Maps

Maps... any type of maps are extremely cool to me. From world maps to dumb shit like floor plans of houses lol... I love them all!
When I had my own apartment I had map posters all over my house. Living room, kitchen, bedroom, even in the bathroom for cripes sake. Oh but don't take my love for maps as some kind of subconscious need to travel the world. I have no desire to do so. There is probably only two countries I would visit. Japan being at the top and I wouldn't mind visiting our up north neighbors, Canada. 

I've never had a passport due to the fact that I really never had the traveling bug. I think the first time I was even interested in traveling came when my aunt and uncle took their first Japan trip. Her pictures and stories she brought back was amazing. And until recently, I found all the wonderful travel goodness YouTube has to offer. There is so much content and as I watch and listen to these normal people, it makes me want to experience it even more. 

Alright, now the next "maps" I'm gonna talk about is google maps. Satellite view, what the heck! I mean aside from the fact that satellite abilities are insane, I'm always blown the frick away by these views. Zoom in all the way is how I like to do it. It's so amazing how small these towns are compared to the surrounding landscape. Like a tiny speck on the map until you zoom in. Ok enough with these maps... But see, awesome right!

Floor plans!!! Technically it IS a map. Weird thing I do, if I'm passing a housing complex that looks really cool from the outside, I'll google it and check out the floor plans. Usually I do this with apartment complexes. I initially started to do this when I was living alone and looking for my next apartment. And I found I did enjoy just looking even with no intention of inquiring. I never took it to the next step and actually went to take a open house tour just to look out of curiosity of how they look like inside, that would be too insane. I think it eventually came down to the fact that I'd feel bad for wasting someone's time, taking me around and showing me an apartment even though I had no intention of renting. But anyways..

Ok so now that I'm really thinking about it, I think this is where my love of maps originated from. At the beginning of Lord of the Rings books and throughout the chapters they would have maps of where the reading would take you. As you read they would be explaining these places and the maps were there for you to know where they were traveling. I loved it. Aside from the fact that fantasy books take you to a whole new world, having a map for you visually see where the heroes in your stories were going, just took imaginations to a different level, for me anyways. And I appreciated that from these books. When I finally did buy a wall poster map, I'd have it on the wall by my couch and as I'd watch the movies at home, I could look at the map. Weirdo I know, but I enjoyed it.

Everyone uses maps... GPS on your phone, or attached to your car. I'm sure a lot of people take that feature for granted. Can they navigate a town without it? Can you ever imagine a time when there was nothing to guide you to your destination. You actually had to know where the frick you were going or be willing to get lost trying to get there. Ahh fun times. 

Oh cripes! how did I forgot about google street views! Yes it's not a map per-say but it's a way to explore, and technically to get to it you need to access the google maps. I love street view especially when I want to go exploring other countries. My favorite is taking a drive around Japan streets. Other countries, understandably, do not have this feature as wide spread as the US but I still enjoy the roads that I can take a tour down. 

Alright and finally, this last pic was just something that I wanted to share. I knew that there are seaweed farms in Japan but I never actually thought you can see them from a satellite view.  This is off the southeast coast of Okinawa. Ok and I'ma be honest, I'm not 100% sure these were seaweed farms, but they were squares and hell just give this one to me ok. I was excited to see this. This is kind of rather messy farms now that I think about it. I think they are a bit more uniformed normally. 

But anyways... So along with my plan to learn more about the geography of the world, I would really like to learn about different countries in itself, starting with the different divisions countries have. For example like the US have states, Japan has prefectures, Canada has provinces, Italy has regions, etc. It's just way to much friggen countries, so lets just start with those 3 and see how fast I get ADD and decide to take on something new. 
Ok... ok bye!

Is it weird?...

I was thinking about this the other night...
Please don't think I'm gonna get into something deep cuz it is coming from my weirdo brain after all.
But anyways, I was eating and I realized that I eat things in portions. Wait that might be a not very good way to describe it. Ok so like, if I had 5 things on my plate, I have to have a bite of everything before I come around to the first thing. I know other people must do this too, so it might not be completely weird. When I watch people eat, I think about the unproportionate way it's being done... oh fuck yeah right there! fuckin weird! Mind yo business how other people eat haha!

Ok, how about this one! I love me some chicken nuggies, but I do have a weird way I like to eat them. I actually found a picture on the interwebs that makes me feel not so bad about it cuz apparently someone else does it. I eat or peel off the outside before I eat the inside. I love that this person has the meat and the skin pieces placed so nicely away from each other. This is completely hilarious to me, and I get it very much!

On that same note, I also do this with ice cream pops. like the ones with the hard chocolate shell. Yeah, I'll bite off the shell first then eat the ice cream. Or sandwich ice creams, I'll bite off the cakey sandwich part first (I don't know what it's called) then eat the rectangle of vanilla ice cream. 

I'm sure I eat a lot of stuff in a way I think is weird, but I can't think of anything more right now.

Things I don't understand

I mean let's be honest, I ain't normal by far, and I do some really weird shit. So I found it amusing that I even wanted to make a list of things that have even me going... "I just dont get it".
This list won't be mean so don't worry. It's more funny that anything, and might have me thinking of more questions then anything else. I have friends that do some of these I'ma include here too so it's not like I despise any of these things to my core or anything... Alright, here we go.

Long ass fingernails. Why? I don't understand. What can you possibly do with these? Ok so I might be thinking way to personal about someone's bathroom habits, but how the fuck do you wipe with those claws? Ok, so someone said they just wrap the toilet paper around their fingers and then wipe. But... that's wasting so much paper. You gotta make sure your nails are covered cuz pee is prolly gonna get on it right? and what if you gotta take a shit? I know for a fact shit is prolly gonna end up all on those nails! depending on how high the bowl water is, nails are prolly taking a little swim in pee and poop water. Oh geez. Now that I think about it more (I kinda wish I didn't) If my friends ever wanna touch any of my shit with long ass nails Im gonna think of poop nail fingers and tell them... um nah. I'm ok with manicured short nails. Personally, I've never had a manicure and prolly never will, I like to paint my own nails. But spending money to make them longer and paint them all nice and shit, I'll pass. OK I'm done with these nails.

Drawn the fuck on eyebrws!!!!!
What the fuck is this shit! Some people shave them, just to draw them on and they do a horrible job, but some are very nice looking and I appreciate the effort behind it. However! I can't help but think of the time it takes them to do it. The time it takes them to get ready in the morning. It's easy for me to say that, I think I get ready like a dude. I only need like 15 minutes really. Oh I just thought of another one... 

Caked on make up 
Ok so continuing on the last thought. I don't take a long time to get ready, cuz the only makeup I wear now is bottom eyeliner (mainly so I don't look dead). I don't know the first thing about makeup, and I might be singing a different tune if I did. I understand this world is all about looks especially for women and how pretty/hot they are which really sucks but that's how it is. It's been a good while since I gave a shit about how I look when I go out. So to counter that, I just don't go out... period! But anyways yeah, getting back on track... I find it sad that ladies feel the need to plaster on their makeup just to hide flaws on their actual face. I was gonna add a pic of someone with and without makeup, but I decided against it. I'm not here to poke at anyone in particular. It's amazing what make up can do tho and how different it can make someone look. Take if off and people won't look twice. I've heard stories about guys breaking up with a girl when they finally saw them without makeup cuz they feel like they were tricked. So sad.

Internet trolls 
Fuckin assholes that have nothing better to do then stir up shit. Guarantee they wouldn't say anything to people's faces. I'm not blaming people in the limelight or anything, but you choose to be public, and no matter how much people like you, you will always have the vocal ones that will try to tear you down. Typing away in their mama's basement thinking that all of their douchey comments are cool and original. I don't get why people do it. Attention? Yes everyone is intitled to their own opinion, but why choose to publicly bash someone? Keep your ugly comments to yourself maybe? just a thought. I'm not talking about the harmless opposing comments, I'm talking about the hate filled cyber bullying that in some cases leads the unprepared fragile ones into a depression or worse. It's ugly... this world us ugly and I hate that I think that way but if you just look around, I dont blame anyone for feeling that way.

Well fuckin shit... I ended that with a pretty shitty one huh... But it is something that I don't understand, so it's in there. All I can worry about is how I choose to live my life. I'm full of self-deprecating bullshit but I always try to be cheery around other people. Why ruin someone else day with one of my moods. I'm kidding I'm always a fuckin ray of sunshine!!!!

Alright I'm done with this one... ok,,, ok bye!

Japanese food vending machines

I had made another post mentioning a little bit about the vending machines you can find in Japan, but didn't go into great detail as it was just a post about random weird shit/facts.

I'll dedicate this whole post on a few of the FOOD vending machines you can find around Japan and my thoughts. 

I'd love it so much if vending machines were as widespread here in the US as they are in Japan. Knowing the variety options for actual food at vending machines, one would think that the Japanese don't even cook at home. I probably wouldn't either. I mean hello!?! you can find them everywhere! Look outside your apartment, shit there's 10 of them lining the sidewalk! Although I do believe that unless the machine says "HOT", you'd have to go home and actually cook. Most meal machines will have the ingredients of your selection in frozen vacuum sealed bags with instructions, and you go home and cook or heat it up yourself. What the heck, that's so genius!!! Definitely is a must if your life is super busy and you don't wanna spend hours making dinner... OR you just don't like to cook. Either way, these types of machines are amazing! But I can see the heavy maintenance that needs to be put into them. Like constantly making sure they're stocked or even work properly. 

Hold the phone! You know what scratch that whole idea of bringing them here... I did not take into account the fact that US screams theft, crime and vandalism. These vending machines would not last a day on these streets. Unless it's actually inside of a building, it will get broken into 100% guarantee! So sad, but you know it's the truth. I ain't saying that Japanese population are saints and no crime ever happens but being one of top 5 countries with the lowest crime rates, that's pretty darn good. The Swiss hold the top spot just FYI... oh I want a burger with swiss cheese now. Anywhos off topic! 
Oh ok sorry before the rest of the random food vending machine pics, let me explain why I decided to write this. I've explained before that I love Japan food and travel videos on youtube. I found another one called Tabieats. I love them, super adorable and likeable. And the first video I saw was of them going to a vending machine that sold a cake in a can. Not your average cheapo birthday cake rubbish, but actual gourmet flavors. Cakes and parfaits so neatly placed in the cans was super eye catching. It comes with a spoon too and you pop the lid off like you would with a pull tab type soda can. I love it! Patisserie Okashi Gaku I believe made their vending machine available in Sapporo. I'm sure since then more has popped up. These are pretty pricey, but to try it shit, I'd spend ¥1100 on it. That's about $7.35 conversion right now. This fat girl would try all the different flavors gosh darn it!
Anyways, that's about it, I really wanted to talk more about the different things the machines sell but I'm old and I'm tired and frankly I'm boring the crap out of myself again...
enjoy the other random food vending machine pics I found... These actually exist, it's crazy!
Ugh! I'm hungry now.

Fancy ramen! pork and egg slices even.!
oh shit wait, I think this is the ones where you put your order in on the 
machines and people make it and you pick it up from the window.
so this don't belong on the list... but it's still neato so I'll leave it.

prolly just tastes like cup-o-noodles,
gimmie!

Pizza!!! I need this in my living room ASAP!

What vending machine isn't 24 hours?

what? is that a burger, onigiri, noodles, 
gyoza and pork hash on one plate!

what if I just wanted one banana?

I wonder if you need your ID for this?

Let's put some vending machines in the forest too!!!

Covid Trash! #3

What brought upon this entry? I mean besides the known fact that I fuckin HATE litter and the people that litter (as evidence of my other 2 "trash" related blog posts), was this National Geographic article. The picture that saddened my heart and boiled my blood was a picture of a dead fish stuck in the thumb of a rubber glove. This lead to my digging up of more pictures, articles, and statistics.

Littering obviously is a choice. I'm not talking about the ones that dispose of their trash in the trash cans and mother nature decides to send some fricken wind storm our way and blows our trash right out of the trash bins. I'm talking about the ones that blatantly say "Fuck this planet" and decide to toss their trash on the ground, or shove it in a bush thinking that is any better. 

With covid numbers going down in the US and less people wearing PPE, that will eliminate the masks and gloves we see around our communities. It will give the litter bugs a couple less things to just toss on the ground. That's a small plus I guess. Doesn't take away from the fact that the trash has already reached our oceans. Beach and ocean clean up crews collecting hundreds, if not thousands of masks and gloves at a time, amongst other trash as well. These clean up crews are mostly made up of volunteers that care about the environment and this planet. They are non-profit organizations funded by donations made by others that give a crap and who are not able to be there in person to help out. The ones that choose to donate do make a huge difference. They provide the funding for the amazing contraptions that sail the oceans and rivers skimming the pollution. There are several organizations you can find if you just google it. 

During the height of the pandemic, well when the lockdown was lifted, taking a walk around town I did see many masks and gloves, and of course regular trash. The difference, I did not pick these up. I had nothing to pick these up with and the paranoia of thinking what could possibly be lurking on these items made my decision to walk past it for me. In a normal time I wouldn't think twice if I saw a trash can near, I'd just pick it up with no thought given. The times we live in now made it very difficult for me as well as I'm sure many others. I've been better lately with picking some things up every once in a while. Equipped with my trusty hand sanitizer in my pocket and 2 shots of Pfizer vaccine running through my body. But it's still a work in progress. I'm thinking of investing in one of those grabber pincher thingys, I don't know what they are officially called but "grabber/pincher thingys" sounds legit to me.

Alright I've vented enough... again.

If you wanna read my other previous "trash" ramblings here's the links for those... enjoy my brain:

Please stop littering #1

I hate litter #2

Look, I'll be honest, I've thrown many cigarette butts out the car window in my day I won't lie. Or thrown cigarette butts over the wall into an empty lot at home, but realized the very hypocritical error of my ways, took a bag and picked up all my butts and other people's as well (some were NOT my brand). Or at my old job would sit by a planter, smoked and put my cigarette butts in the planter, once again, picked up all my butts filling an empty screw-top Monster drink can to the brim. The point to those stories was simply saying, I messed up and changed. You choose to do better from here on out does matter. It does make a difference... one person at a time, one piece of liter at a time. 

Weird Random facts

I love learning new things no matter how useless the information. So naturally I’ve decided to share them. My commentary is just there to fill in the space. There is so much more then what I’m gonna put in here but I’ll cut it down for length reasons. I might just have to make more entries of this “Weird facts” topic. And since I’m done with all the posted assignments for school for the next week, I got time… and holy crap, I just saw It's been 2 years since I've posted to this blog... I better get writing yo! 

In Japan, there are more Vending machines than people: 23 to 1
I think I could just make a whole entry of all the interesting and weird stuff in Japan. I’m not knocking Japan one bit… I love all the beautiful and crazy shit that country has to offer, I mean that’s half my people and all. All of it super fascinating to me.

But anyways, on with the list. Of course there’s the normal ones like sodas and candies and I’m sure there’s a whole lot more weirder ones then what I have listed here.

• milk
• ice cream
• beer and tobacco
• umbrellas
• flying fish soup
• crepe
• hot food
• ramen
• burgers
• bread in a can
• pantyhose
• hot canned soup
• condoms
• rice
• eggs
• fruit
• vegetable and salad
• reading glasses
• batteries
• surgical masks

One super weird one that got banned by their government was used school girl underwear vending machines… Yes you read that right.

A Greek-Canadian man invented the pineapple pizza
No joke, on several occasions I did have people ask “why do you guys put pineapple on your pizza?” Bruh! We never invented this shit! Just cuz there’s pineapple on it and it’s called a “Hawaiian pizza” doesn’t mean the Hawaiians came up with it. Some Greek dude that moved from Greece to Chatham, Ontario opened up a pizza shop and during their experimental phase, put it on for fun to see how it tasted and I guess it got a lot of takes, because you see it everywhere now.
Oh it’s pizza and I’ll still gonna eat the shit out if it, but it’s funny when people order pizza for everyone and says “Skully! I got you your favorite pizza” aww thanks you fuckin racist!… joking of course.

Pogonophobia is the fear of beards

LOLS!!!! For reals? I read that and had to research more.
So here are some reasons why people fear beards:

• they may have had a negative experience with a bearded person
• unfair stereotypes about people with beards
• misunderstanding cultural norms that require people to grow facial hair
• associating facial hair with illness or being unclean

Now that last one had some extra study attached to it. In a 2018 study they found that beards contained “significantly higher” amounts of bacteria than dogs do. Yikes! But when groomed very well it looks so hot on some dudes.
*so I googled "Hot guys with beards" for my picture that I wanted to put here and the first picture was of Hagrid, lols!!!...So I'll just use it. 

The average adult spends more time on the toilet then they do exercising
In a 2017 study found that adults spend an average pf 3 hours and 9 minutes on the toilet and only 1 hour and 30 minutes being physically active. I’m gonna assume they did a study on people with constipation, Irritable Bowel Syndrome, or someone who took their phone into the bathroom.

Mulan has the highest kill-count of any Disney character

She killed over 2,000 people. 1,994 of them were killed in the avalanche she started.
I’m gonna assume they are not counting all the innocent casualties any of the Avengers (now part of Disney) have inadvertently killed throughout their films.

The water on our planet is very old
The water we have now is the same water that existed hundreds of millions of years ago. The next time you drink a glass of water, you could be drinking dinosaur pee. Think about that.

Squirrels plant thousands of trees every year
Simply by forgetting where they put their acorns. Thank you little squirrels! Everyday is Arbor day!

Sharks kill fewer than 10 people per year. Humans kill about 100 million sharks per year

73 million of those sharks are killed only for their fins.  Shark fin soups, other shark fin dishes. It has no nutritional value but is believed to have the benefit of virility and longer life… “believed” being the operative word here. After they’re caught they have their fins cuts and their bodies still alive, tossed back into the water to sink to the bottom of the ocean where they die slowly by drowning, bleeding to death or being eaten alive by other sea dwellers. So sad.

OK that last one depressed me so I’ll end this with a funny one just to lighten the mood…

Lobsters pee out of their faces... Ew.
Lobsters have urine-release nozzles right under their eyes. They urinate in each other's faces as a way of communicating, either when fighting or mating. Lobsters are super into golden showers I guess! Awesome!

I hope y’all learned something… and had a chuckle or two along the way. See learning useless facts is fun. Don’t say I never taught you nothin’!

I HATE litter #2

For the people that know me, its no surprise... I HATE litter. I mean come on, this is the second blog I've made dealing with the subject. I know I will be repeating myself for the most part, but I don't give a shit, this is my blog.
the following link is the first one I wrote 2 years ago.
Please Stop Littering #1
I hate people that litter most of all because ultimately, that's where it starts... people.
Well I take that back, it might be from that bastard raccoon that goes into your trash cans during the night and tears the shit out of your trash that you so responsibly put in the proper receptacles... OK sorry off topic.
Anywhos, The spark that lead me to write another trash blog (trash because its about rubbish, not because my blog is trash, fuck you! anyways...) because recently I saw pictures of Canal Saint-Martin in Paris drained and cleaned. The first time since 2001 the last time taking out more then 40 tons of garbage and debris. That's a fuckin' whole lot of trash for 4.5 Kilometers of canal. For more amazing pictures, you can just google it. I'm sure you'll be surprised at the crap that was in there.
I love how they carefully caught the fish and moved them. I was thinking, did they put the fish back after? But I'm assuming they just put them on the other side of the canal dam, but I really don't know, but either way, the fish were safe.
I mean the shit that they found at the bottom. Thousands of bikes and mopeds, tons of bottles, boomboxes, cameras, phones. Some things I'm sure was dropped in there by accident, but majority of the crap in there you know were deliberately tossed in. Its so sad.

And the next picture, we've all seen this... Over filled public trash cans and people STILL pile their trash on top of it. I'm so sorry I know it's not your fault that the property management people didn't empty the trash fast enough, but when you see shit like this and you just add to this mess, piss off. You are no better then the people that just toss their trash on a sidewalk. You're still littering despite the fact that you put your trash "around" a trash receptacle. You bought that fast food right? You own all that packaging (cups, wrappers, bags) that it came in. You are responsible for properly disposing of that rubbish, not leaving it somewhere for someone to come along and pick up after you. With the attitude "It's someone else's job to pick it up". Um not really motherfucker!. That's YOUR responsibility. It's only their job because of assholes like you who think it's ok to leave rubbish around. People suck.

The next two pictures I found were from a concert event and tailgate party...
What the Fuck!... terrible!
No respect for anything seriously! And of course, all these people that did this in their minds..."other people are gonna clean this up tomorrow while I'll be at home, comfy in my bed nursing a hangover because, I'm a piece of shit"... I sound disgusted?... naaahhhh you think?

Call someone out on that shit and if they really think, yeah it was wrong, I guarantee you that most of their excuses were, I was drunk I didn't mean to. If you really look at most of these pictures of mass gatherings majority of the trash on the ground are bottles of alcohol. I did have a spring break picture in here but I figured since I vented in my last post about those idiots I won't put one here.
Even if people go camping in the woods or parks where really you'd think people that go to these places would have a bit more respect for nature, not always the case. OK so I will admit that this pic I didn't dig for an explanation as to where this was or what the circumstance around it was. Like who knows, maybe these people got chased out of their camp site by a machete wielding grizzly bear and had to ditch all their stuff, I don't know. OR!! maybe those darn raccoons are back and tore into those trash cans again. I... don't... know.
Next is Summer Solstice at Stonehenge....
It's a fricken wonder of the world!! according to some lists, I'm confused on that because some say it is and some say it isn't and some say it is, what ever! It's a monument though and these asshats that went to the summer solstice sunrise decided to just desecrate the grounds with their hippie trash. A monument!!!!  Ugh!!!! I'm so mad I could punch a hippie in the face!

Alright I'm done...and the next pics are more of the poor wildlife that has to suffer for our irresponsibleness.

Hermet crab uses plastic container as new home

Not a real whale but a display created showing ocean litter results