Honk if you're not gay! (3 entries in one bundle)
Once upon a time, I was driving to UTD for my Physics lab when I passed a school bus. The children on it were holding a sign. Though I normally would not have payed any attention to their antics, I couldn't help but catch a glimpse of their it as I passed the bus. It was so shocking that I actually slowed down to let the bus catch up to me to confirm what my peripheral vision had suggested. They raised their sign again when they saw me again (I assume they just noticed the same car and were not actually targeting me). As you have probably ascertained from the title of this post, their sign said, "Honk if you're not gay!" I mused about whether or not to give them the satisfaction of getting my attention much less my honk.
As I thought about it, I realized the kids were rather clever with their sign. First, it was attention grabbing. Second, it was something different than every the standard sign. Third, they play off most people's homophobic mindsets and are also targeting the vast majority of society with the sign. And the funny thing is that I don't think I'm giving them too much credit here. I think when they thought of what to put on a sign, they probably took into account most of these factors.
So what was a young liberal with a strong belief in equal rights for homosexuals and gay marriage to do?
I honked
I would like to thank you all for your contributions to my MyCokeRewards account. And by "you all" I mean Trife. She regularly gives me codes for Coke bottles (mostly 2L) and occasionally a Sprite. My mom has also contributed quite a bit, as did my Physics of Astronomy class last semester. Oh, and Will contributes quite a bit with the 12-can boxes. But I want the rest of you to feel guilty. Yeah...feel that guilt. You know you've consumed Coke products. All you had to do was text me the code...that's actually the easiest method since I can then just forward the text to COKE (2653). Though I recently added a MyCokeRewards widget, so it's super easy from my computer too now. Anyway, enough with my bitching. I still love you all...I would just love you more if you gave me Coke codes.
So without further ado, this is for Trife:
Yeah, it's fucking sexy. It sits happily on the ledge above my monitor between my speakers, smiling at me, reaffirming my love for Diet Coke.
Oh, and even after redeeming these points, I'm still trying to save up enough for an alarm clock/iPod dock, so please keep (or start) sending codes!
This is an entry I've been contemplating for quite some time now, and since trilogies are awesome (even if at least one part typically sucks. I'm not talking about you, Back To The Future), I figured I could throw it in here and get away with it being a sort of half-assed entry.
I really hate automated doors. Without further explanation and justification, this might be construed as my contempt for people who are physically handicapped. That is not my intention at all. I was on crutches for six weeks. I know how difficult it is to get around when your legs are not both in working condition. And many people would give their left nut (sorry, not sure about female equivalent here cause left breast just doesn't work) to have that sort of mobility. So I have nothing against the handicapped.
What I hate about these contraptions is that they open so damned slowly. Not just that, but because they're automated, no amount of force will make them open any faster. Push/pull with all your might, and you might actually get the door to go move an inch farther than it wants, but not much, and it will quickly snap back that amount if you release it.
UTD is a very friendly school for physically handicapped people. so about half the doors are like this. And to further annoy me, there is no consistent pattern to which doors are automated. Yes, I know if I really paid attention, they are labeled (some more prominently than others). But that's too much to ask for someone who is just trying to enter a building with some sense of rapidity. I notice others entering buildings using counterintuitive doors, and I can only assume they do so in order to avoid these contraptions. I have 15 minutes to kill between my first and second class on TR, so I will sometimes just chill outside and watch people entering the building (since when exiting, the manual door is in the natural place on the right). I know I'm not alone in my contempt for these mechanisms.
There must be a better way to have doors open. I propose vertically opening, sliding doors. Why vertically opening? Because it would be fucking badass. I should start a fund or something and put a locked box outside each one of these bastard doors.
Or I could always just use the other doors
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As I thought about it, I realized the kids were rather clever with their sign. First, it was attention grabbing. Second, it was something different than every the standard sign. Third, they play off most people's homophobic mindsets and are also targeting the vast majority of society with the sign. And the funny thing is that I don't think I'm giving them too much credit here. I think when they thought of what to put on a sign, they probably took into account most of these factors.
So what was a young liberal with a strong belief in equal rights for homosexuals and gay marriage to do?
I honked
I would like to thank you all for your contributions to my MyCokeRewards account. And by "you all" I mean Trife. She regularly gives me codes for Coke bottles (mostly 2L) and occasionally a Sprite. My mom has also contributed quite a bit, as did my Physics of Astronomy class last semester. Oh, and Will contributes quite a bit with the 12-can boxes. But I want the rest of you to feel guilty. Yeah...feel that guilt. You know you've consumed Coke products. All you had to do was text me the code...that's actually the easiest method since I can then just forward the text to COKE (2653). Though I recently added a MyCokeRewards widget, so it's super easy from my computer too now. Anyway, enough with my bitching. I still love you all...I would just love you more if you gave me Coke codes.
So without further ado, this is for Trife:
Yeah, it's fucking sexy. It sits happily on the ledge above my monitor between my speakers, smiling at me, reaffirming my love for Diet Coke.
Oh, and even after redeeming these points, I'm still trying to save up enough for an alarm clock/iPod dock, so please keep (or start) sending codes!
This is an entry I've been contemplating for quite some time now, and since trilogies are awesome (even if at least one part typically sucks. I'm not talking about you, Back To The Future), I figured I could throw it in here and get away with it being a sort of half-assed entry.
I really hate automated doors. Without further explanation and justification, this might be construed as my contempt for people who are physically handicapped. That is not my intention at all. I was on crutches for six weeks. I know how difficult it is to get around when your legs are not both in working condition. And many people would give their left nut (sorry, not sure about female equivalent here cause left breast just doesn't work) to have that sort of mobility. So I have nothing against the handicapped.
What I hate about these contraptions is that they open so damned slowly. Not just that, but because they're automated, no amount of force will make them open any faster. Push/pull with all your might, and you might actually get the door to go move an inch farther than it wants, but not much, and it will quickly snap back that amount if you release it.
UTD is a very friendly school for physically handicapped people. so about half the doors are like this. And to further annoy me, there is no consistent pattern to which doors are automated. Yes, I know if I really paid attention, they are labeled (some more prominently than others). But that's too much to ask for someone who is just trying to enter a building with some sense of rapidity. I notice others entering buildings using counterintuitive doors, and I can only assume they do so in order to avoid these contraptions. I have 15 minutes to kill between my first and second class on TR, so I will sometimes just chill outside and watch people entering the building (since when exiting, the manual door is in the natural place on the right). I know I'm not alone in my contempt for these mechanisms.
There must be a better way to have doors open. I propose vertically opening, sliding doors. Why vertically opening? Because it would be fucking badass. I should start a fund or something and put a locked box outside each one of these bastard doors.
Or I could always just use the other doors
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