LeftFooted's Antics

LeftFooted's Antics

Here... I just write about the most random stuff


Sometimes, arrogance can save you

21 Dec 2024 3 minute read 0 comments LeftFooted $0.05

I'm at London Stansted Airport, which as most people know is nowhere near London. Back when I was younger and dumber and broke(r), I used to use this airport all the time. This is because this, as most people know, Stansted is London's Ryanair base...

Oh and by the way, Mark Zuckerberg is now a watch guy - go figure

7 Dec 2024 1 minute read 1 comment LeftFooted $0.03

I don't know what happened to him, but Mark Zuckerberg is now a watch guy. Here, he was spotted wearing a Bulgati Octo Finissimo while telling everyone Meta AI has nearly 600 million monthly users A lot of people say it all changed when he attended...

Why is everybody so focused on Justin Sun? There's clearly another problem with the stupid $6 million stunt

4 Dec 2024 1 minute read 5 comments LeftFooted $0.05

Everybody is shocked that Justin Sun, a man with a big ego and an even bigger bank account, ate a banana he bought for $6 million. I don't particularly like Sun and I definitely don't like the idea that he bought that stupid banana for $6 million, b...

A 5-minute article while waiting at the gate

16 Nov 2024 1 minute read 0 comments LeftFooted $0.05

These days I write all day every professionally, and that means I don't really write that much for other reasons. But when I was younger and dumber, I would write articles, for fun and practice, that I would measure in time, not words. A five-minut...

An ingenious strategy, but am I just a fool?

16 Nov 2024 1 minute read 1 comment LeftFooted $0.04

As a general rule, I avoid anything that requires a 'deposit' of any kind like the plague. Especially if it's a hotel. There are two reasons for this. A small and unlikely and unrealistic one, and a bigger, more realistic one. First, easiest thing...

It apparently takes a lot of losing to understand that but 'blaming the customer' is a bad strategy

13 Nov 2024 1 minute read 0 comments LeftFooted $0.05

Acolyte, Madame Web and Joker Folie à Deux have three things in common. First, they were all developed starting from existing IP that's been proven time and again successful, namely Star Wars, Spiderman and Joker. And yet second, they all flopped,...

The equivalent of not saying "thank you" when somebody holds the door for you

1 Nov 2024 1 minute read 0 comments LeftFooted $0.03

I'm writing this from my second (of two) hotels here. I've been here, on an island in the middle of the Indian Ocean, for about a week. I spent the first few days at a hotel, then moved here, to another hotel near the airport, for my last night. I...

Dear U.S, please get a ****** grip

1 Nov 2024 1 minute read 4 comments LeftFooted $0.07

Insulting people in order to win them over or make them change their mind has never worked. Never. I don't know why we think it can. It can't. I see that a lot with electric cars for example. We can talk about EVs for as long as you like, but if y...

Elon Musk summoned to court over $1 million giveaway

31 Oct 2024 1 minute read 4 comments LeftFooted $0.05

Elon Musk has been ordered to court in the state of Pennsylvania over his $1 million giveaway. To cut a very long story very short, here's what happened. Musk, who publicly announced his support for Trump after the first (of two) assassination atte...

My (unrequested) takeaway from Donald Trump's 3 hour conversation with Joe Rogan

26 Oct 2024 1 minute read 3 comments LeftFooted $0.05

I'm bored. And I'm at an airport. And I'm having wine. So I'm listening to Donald Trump's interview/podcast with Joe Rogan. It's three hours long, and I've watched two hours. I think I can already share my key takeaways. the clip of Donald Trump's ap...