Thoughts. And doom.
I littered
I gathered in groups of more than 4 at night
I walked naked in my home
I watched porn
I hugged a girl
I not flushed the toilet
I poked fun at religion
I poked fun at other races
I connected on an unsecured WI-FI hotspot
I spat in public
So I’m eating breakfast right now in one of those big Asian ‘food courts’ and I’m very concerned. The noodles I ate were fine – fair enough the guy used his bare hands to pick up the noodles but they went through boiling water so it’s cool. Though in the past I’ve been to these places and have gotten sick afterwards. But what I was really concerned with was the hygiene of the drinks places. I spied an offering of mango juice from across the room and was like ‘yeah score!!’ but then as I was waiting in line, I noticed the woman who was serving was covered in sweat, her face dripping. ‘Fair enough,’ I thought. But then I noticed she was dripping sweat into some poor person’s meal. NEXT!
I ended up getting a can of coke, wiping the hell out of the can and then using a straw.
/obsessed with not dying from food.
- Matt
Listening to hamish and Andy on the plane – look like a guy laughing at nothing.
I like air hostesses. Hot.
Damn they ran out of noodles. I wanted noodles. Curry mmm hot and yum high class alcohol for free. Damn drinking on empty stomach was a very good idea.
1:16 it just occurs to me that while I have the best seat in the plane, I’m disadvantaged when it comes to choice in food. WTF I really wanted noodles. Lamb pie is good though. But noodles. Nooooooodllleeessss.
1:19 it occurs to me that while I might feel that my drinks aren’t really doubles (I’ve been ordering doubles but suspecting that they were only singles) that they might actually be legitimate doubles. Shit. I have an overwhelming urge to socialise but must restrain myself only to pie consumption. Nomnomnom.
1:22 I have a confession to make. My seatbelt isn’t actually working. I’m too lazy to alert the hostesses (even though really it would provide the perfect opportunity for an opening) but a thought just occured to me. I’m like 9 or 10 kilometers above the ground, a few kilometers away from Townsville (haha Stuart I know you read this: I’m closer to your girlfriend right now than you are!!) but if the plane exploded or something, I’d be dead anyway. My life rests on some engineers’ ideas and calculations. I know some engineers. They think about girls more than I do. I’m fucked.
1:26 I just want them to take my plate away so I can watch heroes. What will happen with sylar this time?!!?!?!? The guy next to me is sick I hope he doesn’t get me sick. You know, I have an overwhelming urge to socialise but I’m on a plane and it isn’t possible. Can’t even smoke. Gah. Must act proper. Proper!
1:27 OMG TURBULENCE!!!!!!
1:29 I was hoping for a drinking buddy. Fail.
2:19 they’re giving me doubles without me asking. Win.
4:45 getting drunk on a plane has it’s disadvantages. For example. Need water.
4:51 more disadvantages of being exit row: constant light from toilets.
5:02 they turned on the lights WTF there’s still 2 hrs till landing… I think
5:08 not yet. But cue crying babies… Wait for it. Wait for it… (they just got parents to get babies out lf their cot things)… Oh. Surprisingly silent.
5:13 guy next to me is a dick. He’s been asleep pretty much the whole time. What an asshole.
5:15 person to my 11 o’clock has been watching ‘my sassy girl’ in small bits throughout the whole trip. In snippets. 8 o’clock has a bangin body.
5:17 I’m hungry. Kid behind me has food but isn’t eating it. Unappreciative bastard, maybe I can reach over and eat it.
5:21 is that a throat or a chin? Throatchin! Man these people with kids get their food first but don’t want it. I just want a good nom. Hungry. Looking at food. I want food dammit! I know anyone reading this probably would get a distorted sense of time but well, I want food.
5:25 someone gave me the impression that you could drive from singapore to Malaysia but the map looks different? Maybe it’s cause it’s cut but looks like it’d be a bitch to drive over the sea. Unless there’s some kicksss sea bridge with sexy ninjas or something.
5:51 my summary of ‘my sassy girl’: girl is asshole to guy, he falls in love with her.
7:50 I get to conveyor belt and my luggage disappears cause it’s been a loop. Fml
8:22 didn’t know the free local call payphones were only inside the restricted area, now I’m on a train to a place I don’t know, the people who I’m staying with don’t know where I am and I have no way of contacting anyone. Epic win. Woman at airport tried to scam me for a sim card. Parents mixed in china money with my Singapore money and I was all confused why the dollar coins weren’t working for the MRT… funny name cuz that’s like the MTR but not. Lots of Indians around.
7:20 switched to Singapore time. Lots of kids around
7:24 I think some kid just called me waterboy
7:30 just saw a dude wearing a surfers paradise shirt. I said ‘that’s where I’m from!’ He ignored me.
7:49 note to self only drink on planes when you have people picking you up
8:25 I have successfully guessed my first wireless password. Too bad it’s blocking my MAC address.
12:17 I have re-read this entire post from the start. I have decided that I may be slightly (or more than) retarded. End of post.
Girl steals my friend’s drinks
I’m dying of nigger
One of my mates was hanging out with this guy and pretending to be gay so the guy would be comfortable with him hanging out with the guy’s girlfriend… who my mate is banging
Warbeast at the end trying to give Mark fashion advice
“The Agreement”
Coke fiends
Boxrub
Assassins Creed: Lineage Episode 1
+35 – Wow? It finished already? It was such a good movie and had such an engrossing storyline that I just didn’t notice time flying by.
Where the Wild things are
+5 – His sister’s a mad slut
+10 – I’m bored. This kid is a loser. He likes to make things. PS. hot mum alert
+11 – Seems like everyone in his family is getting some but him. I guess he’s only like 10 though. WTF is this suit he’s wearing.
+13 – It’s no wonder he’s running away, his home life sucks. Probably ’cause he’s a loser.
+17 – I lost interest and started writing a facebook invite for a party. Why is he on a boat?
+25 – He’s telling lies to a bunch of monsters. Got balls.
+26 – This movie would be good to watch on drugs
+28 – That goat guy is creepy haha
+36 – Massive orgy
+38 – I’m waiting for him to make out with the monster
+40 – STFU monster we get it
+41 – Smart monsters stare at the sun
+42 – I’m so bored I’m going to play “Bully” and watch at the same time
+43 – lol he has the same building thing fetish
+48 – Wow they’re buiding things
+51 – Aww they start hating him
+51 – Damn I failed English in “Bully”
+52 – Endangering a child
+58 – Yeah the birds were just squeaking I don’t get why there’s all this drama. Monster with girl’s name should just man up and tell her he likes her. See what happens when you don’t man up to tell girls you like them? They get doubleteamed by TWO OWLS!
+103 – trouble with wargames? who’d have thunk it
+108 – little child has trouble running a kingdom and goes to the beach to reflect. cliche.
+109 – Yay second chapter of “Bully”!
+115 – WTf his arm is made of sand + psycho monster
+124 – I really lost interest in this movie like an hour ago. Walking a girl back to her dorm in Bully
+130 – I look up and he’s suddenly at home. Guess it’s the end of the movie.
I’ve had the mouse for over a day now and here are some of my thoughts on it.
The original settings that come with the mouse are ridiculously shit and not very well thought out. For example, there’s no middle click. The sensitivity settings for the tracking don’t go high enough and it’s very limited in functionality – really, this magnificent bit of hardware with massive potential had been reduced to a simple buttonless mouse. Kinda going backwards, don’t ya think?
I immediately installed bettertouchtool and started tweaking settings. I can now say that the magic mouse is pretty awesome.
Here’s a list of things I changed:
1. Left click is now 3-finger click. Why? When I use a mouse, my hand is usually resting completely on the mouse, which means all fingers are on the mouse. Setting left-click to left-click involved lifting my middle finger in order to click, which ended up getting tiring.
2. Right click is now 2-finger click. Same reason, now when I want to right click, I just lift my index finger.
3. Middle click is single click – but only from the middle to right of the mouse. The range for the middle click was too small so I decided to completely remove single right click (hence 2 finger right click) and now it works pretty well. No more missing middle click range.
4. 3-finger-swipe-up brings up my “alt-tab”.
5. 3-finger-swipe-down brings up finder.
6. 3-finger-swipe-right goes next in iTunes – from any program
7. 3-finger-swipe-left goes previous in iTunes.
8. Pinch zoom works like it does on an iPhone in Preview
9. 2 button tap makes movies play in Quicktime
10. 3 button tap makes Quicktime go full screen
11. Pinch zoom outwards selects all in Finder
12. Pinch zoom inwards resizes pictures to make them smaller in Finder <-- I thought this was pretty cool/geeky
So yeah it works pretty well right now. If you combine it with Quicksilver, you can pretty much set any keyboard shortcut to any recognised gesture… see this is the kind of potential the mouse has, yet wasn’t given.
- Matt
PS. Thanks to Stuart Atchison for the mouse – was a christmas present!
After all the excitement of the last week, it’s kinda boring sitting around doing nothing.
Lets review the week:
Sunday/Monday – Can’t even remember ’cause it was too long ago.
Tues – Work/dinner/went out – wow Tuesdays can be good?
Wed – Dinner
Thurs – Sent parents off. Went out. Crazy again. Nights that are meant to end early never do.
Friday – She arrives.
Saturday – Chill bro, tomorrow’s a big day.
Sunday – Stereosonic. Bloody beetroots = amazing yet disappointing due to not playing “Awesome”. Deadmau5 = first half of set was boring as shit… the second half blew my mind.
Monday – recover from Stereosonic.
Tuesday (Today) – Got my Magic Mouse yay but bored as hell.
I’m putting in as much effort as I can to not go out tomorrow night. Bah, will have to work too. Apparently it’s really hot or something but my aircon says it’s only 26 degrees 
- Matt
This isn’t directed at my brother as much as the ideas and thoughts surrounding women in his post. I like girls, and society is hard enough on them already – I’ll correct judgmental views when I see them.
During dinner last night, I relayed (what I thought was) a hilarious anecdote to my brother.
A friend of mine has procured some stamps from his workplace, with prints such as “approved”, etc. After spending a passionate night with a girl, he got one of his stamps and stamped “approved” on her stomach. They both laughed and thought it was funny.
This sparked a small discussion about women’s rights and treating women with respect and all that. It also has apparently inspired quite a long blog post from my brother on the subject.
I agree that society is completely unfair on women and that men definitely disrespect women. But I disagree with all the examples and the underlying subtext behind his post. In short, in his valiant attempts to show the utmost respect towards women, he has disrespected them in the deepest way. I’ll explain.
I’ve always disagreed with a lot of feminist and women’s rights ideas. You can call me a dirty misogynist limone all you want, but the fact is there are differences between men and women – yet this doesn’t make either sex ‘better’ or ‘worse’. They’re simply different, and should be treated differently. Society does come into play with this – we live in a predominantly masculine culture.
The post that my brother wrote is full of disrespect for women. The subtext behind the entire post is that women are not even human, that they can’t make their own choices, that they’re stupid, and that they’re not sexual beings. How, in any way, shape or form, is that respecting women?
It’s quote and deconstruct time.
Not only are we treating women badly, but we are being encouraged by society to continue to treat women as nothing more than objects to satisfy the pleasure of man, with no intrinsic worth any greater than an animal, or a toilet. Actually, even animals are treated better these days, with all the talk about animal rights.
This theme comes up a few times. “Women are nothing more than objects to satisfy the pleasure of man”. There’s definitely a logical oversight here. Oh what could it possibly be? Well, lets assume for a second that women don’t use men in the same way (which they do) – well, women are consenting to this “treatment”. It’s not like they’re forced into being porn stars, models, strippers, whatever. They choose to go into these roles.
But lets be realistic, women are sexual beings as well – a statement like the one quoted above assumes that they don’t enjoy sex as much (if not more) than men. It’s as if they don’t enjoy the sexual attention as much as men enjoy giving it. Here’s a hint for any guy who doesn’t believe what I’m saying – that girl knows that her low cut top, her backless dress, her tight jeans and her boots are sexy and she’s wearing it for a reason.
If men are evil in this regard, women are conspiring with them for the same ends.
Boys: Dating is for men. If you think you’re ready to date, then man up, grow up, and take responsibility for the things in your life. She is not a plaything, a trophy, or a past-time. Not someone to simply “have fun with”; not someone to boast to your mates about “scoring”; and not “something to do while you’re bored”. Treat the girl you claim to love with dignity and respect, and always with her future in your mind. She will one day, by the grace of God, be a wife to a husband and a mother of children. How will your actions today affect her ability to be wife and mother in the future? Do not be fooled into thinking that what you do today will have no effect on what happens tomorrow.
Equality goes both ways, girls do the same to guys. Young girls date older guys to show off, older women date younger guys to feel young. People have needs and use each other to fulfil them. There’s no need to be judgmental and treat women as if they have no control or say. This snippet also brings out another important point as well – she will one day be a wife and a mother of children, and somehow actions today will affect her tomorrow. Well, if you really loved and cared for a girl enough to marry her, does her sexual history REALLY matter? Doesn’t sound like real love to me.
All the guys out there: When you look at porn, when you lust about and fantasise after women who are not your wife, think about the pattern of thought you are training your mind into thinking, and think about the values that you are ingraining into yourself. Think about how you are treating the women on your screen or in your mind as nothing more than objects for your pleasure, to be summoned upon the pressing of a button and to be dumped the next second on the pressing of another button. With such a high prevalence of pornography, should there be any surprise that divorce rates and infidelity rates are so high? Men train themselves to think of women simply as objects to satisfy their pleasure, not as people whom they should commit their lives to, mind, body and soul, and so when the women they chose no longer satisfies they simply drift off to some other woman.
Yes, and videogames inspire people to kill each other. People know the difference between real life and video. Plus, these girls are VOLUNTARILY going and working in porn. Girls can make conscious decisions (GASP OMG RLY) and people shouldn’t treat them as if they’re dumb objects with no minds. Divorce rates and infidelity? Porn hardly has an effect on this. In fact, in the subtext of the post, wouldn’t guys be satisfied already with porn and thus not feel the need to cheat? Men training themselves to treat women as objects? Women are choosing to be in porn, lets not judge them for it and lets definitely not treat them as if they can’t make their own decisions.
Not only do men devalue women by the way they treat them with their eyes, but also by the way they treat them with their mouths. They talk about them as if they’re simply trophies to be won and bragged about. They talk about how certain girls are hot and other girls are not, ignoring that all women are made in the image and likeness of God and so are of incomprehensible value, whether they’re “hot” or not physically.
I’m going to be frank and honest here. Are you really going to be attracted to a girl who isn’t physically attractive? Beauty is important and is one of the things that all men should appreciate in women. Women put so much effort into making themselves attractive – waxing, tanning, exercising among other things. SO MUCH EFFORT. Taking 3 hours to put makeup on is a massive effort compared to the 10 minutes I spend showering, throwing clothes on and brushing my teeth. Sometimes I even forget to shave. Lets appreciate beauty in women, and ignoring their efforts is just treating them as if they’re worthless and that they did all that for nothing.
And of course, men devalue women through what they actually do with them. They treat them as playthings, trophies, or past-times, disregarding what devastating effects on their future that such treatment can bring. Instead of trying to find a wife they can treasure, serve and care for, they find someone with which they can “score” and have “fun” with. Some men just can’t look past the momentary pleasures and see what dramatic consequences their fleeting pleasures may have on someone else’s life.
1. Women do the same. 2. Women make their own sexual choices.
Don’t treat them as if they aren’t human, it’s just plain disrespectful.
One of the things I hate about the way things work in our society is the phenomenon of dating and dumping. Children are being encouraged to “explore” a side of themselves that they’re not ready to go into. They feel pressured that they must date someone, and so they do, before they are ready. And of course the relationship can’t last if neither of them are really ready for it. And so inevitably the relationships fall apart.
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So boys, don’t date until you’re ready to throw in your all. Otherwise, you’ll just set yourself up for failure in the future.
This is under the assumption that you’ll get it right the first time around. Don’t lie to yourself – it takes experience and trial and error to maintain relationships. Unless you’re extremely lucky or blessed you probably won’t get it right the first time. Or the second time. Or the 50th time. I’d much rather have loved and lost than have never loved at all – the pain is all part of the experience. You’re really setting yourself up for failure if you don’t practice – hell, I know that all my practice and experience will become essential in helping me get that dream girl of mine one day.
blah blah men leaving women and children
Yeah it’s a shit act to leave a child. Real men take responsibility for their actions.
Remember that ALL women are, directly or indirectly, the Daughters of God. They are people of incalculable worth, made in the image of God and treasured deeply, passionately, and jealously by the One True Almighty God.
So treat them respectfully and not just as objects that have no thoughts, no dreams, no freedom, no ability to choose their own path, no… I could go on for a while. Point has been made over and over.
To the women: Men are evil. Be warned, and watch out. Don’t let just any guy get near you. Make sure he’s worth it.
Yeah, boys are stupid. Throw rocks at them. Don’t just let any guy get near you, make sure he treats you as human 
-Matt
I hate most community guys. Yeah I’ll be friendly to them and not openly be an asshole, but lets face it, most people join the community because they’re weird and that’s why people don’t like them.
Why don’t I like community guys? Here’s a few examples:
Example 1.
Community Guy (CG): Hey! How’s it going?
Me: Yeah good, how are you?
CG: Oh I’m good just finished walking my camel and now I’m off to space*
*No shit, I’m making that one up but they sometimes answer with equally nonsensical content.
Make sense you idiot, can’t you just be a normal human for once? I don’t think girls even like it, why would anyone think this was an acceptable way to communicate? RSD I’m looking at you.
Example 2.
CG: Hey! How’s it going?
Me: Yeah good, how are you?
CG: I’m awesome hey there was this girl the other week and this happened and this happened and this happened and this happened and this happened and this happened and this happened and this happened and this happened and this happened and this happened and this happened and this happened and this happened and this happened and this happened and this happened and this happened and this happened and this happened and this happened and this happened and this happened and this happened and this happened and this happened and this happened and this happened and this happened and this happened and this happened and this happened and this happened and this happened and this happened and this happened and this happened and this happened and this happened and this happened and this happened and this happened and this happened and this happened and this happened and this happened and this happened and this happened and this happened and this happened and this happened and this happened and this happened and this happened and this happened and this happened and this happened and this happened and this happened and this happened and so on.
Holy crap I DON’T CARE. I JUST DON’T CARE.
Example 3.
CG: Hey! How’s it going?
Me: Yeah good. Hey meet my friend *female* (subtext that she’s with me or I’m already hitting on her)
CG: *starts trying to flirt with said female*
Wow, you’re a loser. Go find your own girls to hit on. Do you not have your own girls to hit on? Well then you’re a loser. Why are you trying to leech off my work? Is it ’cause you’re a loser? Yeah probably. You’re a loser. Go away.
Okay that’s just 3 examples and I can probably go on for a bit longer but this is getting a bit long already.
How do you deal with them? Pretty simple. For the first 2 examples, just ignore. Ignore and walk away. “But this makes me look like an asshole!!” I hear you say. Well, I don’t care, I don’t like these guys anyway what do I care what they think of me.
And when they try to hit on your girls? For the longest time, my reaction was always just to ignore and either develop a jealousy thread or move on to another girl. If the girl liked me, she wouldn’t be responding to him anyway. And honestly, I didn’t care about losing a girl ’cause there’s always other ones around. But recently, it’s been getting more and more annoying as the girls have gotten hotter. What do you do?
There’s 2 options:
Be super duper awesome – but if the girl’s even half considering the switch then this would take more effort than I’m willing to put in for a girl
Inoculate/shadow lord – preferred
“Yeah he’s a really good guy but he’s really insecure about himself… he gets needy sometimes and he covers that up by being really forward with girls to the point of being creepy… be nice to him”.
I’m really a nice guy.
- Matt