Expecting the Worst, Never Disappoints Part II - Comments

@ lion eyes
No no I mean more in that... like whenever someone says "am I the only one that thinks that..." they are never the only ones. I think that of course one person with one unique opinion will not be heard no matter how loud they scream but that if people share a similar thought, they should share it out loud as this is the only way to be heard. I think that the things I was talking about are not just my own thoughts. I think many people share my views and that many others would if they were better educated on the matter. One voice is certainly enough to make a difference as it gets other people thinking "hey, I feel the same way", and they join in to make that opinion heard.

I'm not entirely about change. If people want to stuff their pillows with down feathers then go right ahead. But I wish people were educated on the process so they were aware of how those feathers got to them. I don't believe that ignorance should ever be bliss.

Just to be a smartarse I'll say that I haven't been to the zoo in years and hold no further interest unless I know that zoo is legit doing a good thing for all those animals, I've never been to seaworld/a circus with animals/anything that uses animals for entertainment including the races, I try my absolute hardest to find shoes made with synthetic materials, I refuse to sleep on feathers and don't buy them for fashion, I get my eggs from my backyard free range spoilt rotten chickens whom I love to pieces and buy most of my clothing second hand. XD But I would never condemn someone that didn't bother because it's not my life, it's theirs :)

I disagree because it was through watching documentaries on chickens that I found out about what really goes on and that doco that was put forward by one individual's idea and their lifestyle changed the way I live in that I now own 2 very happy chooks who will now never become cat food and don't eat chicken (mostly because it weirds me out after picking them up and feeling them haha). You can't tell others what to believe in, I agree, but you can educate them. That's all I'd hope for. I think with education and truth comes human compassion and a strive for what is the "right" way of doing things, whatever it may be.

Anyway, I feel like it won't matter in 20 years time when the world can no longer support the human population and all these horrible problems start sprouting up, forcing people to change whether they like it or not.

To bring it back to the little kiddies in band tees: maybe if they actually knew they were wearing band tees, looked up the music and disliked it, they would no longer wear them haha.

@ Join the Masquerade
You are contradicting yourself on that one, miss :) you say that one voice should be enough to make a difference but in the same sentence you say that enough voices should be saying the same thing?

Honestly, if you want to see a change in the world then start by changing yourself? Can you honestly say that you've never been to the zoo? That you've never been to some type of seaworld? That you never wear leather? That you don't have feather in your pillow? That the eggs you eat are biological? That you never enter these stores that sell cheap clothes?
The point I'm trying to make is that you can only change yourself? You can't tell others what to believe in or how to see things. Each to their own.

You can try to live up to that idea of the perfect world, but it'd be impossible to live happily with that thought in the back of your head. You can't change others if they aren't willing to change. You can't open people's eyes to the truth if they don't wanna see it.

Now we've completely gone off subject: what it was all about is little kids promoting music they don't even know by consuming random, cheap T-shirts at H&M :)

@ lion eyes
I know. Like I can't believe people can think "the shirts from this store are always a bargain!" and not realise why.

No I haven't :( But I mean, it feels obvious. Knowing how things in the world work and knowing greed, it's not exactly hard to imagine. I don't like it.

I'm a bit of a believer in that one voice can make a difference if enough voices are speaking the same thing. I have to be. I simply can't accept the world as it is and imagine that it will never ever change. That's not a world I'm interested in being a part of :S

@ Join the Masquerade
Oh believe me, I'm well aware of these practices... I don't support any of them either. But people don't know these things, and sure when the media informs them they're all shocked and beg for a change... it's already sad that the media has to show people what's going on for them to realise something's wrong?

I'm not sure if you know the documentary about Tillikum the killer whale, it's called Blackfish, and it shows how terrible killer whales are being treated at sea world... it's the exact same thing:all of a sudden people are realising that such large animals don't belong in a basin and shouldn't be taught tricks.

Why does the media have to put these things on a silver platter before people start seeing the truth? If you start discussions about animal cruelty and all that, you can go on for days... what it most likely always comes down to is the fact that this is how our society works...how our economy works... and people are far too afraid of changes.

You can't change the world, just yourself ;)

@ lion eyes
I know. I realise this, but I feel with more insight into these horrid practices by industries, people would change to alternatives and these practices would change. Like for example, caged eggs are being fazed out. Slowly. But there is a definite increase in demand for cage-free, free range eggs because people have been informed by media of exactly what kind of life a caged bird has :(

I only recently informed myself of how they get down feathers and I suspect any feathers for stuffing pillows, etc., and for fashion. I thought they killed the birds and made use of them in their entirety as to not waste a life so badly. But no. They rip the down feathers from these poor LIVE birds, tearing their skin in the process, then stitch them back up with no anaesthetic and leave them to regrow their feathers for round 2. I only bring this up because it was the Melbourne Cup in Australia today and there were many women wearing fascinators with feathers. I feel like if any rational human being knew this is how down feathers were farmed, they'd fill their pillows with something else.

@ Join the Masquerade
I can definitely follow your views on that. There's many terrible things in every industry that people prefer to ignore. You can't really change that? It's not just in fashion, it is in everything we do. It is what our economy survives on...

@ lion eyes
I know and I share that same viewpoint in that, as a music lover, it pisses me off to see someone in a Misfits skull print t-shirt with no idea it's a band logo, not a fashion label/design. I don't mean that it doesn't annoy me at all. I mean that other things the fashion industry does serve to piss me off a lot more.

I just feel there are even more reasons to be annoyed. Like the reason behind just how shirts from stores like that are so cheap. Where they get their "original" designs from. What their clothing is made from. I feel these things are something to add to how fashion can affect people negatively.

@ Join the Masquerade
It is definitely possible to like both Guns N' Roses and One Direction, there's a lot of people like that - I am, happy to admit, one of them.

But I think what this blog is about is the fact that stores like H&M, Forever 21 and Urban Outfitters are turning certain artists into nothing more than another stupid print on another cheap ass T-shirt.

And that for the small amount of people that DO still know something about the artist printed on the cheap shirt there are TONS wearing it to be 'cool' or 'hipster' or whatever it might be :) you can't even deny that.

It is entirely possible for someone to like both One Direction and Guns N' Roses.

Either way, I don't tend to get too annoyed when I see young girls wearing Ramones and Misfits shirts because they look "cool" because people go around wearing the skins of dead cows and that's "cool" too. Fashion is all entirely bullshit.