Stab me

I wish there was a way I could stab myself in the ears so I didn't have to overhear half the brainshit people's pointless dribble on this campus. What you wore or how cute some douchebag is or why he was hanging out with her, or why you don't like someone, is not worth broadcasting to the fucking campus. Shut up... I really wish I could just kick the asses of everyone on this campus that's got nothing to say.

-Mark

Big-ass argument

So I just got into some massive argument with Peter over politics. Rather then describe it, I'll just post it (this is fucking long, warning).

Jesus Christ, this is long. Anyway, if you have an hour to kill and feel like reading about politics and coming to a vagrant understanding of where my rants seem to originate, go nuts.

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Peter - way to go Canada... officially almost George Bush's whipping boy. says:
i certainly know why i voted, assfucker

Peter - way to go Canada... officially almost George Bush's whipping boy. says:
and what i voted for

Mark - Tired as fuck says:
and that would be?

Peter - way to go Canada... officially almost George Bush's whipping boy. says:
because i support a lot of the NDP policy

Mark - Tired as fuck says:
which is?

Peter - way to go Canada... officially almost George Bush's whipping boy. says:
outlaw private health care

Peter - way to go Canada... officially almost George Bush's whipping boy. says:
i dont think private health care should be legal

Mark - Tired as fuck says:
they weren't the only party that was for that

Peter - way to go Canada... officially almost George Bush's whipping boy. says:
conservatives love it, liberals dont care enough to do shit about it

Mark - Tired as fuck says:
so you voted for them for one reason.

Peter - way to go Canada... officially almost George Bush's whipping boy. says:
its a reason

Mark - Tired as fuck says:
and what are the others?

Peter - way to go Canada... officially almost George Bush's whipping boy. says:
their policy on education, which is reducing tuition and making it mroe affordable and accessible to the general population

Mark - Tired as fuck says:
again, not the only party to talk about that

Peter - way to go Canada... officially almost George Bush's whipping boy. says:
theyve got the better plan

Mark - Tired as fuck says:
and that would be?

Peter - way to go Canada... officially almost George Bush's whipping boy. says:
conservatives: give money for books/tools for trades. liberals: free tuition/low tuition year first and last year but still fucked in the middle. ndp: just lower it in general across the board

Mark - Tired as fuck says:
at the expense of?

Peter - way to go Canada... officially almost George Bush's whipping boy. says:
remember, liberals do take a lot of ideas from the NDP

Peter - way to go Canada... officially almost George Bush's whipping boy. says:
i support their policy regarding cities and building their infrastructure, transit, etc

Peter - way to go Canada... officially almost George Bush's whipping boy. says:
i support the idea of a national daycare for thsoe who want to take advantage of it

Peter - way to go Canada... officially almost George Bush's whipping boy. says:
i support their stance on kyoto, keep it and meet its goals and not sit around and do bull on it

Mark - Tired as fuck says:
seriously man, are you just reading this off a website right now?

Peter - way to go Canada... officially almost George Bush's whipping boy. says:
i support their policy on missile defence: a clear no

Peter - way to go Canada... officially almost George Bush's whipping boy. says:
no im not reading this off a website

Peter - way to go Canada... officially almost George Bush's whipping boy. says:
its not like im totally oblivious to the news

Mark - Tired as fuck says:
okay. Go on

Peter - way to go Canada... officially almost George Bush's whipping boy. says:
i honestly think the ndp has a clearer stance on stuff than the liberals do

Mark - Tired as fuck says:
honestly, you seem to think this is all easily accomplishable. There's no fucking way the money is around to acheive all these things

Peter - way to go Canada... officially almost George Bush's whipping boy. says:
that depends if you're using it efficiently or not

Peter - way to go Canada... officially almost George Bush's whipping boy. says:
gun registry is a good idea, just poorly done

Mark - Tired as fuck says:
That's a fucking joke. NDP talks a big game but seems to think there's some massive surplus to get this shit done

Peter - way to go Canada... officially almost George Bush's whipping boy. says:
thats because there is a surplus, asshat

Mark - Tired as fuck says:
I know that, fucktard. But that's cause we HAVEN'T spent shitloads of money on programs like this

Peter - way to go Canada... officially almost George Bush's whipping boy. says:
outside policy, you know where i stand ideologically. are you surprised about what i voted?

Peter - way to go Canada... officially almost George Bush's whipping boy. says:
NDP seems to fit my ideological stance

Mark - Tired as fuck says:
first: there isn't the population in order to finance these things that NDP want; second, there isn't enough tax revenue. Half of
these "projects" are astronomically expensive to run, like anti-missile defence, national fucking daycare, tuition, and restructuring the infastructure

Peter - way to go Canada... officially almost George Bush's whipping boy. says:
antimissle costs 0$ if we say no to it

Peter - way to go Canada... officially almost George Bush's whipping boy. says:
and NDP sAYs no to it

Mark - Tired as fuck says:
so in order for these to go down so perfectly, they would need to raise taxes, or it would be run poorly or incompletely.

Mark - Tired as fuck says:
No it fucking does not

Peter - way to go Canada... officially almost George Bush's whipping boy. says:
i will acknowledge you cant implement them all at once, the money isnt there, youd have ot phase them in

Mark - Tired as fuck says:
they don't get a goddamn volunteer to go against pro-missile defense.. they'd have to stage a campaign against it, which would also cost a shitload of money

Peter - way to go Canada... officially almost George Bush's whipping boy. says:
itd be worth it

Peter - way to go Canada... officially almost George Bush's whipping boy. says:
you dont create a happy world by putting weapons here there and everywhere

Mark - Tired as fuck says:
That much I agree with, but National daycare is a ridiculous idea that simply can NOT be done

Mark - Tired as fuck says:
first of all, that'd be a shitload of people out of a job

Peter - way to go Canada... officially almost George Bush's whipping boy. says:
thats why you hire them

Mark - Tired as fuck says:
There's already people that run daycares

Peter - way to go Canada... officially almost George Bush's whipping boy. says:
the current folks running daycares get employed

Mark - Tired as fuck says:
then why change the system?

Peter - way to go Canada... officially almost George Bush's whipping boy. says:
because the government can ensure that daycares exist so that those who want to run one but lack money can actually run one

Peter - way to go Canada... officially almost George Bush's whipping boy. says:
if we're going to have a society with two parents working, somethign needs to be there, and if daycare spaces dont exist, i think the government needs to step in and do something

Peter - way to go Canada... officially almost George Bush's whipping boy. says:
if it means subsidizing daycares, then so be it

Mark - Tired as fuck says:
Or maybe parents should be more damn responsible about having children if they can't handle the task

Mark - Tired as fuck says:
And who would pay that?

Mark - Tired as fuck says:
OR would we take that from our "endless" surplus?

Peter - way to go Canada... officially almost George Bush's whipping boy. says:
dude, lots of people legitimately have kids bevcause they want them, not because a one night stand ended badly

Mark - Tired as fuck says:
I know that, but if we can't sustainably take care of them, then why are we having them?

Peter - way to go Canada... officially almost George Bush's whipping boy. says:
because its human nature to reproduce to keep the species alive

Mark - Tired as fuck says:
It's not the middle-class people that are having troubles with taking care of kids. In fact, in those demographics child-birth is dropping

Mark - Tired as fuck says:
it's in low-income families and teen pregancies that are on the rise

Peter - way to go Canada... officially almost George Bush's whipping boy. says:
so your stance is leave them on the street to die

Mark - Tired as fuck says:
Trust me, we're not having problems reproducing. We're completely overproducing

Mark - Tired as fuck says:
My stance is stop the fuckers from spawning so much

Peter - way to go Canada... officially almost George Bush's whipping boy. says:
so your government would spend money on contraception for these people

Peter - way to go Canada... officially almost George Bush's whipping boy. says:
or surgery to tie tubes

Mark - Tired as fuck says:
obviously not tying tubes; that'd be a personal choice. But definitely handing out contraceptives

Peter - way to go Canada... officially almost George Bush's whipping boy. says:
but that costs money

Peter - way to go Canada... officially almost George Bush's whipping boy. says:
and people would leech of the govt for pills, which you seem to not like leeching people

Peter - way to go Canada... officially almost George Bush's whipping boy. says:
but really, are you surprised i voted why i voted?

Peter - way to go Canada... officially almost George Bush's whipping boy. says:
ratrher what i voted

Mark - Tired as fuck says:
No, I just think you've been whitewashed by propaganda

Mark - Tired as fuck says:
Look, my beliefs are definitely not free, I obviously am aware of the cost of condoms and contraceptives. But that's a shitload cheaper then 18-22 years of child expenses

Mark - Tired as fuck says:
It's obvious the world is overpopulated, and despite the low-income benefits of the NDP's proposed platform, it'd be a shortlived "dream" because what they promise would never be sustainably possible

Peter - way to go Canada... officially almost George Bush's whipping boy. says:
i highly doubt youd complain about my vote if i voted green

Peter - way to go Canada... officially almost George Bush's whipping boy. says:
im thinking it could be an anti-ndpness on your part

Mark - Tired as fuck says:
I'm anti-NDP just as much as I am anti-Conservative

Mark - Tired as fuck says:
honestly, the best place to rest on the spectrum is Liberal

Mark - Tired as fuck says:
but the Liberal party obviously can't run their shit straight

Peter - way to go Canada... officially almost George Bush's whipping boy. says:
the point remains, youd probably not complain about my vote if i voted green

Mark - Tired as fuck says:
I wouldn't complain, but I'd maintain my stance that you didn't know what you voted for

Mark - Tired as fuck says:
In actuality, it does seem I was wrong, you at least are more knowledgeable about what you voted for; for that I apologize. But you honestly buy into a lot of the propaganda from the NDP platfrom

Peter - way to go Canada... officially almost George Bush's whipping boy. says:
to say that is a bit arrogant on your part, its not like i didnt know what was going on going into the poll. and its not like i suddendly decided on NDP this year

Peter - way to go Canada... officially almost George Bush's whipping boy. says:
whatever the NDP says they will do, feasible or not, i look at them as the concious of the nation, the party that keeps the government in check on the social side of things

Mark - Tired as fuck says:
I know that, but you seemed to be conflicted about your vote between Green/NDP, and then literally overnight you turned into a NDP fanatic

Peter - way to go Canada... officially almost George Bush's whipping boy. says:
i decided on NDP about a week or two ago

Mark - Tired as fuck says:
that doesn't change the overnight factor

Peter - way to go Canada... officially almost George Bush's whipping boy. says:
well before the rally, something just felt right about NDP

Peter - way to go Canada... officially almost George Bush's whipping boy. says:
any confliction i got over green came when i was doing my doc when some of green policy was explained to me

Peter - way to go Canada... officially almost George Bush's whipping boy. says:
but i ultimately decided that i couldnt support all of green's non-environmental policy

Mark - Tired as fuck says:
The crux of a fringe-party

Peter - way to go Canada... officially almost George Bush's whipping boy. says:
theyre fiscally conservative

Peter - way to go Canada... officially almost George Bush's whipping boy. says:
which equals cutting programs that are beneifical to the country

Mark - Tired as fuck says:
Not particularly; they're actually all over the place fiscally

Peter - way to go Canada... officially almost George Bush's whipping boy. says:
as explained to me by teh green candiate: fiscally conservative, socially progressive

Mark - Tired as fuck says:
That's just the bullshit they give reporters

Mark - Tired as fuck says:
LIterally, their platform changes from member to member... a serious holdback

Peter - way to go Canada... officially almost George Bush's whipping boy. says:
dude, i thought that before interviewing her though

Peter - way to go Canada... officially almost George Bush's whipping boy. says:
she pretty much confirmed it

Mark - Tired as fuck says:
except in London North the Green candidate when fiscally progressive, socially progressive

Peter - way to go Canada... officially almost George Bush's whipping boy. says:
if there was such a riding as London North

Mark - Tired as fuck says:
Which there is; Joe Fontana won it

Peter - way to go Canada... officially almost George Bush's whipping boy. says:
i do realize teh NDP probably won't form government (if they do, itll be a long time). but its the NDP that puts forward ideas and keeps the government's social concious in check

Peter - way to go Canada... officially almost George Bush's whipping boy. says:
and i can live with that

Peter - way to go Canada... officially almost George Bush's whipping boy. says:
btw, its London North Centre

Peter - way to go Canada... officially almost George Bush's whipping boy. says:
London North is non-existent

Peter - way to go Canada... officially almost George Bush's whipping boy. says:
and btw, the Liberals hold the balance of power, not the NDP

Peter - way to go Canada... officially almost George Bush's whipping boy. says:
they are the official opposition

Mark - Tired as fuck says:
Liberals don't hold the balance of power

Peter - way to go Canada... officially almost George Bush's whipping boy. says:
they have 103 seats, do your math, 29 isnt much

Mark - Tired as fuck says:
The balance of power isn't the second strongest party. It's the party that can combine with another to defeat the government if they wanted to

Peter - way to go Canada... officially almost George Bush's whipping boy. says:
and the cons plus ndp cant pass a law anyways, they dont have 155 put together

Mark - Tired as fuck says:
Liberals + Bloc = 154 seats. Liberals + Bloc + NDP = new vote

Peter - way to go Canada... officially almost George Bush's whipping boy. says:
remember the cons will only have 123 votes because one will become speaker, who doesnt vote

Peter - way to go Canada... officially almost George Bush's whipping boy. says:
except in ties

Mark - Tired as fuck says:
Cons + NDP = 152

Peter - way to go Canada... officially almost George Bush's whipping boy. says:
155 = majority

Peter - way to go Canada... officially almost George Bush's whipping boy. says:
if bloc and lib vote no, law screwed

Mark - Tired as fuck says:
I know. NDP holds the balance of power

Peter - way to go Canada... officially almost George Bush's whipping boy. says:
152 vote doesnt pass a law unles sthe libs or bloc vote for it

Mark - Tired as fuck says:
I know

Mark - Tired as fuck says:
the NDP and Cons would never form a coalition anyway

Peter - way to go Canada... officially almost George Bush's whipping boy. says:
the cons only need bloc or lib, they can ignore ndp

Mark - Tired as fuck says:
They sure as shit aren't going to get Liberal

Peter - way to go Canada... officially almost George Bush's whipping boy. says:
libs got con support last time around, its not like its next to impossible

Peter - way to go Canada... officially almost George Bush's whipping boy. says:
and they arent goign to vote down teh govt on a money matter unless harper fucks up royally as Canadians do not want an election for 2 years. they will bargain their stance to avoid the stance

Peter - way to go Canada... officially almost George Bush's whipping boy. says:
rather election

Mark - Tired as fuck says:
You seem hellbent on this horseshit proposition of 2 years

Peter - way to go Canada... officially almost George Bush's whipping boy. says:
they all know whoever pulls teh plug on the cons is fucked

Peter - way to go Canada... officially almost George Bush's whipping boy. says:
dude, if you were aware of the news in this election, canadians didnt want this one

Mark - Tired as fuck says:
I know

Peter - way to go Canada... officially almost George Bush's whipping boy. says:
canadians want a minority

Mark - Tired as fuck says:
but that doesn't mean the one we have is any better

Peter - way to go Canada... officially almost George Bush's whipping boy. says:
and will be pissed if they dont work toegther

Mark - Tired as fuck says:
fucking Harper

Peter - way to go Canada... officially almost George Bush's whipping boy. says:
id rather something positive come out of thi parliament instead of bickery

Mark - Tired as fuck says:
wishful thinking

Peter - way to go Canada... officially almost George Bush's whipping boy. says:
of the leaders, its only layton who gets it

Peter - way to go Canada... officially almost George Bush's whipping boy. says:
for the most part

Mark - Tired as fuck says:
Oh now that's fucking horseshit

Peter - way to go Canada... officially almost George Bush's whipping boy. says:
dude, the cons wanted it more than the ndp

Peter - way to go Canada... officially almost George Bush's whipping boy. says:
to my knowledge, it was gomery that prompted them to go early

Mark - Tired as fuck says:
Layton is not some goddamn saint you make him out to be

Peter - way to go Canada... officially almost George Bush's whipping boy. says:
neither is the green party

Mark - Tired as fuck says:
Hey, fuck you, I never ONCE said they were

Mark - Tired as fuck says:
Don't put fucking words in my mouth I never said

Peter - way to go Canada... officially almost George Bush's whipping boy. says:
and i never said jack layton was a saint

Peter - way to go Canada... officially almost George Bush's whipping boy. says:
same to you

Mark - Tired as fuck says:
You won't shut up about how "Layton's got the idea" and "Layton wants to work together" blah blah blah

Peter - way to go Canada... officially almost George Bush's whipping boy. says:
but i never said he was saint. thats you putting words in my mouth

Mark - Tired as fuck says:
That's just goddamn horseshit, you and I both know that you'd be ecstatic if NDP took majority

Peter - way to go Canada... officially almost George Bush's whipping boy. says:
id actually go into shock

Mark - Tired as fuck says:
regardless, even if it was one of those things that was a long-time coming obvious thing, you wouldn't complain

Mark - Tired as fuck says:
And I never said you said he was a saint, I said you make him out to be one

Mark - Tired as fuck says:
Regardless, moot point. You talk up Layton like he's the shit all the time

Mark - Tired as fuck says:
and he's not

Peter - way to go Canada... officially almost George Bush's whipping boy. says:
i think hes one of the NDP's better leaders

Mark - Tired as fuck says:
he's more outspoken, granted, but that doesn't make him better

Peter - way to go Canada... officially almost George Bush's whipping boy. says:
hes done better than Alexa McDonoguh

Mark - Tired as fuck says:
he's benefitted from the fact that the Liberals and Cons have fucked up repeatedly

Peter - way to go Canada... officially almost George Bush's whipping boy. says:
well they do have momentum, and those aggravating polls (Whether theyre true or not) say Canadians do likethe party

Peter - way to go Canada... officially almost George Bush's whipping boy. says:
i think the coutnry is torn betweent he left and the right

Mark - Tired as fuck says:
and given the party's positioning and "strength", he can afford to go on prolific rants about progression and change because he's got that blanket

Mark - Tired as fuck says:
Put him in Jim Harris' position, nobody would listen to him if he didn't have a seat but had noteable percentile of the vote

Peter - way to go Canada... officially almost George Bush's whipping boy. says:
well the NDP did increase their count to 29

Peter - way to go Canada... officially almost George Bush's whipping boy. says:
i think that says something

Mark - Tired as fuck says:
I call a lot of protest votes in their favour

Peter - way to go Canada... officially almost George Bush's whipping boy. says:
i dunno... most o ftheir seats were in urban canada

Peter - way to go Canada... officially almost George Bush's whipping boy. says:
cons i think got the protest vote

Mark - Tired as fuck says:
No, if they did, they'd have a majority gov't

Peter - way to go Canada... officially almost George Bush's whipping boy. says:
protest OUTSIDE urban canada

Mark - Tired as fuck says:
NDP more than doubled (I think.. did they have 18 or 12 seats last time) their seat total

Peter - way to go Canada... officially almost George Bush's whipping boy. says:
they had 19 last time

Peter - way to go Canada... officially almost George Bush's whipping boy. says:
40 would be double

Mark - Tired as fuck says:
okay so they got 40% more

Mark - Tired as fuck says:
either way, that's a fucking assload more in a seemingly equal footed election

Peter - way to go Canada... officially almost George Bush's whipping boy. says:
a flaw of theirs is that they tend to be more urban oriented

Peter - way to go Canada... officially almost George Bush's whipping boy. says:
which doesnt speak well to farmers

Mark - Tired as fuck says:
so why do you think the protest votes went outside urban Canada??

Peter - way to go Canada... officially almost George Bush's whipping boy. says:
southern ontario used to be mostly liberal until 2004/2006

Peter - way to go Canada... officially almost George Bush's whipping boy. says:
its all blue cept for one riding

Peter - way to go Canada... officially almost George Bush's whipping boy. says:
and windsor/london

Mark - Tired as fuck says:
You mean, Hamilton, Toronto, both who went NDP?

Peter - way to go Canada... officially almost George Bush's whipping boy. says:
theya re urban canada

Peter - way to go Canada... officially almost George Bush's whipping boy. says:
not rural

Peter - way to go Canada... officially almost George Bush's whipping boy. says:
look at rural souther ontario, its mostly blude

Mark - Tired as fuck says:
exactly. What the fuck are you talking about??

Mark - Tired as fuck says:
I'm talking about protest votes being urban

Peter - way to go Canada... officially almost George Bush's whipping boy. says:
if it went red to blue, probably a protest vote

Mark - Tired as fuck says:
and those going NDP

Peter - way to go Canada... officially almost George Bush's whipping boy. says:
the london NDP won on name recognition

Mark - Tired as fuck says:
Really, the conservative Libs went Consey, the progressive Libs went NDP

Peter - way to go Canada... officially almost George Bush's whipping boy. says:
shes been running for 10 years

Mark - Tired as fuck says:
the fanshawe chick?

Peter - way to go Canada... officially almost George Bush's whipping boy. says:
yeah

Peter - way to go Canada... officially almost George Bush's whipping boy. says:
people like her

Mark - Tired as fuck says:
yeah... EOA though

Mark - Tired as fuck says:
like I was saying, low-income

Peter - way to go Canada... officially almost George Bush's whipping boy. says:
then why that consey lib dude for 10ish years?

Mark - Tired as fuck says:
how the fuck should I know? I've lived here two years

Peter - way to go Canada... officially almost George Bush's whipping boy. says:
lowincome maybe a fair argument, but its a generalization considering its history

Mark - Tired as fuck says:
I'm just saying low income are more likely to go NDP cause of the low-income benefits NDP offer

Mark - Tired as fuck says:
which ultimately end up screwing them over

Peter - way to go Canada... officially almost George Bush's whipping boy. says:
but whatever the outcome, you cant really hold it against me for supporting NDP ideas

Mark - Tired as fuck says:
I don't hold it against you, just like you don't hold my Greenism against me

Mark - Tired as fuck says:
I'm just saying I don't think you understood the issues. That I was wrong about

Peter - way to go Canada... officially almost George Bush's whipping boy. says:
that ill accept

Peter - way to go Canada... officially almost George Bush's whipping boy. says:
as far as that ndp fanatic comment, ive been leaning towards NDP fora few years now. teh greenism on my part was two things: a) findingout more about the party because of interviewing adn b) i know the candiate as she was my high school teacher and considered giving her the vote of support

Peter - way to go Canada... officially almost George Bush's whipping boy. says:
if she wasnt running, green probably wouldnt have crossed my mind as a serious vote

Mark - Tired as fuck says:
I've never voted anything but Green

Mark - Tired as fuck says:
and it's highly likely that I'll spend my entire life voting Green, unless they fuck up their policies or gain immense power

Peter - way to go Canada... officially almost George Bush's whipping boy. says:
but i am still a bit shocked that you thought i didnt know anything about what i was voting for... seeing as how its something i am interested in and the fact that i am doing journalism, which entails keeping up to date on the stuff

Mark - Tired as fuck says:
It was brought on by your apparent uncertainty in voting party, followed by an overnight fanaticism to the NDP

Peter - way to go Canada... officially almost George Bush's whipping boy. says:
it does feel a bit insulting

Mark - Tired as fuck says:
meh, I'm not exactly a sugar-coating person

Peter - way to go Canada... officially almost George Bush's whipping boy. says:
i dont expect you to be, but my point remains

Mark - Tired as fuck says:
dude, it's not like I never gave you a chance to defend yourself

Peter - way to go Canada... officially almost George Bush's whipping boy. says:
true...

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Jebus. If only other people took this much interest in arguing politics, eh?

-Mark

Canada votes wrong twice in one election

Congratulations Canada - for voting with your douchebaggery senses, instead of your brains. So now we have a Conservative minority government, which is one step better then a Conservative majority government, but in the process we also handed the balance of power to the NDP, which is a party on the other side of the spectrum to the Cons. So this government won't be able to put anything to vote without it getting shut down hardcore, and we'll be forced to see a right-leaning leadership in the next 6-12 months before the gov't dissolves.

So good job, Canada. You took one bad guy out of power, and put another idiot in power, then because you seem to like voting, you put the opposite leaning party against it.

And I'm glad that nobody cares about the environment, because I really want to die quickly so I don't have to live through watching people make dumbassed decisions and never see anything change.

It comes to a point when you get tired of ALWAYS being the person that says "I told you so." This blog is basically me being that person, albeit it angrily - but that's cause it's the only way people actually listen. Sure, a lot of people will write me off cause my language is bad (so what, they're words), and I have a fairly minority view (you know, I don't want to consume the shit out of things until we don't have any way out of it), but I know I'm not alone, and I know for sure that there's a few people out there that don't suck.

What REALLY pisses me off about this whole voting thing and voting in general in any country is that 80% of the people don't even know why they're voting for a certain party or person, and they don't bother to read the issues. And I'm calling someone out on this, and he knows who he is: Peter. Do you even know why you voted for who you did? Can you cite specific issues that were important to you that your party mentioned? Can you do anything but make broad generalizations about what you voted for?

Ugh. I'm depressed. For such a supposedly enlightened species, we sure do suck.

-Mark

Back with a raging

So, I'm a loud person when I'm joking. Why? Because it's hilarious. But as far as society niceties go, I've given up on them. Not because I felt the need to have them before, but because honestly, if someone's listening in to my conversations (which are pretty much always outrageously offensive), there's no way it's my fault if you get offended.

I've had people tell me "you shouldn't say that" before, to which I've responded "shut your fucking face and stop listening then." Those were my prouder moments. Look, it's not like I don't know what I'm saying - fuck, I love offending people, because it throws them off their stupid little "I'm so great" platform. Why the HELL should we be so careful about what we say? What, cause some douche with a stick shoved so far up his ass he can't walk will be offended?

If we're always worried about speaking our mind, and saying whatever random shit we want to, then we'll never learn to accept each other. What, I have to change who I am so you like me? Fuck you, I'm not trying to make you like me - I'm doing what I feel like. If you don't like it, don't listen, or leave. Fuck, I constantly overhear people saying dumb shit, and I don't ever say anything, and I definitely don't get offended. But this whole concept of "don't hurt anyone's feelings" is fucking garbage. We should always hurt everyone's feelings from the beginning so we don't have a bunch of bitchy, whiny, "oh my god you shouldn't say that, it'll offend someone" douches.

God I hate society. Get a clue. We'll never get along if we don't get over our stupid self-complexes that we try to enforce on other people. IF you wanna tell me off for being obnoxious, go ahead - but just prepare for a mouthful in return.

-Mark

The amount you read does not make you more right then someone else

I've been disappointed with myself in my lack of quality rants recently, but whatever. This one will again, not be very long, cause I'm kinda having those brief moments of anger. I blame my functional relationship for taking some of the steam out of me. I'm always more angry when I'm single - not because I'm single persay, but I have none of that inconvenient 'happiness' to bogg my otherwise hilarious and totally factual anger. But let's move on before I forget why I'm mad.

I can't stand when you're having a debate with people (an actual debate, not a yelling match or lecturing people because they're stupid, although when you win the debate you have the right.. nay, the duty to belittle them for having wrong thoughts) and instead of actually forming an oppositional opinion, all they do is list off a shitload of irrelevant texts and say that's why they're right. THAT'S NOT ARGUING, that's a fucking bookclub list. Example argument:

X: I think oil depletion is bad and the oil drilling technology is ultimately counter-productive to society.
Y: I disagree. As you can see with Roland Douchowitz's works and Garfunkle B. Fucktard's book I've Got Nothing To Say Because I'm an Idiot, as well as Cindy V. Disease's essay Still Not Forming My Own Opinion, it is clear that I can read but I'm inept in society.

Debates do not have required reading lists, especially when they're not live. This isn't a debate about who can read more and bring nothing to the table, because I can list off a shitload of who the fuck cares and claim that I'm right. NO. These douchebags clearly have no opinion and they're just self-richeous dumbasses that can say to themselves "I'm still smart and right, cause look at everything I've read! They haven't read that! So how could they be right? It doesn't matter that I just got debated into the ground by rational thought in the REAL WORLD... I've still got my mountains of everyone else's opinions to fortify my own ego."

Yeah, fuck you. And we all know at least one of these people. The guys that don't know how to do anything else but recite a list of fucking books. FORM YOUR OWN GODDAMN OPINION BASED ON RECENT FACTS, NOT WHAT SOME ASSBAG WROTE 70 YEARS AGO.

-Mark

Short, just like a nerd's sex life

This one won't be long primarily because there isn't much to say. Usually I like to come back and look at the glory that is my own textual dump of random letters that create the anger that burns within me just from having to deal with asshats everyday, but this time, it's not a human I'm pissed at, although they're undoubtedly the reason for it.

Auto-answering shit on phones is annoying as fuck; we all know this much. But it's cheaper than paying for labour because companies don't want to actually have a workforce behind them, I suspect it's due to a fear of gaining a heart or maybe they're just allergic to skin flakes. Either way, I don't deal much with the auto-answering shit, so it really doesn't bother me that much.

HOWEVER, today as I was drifting throughout campus aimlessly and pointlessly, listening to some Arcade Fire and thinking about how hopeless my future is, and also about if I should buy lunch or just go home and eat, my cell phone rings. It's a blocked ID, but for some reason I needed human contact at that moment, so I answered it.

What do I get on the other end? "Please hold while we connect you to WHO THE FUCK CARES WHAT." YOU SON OF A BITCH! YOU MOTHERFUCKERS DO NOT CALL ME THEN PLACE ME ON HOLD ASSHAT FUCKTARD PIECE OF SHIT RELATED ANGRY WORDS!

.........okay. I'm calm again. But seriously, what the fuck? What dumbass thought calling people with telemarketing shit, but instead placing them on hold would EVER work? "Hey, I've got a great idea! Less piss off people that don't want to be bothered already but even moreso by placing them on hold before we can even get to harping our shit on them! There's no way this could backfire!"

This is only compounded by the fact that I have to pay for minutes on my cell, so there's a 0% chance for anyone of me holding a conversation that lasts more then 30 seconds. If you're calling me to just chat, I'm hanging up on your ass. You better say everything in the first ten seconds.. fuck, don't say hello, just tell me the information and then I'll either ignore you or tell you to find me. But what the fuck is the point of calling me to just put me on hold before I know what the fuck is going on?

That number is dead to me now.

-Mark, still pissed about fuckers calling me and putting me on hold. Asshats.

Bring on the collective anger!

So I'm back to campus again, fresh for another semester. Now although I have two days off, one of which is in serious jeopardy of being stolen from me (thus ruining absolutely everything I worked for in first semester, and will result in me going on a rant of biblical preportion about how much I want to drop out of school, which I'll likely rant about anyway later on), I was thinking that there wouldn't be enough anger to build up and subsequently rant about.

How wrong I was. It seems my pointless science credit I'm required to take because as an arts student, I need to be "expansive", or, driven to the point of failure, is filled with 400 other students. First, it's ridiculously different to my Film classes. Film is like some kind of slacker's paradise, where we all sit around and watch movies, say how much we hate everyone else in the University, how elite we are because there's only 40 "Filmies" on campus, and spread rumours about each other. It's quite gratifying. Moving on, this science course is the "here's a shitload of information crammed into three hours, 98% of which is incomprehensible, and also, I hate you as a student." Actually the profs are nice and the premise of the course is okay, but I'm a lazy shit and I have the attention span of 3 seconds, so if I'm not watching constant visual stimulation I know I'm not gonna pay attention. I'm one day into the class and I already know I don't care.

So why the fuck is the University forcing me to take a Science credit? I can see Science and Math students having to take an arts credit, cause FUCK, it's ARTS classes, any jackass can take a film course and pass. Arts is essentially entertainment, and it's pretty easy to avoid the theory courses of art and take the "fun" ones. Shit people, I paid 5 grand to watch 250 movies in the semester. What are you gonna do about it?

-Mark

I was right

Okay, what the hell. Apart from the whole bullshit beaucracy I knew I'd have to deal with, why do the put idiots behind the desk to further my rage?

I was doing the usual shit for my loan pickup from the University. Blah blah blah, fill out a shitload of forms, fill out information that you already know, sign the SAME DAMN PIECE OF PAPER FIVE TIMES, leave slightly less disgruntled. Well no, it couldn't go smoothly.

There's this part where I have to fill out all my "Bank" information, which I know since I've done it so many times, but of course the douchebag behind the desk tells me to fill out the WRONG information, and even when I called her on it and TOLD her it was wrong, she WOULDN'T let me change it. So I filled it out wrong, knowing it was wrong because the other 4 billion times I've done this it's been the same numbers, and those weren't them. But of course, she's 200 and knows everything and I'm just some punk University student that forgets everything every three seconds. So I leave this around 12:30, go to the mall to deposit some shit and carouse, etc etc. I get home just after 2:45, and there's a message on my phone.

"There's a problem with your documentation. Please come back to fix it." FUCK YOU, I just fucking got fucking home! And since this shithole closes in the next hour, I hurry my ass back there to FILL OUT THE INFORMATION I WAS RIGHT ABOUT IN THE FIRST PLACE.

Fuck I hate beaurcracy, but more importantly, why is it so hard to believe someone when they know they're right beyond 100%? Age my ass, it just pisses me off when people are so self-absorbed they'd rather fuck someone else over than admit to being wrong.

Assbags. You wasted my day for something I was already right about.

-Mark

Contrary to the obituary report, I'm not dead

...although I probably mispelled "obituary". However, for anyone wondering, I'm not giving up on this, and I still have plenty more rants that are festering inside of me right now. I've simply been out of town and away from my precious computer for the better half of the week, or I've been hungover (thanks to new years). Coupled with my brand spanking new girlfriend who has taken soome of the rage out of me (how disappointing), The Angry Dome has been a little unloved recently. But never fear, all five readers! I shall return shortly once I clarify all my thoughts!

-Mark