EX-FRIENDS

In the 90's I was co-owner of a small but popular Wellington business. We had hundreds of customers and many of them became friends beyond being customers.

After closing the business down I stayed in contact with lots of them online, and because we had a shared interest in cycling and a bunch of other connections, I often tended to underestimate how large the gulf was growing between myself and many of them in terms of our "World Views".

Up until 911 I had never even thought much in these terms, but some of them were turning into what I would later come to call “libtard normies”, and to them I was becoming what they would later call a “conspiracy theorist”.

After 911 this slowly became an ever increasing problem. On the social media platforms that we interacted on, some exchanges became quite heated and unfriendly.

In fact some of these ex-friends became really angry, to the point of becoming abusive. And from time to time even some of the calmer ones said things like "stop saying X or I will unfriend you”. It’s safe to say I didn't stop saying X and they did unfriend me.

I disagree with lots of people about all sorts of things, but I wouldn't usually demand that anyone changed their opinion to match mine online. At least I wouldn’t generally have done that up until convid, but after that epic storm in a teacup, if they were a vaxtard or a masktard, I would relatively politely tell them they were a clueless moron and stop interacting with them.

For me this threatening to unfriend posturing was rare up until 911, but it increased after that massive false flag, and then it started increasing further when I began posting about fake germ theory and the lies of virology during the SARS hoax. Then the number of angry reactions started to grow.

But that was all insignificant compared to the shit storm of the covid hoax. Around 2020 there were all sorts of believers stalking around the internet looking to make ex-friends online, and in real life there were plenty more of them out looking to stir up trouble as well.

Like most people who were aware of what was going on during the big plandemic, I knew that I was outnumbered by a herd of angry mind controlled zombies, so I politely said things like "I have an exemption" whenever I was harassed in public for not wearing a face nappy.

These days I'm well past using “exemption” excuses, so I probably won't be that polite next time around if any believers ask me to submit to the face nappy again.

What got me revisiting all this old negativity again was seeing someone online lamenting the fact that not one of their ex-friends had ever apologized to them for being wrong or even admitted that they were wrong.

At the same time they were also noticing that they had seen many of them posting that it was all water under the bridge and it was time to forgive and move on.

I wonder how long it took the French people to forgave Nazi collaborators after WW2 ended? Had they “moved on” by 1951?

Although I often struggle with it, I do grasp the importance of forgiving and letting go, so I usually try not to be too unpleasant to delusional mind controlled normies, but that is mainly for my own mental health.

No, I don't think I'll ever really forgive them, but as far I know I no longer have any friends who are still full on convid believers. If I do that could be awkward because I regard believers as gullible idiots. So in my eyes they have no real credibility about anything else either.

Sometimes there is discussion of society being divided in two in order to make us easier to control, and that is certainly happening. I guess we could just pretend to have forgiven and moved on, but the convid believers exposed their true colours for everyone to see and that can never really be undone.

When the next wave of psyops start (and many already have) the normies will fall for them hook line and sinker again. Would you buy a car that was blowing smoke and making a clunking noise?

No, people are not all equal, and gullible normies are best avoided. That may not be the best path to be on socially or even psychologically, but it's what I really think.

Apologies here to Louise Hay, I'm not writing this as spiritual guidance, but mainly for anyone else who like me, probably won't be forgiving those clueless convid clowns until hell freezes over.
 

Thanks and best wishes to all my old friends who didn't fall for the last wave of globalist lies and are still friends to this day. Stay strong for the next wave!

WATCHING THE WATCHES

Ever since I was a kid I've always worn Casio Digital watches, and I still do. Now I have a stylish looking purple one that I splashed out NZ$59 for because I'm fairly loaded these days and like to make a statement.

Time for me has always been digital, and to read an analogue clock I have to do a sort of mental conversion to digital in order to really get a sense of what the actual time is.

As well as being digital, the main thing I'm looking for in a watch is simple efficiency. I want a reliable digital watch that’s accurate, comfortable to wear and easy to read. Casio watches tick all those boxes and they are surprisingly cheap as well.

The whole idea of trying to show off how bling you are with ostentatious displays of jewelry like watches has always seemed really fake, try hard, and retarded to me.

I don't think I've ever spent more than NZ$100 on a watch and I've never had any desire to.

But I do follow FI racing and was aware that many of the drivers wear stupidly expensive watches that they are sponsored to show off to their fans.

The sort of prices I was imagining on the F1 grid were around US$20k - about twice the price of a Rolex, so it was a bit of a surprise to find out they go way higher than that.

Lewis Hamilton has the dearest watch of any F1 driver. An unreadable abomination allegedly "worth" US$2.3 million.

Max Verstappen has the cheapest F1 watch at a miserly US$6.6K. He let's his driving do the talking. But holy shit, that is the ugliest watch I've ever seen. I wouldn't pay $20 for that stupid looking thing.

 
If I ever want to look wealthy and bling, I might splash out for a retro Casio. This one would do me. It's a bit pricey at NZ$139 but it has that fully loaded bling look, so if I really wanted to impress, I might consider going that high.

NEW ZEALAND SELECTIONS

 Who are you voting for this year?, I'm sometimes asked.

Just like most countries, here in New Zealand we have a choice of red clowns or blue clowns. 

 I think both cults are appalling, but I slightly prefer National (blue) because when Labour (red) are pretending to be "in power" they shift the whole tone of the country to openly libtard. We are all being played by both sides, but here is a specific example that I've experienced myself online since chump was selected. 

 

The American situation is very similar and I'm no fan of the orange clown, but would rather have him than Kamala. (Yes, I know I've been played there!)

On Facebook, Mossad's #1 social programming platform, and the only social media platform I still use (I have excuses, but I know it's a bad habit) for the whole time bidet was head puppet I had to use four FB accounts because I was constantly being suspended. 

 During the covidhoax (2020-2024) the FB censorship was particularly bad, and if you wanted to post anything that questioned the deep state narratives, you had to misspell key words, blur parts of images, and run multiple accounts to work around the constant 30 day account suspensions.

But in 2025 (essentially since Trump was selected), FB backed right off on censorship. Most people on FB are still expecting the old censorship restrictions, and like sheep avoiding an imaginary electric fence, they have no idea that the power to the fence is no longer turned on.

We can now post all sorts of stuff that would have caused an account suspension in 2024 - vaccinations, eugenics, trannies, jews, globalist pedos - most of this stuff is no longer a problem on FB.

In fact since chump replaced bidet, on FB I've been able to post almost anything I want, with no more suspensions. I even did an experiment last year to prove that - https://sift666.blogspot.com/p/facebook-uncensored.html

 

So despite knowing that it's all a deliberate tactic to divide society, and I'm being played, I do enjoy shredding libtards, and a "conservative" rather than openly "liberal" fake government makes that seem easier. 

I'll actually vote for winnie again this time around even though I don't trust him an inch, for essentially the same reason - libtards hate him!

 

 It's all a circus show...

 

RANDOMS 2026 #14

POLAROID REVIVALISTS

 

Bad Monkey is a really entertaining TV series from 2024 that I've recently been watching.

It's based on a book by Carl Hiaasen, also called Bad Monkey, and it's unusually well done.

That is not something I often say about TV programs, in fact I usually say they are utter crap. But I like Bad Monkey, both the book and the TV series.

In episode 7 there is a Polaroid camera featured. Although I've seen those before, I don't know much about them and have never used one myself. Maybe they were popular in America but not so much in New Zealand?

So I had questions! - When were they popular?, how much did they cost?, and are they now cool again and having a revival in the digital era?

I looked them up online…

Polaroid history from 1948 to modern retro cool

Some main points of interest to me were:

The first black & white Polaroid camera was sold way back in 1948. It was an instant hit.

 

The first colour Polaroid camera, The Land 100, was released in 1963 and it retailed in America for US$149. 

The new ones now are modeled on the ones from the late 70's.

At that point Polaroid cameras were pumping, and they were at peak popularity throughout the 70's & 80's. But their popularity started to decline in the 90's, and although Polaroid did develop an early digital camera, the digital revolution pretty much ended things for Polaroid.

 

"Polaroid Corporation filed for bankruptcy in 2001 its brand and assets were sold off. A successor Polaroid company formed, and the branded assets changed hands multiple times before being sold to Polish billionaire Wiaczesław Smołokowski in 2017" - https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Polaroid_Corporation

In the 60's and 70's Polaroid cameras were expensive in New Zealand, with our weak currency, and heavy import taxes, along with the already relatively expensive prices of the cameras to begin with. 

 

Adjusted for inflation, a Polaroid camera in New Zealand, back in the 70's would have cost the equivalent of around NZ$2000, and then there were the expensive film costs on top of that.

So it's no surprise that they were not very common here, even in the 80's & 90's. But I gather they were once huge in America and are now becoming trendy again.

It turns out that there is currently a POLAROID REVIVALIST movement, and the new retro Polaroid cameras are styled to look like the old 70's ones, but they have been updated to work with blue-tooth and phone apps.

They now sell in New Zealand at around NZ$400 for a high end one. 

 

The big drawback is the cost of the film. In NZ that works out at $2 a shot! For someone like me who regularly knocks off up to 200 photos in one session on my digital camera, in the hope of getting half a dozen good ones, that would be up to $400 a day. No thanks!

But apparently kids love them and drunken party goers think they are wondrous, and there are basic ones selling in NZ from as little as $98.

 

Which is pretty cheap, so I'm guessing the objective here is to get people locked into repeat buying the film.

But there are easy ways to get Polaroid photos without paying $2 a shot. In fact there are dozens of free ways to edit or take digital photos that look like Polaroids! Here are some recommendations for phone apps:

10 Best Apps That Make Pictures Look Like Polaroids

Personally I try my best to avoid using phones, so I want to do this on my Linux PC. Here is a post showing how to turn a digital photo into a Polaroid with GIMP

 Turn a digital photo into Polaroid with GIMP