Many of you probably didn’t notice something above you, because it is so easy for people not to come to this actual website anymore. Most of my traffic isn’t rando’s that come from the internet, or people I actually know in real life from Facebook. Most of the people (or bots) come from WordPress. Actual bloggers that use Reader.
The problem with that is that WordPress has made it so easy to read people’s blogs without actually coming to their blog. The just read straight from Reader. I should know. I do it all the time. I don’t remember the last time I saw what a person’s blog looked like. It’s maybe 1 in a hundred that I actually click in their blog to read.
The reason why I say all this is because I changed my banner. Since I’ve changed it maybe 5 times in the whole existence of this blog, math tells me that I only change it about once a year. People might say, “Oh good. Change is good.” I say, “Nope it’s not.”
Change is terrible. Change is progress. Change is pain. Who needs progress? What has progress ever done for anyone? You know what the best thing for people really is? Staticness. Laziness. Sameification.
Seriously, name one change on the McDonald’s menu that has ever made any sense. The McPizza? The Hamburglur? The McDLT? The McSpaghetti? McHot Dog anyone?
How about Coke? The New Formula? How many of you are still drinking that stuff? Anyone still hoarding their Crystal Pepsi? You think change is a good thing, but you are wrong. How about all the changes ESPN is doing right now? Do you think all the unemployment that is causing is a good thing?
Oh, you say we made so much change by inventing the internet? Yeah, look at all the good that has given us. Wikipedia, something called the dark web, giving crazy people the ability to write things that everyone can read (and some do, judging by the traffic for this site).
Oh, we invented the car. Yeah, accidents. We invented the TV. Yeah, have you seen public access channels or the E! network?
Change is terrible and we all know it. That being said, I did a new banner and it is terrible and although it is new, it definitely isn’t improved. The only good Banner is Bruce Banner and the only good thing about Bruce Banner is that he turns into Hulk. And Hulk is only good because he is Bruce Banner.
And that is bad, just like any other changes we all try to go through.
ARRRGGHHHHHHH
Bitter Banner Ben
All change is bad.
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You are so correct. Why would anyone ever want to do it? To grow? Psshhh.
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What bothers me is change at work. Just when I’m finally getting into a groove and figure out all the rules, the rules change, the people change and the adjustment wears me out.
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I really think people need to start figuring out that change is never good. People don’t grow from change. We should all just be sitting at home on our phones not changing.
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Ummmm… I think you’re forgetting about a little thing called the McClamsCasino. Convenient and sophisticated as hell.
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Never heard of McClams Casino. I guess it would be convenient if it was located right across the street from me.
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I had meant to mention to you that it appears you are using too much Rogaine
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Most people would suggest I’m not using it all, but that is just me. Maybe I’ll try it so I look even more ridiculous.
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I think you make a great point about those of us who read blog posts via the reader. I am guilty of it, as I see it as a time saver. However, I do click onto the actual site to read my favorite bloggers’ posts. Yours is one of them, Mr. Bitter pants.
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Yeah, my pants are pretty bitter for sure. And I follow a ton of bloggers and if I stopped by all of them, it would be quite a journey or tabs to get them all on their page, plus I’m just lazy.
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Geez, you sound a bit bitter you know?
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No, I sound a lot bitter.
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At least it was worth calling over for or else I’d be a little bitter too! Well worth calling over to see as it made me smile. Probably not what a bitter blogger wanted to hear but tough.
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Yeah, definitely not something I want to hear. Making effort is kind of not something I want to do.
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I saw your new banner, because I go to people’s blogs. And thanks for showing me once again how out of touch I am. I will NEVER catch up to the 21st Century, unless I live into the 22nd. But, nice banner. I won’t say if change is good or bad, but it is, in fact, inevitable.
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Yeah, that is what sucks about change even more. Is that it happens whether you give it permission or not.
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Except for the changes you would like to happen, like for example, my bank account increasing exponentially, or my waistline shrinking.
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I can find a bitter side to every change though. I mean a smaller waist means having to buy all new clothes and that means more money, and bank account means all kinds of sharks starting to call you for money for some reason. Ughh.
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Yes, but sometimes I would like to try the bitterness of wealth, just to see what it feels like.
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I am so tempted to be rich and famous, or at least rich, but then I remember that people that are rich have to be around people more.
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You could be an eccentric rich recluse. I’m sure I’ve heard of those, but I don’t know how you get one of those jobs.
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That is true. I would be a great Howard Hughes.
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I’m glad I read this because it reminded me of another awful change that is happening in my life. Yeah, I noticed the new banner. So what…
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Oh that change where you actually start writing on your blog? Oh, never mind, you are talking about that womanly change. Thanks for bringing that up. The banner was to help you know that I’m bitter in a different way, cause you weren’t aware. You’re welcome.
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Oh you are too funny! You’ll be bitter to know that it is neither of those changes. I mean, for one, that was not so much a change as a choice, and for the other…well, I’m only 29 you know!
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I’m not very good at biology. Doesn’t the change happen when you turn 30? Which I guess won’t happen to you, because you won’t ever turn 30 right?
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Hahaha… good point.
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I don’t make good points very much, but when I do, they are just random.
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You make me laugh! 🤣
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Obviously I don’t like to laugh because I only smile when I am forced to for things that people hiring might see. Or when my daughter makes me.
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Riiiiiiight. I figured! 😉
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I try to tell jokes but my daughter says I just tell dad jokes, and my son just says, “You’re not funny, dad.” Critics…
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Sheesh they ARE hard critics! Lol
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Yeah, it’s hard to be a comedian in my family. I need to go to outside sources to get a laugh. Bitter.
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hahahahahaha!!!!!
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Oh look someone laughed at something I said. Even though it wasn’t meant to be. You go the opposite direction and laugh at everything.
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Like I said, I like to laugh!!!!! Hahahahahahaha!!!! 😉
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I haven’t been able to tell by all the LOL’s and HAHAHAHA’s you’ve been writing. I like to frown. Emoji frown.
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🙃🙃🙃🙃 how about upside down smiley faces? It’s kind of like a frown? Lol!
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I’m way more into the frowny faces. That is more like it.
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You might say Bruce Banner changes into The Hulk but then that would be bad. So let’s not say that.
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Yeah, changing into a 1 ton destructabot is probably not a good thing, except if it was to get home with all the traffic.
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Ben, I came to your actual blog and saw your new banner, there, it’s been done. And, I like it. I also agree that not making a full visit to blogs is just sort of lazy. But making the full visit would require effort and why use that if you don’t have to? Stopping the laziness and using effort would require a change… we’re just not all up for that… but evidently I am, because I came here, and now I’ve typed myself in circles…
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I hate when I type myself into circles. I prefer straight lines, especially if there was one on the way home so I didn’t have to hop into the car circus that we all call traffic. I guess I don’t do circles, I do tangents.
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I had a meme to reference your tangent comment that would have been good to put here, but apparently I can’t do that. Just know that it was good.
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You can’t put meme’s in here? I’m sure there is a way. Probably just include the link and I can figure it out. I’m sure it was super good.
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http://1337training.com/?attachment_id=6 (had to do it from my laptop for some reason vs my phone)
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See, you can do things when you put your mind to it. Problem is that take effort (ie having to do from laptop). Ugh effort.
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Yes, therein lies the problem…
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Yeah, problems are what I create. And I don’t solve them, so you all become bitter like me.
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I guess because I am so new, I always visit the site to like or comment. I am sure there will come a day when time constraints will not allow me to do so.
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Oh, someone actually comes through the site. Well, here is a tip for you. Go through Reader and you don’t have to look at my annoying blog banner anymore.
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I was about to say that I was for status quo… but it sounded a little too positive. So, yeah… A big “no” to this silly idea of “change is good” thing. Don’t change 😉
P.S. How long have you been blogging? I could certainly find that information by looking through your “about” page, or scrolling back your earlier posts, but why bother, when I can just ask? lol
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I’ve been blogging just over 5 years. Started in March 2012.
And yeah, my blog hasn’t changed a bit since then.
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Five years… Wow, I wonder if I’ll last that long. Blogging wise, of course! I sure hope I still have more than 3 and a half years to live! lol
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Yeah, I hit a slow patch in the last 9 months, cause of school and unemployment, but now that I’m back to being employed, I hit my groove again. I think what helped me through all of the slowness, is that I always do at least the one Friday post. No matter what I always do Friday Giftures, because it is easy to do and doesn’t take much thought. And people sometimes only come for those.
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Well, congratulations for hanging on 🙂
Although I am not the most regular reader because of crazy work schedules and thought clutter, I do enjoy your bitter writing a lot. It is nice to have an “all the bitterness you can spill out” place to spend time at 😉
WP wouldn’t be the same without you!
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Yeah, it is a pretty nice place to spew things that is for sure. And although I would probably still do it regardless, it is pretty nice to have people comment about it. The commenting back and forth is almost as cool as the writing portion. Bitterly of course.
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I agree… The interaction is a big part of the experience (was about to say “fun”, but I am not sure that would fit you 😉 )
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Nope, the bitter experience. Besides most of my blog posts don’t make much sense. I just throw something up to make people comment.
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