Thread: My struggle. The ghastly tragedy of North American civic life

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Originally Posted by Cujo

Oh FFS. You had a privileged middle class western upbringing. You should appreciate the fact you sad whiney asshole.
I'll bet as a kid you never went cold or hungry or without shoes or medical or dental care when you need it.
I hate fucking whingers.
Question.
Why did you blow 25k on hookers then sell bitcoin to buy heroin? Why didn't you hang onto the bitcoin? You might not be such a whiney prick today.
Oh and if you say because you needed the money to buy heroin why didn't you save the 25k instead of blowing it on hookers?
Don't blame society, boomers, or timing. You made bad decisions, and they were YOURS to make.
Now shut the fuck up.

Did you watch the first video ? Please do

Originally Posted by Cujo

Oh FFS. You had a privileged middle class western upbringing. You should appreciate the fact you sad whiney asshole.
I'll bet as a kid you never went cold or hungry or without shoes or medical or dental care when you need it.
I hate fucking whingers.
Question.
Why did you blow 25k on hookers then sell bitcoin to buy heroin? Why didn't you hang onto the bitcoin? You might not be such a whiney prick today.
Oh and if you say because you needed the money to buy heroin why didn't you save the 25k instead of blowing it on hookers?
Don't blame society, boomers, or timing. You made bad decisions, and they were YOURS to make.
Now shut the fuck up.

The title of the thread explains all that I've done. I was living at home still when I first went to Thailand. Talk about a spiritual shock. One minute you are in the Patpong night market picking up some cheap goods and cavorting with beautiful women and the next minute you are flown back to jail. The spiritual wasteland that is N. American civic life

Originally Posted by Backspin

I don't think Cujo understood the my struggle "mein kampf" reference

He thought I meant it literally. No Cujo. If you were more cultured, you would have understood it

Cultured like you you mean?

Originally Posted by Backspin

again, dont you live in a bustling part of Asia you plonker ?

nope.

Originally Posted by Backspin

By your reaction , you interpreted it as my whinge. But it was a play on Mien Kampf. Because Hitler goes into what influenced him as a young man and how he tries to digest it. As I do in the post.

And you're whinging about your terrible upbringing in a middle class suburban environment with healthy nutritious meals provided by parents who also provided a secure dwelling, (I'm sure you had your own room in a detached house) and access to medical and dental care as required as well as appropriate clothing and a good education and you're comparing that to some kind of 'struggle'???
You should quit while you're ahead.

That's one mans opinion.
The suburbs give people space. For the kids to play in the yard, to have a shed for your hobby, for fresh air, a place to park your Corvette securely.
You realize he's anti car right.

Originally Posted by Cujo

That's one mans opinion.
The suburbs give people space. For the kids to play in the yard, to have a shed for your hobby, for fresh air, a place to park your Corvette securely.
You realize he's anti car right.

My Corvette was just an attempt at a motorcycle with a roof. Having a motorcycle in north America isn't like having one in Asia. My heart is with motorcycles and anywhere that is scaled for motorcycles.

Originally Posted by Backspin

One minute you are in the Patpong night market picking up some cheap goods and cavorting with beautiful women and the next minute you are flown back to jail.

OK, Backspin - where are you at today?

Originally Posted by bowie

OK, Backspin - where are you at today?

I am perpetually strategic renting suburban Vancouver

^ Do what you have to do to get out. You said your wife is a Flipper, she gives you a way in to the Philippines.

Suburbia in the Americas is a privileged life. It is a cushy existence compared to how people in the Thai or Philippine countryside live. Yet people in Thailand and Philippines have a richer life. Closer to their families and neighbors. Happier.

Originally Posted by misskit

^ Do what you have to do to get out. You said your wife is a Flipper, she gives you a way in to the Philippines.

Suburbia in the Americas is a privileged life. It is a cushy existence compared to how people in the Thai or Philippine countryside live. Yet people in Thailand and Philippines have a richer life. Closer to their families and neighbors. Happier.

Exactly misskit. There is something different about civic life in N.America compared to Asia and even Europe that I couldn't quite locate. Until now.

I have accepted the fact that I won't be able to live there until later in life. Perhaps retirement. But in the meantime , trips are good enough.

Suburbia is comfortable for many.
But it makes my skin crawl.
So sterile and uniform.

Originally Posted by docmartin

Suburbia is comfortable for many.
But it makes my skin crawl.
So sterile and uniform.

What about the country? Could you live in the country. I mean the countryside or however you might describe it.
The bush.

Originally Posted by Cujo

What about the country? Could you live in the country. I mean the countryside or however you might describe it.
The bush.

I live in the (rural) country on 2 Ha (13 rai) which is enough to be looking after.
Friends with farms find it very confining.
Townies that move to small rural blocks feel like they’re on ten thousand acres.
It’s all relative.

Originally Posted by docmartin

Suburbia is comfortable for many.
But it makes my skin crawl.
So sterile and uniform.

That's why they are so easily ridiculed. They are cartoon versions of homes in the country.

There is way too much missing for them to be an acceptable human habitat.

Originally Posted by Backspin

There is way too much missing for them to be an acceptable human habitat.

...^subjective generalization: maybe your suburb was a cultural waste land...mine included a university, a community college, an excellent library system, public schools with strong sports programs...and lots of Jews...

Originally Posted by Buckaroo Banzai

Same here . Quiet suburban bedroom community, with nice homes,nice people who say "Hi" when they pass you in the street while you a jogging in the morning, even if they don't know you, and hold a door open for you at the store. We Have a community college, an adult education center, with any classes in most subjects , hobbies, languages and sports. community swimming pools, tennis courts . Masonic lodge, Nights of Columbus, Elks, Rotary. Our Theater provides professional , and mature involvement venues. Group Kayaking and busicling ,Hiking trails. The sea turtles are laying eggs and my daughter is involved with an environmental group protecting the Eggs until hatching.
Many of the titles at our library is available on Kindle for free, I download one almost every week now that I am retired.
Life is what you make it, and you almost always find what you are looking for.
Anyway. This is Steve wasting away in suburbia.

I am sure those Hi's in the morning as people jogged by was so fulfilling when you were 18 years old and full of piss and vinegar