Holidays

There are too many holidays in the winter. Hello society. spread these out so we get more time off school eh? Wouldn't that be nice?

to the rest of you Happy/Merry Chrismahannukwanzadonikaeenmas

Break Ups Suck, I'm Glad I'm a Tom Boy

Happy Thanksgiving to those who didn't really have anyone say it to them. There you are.

Break Ups Suck, for some. I'm not one of those people... yet. Never I hope. I have had this wonderful streak of being on the top side of all my break ups. Even if I get dumped, I kinda just shrug my shoulders and move on. I don't get sobby and weepy usually, I don't get overly attached quickly, and I'm not addicted to the idea that the first guy ( or second ) you get it from is the last and only and ever forever love of ones life.
I have a theory that when a couple breaks up, they split thier friends like a divorcing couple splits furniture. One person gets the majority of the friends and the other gets screwed. Now I may be an angry angry lizard but I'm also quite modest and incredibly charasmatic. I keep my friends. Everytime. I'm lucky and cool that way. Now don't all you silly idol-less kids out there run up and think "Gee Whiz I wish I could be like Liz, she's so great" You're half right. I am great. I'm a terrible role model tho. Don't be like me. Be like you, with Liz tendencies. It's a much better equation that way.
no no no.
I was saying-
It really sucks when some friends are caught on a fence. I for one tend not to ditch either friend in case of a break up, and I kindly request that they not ask me to choose becasue I dislike it. It's unfair to just all of a sudden lose a friend just because some shit relationship you had ended badly.
Sometimes the totally wrong person sticks with all the friends. Like Guy A is a douche bag and cheats On girl B with Girl Z. And They break up and Guy A maintains all the friends and Girl B keeps her two true blue girlfriends who tell her she's better than the douche bag she wasted all her time on and how there are plenty of other fish in the sea.
And there are.. you just need really good bait, or a hell of a rod. ( I think my rod is broken)

My bait however seems only to attract catfish ( if you don;t get that joke go look up what people use for catfish bait)

I also just realized I made a very dirty joke on myself. Ignore it.

Anyway, to all you people who lost all your friends simply because you and your significat other split up. I'm sure there are better people out there for you to spend your time on.
And to one stalkerish little shit who goes to UMBC, you have no friends for a very good reason. Learn to stop being creepy.


I have been made aware of something called "Ladders" Apparently Guys have One big ladder, and every female they know is on it somewhere. The higher up you are on a ladder the more said male wants to sleep with you. And women, you see, women have TWO ladders. A "men I would sleep with" ladder and a "friends ladder" And men are constantly afraid they they might all of a sudden find themselves on the friends ladder. I listened to an entire conversation of men talking about how and why women might possibly want said ladder.
I can't answer any of those questions. I have one ladder.

One ladder that is. And all the guys I know are near it. The higher up they are the more I want to sleep with them. The lower they are the less.. and then there are those lucky ( or unlucky few) I consider as the concrete that holds my ladder in place.

Take that however you want it.

LADDERS!

The Great Pumpkin Initiative

Maybe this is because I didn't get to carve my damn pumpkins on Halloween because Santa Claus and the Christian Riech feel the need to bulldoze over every pagans holiday. But I feel that Jack-O-Lanterns should not be restricted to Halloween. I feel that I should be able to carve a pumpkin ( or something like it) any day of the damn year ( more specifically any holiday my crazy heart desires)
I have thusly begun the Pumpkin Initiative. As we speak there are two pumpkins on my porch that I will be carving for Christmas and or New Years. ( I'm lying they'll rot until I throw them away because I'm too lazy to carve them right now)
Anyway, we'll pretend I have carved them with Santa's Decapitated head and fireworks.
Next year Starting with New Years ( Thats 1/1/08) I'll be carving a pumpkin, or an equivalent for every holiday that I can manage. Because I was cheated out of my pumpkins by that damn Santa.

It's time Halloween take some inititiave you can take over every day of the year just like Christmas!

Fuck Santa!

Dirty Jokes

In my experience everyone loves a good joke. The dirtier the joke, the raunchier the punchline the better the laugh. Hell a whole movie was made about the "Aristocrats" which is a dirty joke that gets dirtier with each and every retelling.
The dirtier and raunchier it is, the better the laugh afterwards.

Everyone loves a good dirty joke, whether it be dead babies, half dogs, cuckolded husbands, cheating wives, assholes getting theirs or naieve ones getting something a bit more than they deserved.
This idea of everyone loving a dirty Joke brings me to Nicholas Gurewitch. The famed artist and animator who brings Perry Bible Fellowship to the internet and the world. Here in Baltimore City it's printed in the City Paper. It's a truly hilarious comic ( in my opinion ) and anyone who has a slightly deviant sense of humor or even enjoys a misdirection will love this comic and I totally recommend that you check it out. He is a veritable king of forced second glances, there are several strips I've had to look at two or three times to get the subtle and yet still hilarious gem he's hidden within.

Today when I opened up the city paper to read the letters to the editor I was totally amused by something I saw, that went as follows:

"Schulz He Ain't
Thanks, City Paper, for having "This Modern World" by Tom Tomorrow. I think the cartoon strip is terrific.
On the other hand, I think The Perry Bible Fellowship by Nicholas Gurewitch sucks. Anyone who thinks that Paw feeding his dog while his child is burning to death in a barn (Oct. 17th) is funny has to be a sick asshole. This is not the first time this cartoon has depicted shit showing children being killed. A while back there was a Robin Hood Cartoon with the same demented theme.
Some guy writing Dan Savage about jerking off while watching guppies fuck is funny. The Pain - When Will It End? Is adult humor. Yuk Yuk!
But killing kids is not funny, Gurewitch, lay off!!
GERALD BEN SHARGEL
baltimore"


For those of you who do ot know anything of any of the names above, that's why I linked them. Tom Tomorrow's comic is a very politically oriented comic. It'salso very liberal. Savage Love is a sex advice colomounist, he's very famous and has a hilarious podcast I listen to as well. The Pain When Will it end is also a very popular comic.
Here's my problem tho. The kind of stuff that Dan Savage ends up answering are much much more bizarre than someone killing a kid in a comic strip. So why is it that when someone whacks off to guppies fucking or is in trouble becuase he slept with his bosses wife but doesn;t regret it because his sex life is so starved. How is that FUNNY, and a non graphic depcition of kids possibly getting killed isn't?

I'm sorry Gerald, ( which seems like a very old man name anyway) you lay off. If it wasn;t funny. Then it wouldn't have been published. You're just some uptight stuck up old guy living in Baltimore wanting to push his po'ed ideas on everyone else.
If you didn't find it funny no need to write a nasty letter to the city paper. You are more than entitled to your opinion, but no one else wanted to read it.


Dirty jokes are an outlet for things we wish would happen, and want to imagine. Besides kids are loud whiny smelly annoying and not mine. If a few of them are depicted being killed whats the big deal? Are you also deeply offended by the portrayl of pedophiles on Law and Order?

Anyway. It's almost midnight and I was acosted by some truly ignorant hoodies tonight. That however is a story for another time about prolonging steretypes.

I owe you all a link to dramatica this one is a sell out.

FUCK YOU SANTA CLAUS!!

I know I say that alot, and I'm totally going to get shit on for cussing out Santa ( which I actually did flip of Santa the other day. And it was righteously awesome ) But what the fuck Santa? Why the fuck are you in Halloween?
You aren't supposed to come the fuck around for TWO MORE MONTHS! Why are you skipping turkey day? Everyone has to give thanks that that they don't have to frickin worry about it being december yet. If I'm not mistaken there are 12 months in the year and every christian in the god damn world insists you get december, do not taking my fucking october from me.
I'm not in elementary school anymore, I don't get to go trick or treating, that went out the window the year I hit 6 foot in height. My halloweens consist of parties where I plan on getting trashed enough that I vaguely remember who I saw and what I did. They also consist of carving two pumpkins. One before I drink and one after I'm too drunk to properly wield a knife. ( they both usually turn out great)
This year I didn't get a chance to get two rather large pumpkins before the party so I went ON HALLOWEEN to a Giant down the street from Campus. And what did my poor eyes behold as I crossed the threshold?
SANTA CLAUS!
Fucking little chocolates with Santa's face, and christmas decorations, red green and white cookies and fucking reindeer and penguins in scarves and hats and shit. Where are the goblins and ghouls and witches of the night! Where is the half price halloween candy that I wish to plan on gorging on once I'm inebriated? Where is the gloriousness of scaring the crao out of children and stealing buckets of candy from pansy ass people too lazy to actually hand it out?

None of it was there! It wasn't there to be found! Only fucking SANTA CLAUS PARAPHANELIA!

Now don;t get me wrong I wouldn't have minded so much if he hadn't just like charged right over thanksgiving, but to invade a sacred candy day?

Sorry Santa, You've gone to fucking far.

Breaking Back into the Swing!

I haven't blogged in quite a bit. To everyone who actually reads this I promise to be more regular in the future with this blog. I'm aiming for at least two entries a week. Feel free to IM me and or harass me to make me post if I forget.

I believe where I left off or rather where I'm going to pick up my continual bitching on is work ethic. I was going to do this long entry on "heart break" and such and such, but I figured whatever I'm sticking to work ethic.

The saying used to be "Something worth doing is worth doing well", these days however it seems like it's "Something worth doing is worth doing later and at the last minute" I'm not even going to lie and say I don't sometimes procrastinate. I do it often. On large papers, calling people back. Getting up in the morning. And so forth.

But sometimes I wonder when I look back at the people I've worked with and I'm sure whoever is reading this., you, can also think of people you work with who just cut corners on everything they do. Figuring if they do it now they won't have to do it later and just brush it out of the way or put it off for later.

it makes me angry when I'm a witness to someone doing this because I just think that a little more effort on anyones part makes the world a better place. A little effort to ditch the bad feelings at the door and not cop an attitude with customers. A little effort to smile and not frown the whole time you deal with people. And maybe just a little effort to shrug off the fact that you forgot yet another new cover sheet that you missed the memo on.


I'm not saying pay it forward, apparently ( spoiler alert) that kid gets stabbed in the heart. Which someone told me the other day when I used the phrase, and they repsonded in kind so they would not have to indeed pay it forward at all. So don't pay it forward, but do take pride in your work.

I say this for a few reasons. One is that the other day I went to visit a pool I used to work at all the time, for shits and giggles, and for a good swim. While I was there it was like no one took thier job seriously. The life guards were slacking, the pool attendants hanging around, like it wasn;t a professional atmosphere even tho peoples lives were in thier hands. The skimmers surrounding the pool were filthy and caked with dirt. it was disgusting. If I hadn't ever worked there I never would have known better. But I did know better. And I disliked it a great deal.
What happened top the guards who cared about what the pool looked like? What happened to the managers who cared what the staff reflected back onto them? Where was the self respect for the profession, the area and the job? And respect for the customers by acting professional?

I like working in the theatre right now because the man I work under has the philosophy of do it right and do it once. I appreciate that.

So that is what I wanted to rant about for a while today. I know it probobly isn't what you all were expecting, but give me two entries to get back into the swing of things..


and with that here is your moment of Zen

USOFPOS

My Obligatory Link to Dramatica for Music

I don't really have any particular complaint at the moment, I just kidna felt like typing a long and detailed complaint about something. I was going to start out with Rap Music and how absolutely irritating I find it to be. Which would of course lead me into how absolutely useless this sack of flesh I work with named Allen is. Make no mistake he is absolutely useless, and he is also a useless sack of flesh.

After typing all that in I have decided to complain about Allen. Allen the USOFPOS (pronounced Yousoff Poss)

Allen does listen to rap music and it does irritate me but that is not the only thing or the worse thing that he does when he antagonizes me.

He comes into work. He's just plain annoying. That's all I can say, he's creepy and annoying and gives of an extreme aura of stupid. An AURA of stupid. He reeks of stupid. He smells of it, stinks of it, looks like it. He's a useless misanthropic tumor on my workplace.

Any time he's given somethign to do, something that might only take me like tops, 5 minutes. Takes him the better part of three hours and he still doesn't finish it by the time he goes to leave. He's always given grunt like busy work and he never does it right.
They gave him a binder of paper to shred today. After breaking the shredder four times and having to have our boss fix it once he proceeded into what I can only call "The Barely Massacre of Paper" Because he barely got any of it done. He took three hours to shred 20% of a binder. 20 percent!?!?! It was a 3 inch binder, but THREE GOD DAMN HOURS? What the hell is wrong with this kid?
Does he have downs syndrome? Is he mentally retarded? Handicapped.. just plain mother fucking stupid?


He thinks I'm funny. I don't know why, I do yell at him a lot and tell him off frequently for being a stupid sod. Whenever he says something stupid I call him on it, and he just giggles at me. He asked me at least 7 times whether or not they might kill harry potter off in Movie 5. MOVIE 5!! 5 OUT OF 7!! When i told him he was an idiot he laughed.
Good riddance to bad meat when he gets fired. I can't wait. I know he's going to be fired. I'm excited. I think I might bake a cake or a cookie or a cupcake or something. And write congratulations. Eat it in front of him. Maybe make a whole batch and say they are for a good bye. Or maybe the cupcakes can spell good riddance so that it's clear it's not a nice send off but a celebratory stance at the vacancy that he's going to be leaving behind him.

It'll be great not having to leave every computer logged off so he can;t get one and listen to bad music. He listenes to terrible music.
We got into an argument at one point about whther it was okay to use the word Nigga. I told him Nigga and Nigger were basically the same word and simple changing the suffix doesn't change the word, the origin or the intent and meaning behind the word. He said he calls all his friends "nigga"

Just talking about him makes me fucking angry.

If he died tomorrow, I think I'd laugh. I know it's not nice, but it's the truth.


He gets on my nerves.

This post almost turned into one about Animal Cruelty and the fine line that so surrounds it,

Unfortunatly I have a sandwich here next to me that needs eating so I think I'll do that.


_lizard

Littering Bitches!

Sorry boys and girls I'm not one for censor ship and I just feel like the word Bitch is really appropriate at this moment in time.

I hate people who litter. I don't care who it is. I don't care what they are throwing out, I realyl hate it when people litter. Period. End of question.

Do they enjoy making the world a dirtier and nastier place to live? Do they like sprinkling trash all over the place for everyone else to see?
I was on the bus today and when I glanced over to my right I saw a woman eating sunflower seeds. This wouldn't be so bad if A. She hadn't already been breaking one damn rule on the bus by eating when she's not supposed to! But then she had the fuckign audacity to drop each of her god-damn seeds on the floor of the fucking bus! She was eating them out of a damn bag and had the nerve just to ditch her trash on the bus? When she got up and got off there was a huge pile of digsuting wet seeds in the floor of the bus, that everyone else has to step over and around. I wish I had walked up to her and smacked her. Or said something. Like maybe "You rude and stupid bitch you ghave some fuckign nerve making this bus that god damn disgusting!" I bet that might have taught her a god damn lesson.

I used to date someone who littered. I didn't notice at first that he was doing it. One day we were walking down the street and he just dropped his empty bottle of Gatorade on the ground and kept walking. Half a block later I realized he didn't have it any more. I walked all the way back and picked it up just to throw it out. He asked me why i did it and I told him because I had more respect for everyone else and myself than to just fucking drop my trash on the street instead of holding onto it for a block before throwing it away.

The other month . ( hah) I was walking home and a car pulled up next to me and opened the passenger door. Someone shoved an entire bag of trash into the street and slammed the door and started driving off. too bad for him he trapped the bag fo trash in the door and they went speeding down the street dragging it the whole way. The trash went everywhere until I couldn't see them any more.

Littering while walking is one thing, but littering while you drive is a whole fucking new load of ignorant. throwing cig butts out the window. Pepsi cans, trash, food.

Hey people! QUIT FUCKING UP THE EARTH! it's bad enough we do it subtley don't fucking do it blatantly too.

Next person you know who litters... Smack them.

Liz out!


What kind of trash?

Bank Of America

BoA ( see above) has these new commercials all over the place for "saving change". They go all over themselves to talk about the spare change you could find everywhere. Wouldn't it be great if you could save all your change?
"Well we here at Bank of America are working towards just that, from now on anytime you make a purchase your total will be rounded up to the nearest dollar and the difference will be deposited into your savings account. Bank of America, making saving money easier."

How is that making it easier at all? You're just moving money around!! You're not digging through my couch for the money I dropped there last week. Or rooting around in my coat closet going through all the pockets and finding money and saving it for me. You're not even rolling all the coins in the curse jar I keep telling myself I should start and taking them to the bank for me! They aren't actually saving ANY MONEY at all!! These commercials drive me nuts!


I also Hate coinstar. They take a penny out of every dollar or something. If I wanted someone to take my money while counting it, I'd pay someone to do it for me.

Fuck you BoA.. and screw you coinstar. I think I'll save my money and count it myself.


for your benefit Money

Reality T.V

Reality T.V is an abomination of Television. I say that because it is the one genre where you can absolutely and to your core hate one reality show and yet still feel yourself drawn to and or loving another. It's the same kind of show, yet this second one seems so different.

Reality Check they are all the same. Which is sad, because I will have to admit that even I watch some of them.
These are all the ones that come to mind. Simply because I eel like getting specific.

American Idol: I hate. I don't know why, but after the auditions I can't stand watching it anymore. I shouldn't even watch the auditions. Bad singers, crappy, commercials, rinse, repeat.
Mix in a sprinkle of talent every now and then. I don't watch American Idol if I can help it. I've tried in the past and found that I'm just too lazy to sit through it all. I do admit tho, there is something strangely alluring about people who think they are the most amazing singers and then open their mouths and sound like dying chihuahuas with hot pokers up their butts. Sometimes there's always someone who sucks who gets through anyway.. and if you clicked on the link above you'll see the vote for the worst trend. I like to think that if someone is good enough they could make it without these shows. They totally could, countless others have. It's just hard work is all. Sometimes I think that's the one thing some Americans fear the most.. Hard Work. Speaking of Fear...

Fear Factor: Anyone else watch this show? I used to just to see if they had to eat something disgusting. Like cow tongue, horse testicles, pig intestines and ears or even caterpillars. Seeing people choke down disgusting food for money they don't even have an assurance of getting it hilarious to me. The look on the runner ups face when he realize he choked down a pound of bat wing just to not win ANY money makes me roll with laughter. On the down side there was always some stunt that wasn't even remotely terrifying just difficult that always involved some chick stripping down to her bikini. And no female on the show was ever wearing a one piece. It used to make me laugh because most of the time none of them were so busty as to deserve that much attention. Tho I know that's not all guys look at. If it were I wouldn't be so damn single, but that's a post for another night.

Big Brother: I've never seen this show, not once, none of it.. ever. At All. There are however around 6 seasons of it. I still don't think it's worth watching.

The Great American Inventor: To be honest I've only ever seen this show once. Tonight. It seems like a decent idea but just like most other shows with this sort of thing, they come with something before judges, either suck or rock or have some bizarre combination of the two to get to the final round and win some sort of cash money prize. Don't get me started on game shows.
Today some idiot with this blue "therapist buddy" was on trying to convince the judges that his creepy little blue toy was the next greatest invention. it was furry blue, with a creepy smile on it's face and when you squeezed it said in a very creepy pedophile like voice "everything is going to be okay." Sure I thought, everything is going to be okay until you rape me while I'm sleeping. I thought it was stupid. I mean, I could see how this could be used with kids.. but the voice alone was enough to put me off my lunch, and i can envision many a horrible tale using this stupid doll. I have it on good suspicion the man who was hocking this doll was weird in the head, he seemed way to convinced that his doll was amazing. It wasn't.
There was also a man who went on for like 5 minutes about how he's the winner already, how great he is and what an invention he has. He then promptly lost, unbelieving of course. His invention? Hub caps for bikes? It was stupid. The last two episodes of the show could be interesting.

So you think you can dance: Personally, I like this show, but I'm a sucker for dancing. Blame it on me being a theatre major or blame it on me wishing I could dance myself, either way this show is cool. It's the same basic concept as American Idol with dancing. for some reason I like this show. Secret pleasure it's the same show as all the others.. but I LIKE this one. Not that that bullshit phrase means any thing. No one should ever think that's a decent defense for why they like one thing and dislike another that's so similar they are damn near the same. I digress.


Americas Got Talent:
I watch this show too. I like the magic acts the most. I couldn't really care less about the singing and dancing acts. I kinda wish they would just up and have a magicians talent show or something. So I could watch talent I actually care about.

It blows my mind when people pull ducks out of cages that used to be full of birds. I know they know how to do it but I enjoy being taken away with the act. Tricks like shoving a cell phone through a beer bottle. Or possibly pulling a burger out of a POSTER. Blow my mind because i Have an idea of how they do it but don't actually know. I supposed that you tube shall satisfy my taste for these tricks.

I may watch some trash on t.v but I take pride in the fact that I never have ever gone out of my way to watch these shows. I don't rush home to see idol, or record Americas Got Talent. If it's on and I'm home I might take a gander. I wonder how many people arrange some of their schedules around whats on t.v. I try not to.
Why are people so glued to the boob tube? Tivo and such. Is this sort of thing helping make socializing harder? Do kids only get together these days to talk about the latest episode of Greys Anatomy? If you don't watch Lost or Heros will you have nothing to do on whatever night it comes on because everyone else you know is watching it? Are you pushed into watching it just because everyone else does and you don't feel like sitting around and reading a book? Which by the by I love doing.

This entry started out as one thing and turned into another. I do feel however that it is a legitimate ponder able. How many books do you read a week? How many news paper articles do you look at? How many times do you ever glance at a paper besides reading the funnies? How caught up on whats actually going on with the world are you?
And by the world I don't mean Paris Hilton's latest stint in jail, David Hasselhoff vomiting pizza in a bathroom floor or who got what new boob/nose/tummy/face job lately. Who's having whose baby and whose cheating on/getting married to/ divorcing/ seeing/ dumping/ working with who.

Those things aren't that important.

That's just my opinion, but I could be wrong.

Bonus Post: Mission Week 1

I think about honesty a lot. Honesty between friends, and lovers, boyfriends, girlfriends, family. it bothers me a great deal when I find out someone I know is not as honest as I once thought they were.
I try to be very honest. To me Honesty is the one thing that every relationship relys on. Honesty with yourself and whoever else you deal with. If it's between friends you have to be honesty to them about what you think of them, when you are angry, why you are angry. If you are going out with someone honesty about who you are and what you want, and the same needs to come from them.
I'm not talking about simple little white lies like : "No honey your butt does NOT look big" or "I'm fine" when you're really a little angry at something that makes no sense. I'm not even talking about only being honest about bad things. But being honest about good things too: "I like you", "I love you", "You're one of my best friends and without you I'd be kinda lost", "You put a smile on my face" Telling your friends how you feel about them, making sure they know the truth about how you feel. It's not stupid, and trust me it will make them feel better and you as well.
I don't understand how a person could go out with someone and not be honest about how they feel. That's leading someone on. Does anyone else out there think it's cheap to undermine feelings and love by acting like you feel something when you don't. The same goes for friendships, if you don't wish to be someones friend what is so wrong about telling them to their face why? They are racist, annoying, kleptomaniac, desperate, clingy, whiny, smelly, not there for you. Maybe if you took the time to tell them that they are loud they might take the time to restock what they do to try and keep you as a friend.
I suppose if you find yourself not wanting to talk to someone or even fix the friendship there's a reason why and think they have a right to know at least that you don't want to be their friend. I'm not saying it's easy. It isn't. It's hard. It's hard to look someone in the face and tell them you don't love them and never will. or that you don't want to be their friend and you never were in the first place. It's also hard to get led on. To believe something so deeply and then have it torn from you when you thought everything was fine.
It's not easy to bounce back from being told you don't have friends. Or to turn around one day and no one is talking to you, or even telling you why. Or that you're being dumped after two years when nothing seemed wrong. but is it easy to live a lie?
That's what it is isn't it? When you pretend things are true when they aren't?
I suppose it goes the other way as well, to pretend things aren't when they are.
I for one know how hard it is to be honest. To be honest with who you are and where you are in life. It's hard to accept truths and it's hard to admit them. It's hard to tell someone how you really feel, and it's equally hard to understand how they feel.
My mission for this week is to admit to someone a truth I've been hiding. Whether it's finally to pin someone down and tell them how I feel with matters of the heart, or to tell someone why I really dislike talking to them.
I think that getting truths out there could lift up lot of stress that haunts some of us. Maybe walking around with these shadows is hard, but walking around with slightly lighter loads could do us all some good.

Accept this mission, and believe me the truth I'm going to tell I've been sneaking around with for a year at least.

Be Honest People.



This link is just for giggles. Honestly

Skype Issues

Have you ever heard of Skype?

That's a pretty good definition of what it is. ( F.Y.I I am proud of my ability to find links to encyclopedia dramatica with every post thus far ( even if it is only two) hah. )
I recall when the calls on Skype used to be free. It wasn't very long. But it was mildly fun while it lasted. Being able to call anyone I wanted from my computer was a hoot for a bit.
Since I have no need to call people one land lines or cell phones using my computer I settle for talking to other people using Skype for free. I have quite a few friends that I know in person who use Skype and a 4 am call to chatter about this and that when I'm bored and there's not much else to do has come in handy.
Skype has a cool feature I do truly enjoy. It's called Skype Casts. Someone hosts a room and others can join and you can talk to complete strangers everywhere. Almost like a glorified radio station on your computer. If I had thought before that I would enjoy talking to people all over the world I would have hit myself. Why I didn't think that now is beyond me.
There are some very intelligent and cool people to talk to, unfortunately it takes a while to find them. I find a few every now and then when I hop online. Sit in a Skype cast for a few hours.
There are also tons of idiots. Just like with any other application that uses the Internet you will find a slew of idiots. Only this time instead of just calling you a whole bunch of racial slurs, they'll try calling your computer at all hours of the day demanding a web cam and sex chat. Or even insulting you for the choice of your name. I get tons of messages asking me why I'm so angry. Like perhaps it didn't cross their little minds that on the other side of this keyboard there isn't actually a reptile with an attitude problem, but a girl who goes with the alias?
Don't let me dissuade you from using this cool little program. If you're a male the chances that you will be harassed by complete strangers from other countries at 7 in the morning are drastically reduced by around 97%. If you are however unlucky enough to be a female I must warn you. Idiots will swarm the net to send you a message that may read something as follows:
"u got web cam?" "we be friends?" "I Chinese not speak very good English you teach me?" and my most hated "u liek sixy?" Which is just too retarded to be able to believe.
Regardless of the few that make public talking and Skype casting on Skype worth while there are too many that just make it a pain in the ass. Do I still recommend using this program? Or course. Do I recommend putting up with bullshit from strangers who don't want to take the time to learn the difference between a comma and a period ? No. In fact HELL no.
I could regale you with stories of me bitching out people on skype because they had the nerve to message me with something as follows ( real skypechat excerpt):


[1:30:06 AM] huggybear431 says: ur well excused my love ,,,,,,but ur manners are attrociouse
[1:37:37 AM] The Angry Lizard says: OKay. First off. 1. Excuse You.
[1:37:41 AM] The Angry Lizard says: 2. Don;t call me your love
[1:37:48 AM] The Angry Lizard says: 3. It's Your not UR YOUR
[1:38:00 AM] The Angry Lizard says: 4. Atrocious. What the hell.. spell it right
[1:38:10 AM] The Angry Lizard says: 5. You used commas instead of periods. Learn grammar
[1:38:17 AM] The Angry Lizard says: 6. Screw off if you think so
[1:38:20 AM] The Angry Lizard says: 7. Screw off anyway


It's really easy to block these people, and my block list on skype tends to grow exponentially everytime I log on. It's not so bad when I sit down and look back at the fun conversations I've had with three blokes from Ireland, a south caroliner, someone in Wisconsin, 2 girls from Australia and a guy in New York who was so funny I laughed till my stomach hurt.
I'd truly be lying if I thought I enjoyed being bothered by people who can't speak or even type English correctly. That doesn't just go for people from other countries, but the worst perpetrators are people who live in this country. Perhaps this ties in with the previous post, but I find it a sad day when people can't properly communicate with one another without sounding or looking like complete asses.

Bottom Line: Try out skype, avoid the idiots and look me up some time. The Angry Lizard.


Out.

Don't Tread On Me

It's weird writing in a blog. I feel that I need to stay on top of my Ps and Qs. Make sure I have no silly typos and no stupid grammatical errors. One of my biggest pet peeves happens to be peple who type using letters, numbers and symbols.
"How r U 2Day?" Not only doesn't it use actual words.. they also can't seem to figure out if they want to use upper or lower case letters. The number at the front of today clearly screams lazy and it just drives me up the wall.
On instant messenger it's one thing. I feel I have an obligation to over look it because so many people use the slang and type that way. I suppose it carries over from shorthand texting on cell phones. However I have even encountered this retarded phenomenon in papers.. IN COLLEGE. That's right.. you read that correctly, people in an English class and a few student development classes at one of my college seem to feel that using "@" is somehow okay in a term paper rather than simply typing a and then t. People who clearly don't feel the need to reread their own writing and miss various yuos and tehs.

I guess it doesn't bother them that "there" paper reads like "thier" brain shut down in the middle of "they're" homework.


Attention idiots:

YOU'RE DOING IT WRONG.

Is it so wrong of me to not want to talk to anyone who IMs or messages me using this craptacular short hand form of typing? It's just as annoying to have everything lower case as it is EVERYTHING UPPER CASE. It loses effect. It's either all drab or all "shouting" I can't handle that. It's like talking to someone who whispers at the same tone and pitch everytime they say anything.

Maybe I should have a more open mind. Or maybe these idiots should just learn how to type properly. Even if it's only for posterity. I wonder if they forget how to type correctly at all. Is it so wrong to ask for a little intelligence on the internet?

Don't bother answering.. I know the answer is no.