Is school a waste of time

Look, I caught 2 flies today. One there

and one here.

This one's still alive. But last night

there was this show on TV, um, My Big Fat

Gypsy Wedding. Usually I hate these kind

of shows, but since I'm having all these

problems with gypsies shoplifting and

stuff, I thought it'd be interesting to

watch a documentary about them. It felt

kind of like watching a nature

documentary, like we're watching this,

this strange race of people go about

their daily lives. They are very strange,

aren't they? They're like some kind of

secret society. They have their own ways

of living and doing stuff. But it was

actually quite interesting how most

of them don't have jobs, but they're

self-employed. They go around doing odd

jobs. They have their own companies.

It seems like most of the men have vans

and they go around house to house asking

if people want to have any maintenance

work done or repairs done, or they pick up

scrap metal and sell it. So I thought

that's quite clever. There aren't many

jobs around and maybe the economy isn't

doing so well. And a lot of people would

moan and say, oh, there's no jobs, I don't

know what to do. But these people seem to

just get out there and find jobs or make

their own jobs. So I thought that was

pretty cool.

And the children of these gypsy families,

they don't seem to go to school. They

don't get sent to school, but instead they

walk up and down the roads going house to

house asking people if they want car

washes or if they need any jobs done. And

I was just thinking, maybe that isn't such

a bad idea. I mean, they're not going to

school, they're not learning about things

like science, maths, and history, but

they're learning how to make money.

They're learning how to support

themselves, how to become self-sufficient.

Is that the word? Anyway,

If you think about it, when we get— when

we go to school when we were kids, think

about all the useless stuff they taught

us, like trigonometry or algebra

or 1066,

the Battle of Hastings, or the periodic

table of elements. We're never going to

use that stuff in daily life. None of that

helps us survive. When we become adults

and we need to find jobs and earn money.

It's nice to know that stuff. It's

important in the sense that that's major

things that happened in human history,

but it's not really important,

is it? I mean, you could survive without

knowing any of those things. So it just

feels like they teach us a lot of useless

stuff in school, like French, for example.

Who uses French? When are you ever going

to use French? Even I went to France for

holiday. I didn't have to speak French at

all because everyone spoke English, and I

don't use anything that I learned from

school. I don't even remember what I

learned from school. I can't. I wish they

taught us things like how to start a

business, how to make money,

how to run a business, stuff like that.

And it just feels like. That's what those

gypsy kids were learning, going door to

door offering car washes.

They're not wasting their time learning

about stupid historical facts or

how a cell membrane works.

Membrane? Membrane? I don't even know how

to say it. But they're going out there

learning how to earn money, and I think

that's actually more important. But they

just have this way to them, like they're

in their own private community and It's

them against the world. F everyone else.

We're just gonna do whatever we want to

help benefit our own little travelers

group. And it just makes them come across

as really disrespectful to everyone

else. They come into my shop, they chuck

the products around, they make a mess,

they're loud and obnoxious. They come in

with the little kids and the kids are

running around all over the place.

Stuffing sweets into their pockets, and

then the parents don't even care. They

don't even pay for the items or tell the

children off. They probably give them

a compliment, saying, oh, good little—

good girl, you stole a load of sweets.

That's very good of you. Another gloomy

day. It's windy and raining.

I actually like this weather. It feels

like— it feels— it makes you feel nice to

be inside. You can make a nice cup of tea,

sit by the window, listen to the rain.

That sounds really, really depressing. I

haven't really done much drawing lately.

I haven't really been very enthusiastic

about it. Sometimes I really feel like I

want to draw something And then other

times I just really don't want to. Like,

it's not fun. It feels like a lot of

stress. I feel very pressured. I need to

make a really good drawing because I spent

a lot of money on that iPad Pro. And if I

don't— if I don't enjoy drawing, then why

did I buy the iPad Pro? It's just a big

waste of money. And then I get all

stressed out and I end up not wanting to

I just— it

just doesn't feel like it's any fun right

now. Maybe, maybe later.

The same thing happens with cameras.

Like, I buy a really nice camera or a

decent camera because I want to make

better quality videos, but then I feel

pressured and it stresses me out. Like,

I feel pressured into making

better-looking videos because I spent

money on buying a camera. And if

my videos aren't looking better, or if I'm

not having more fun using this camera,

then what was the point in buying it? I

should have just stuck with my smartphone.

This is why I always end up buying and

selling cameras, because I just can't make

up my mind. My mind just keeps changing

every, every 2 days.

When I'm in a good mood, I really enjoy

using the nice camera and I have a lot of

fun. And when I'm in a good mood, I have a

lot of fun drawing. It's very

stress-relieving. That doesn't make any

sense. Like, sometimes it's

stress-relieving and then sometimes it

causes stress. Which one is it? I I don't

know. Obviously they should teach us

things like basic maths, how to add and

subtract and multiply, but I remember they

were teaching us things like really

complicated algebra, Pythagoras theory,

trigonometry. I don't even remember what

any of those were, and no one's

ever going to use that stuff. What was the

point in trying to teach us All those

kinds of things. Unless you're going to do

some kind of engineering work

or work that requires you to know those

kind of things, then you're not going to

need it. And if you are going to need it,

you can just Google it and learn how to do

it that way. What else

is there? Religion. Religious studies.

That was an hour-long class that we

had to do. 2 or 3 times a week. What a

waste of time! Why do we have to learn

about all this stupid fictitious

mumbo-jumbo? And they forced us to learn

it as if it was fact. Like,

Jesus did this and God did this and then

Joseph did this. It's just a load of

bullshit. Sorry for any religious people.

They should really just get rid of

religious studies, get rid of French or

languages, because 90% of people

They're happy just speaking English, and

you can't force someone to learn a

language if they're not interested. It's

just going to go in one ear and out the

other. You have to be interested in

learning a language or learning anything

to actually be able to learn something and

remember it. And what else did they teach

us? Geography, how to read a map.

How to chart maps, how to plot maps. What

a waste of time! We have Google Maps now,

we don't need to learn geography. What

else is there? History? I don't really see

history as important. For me personally,

I find history very interesting. I like

learning about the different battles and

the wars. I just look all that up on

Wikipedia. The history they taught us was

so mind-numbingly boring. They taught us

about Henry VIII and his 9 wives, how they

all died. Who gives a shit about this

stupid fat king who sounds like a complete

arse? What else do they teach us?

Stuff like the Roman Empire, I guess.

It's not really important, is it? It's

nice to know. It's kind of important to

know what happened in our history, in our

past, but it's not really going to help us

in our day-to-day lives. It's not going

to help us find a job or cope with mental

illness or deal with other stuff that we

have to deal with. Yeah, let's just

have a class like mental illness class

or psychology class so we can learn how to

deal with relationships or deal with

people better. Or a business class.

I remember they had a business class, but

they only offered it at the final year of

school, and they only offered it to

certain people, to a small amount of

people, as if learning business isn't an

important thing, as if learning French and

religious studies was more important than

learning about business and how money

works and how to find a job.

Just makes me Wonder the people who,

who organize all this, who are in charge

of teaching, educating people, the

children of the country. What are they

thinking? Are they completely nuts? They

have no idea what they're doing, do they?

Maybe I should start my own school. Oh,

we should also learn about cooking.

There's so many people who don't know

about— don't even know how to cook. They

just eat pot noodle and chocolate every

day because they don't have the cooking

skills. They don't understand things about

nutrition or how important it is to have a

balanced diet of vegetables and protein

and carbohydrates, not just having a

burger and fish and chips every bloody

Come on, people.

We're not doing it right. We're not

educating our population properly. That's

why everyone's stupid. Right?

Am I right? I'm right, aren't I? I know

something— some of these things that I'm

saying are right. They must be. Or am I

just crazy? Oh, look who it is! It's Mr.

Toffee. Toffee, why are you sleeping here

all the time now? You didn't used to sleep

here. He always has different places

he likes to sleep. Like, sometimes he

sleeps over on that chair, and sometimes

he sleeps over there on the floor. But

recently he likes sleeping on the sofa on

this jacket. I guess it's because it's

nice and fluffy.

Toffee, do you want to be in my video?

Do you want to be in the video?

He looks like he's smiling.

Jeffrey. His fur's going

all brown and orange. He used to be jet

black, completely black. Now his body's

going all orangey. It's kind of cool.

Looks like he's on fire. Are you on fire?

Are you burning?

He kind of looks like a bat, doesn't he?

He's always had really big ears.

Big ears. Oh, did you see that? He has

so many missing teeth. His top 2 canines

are gone. Most of his molars are gone.

What happened to all your teeth, Toffee?

Are they falling out?

Still thinking about that bloody bald

ginger guy from yesterday. He comes in,

he buys fuel, he buys a load of shit, and

he asks for a receipt, and I print him off

his receipt, and And then the stupid

manager's behind me saying, Daniel, did

you ask if he wanted a receipt for the

fuel or for everything? I said no. And

then the stupid bald guy says, I wanted it

for the fuel. And then I said sorry. And

then he gave this big sigh like, is this

your first day? In this really rude way.

How the hell am I supposed to know if you

wanted a receipt for the fuel? You should

have said. You wanted a receipt for the

stupid fuel then, you fuck. You can't

expect me to ask every damn customer if

they want a receipt for the fuel or for

the whole shopping. It's just so

irritating. 90% of the people that come

in, they say, can I have a receipt for the

fuel? Because they use their brains. They

don't just expect me to know that they

want a receipt for the fuel only. I don't

see what's wrong with having the receipt

for everything because it has the fuel

written on it as well. But they want a

receipt that just has the fuel on it.

I don't know why. Well, I kind of do know

why, because my dad explained. He said

that people traveling on business

sometimes want the receipt for the fuel so

they can show it to their company and get

their money back. But why can't they just

show them the receipt for everything and

just cross off the shopping and just show

them the receipt for the fuel? I don't

know. I don't really understand how these

things work. And they don't understand how

my job works, so it just becomes like a

misunderstanding on both sides and

frustration follows.

But he was just so rude, the way he said

it, his face. It wasn't a big mistake.

It's not difficult to just print off a

fuel receipt. It just takes one button

tap. In future, just ask me for a receipt

for the fuel, okay? Is it that difficult?

It's one extra word. You say, can I have a

receipt? For the fuel. Okay, so 3 extra

words. It wasn't a big mistake. It was a

simple and easy mistake to make. You don't

have to be such a rude,

patronizing prick. I hope he doesn't watch

this video because he might beat me up.

What are the chances of that happening?

Today for dinner we have a big lump of

pork flesh simmering in its

own juices and fat. Doesn't that sound

delicious? Why does that sound

absolutely revolting, but at the same time

I really want to put this in my mouth?

I just don't understand the point of

religious studies. I mean, they teach us

all this crap about people who didn't even

exist. There was no God. There's no

Joseph. There's no— there's no stupid baby

called Jesus that was created by God

having sex with some woman called Mary.

Well, why was Mary having sex with God in

the first place? Why was she cheating on

her husband? That's not a very good lesson

to teach. Why couldn't God find some

goddess to have sex with and have a baby?

Why did he have to procreate with a human?

What, what? There's no goddesses in

Godland? But in other news, we have pie.

Yeah, rock-solid cold

pie. Okay, I'm gonna teach you

how to, how to prepare an avocado. Okay,

so first you just get a knife and you try

and cut it, but it's bloody rock-solid,

isn't it? I don't even know if it's ripe

or not. You just cut it

until you get to the middle where that big

seed is, and then just spin it around and

keep cutting.

And when you get all the way around— hold

on. Okay, now I've cut all the way around,

you just grab it and you wait for your

camera to focus. Focus, and then, and then

you twist it like this. I can't,

it's not twisting. Why isn't it twisting?

Something wrong with it. Hold on,

didn't cut all the way around.

Okay, there it is, there it is. I heard

the crack. Okay, now we should have some

twisting action. Yeah,

like that. And then get the

seed out. Like, no, not like that.

Just like poke it out with the knife.

And there's bits of seed chipping off,

but that's okay. And then just get

your seed and chuck it over there.

And then usually you just spoon it all

out, but this avocado isn't ripe, so it's

really hard. Maybe I should put it back in

Okay, this avocado isn't ripe,

so we're just gonna put it back in the

fridge and, uh,

Shit. Uh, ignore everything you just saw.

That didn't happen. Ah,

YouTube just ruined my day. Monetization

disabled for this video. This one.

They don't remember me. There's nothing

wrong with this video. There's nothing

wrong with the video. There's— it doesn't

go against any of YouTube's policies or

guidelines. There's There's no violence.

There's no excessive profanity.

I probably didn't even swear even one

time. There's no nudity or sexual stuff.

There's nothing about drugs or, or smoking

or those other bad stuff. I didn't

talk about sensitive topics like terrorism

or wars, and still this monetization just

gets randomly disabled. For no reason.

This actually happened before. This

happens quite a lot, actually. But usually

what happens is monetization comes back

after a week or 2. It just randomly comes

back. I don't know why. The last time this

happened, I actually sent an email to

YouTube saying, can you put monetization

back on, please? Because I'm not breaking

any of your stupid guidelines. Which is

what I did just now. I sent an email.

Hopefully they'll put it back onto the

green dollar sign soon.

It's just kind of irritating, especially

when a video is doing pretty well and then

suddenly you check your video page one day

and it's been disabled. It's just really

irritating because even if they do

re-enable it, I'm gonna lose monetization.

I'm gonna lose any revenue that I could

have made while it was disabled.