NOT SAFE FOR AMERICANS (NSFA)

The internet is being made safer for Americans.

This is long overdue as many Americans have been offended. Sites like Fakebook and Youtub are now leading the move to protect Americans from gratuitous offense danger (GOD).

Here are some offensive things that qualify as NSFA:

Use of taboo words that should not be spoken

There are certain words that no American should ever have to see, let alone hear uttered. These include:

The “N” word (NIGGER), the “C” word (CUNT), the “F” word (FRIES), the “P” word (PADS), and the “Z” word (ZEBRA)

Questioning of sacred cows

Long held icons of American culture are beyond question. Pointing out that any of these may not hold up well to background checking, would certainly qualify a post as NSFA.

These might include Microsoft, Atomic Bombs, Dunkin Donuts, Alex Jones, The Moon Landing, McDonalds, Bill Cosby, Google, and Mickey Mouse for example.

Discussion of American statistics that don’t look very good.

Especially anything to do with health. Or money. Or crime. Or war. That sort of thing is just inappropriate. And NSFA.

Statistics such as: 66 percent of all Americans are considered to be overweight, the U.S. has never gone a decade without war, Americans watch 4 hours and 42 minutes of television PER DAY on average, doctors in the United States write more than 250 million prescriptions for antidepressants each year, and the United States has the most laws of any country.

Exposing mainstream propaganda

Some subjects can be argued about until the sacred cows come home, but there is always someone still left who hasn’t grasped that they haven’t got a leg to stand on, and will keep attacking the official story. The official story is official, so that means it is true. To say otherwise should be NSFA.

Some things that should never be questioned include: 911, vaccinations, global warming, low fat diets, autism, democracy, water fluoridation and anything in Wikipedia.

https://www.frot.co.nz/design/sift/conspiracies/

Being offensive

There are certain subjects that should never be encountered by any civilized American. Like money, religion, politics, or going to the bog (restroom) to take a massive dump. These subjects are cheap, unchristian, and politically incorrect…

BADCOCK GOES APE

This is what I did to one of John Badcock's paintings. John Badcock is a NZ painter whose paintings pull in surprisingly high prices. Here is one of a naked man beating a woman with a stick.

I took a photo of one of his paintings in a gallery and carefully added some Toyota HiAce van reflection to give my photo of his painting some added social context.

And then I let rip with a few filters which seemed to bring out the beating aspect a little more. There is nothing like a good beating!

The things you see in the street…

Are we being traumatised by these images? Well I guess that depends how sensitive we are.

I didn’t make any of this up – really I didn’t – Here is a photo of John Badcock:

 

A FULL PLATE

 The 2025 Tour de France has just kicked off this weekend. I've been following the Tour since the 80's and remember buying this book when I was at school, 40 years ago!

Apart from watching this year's Tour highlights I seem to have about a million other things to do  this month, and this post is just a random collection of images that caught my eye.

This month was also part of an experiment - back in May I had a month off doing any blog posts, and surprisingly my hits actually increased, so I became interested in checking out what effect not posting has on my hit count. I'll fill this month in later, but in the meantime, apart from this post, I will monitor a second month off and see if a pattern emerges. 

 

RANDOMS 2025 #27

OVER US$12k FOR A BLOG POST

 

GET RICH BY BLOGGING!

Back in 2016, in the early days of the blogging platform Steemit – when it still looked like an awesome new blogging platform rather than a massive Ponzi scheme – certain key accounts were flinging money about in an apparent effort to bring in new users.

One of my first posts got a $400 payout. Although the whole thing looked a bit suspect, I didn’t look a gift horse in the mouth – I just went “choice mate, thanks a lot” – https://steemit.com/photography/@sift666/my-obsessive-polaroid-photo-fetish

Next I started learning about crypto currencies, and by early 2017 was hanging out to get started. So I cashed out some of my Steemit earnings and bought Bitcoin. They were only US$1000 back then so US$400 bought 40% of a Bitcoin.

Cryptos went nuts that year, and by the time Bitcoin went up over US$15,000 I was getting sweaty and nervous. I managed to cope with the stress until they hit US$17,000, then I sold the lot and breathed a sigh of relief. They actually peaked for a short time at US $19,000 but $17k was an awesome point to ditch them.

So 40% of a Bitcoin went up from US$400 to US$6800. Convert that into NZ$ and it became NZ$10,300. Next I used that money to buy gold bullion, back when it was $NZ1700 an ounce, so that $10,300 soon went up plenty more.

Later when Bitcoin dropped back from US$19 to US$5, I bought some more Bitcoin  at US$5000, and that worked out well too. I just waited for that nervous sweaty feeling to come back, and then headed back to the the bullion shop – https://www.mygold.co.nz