Category: For Fucksakes

1: Get some balls / ovarian fortitude / etc.

I tend to end up buying my wardrobe for the year around this time in December, not because I enjoy boxing week crap but because this just happens to be when most of the black and/or dark red clothes are everywhere.

I can't help but notice that I experienced a fair bit of wasted time today due to people lining up for change rooms and then standing around with duuuuhhh expressions on their faces when the room actually becomes available.  What is this "I am too chicken to walk forward first even though I am in the front of the line" bullshit?  Move.  Your.  Ass.  WTF???

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2: Yet one more example of "the world does not revolve around you"

I get that people develop various levels of baggage in connection with various religions.  That's understandable.  Providing arguments against a given perspective is also understandable.

However, I find it super annoying when: as someone relates that they've had some kind of spiritual awakening with a particular path, some other person feels the need to go on their blog and be all "I have resentment against that path" - but doesn't actually say much as to concrete reasons.  Like, thanks for the complete lack of constructive content there, i.e. act like there's a problem but provide no avenue for addressing it. 

Comments like this I find come across to me in several ways, none of which tend to win my respect:

"I don't like that path but don't have a philosophical argument as to why; it just makes me feel yucky.  But I don't want to look stupid if the other person asks me why I have a problem with it, so I'll just keep being vague so that I don't have to defend myself and in so doing, demonstrate that my actual knowledge of the religion in question probably hovers somewhere between jack and shit."

"I had a bad experience with a person of that path, therefore I am going to trash the whole path instead of extending enough critical thought to consider whether the problem lies with the path itself or just with that one person's interpretation of it."

"I had a bad experience with that path, therefore it is somehow threatening to the validity of my personal experience if someone else has a good experience with it, therefore I must trumpet my negativity the second the subject comes up."

All of this sort of stuff sounds very me me me me to my ears.  So you had a bad experience - so fucking what?  Had you considered that your friend's world might not revolve around the same things as your own?  Like I said, I understand having issues with certain religions, but if you're going to rain on someone else's parade, how about giving them reasons they can actually think over and see if they apply in their own case instead of being all "oooh, look, I had an experience, it is super fucking important to everyone because it is my experience!!"

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3: Boo hoo, I am lonely and pathetic so I must kill other people as well as myself.

I just read some boo-hoo forum post of the past, allegedly from the "crotchbomber," wherein he was all whining and crybabying about being lonely and misunderstood and lacking in attention, and if only he had found someone and gotten married, or could at least get laid, etc. etc.

I fucking hate this crap, because to me it always comes off sounding like "men wouldn't engage in violence if women would just grant men their God-given rights to a) do whatever they want with women's bodies; b) have a clean house and dinner on time; c) receive 'emotional support' i.e. ass-kissing and ego-stroking from a non-threatening 'inferior' party; etc." 

Or at least, you just know that sooner or later some asshole is going to argue that feminism contributes to terrorism using logic that resembles this.  That gym shooter awhile back would be a similar sort of case on this particular front, i.e. "boo hoo I couldn't get a date, women are bitches for not responding to my pick-up artist bullshit," etc.

Whereas in reality, if they got married these sad, broken people are likely to just go take out their violence on women and children instead of on the rest of the world.  Oh, but apparently that is okay in large portions of the world, wherein domestic violence continues to be ignored and the law does not even recognize that there can be such a thing as "marital rape," since "obviously" when the woman got married she clearly wanted to sign away all of her human rights.  "Obviously" half the human race should be enslaved to the other half so that that half doesn't have to learn to control its impulses and demonstrate some actual moral responsibility. /sarcasm

I hope it's obvious that I'm bashing particular social arrangements between the genders, not "men as such." 

But my point is: everybody's lonely sometimes, but not everybody feels the need to shoot up gyms or blow up planes because of it.  If you're going to be a miserable sack of shit, how about just removing yourself from this world instead of also taking other people who, due to their superior coping skills, do not feel that the drawbacks of the world necessarily justify leaving it right away?  Or better yet, instead of using homicide or suicide or some shitty co-dependent relationship to save your poor incomplete soul, you figure out some way of actually completing yourself? 

I hate to quote a movie that most people think is lame, but in Cool Runnings there's a part where the coach says, with regard to the prospect of winning the gold medal, "If you're not enough without it, you'll never be enough with it." 

I think that is equally true of both marriage and martyrdom as well.

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• Very pretty costumes, mostly lolita dresses on girls. Best thing of the series.
• Great comedy bits, although were too few for my liking
• Annoying small child characters FINALLY gets payback for being annoying (joke, I loved Maria, so shoot me :P)
• Music was very pretty in places, although a little quiet. The OP is great, the ED was... creepy...
• Storyline was very gripping
• Made me think a lot... a bit too hard
• Gave me a character to cosplay as, who has AWESOME outfits
• Loved the Higurashi clips on the TV etc.
• Drowing in a house sized jelly. Hilarious much.

• Ok, I'll say it. It confused the hell out of me. I need to re-watch it badly.
• Felt a bit fast paced
• The gore was blurred out. I mean, what? It's animated, for God's sake.
• No one seemed to notice/care about Maria's evil laughing half the time
• Annoying cliffhanger is annoying but needed
• Once again, still really confused. Really.
• The subs I had were a little bit dodgy to being with... (confused Italian with Latin)

Category: Upcoming Events

Many of you may have already heard about this...

... but I have two updates that aren't reflected on these posters as of when I printed them:

• Megatunes will also be sponsoring us.
• 1 free drink with price of admission, choice of either champagne or Jagermeister.

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