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Post by Raphael on Mar 4, 2013 18:44:55 GMT -6
Resturant chairs are made bigger so that you don't feel fat and eat more. The ac is turned down so you leave sooner. And the prices are often small so that you don't notice them.
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Post by Zoom on Mar 4, 2013 19:53:58 GMT -6
10 Reasons To Delete Your Facebook (Remember there are two pages.) I actually found this after I'd already deleted my account, but it just reinforces my point: Facebook is Bad Fucking News. The thing that bugs me the most, though, is that the second you try to tell somebody about this, it doesn't matter how good your reasoning is or how valid your points are - suddenly you're a paranoid conspiracy theorist. Besides, Facebook is the norm - in the last year or so, I've noticed that when you meet somebody interesting, instead of them asking for your cell number, they say, "What's your last name? I'll Facebook you". What kind of society do we live in where the website discussed in the link above is the DEFAULT??? Plus stuff like some companies only hiring people who give them their Facebook passwords - when're we going to get to the point where you're not able to get a job if you don't have a FB to poke through? And after that shooting at the Batman screening, it came out that the killer didn't have Facebook, and the world was abuzz about how if you don't have FB you must be a psychopath...I was very, very afraid. Still am. DYSTOPIAN NOVELLA IDEA - Like 1984 times V for Vendetta with a bit of Little Brother. Yikes.
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Post by lucia on Mar 8, 2013 21:36:54 GMT -6
Oh and the other thing that's bothering me is one direction and the hunger games. In my opinion it's just people getting all excited about nothing. It's all vacuous and pointless and people wasting their lives. I'm being kinda harsh. I just don't see the point in it. And I have an allergy so when people are all like "oh my gosh you have an allergy! Do you have epi-pen with you? Maybe you should only eat saltines and grapes!" Or when they freak out and feel bad if I can't eat their food because I don't know what's in it. Its not that big of a deal! I'm not gonna die and you shouldn't feel bad! Okay I'm done now. I don't bother with Facebook because most of the people I know get addicted to it and then delete their account  |
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Post by sapphire on Mar 8, 2013 23:58:42 GMT -6
I actually like Hunger Games... It's not the best thing in the world, but it's pretty good (though the first book is far better than the other two). But I know what you mean about people going crazy over things that, in the end, don't matter that much. I understand liking something, but not letting it take over your life. As for One Direction, I have no opinion. I think I've heard one of their songs. Maybe. Oh, Facebook... So addicting, yet so controversial. (Did you know that it's actually illegal for employers to ask for their employees'/interviewees' Facebook passwords? If they ask, you should absolutely refuse - they have no right to that information. Also, if they reject you on that grounds, they could get in serious legal trouble. If your profile is public and they get to it that way and see something they don't like, though, you're out of luck.) |
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Post by Raphael on Mar 9, 2013 5:48:37 GMT -6
I am really getting annoyed with names like Katnis or Katsa or Kat-anything. Be more origonal, Hunger games already took that name. Just think of another.
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Post by Endovia on Mar 9, 2013 12:08:46 GMT -6
Yeah, I never got into the Facebook stuff. I just found it boring. I'm not that interested in where you are right this second, or what you're eating for lunch, or what music you're listening to, etc. Just the other day I was asking someone for information and they said it was on the Facebook page and I was just like yeah I deleted that thing, don't use it. It annoyed the heck out of me trying to find the delete button and made me all the more determined to get rid of it. I ended up googling it. It's insane the illogical connections people can make between unrelated things. I can't stand One Direction. So annoying when guys play or sing their stuff in class. I do like the Hunger Games. I read the books back when they first came out before all the hype with the movie and the last book was my favorite. You know the best part about the Hunger Games? It's pointing out our violent forms of entertainment (not to mention government stuff) and we just keep coming back for more. I liked the books and the movie was great. The soundtrack is brilliant.  But I'm not into the hype. Yes, I did go to the midnight premiere but I blame my dad for that. I think people need something to get excited about, even if it is nothing, just to have some sort of thrill/adventure in their lives. I have a friend who's allergic to nuts and she hates that stuff, too. The thing is she doesn't feel like she's missing out on anything because she's never enjoyed it so there's not point feeling bad about eating stuff with nuts in front of her. |
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Post by Raphael on Mar 9, 2013 13:22:38 GMT -6
I love making illogical connections to things! (well to me they make sense but no one understands them)
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Post by lucia on Mar 9, 2013 14:12:51 GMT -6
Yeah I never liked nuts and I don't feel like I'm missing out so it really bugs me when people make a big deal out of nothing
I only read the first book and didn't see the movie so my opinion isn't worth much...
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Post by Endovia on Mar 9, 2013 17:03:43 GMT -6
By illogical connections, I was referring to what Zoom was saying about Facebook.
"And after that shooting at the Batman screening, it came out that the killer didn't have Facebook, and the world was abuzz about how if you don't have FB you must be a psychopath...I was very, very afraid. Still am."
Or saying polio was caused/contracted from ice cream because the infections peaked in the summer, the same time ice cream sales peaked. It's stuff like that that I don't like because there is no fact or logic to back these claims and it only causes paranoia and chaos.
O Drama, how I lavish thee. Carve mine chest and take mine heart. Pulsing and thrumming with devotion to thee. O Drama, how I die for thy rough caress.
(Yeah, random, but I agree.)
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Post by Raphael on Mar 9, 2013 17:56:59 GMT -6
School drama is the worst. Or life drama, i haven't decided.
"The one thing that is most certainly worse than life is a useless death."
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Post by sapphire on Mar 9, 2013 20:10:43 GMT -6
I agree that it's good to have something you get excited about. Going to the midnight premier for a movie you're really excited about is fun because everyone's excited. It's a really great atmosphere.
I don't have any food allergies, but I'm allergic to three different kinds of antibiotics and three different animals (cats, horses, dogs - all unfortunate allergies to have as someone who wants pets).
How's this for an irritant? Media. They blow almost everything way out of proportion. It's not about reporting news anymore, it's all about sensationalism. And they all do it. There is no such thing as an objective journalist anymore. It drives me crazy.
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Post by lucia on Mar 10, 2013 21:25:30 GMT -6
I'm really grateful that I'm not allergic to any medicines cuz I think that would drive me crazy
I agree a bout school drama and life drama- and I don't know which is worse. I guess I've had more school drama than life but maybe they're equally bad
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Post by sapphire on Mar 11, 2013 21:12:38 GMT -6
School drama carries into life drama. Don't let anyone tell you that people are less catty after high school. It's sad, but true: life is a popularity contest. Too often, it's who you know over what you know.
Of course, it some cases, that actually makes sense - for example, if your best friend recommended a certain person to work for you, you'd be more likely to hire that person, because you trust your friend. Still, it's not so cool if you don't have the connections to make the system work for you.
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Post by Zoom on Mar 21, 2013 22:03:16 GMT -6
"Or saying polio was caused/contracted from ice cream because the infections peaked in the summer, the same time ice cream sales peaked."
Haha are you serious? That's ridiculous.
Drama I've found is like 99% of the time caused by girls who are bored and like the excitement.
A1 on media. The worst part is that the media wouldn't even BE sensationalist if it wasn't what the viewers wanted.
As for objective journalism, I hear Al Jazeera is good.
I read the first Hunger Games and gave up. I think it was a decent idea and there was some imaginitive worldbuilding stuff in there, but I hated all the characters and the plot was predictable.
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Post by sapphire on Mar 21, 2013 23:56:03 GMT -6
Al Jazeera is excellent. I used it for a project on the Arab Spring a couple of years ago (my history professor decided that we shouldn't be focusing on the past quite so much when there were such important events going on in the present, so we took half the semester to follow the various Middle Eastern rebellions).
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But I'm not into the hype. Yes, I did go to the midnight premiere but I blame my dad for that. 
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