Month: December 2011

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"Hi" redux

A while ago I wrote a piece here titled “hi”

In that piece I explained how annoying it was when I’m on social media sites and I receive the “hi” message from strangers.

I’m probably going to just start replying to those messages with a link to that blog post.

It’s one thing if you know me and start a conversation like that. We already have something in common, it’s quite another thing if we don’t know each other.

Look at the scenario.

Person A Sends a message to person B

hi

Person B gets an email or text notification that they have a message.

They stop what they’re doing, log on to the site where the message originated, navigate to the email and they read the mind bogglingly intelectual message from Person A.

hi

Now Person B checks out the online profile of Person A.

Person B thinks “Hey they’re kind of cute” and despite the fact that the social media site has ample space for Person A to describe themselves and their interests they have refused to provide any information at all except the requisite gender and location.

What is Person B supposed to do? What response can be formulated? As I see it there are four options.

  1. Respond with “Hello, thank you for your message.” and hope that Person A can in fact carry their end of a conversation.
  2. Respond with an equally inane “hi”
  3. Respond with “Hello you’re cute, did you want to get together and fuck?” 
  4. Ignore messages from Person A
I’ve tried all four responses with varying results.
Oddly response #4 elicits the most interesting behavior. Person A continues to send messages that simply say “hi” over and over again until I block the moron.
Options #1 & #2 are about equally ineffective. Person A responds to each with a one to four word response. The response is usually chosen at random from the following list.
“hi”, “sup”, “what are you doing?”, “hows it hangin?”, “where are you?”, “what are you into?”, “stats”
These short responses go on and on until I simply can’t be bothered anymore. By the time Person A gets around to saying anything interesting I’m over them and no longer reading their messages.
At least the multiword choices demonstrate some grasp of the language. I personally find “Stats” offensive but it IS honest in that it’s obvious the sender is looking for a quick hookup.
Response #3 most often generates a distinctive silence. The honesty of “Stats” is apparently acceptable, but putting my desire into actual words is somehow too nasty.
I’m a man… I want to fuck, I want to shoot my creamy load… and why shouldn’t I be honest about that desire?

If you’re saying nothing more than “hi” you’ve left me with nothing to build a conversation on so why not cut to the chase? You want my dick and I’m willing to let you have it.

The most ironic bit of all this is, I’m listed as seeking friends and chat in my profile.

The people that most often send “hi” say they want to chat too. Perhaps my first clue is that these people can’t be honest enough with themselves about what they’re really wanting. Maybe I’ll change my profile to “Seeking Kinky SEX “

At least then the people contacting me might have a clear idea about what they’re after.
The problem is, that I really am looking for local potential friends…

I’m going to have to start hanging out at the local bar, at least then the person saying “hi” is prepared enough or drunk enough to respond with a sentence… or by paying for the drinks!

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Moronic Occupy Long Beach

Assholes!

I wish the cops would back off and let the Long Shoremen handle the Occupy folks “OLD SCHOOL”

These occupy people are fucking up a lot of the “Workers” they claim to represent.

The Longshoremen that can’t get to work

The office workers

The Truck Drivers

and everyone else in the local area, including minimum wage workers that can’t get to their jobs on time BECAUSE of these idiots.

One of the Occupy spokesholes said it was worth it in support of The Movement. WHAT MOVEMENT?

Who the fuck is HE to decide that all the people who can’t get to their jobs;

A) HAVE TO DONATE THEIR SALARY (In lost wages) To a movement that they may not agree with?

B) ARE BY DEFINITION HAVING TO SUPPORT OCCUPY.

These Occupy people are fucking assholes!

I”m over them, I was over them 2 weeks after their disorganized bullshit began. I’m REALLY over it now.

Hey Police…. haul out the teargas, bean bags, and water canons. Clean up the trash!

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When did America Head down the road to being a Fascist police state?

Apparently another memo I missed.

This first bit is so unbelievable that I at first thought it was a joke. Sadly, it’s no joke.

A man in Illinois is facing up to 75 years in prison because he recorded his conversations with Illinois police. (As an aside, remember that Chicago is the capital of some of  the most draconian gun laws in the country and oddly enough one of the most crime ridden cities in America.)

The bottom line is that Michael Allison recorded his encounters with the police. And the police apparently didn’t like it.

A follow-on piece reports that a judge has ruled the case against this man is unconstitutional

And predictably the state of Illinois has filed an Appeal

In the last piece they briefly put up a map showing the states that have anti-recording laws of law enforcement. Surprisingly, California has laws of this type in place.

When did our Law Enforcement get so terrified of the public? Most of the time they’re doing what they’re supposed to do and we, the public agree. Having the public watching your fellow officers means that any “Bad” officers get removed from duty before they give all law enforcement a bad name.

The concept that Law Enforcement is above the law… is what gets everyone in trouble. Unless of course your end goal is to create a Jack-Booted cadre of thugs that do the politicians bidding and not the peoples.

Of even further concern is this little piece from Jon Stewart.

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Arrested Development
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The rest is here I think, sorry for the commercials but this is important to our future.

These kinds of amendments being added to necessary “MUST-Pass” legislation are without question one of the most damaging things happening to our country.

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Arrested Development – One-Way Train to Gitmo
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The accumulation of these abridgments to our personal freedoms will eventually subvert the Constitution. Listen carefully to the description of “Potential Terrorists”!

These two pieces are long, and yes they’re done with Stewart poking fun at the situation but the legislation has passed and it is now heading to the Presidents desk.

We need to pay a lot closer attention to our politicians. If this insanity is passed…

Under the description of potential terrorists, Virtually all Mormons could be construed as terrorists. They could be arrested without access to due process and detained indeffinately.

Why? The tenants of their faith call for preparedness. Food should be stored, supplies, yes, even hunting rifles with ammunition.

By definition ammunition that is kept properly is in weatherproof containers. That’s two out of three terrorist criteria.

Does that mean if a Fundamentalist Southern Baptist Christian president is elected that he or she will be able to imprison Salt Lake City? Yep… And there’s not a damn thing anyone could do about it.

Interested in politics yet?

You really should be,.. 

Remember the Poem; (Thanks to Wikipedia)

First they came for the communists,
and I didn’t speak out because I wasn’t a communist.
Then they came for the trade unionists,
and I didn’t speak out because I wasn’t a trade unionist.
Then they came for the Jews,
and I didn’t speak out because I wasn’t a Jew.
Then they came for me
and there was no one left to speak out for me.

“First they came…” is a famous statement attributed to pastor Martin Niemöller (1892–1984) about the inactivity of German intellectuals following the Nazi rise to power and the purging of their chosen targets, group after group. The text of the quotation is usually presented roughly as above.

Folks, this cautionary tale is relevant TODAY, right NOW.

It’s not some dusty old tome from history talking about things that only happened long ago, far away, in another country.

This poem / commentary is just one slippery slope from happening in our country.

Time to wake up America…