Generational problems

Okay, since I seem to be binge-angry right now, here's another rant - fresh for the masses.

I've noticed that one problem with our generation is that we're chronic liars. Now this isn't to say that the older generations or younger generations (probably too young, since I'm talking the 18-28 demographic here) don't lie, I'm just saying that our generation has become almost solely dependant on lies.

We seem to feel compelled to lie - either to cover up something, or just to make our lives more mysterious. One could be doing something totally pointless, and they'd tell others they were out shopping, when the reality is they were just hanging with a friend. I can't understand this. I'm typically a brutally honest person, usually painfully blunt as well.

Maybe it's that the older generations just don't trust us - it probably stems from feeling like we have to lie to make it seem like we're innocent. Fuck that, just tell the truth. If you lie, you're probably ashamed of your actions, or afraid of the consequences. I really don't care about the consequences of what I do, so I just tell people what I've done.

Creating a community of distrust has destroyed any kind of honesty one may ever have. Relationships are ruined between people over small things because it's just a lie that compounds, and compounds to save the lie. Why do people care so much about covering up?

People shouldn't have to feel like they have to lie to live the way they want. So many say they don't care what others think, but it's clear they do if they lie to everyone about what they do. If you really want to be who you're comfortable with, be it, and tell others that's who you are.

I hate it when people lie to me - it just makes me stop talking to them. So if anyone wonders why I'm not talking to them anymore - now you know. What really, really, pisses me off is when people lie in the sense that "well this person did that for me, so you should too". The reality is, they're just saying that to make it seem like you should, when it's just taking advantage of you.

That and when people say they'll be somewhere at a certain time knowing they won't. If you say you'll be back from wherever at noon, and you come back seven hours later... yeah, that's a lie too.

-Mark

The intArweb is not the place for self-discovery

I'm back, bitches.

I've been curising the intershnitzel for the first time in a week (damn classes filling my precious drinking time). And of course, I've found something that enrages me.

I'm tired of seeing all these stupid online personality quizzes that tell you the "kind" of person you are. The "you are a caring, generous, etc etc etc person" bullshit.

An example of the personality quiz BS.
A big WTF example. Lemons are enemies? This is the BS I'm really talking about.
You get the point. Moving on...

Here's a clue: THERE'S NO NEGATIVE ANSWERS. You could be a child rapist but you'd just be a "strong, silent type that prefers to read". Now for the most part it's just idiotic teens filling out this shit, but it's still a growing problem. These damn personality quizzes won't tell you anything you shouldn't already know, and if you're really that insecure that you have to broadcast to the world who you think you are, you've probably got no friends anyway. Or you're lying. Besides, those stupid things are so subjective that you could literally find any abstract way to relate yourself to something said in the blurb.

I just want to know why people keep using these. The internet is a place to kick back and relax, or surf, or whatever. If you want to find out who you are, go out and find it - don't rely on some jackass "you're a great person no matter what you pick" quiz. We are shaped by our actions, and trust me, there actually are bad people in the world - and you're one of them. Everyone is pretty terrible, when you think about it. Those quizzes are total BS and shouldn't be filled out by people looking to pat themselves on the back and broadcast "hey look! Take notice of me because I'm these things!"

Nobody gives a shit if the internet says you are. Go out and DO something to show us. You'll find out quickly how full of shit that was. You're not nice - you bitch about your petty shit that no one cares about, and when people tell you the truth that they don't care, you get pissed. Fuck you, you're not important, and your problems are stupid. And you'd realize this if you didn't fill out that shit to avoid the fact that your "friends" are right. You ARE stupid and worthless.

So stop using that shit and live life. Everyone's fake anyway, and you'll discover who you are more in a public setting then sitting on your ass in front of your computer.

-Mark

Complaining about Relationships

Here's some shit I've noticed (yes, I'm back) in my 20 years of pointless existence.

I'm really getting tired of hearing people bitch and bitch about "problems that never change". Or "people that treat me like shit". Here's the thing. The problems don't change because YOU don't actually do shit to change it. So many people are so dependant on the routine they've got used to, they fail to notice the minute alterations that happen as time passes. This is most obvious in relationships: At first everything is great, there's that euphoric stage where neither partner can do anything wrong - then slowly, one, or both start knowing the intracies of each other. That'd be the "comfort level".

The comfort level is probably the biggest cancer to relationships in the history of time. Might as well change the comfort to "take advantage of the other person", because that's when one person just starts acting like themself - which is something you DON'T want in a relationship. Well you DO, but it never happens that way. What it really boils down to is that you either want to control the person you're with, or you want to have the freedom to do whatever the hell you want and your partner just has to live with it. Both are bullshit.

The reason you're SUPPOSED to be with the other person is because they bring out the best in you, and vise versa - and you like seeing that in each other (I'm not talking about casual dating, more of a long-term thing). You're both giving up a little freedom to be with the other person - but the amount of joy you receive from being with said person is supposed to make up for it.

So many times, this doesn't happen. Someone gets walked all over, and the other person feels belittled or mistreated. Then some sorry-ass apology is supposed to make up for it? Bullshit. Accepting such a shit cop-out is really just telling the person that you're letting them do it again.

"But they make me happy sometimes." Bull.Fucking.Shit. They should be making you happy ALL the time, not walking over you and then doing something to make up for it. There shouldn't be a "oops, make-up" stage in relationships. Maybe once, but repeatedly? Hell no. I've often wondered why people bother giving second/third/fourth/infinite chances to their partner. The most one should EVER get is a second chance - cause yes, sometimes people change. But 95% of the time - no.

I don't care if you love this person or if you really dig them, the fact that anyone would stay in an unhappy relationship to me, shows weakness. Sitting around hoping or waiting for change will not make it happen - it takes two sides to change, and it'll never fucking happen if the unhappy side doesn't bring it up. Discussion and communication is key in relationships, and so many long-term relationships slowly lose that, or they never had it.

"They used to treat me so well." Who gives a shit what happened in the past? If it's cheating, then you get the FUCK out of that relationship. You're a douchebag for staying in the first place if that's the case. However, if it's a treatment, where one side was great, and now aren't, don't fucking stay silent. Again, focus on what's been happeninig in the recent times. If this is ongoing, and seemingly uncaused (if there's an outside factor, like a major sickness, or family issues, fine, but it's still not an excuse to treat your partner like shit), the abused partner needs to leave. Or address it at the very least. I'm so fucking sick of hearing people tell me the same shit over and over and over. Do something about it. I usually be my best to be supportive and lend advice when I can, but there's times where I just stop giving a shit, cause the person complaining doesn't make an effort to actually change anything.

"I don't deserve better." Bull.Fucking.Shit. You deserve to be treated the way you treat people. If you adore someone and they trash you, don't settle for it. Tell the bitch/jackass - if they don't change, fuck 'em. Just because you love someone doesn't mean you should sit there and take all the shit they deal out all the time. And telling yourself you don't deserve better is just a cop-out, it's basically saying "I don't want to deal with the problem", or "It really doesn't bother me as much as I say it does."

Maybe it's just (in my observation), people are afraid to be alone. Yeah okay it sucks, trust me I know (single for awhile now), and it does get lonely, but the longer you stay in an unhappy relationship, the more chance you're letting yourself miss the person that would treat you right. They could just pass you by or fuck, you could know them already and they may find someone else - then you're REALLY fucked.

I just can't put my finger on why people do what they do to themselves in relationships. I for one, NEVER, EVER, do breaks. If someone I was with put me on a break, I'd get the fuck out - I have more self-respect than to be cast aside and then brought back when it's convienent for the other person. Fuck you - I'll move on, you piece of shit. This drags back to the "fear of being alone". Maybe it's just that some people have some self-depricating need to be with someone - fine, but you're really treating yourself like garbage when you let the person that put you on a break take you back. You shouldn't take their ass back - you only get one shot at relationships, and people don't realize this. Have some fucking self-respect!!! I can't stand hearing how person X took back their girlfriend/boyfriend after a break - do you honestly think that the pain you just went through can be forgotten? If a break happens, just pick up your shit and walk away. Yeah, it hurts alot, but at least you wouldn't have to live with the fact that they did that to you and you took their worthless ass back. Move on, find someone new. If you're a female, it's really not that hard to find another guy. If you're a guy, prepare to put effort in again.

Overall, I'm just tired of having to listen to people bitch and moan they're unhappy, and then see nothing happen to rectify it. If you're really as unhappy as you say you are, do something other than bitch to me. Yeah, I can be there for support (what are friends for but support, good times, and to poke fun?), but eventually, if all I hear is complaints and I never see a change, I'll stop caring.

I'm done for now - but shit, I had to get that off my mind. HAVE SELF-RESPECT, PEOPLE!!

-Mark

For the 4 people.

That actually read my blog - no, I haven't given up, I'm still filled with irrational hate for random societal things. Problem is, I've been in and out of the doctor's office for the last two weeks, so the dome is kind of like the gas chambers right now - eeriely quiet, awaiting the next set of people thinking they're having "showers".

Good show. Had to throw in a holocaust ref there just to keep people enraged.

-Mark

Oil companies and alternative fuel

Let's all face facts: The oil companies have us by the balls. In a sense, it was a work of genius on their part to not compete with each other and decide collectively to just all charge basically the same amount of money. Everyone is screwed, and nobody's willing to give up driving unless they absolutely can't afford it. (People like me can just BARELY afford to drive). But since gas here in Canada topped the $1.00/litre mark, I've said enough. Since then, and it's been nearly a month, I've only got gas twice. Once at 106, and just a few hours ago at a ridiculous 128.

Now, here's my question. Where is the justification in raising the gas prices 22 cents overnight, which happened a few days ago? It takes approximately 40 days for the oil to come from the ground to be refined, mixed, etc etc etc to gas in the pumps, so explain to me how they know that it'll be "harder" in 40 days to find the oil?

I mean, how many times do oil companies have to grab and twist until the public says that's enough? I mean, the chance that they'll price themselves out of the market is unlikely since it's the only source available. And the government doesn't do anything to encourage other fule sources since they make sweet coin off of taxes.

But all it'll take is one brass-balled entrepuener to develop an alternative fuel source, and if they could just get it to work with modern engines - it wouldn't even have to be fuel effeceint at first, as long as it works out to being cheaper in the same distance.

Here's my suggestion, and it's been said 4 billion times by like six people, and nobody seems to care or listen, and they really should. WATER, bitches!

Let's see: Renewable? Yes. Bountiful? Yes. Easy to extract from the ground? Just ask New Orleans. Cleaner burning? Likely.

Water covers 70% of the ground, making it retardedly plentiful and easy to access for fuel use. Besides, this has the potential to solve global warming at the same time: Given the amount of oil used, transfer that to water and multiply it by 2, or 3, or 4 if you really want to. So even at 25% effeciency of oil, there's still about 100X the amount. And let's say, for example, that it pollutes the same amount, still adding to global warming: Who gives a shit? It's water, so even if those start melting, it's just creating more fuel. The answer? More consumption. Since the fumes released would be cleaner than oil (try drinking oil over water and see if you don't die), it'd just go into the air, clouds, and huzzah! The cycle of re-creating fuel begins.

Instead of killing mother nature, why don't we work with it until Katrina finds some friends and the Polar Ice Caps kill us all? We're trying to avoid making flop movie Waterworld come true, but so far we're making Kevin Costner look like a profit instead of a terrible actor. But I digress.

In summation: Water = Solution. Oil companies = Rich whores screwing the consumer.