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August 15 the rant about How about ‘Badgers on a Hovercraft’? - MOVIE OPINIONS - MSNBC.com
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July 11 the rant about The Core/suspension of disbeliefContinuing a previous rant on movies which change/ignore the laws of Physics I bring to you The rant about The Core: the movie that had Geologists all over the world cringing. The plot of this movie is basically a modern day Journey to the Center of the Earth... except that nowadays we know that we can't do that, it's impossible! Elementary school children are taught that underneath the earth's crust is magma. Magma is liquid rock, rock so hot that it melted. Now I don't know if I need to spell this out to most people but apparently the writers of this movie missed the important fact that basically all types of metal melt at a lower temperature than rock, thus the ship they travel in would melt into a puddle upon contact with said magma. Fortunately the crew of the ship would never have to worry about this because their ship would be crushed into the size of a pop can by the immense pressure long before it reached the magma. They decided to invent a metal that doesn't exist, call it "Unobtainium", and build a ship out of it because this metal has magical properties and will survive the trip. I actually don't have *that* big a beef with this particular idea. I actually have to laugh out loud at the unoriginal name! Unobtainium. Well, the apparently obtained enough to craft a ship... so shouldn't they rename it to Obtainium? Or what about Foundsomeium or Gotplentythanksium?
*shakes head sadly*
People who have heard me rant about this movie have said "Why can't you suspend your disbelief and just enjoy a cheezy movie?" I have said this before, suspension of disbelief can only get you so far. There are almost rules to how far a movie can go before someone's disbelief is shattered. If you have a movie set in a fantastical place or time, such as another planet or in the distant future it is far easier to suspend one's disbelief on such things as physics because any flaws in that area can be chalked up to advances in technology or different laws of physics on a different planet. Movies about fantastical subject matter, such as magic or mythical beasts, are also generally easier to believe in. On the other hand if you have a movie about a true historical event or something set in modern times you cannot stray far from the facts surrounding that era. Cars of today cannot fly. Fact. Medieval warriors did not invent gunpowder. Fact. If you are aiming for scientific accuracy in your movie, or wish to give your audience the impression that your movie is scientifically acurate, you cannot turn around and blatently shatter the laws of physics. You really need to introduce some sort of fantastic element if you want people to suspend their disbelief. This is why Back to the Future was good and Timeline was bad. The problem with The Core and movies like The Core is that they pretend to know what they are talking about. This is why I can suspend my disbelief on movies like Star Wars (which if you were to nitpick the physicality of their universe... you would talk yourself into an early grave) and I cannot for this movie. Star Wars does not take it's science seriously, it does not try to explain itself of make excuses, it leans more into the fantasy genre in this aspect; and this is why it is easy not to think about all the impossible crap that is happening. The Core is set in the here and now, therefore we must judge it based on what we know here and now. When the audience knows more about what's beneath the earth's crust than the writers of the movie do, then you have a big problem.
A tidbit of information about this movie I found at the IMDB:
At the University of British Columbia, Canada, an Earth and Ocean Science course (EOSC 310) uses this film as a learning tool by showing the film to students and then analyzing the bad science behind it. Ironically, at least one of UBC's professors was consulted during the shoots that were done in Vancouver.
If you wish to learn more about some of scientific innacuracies about this movie you can follow this link. April 30 the rant about stupid people 4I just read an incredibly stupid story the other day. I'm not allowed to reprint it but I can give you a link to it here:
Seriously? If it isn't dumb enough to leave your 3 children home alone, all of whom are under 4 years old, you did it so you could watch Jerry Springer??? Were you a guest? If not you should be. Jerry Springer is one of the people I loathe simply because he panders to the lowest common denominator just to get ratings. The more outrageous or trashy the guests are the higher his ratings go. It's shows like this that lower the IQ of the people who watch it until the viewers are so dumb they leave their 4 year old children home alone to go see the catfights and drunken slobs in person.
Another stupid person strikes again: Now it's men like this who should be sterilized. The guy goes into a strip club with his 4 year old son sitting in the back seat of his car. He left the boy alone in the car and told him that if he got out of the car monsters would eat him. Then he goes inside to watch strippers. The car doors were unlocked, it was cold and raining out, and the car was parked a few meters away from a 4-lane street. Eventually the boy gets out of the car to look for his dad and wanders into the strip club, and guy gets arrested. He posted $500 bond and was released from the Tulsa Jail. I think he should have gotten his nuts ripped off. I can't even begin to list off the myriad things wrong with what he did. $500 dollars is totally not a big enough fine for him. The complaint he was arrested for was encouraging a minor child to be in need of supervision but I don't see it that way so much as child endangerment. Some people just do not get it that UNDER NO CIRCUMSTANCES MUST YOU EVER LEAVE A CHILD ALONE IN A CAR FOR ANY LENGTH OF TIME!!!! I don't give a fuck if you just ran into the corner store to grab some milk and you were only gone 30 seconds. The safety and life of your child is more important than the extra 10 minutes it will take to undo/redo the safety harnesses and all the extra hassle of bringing them indoors with you to grab that milk. I want to smack that man in the head and ask him "What's wrong with you? Where are your brains, in your ass? What were you thinking?" and of course his answer will be "I wasn't thinking". Of course you weren't. Obviously watching strippers is more important to you than your son, therefore you don't have to worry about him anymore. Congratulations, you have lost visitation rights for your son. You are an unfit parent, you filthy pervert.
A local fucktard story: I read a story on the front page of the local newspaper this morning that made me want to both cry and rip someone's spleen out through their right nostrel at the same time. The story was about a poor little kitten that someone had performed one of the worst mutilations on that the president of the local SPCA had ever seen. The few month old kitten was alerted to by a neighbour who had heard his screams and upon arrival the SPCA had found the baby with his testicles and part of his penis cut off with a pair of scissors. The kitten's genitals were so swolen and infected veterinarians who were trying to save his life were unsure if he would make it. If he did survive he would have to be hooked up to a catheter for the rest of his life. The suspect arrested claimed that he just found the kitten like that, he didn't do it. Riiiiiight... you just happened to find a suffering and maimed kitten and don't take it to the vet WHY?? Mr. Shit-for-brains also didn't think that his story would be investigated but shortly after he made that statement a woman contacted the police claiming he had just adopted that kitten and his sibling from her home a few days before. She had advertised that she was giving away kittens free to a good home and he adopted two of them. Unfortunately to her, he was not the caring individual he appeared to be when she met him. This man is a waste of skin. He does not deserve to have the daughter he claims to have adopted the kittens for, let alone have any living creature of any kind. He deserves to be behind bars for the rest of his life, but only after I am through with him ;-) If I could have my revenge I would love to cut his balls off with a pair of rusty scissors and ask him how it feels? Does it feel good? Does it hurt? Awww poor baby. How do you think that baby kitten felt when you did this to him, huh?!?!?! Fucker. Seriously, some people do not deserve to live. Um, scratch that... no people deserve to live.
Here's a two-parter for you that I found hilarious:
Oh My Gawd. When I read those I laughed my ass off. I can't believe that she actually tried to sue the store, as if the store has control over wild birds. She just shouldn't go outside. I mean I think it's stupid when people try to sue stores if they stub their toe on the doorway or trip going up a staircase. It's not the store's fault you're clumsy and you're not looking where you're going. Seriously though, this woman takes the cake. In the US you know that this suing everybody epidemic they have has gone way too far when you see things like this. Why doesn't she sue the park ranger for the grass stain on her pants, or the beach lifeguard because a crab pinched her foot. It's people like her that necessitate those ridiculous warning signs we see on just about every product that tell you not to do seemingly ludicrous things to them.
Anywho, now the obligatory dumb stories from work:
If you work in the service industry long enough and see a lot of customers you begin to wonder how any of them managed to get through elementary school. One woman today asked for one of our specialty burgers and I asked her if she would like the quarter pounder or the half pounder version of that burger, because it was available as either one. She then said "Well, which one is bigger?" I paused a second because I couldn't believe an adult asked me that. The education system has failed her.
I saw a small charicature once that depicted the average food service customer. It was an average looking cartoon man saying something along the lines of "I want extra stuff but I don't want to pay for it." I thought to myself that this cartoon hit it dead on the money. A prime example was a young man who came through drive thru the other night and asked for a medium smarties blizzard. Then he said "... and can you add a little bit of extra smarties in there for me." "You want extra smarties?" I asked. "No... I just want a little bit more because last time I got one with no smarties in it."
I rolled my eyes at that point because I seriously doubted that he ever got a blizzard with NO smarties in it. Yeah, right buddy. We gave you just a cup with some icecream in it and no toppings whatsoever. I don't think so. Nobody on our front counter staff is *that* incompetant and I can guarantee that. So he pulls up to the window and the Assistant Manager has just finished making the blizzard. I take his money and he says "So can you just add a little bit extra smarties to that blizzard for me? Sure you can. You can do that for me. You've great customer service." I was kind of taken aback by the pushiness of this manipulative little prick. I had no doubt whatsoever that this blizzard contained the exact correct measurement of smarties and was the peak of blizzard perfection, as it was made with the expertise of the Assistant Manager. I explained to him that I couldn't add "just a little extra" smarties because our dispenser dishes out measured scoops, it's not possible to get a little, I'd have to add a whole extra scoop. Then he says "So go ahead, you do that." Infuriated by the ballsiness of this smug asswipe I walked around the corner where he couldn't see me and stood there a moment as a wicked grin spread across my face. I waited another moment, holding the blizzard, and walked back over to the window. With a smirk, I handed him his blizzard and told him to have a nice day, all the while relishing my tiny bit of vengeance ;-) No, I will not be pushed into giving you extra toppings for free today.
Why is it that some people when they have a complaint, feel the need to yell and scream and curse until they get what they want? It is so much easier if you talk to someone in a calm, rational voice and you are far more likely to have your complaint taken seriously. I mean if there is a big problem I can see why you might be angry but yelling and screaming about it isn't going to solve anything any faster. For example a customer came in the other day with a bag containing some burgers and fries, asked to see a supervisor/manager and demanded his money back for his burgers. One of the other supervisors, Kris, handled the complaint as I was serving customers in drive-thru at the time. Kris asked the usual questions such as "What was wrong with the burgers? Did you come through drive-thru or front counter? Would you like a replacement?" and other questions to try to determine where we might have gone wrong and to try to find out which order was his... stuff like that. He ranted and raved instead that he wanted his money back and didn't really answer any of the questions... I didn't remember serving him and neither did Kris and we didn't see his order on any of our cash registers, we couldn't figure out what went wrong. Every passing second the guy stood there he got angrier and angrier until our manager came upstairs and the guy started yelling and screaming at her when she started asking the same kinds of questions Kris had. He just continued to yell and curse and get angrier with every passing second as my manager also tried to figure out which order was his to try to determine how much she was supposed to refund him for. It was around this time that the manager was able to pry the important information out of him that his girlfriend had purchased the burgers four hours ago. Four Hours!! Well duh the food is cold, genius! Any food is going to be cold after FOUR Hours!
April 04 the rant about Deep Blue SeaOk I saw this movie once years ago and i friggin hated it, it was stupid. It was recently on tv and I got sucked into watching it again. I had forgotten how much I hated the movie and I feel the overwhelming urge to rant, yet again. C'mon, you know me I gotta let this shit out.
The reason for my hatred of this movie isn't so much the acting or the visual effects or anything like that, it's the blatant smack in the face of lack of biology. I mean this movie's cast of characters consists of marine biologists and scientists and other supposedly smart people but I guess they didn't think to consult any real ones before making this garbage. I usually don't have too much of a problem suspending my disbelief for movies, I'm a fantasy fan and you can't get much further from reality than that. When it comes to some movies that try to look educated and scientific but make very large mistakes in simple Physics or other areas of science, I can't ignore those kinds of gaping plot holes and enjoy the movie. The basic plot is that apparently a shark's brain contains a chemical which can cure Alzheimer's disease, so they make the shark's brain bigger so they can mine more of the chemical. As a side effect the sharks got smarter. Well, DUH! What, they increase the creature's brain mass and they didn't expect any side effects? That's some pretty crappy science work there. Rule number 1 is always map out any possible side effects. Best case scenario: nothing happens, worst case: shark dies. I guess they didn't think of the grey area in between? Besides the tremendous DUH moment there which had me rolling my eyes the worst part was yet to come. At one point later they show a shark swimming backwards. Yes, you read me right, it swam BACKWARDS! My eyes flew open in disbelief when I saw that. I sat there saying "Tell me I didn't just see what I thought I saw." Then one of the characters says "I didn't know sharks could swim backwards" and I shouted "That's because they CAN'T!!!" It is physically impossible for a shark to swim backwards and no amount of boosted intelligence will change that. You could clone Einstein's brain and transplant it into a shark and it still wouln't change the fact that they are physically incapable of backwards locomotion. The same way a fish can't ride a bicycle or an elephant can't climb a ladder a shark CANNOT swim backwards. Their tail, their only source of propulsion, swishes side to side, driving a shark forward and only forward. A shark cannot make it's tail move in any other direction which would enable it to move backward. To prove my point you can try this simple experiment at home (and I hope I can explain this part properly). Make a fan out of a piece of paper (or if you have a hand fan already you can use that) and fan yourself with it. See how it blows the air directly towards you. Now, with the fan still facing you, make the fan blow the air in the opposite direction, away from you. It can't be done. You'd have to change the position of the fan so that it was facing away from you. The same is with a shark, for it to be able to swim backwards it would have to remove it's tail and attach it to it's nose. It would of course suffocate quickly because the water would be flowing over it's gills backwards and it wouldn't be able to breathe. If this movie's writers had bothered to do any actual science other than what would look cool they would have figured that out. Plot holes like that one ruin a movie for me. /sigh The worst part of this is that there are many other movies out there that have a huge hole in the basic science. There are other things that a movie can do to be more exciting and shocking without changing the laws of physics. March 21 the rant about "You have to know these things."Under no circumstances must you ever say to me "You have to know these things." I will be forced to punch you in the face. At the last two jobs I've had both of my bosses have told me "You have to know these things" whenever there was something I didn't know. Well, duh, tell me something I don't know, like what "these things" are? Excuse me if my psychic abilities haven't fully developed because the last time I checked the only way to "know these things" was for someone to actually tell me "these things" so then I would know them. It's incredibly irritating to know that it would be far simpler to just tell me "these things" outright than to say "you have to know these things." I'm not stupid, I already know that there are lots of things I'm supposed to know but until you actually tell them to me I'm not ever going to know them now am I? If people took a second to think about that you could be a more effective boss and your employees would actually know more about their job. I mean, you wouldn't send a first year med student into an OR to perform open heart surgery and then tell the kid "You have to know these things" when he/she asks you what to do. Why should it be any different at any other place of work? Most employees are at least smart enough to know that there are things about their job that they are supposed to know, like where we keep the extra things, particulars about the products they sell, what to do at opening/closing... Unless they're told what they are they aint gonna know, and to just say "You have to know these things" is simply a cop out. Maybe they say it because *They* don't know the answer... /shrug
March 16 the rant about poverty*squeals with joy* Some nice person gave me some suggestions for some new rants. I love it! I accept your challenge! I'm gonna start off with poverty because it's something I personally know a fair bit about since I live in it! ugh. Yes, poverty sucks. Yes, there is a staggeringly large percentage of the globe that live in it. Yes, it's inhuman and cruel and it shouldn't be this way. Yes, there is no easy solution to this problem and it is currently getting worse. The rich are steadily getting richer and the poor even poorer. It's stupid and it's senseless and it should stop. Enough for me stating the obvious.
The poverty problem is a lot more widespread than a lot of the financially endowed people would think. When rich people think of poor people they think of third world countries where people barely have clothing and water.They might have the mental image of the old bum living in a box in some back alley far away from their posh mansions. They have no idea of the camoflaged poor that are everywhere, all around them. Even in their own backyard there are working poor, people who work full time jobs but make so little money they can't afford a place to live. I've seen it, people who could only get hired at a minimum wage job and can't afford the rent of a one-bedroom apartment so they have to live in their car. That's just wrong on so many levels. I work in a supervisory position in the food service industry, I make barely above minimum wage, and if I didn't have a roommate sharing rent with me I would never be able to afford this small one-bedroom apartment in the not-so-nice part of the city. What is wrong with this picture??? It takes two people working full time to raise enough money to have a roof over our heads and food on our plates? Thinking back to the 1940's/50's the image of the old family when father came home from a hard day at work to find mother in the kitchen cooking supper in her pretty dress and high heels, the daughter in her poodle skirt and the son in his sweater-vest doing homework... very 'Leave it to Beaver'. It's a classic image but what's gone wrong since those days? It takes two people to make ends meet today whereas then it took only one? Oh, and if this dual income household has a child they then have to shell out even more money to pay for daycare because both parents are too busy working to look after their baby. Day care is expensive, you almost need three people bringing in full-time wages to be able to afford that. The working poor should be an oxymoron but there are far too many, people living paycheck to paycheck, never seeming to get ahead and not because of poor budgeting. That's me right there: a full time job in management, living in a modest apartment, no car payments sapping my bank account, and I live in poverty. That's enough to make me puke. Some of my friends are even worse off that they need financial help from social assistance because they don't make enough at their full time jobs don't cover rent, medical bills, and day care. Gone are the days of the ideal '50s single income family.
Why is this? Capitalism, commercialism, inflation, politics, the government, giant corporate conglomerates, the blame does not lie on just one culprit. I wish I had a solution for this, I really do. Increasing the minimum wage would only cause businesses to increase their prices for goods and services to cover wage costs. I see it all too often, after the government finally agrees to increase minimum wage the prices of food, electricity, clothing and everything else goes up as well, and this ends up nullifying the pay increase. Sad, very sad. The prices of the food at my work is going up the second time this year... and it's only March. It's friggin ridiculous. There needs to be some way out there for those people who have like billions of dollars to have some of it taken away and given to people who need it more. Make those uber rich people donate a percentage of their yearly income to charities for the homeless and poverished, like the Salvation Army or something. Seriously, no one person in the world needs more than a hundred million dollars, I don't care who you are. The number of people who fall into that category of wealth is mindblowing. Ugh. The worst part is there is no easy solution and there never will be one, this problem will just get worse and worse until the Earth gets so polluted we need to migrate to a new planet. Of course the poor won't be able to afford seats on the shuttles...
February 21 the rant about the Muhammad cartoonsLet me start by saying that I have seen these cartoons and I don't find them funny in the least. If you don't know what cartoons I am referring to I recommend not going to search for them as they are a waste of the paper they were originally drawn on. I'm not a Muslim but I was offended by them.
Some Danish cartoonists for some reason felt the need to draw a dozen or so caricatures of Muhammad and print them in the newspaper Jyllands-Posten. One of the cartoons depict Muhammad with a large bomb in his turban, another shows Muhammad on a cloud telling two newly arrived dead suicide bombers "Stop, we have run out of virgins." These cartoons were then circulated around the globe, causing riots and violent protests everywhere, especially in the Middle East.
All I have to say is :
DUH!!!
What the hell did you think was going to happen??? You take a religious icon that is very important to a large percentage of the globe and make insensitive, insulting, and blasphemous cartoons... and you didn't expect people to get angry?? Are you stoned or stupid? First off I'm going to let you in on a little bit of information that apparently these Danish cartoonist didn't know: In the many Muslim traditions it is considered sacrilege to draw/paint/create a likeness of Muhammad. It may seem odd to a lot of people who are used to having seen many pictures of people of worship (eg. painting of Jesus Christ). So mistake #1 was just drawing Muhammad. Mistake #2 was drawing an insulting charicature of Muhammad. Mistake #3 was printing this in a paper where many Muslims will see it. Denmark does have a substantial Muslim population and they were obviously furious. I mean it was the worst possible thing to draw at the worst possible time. Presently a large percentage of the rest of the world is trying hard to create peace in the middle east, you just hit a hornet's nest with a baseball bat. Mistake #4 was picking the worst possible time in history to unveil these drawings. Your mama must be damn proud of you.
I'm not all for censorship or anything but this really isn't about censorship... this is more about stopping a hate crime. I am all for freedom of speech but there is a difference between freedom of speech and promoting hatred and bigotry. If Hitler were alive today would we give him his own column in the newspaper to write about whatever he wanted? Hell no! He would write anti-Semitic propaganda. That is a hate crime and hate crimes are not freedom of speech. These cartoons constitute a hate crime. They were drawn to deliberately provoke, offend, and aggravate Muslims during a time of great strife and turmoil for those people.
Hypothetical situation... lets say I work in a large newspaper in the southern USA. Right after 9/11 happens I draw a few cartoons in the newspaper. One cartoon depicts the Pope sodomizing Jesus Christ dressed as an altar boy while the Pope shouts "Yeah, take it bitch! I'm gonna make you squeal like a pig!" and Jesus is crying. Another cartoon depicts a trailer trash couple with the barefoot and pregnant wife crying telling the drunken husband "Honey, I've lost the baby." and the caption underneath reads "God loves abortions."
Can you imagine how many Americans would come to my house and lynch me? Cartoons like those would never have been printed, especially at that point in time, and it's not because of censorship, it's the stopping of a hate crime. Those example cartoons have no merit, there is no message in them, other than hatred. The same is true for the Muhammad cartoons. To be entitled to freedom of speech you must have something worthwhile to say. Most of the Muhammad cartoons have the feeling as though they were drawn with a poison-filled pen. This is not freedom of speech, this is slander, this is bigotry, this is a hate crime.
Locally a university professor posted a few of these cartoons on his office door sparking protests from Muslim students and some of that professor's colleagues. You'd think a supposed educated man would know better than to do something so stupid.
A high school student posted a few of the cartoons in the most recent copy of his school newspaper. The newspaper has been terminated and the boy was told to write an apology. He said in an interview that he doesn't believe he did anything wrong and doesn't feel he should apologize. His parents should smack some sense into that kid. Racism should not be tolerated. Bigotry should not be tolerated. Oh how I wish I had that kid's email... I'd send him this rant. I hope that he learns to open his eyes and see the destruction and anger things like this can cause. This is the reason that there are a few limitations to freedom of speech. I don't mean that everything that might possibly offend someone needs to be censored, far from it. What I mean is that something that OBVIOUSLY will enrage a large population and does nothing but breed more hatred and bigotry should be censored. It does nobody any good to be the cause of violence. This kind of stupidity gives me a headache.
I hope that those of you who read this can see what I'm trying to say... I don't like censorship any more than most people but there is a point where you have to draw the line to stop an inevitable violent outbreak. There were more than 40 Danish cartoonists contacted to submit drawings of Muhammad and only 12 responded... those who didn't should be congratulated that their "Bad Idea" alarms are in working order. Thank you.
A final note to Muslims and to the rest of the world: Please, please, please calm down... violence does nothing but beget more violence. Please use words, not fists, and be constructive. An intelligent, thought-provoking rebuttal will go a lot farther than you think.
February 13 the rant about EminemOk, right off I'm going to say that this rant is not about my dislike of his music.
He divorces his wife. Then he writes songs about beating her up, killing her, and stuffing her body in the trunk of a car. Then he remarries her. WTF?? I feel bad for her, does she have no self esteem? This makes no sense and I just had to get that out of my system.
He has a sense of humor that I am not a fan of. He seems more to want to aggrivate those he "pokes fun". I get the feeling of maliciousness whenever I see one of his videos where he is making fun of someone. Then he tells people who get angry to lighten up and get a sense of humor.
Mr. Mathers makes fun of other rappers (eg. Ja Rule), dog puppets, easy targets like Michael Jackson & Madonna, and even Christopher Reeve. Why Christopher Reeve, you may ask? Nobody really knows. He was a humanitarian and an inspiration to many, even before his tragic accident. He brought so much awareness and so much money towards finding a cure for spinal cord trauma. He did a lot of good things in the world before his passing... and eminem for some reason makes fun of him. I don't get it. He, of course, says to lighten up. Another of his targets is a rubber dog puppet named Triumph. This has got to be the easiest thing to make fun of because all he needed was to get a puppet that looked like Triumph and have it do stupid things in his video. Such a simple and brainless way to be spiteful, and the timing of the video was about 3 years after Triumph poked fun at eminem. Little late on the comeback? Of course any two year old can make fun of Michael Jackson or Madonna, another easy target. MJ was pissed an even said some stuff on air saying he didn't appreciate the mockery. Eminem responded again with lighten up.
When the tables are turned, it is an entirely different matter. When someone else is poking fun at him the person is the target of Eminem's anger. When Triumph poked fun at eminem, instead of laughing he retaliated. It took him 3 years to do so but he retaliated. He seems very petty and vindictive when it comes to people poking fun at him. Weird Al Yankovic did a parody of his 8-mile song and eminem got pissed. Anybody who has ever listened to a parody by Weird Al knows that there is no mockery at all for the original artist. Al is the embodiment of the saying "Imitation is the sincerest form of flattery." If you've heard the song Couch Potato he's not making fun of eminem at all, however he was still pissed off. Seems as though he can dish it out but he can't take it. He really should practice what he preaches.
February 06 the rant about EmoOk can somebody please explain to me what the fuck is EMO? I'd never even heard of it a year ago and now everybody's going around "Oh Emos suck. We hate Emos. We'd never be caught dead at the Hot Topic like a whiney little Emo." I seriously don't get it. The first time I heard of it i was like "Emo Phillips? Who wouldn't want to be Emo Phillips? He's hilarious!"
So anyway I don't get what the difference between Emo and Goth is, and I've been told there is a *Huge* difference. They both wear nothing but black, they both dye their hair, they both like dark poetry, a large percentage are into self-mutilation, dark music, making out with members of the same sex even though they claim to be straight... I am seeing a lot of similarities here but most of them are stereotypes.
One of the differences that I have seen is the age group. A lot of the goths I know are age 20+. A lot of the people I have seen that I've been told are emo or claim to be emo are under 17, with the majority being ~14.
So... emos are wannabe goths in training who just haven't learned the A Simple Plan sucks and Sisters of Mercy are awesome?
I still don't get why they need to be hated so much? Did you forget what it's like to be 14? You weren't the perfect epitome of everything goth were you? No, you were a whiney little wannabe just like everyone else. You were struggling to find your place and your voice and your identity. I mean take all the so-called emo kids and teleport them to 1994 and see how everyone at their high school says "Oooh look at those goths. Goths suck. We hate goths."
When did being goth mean becoming so closed-minded and snobby? Goths used to be so open-minded and tolerant of people's differences because they knew what is was like to be ridiculed. Now they are among those doing the ridiculing? I don't say that you have to like whatever these emo are, I'm asking what good will it do to put them down like you've been put down in the past? What will this accomplish? It reminds me of little brother syndrome... you know "Me too me too!" Do you think that a little education instead of insults would help the situation?
I saw this video about emo and in all honesty I don't get what the big deal is. So they dye their hair black and cut it short... is emo a hairstyle? So they write dark poetry... does that mean everyone who feels depressed and confused during their teenage years and writes poetry as a creative outlet is an emo? I don't think so. I mean, I remember 10 years ago when I was in high school I wore all black, wrote dark poetry, cut myself a lot, listened to dark music, dyed my hair, and was all angsty and broody all the time... did that make me emo?
No. It didn't.
And why is that, you may ask? Because emo didn't exist back then. I looked that way, acted that way, and listened to that music because I was having a hard time in school, I was feeling alienated, and I needed a way to express myself that mirrored those feelings. Doesn't that sound like just about EVERYBODY in high school?!? When I was in school the social outcasts like myself would pick on a few social groups that we felt were deserving of our ire: namely the Preppies, Rapper-wannabes, etc. We hated them. We would make fun of them in our best "Clueless" voices: "Like, oh my gawd! I was talking to Kiersten who was talking to Amber who was talking to Brittany and she said she, like, saw someone wearing the exact same shoes as me! Like, couldn't you just die! I mean, like, who does she think she is? Like, helloooo?"
Or, we would do our lamest (to use a term I generally dislike) 'wigger' voices: 'Sup homie, I gots to go borrow my mom's mini-van and go down to the timmie's for a coffee before fourth period, yo."
Yeah, you were sooo the suburban gangsta.
Why, oh high school goths of the present day, why are you berating these emos when there are far more deserving subjects in the world? Why not the jocks who think that just because they made the team they rule the school? Why not the wanksters? WHY NOT THE PREPPIES?!?! You know they sooooooooo deserve it more than these emos. So they may act like your annoying little brother always copying you and never quite "getting it"? Guess what, you're on the same side! There's always been a war and there will always be a war between the preps, the jocks, and the wanksters Vs. the goths, the skaters & slackers, the nerds & geeks, and the other social outcasts. Now aim your misdirected fire at those Britney Spears cheerleader bitches and those muscle head assholes who always slam you into lockers when passing you in the hall.
So a lot of these supposed "emo" bands suck. So what? Are they worse than Hillary Duff or Jessica Simpson or 50 Cent? Fuck no! I'm sorry but given the choice between listening to Lindsay Lohan or Good Charlotte I'd take Good Charlotte. There are way worse bands out there than emo bands and there are much better targets of mockery and hatred. Fuck Ashlee Simpson!!! WANNABE FUCKING TWAT LYPSYNCHER!!! Ya make me wanna *stab* *stab* YARGH!!!! KILL PARIS HILTON!! FUCK HER! FUCK HER RIGHT IN THE EAR!! See? Isn't that better?
Oh, and what's wrong with Hot Topic? I don't get why shopping at that store is so wrong? I mean I can see why shopping at the Gap or Old Navy is wrong... but why Hot Topic? I live in eastern Canada and, suprise suprise, we don't have a Hot Topic anywhere within a 2 hour flight from us. I've been to their website and some of their stuff isn't half bad. Some of it is damn fugly but on the whole the store doesn't have the obvious "Preppy" overtones that immediately turn me off like those two other stores I mentioned. I seriously hate all you people when you say "Oh only poseurs and wannabe emos shop at Hot Topic. I hate that store, I get all my gothwear at another store which is waaay better." Do any of you people have any idea how many of you I'd kill to get a Hot Topic to open up in my city?!? Seriously, to get any clothing that's even remotely gothy I have to shop at either the local Comic Book shop or Le Chateau of all places!!! If you can't find anything there you have to MAKE IT YOURSELF or take a chance on not getting ripped off on ebay if you're lucky enough to have a credit card! You have no idea how lucky you are to be able to have a store like that.
I am not emo. I am not goth. I am not punk. I am not... whatever. I try not to be categorized because there really isn't any category I fit into. Such a category doesn't exist and if it did it would be a category of one called "WeirdMetalSlackerGothGeekSarcastibitch."
Yeah. Now THAT's a category. January 17 the rant about stupid people part 3Oh you know this is gonna be good. I thought I'd start off with an old tale from work... this tale comes complete with a valuable lesson that everybody can learn from.
It was a normal day at DQ, it was mid afternoon and it wasn't too busy. One man came in and wandered over to a cash, staring intently at our meal deal menu. I asked if I could get something for him. He stared at the menu for a moment and he asked for a number 1 and a number 2, an ulitmate meal and a double cheese meal. In my head I didn't think too much of it, he might have a friend joining him later. When I asked him what he'd like to drink with them I became aware that this guy was out of it. He stared at the pop for a bit before he decided on pepsi. At that time the double cheese meals came with a free sundae. I asked him what kind of sundae he wanted. The conversation went a little like this:
"What kind of sundae would you like, sir?"
"What?"
"What would you like on your sundae?"
"Um... what?"
"You know your double cheese meal?"
"Yeah..."
"It comes with a free sundae."
"Yeah..."
"What kind of sundae would you like?"
"Oh.... uhhhh.... uhhhhhhhhh..... uhhhhhhhh.... cherry."
"Ok."
I poured the drinks and got the sundae ready, then I put his two meals on the tray. This was when he noticed the poster for the Macho Meal. He then ordered that meal. I have no idea why, and I don't even think he knew why. Nobody else had come to join him. Now, the macho meal is a triple burger, large fries, and a large pop. This on top of two other meals. I put his third meal on his tray while he stood there munching on his fries. He then pulled a twenty out of his pocket and stared at the menu board. I asked him if there was anything else I could help him with. He took a minute, said no, and continued to stare at the menu board and eat his fries. I stood there a moment, waiting to see if he was going to order anything else as he still had a twenty in his hand. After a few minutes I slowly wandered away to clean something. He still stood there munching on his fries, holding a twenty in his hand. I walked back over and asked again if there was anything else I could get for him. He said no and continued standing there eating his fries on the front counter. I walked away, hoping he'd catch the hint and do the same. My supervisor then came over and asked me if he was waiting for something. I told her no, he had all his food. She asked why he was still standing there with money in his hand. I told her I didn't know but I already asked if he wanted something else. She then walked over and said "Sir, is there something else you'd like?"
He stared at her a moment and replied "Well... I'd like to sit down and eat."
"Ok... go ahead." she said with a look on her face that questioned if this guy was for real.
The man then slowly looked down at his tray, slowly picked it up, and shuffled his way over to a table.
It was everything my supervisor and I could do to keep from laughing.
Nobody ever came to join him.
Half an hour later he left and my morbid curiosity made me want to go and see just how much of it he actually ate. He ate most of the triple cheese, half the double cheese, one and a half fries, and half the sundae. The rest of the sundae was smeared aross the table. Only one of the drinks was gone, the ultimate burger wasn't even touched, it was just a horrendous waste. I mean next time he gets that stoned he might as well just flush his money down the toilet, at least he wouldn't have to go anywhere and it might be more entertaining to watch. If he hadn't fried most of his braincells already he might have had the idea to maybe take some of it home for later. Hopefully he will have learned that stoned, hungry, and rich doesn't make a good combination.
I really get pissed off by people who believe that the world revolves around them. No matter what you are doing you have to drop whatever it is and obey their every whim. A prime example of this obnoxious kind of person is a lady who picked an incredably busy lunch hour rush to order an icecream cake. She didn't care that I had a long lineup of people ordering lunches, I had to stop whatever I was doing to help her pick out a picture on her cake. Everybody else had to stand there and wait for her to be finished. At one point she was looking through a book of pictures and I took that moment to serve some other customers who had been waiting patiently for her to finish up. The woman saw this and got irate because she now had some questions and my attention was being diverted from her. She tried shouting her questions at me and I attempted to answer them in between orders, but apparently this was not good enough for her, she needed someone's undivided attention. She tried shouting questions to my supervisor on the other cash but with similar success. My supervisor and I were trying desperately to get the huge lunch lineup moving as quickly as possible. No, I hadn't forgotten about her, I planned to get back to her as soon as I was able.
At this point the woman she had had enough. Other people were coming before her, she couldn't have that. She pushed her way to the front of the lineup and shouted "Would somebody sing to me please!!!"
I stopped a second and stared at her in confusion. What the hell did she just say?? Did she ask someone to SING to her?!?! What the hell kind of weird-ass expression is that? So of course I *had* to drop whatever I was doing to help her with her cake order and leave the rest of the customers standing there waiting for their food. This is not the first time that people have tried to order cakes during busy lunches but the majority of them wait patiently until someone has a free moment to take care of them. We do apologize for the delay and most of them are quite understanding after seeing the long lunch lineup. This woman didn't care in the least.
The other day I was glad I wasn't working because I would have completely blown up at one woman. She came in to order a cake and was served by one of my co-workers, Doris, who happens to be hearing-impaired. She's a really good worker and she's also a supervisor. She has good customer service skills despite the fact she can't hear what customers are saying. She can lip read very well and as long as you look at her when you are talking and don't talk too fast or mumble she doesn't have too much of a problem understanding what you are saying. However, this one woman, if I ever meet her in person I will smack the shit out of her for being such a rude and ignorant bitch. Doris was on front counter and the woman came in and said she'd like to order a cake. Doris proceeded to ask her when she'd like to order the cake for, which kind of cake she'd like, the standard questions we ask first when someone asks to order a cake. The woman stared at her with this horrified and disgusted look on her face and said flatly "I'd like to talk to someone else." Doris, deeply offended, went to grab someone else from the cake department. They came out and continued to take this woman's order, all the while the woman continued to scowl as though she had been somehow dirtied. Every time Doris would come near to the counter where the woman stood, she would immediately move a few feet away. Every one of the staff there that day wanted to say something to this rude and ignorant woman, possibly write something nasty on her cake (ie. Happy Birthday Bitch), or even spit on her cake. She singlehandedly put everyone there in a horrible mood with her blatant bigotry. All the staff there couldn't believe that she acted that way, right in front of everyone, especially Doris. I am serious, I wish I could have been there but not as an employee, then I wouldn't have to feel bad about saying things like "What's wrong with you? It's not like she has leprosy, she's deaf. She's not contageous. Oooooh don't get to close, you might catch Deaf. Bitch." I can't stand bigotry, It just pisses me off.
Anywho, onto funnier things...
I heard a couple of bonehead stories from some friends who work in a call center doing cell phone tech suppport. There was this one woman who kept getting disconnected whenever anybody tried to call her. So my friend asked what she was doing and she said that whenever the phone rang she pressed the "Press When Ringing" button. My friend was like "what press when ringing button?" and she was like "the P.W.R. button". My friend told her it's not press when ringing it's a condensed version of the word Power and every time her phone rang she inadvertantly turned her phone off.
Another customer was calling to complain that he was getting no signal whatsoever from his cell phone. My friend asked the guy where he was calling from and he said "the atlantic ocean." My friend had to bite his tongue as he told him that the reason for the lack of reception was the lack of towers in the middle of the ocean. He wanted to ask the guy if he expected flipper to swim on over to his boat and crap out a tower, but he didn't :-( It would've been funny if he did say that though.
And finally the dumbest of the dumb. A guy with a very southern accent calls up and says that he has a problem with his phone. It seems he accidentally dropped his phone in a bucket of paint. Then he proceeded to dunk his phone into some turpentine to get rid of the paint. Then his phone got sticky so he washed his phone in some water, now his phone just says "Roaming". My friend's reply to this was "Sir, I'm suprised your phone says anything at all."
Duh.
More to come later. January 10 the rant about Weird Al YankovicAlfred Matthew Yankovic, aka. 'Weird Al' Yankovic is my hero.
Ever since junior high school when I first heard his songs I loved him. His music has a lot of passion and intelligence, his parodies are not mockeries but like sincere flattery. You can just listen to his parodies and tell that he has the utmost respect for the artists he imitates.
He is and has always been an excellent role model for anybody. He is a certified genius, his SAT scores were incredably high. He was very popular in high school, of which he graduated valedictorian at 16 years old. He went on to University to study archetecture and graduated with honors. He could have done what his parents, his teachers, his friends, and everybody else wanted and become an archetect... but instead he took a chance and followed his heart. He didn't care what everybody else thought, he didn't let anybody push him down, he didn't let anything get in the way of his dream to be a musician, and a weird one at that! He didn't listen to people who criticized the way he looked with this moustache and curly hair or the music he played with his accordian. He made a success of himself doing what he loves to do, and he did it with no compromises. His "Behind the scenes" special on VH1 shows a lot of the harships that he had to endure to make his dream a reality. In spite of all the factors against him he is a multi-platinum recording artist with several grammies & nominations. He stayed brave, strong, and true to himself. His drive, his determination, his fearlessness, and his weirdness make him my hero. Seriously, more people should look to him as a role model instead of Paris or 50 cent. Paris is so judgemental that if your hair was styled the wrong way one day she would dump you as a friend. 50 cent thinks that sex and violence are traits that should be emulated by the youth. Are either of these people trying to make the world a better place or make kids feel better about themselves? Is paris going around telling less fortunate kids that it's ok they can't afford the newest fashions or overweight kids it's ok to be fat? Is 50 cent trying to stop the violence or tell kids that guns aren't cool? The answer is a big fat NO. Weird Al is showing kids by example that you should never give up on your dreams, try hard in school, try hard at life, and always follow your heart. He shows kids that it's ok to be different, it's ok to be weird, don't take life so seriously, relax sometimes and have fun. He teaches kids to always have a sense of humor and never to let go of their inner child.
You may not like his music, you might hate accordians, that's fine. You don't have to be a fan of his music, that's not the point I'm trying to make. All I ask is that you acknowledge the great accomplishments he has done in his life and realize that he sets a great example, albeit unconventional, for any kid. He is my role model and he will always be my hero.
December 11 the rant about Christmas bigotrySorry fans, had to put Stupid people part 3 on hold for a bit...
Ok, I was recently reading an article in the paper in which a guy donated a friggin huge tree to Boston and he got angry after he found out they were gonna call it a "Holiday Tree" instead of a "Christmas Tree". He wanted to take the tree back. He got all offended and was like "They don't call a menorah a candle holder, why can't they call a christmas tree what it is."
I got very irate when I read this article. I mean of all the bigoted, closed-minded, and right-wing religious things to say. So his tree was going to be enjoyed by more than just the Christians, way to go grinch. I seriously don't understand why a lot of people are getting all angry when other people try to be more inclusive in their holiday festivities. I mean some people tried to boycott Wal Mart because their employees were told to say "Happy Holidays" instead of "Merry Christmas." I mean WTF? Don't act like Muslims or Jews never shop there, or even work there for that matter. If I worked there I wouldn't say Merry Christmas, because I'm not comfortable saying it as I'm not Christian and I know that some of their shoppers aren't either. I would say Happy Holidays instead, even if I weren't asked to. They're trying to extend some peace and good will to all of their fellow man, regardless of their religion, and I can't believe they are getting yelled at for it. I actually like those virgin mobile commercials with the "Christmahunukwaanzakuh" or however you spell it. Not for it's commercialization but more for it's message that it's ok to be different, this is a season to wish everybody a happy time, no matter who you are or what you believe. That commercial gave me a warm fuzzy. I usually can't stand commercials, especially virgin ones as they are brainless. I loved the lyrics to the song "It's ok if you're a Muslim, a Christian, or a Jew. It's ok if you're agnositc and you don't know what to do. Happy Christmahanukwanzaakuh to you." I liked it. It said to me: no matter what your beliefs are, I am wishing good fortune to you in the coming winter and year end. What is wrong with that? I don't see a problem with this.
Is it really so wrong to want a big city holiday festival that everyone can enjoy, regardless of religion or personal belief, and then get to go home to do whatever other customs their religion involves in privacy with their family? Personally, I would enjoy that a lot. However, if there are a bunch of bigots out there who are going to try to ruin the inclusiveness of such attempts I'm going to end up doing what I have done every year and stay home. I think that Bart Simpson said it best on an episode of the Simpsons: "Christmas is the time of year when everybody all over the world gets together to worship Jesus Christ." *shakes head sadly* Maybe some people feel that there are less and less people coming to church and more and more agnostic children of parents who aren't as devout as their grandparents. Maybe they're scared by the increasing numbers of immmigrants and people of other religions in their neighbourhood. Maybe they're scared by this and are trying to hold onto their Christain America. It's denial. The fact is that on a global scale Christianity was always outnumbered. There were always more Muslims and more Hindus on the planet than Christians; not combined, each. The current fastest growing religion on the planet is Islam. My personal religion is small in number, and I'm comfortable with that. Apparently there are those who are not comfortable with being outnumbered in their beliefs, and I'm not just talking about Christians. Everyone at some point in their life will cross paths with someone else who does not share their beliefs. This is not a bad thing, they are not wrong for doing it, there is no reason to hate them. Take a step back, take a deep breath, and look at the human being and see that they have are made of the same molecules, breathe the same air, have people that care about them, will still bleed if they are cut. Wish this person joy in the cold winter season (or warm summer in Australia :-) ) In fact, do this to everyone you cross paths with, whether or not they share the same beliefs as you. Be indiscriminate.
The guy who wanted to take his tree back really should take his tree back, and I'd like to be the one to give it to him, I'd take his "Christmas" tree and shove it right up his ass. Oh and on that subject, I agree with him that they call the tree by it's real name... a "Yule Tree". I wish I could inform the misguided and misinformed man that his beloved Christmas tree was originally called a "Yule Tree" long before Christianity was invented. So, by all means, lets call it by it's Real name. It's true that a menorah is not just a candle holder. It was not created to be merely a candle holder, it's specific shape is basically unique to menorahs. You can't just grab any candle holder and call it a menorah. A tree however is not something that is built. It is a tree. You CAN just grab any evergreen and call it a Christmas tree or a Holiday tree or a Yule tree or whatever you want. There is a difference. The Earth Mother didn't grow that tree with the specific purpose of becoming a Christmas tree.
People are getting all irate and shouting "Put the Christ back in Christmas!" but they aren't understanding that nobody is taking Christ out of Christmas. As long as you keep it in your heart, it isn't going anywhere. If you truly believe and love, nobody can take it away from you. However, trying to be angry at Jewish or African people, or anyone else, because their holiday happens at the same time as yours is stupid and bigoted. Being angry at other people who recognize this and try to be more culturally aware is what makes this world a horrible place. You are not part of the solution, you are part of the problem. You're what's wrong with the world today. An attitude like that is one of the reasons that the rest of the world does not particularly like North Americans. It's a shame that some spoiled brats are ruining the spirit of love and family of the season because everybody isn't celebrating the way they say everyone should. I never went to the local lighting of the Christmas tree because I never felt i could go, not being christian and all... When I hear they would like to call it a Holiday tree so that Christians AND people of other religions can attend and join in the singing and hope and happiness, I like the attempt at togetherness. Society has got a long way to go before people will stop being so intolerant of people who are in any way different, but it's a start. It made me feel better and I bet it made other people feel better too. I know it made some people feel worse, and that's so sad. You have your Christmas, and that is ok. Your neighbour has Chanukkah (sp?), and that's ok too. I have my Yule, and that's ok. We all have the month of December and we all have to learn to share it. I wish we could all share it together.
It is not my intention to make people angry by my rants, merely to make people think. Hopefully I will help some people to think about taking steps to stop bigotry.
Happy holidays everyone.
October 10 the rant about animeI currently have a love/hate relationship with anime. There is good anime and there is bad anime. Some anime has very detailed and stylish graphics, dark and inolving plots, and deep, often tragic characters (eg. Trigun, Battle Angel). Other anime has very poor artistry, pathetic, uninteresting, and unimportant plots, and are obviously only created for their merchandising opportunities (eg. Beyblade, Yu-Gi-Oh). It is easy to become confused or lured into spending time/money on the poorer quality of anime, missing out on some of the far better ones if you are not careful. (Just so you know, I'm not going to talk about hentai in this rant. You can relax now.)
It doesn't stop there with Sailor Moon. Ghost in the Shell, Trigun, Hellsing, Slayers, Cowboy Bebop, Gundam Wing, Rurouni Kenshin, Akira, Lain, Perfect Blue, Vampire Hunter D, Princess Mononoke, Dragonball Z, even Pokemon have a lot of passion and emotion driving them and my current number 1 favourite is Battle Angel. When I first saw Battle Angel (aka Battle Angel Alita) I knew it would be something special to me from the first 5 minutes. The story of a dystopic future in which a cybernetic doctor finds the remains of a small cyborg girl in a scrap heap, repairs her, and brings her back to life. He names her Gally and she is like the sweet little daughter he never had. Her picture is my profile picture. I love Gally so much. Took me a while to track down the DVD on ebay. Damn good stuff though. I can't even compare animation of this quality, not just artistically but storywise, to animation made in America. I look at Spongebob, PowerPuff Girls, Dexter's Laboratory, Rugrats, Home Movies, most of the shows on Teletoon, the quality of the animation itself is utter shit. It makes me sad to see how little effort goes into making the shows look good, not just silly. One of the biggest reasons that I get so annoyed by all these cartoons with poor quality aritstry is because it's gotten worse than older cartoons such as Batman or Gargoyles. The quality of these cartoons is far superior to newer cartoons, which is the exact opposite of what should be happening. It's scary. On the flipside, not all anime is of good quality plot-wise. I lothe the anime shows that are obviously developed only as a marketing tool for kids to buy their toys and cards. Yes, I'm talking about Digimon, Yu-Gi-Oh, Beyblade, Monster Rancher, and all those other ones that involve a lot of duels and battles between easily merchandisable items. You know what I'm talking about. They are shameful and they portray a bad image of anime. They give anime a stigma of unintelligence and irrelevance. I am reluctant to list Pokemon, even though it also very clearly fits this description also... because I actually like Pokemon. I guess I'm slightly biased towards Pokemon because they're sooo cute, well the old ones anyway not the new ones. The bad anime is just fuel for people who hate anime. It gives them a never ending fount with which to denounce japanese anime as crap, and for good reason, this stuff is crap. It aggravates me. Then people start blaming the easily merchandisable anime on bad behaviour in the children who watch it. I read a story a couple years back about a kid in Quebec who stabbed another kid in the shoulder for his Pokemon Card. Of course everybody blames Pokemon and nobody blames the parents. Seriously, a couple years ago I came up with a foolproof plan to make millions of dollars. I would create an poor quality anime cartoon about a bunch of kids who have these yo-yos that they duel with. They would call these yo-yos "Uber Battle Spinners" or something and they would come in all these funky designs that would make them look like they had circular saws attached to the outside and they would have holographic animal stickers on them. The kids on the show would have these huge battles with these Uber Battle Spinners and the holographic animals would shoot out of them when they spun them fast enough and would battle the other kid's holo-animal to win. There would be a great threat to the world that only battling these yo-yos could solve. There would be all these Uber Battle Spinners for sale of all colours and with collectable stickers to stick on them and then there would be different collectable strings for them and flashing lights and stuff. I'd be rich cuz kids would buy them because of the no-brainer show. If you want to give anime a shot, be careful about the english dubbing as it is often pretty bad. They take voice acting very seriously in Japan, whereas in North America they'll use any ole shmoe they can get for cheap. Hayo Miazaki's movies usually have very good english dubbing done by some fairly big name actors, and it makes a big difference in the depth of the story, as opposed to someone who isn't an actor just reading lines and not getting into the character. Yeah, some of the english dubs are terrible. Listening to the english dub of Battle Angel, the woman playing Gally was painfully obvious she was a mid-thirties woman trying to sound like a 12 year old girl and failing miserably. In Trigun the character of Rem is a very kind, elegant woman with a beautiful voice, and in the english dub the woman who does her voice is tone-deaf. She was so off key, it was terrible. Slayers english dub for the tv series is actually pretty good, I like it. Gundam Wing, Ghost in the Shell, and Vision of Escaflowne wasn't too bad either. Even Pokemon has some good voice acting in the english dub. Ranma 1/2 has some notoriously bad voice acting, same with Sailor Moon. So... in conclusion, there are a lot of good anime out there that just about anybody can enjoy but you have to sift through the crap to find it. Stay away from the ones where kids duel and collect things, they are the poorest shows in animation quality and plot and character depth. Listen to some of the older anime fans, they can usually recommend some of the good stuff. If you're looking for pure silly funny random hilarity featuring high school girls, Asumanga Daioh could be right up your alley. If your tastes lean more towards psychological thrillers with total mindfuck plot twists you probably would like Perfect Blue. Just... try to get the Japanese dialogue with english subtitles as a lot of the english voice acting is very poor. September 18 the rant about Bush & KatrinaWay to go Dubyah, you screwed up big time. You didn't know what to do when you first heard about 9/11 and you didn't know what to do when you first heard about Katrina. Fortunately, on 9/11 you had a lot of good speech writers who got you to unify the country and direct all their anger towards Iraq. Unfortunately, you can't unify the country against Mother Nature. You fucked up. You don't know what to do when the confict is internal. You are a cowboy. You'd fit right in in the old west. You'd love to get a posse all riled up and go out, guns blazing. However if the poor black slave's house down the street burns down you'd go "So what do you want me to do? I don't know carpentry, I mostly just shoot things." We all know you don't care about black people, and you hate anybody who questions your pathetic authority. I agreed with Kanye's statements on tv when he deviated from the teleprompter and said Bush doesn't care about black people. I also agreed with Eddie Griffin when he agreed with Kanye and added that Bush doesn't care about white people either. I agreed with Michael Moore's open letter to Bush that he posed on his website.
I seriously don't understand what took you so long? Your people were in major trouble and it took you a week to do *anything* to help them. What is wrong with you? Where are your brains, in your ass? Thousands of people died and you went to a party? What the fuck took you so long to respond??? I don't get it. Nobody else gets it either. If Harry Connick Jr. can wade in to a house and give a guy the shirt off his back and carry him out to a rescue boat, why couldn't the emergency rescue people do that a week ago? Isn't that what they're trained and paid to do?? What were they so busy doing that we had to get our celebrities to go in and do their job for them? Was it because the majority of the New Orleans area citizens are poor black people? What if the hurricane hit someplace like Cape Cod or Martha's Vinyard or upstate New York where there are a lot of rich white people? Would he have jumped on a plane that second and helped out firsthand? I think help would have been there a lot sooner.
The citizens of the United States, especially those hit by Katrina, are owed an explaination. A really good explaination.
Oh of course Bush is going to deny that race had anything to do with the slow response. He's not dumb enough to admit he's a racist bastard. That could get him lynched. No, he's going to deny it because nobody can really prove it; but we all know it's true.
One of the richest cities, culture-wise, in the entire United States is gone. The artwork, the architecture, the history, the dancing, it's all gone and will be extremely difficult to rebuild. Bush hasn't done nearly enough to help. Come to think of it he didn't really do a whole lot to rebuild NY after 9/11. He just went and stormed right into Afghanistan and a lot of people were so distracted with the war that they didn't notice how little effort he put towards NY aid and rebuilding.
"Mr. President, New York is in ruins. What do we do?"
"It's the terrorists fault... let's get 'em!"
"Yeah!!"
Now that he's faced with a similar devistated city, he doesn't have two clues what to do.
"Mr. President, New Orleans is in ruins. What do we do?"
(*Thinks to himself* Um... I can't say 'it's Mother Nature's fault, let's get 'er' can I?) "Um... hey look there's some terrorists... let's get em!"
"But... but... Mr. President New Orleans needs-"
"I said 'Lets get 'em!' "
*the entire population of the USA groans*
He doesn't know how to offer support and he doesn't know how to show sympathy. He has no empathy. To this day I still have no idea why the americans re-elected this cactus. I guess they all misunderestimated him and his strategery hehehe ;-) September 11 the rant about Paris Hilton*spotlight suddenly illumates a lone individual standing in the middle of a boxing ring wearing a robe and boxing gloves*
Ok readers, here this is the big one you've been waiting for. I had to get really mentally prepared for this one *has flashbacks of repeatedly pounding on a punching bag with Paris Hilton's face duct taped on it, while the theme from Rocky plays in the background*
So, lets get ready to Rumble!
Ok, lets begin by talking about how she got famous... her daddy's rich. That's it. She hasn't done anything, she doesn't do anything, she will never do anything (well except for her porno tapes). In the future, people will come to her funeral and say "Well... um... she was pretty when she was young, and boy she was rich. Fat lot of good that's doing her now." She has never done anything that did any benefit for anybody other than herself. She is a selfish, egotistical, no-talent, waste-of-space. That, and I think she's ugly and so skinny it hurts to look at her. Back when her precious little Tinkerbell went missing she was like a grieving parent until the dog was found. Later, she dumped the dog like bag of garbage when the chihuahua gained a few ounces of weight. Hmmm... maybe it was because the dog didn't get any excercise being carried around in your purse all the time? So your little tiny dog gained a little weight? Wah poor baby. It is NO reason to disown the dog. It is your fault. It just goes to show that she doesn't give two shits about anybody except herself. The dog is all of 2 pounds to begin with, it's not like it's a great dane or something, it's a fucking Chihuahua. Who cares if it gains an ounce or two? It doesn't make that much difference. If she was so concerned about weight she should get a hamster. It must be hard, not being able to carry 2 pounds. Must be the complete lack of muscle tone. We all know that muscle weighs more than fat and she weighs all of 50 pounds herself. To quote Elvira Kurt "I guess Paris likes her dogs small. On a related note: Nicole Ritchie is now skinnier than ever."
She was in a few movies and they stunk. She tried to start a singing career and she was constantly booed off the stage. She tries to invent her own fashion line, including her own t-shirt, and it's ugly trash that only 11 year old girls buy thinking it's cool. I rant about the stupid t-shirt later. I hate how she rips off her deluded young fans. She makes this crap for her little tiny fan clubs and just adds their money to her giant pile so she can roll around naked on it. She thinks of herself as a role model and tries to put on a good face for her young viewers, even going so far as to steal her sex tape from a magazine store so little girls won't see them. So this begs the question: "WHY MAKE THEM IN THE FIRST PLACE?!?!?!?!?" Moron. You are so NOT a role model. Little girls should not want to be like her. It's sad, those poor misguided kids. They should try to be themselves, whoever they are is way better than a scrawny, megalomaniacal, turboslut. Hey little girls, if you wanna be like someone else, pick ANYBODY but Paris. Natalie Portman is a much better choice: intelligent, well read, does not have an ego larger than life, independant, confident, speaks 6 different lanuages, stylish, and has curves. Paris has a figure like the highways in Saskatchewan - no curves. Update: Also consider Kate Winslet, Scarlett Johannson, and Jodie Foster as better role models.
Then there was her participation, or lack thereof, in the previous United States election. Puff Diddy or whoever started the Vote or Die campaign. It's goal was enourage young people to vote and among the many celebrities who got in on the campaign was Paris Hilton. She posed for many campaign posters and came to many rallys, sporting pins and other campaign slogans. Along with Puffy, Paris was one of the most visible Vote or Die faces. Then the big day of the vote came... and guess who didn't vote? Not only that but guess who didn't even *register* to vote? I'll give you 3 guesses but you only need one, unless you're Paris.
Her sex tape scandal. Not just one tape but two!! You'd think she'd learn after the first one. I don't even need to go into that horror. I mean you can see her vertebrae sticking out of her back shes so skinny. *shudders* She's so ugly I don't know why people think she's hot. It certainly isn't her atrocious fashion sense. I saw her grace the covers of many a magazine under the Worst Dressed list.
Then there's the subject matter of her brainlessness. In all honesty she's about as smart as a bag of hammers. The quote "What's Wal Mart? Is that where they sell wall stuff?" comes to mind often. Did she go to the same school as Jessica Simpson? If so that school should be shut down. She is so sheltered from the real world, living in her pretty little bubble of worshippers and credit cards. If you've seen any of the episodes of the Simple Life, she's the one who is simple. She couldn't hold down a real job if her life depended on it. Oh and her sidekick Nicole is just as bad. Just two little bubbleheads wreaking havoc on people trying to live their lives. They are a menace and should be stopped. Paris trys to copywright the saying "That's hot." As if she were the first person to say that phrase. What's next trying to copywright the saying "That's cool" or maybe the word "like"? That's as stupid as that time Marvel tried to copywright the letter "X". Oh, and her t-shirt was the kicker. On the front it said "That's Hot" and on the back it said "Your not!" It had to be one of the dumbest shirts I ever saw. First of all it was a testament of her lack of proper schooling. Hey Paris, 'I'm educated... You're not'! Girls all over the world can show off their lack of education by buying this piece of crap. Second, it looked as though it was one of those cheap homemade iron ons, it looked as though it cost $2 to make, it probably sold for over $50. Oh you say you care about your young little worshippers, you care enough to rip them off.
And finally for the cherry on top of the steaming pile of cow dung... She's marrying a guy named PARIS!!!
*ROFLMAO* At least she'll have an easier time remembering his name. I give their marriage 2 weeks, 3 maximum. Wait, she's gotta beat her sister's record... so maybe 4 weeks.
Ladies and Gentlemen, the winner and reigning champion: Apathygrrl!
*kicks the still unconscious bag of bones named Paris lying on the mat*
*grins evilly*
September 03 the rant about MementoYou see it's my job in life to get as many people to watch the movie Memento as possible. It's one of the best movies I've ever seen, it's easily in my personal top 5. It was insane. It is a completely fucked up movie. I loved it. It's the movie that singlehandedly broke my brain. I sat there for nearly two hours afterwards going "Oh my god! It... Oh my god... that was the most... I don't get it... oh my brain! The pain! My brain hurts! WTF!" Yeah this movie is just that messed.
It stars Guy Pierce, Carrie Anne Moss, and Joe Pantoliano... yes I know that two of the three were in the Matrix but their characters were nothing like they were in that. Pierce plays Leonard Shelby, a man who is determined to track down the murderer of his wife. Unfortunately, he suffered brain damage and has anterograde memory loss, he has no short term memory. It is very difficult to find somebody when you can only remember things for five minutes at a time. That is the main antagonist in the story, himself. One of the best quotes describes the situation perfectly "Ok, so what am I doing? Oh, I'm chasing this guy. Nope, he's chasing me." In order to remember important information he writes himself endless amounts of notes, and anything that is vital or critical, he has tattooed upon himself. He has a tattoos all over to remind himself of his situation, his goal, clues to the killer, and important day-to-day information. It is a very very strange storyline with a very very unique plot twist. That was one of the main reasons I *had* to see it.
The second reason was the bizarre way the story was presented... in reverse. The beginning is shown last and the ending is shown first. This way you don't know what happened at the beginning of the movie, and neither does Leonard. So very twisted! I loved it.
It, like a lot of mystery movies nowdays, has a twist at the end. Oh and what a twist! It was ... just... messed. It made my jaw hit the floor. It was an amazing story with a truly tragic character that you really feel for because you are put in his shoes, not remembering what came before, and it truly would be almost impossible to live that way. If you are like me and enjoy unique, bizarre, and memorable movies, this is one that you will never forget... trust me ;-) September 02 the rant about people I hateI hate a lot of people. Some of them I don't know why, some of them I have perfectly good reasons why, and some I have completely insane reasons why. Come and join me while I list off some of the people I hate in no particular order.
Ben Affleck - Sick of this no talent hack. George "Dubyah" Bush - I can't actually think of a reason *not* to hate him. Man's about as sharp as a sack of wet mice. Britney Spears - ugh she makes me wanna puke. She wants to broadcast her birth of pure evil live on camera. *shudders* Hated her the first second I saw that schoolgirl video, one pathetic gimmick after another. I still can't believe that slut was preaching about not having sex before marriage. Jessica Simpson - Airhead, makes music that makes me want to be euthanized. Go back to elementary school because apparently you didn't retain anything you may have learned there. Ashlee Simpson - Wannabe bad girl who lipsyncs at concerts and blames it on Acid Reflux? Bullshit! You can't sing, admit it. Pathetic poseur. Oh and that time she said she could kick Britney's ass in a fight? Little girl playing "dress up hardcore". Laaaaaaaaaame.
J. Lo - Go away, please. We're sick of you and your butt.
Hillary Duff - Miss teeny goody goody. You can't make yourself look tough if you tried, so stop already. You will always have fluffy pink fur and feathers surrounding your halo. *retch*
Lindsay Lohan - Slut. I see her going into rehab within 5 years for coke/alcohol/heroin addiction. Oh and I thought it was hilarious when Disney digitally shrank your tits in Herbie so you wouldn't offend small children. You didn't take the hint after that one. Skank.
Mariah Carey - Stop singing! It's hurting my dog's ears! And never ever ever make a movie again. Glitter is enough to traumatize small children.
Michael Bay - Well, I didn't hate him until he started whining like a baby when the Island didn't haul in a billion dollars in the box office.
Puff Daddy/P. Diddy/Poopy Droopy/Whatever his name is - um... that's why.
Whitney Houston - I wanna shove icepicks into my eardrums whenever she opens her mouth, especially when it's that one from the bodyguard.
Tom Cruise - See separate rant about him.
A Simple Plan/Good Charlotte - Corporate Punk. Wannabes.
Theory of a Nickel Creed - Aren't they the same band? I can't tell, all their stuff sounds like Bush... which sounds like Pearl Jam. Fuckin copycats, the lot of them, must they rip off Pearl Jam?
50 Cent - I don't care about your wounds. I don't think they make you a celebrity or give you talent.
Gwen Stefani - I hated your "I'm just a girl" and "Hey baby" and I hated everything since. Oh and your new stuff is worse than your old stuff. "Sick! Of! Youuuuuu! I'm so sick of, sick of you!" *sings GWAR*
The people who re-elected Dubyah - What? Were you all stoned or just stupid? After all you ran out and watched Farenheit 9/11 you went and re-elected this dipshit? There is no hope for you. Don't procreate.
Doug Hutchison - HATE THAT GUY!! *see past rant*
Kathy Griffin - You mistake lack of tact for humor and end up being annoying and grating on everyone's nerves. Do the universe a favor and quit.
Warren Beatty - I find you pompous and arrogant and I hated every movie I saw you in, especially Bulworth. Never play a wigger again.
John Travolta - He just always comes across as smarmy to me. He's so smug and greasy. I feel dirty. ugh.
Tony Sinclair - That even smarmier guy from those Tangueray commercials. Is smarmier even a word? If it is, this guy fits it. He's even more pompous than John Travolta.
Jerry Springer - He continues to exploit people who come to him for help. He deliberately sets up situations in which people will start a fight, just for the ratings.
Sean William Scott & Ashton Kutcher - Sooooo sick of them. Ashton was ok on that 70's show... at first. Then he got annoying... then he was in 10 movies in a row. Sean was never ok, he was always the kind of guy I wanted to beat the everloving piss out of 'cuz he's a jerk.
Lou Bega - The guy that sang that "Mambo #5", barely a one-hit-wonder. He is a sexist mysogynist asshole. A friend used to have his album and made me listen to it. All his songs were about having sex with tons of women, including prostitutes. Sicko.
Meatloaf - I would do anything to make you shut the hell up.
Denise Richards - For the love of the Goddess stop smiling that huge smile you have. Every time I see you you have this ridiculously large grin on your face. Even in the most tragic parts of your movies, there you are, grinning like an idiot. It makes you look special, in that olympic sort of way.
The jury who found Michael Jackson "Not Guilty" - What were you thinking?? Everybody on earth knows he did it. That and the OJ trial proved that you cannot be convicted of any crime whatsoever in LA if you are a celebrity.
Nicole Ritchie - Anorexic celebrity-by-association. Paris's stupid sidekick. She doesn't deserve to be famous and you least of all. Oh I can just pull all these pranks on people and get into all kinds of mischeif and not have to worry about the consequences because I'm rich and leeching off Paris's fame.
Paris Fucking Hilton - Braindead skanky anorexic slut. Famous because she's a rich braindead skanky anorexic slut. She would never be able to make a living if she actually had to do real work, her tv show proves her uselessness. I severely pity the dumb little girls who emulate her and her retarded fashion sense. Oh and Paris, "That's Not, Your Illiterate." Did you buy your way through elementary school or just sleep with all the teachers? Fucking manure for brains just coasts her way through life not giving two shits about anything, not even her dog. She got rid of her "beloved" Tinkerbell because it was slightly overweight... and it's a fucking Chihuaha!! They weigh all of 2 pounds? Was it too much to carry with no muscle tone whatsoever? hmmmm... I think she needs a rant of her very own >;-) *laughs maniacally*
This is currently only a partial list. I actually can't think of any more off the top of my head. There's another testament to my lack of memory. Soon I'll be like Leonard Shelby from Memento... speaking of which I gotta do a rant about Memento someday soon. Oh and no, I don't hate everybody in the entire world. Just mostly people who don't have two brain cells to rub together, unfortunately there are a lot of them.
September 01 Epitaph - GuestbookWelcome to my Geistbook!Eeeee I finally figured this guestbook thingy. So, feel free to write whatever spills out of the grey matter inside your skull. Do ya like my innane ranting? Huh, do ya? Got any rants of your own? Sure ya do, you know you've got an inner spiteful bitch. Like the pictures of my kitty? Yeah she's so cute you know you love her. Can you believe that I might actually give a shit what you think of this crazy place? OMFG... yeah, it scares me too. Now let us never speak of this again.*slowly backs away* *looks around, paranoid* *runs away, giggling maniacally* - Apathygrrl (aka Petra Sphinx, Crucial Freak, Mew, Dessicated Corpse, togepi, wierdo.) ;-) August 31 the rant about stupid people part 2Yeah, yet more stupid people sightings. A friend of mine works in a camera store. The other day a very confused looking woman approached the counter and handed my friend a camera. She said "I took pictures, but I forgot to have film in the camera. Can you please get them out of the camera for me?" Ok, I work at DQ. I always thought that the people who asked if we sold milkshakes were stupid. I mean, we have icecream, we have syrup, we have a blender, but no we don't make milkshakes. I thought they were stupid until someone actually asked if we sold cones. It was everything I could do to keep from laughing. I wanted to say "No sir we don't sell cones at Dairy Queen. We do not sell cold dairy desserts of any kind. The only reason we are called Dairy Queen is because of the cheese on our hamburgers." A few summers ago I met one of the most ignorant and rude customers ever. He came in and stared at the menuboard for a while and then asked how much a hotdog was. I told him the price, it was around $1.75 at the time. He then became outraged at the ludicrous price. He shouted and raved that he could go to the grocery store and buy a pack of 12 hotdogs for the same price. I just stood there and calmly stared at him as if to say "Ok, so why don't you go to the grocery store then, nobody's forcing you to buy our hotdog." Then he shut up and bought the hotdog. I shrugged and gave him his hotdog. He then demanded to know where his receipt was. I told him that our cash registers don't automatically print every receipt, to save on paper. He totally flew off the handle and ranted about how according to section 102 blah of the Nova Scotia Tourism legislation whatever said that all restauraunts must give their customers receipts. I gave him his receipt and he stormed off to find a seat. My manager and I giggled at the fact that he was so very wrong because he was ignorant of the fact that fast food restaraunts weren't part of the Tourism industry. I mean who would think they were? Fast food chains are the same no matter which city or country you go to. You look through a tour guide of far off lands, fast food chains ain't on it. So later, the guy came up again and asked for a blizzard. I gave him the price, which I think was around $3-something, and again with the fireworks. He went on and on about how the price was outrageous and how he can get a blizzard at a certain DQ (which was a 2 1/2 hour drive away) for only $1.00 and how he shouldn't have to pay that much. Again I simply stood there and stared at him with a look that said "So don't buy it then dipshit." He bought it anyway, the finishing touch to his useless rant. I asked him, with a hint of sarcasm, if he would like his receipt. He took his blizzard and sat down while me and my manager discussed the bullshit bit of information he gave us. Blizzard prices were the same all over the province, in what fantasy world did he find this magical $1.00 blizzard? It certainly wasn't the one he claimed to get it at. In a vindictive and infantile attempt at revenge he ate most of the blizzard and dumped the rest on the floor. I smiled and waved as he left. Rude ignorant prick. I swear some people should just be put out of everybody else's misery. Recently, when I was at work, I overheard a conversation that made me almost laugh. A woman was talking to a man and he was telling her what country he was from. It went something like this : Man: "I'm from Liberia." Woman: "What?" Man: "I'm from Liberia." Woman: *stares blankly* Woman's friend: "It's in Africa" Woman: "Oh, Nigeria." Man: "No, Liberia." Woman: *stares blankly* me: *oh god some people are so clueless.* Don't worry, part 3 is coming soon. August 30 the rant about Tom Cruise & scientologyYou've probably already heard all about about Tom's "shenanigans" recently... the abduction and subsequent brainwashing of Katie Holmes, the couch surfing, the demonization of psychiatrists and medication, etc. Oh and read my previous blog in which there is a link to a clip of the couch surfing. Anywho, as the story goes Tom and Nicole split up. Tom needed a pretty new arm decoration to keep the tabloids from spreading rumors of his homosexuality. In comes Penelope. But of course that didn't last because she wouldn't convert to scientology. So he, either consciously or unconsciously, used the casting call for Mission Impossible 3 to audition a new girlfriend. He calls up Kate Bosworth, Jessica Alba, Jennifer Garner, Lindsay Lohan, and they all say no. He then calls up Scarlett Johannson. She says she'll come in for an audition. He says great, she's gotta come to dinner with him. She then, confused and skeptical, says ok. He takes her to dinner at the scientology compound, all their head honchos are there and the proceed to take the next two hours to tell her all about their wonderful "religion" etc. She politely excuses herself from their innane ramblings of aliens or whatever and gets the fuck out of there. No MI3 for her. Hell no. He calls up Katie, she says yes, she goes to meet him, and disappears for 3 months or so. When she finally turns up she is no longer a devout Catholic, she is now a Scientologist, she's marrying Tom Cruise, and she has a Scientologist following her around 24-7. Wow. Just wow. Talk about weak willed. If I actually had some respect at all for Katie, which I didn't, it would be down the toilet and swirling away right now. It is proven fact that she has no mind of her own. "Hey Katie, I'm a rich and powerful superstar and I know you had a crush on me when you were 10. I'll let you marry me if you renounce Christianity and join me on my intergalactic space ship." "Sure, Tom. Whatever you say *drools*". Seriously Tom, you should stick to saving the world from aliens instead of joining them. Yeah I know you're dying to hear me rant about scientology. You know you wanna hear me tear a strip off of L. Ron Hubbard and John Travolta and all the other nutjobs. ;-) Don't worry I won't dissappoint. I gotta say that I was extremely skeptical about scientology when I first heard about it. I was like "Um... science and religion together? How can that be?? Do they worship Einstein or Aristotle?" Then I found out that it is from a book by L. Ron Hubbard. A science-fiction novel. I have serious problems with any religion that bases itself off a science-fiction novel. Ron used to hang around with some other sci-fi authors back in the day and swiped a couple of their ideas and smushed them together to make a sci-fi book that in all honesty isn't that bad... it's far from being a masterpiece but its an alright read in itself if you're reeeeeely bored and have nothing better to do. Problem was that he was poor as shit. He figured out that the perfect way to make millions and millions of dollars is to create your own religion. No taxes! It was brilliant and it worked. So many people got suckered into it, it got even easier to sucker them once you had a few celebs. It went a little like this "Ok everybody, I have the real truth here. We are all aliens from another world and we don't remember it. The mothership will be coming some day to take us all back to our homeworld but space is limited and for a measly few million dollars I can guarantee a seat. Oh and buy all my books, especially this one called Dianetics because this is the rulebook to live your life by. Of course you *must* get all your friends to come in too." *Shakes head in dismay* oh the stupidity. People need to smarten up. I just find it mental that people would believe this crap. It was obviously a get rich quick scheme but for some reason people aren't seeing it. If some of you haven't noticed I didn't capitalize the word scientology, cuz it's not a real religion. It should not be recognized as a religion for tax exempt status. Some of the rules in their book that people have to live by are very biased, for example look at how they tell you that psychiatrists are bad and vitamins will cure all mental disorders. Psychiatrists are not bad, their job is to try to make you well, even though there are some who prefer just to medicate. No, psychiatry is not a fraud. No, not all Psychiatrists are money grubbing pill pushers. Yes, more psychiatrists nowdays are prescribing medications instead of listening or counselling, however they feel the medications will benefit and help alleviate the symptoms of the disorder. A lot of the time the drugs they prescribe do have a positive effect on the patient but have some fairly nasty side effects. I personally would rather see a psychologist for counselling and then talk to my family doctor about prescriptions. Vitamins alone won't solve anything, that's just naive. Now the grape Kool-Aid, that'll solve everything. Just everybody chug a big ole glass... nevermind that almond smell ;-) It hurts my head how stupid people can be sometimes. |
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