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Sorry sir/maam but your poo allowance has been exceeded.

Remember it's the politicians and wealthy that are only allowed to be full of shit.

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An excellent observation, Rob!

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For years now, I have (rather loosely) maintained a small fleet of crappy old vehicles, to be used by various family members. When my wife started a new part-time job, the responsibility for making sure she could always be there on time got too much for me, and we bought a "nearly new' vehicle, so she could use that instead. Well, the dashboard lights in the 'new' car are far too bright for night driving. But, try as I might, I cannot find a way to dim them that doesn't require you to subscribe to the manufacturer's app service. Yep, what would previously have been considered a safety feature (that you could control using a small rheostat under the dashboard on my 1972 Renault 12) is now something you have to sign up to, and pay to use, through the car's 'infotainment' system. What a load of cobblers!

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And how many things today operate like that? Every way around it designed to take as much of your wealth back and put it in the hands of the few...

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and if your App doesn't work, there's an App for that

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Or an unfushed toilet :)

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Well, you'll need to upgrade your toilet then, won't you.

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For a mega fee

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but Tessa, you'll never have to have to touch that scary handle with all its deadly germs 😱

seriously though i bet that toilet comes with this https://www.realclearpolicy.com/articles/2021/02/17/69_million_smart_toilet_analyzes_analprint_660043.html

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Oh I forgot, yes, I think it might indeed come with this! :)

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That is too funny and scary at the same time.

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I notice the reference to Magritte's pipe above the window. Things are not always what they seem. Here are two limericks:

A pipe is just a pipe

A line is just a stripe

The toilet's on the wall

To flush requires a call

The 'grape reject' is getting ripe.

In the year twenty twenty five

The best dictator's strive

To force the mice to ask them: "please...

For just a simple sliver of cheese?".

To make 'em run the meta-maze... simply to survive

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An excellent poem, Mark, thank you!

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What a coincidence: just an hour ago I looked up the meaning of reset in the Black’s law dictionary and this is what it came up with:

1. Receiving stolen goods. Act of knowingly receiving stolen goods , or

2. Harbouring an outlaw. Or sheltering a criminal.

We can use any of these two I think and many would find these synonyms apt.

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We’re still in the novelty phase with automation and computers, hence the tendency to apply the new toys to anything and everything regardless of whether or not it makes sense to do so. In a hundred years this sort of thing will receive the ridicule it deserves (at least that’s my hope).

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Let us hope ... and also work toward that end!

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It was rebranded to Alas…A L aa S.

Assisted Living as a Service. See, own nothing, 15 minute cities, 🐝 happy. Or else Drone Swarms. Banking for All, Patriot Act et al

Notice how they sell us abbreviated labels to rub our noses in it? Like Cadillac’s Green New Steal EV named “Liar~Q”? Modified synthetic RNA, Mod E RNA, is Moderna. Now Own Nothing and 🐝 Happy is rebranded as “Affordable Living as a Service”, ALaaS.

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And they think they are suave..

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Alass, you are correct. Even when they jump the shark.even Poor Yorick in MacBeth, the court Jester.

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I hadn’t considered drones are for chasing people into the cities…interesting

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And I'm sure the Flush Me app also requires location services be turned on. After all, they want to know where where your crap is coming from and, more importantly, to be able to trace your crap back to you in the event they test the sewage with a PCR test (which they are doing) and find "covid" or some other mystery disease...

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THANK YOU! Outstanding commentary on the times we live in. Made me SMILE!

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I try :)

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And you succeed! Overtime I have found your commentary timely and thought provoking. One person can make a difference, and everyone should try.

John F. Kennedy

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Made me think of the Demolition Man and his re-interpretation of the three-seashell rule ;)

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I don't know anything about it! Can you please tell me?

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It was a pretty tongue-in-cheek SF/action movie where Stallone's rogue cop character wakes up from a decades-long coma in a sort of Socialist sterile future society where a lot of normal things (hugging, sex, smoking etc.) have been banned and mostly wiped from people's memories. There are also devices on the walls that spit out a paper chit for a fine every time someone swears.

At one point Sly's character goes into a restroom and finds that there are three little seashells on the wall next to the toilet, but no paper. He comes back out and says, "You are out of toilet paper." Everyone starts laughing at him and saying "He doesn't know the three-seashell-rule!"

Sly comes up to one of the miniprinters and starts swearing as fast as he can; garners a fistful of paper chits and goes back into the restroom, leaving the room staring :)

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O dear, Tessa, that's exactly what is happening to me all the time, spot on! Makes me want to scream once in a while....

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I hear you, Claudia! The sensor-based faucets are bad enough, they don't quite work, it seems like they are designed to generate frustration!

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So good this this meme went strait onto the "light board" comic tragic LOL thank you and a good week-end

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Thank you, and have a good week as well!

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Good one

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In technofeudal Americastan, the toilet flushes you!

There will be a premium charge for more than one great reset per day.

You will flush nothing, and you will be happy.

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Sounds about right! Or : we can help you with that, for this fee and a fee to access that.

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It’s true. Little by little everything is being centralized even throwing away trash. Nothing about this “Great Reset” is going to make you healthier or happier (unless you’re a masochist who wants to be punished, controlled, tracked).

TRASH dumpsters in Europe are starting to REQUIRE your IDENTIFICATION and thus YOUR location, timing, habits, routes, and more. https://healthythinking.substack.com/p/trash-dumpsters-in-europe-are-starting

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