/does-education-affect-life-expectancy-1291160
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