So the other day I was in the train station waiting for my train to arrive. Across from me was a mother and her two children, twin boys. This is obviously nothing that is at all very interesting or extraordinary, but this brings me to my rant. Why must parents of twins dress the kids alike?
They are not one person; they have two distinct personalities, and buying two identical sets of clothing does not give a discount price. So what is the purpose? It has no purpose and just looks asinine.
I can understand giving the kids, when they are babies an identical wardrobe; it makes it easier to purchase clothes, but have them where the same outfit on the same day is a little absurd. Are you trying to prove to the world that you actually did buy two sets of clothes for the kids and that you are not cycling the same outfits between the two of them? In that case, nobody cares because everybody is going to call them cute and adorable. Why? Cause they are babies, not cause they are dressed alike.
So if you are a parent of twins and dress them alike, you clearly wish you only had one child. If you are a parent of boy-girl twins and dress them alike in male outfits same applies Lastly, if you are the parent of boy-girl twins and dress them in female outfits; you wish you had one child and you have a sadistic sense of humor and I commend you for it but you should never ever have children.
Monday, July 5, 2010
Thursday, June 24, 2010
Borrow?
Why is it that people can't be honest to each other. If you want to tell somebody something just say it. and along with that if you want to borrow something from somebody return the fucking thing it; is not fair to take an item and just not return it. I mean what is so hard about returning something especially if it is a CD. There is enough ways to copy a CD that would make it so there would be no reason to steal it. You want the music burn it, you want the cover art and booklet, scan it. There is no excuse for such a violation of trust.
I can respect a legitimate "I forgot" but if the person who loaned the item gives a reminder you should probably just return the fucking thing lest you forget again. However multiple "I forgets" is just a bullshit excuse for sympathy, you should take care of it o arrange things so it can be taken care of as soon as possible.
Don't take this preachy bullshit as saying I am the best example for not being a douche about this stuff, but if somebody calls me out on not returning something then I will return it. I'm not saying I intentionally try to steal shit from people by "borrowing" stuff; what I am saying is that if I forget to return it and I am reminded it will be returned.
Basically don't be douche-bags, you borrow something return it.
I can respect a legitimate "I forgot" but if the person who loaned the item gives a reminder you should probably just return the fucking thing lest you forget again. However multiple "I forgets" is just a bullshit excuse for sympathy, you should take care of it o arrange things so it can be taken care of as soon as possible.
Don't take this preachy bullshit as saying I am the best example for not being a douche about this stuff, but if somebody calls me out on not returning something then I will return it. I'm not saying I intentionally try to steal shit from people by "borrowing" stuff; what I am saying is that if I forget to return it and I am reminded it will be returned.
Basically don't be douche-bags, you borrow something return it.
Monday, June 21, 2010
Handshakes
The other day I went to a friend's house for her graduation party, and I had arrived a little late so most of everyone was already there including my brother. Upon greeting everybody i knew my brother said to me "Your goal of the day is to talk to Doug Funny." He was not referring to the cartoon character but some dude that was invited but didn't know anybody except for the girl who graduated.
"Doug Funny" was a rather tall guy who had gone on a date with said graduating friend or something and hence was invited to the party. "Doug" had arrived fairly early in the day but didn't know anybody and was awkward to talk to so my brother being my brother made fun of him in his mastery of ways. I had walked by the kid after going to the bathroom and I felt it appropriate to introduce my self to the kid, to first make it so the kid didn't feel so isolated and second so I can achieve my goal. So i introduced myself, shook the guys hand, and carried on to sit back down where I was sitting earlier.
Later in the night we had started playing flip cup and I was joking around and such and at some point "Doug" and I started trading Monty Python and the Holy Grail quotes which made this kid seem less awkward, although I cannot lie the fact that he was still at the party was pretty awkward on it's own. This kid showed up around 3:30 in the afternoon at the beginning of the party and he knew nobody there and he stayed until almost 3:00 that night still really not knowing anybody, but that is another issue altogether.
After many awkward passes at my friend, whom was the said graduate, "Doug Funny" decided it was time to leave. As "Doug" was getting ready to leave, he was saying goodbye to the one person he knew and since we had such a huge bonding experience, he said bye to me as well and went in for the handshake.
This leads me to the main idea of this rant, handshakes, and the handshake in this interaction was not the tried and true normal handshake which we all know and love. It was not the grab hand, one quick up-down, and release handshake, the one which occured when I introduced myself earlier in the night. This was one of those complex 'why are you molesting my hand?' handshakes. Upon the initial grasp, and while i was doing the quick up-down, he was doing the thumb pivot maneuver then going into the finger-snap release.
I only had one way to respond to this botched transaction, so I said "Oh you're going for the extended handshake? Let's try this again." so we did and he added onto it, this time upon the completed finger-snap release hie proceeded to go onto a 'fist-bump' pound thing to the top bottom fist-bump into a standard fist-bump. Needless to say all of this jazz is completely unnecessary and I was reluctantly going along with the extended, but I had shit to do, I couldn't be there all fuckin' night shaking this dude's hand.
So I demonstrated the proper handshake, hopefully he will no longer molest people's hands and just give the greeting. I explained how the proper anatomy of the handshake, i.e the grab hand, one quick up-down, and release structure. The handshake transaction should not take longer then two seconds, it's short, sweet, and to the point. Grab hand, quick up-down, release, end transaction.
There are two important reasons that this was a situation where it was only appropriate for the standard handshake. First, I didn't know this guy, we had met mere hours earlier and the only conversation that took place between us was quoting Monty Python. Second, I was not given the proper advanced warning of that such a breech of the handshake etiquette was to occur and thus I did not have time to properly adjust. This results in a handshake that is not satisfying to either party involved.
I mean a large majority of handshakes are taken place between two individuals who are not very well acquainted, so why are you going to extend the contact. The purpose is to be friendly but not intruding, it is supposed to acknowledge the other person respectfully, come but keep a formal distance between the two involved. I mean if the two people where that familiar to have a special handshake or at the very least know when the other person likes to do special handshakes, and what the other person does in a special handshake, they probably know each other very well and will more likely give a hug or bro-hug.
Lets keep this simple transaction that, lets keep it simple, grasp, up-down, release. Nice and simple, clean and quick, and there is no room for confusion.
"Doug Funny" was a rather tall guy who had gone on a date with said graduating friend or something and hence was invited to the party. "Doug" had arrived fairly early in the day but didn't know anybody and was awkward to talk to so my brother being my brother made fun of him in his mastery of ways. I had walked by the kid after going to the bathroom and I felt it appropriate to introduce my self to the kid, to first make it so the kid didn't feel so isolated and second so I can achieve my goal. So i introduced myself, shook the guys hand, and carried on to sit back down where I was sitting earlier.
Later in the night we had started playing flip cup and I was joking around and such and at some point "Doug" and I started trading Monty Python and the Holy Grail quotes which made this kid seem less awkward, although I cannot lie the fact that he was still at the party was pretty awkward on it's own. This kid showed up around 3:30 in the afternoon at the beginning of the party and he knew nobody there and he stayed until almost 3:00 that night still really not knowing anybody, but that is another issue altogether.
After many awkward passes at my friend, whom was the said graduate, "Doug Funny" decided it was time to leave. As "Doug" was getting ready to leave, he was saying goodbye to the one person he knew and since we had such a huge bonding experience, he said bye to me as well and went in for the handshake.
This leads me to the main idea of this rant, handshakes, and the handshake in this interaction was not the tried and true normal handshake which we all know and love. It was not the grab hand, one quick up-down, and release handshake, the one which occured when I introduced myself earlier in the night. This was one of those complex 'why are you molesting my hand?' handshakes. Upon the initial grasp, and while i was doing the quick up-down, he was doing the thumb pivot maneuver then going into the finger-snap release.
I only had one way to respond to this botched transaction, so I said "Oh you're going for the extended handshake? Let's try this again." so we did and he added onto it, this time upon the completed finger-snap release hie proceeded to go onto a 'fist-bump' pound thing to the top bottom fist-bump into a standard fist-bump. Needless to say all of this jazz is completely unnecessary and I was reluctantly going along with the extended, but I had shit to do, I couldn't be there all fuckin' night shaking this dude's hand.
So I demonstrated the proper handshake, hopefully he will no longer molest people's hands and just give the greeting. I explained how the proper anatomy of the handshake, i.e the grab hand, one quick up-down, and release structure. The handshake transaction should not take longer then two seconds, it's short, sweet, and to the point. Grab hand, quick up-down, release, end transaction.
There are two important reasons that this was a situation where it was only appropriate for the standard handshake. First, I didn't know this guy, we had met mere hours earlier and the only conversation that took place between us was quoting Monty Python. Second, I was not given the proper advanced warning of that such a breech of the handshake etiquette was to occur and thus I did not have time to properly adjust. This results in a handshake that is not satisfying to either party involved.
I mean a large majority of handshakes are taken place between two individuals who are not very well acquainted, so why are you going to extend the contact. The purpose is to be friendly but not intruding, it is supposed to acknowledge the other person respectfully, come but keep a formal distance between the two involved. I mean if the two people where that familiar to have a special handshake or at the very least know when the other person likes to do special handshakes, and what the other person does in a special handshake, they probably know each other very well and will more likely give a hug or bro-hug.
Lets keep this simple transaction that, lets keep it simple, grasp, up-down, release. Nice and simple, clean and quick, and there is no room for confusion.
The Rundown...
Well basically this is me letting you guys my readers.... well once I get those... as to the purpose of me spatting out my obviously not that important two cents. Basically there is no purpose other then I like to rant about things whenever something comes to mind. So I figured that a blog is the most efficient way to rant so here I am ranting for the world to become slightly confused and hopefully humored by.
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