GoodFuckingIdea.com

Some Hamlet there for a fucking wise and highbrow start to the week.

I’m not sure if it’s right mind you. SURE our perception is everything, and being internally resilient and being able to make the best of things is good etc, but there are some situations which are a bit TOO fucked up and should be sorted out ASAFP.

So here’s the Good Fucking Idea rule of thumb:

• Take a holiday. If it’s still fucked by the time you get back, get out of whatever situation you’re in.
• If you can’t take a holiday, give it 3 months and apply the same rules.
• And if you realise you’re just a grumpy mofo who sees the bad in everything, work out how to use that. If you see the problems more clearly than others, you’ll almost certainly be in a better position to see the solutions.

Make some good shit happen – it’s fucking rewarding.

You’re super-fucking-smart, right? I mean like at least once every few days you think to yourself, “Why the FUCK would they do it like that?” If people consulted you first the world would probably be a lot better, fairer, smoother, smarter, more fun, less profligate, more creative, and about 3 or 4 shades more awesome, right?

Then this is your moment to shine! Today – and from now on – we’d like you to share your good fucking ideas. We’ll take the best ones and sow them out to the world, and maybe, slowly, wonderfully, inexorably things might begin to get better… and better… and better until you can say to your happy, flourishing, tree-swinging grandchildren, “More swings in public places was my good fucking idea, you know.” (But hopefully you can do better than that one, because that was… well.. it has a certain charm to it, and I like it, but … ah what they hell it IS a good fucking idea, and that’s all that counts. MORE SWINGS!!)

So any time you’re stunned by your own inspirational fucking genius you can click the link and share it with us all.

People are generally really very fucking cool, have good intentions, and want to be nice. Which can come as a big fucking shock sometimes, but there it is.

Factory farming: we don’t need it, people don’t want to buy its produce, it’s utterly cruel (and yes that does fucking matter), and it pollutes the bejesus out of the world. Fuck that shit.

Here’s a video to cheer you up and make everything better.

I’m looking at you, Portugal. And you Ireland. And you, Banking System. And you consumerism.

But don’t sweat it, because we’re all playing a game with crappy rules. We’ll all stop playing soon, it’s just that you guys are ‘out’ first. How about you get busy working out the rules for the new game and you can show us all how to play when we’re out too?

Or you could use your local shops, because if you don’t they won’t be there and longer, and they you’ll wish you had.

Local shops are easier, save time, are often about the same price as supermarkets (who only have low prices on the items you pay attention to), employ more local people, keep money in the local economy, are less likely to run out of things when it snows since they’re hooked in to more supply chains.

Or you could just drive to Tescos for everything and as you stroll down the fluoresced aisles you can bemoan the lack of community feeling in your life, wonder how it is that people used to feel connected and enriched by simple things.