Sunday, October 2, 2011

You've probably never heard of her...

"There is a level of cowardice lower than that of the conformist: the fashionable non-conformist."
- Ayn Rand (foreseeing the Rise of the Indies by nearly a century)

Sunday, May 29, 2011

Correcting they're statuses? Your really smart.

The English language and the internet don't work well together.
Its really not hard to find a grammatical error on the web, they're is probably at least one on every page you read.

Especially on facebook.
Woah nelly.
You'll find that almost every second status has some incorrectly using words.

Your & You're.
Their, There & They're.
Its & It's.

Its pretty friggen annoying.
But do you know what's worse?
The intellectually gifted mastermind who can pick up on these insignificant grammatical flaws and correct the person on them.
Not even weaving in a hilariously subtle joke, rather commenting with a simple asterix followed by the correct word.

your.

The concept which I have trouble grasping, is why these pimples feel the need to make such corrections?
Does it feed the ego? Pathetic if it does.
Does it make them look smart? No.
Wait, strike that. It makes them look as sexy as Stephen Hawking, so in a way it kind of does make them look smart.


Oh mortal, how you're insolence amuses me.

Wednesday, April 27, 2011

Yeah mate, yeah.

Why do songwriters think that the word 'yeah' is cool?
It's a load of dick.
The amount of songs which predominately feature the word 'yeah' is ridiculous.

And that's only the songs with only the word 'yeah'.
Doesn't even include 'yeh', 'yer' or 'oh yeah'.

Admittedly, back in the day my favourite song was a twelve-bar-blues where the lyrics were:

"Yeah" (x12) repeat as desired.

But then again, this was from a time when I thought that this was badass:


Now, I desire nothing more than for less songs to be about a word which simply is an agreement.
Now, I'd rather be on the Challenger Space Shuttle than listen to that song again.


Wednesday, April 13, 2011

Misinterpretation.

I love puns.
I love double-entendres.

And so, I heart using the word seminal in assignments.
In my analysis of Noir and Neo-Noir films for a university assingment, I wrote:

"Miller and Rodriguez clearly draw their inspiration from the films of the noir movement, in particular Billy Wilder’s seminal work."


Obviously, as you all know, by seminal work, I'm referring to the 1944 classic 'Double Indemnity'.


My god, it is brilliant.


According to my faithful dictionary, seminal means "(of a work, event, moment, or figure) strongly influencing later developments : his seminal work on chaos theory."


But of course, there is another meaning. And being the foolish little schoolboy I pray that my tutor misinterprets it.



I've been told by many that my maturity is my best quality.

I've since realised that that is an insult.


Monday, April 4, 2011

nature's alcoholics.

You know what's a waste of space?
Midges.
You know the mosquitoes that are about the size of my dignity?
Yeah, them.
An artist's representation of a midge

Seriously, what do they live for?
I mean, I can understand mosquitoes, I don't like them, but I see that they fly around and live on blood.

Kinda like the fish from Piranha II: The Spawning

But seriously, what the hell do midges do?
Are they like Spike from Season 4-7 of Buffy?
Because, they never drink blood.
Ever.
They never land.
Ever.
They just fly around like they'd be blowing 0.999 on a RBT.

Things to note from the above:
1. The fly lands, walks and then flies off.
2. The midge flies around like a retard, comes oh so close to the arm but never touches.
3. That sexy muscle and the manly hair on my arm.

I've come to the conclusion that midges are mosquitoes, who are so depressed in their genetic abnormality (which is their small size) that they fall into a spiral of alcoholism.

I wonder if they fly home and mercilessly beat their wives and children?

Thursday, March 31, 2011

cAPITAL pUNISHMENT

whoever invented the english language was a fool.
why, i hear you ask.
because they invented capital letters.

now i ask you, why are they necessary?
seriously though, think about it.
name me one instance where they are absolutely necessary.
sure, in some cases, a nice ol' capital X can look pretty badass.
and in other cases capitals can neaten up a bland-looking paragraph.

strangely enough, a nice ol' picture of dr phibes can make
any paragraph look wickedgnarlyradical.

my main gripe with capital letters is the ease to misuse them:
  1. caps lock - TYPING WORDS IN CAPS LOCK MAKES ME READ IT AS IF SOMEONE IS YELLING AT ME.
  2. caps lock (feat. shift key) - fORGETTING THAT YOU HAVE CAPS LOCK ON, YET STILL ATTEMPTING TO USE CAPITALS IN THE CORRECT PLACES MAKES YOU LOOK ABOUT AS INTELLIGENT AS A SNOWMAN MADE OF HUMAN FAECES. fOOL.
  3. capitalising every word - Not Everything Is A Title, Jackass.
  4. capitalising every second letter - wOuLd YoU hApPeN tO hAvE a MeNtAl ReTaRdAtIoN?
i really don't see the need for capital letters, it just doubles the amount of learning those poor year one children have to learn.

once, just once, think of the children.

Wednesday, March 23, 2011

Boosh, Boosh Stronger than a Moose

pro tip: clicky clicky on the image to see it in eye-popping 2D.

Above: Why I want to get into Screenwriting.

Thursday, March 10, 2011

Wikipedia is good. [citation needed]

Wiki gets a bad rap.
Why can't it be used in assignments?
'Its not a credible source of information'
It cites everything to credible sources, and HOW IS IT ANY LESS CREDIBLE THAN ANY OTHER WEBSITE?
'Anyone can edit it'
Guess what the internet is, dribbledick.
Everything can be edited by anyone; so stop being dicky to poor ol' wiki.

'Did you know: The common bumblebee has a 10 inch penis?'

You read it online, but not on wikipedia.
It must be true.

Wednesday, February 9, 2011

based on something that annoys me.

'Based on a true story'
Those five words appear at the start of countless films, books and laundry detergent packagings.
Each word seems pretty easy to read yet, whenever they appear before me when I am in the vicinity of a wanker who finds themself to be 'intellectual' I have one repeated to me.

'SEEE ITS BASED!… ONLY BASED!'
Thanks.
No really, I thought that the film was not a dramatic retelling, rather the actual events transpiring with the persons involved having taken polyjuice potion to appear as my favourite celebs.

Run to the hills, Hitler has returned.

Seriously, thanks for the heads up.

Monday, January 31, 2011

, and we're back from a lengthy pause.

I was just wondering, why people, find it necessary to use, so many friggen commas.
The little voice, in my head just can't, cope.
I end up, reading everything, to myself, like that black kid off of Malcolm, in the, Middle.

check out that swagga

Its almost as annoying as when blogs use new lines instead of bothering with proper paragraph structure.
Oh, wait.