Spud's Rambling Rants

Just an announcement: I'm gone to Big White for four or five days, so I won't be here. Remember to click on that link (here it is again: http://www.herowar.com/recruit.phtml?id=20981) and keep on ranting!

Spud

My two cents on the Terry Schiavo issue (wrote this as a comment on someone else's blog):

"One one side I think that Terry Schiavo‘s parents shouldn‘t be getting involved. If they haven‘t talked or seen her for twenty plus years (so I‘ve heard) and there is absolutely zip chance of recovery then her husband should be allowed to decide what happens to her.

On the other hand, I don‘t see why she has to artificially be starved to death. Yes, she‘s only been kept alive artificially since 1990, so supposedly it won‘t hurt her, but do we really know that? I don‘t see why they don‘t give her a painless needle and let that be it. Actually, I do. This is where, I guess, her parents and the issue of the courts come in. The parents don‘t just want the feeding tube reinserted, the want her to live (obviously). And that leads to this controversial government involvement. So there are two issues one may be concerned with: death of Terry in general, and the ethical/political issue of the feeding tube."

It's really quite controversial. To summarize, I think she should be given the freedom to die, but also quickly. I don't see why they starve her to death, even if she is alive only artificially.

Anywho, post your viewpoints, comments, or complaints if you have any (and you probably have a lot of complaints =) )

http://www.herowar.com/recruit.phtml?id=20981

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Here's another thing I can't stand: Anne Geddes pictures. I mean, how many of you have looked at one of those damn photographs and just wanted to blow all the grandmothers who bought these pictures away? I am so goddamn sick of people who are so sold by little kids. If you watch America's Funniest Videos (not very sophisticated humour, but effective) and a video which involves a kid under the age of six makes it to the top three, I guarantee that that video will win, no matter how lame it is. And it is usually pretty lame. They win because the audience is full of young, late twenties (often soon-to-be mothers) that think these stupid clips are adorable. Which they may be, but they are nowhere near funny.

And that brings me back to Anne Geddes pictures. These frames are the stupidest photos I've ever seen. Besides the fact that they're just silly, I just can't stand the people who buy these crap pictures because they think these babies dressed up as little flowers or bees is adorable. It's so maddening.

Richmond Public Library

Young Adult Fiction Top Hot Titles:

1.  Second Helpings: A novel
2. Sloppy Firsts: A novel
3. The curious incident of the dog at nightime [thank god, one non-teen-girl book]
4. Teen Idol
5. Princess in Pink
6. Away Laughing on a Fast Camel: Even Further Confessions by Georgia Nicholson
7. The Princess Present: A Princess Diaries Book
8. Perfect Princess
9. Because I'm Worth It: A Gossip Girl novel
10. Gossip Girl: A novel

*audible sound of head imploding*

Some people are just so clueless. Carpooling home today from school (God I am so sick of carpools) and the lady driving me says, "Do you take provincials this year?"

This is a perfectly logical question, so I answer, "Yes."

"What subjects?" she asks.

"Just Math and Science," I respond.

"You don't take English provincials?"

I figure she must have not heard me, so I say, "Not this year. Just Math and Science."

"Oh. So you don't have Social Studies provincials?"

What part of "Just Math and Science this year" do you not understand????

Then, a few minutes later, I notice a pair of bald eagles in a tree. We have quite a lot of them this year. So I point them out.

"Look at the bald eagles."

She strains to look through the window. "Oh. That's cool." Then the slightest of pauses, and then...

"Did you see them?"

There were quite a few more of these enlightening conversations on the way home. I don't remember any more of them, but I can assure you all of them ended in a silent longing to pull my hair out.

Why are people so stupid? I'm not a very good listener, being a very visual person, and I still don't say stupid stuff like that. It seems every carpooling parent I know is irrepressibly STUPID. How are they actually so insanely ignorant?

I've always had my favorite comics, and my tastes have graduated; from Garfield to Calvin and Hobbes to Foxtrot to the Farside, and finally to my new comic strip of similar identity: Zits.

Oh my god, this strip is so accurate about teens. Everything is so exaggerated about our weird moods and attitudes, but the other characters are so brilliantly portrayed. An example:

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Mmmmmmmmm'kay, I had a comic that perfectly described the "clueless parents" I was talking about previously, but I can't seem to find it on the Internet. Here's another one, then:

...Yeah, the strip isn't posting very well, so just check it out in the album on the sidebar over there =)

So, back to that topic, anyone here had any mind-numbingly inane conversations with adults in which these said adults have the mental capacity of a turnip?