#1 in the hood? G?
Well, the terrorists have officially won. They have turn America into a country where we now wear our retardedness on our sleeve, quite proudly. It was much nicer when we hid it from the world, and people actually looked up to us. They have gotten us to the point where our country can get all up in arms about a promo for a cartoon. Madness. I assume by now most of you have heard about what happened in Boston, but incase you haven't here is a recap. Basically it started yesterday with "Breaking News" with 5 mysterious packages around the city of Boston being found and reported. I saw this news, figured it was most likely nothing, but immediately contacted Tovah (my friend fro birthright who is originally from Boston...we won't hold that aginst her). She had already heard about it from her mom (because it is a Jewish mom's JOB to panic at the first sign of everything, it's how we've survived as a people for so long). We had a little discussion, and I quote myself from it "it's probably nothing. Our country likes to panic about anything now". Then I am at home, and my roommate runs into my room saying "go to MSN.com" so I do, and what is the headline? It's a picture of a panel of lights in the shape of a moonanite (a character from Aqua Teen Hunger Force) giving the finger! If they had shown that to me on the news earlier that day, I probably would have laughed just as hard as I did that night. Retarded. Now of course the governement is going after Cartoon Network and "Aqua Teen Hunger Force" a show that, when it's funny, it's absolutely balls to the wall funny, and all other times it's ok. Why they are arresting them? For advertising, I guess. What's next, arresting people for critisizing America? Uh-oh.
Then later that night, after watching ::an unmentionable show do to massive embarasment:: on Fox, I caught the opening of the 10 o'clock news, as sometimes happens when I leave my remote out of reach from my desk. They opened up with a report that nobody really likes to hear about, but their approach officially put Fox at the forefront of Retarded America. I won't get into the story too much, but basically it was about a kid out in Hicksville who was molested by an older student, and the mother wanted the school to help move her son to another school so he could "continue with his life". Makes total sense, and it's a terrible story, espeically with the school not doing anything about it. Now here is where Fox News gets retarded. First off, incase you didn't know, it is illegal to reveal the identity of a victim of a sexual abuse case, especially when that victim is a minor. So when Fox interviewed the kid (because it obviously was SO IMPORTANT to do so), they blurred his face, however, they didn't blur the kids shirt, or mask his voice. Seems to me if I knew that kid (being a neighbor, relative, whatever) I'd most likely be able to identify him. THEN Fox goes and interviews THE KIDS MOTHER?!? Of course they didn't blur her face or make any effort to hide her identity, aside from having a bright flashy sign pointing to her saying "This lady's son is a victim, everyone point him out!" Seems to me if anyone knows that family, they now know about the kid's issues, even if they didn't before, leaving the kid open for unwanted sympathetic approaches, possibly more abuse from other attackers, and even more teasings from other kids. Congratulations kids, you just won a lifetime of hard therapy, courtesy of Fox News (Fox News will not be paying for any of this).
Then on the subway, while reading over someone's shoulder, I caught a little blub of a poll taken about the MTA. The question was "The MTA is putting up signs in the stations on the L Train to let people know when the next train is coming. Do you think they should do this at every station?" I was only able to read the first two answers, but one was a yes, and the other was a no, so I can only assume that those were the only two answers they printed before the results, which I also couldn't see. The Yes answer was pretty much "Yes, I don't see why not." The No answer though, took me a little by surprise. The No person seemed to be VERY against it "Why would I want to know what time the train is coming?" That answer, although incredibly stupid, is also pretty New York. Most New Yorkers are quite used to the fact that they can enter the subway station and have absolutely no idea if the train is coming soon, if they just missed the train, the train will be there waiting for them, or better yet, the train is massively delayed due to a crazy person demanding everybody on the train take their pants off or he will crap all over them (it's had to have happened at least once). So I took the rest of my ride to contemplate this. I have always been on the side of being in favor of a sign in every station to let me know when to expect the next train. But then I thought about the "New York" answer, and started to think "well, what if I find out the train is delayed, and I am going to be sitting in the station for a half hour waiting?" Of course my brain quickly kicked into "what am I, a fucking retard?" mode andsnapped out of that. I have an unlimited ride metro card, if the train is going to be delayed that long, I might as well leave the station and grab a cup of coffee or something (YAY unlimited ride metrocards!). And I would usually like to know there was a delay, I'd probably get less frusterated if the train was late, knowing I had to wait as apposed to guessing I had to. I mean the only other option would be to impliment a schedule, but the MTA can't even keep to a bus on schedule, so I doubt the subway would be any better. I mean, pretty much every other city with a mass transit subway system has a schedule/train display of some sort, why not New York. Do we have to continuously hold the title of most confusing subway system EVER?
There is also much drama going on in my company at the moment. More on that when I re-vocate, which will hopefully be asap. Anyone have any leeds?
Today's Entry:
Heyheyhey (pronounced "hey hey hey") - like being stoned
"Dude, after getting off the Gravitron for the 4th time in a row, I was so dizzy heyheyhey."
Then later that night, after watching ::an unmentionable show do to massive embarasment:: on Fox, I caught the opening of the 10 o'clock news, as sometimes happens when I leave my remote out of reach from my desk. They opened up with a report that nobody really likes to hear about, but their approach officially put Fox at the forefront of Retarded America. I won't get into the story too much, but basically it was about a kid out in Hicksville who was molested by an older student, and the mother wanted the school to help move her son to another school so he could "continue with his life". Makes total sense, and it's a terrible story, espeically with the school not doing anything about it. Now here is where Fox News gets retarded. First off, incase you didn't know, it is illegal to reveal the identity of a victim of a sexual abuse case, especially when that victim is a minor. So when Fox interviewed the kid (because it obviously was SO IMPORTANT to do so), they blurred his face, however, they didn't blur the kids shirt, or mask his voice. Seems to me if I knew that kid (being a neighbor, relative, whatever) I'd most likely be able to identify him. THEN Fox goes and interviews THE KIDS MOTHER?!? Of course they didn't blur her face or make any effort to hide her identity, aside from having a bright flashy sign pointing to her saying "This lady's son is a victim, everyone point him out!" Seems to me if anyone knows that family, they now know about the kid's issues, even if they didn't before, leaving the kid open for unwanted sympathetic approaches, possibly more abuse from other attackers, and even more teasings from other kids. Congratulations kids, you just won a lifetime of hard therapy, courtesy of Fox News (Fox News will not be paying for any of this).
Then on the subway, while reading over someone's shoulder, I caught a little blub of a poll taken about the MTA. The question was "The MTA is putting up signs in the stations on the L Train to let people know when the next train is coming. Do you think they should do this at every station?" I was only able to read the first two answers, but one was a yes, and the other was a no, so I can only assume that those were the only two answers they printed before the results, which I also couldn't see. The Yes answer was pretty much "Yes, I don't see why not." The No answer though, took me a little by surprise. The No person seemed to be VERY against it "Why would I want to know what time the train is coming?" That answer, although incredibly stupid, is also pretty New York. Most New Yorkers are quite used to the fact that they can enter the subway station and have absolutely no idea if the train is coming soon, if they just missed the train, the train will be there waiting for them, or better yet, the train is massively delayed due to a crazy person demanding everybody on the train take their pants off or he will crap all over them (it's had to have happened at least once). So I took the rest of my ride to contemplate this. I have always been on the side of being in favor of a sign in every station to let me know when to expect the next train. But then I thought about the "New York" answer, and started to think "well, what if I find out the train is delayed, and I am going to be sitting in the station for a half hour waiting?" Of course my brain quickly kicked into "what am I, a fucking retard?" mode andsnapped out of that. I have an unlimited ride metro card, if the train is going to be delayed that long, I might as well leave the station and grab a cup of coffee or something (YAY unlimited ride metrocards!). And I would usually like to know there was a delay, I'd probably get less frusterated if the train was late, knowing I had to wait as apposed to guessing I had to. I mean the only other option would be to impliment a schedule, but the MTA can't even keep to a bus on schedule, so I doubt the subway would be any better. I mean, pretty much every other city with a mass transit subway system has a schedule/train display of some sort, why not New York. Do we have to continuously hold the title of most confusing subway system EVER?
There is also much drama going on in my company at the moment. More on that when I re-vocate, which will hopefully be asap. Anyone have any leeds?
Today's Entry:
Heyheyhey (pronounced "hey hey hey") - like being stoned
"Dude, after getting off the Gravitron for the 4th time in a row, I was so dizzy heyheyhey."