AMERICANLISH

 

While trying to find the correct spelling for the word “usable” (able to be used) I read on an American website that “there are more people using American English than British English” – bollocks I thought, as the word "INDIA" repeated over and over in my mind…

So just how does the use of American English really compare to British English? Here are some rough figures:

People speaking variations of British English

Indian English (125 million)*
United Kingdom English (67 million)
Australian English (26 million)
New Zealand English (5 million)
Irish English (5 million)
Singapore English (2 million)**

Total – 230 million

*India is the most populous country at 1.4 billion people (yes, slightly ahead of China as of 2025) but it’s hard to estimate how many Indians have some degree of English literacy – 125 million is considered conservative.  **Same with Singapore (population 6 million) – estimate 2 million have some degree of English literacy

https://www.worldometers.info/world-population/population-by-country/

 

People speaking variations of American English

US English (335 million – just the US population alone)

If we also include Canadian English (38 million) that increases the lead even further. Damn I always hate admitting Americans are right, but they got me there!

Other large countries I haven’t taken into account here include Malaysia (British English) and the Philippines (American English)

 

And how is usable spelt? – either usable or useable are both correct! (the spell checkers are wrong!)

And now I’ll make up for my anguish by including a few American memes!

 

 

 

IS ANY ART MY OWN?

 This was a question I pondered after reading people discussing plagiarism vs. original art, and I started wondering where the line between original art vs. plagiarism actually lies.

Here are 10 of my pictures, that I’ve given a percentage score on, starting with 100% original and working down to 50% or less. I’d call anything over 50% my own original art, but this is subjective and totally arbitrary. And that is the nature of art!

All these pictures taken from my old Frot blog have been through a similar process of digital editing, including being cropped to a 1×1 ratio, and finishing off with a black frame and my www.frot.co.nz URL. I’d be happy to post any of these pictures anywhere online, but I’m not a commercial artist, and I imagine some of them would cross an imaginary line in the sand for commercial use. But I have no idea where that line would be. I’d say anything above 50% is fully legit, but below that may not be.

1. FREAK DOG TOMATO THING – 100%

For my first picture I’ll go totally safe – this is originally a painting I did with acrylics on canvas. It’s all from the deranged contents of my subconscious, so I’ll call this 100% original.
 

2. STRANGE SCENE IN THE STREET WITH DOG PISSING – 100%

Most of my art is based on drawings I randomly do using pen on paper and then add colours. This is the sort of bizarre stuff I seem to keep drawing, it’s all mine but don’t ask me to explain it’s deeper meanings!

3. GROOVING OUT AT THE SUPERMARKET – 80%

This is not a photo from a nightclub, it’s actually taken in a supermarket. The guy in the photo just happened to be standing in line in front of me. The original photo looks fairly different, and although the subject might be totally oblivious to the fact that he was being photographed, I’d use this image anywhere and would give it an 80% score.

4.BIG BIRD IS LURKING IN THE BUSHES 80%

This is a photo I took of an ornament in a garden. It is just a mass produced garden ornament so I’m not likely to be sued for copyright! I’d say this is pretty safe ground and score it 80%. Not my original sculpture but the photo is all mine, and I’d happily use this image anywhere.

5. GET THAT FUCKING CAMERA OUT OF MY FACE – 70%

Strangers in the street are one of my favourite photo subjects. I regard anything in the public domain as mine to record, but some people disagree. Would all the people I photograph like me using their photos online? Hell no! – in fact the ones that look pissed off are often my favourites. This lady did not look impressed that I was taking her photo. I like this photo but would be a bit careful about where I posted it. So 70% on this one I guess.

6. A COUPLE OF ABORIGINAL GUYS – 60%

This a drawing I did based on part of a photo of two Australian aboriginal guys. But it’s not my photo and I no longer even have a copy of the original. My drawing is a bit different to the photo but probably fairly recognizable. I’d call this my own art but wouldn’t use it for an advertising campaign!. I’ll score this as 60% original because although I’ve changed it a lot, I’d be on shaky ground if anyone asked about the original photo.

7. SNAKE PSYCHEDELIC PARTY – 50%

This drawing was originally done by a friend – I just coloured it in and did some edits – but she was happy for me to do that and liked how my version looked. I’d call it a collaboration, and would ask permission to use it commercially for any purpose. And if it made a bunch of money I’d give her half, so I’ll call it 50%.

8. AN INSECT AT THE WETA WORKSHOP. 50%

I take photos of all sorts of things, and with things like cars and motorbikes I don’t hesitate to call it my own work. But 3D art is trickier. This is a photo of a sculpture I took at the display at the Weta Workshop here in Wellington.   

https://wetaworkshop.com

My edit does look a bit different to the original, but the original was very cool and I make no claim to there being much of my original art here. So it’s my photo but not really my art. And this is based on a photo of a model from a very commercial source. Where is the line?

9. SKULLS GETTING MARRIED ON A WALL – 50%

Street art is another thing I like to take photos of – It’s not my art though, and I have no idea who originally painted it. So although it's based on my photo, taken in the public domain, it is very recognizable and not my original work. I like to edit photos of street art but have no idea if that is considered OK. 

10. WONDER WOMAN GOES QUAD – ?%

I like to do edits of random pictures from the internet, and from my own image collection. Pictures of Wonder Woman are all over the place, and I have no idea where this original photo came from to start with (but I do have a copy of it). Here I have edited it into four different coloured copies, but Andy Warhol used to do that sort of thing a lot. Is this above or below the 50% line? I have no idea… 

REAL WOMEN'S SPORT

Some "female" athletes really need to improve their tuck and tape technique!

Jarmila Kratochvílová was a Czechoslovakian track and field athlete. In 1983, "she" set the world record for the woman's 800 meters, which still stands as the longest-standing individual world record in athletics. 

 

 

In 1983, Kratochvílová broke the 800 m world record with a time of 1:53.28. At the World Championships shortly afterwards, "she" set a world record of 47.99 seconds to win the 400 m.

BUT COCK WAS SOON FASTER OVER 400M

Kratochvílová's 1983 400-metre world record of 47.99 seconds stood for two years until it was broken by her great rival Marita Koch in 1985.  

Koch's 400-metre world record of 47.60 seconds still stands in 2025, after 40 years. 

Kratochvílová's world record on an indoor track—49.59—stood until 19 February 2023 when the 400-meter indoor world record was broken by Femke Bol from the Netherlands with a time of 49.26.

 
Koch and Kratochvílová are the only women who have broken the 48-second barrier in a laned 400-metre outdoor race. "Her" 800-metre world record is the longest-standing unshared track record in men or women's athletics, and it was described by 1996 Olympic champion Svetlana Masterkova as ".. very fast. It's impossible for women to run so fast. It will last for 100 years."

Kratochvílová was a late developer, not breaking 53 seconds for the 400 meters until "she" was 27, and "she" was 32 when she set "her" world records.

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RANDOMS 2026 #23

 

 

WHY POST STUFF?

 We all tend to think we understand what is going on, and all the people who are levels behind ourselves in this multi level learning game are retarded.

Which they are. But each time we move up a level, we have to accept that our old self was also retarded, compared with our present self. 

Hopefully that process will continue!

The past decade has been a real eye opener for me, as it has for many people. It's been one of my hobbies to post things online for over a quarter of a century, as I first started out in 1998. 

It was even once possible to earn some income from blogging, but if you want to post content that is not deep state approved propaganda, it's far harder to do that now in the AI slop video age than it ever was in the past. 

 From 2018 to 2022 the annual hits on my old WordPress blog dropped from over 4 million to less than 40k - a 99% drop!

#1 TO MAKE MONEY

The blockchain platforms I used to earn some income from, have all completely crashed and burned, with key insider accounts totally controlling the payouts on the few platforms that remain. 

And it's safe to say if you were calling out the covidhoax and the death jabs back in 2020, you were not on the insiders reward list. I was black listed on several blockchain platforms, so everything I posted was automatically down voted.

From 2016 to 2021 I actually did make money online, some from posting, but mostly from buying and selling blockchain tokens. But those are both dead ends now, so it's safe to say I'm not doing it to earn money anymore. 

In fact I've lost business, and made enemies, by being fairly outspoken online. And posting stuff always takes time. Financially I would have been better off to just shut my face and act like a normie.

#2 TO CHANGE THE WORLD

The next major reason was to "change the world". Despite being a cynical conspiracy theorist, I did set out with the hope that by posting content it would be possible to "wake up the sheeple". 

But this multi layered psyop we are all part of is an ongoing mind fuck. If the sheeple haven't woken up by now, my little blog posts are not likely to change much in the greater scheme of things.

My best advice at this point, is if you want to move up a level, go to the website of Joachim Bartol and read all his essays. Yes, there are hundreds of them - read at least a dozen. By that point you will be well past not just most of what I'm posting, but most of the entire internet. 

But even that is very unlikely to be the final stage of knowledge - it never is! 

What comes next I don't know, that is as far as I've got. The world will continue to change with or without any input from me. So changing the world might be an exciting idea in theory, but in practice I'm sort of beginning to understand why all those zen guru teachers say you can only change yourself.

#3 TO MAKE NOTES FOR MYSELF

Yes, this is probably the only one that really stacks up. The best way to get my head around something is to present it to others. And I prefer to do that in the form of a blog post. 

The combination of condensing ideas down to simple and easy to understand lines of text, combined with images, forces me to make my thoughts clearer. If that helps anyone else, that is a bonus. So that is the main reason I'm still posting stuff, and most definitely the reason for this post.

#4 TO HAVE FUN

Along with #3 just having fun strikes me as a really good thing to do online, and I am aiming to do this too, alongside making some good notes. 

If I can manage to do both that is great. But it probably does require letting go of any ambitions to achieve #1 or #2, so I'm still working on letting go of all that outdated get rich and change the world crap!