08th August 2000 AD

My brother is a complete moron. I think he took lessons in being a moron and having a bad temper. For example, I'm watching TV, its in the morning, and I've just had breakfast, he walks in, and tells me to put my dish away. "Yeah, yeah" I'd say... And then, in 5 mins time, he'd walk in again, and notice the very same dish in the very same place as it was last time he complained about it... So I might mumble something along the lines of "Whatever"... Anyhow, the adverts come on, and I'd be just about to get up and put my plate away as he ordered me to do.. But would he shut up there and then? Nope... (This would be a pretty short rant if he did, but he doesn't...) He has to complain about the very fact that I'm watching tv during the summer holidays... He complains to my mum that "When I was his age I was working during summer" and generally, he doesn't like me just relaxing, without a care in the world? He's currently a trainee in some company or other, he gets paid £100 a week, or something, so he works 3 days a week, most likely. And he spends his other 4 days a week complaining about me, I suppose... He says I never do anything. Well, let me do some math, right here... I currently have around £8000, because I worked the majority of last summer, and pretty much didn't spend any of it, the rest I had before-hand anyway. My brother pretty much spends all the money that he earns, which, at £100 * 52 would be £5200, now lets do some more math... 5200 - Tax = 4700 4700 - Car insurace = 4000 4000 - Getting drunk and doing drugs = 3000 3000 - Annual thing that he seems to buy = 2000 Now bearing in mind he thinks I do nothing, so now lets work out what I earn per year, minus expenses... (none, tee hehe) I have money in 3 banks, 4188, 3938, 585, and I get something like 4.35, 6.5, 6.85 percent interest respectively... So this year, I have £8711 So next year, I'll have around:- £9190... Thats bearing in mind that I don't work a single day at all? Okay, so I do nothing and get around £1000 a year while still in full-time education, and my brother does everything and gets around £2000, hmmm... So approxatimely, I have to work for (if £100 is 3 days work) 1000 / (100 / 3) days. Which is 33... So I have to work less than once a week to be as productive (money-wize) as my brother? Now lets work out the minimum days per year that I work... Every month, I work two alternate Saturdays, so I work 52/2 which is 26 days per year minimum... So at 100 per 3 days, thats £866 out of the £1000 that I have to earn per year to be as productive as him... Right, now so at a minimum, I'm £250 lazier than him? And if I do nothing, and he is 100% productive, that makes doing nothing, 87.5% productive? So next time time your parents ask if you've cleaned your room, you can say "I've done 87.5 percent of it"!? Other things my brother does... Things like saying:- "Get out of my room" when I'm in my half of the room? Maybe he thinks because he's 13.5% more productive he owns the whole room? Also, other less obvious ways he tries to force me out of my room is playing loud rubbish (non-punk rock) music... "Drum and bass" or "Happy hardcore" I believe are some of the words they call it... He is totally negative towards me and thus he doesn't know me. Comments like, "You should go to work more often, that way you might learn to speak and get a personalitiy"... Okay, I can speak, but why should I prove it to him? Secondonly, even if I don't have any personality what-so ever, maybe telling me to go work in a warehouse where the majority of people there are 30 year old men or foreign people isn't too much of a good idea? How could I develop my personality from its current status of null and void to vaguely interesting if the people there are less interesting than a bowl of bird seeds? Ask yourself as you read this, does the guy who is writing this have a personalitity? I would reckon, that if you got this far, you must be atleast vaguely enjoying reading this, and a zombie that only functions has someone who watches tv and doesn't put dishes away on command coulnd't possibly write this, unless he had some sort of personality. So even if my personality sucks, I have one, so that makes my brother wrong, does it not? Maybe my personality has developed since I started going to work? I wouldn't think so. I've only really ever had 2 conversations whilst at work, one about the matrix and various other films, and one about future possibilities. This is apart from the conversations I've had with my friends that have been dragged into working via my mum... Okay, so it lets them earn money, but are they really happy for the opportunity to earn money? Maybe at first, but as soon as you learn that work (as in labour-work) is for chumps, you start to dislike it... My brother is a trainee in some engineering company, his resume (CV, whatever) was based on the one I wrote for me, and he (even with my help) made it bad. He took my lovely cross-browser compatiable resume, made it into a MS-word doc, and took out all my pretty looking grades, and put in his less than aesthic grades, his highest grade in there is a C... Its his only C.. I think my school grades are probably better than both my brothers grades put together, did I get a "congratulations" from anyone in my family? No. I think the moral of the story there, is to pretend to be dumb when you're actually smart... That way they're more suprized... I think my brother is at work now, serves him right for being a compolsive dumb idiot. For example, on his resume, where my paragraphs about my techincal skills were, he replaced that on his with 13 blank lines intergrated with 13 lines of modular courses that he did at college. You see, my resume I did for fun, was 420 words long, compared to his 314 words long resume (which wasn't for fun)... Maybe he used longer words than me? I used 2555 characters (2141 without spaces) and he used 2391 characters, (1745 without spaces) and considering he takes his life so seriously, maybe his resume sucks, maybe thats why he couldn't get a job/career for months (for a whole year I think)... Maybe its because he has a bad attitude and a bad temper? Maybe its because of his inability to leave the house for an interview in a good mood? Possibly its because he has a sort of "I want to kill you" look on his face all the time, or maybe thats only when I see him, heh. But he's the most successful out of me and my brothers? Which would leave me or my other brother as the least successful? Actually, my other brother is the most successful (money-wize) and by the looks of it, I'll be the most successful (education-wize)... Maybe my brother just complains about my attitude, my non-get up and go outlook on life? Well, I get up earlier than both my brother, so I do get up... And I do work, but not so much of the getting paid work, I work on a game, I work on my website, I work on other various things... Well, I think my brother is someone who thinks you are only working if you're getting paid. Not true. And whats 13.5% more than nothing? Nothing I believe... So I just wish he'd shut up and do the world a favor and lose the ability to talk. He smokes, which is a good thing because he'll kill himself earlier. Also, about my lack of the ability to speak, I used to be the freak in my earlier school days that couldn't speak properly. I'd get dragged around and people would get me to say things so they could laugh at the way I spoke. What a cruel thing to do to a small child new at a school? I went to speech therapy to teach me how to speak how everyone else did... I was 60% deaf while growing up, so the way I spoke was different to everyone else. I had to go to a different school than my brothers because I couldn't speak properly (or conform to what others wanted me to talk like)... Maybe my brother wants me to conform? Be more like him? Well, sorry but its not going to happen. For me, this is normal, and everyone else in the world is the freak...

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