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Chapter 1: Why do we ruin good things as a society?
I've noticed something about us as a society. We really know how to ruin a good thing. Yeah, we do. And we do it time and time again. We take something good and we completely obliterate the culture around it. And we completely sell it out. And we make it so corporate that it's unbearable. We really know how to ruin a good thing. Stick with me here. I'll give you an example, okay? The Stanley Cup.
The culture around the Stanley Cup is a catastrophe. For one, it's become sort of a trend to collect every single color. Now, the beauty of the Stanley Cup is that it's incredibly durable and will last you a very long time. So you really only need, at max, two or three of them. I have three of them. But we really only need one because it's such a good cup.
But it's become a trend to collect every single color. Fine. That's a hobby for some people. Who am I to judge? And that's great for the company. You know, they're probably very happy about this. However, a lot of people are posting videos about their Stanley Cup hauls and the new Stanley Cup colors that they got.
And people are waiting outside of a Target because there's a new Stanley Cup drop at Target starting at 6 a.m. it's starting to be something that people judge, right? People are judging people who participate in the hype of Stanley Cup. It's starting to make the news.
And now the culture around the Stanley Cup has sort of been ruined because every time you walk around with your Stanley Cup, there's a chance that people are perceiving you like you're a Stanley Cup collecting freak. I'm not saying that's right or wrong. I'm just saying that that's the truth. I also think the Stanley Cup has an interesting symbolism.
And I don't know exactly how it happened, how closely it relates to the Stanley Cup collectors, but I feel like Stanley Cups have become sort of associated with a level of chooginess in the way that we absolutely couldn't stand the Ugg boots immediately after Ugg boots were trendy in the early 2010s, or it was actually mid-2010s, or early to mid-2010s.
We all hated Ugg boots for a few years, thought they were absolutely hideous because they were so basic for a few years there. It's like the same thing with the Stanley Cup. It's become like a choogy cup. It's not cool to have that cup. It's sort of Karen coated. It's sort of, it's just a mess. The culture around the Stanley Cup has been ruined. And I think it's unfair.
I think it's a shame because I think the Stanley Cup is an incredible cup. I have three of them and I use them all. constantly. They're all constantly in rotation. I have two different types of beverages. I put in two out of the three of the Stanley cups. I always have sparkling water with apple cider vinegar in one because that's a drink that I like to drink. Okay.
It's weird, but it's tasty to me. And it, I feel like makes my tummy happy, but I don't know. And there's definitely no science backing that up because I've Googled it. And then I also have another one filled with electrolytes because I love hot yoga and I'm constantly dehydrated.
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Chapter 2: How has the Stanley Cup culture been ruined?
I feel like it's looked at something where it's like, oh my God, like you're so not laid back and chill. Like you're embroidering your initials into stuff so that what, you don't lose it, nerd? Like, you know what I'm saying? Like, it feels like that. I just feel like the concept of monogramming something, like getting your initials on something, it's actually kind of cool.
Like, I don't think it's cringe. I don't know. And I think like taking the extra effort and like getting your makeup bag embroidered or... You know, getting a blanket and getting that embroidered or like it feels like everyone hates it and everyone thinks it's sort of cringe. And I just I don't know exactly how it happened.
It almost feels like something that like a super mom would do for all of their kids lunchboxes. It feels weird. Not cool. Right. I don't know. But I just I think it is. And I don't think it's try hard. And I don't think it's in choogy land. I think it can actually be cool. Not everybody thinks it's choogy, by the way, like there. But I I don't know.
I think the culture around it got ruined, perhaps because maybe it is sort of the mom thing.
that embroiders you know all the initials of her kids into the lunch boxes and then the kids go to school and all the kids are like okay mama's boy like you have your little embroidered little lunch box you know maybe it started then for us um when somebody's parent like loved them enough to embroider their lunch box it's like fuck you that's cringe you know and then maybe that
carried on into adulthood for us, or perhaps it was the Vera Bradley, you know, floral bags of 2012 embroidered with cursive letters that have just scarred us for life. It could be one of those two things. It could be something else. But I do think that the culture around monogramming has been completely ruined. I also think it's often not done very well.
Like it's often done in sort of an outdated way. And, you know, I actually just recently was online shopping, which is not good. And this company was like hand painting toiletry bags and stuff, hand painting onto canvas initials. And I was like, that is sick. And I did buy it. And I was like, this is cool. Like monogramming is cool. Like we need to not sleep on the potential for monogramming.
I think it's not all bad. Moving on to the show, The Office, okay? I absolutely love The Office. You probably do too. The problem with The Office is that it's such a good show that absolutely everyone loves it. And for one out of 10 people, I would assume their favorite show, honestly, one out of five people.
If you were to take a random selection of five people and say, what's your favorite TV show of all time? At least one out of five would probably say The Office. And I think that that person genuinely means it. I think The Office is one of the best TV shows ever to be made. And so it makes sense that it's a lot of people's favorite show.
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