Right now, we have our pokers in so many things that it would be impossible to not live in truly interesting times. Sorry ancient Chinese proverb writer, your curse is no longer effective because living in interesting times has become the norm. Maybe we should start cursing each other with, "May you live in boring times" until that becomes normal. But because we're all idiots, this generation is going to take culture and society as we know it to hell in a hand basket. Instead of engorging our minds with things that will stimulate it we spend our time watching things like, "The Real Housewives of..." or "Keeping up with the Kardashians". I don't understand how we can be appalled that other countries are exceeding us intellectually when that is the kind of shit we watch and mimic our lives after. What are you thinking, America?
Old folks are actually great to look at as an example of where we are going wrong. Why doesn't anyone do cross word puzzles, read real news (not things that can be found on Fark.com), play chess, or hold debates? Are those things so outdated? Maybe do a sudoku once a week or something, those were trendy not too long ago. We no longer force ourselves to exceed, and are becoming stupider by the day as a general public while the world is becoming more and more interesting around us.
We don't give a shit about the world around us and the mysteries that we're uncovering. And do you know why? Because the brilliant scientist who did some gene therapy with a plant and changed it's entire lifestyle has no clue what Prada or Gucci cost and will probably never purchase them. But you know who does love Prada / Gucci / Designer's Name Here? Whatever big breasted, empty headed reality show TV star is the new "It girl".
Use your brains or they'll go to waste. We are living in interesting times, that are unfortunately completely unbeknownst to us right now. And if we continue not giving a shit about these things, some day when the sun implodes we are going to wish we kept making this fantastic strides. But it will be too late, and life as we know and accept it is going to be over. And when the interesting times as they are now end, the interesting times as they will be then are going to interesting in a way that we wish they weren't.
Love, Polly.
September 30, 2010
September 29, 2010
September 29, 2010: Salt Lake Mormon, Utah.
God, I love Utah. Who doesn't love the concept of multiple wives (mostly unattractive ones), shitty booze, and criminal miscarriages? Just think of all the times that your wife or girlfriend couldn't make you a sandwich and have sex with you at the same time! And even more, think of all the stupid women who didn't get enough sleep or who couldn't afford proper medical care that we're going to put in jail! They're going to learn their lesson, aren't they?
There are some men out there that will avoid the concept of marriage until they die. They see no need to tie themselves down with that kind of commitment. There are also men that believe marriage is an outdated ritual that is only justified by the legal or financial benefits. And there are yet again others that believe that when the time is right, you just know that's what you want. Regardless of your religious views on marriage, I'd like to know who has the financial and emotional resources to participate in any kind of polygamy? I imagine this sort of behavior to be much like having a hoard of children. How much money do you have to make to keep multiple spouses happy or at least healthy and how can any person stretch themselves that thin? You'd have to either make lots of money yourself or split the finances between each member. And I would think you would have to have at least one submissive spouse. Or at least no more than one spouse that is like me.
Also, shitty booze. No one really likes shitty booze, what's the point? I'm not even just talking about the alcohol content. I'm talking about the fact that this stuff tastes like shit.
The real ringer with Utah right now is the criminal miscarriages though. Who the hell does that? You are going to jail for murder because you are stressed out that the house you rent is going into foreclosure and you found out today that you must leave by tomorrow, which killed your unborn child. Great job Utah, gotta love it. Since when is the natural response of the body when the parent is physically unfit to be a parent illegal? I understand if you're doing crack and you have a miscarriage, but come on Utah! This guilty until proven innocent crap is just making you seem even stupider. The rest of the United States thinks you were dropped on your head as an infant. We can't seem to explain or justify any more of your bat shit craziness. You're giving Florida a run for it's money now, and that is something we never thought would happen.
Can you just get some common sense separate your religion from your basic government for a minute? I understand that the judicial branch recognizes God, but when you start adding religion into your government you run the risk of discriminating against other religions. And we don't play that shit here.
Love, Polly.
There are some men out there that will avoid the concept of marriage until they die. They see no need to tie themselves down with that kind of commitment. There are also men that believe marriage is an outdated ritual that is only justified by the legal or financial benefits. And there are yet again others that believe that when the time is right, you just know that's what you want. Regardless of your religious views on marriage, I'd like to know who has the financial and emotional resources to participate in any kind of polygamy? I imagine this sort of behavior to be much like having a hoard of children. How much money do you have to make to keep multiple spouses happy or at least healthy and how can any person stretch themselves that thin? You'd have to either make lots of money yourself or split the finances between each member. And I would think you would have to have at least one submissive spouse. Or at least no more than one spouse that is like me.
Also, shitty booze. No one really likes shitty booze, what's the point? I'm not even just talking about the alcohol content. I'm talking about the fact that this stuff tastes like shit.
The real ringer with Utah right now is the criminal miscarriages though. Who the hell does that? You are going to jail for murder because you are stressed out that the house you rent is going into foreclosure and you found out today that you must leave by tomorrow, which killed your unborn child. Great job Utah, gotta love it. Since when is the natural response of the body when the parent is physically unfit to be a parent illegal? I understand if you're doing crack and you have a miscarriage, but come on Utah! This guilty until proven innocent crap is just making you seem even stupider. The rest of the United States thinks you were dropped on your head as an infant. We can't seem to explain or justify any more of your bat shit craziness. You're giving Florida a run for it's money now, and that is something we never thought would happen.
Can you just get some common sense separate your religion from your basic government for a minute? I understand that the judicial branch recognizes God, but when you start adding religion into your government you run the risk of discriminating against other religions. And we don't play that shit here.
Love, Polly.
September 28, 2010
September 28, 2010: Dear Katrina Victims, Quit being such pussies and grow a pair.
Excuse me for my inability to feel sympathetic to you and your families. I feel like knowledgeably living in a place that is below sea level and being emotionally distraught when it floods is just beyond my capacity for stupid in this lifetime. And to the celebrities that are appalled at how slow aid came to the areas affected by Hurricane Katrina, either get your hands dirty or shut the hell up with your high and mighty "for the cause" publicity crap. Katrina was a disaster, don't get me wrong. But it was a disaster in a place that had it coming, knew it had it coming, and just couldn't muster up enough energy to give a shit. I don't know about the rest of you, but I feel completely justified in telling them all to suck it up, grow a pair, and get the hell over it.
Another obvious reason to tell Katrina Victims to quit being pussies is that they don't have it that bad. Compared to the rest of the United States and other first world countries they do, but that's not what the Katrina affected areas are right now. They are not first world areas, and compared to some of the third world areas of the world, they are doing GREAT. Suck it up Katrina victims, rural Africa still uses children as slaves. When you revert that far, then we'll talk. Until then, use your "First World" education and SUCK IT UP AND FIX YOUR SHIT. As a "First World" area you should have had emergency supplies. Did you? No. You should have made the appropriate emergency plans. Did you? No. Did you have the opportunity and ability to do those things? HELL YES. Why did you need aid? Because you fucked up. You took things for granted and fucked yourselves over. I'm not going to pity you, that's just not in me considering that you were ill prepared and chose to be that way when you could have chosen otherwise.
All that is really left now, is did you learn your lesson? Probably not. Did I learn anything from this? I should probably prepare for the natural disaster that will eventually hit Los Angeles. Will I? No. Will I give you free reign to talk shit when I don't and do exactly what you did? Yes. Will I be happy about that? No. But that's life.
Love, Polly.
Another obvious reason to tell Katrina Victims to quit being pussies is that they don't have it that bad. Compared to the rest of the United States and other first world countries they do, but that's not what the Katrina affected areas are right now. They are not first world areas, and compared to some of the third world areas of the world, they are doing GREAT. Suck it up Katrina victims, rural Africa still uses children as slaves. When you revert that far, then we'll talk. Until then, use your "First World" education and SUCK IT UP AND FIX YOUR SHIT. As a "First World" area you should have had emergency supplies. Did you? No. You should have made the appropriate emergency plans. Did you? No. Did you have the opportunity and ability to do those things? HELL YES. Why did you need aid? Because you fucked up. You took things for granted and fucked yourselves over. I'm not going to pity you, that's just not in me considering that you were ill prepared and chose to be that way when you could have chosen otherwise.
All that is really left now, is did you learn your lesson? Probably not. Did I learn anything from this? I should probably prepare for the natural disaster that will eventually hit Los Angeles. Will I? No. Will I give you free reign to talk shit when I don't and do exactly what you did? Yes. Will I be happy about that? No. But that's life.
Love, Polly.
September 27, 2010
September 27, 2010: Man, that guy's penis must be THIIIIIIIIS BIG!
I'll start with admitting that I'm part of that population of very tiny people that wants to drive an obscenely large truck to compensate for the lack of space I take up in the world. I only consider such a scenario with fuel efficiency, environmental footprint, and damages / deaths resulting from my bad driving aside. That note made, I'm going to be a hypocrite and make fun of everyone else with that mentality that has already done so because they have taken the next step (or steps as that may be) and actually bought the ridiculous truck for overcompensation.
You know we were already laughing at you, right short stuff? As much as I want to say that I don't laugh at men that are shorter than me, I can't. I'm exactly sixty inches tall, which translates into five feet. Not only do I laugh, I find you slightly creepy in the way that most of us find people with "pony-play" fetishes. I don't want to be your friend usually, because small men don't give me the impression that they are valuable for any reason except humor. That sucks, but it is what it is. When shorty goes off and buys an F450 to tow his child sized pit-bike and tries to justify that he needs that big of a truck when I could fit the bike into the back of a Ford Escort, I laugh in his face. And I laugh hard. I see you compensating for your height and trying to prove to me that you worth the trouble for reproductive means, but I don't want your midget babies.
I recognize that anthropologically men are biologically coded to try and prove their worthiness as
sperm donors (for lack of a better base term). I know that we are animals, and that our only true objective as far as the laws of nature go, is to reproduce. And I know that deep inside you feel threatened that your penis may not be big enough or that you may not biologically be what we are looking for. But you know what, buying a truck doesn't make your pee-pee bigger. It makes you look like an ass, and when you look like an ass, women don't want to talk your pee-pee or anything else.
For those of you that have large trucks but bought them for true functionality (towing cars, horses, large things of that nature) than ignore this post. I am totally willing to accept true functionality, but if you bought the biggest truck you could find for no other reason than to show off and maybe get some, (even if you won't consciously admit it), it's not working. Women across the world are still laughing at you, not with you.
Love, Polly.
You know we were already laughing at you, right short stuff? As much as I want to say that I don't laugh at men that are shorter than me, I can't. I'm exactly sixty inches tall, which translates into five feet. Not only do I laugh, I find you slightly creepy in the way that most of us find people with "pony-play" fetishes. I don't want to be your friend usually, because small men don't give me the impression that they are valuable for any reason except humor. That sucks, but it is what it is. When shorty goes off and buys an F450 to tow his child sized pit-bike and tries to justify that he needs that big of a truck when I could fit the bike into the back of a Ford Escort, I laugh in his face. And I laugh hard. I see you compensating for your height and trying to prove to me that you worth the trouble for reproductive means, but I don't want your midget babies.
I recognize that anthropologically men are biologically coded to try and prove their worthiness as
sperm donors (for lack of a better base term). I know that we are animals, and that our only true objective as far as the laws of nature go, is to reproduce. And I know that deep inside you feel threatened that your penis may not be big enough or that you may not biologically be what we are looking for. But you know what, buying a truck doesn't make your pee-pee bigger. It makes you look like an ass, and when you look like an ass, women don't want to talk your pee-pee or anything else.
For those of you that have large trucks but bought them for true functionality (towing cars, horses, large things of that nature) than ignore this post. I am totally willing to accept true functionality, but if you bought the biggest truck you could find for no other reason than to show off and maybe get some, (even if you won't consciously admit it), it's not working. Women across the world are still laughing at you, not with you.
Love, Polly.
September 26, 2010
September 26, 2010: Stay classy, America.
As a culture, America has always been known to be risque and almost trashy at times. The current trend of buying jeans for about $100 pre-ripped and worn for a "vintage" look speaks volumes about who we think we are. We are too good to get our jeans that way by honest work, too snooty to get down on our knees, dig in, and get dirty. Instead, we buy them made that way by someone who wasn't too snooty so we can look like we aren't! How about that, America? Where did our class go? Where did our pride in the blue collar hard working American goods that were built right go? Where did dressing in functional and yet simple clean cut clothing go? I have a few pairs of ripped jeans, and I wear them when we're working on the car or if I'm doing laundry. I don't wear them when I go to spend some time with some friends. Dress to impress or at least make the people around you think you care about what they think about you. Being sloppy in your wardrobe just mimics the other sloppy habits you have. It shows a disregard for yourself, and if you can't have some respect for yourself than you can't have some respect for other people. Wearing your ratty clothes just says, "You are unimportant to me, I do not have time for you".
And another thing, less is not more ladies! I understand sex appeal, I really do. I like wearing frilly underwear and knee high stockings as much as the next girl. But those are things that we shouldn't be displaying to everyone in the world. When we have some modesty in regards to our body, it allows us to make connections to people that are far deeper than any bond we could create otherwise. When we converse and make connections about the world around us, we are more fulfilled than when we act like we're going to have sex with everyone we meet. And even worse, ladies, PLEASE stop dressing this way and then wondering why no one takes you serious. If your ta-tas are hanging out for the whole world to see, a gaggle of hormone charged males are going to use you because that's all they see. Don't complain, dress appropriately. You could be the next Marie Curie, but if you dress like a hooker no one will take you seriously intellectually. Dress for what you want. If you want attention or if you want to be taken as a tramp, then fine. Ignore me. If you want people to take you seriously and truly be interested in mental complexities, dress appropriately. DRESS FOR SUCCESS, however it is you define sucess.
Love, Polly.
And another thing, less is not more ladies! I understand sex appeal, I really do. I like wearing frilly underwear and knee high stockings as much as the next girl. But those are things that we shouldn't be displaying to everyone in the world. When we have some modesty in regards to our body, it allows us to make connections to people that are far deeper than any bond we could create otherwise. When we converse and make connections about the world around us, we are more fulfilled than when we act like we're going to have sex with everyone we meet. And even worse, ladies, PLEASE stop dressing this way and then wondering why no one takes you serious. If your ta-tas are hanging out for the whole world to see, a gaggle of hormone charged males are going to use you because that's all they see. Don't complain, dress appropriately. You could be the next Marie Curie, but if you dress like a hooker no one will take you seriously intellectually. Dress for what you want. If you want attention or if you want to be taken as a tramp, then fine. Ignore me. If you want people to take you seriously and truly be interested in mental complexities, dress appropriately. DRESS FOR SUCCESS, however it is you define sucess.
Love, Polly.
September 25, 2010
September 25, 2010: Political idiots
If I see any variation of, "I won't vote for Meg Whitman because she's a slandering whore" I might just have to shoot someone. I love the involvement and I love hearing multiple views being discussed. I absolutely despise people who make complaints about things with absolutely no support to thier view or some generic term of offense as their reasoning. I would love to hear why you think that Candidate A is better than Candidate B. I would love to hear how you interpret the measures and propositions being put on the ballot. And I definately love knowing that there is involvement in our government at any and every level. But I find that kind of slanderous behavior to be rude and completely uncalled for. We know very little if anything at all about our politicians true character, and although we believe that actions speak louder than words our actions are just as poor, if not just as broadcasted. We are more in outrage over our politicians than the video of the girl that threw newborn puppies into a fast moving river with the exact same amount of information. We have the actions but not the ability to understand the true impact of any decision. Most of us just listen to the radio or television commercials instead of actually reading the ballots. We take propaganda laced interpretations from biased parties and use that as our primary source of information. These measures and propositions are NOT that difficult to read if you break them down sentence by sentence. I promise, if you take your time you will understand them. Likewise, if we sit down and really do some research on the things that our politicians and candidates have done we will see what their stance is on many things. We will be able to make truly informed judgements and THAT is what is going to help us now. We need to stop jumping on these band wagons and do some real independent research and learn how to sift through the important and unimportant. Learn the facts, process them, and make our own decisions. Support our viewpoints with solid information and debate them amongst ourselves. Open ourselves up to different viewpoints and different ideas, so that things get better. It isn't the media at fault, we are at fault. We refuse to be involved in our government until infamy or scandal show up, and then all we have to talk about is the negative. We are no longer the proud nation we were, the proud, informed nation that believed in it's government. The proud nation with a government that was recognized at being in the forefront of the entire world. We need to get back on our feet, I know things are difficult now and that we want someone to blame. Blame ourselves, for being ignorant and ENJOYING our ignorance. If we want change, we must bring it ourselves.
Love, Polly.
Love, Polly.
September 24, 2010
September 24, 2010: What you know at four is not what you know at forty.
The things we know as children are not the same things that we know as adults. We are immediately instilled with a sense of wonder about the world around us because there is so much that we cannot yet explain ourselves. We have a drive to learn and make sense of all the things around us, a sense of awe at the life and energy that makes up the world. We do not yet take it for granted, because we cannot for the life of us make any of these things plausible yet. The boundaries that we draw in our lives are constantly changing and pushed further out. They know the limits of their small bodies and unformed minds and are in awe of the perceived lack of limits that those older than them don't have.
The things we know as adults are not the same things we knew as children. The boundaries we see are no longer just boundaries of inabilities, they are boundaries of financial capabilities, political beliefs, moral and ethical values. The boundaries that were then so phenomenally unlimited are more complicated than those untrained eyes could see. And it pains us, that we are bound by these things. We look at children and wish that we could be as free as they can. We see them as having the constitutional rights to life, liberty, and the pursuit of happiness. And we see ourselves as being inhibited and kept from those rights.
I believe that we need to embrace the human experience of life, that we need to encourage growth amongst ourselves and never believe that there are any limitations into the things that we can do. That life, liberty, and the pursuit of happiness are things that we have innately and we lose them if we believe we lose them. The power of our minds is amazing and what we think has the power to change our beliefs and how we live our lives.
Love, Polly.
The things we know as adults are not the same things we knew as children. The boundaries we see are no longer just boundaries of inabilities, they are boundaries of financial capabilities, political beliefs, moral and ethical values. The boundaries that were then so phenomenally unlimited are more complicated than those untrained eyes could see. And it pains us, that we are bound by these things. We look at children and wish that we could be as free as they can. We see them as having the constitutional rights to life, liberty, and the pursuit of happiness. And we see ourselves as being inhibited and kept from those rights.
I believe that we need to embrace the human experience of life, that we need to encourage growth amongst ourselves and never believe that there are any limitations into the things that we can do. That life, liberty, and the pursuit of happiness are things that we have innately and we lose them if we believe we lose them. The power of our minds is amazing and what we think has the power to change our beliefs and how we live our lives.
Love, Polly.
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