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My Thoughts on the DIY craze

written on July 16th by Ape
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Every day, I see sites that are telling me how to DIY shit. Making shit out of other shit is popular as fuck right now. Camera tripods out of plastic bottles, Media Players out of Xboxes, Horses out of Pigs, etc. What the fuck? DIY isn’t a craze. It’s what poor people do when they can’t afford to buy the real deal.

You know why I have duct tape covering the gap between my window frame and my air conditioning unit? Because I can’t afford a wider air conditioning unit or central air. And guess why I have duct tape wrapped around my broken Xbox 360 headset? Do you think I want a duct-taped piece of shit headset? No. There’s a word for that kinda stuff, and it ain’t DIY. It’s ghetto.

You know that nerd in school with broken glasses and the piece of electrical tape holding them together? He wasn’t a poor nerd. Nooo… He was a DIY afficianado. And you were an asshole for making fun of him.

Do you think that rich people DIY shit? Of course they don’t! They B-U-Y shit. Because they can. And because shit you pay money for works. If it doesn’t, you buy more shit. Or you pay someone to do your shit for you.

You want to DIY yourself a VGA cord to hook your Xbox up to your PC? You seriously want to solder shit that you’re going to plug into your computer?? Go right ahead. Just be sure to have your escape route planned for the ensuing electrical fire. Me? I’m going to suffer until I have enough money to never DIY a fucking thing. Now pass me the duct tape. My coffee cup’s sprung a leak.

Comments

12 Responses to “My Thoughts on the DIY craze”

  1. Dan (July 16th, 2008 11:00 am)

    When the zombies come, DIY will be king.

  2. linc (July 16th, 2008 11:04 am)

    Yeah, well until then, I say fuck it.

  3. DarkNemesis618 (July 16th, 2008 11:27 am)

    I hear you dude, DIY is great to save money and not all of it is jury-rigged crap either. Sometimes it’s nice to be able to go out and buy things, but sometimes its not necessary.

  4. Sonny Gill (July 16th, 2008 11:50 am)

    LOL hilarious!

  5. yoonamaniac (July 16th, 2008 11:55 am)

    Wahahahahaha!!!! So totally with you!

  6. calinazaret (July 16th, 2008 4:43 pm)

    DIY is a craze right now because taking care of the environment is a craze, but most of the time it’s really inefficient and misguided. There are “green” things a person can do which will be a lot more effective than soldering your own electrical equipment.

    I remember the time I decided to sew my own grocery bags to cut back on plastic consumption. I spent nearly a week sewing ONE and it ended up pretty crappy. Then I saw I could buy some from target for $.99/ea and was like “fuck this shit.”

  7. heather (July 16th, 2008 6:09 pm)

    i thought you had the duct tape around your headset so that aliens wouldn’t get you?

    No?

    …that’s why i have mine taped.

  8. linc (July 16th, 2008 9:14 pm)

    Why would I try to stop the aliens from getting me? They can have me.

  9. Kelley (July 17th, 2008 3:02 am)

    You know what cracks my shit up? DIY costs MORE than buying outright! I was going to make an outdoor setting (yeah, I LOVE woodwork, wanna make something of it?) and it was gunna cost almost 3 times as much to make it as buy one ready made…

    Insanity.

  10. linc (July 17th, 2008 6:36 am)

    I guess it depends on what level of DIY you’re doing. Duct tape is cheap.

  11. Hot Nikks (July 17th, 2008 10:12 am)

    As a home owner, DIY means doing home repairs/improvements myself that take 10-15 trips to the home depot and spreading a 1 day job over 6 weeks w/my wife screaming at me cuz I can’t do something I’ve never done before just by snapping my fingers all because we can’t afford a real contractor and good, reliable “handymen*” don’t exist. Usually, the results are half-assed at best. Even worse, sometimes I have to do this shit for my worthless tenant. So to me, DIY = torture.

    BTW, if there is a DIY craze, it’s probably because nobody can afford to have shit done for them.

    *”Handyman”: a deadbeat, alcoholic loser who can’t hold down a real job with a contractor/subcontractor.

  12. linc (July 17th, 2008 10:47 am)

    That’s the funniest comment you’ve ever made, man. I’m laughing my ass off.

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