Archive for the ‘Personal’ Category

A Part of Our Heritage: Freaky Flame Demons and Magic Trees

Friday, April 25th, 2008

On Canadian television we have Heritage Minutes, which are one minute spots, aired during commercial breaks, that are meant to highlight an important person and/or event in Canadian history. Except for one spot, which is meant to terrify young children:

Gee, thank you, CBC, for airing this during the breaks in Sesame Street. It’s not like a freaky, flying and flaming demon would haunt the dreams of a little girl, eh!? Eh, you bastards!?

Also, I object to this being one of the A Part of Our Heritage series, seeing as it isn’t an actual event that happened. I don’t even know what the Hell it’s supposed to be about. It’s just some weird story about antiwar tree hugging noble savages.

Apparently, it has something to due with the formation of the Iroquois Confederacy, but it’s a complete misrepresentation of the actually events. The formation of the Iroquois Confederacy was mostly political in origin and was not, in fact, in any way mystical.

*Shakes fist*

Everywhere I Have Ever Been Sucks

Sunday, April 6th, 2008

Canada’s Wonderland: I haven’t actually been there since I was about 12, because waiting half an hour in line so I can be spun in a centrifuge for 30 seconds is not my idea of fun, but, from what I remember, Canada’s Wonderland contains glorious attractions, such as: pavement covered in gum, benches covered in gum, trees coved in gum and $3 cans of Coke.

The Pinery: The only place in Canada where you can find an oak savanna, which basically means that it’s really sandy and, if you spend any amount of time there, you will be picking sand out of your possessions and body for 3 months afterwards.

Guelph: According to local legend, some epic battle is being waged by the Mafia, the Triads and the Hell’s Angels over who gets to claim Guelph as their own. I have seen absolutely no evidence of this whatsoever. The only gangs in Guelph are the roving gangs of hippies, that will try to coerce you into joining their drum circle and/or sign their petition to shut down the Wal-Mart (their petition to stop the Wal-Mart from being built failed).

The most annoying thing about the hippies is that some of them will adamantly deny that they are, in fact, hippies.

“I may ride an ergonomic bicycle, wear hemp clothing and complain to others about their massive ‘carbon footprints’, but I’m no goddamn hippie! Look at how clean-cut I am!” they say and “Ha!” I laugh.

You’re hippies and your attempts to convince others that you’re not, with your short hair and your Nikes, will not make me change my mind.

Puslinch Township: One day the amount of McDermotts and Pilkingtons in Puslinch is going to hit critical mass and the whole place is going to collapse in on itself, as the billions of cows watch on in horror. No one outside of Puslinch will care though, because no one ever cares about the middle of nowhere, or the people that live there.

Lunenburg: Ah, historic Lunenburg, where the shops close at 4pm, they call the police if you go outside after 10pm, but you can talk about the stupid Bluenose all day long. Seriously, it’s the most backwards place I have ever been. Everyone there is like 300 years old and retarded. They complain constantly about things like stores being open on Sunday, not being able to understand the “new-fangled-internet-thing”, the “Evil Foreigners” that the government let in the country, how things aren’t the way they were 300 years ago etc. etc. etc. And then, in the very next sentence, relay their confusion over why all the young people are leaving.

Please tell me, why do you people steal so much copper wiring? All I ever heard about on the news there was how some more copper wiring had been stolen. Surely getting a job would take less effort than sneaking into a building and tearing the wiring out of the walls.

And, for the record, the reason the government sends more money to Ontario then Nova Scotia, is because Ontario has 12 times the population of Nova Scotia, not because they’re “jerks what hate the Maritimes”.

Cochrane: Cochrane is full of annoying rednecks and annoying “alternative culture” people. All the “Alternative Culture” kids want to move to Vancouver when they grow up. Little do they know that it’s really expensive to live in Vancouver and, to pay for it, they’d probably have to work for one of those “Evil Corporations”, that they claim to despise, while at the same time consuming products made by these “Evil Corporations” at an alarming rate. “Conformist” shit and “Alternative” shit is all made by the same underpaid 5-year-old in China, you tards.

Also, I saw at least three trucks emblazoned with Confederate flags in Cochrane and that doesn’t make any sort of sense at all.

Note to the rednecks that live there: Wearing a cowboy hat, when you live in a suburb and have never even seen a horse, doesn’t make you a cowboy, it makes you a douche bag. And eating steak every night is a good way to get your ass dead by the age of 35.

Toronto: What kind of fucking crazy wank-job did you do to the ROM!? You retarded bastards! And what’s with all the dumb-looking moose sculptures? There hasn’t been a moose anywhere near Toronto for like 200 years.

Everytime I come home from Toronto, my snot is pitch black. That’s reason enough to hate the place.

African Lion Safari: This place is one of the most depressing places I have ever been. All the animals hardly moved and they looked incredibly sad (having cars drive close to you constantly probably isn’t good for the psyche) and their “African habitats” incorporated huge piles of small rocks for some inexplicable reason.

Also, according to my parents, when they went there one time, before I was born, some baboons ate their windshield wipers. Baboons are jerks.

Seriously, avoid this shiat and go to the Toronto Zoo, if you want to see animals.

Quebec City: I’m not sure why this place is considered tourism worthy. Sure, there are some nice looking old buildings, but they’re filled with chincy souvenir shops that all sell the same crap now and, for some reason, the people that run these shops get incredibly irritated when you speak English to them.

It’s a souvenir shop. Most tourists don’t speak French. Stop being such sourpusses, you wankers.

Fun Fact: Quebecers try and act like they have such close ties to France and shit, but actual French people hate Quebec, because, apparently, Quebecan French sounds nearly retarded and incoherent to a Parisian French speaker. Not as retarded as Montrealan French, though.

Chicago: There’s absolutely no parking. The buildings and public transit are rundown. The hobos will eat you and your entire family. But, as far as I can tell, this describes just about every major city in the U.S. and A.

Aberfoyle: My saltdough sculpture should have come in 1st, not 3rd, at the Fall Fair, you sons of bitches. *shakes fist*

My Mind: Holy shit, enough with the pink elephants already.

Annoying Nomenclature

Tuesday, February 5th, 2008

Apparently, I have a weird name, as evident by the vast amount of individuals that eitherĀ  misspell or mispronounce it. Or both.

I find this especially annoying, because my name is also a common noun in the English language and surely people have heard the term “rest upon one’s laurels” several times in their lives. However, they may be suffering from this strange disorder that I’ve encountered in stupid where, when faced with a word they have never seen before, they will replace it with a word that they are more familiar with. They’ve probably been reading it as “rest upon one’s Laurens” all these years, which would explain why people consistently read my name out as “Lauren” without skipping a beat.

I blame whoever invented that retarded “Whole Language” reading method, where kids are taught to memorize entire words instead of sounding them out, leaving them completely helpless to deal with words that are unfamiliar. We may as well go back to using fucking pictograms, if we’re going to be using this “Whole Language” shit.

I still get mad at people that misspell my name, even though they get it phonetically correct most of the time (when they don’t, it makes me want to destroy them). I honestly cannot believe, as I reiterate, that they have never encountered the word “laurel” before. Maybe a common noun doubling as a proper noun throws them for a loop.

I get angrier when other people spell their own names retardedly, though, because it makes me misspell things and I hate when I misspell things.

Or, alternatively, I’m spelling their names correctly and they’re the ones that are spelling it wrong. Anyway, if I see another “Ashli”, “Jannifer” or “Benn”, I shall be very upset indeed and perhaps I will scowl or something.

Note to parents: People cannot hear how things are spelled. Your “unique” spelling of your child’s name with serve only to annoy them and those around them.

Which leads me to American Idol and the lovely “Temptresse”. Well, she isn’t lovely so much as she is 400 pounds and will eat me. But her name -Oh what a name!- makes me actually appreciate my weird name. My name, however weird it may be, doesn’t sound like a retarded stripper’s name. And adding that superfluous “e” to the end of “temptress” (which would have been a horrible enough name on its own), is just the icing on the retarded name cake. It tells me that 1. her mother is stupid and doesn’t understand what the word “temptress” really means (generally, in our society, a temptress is considered a bad thing) and 2. she didn’t think that the name “Temptress” would be unique enough, so she had to add an “e”.

Or she doesn’t know how “temptress” is really spelt. In which case, I may weep openly.

CLOVE! FLAVOURED! CANDY!

Sunday, September 23rd, 2007

I’ve just had one of the worst experiences of my life.

I was eating Halloween candy from last year, when I bit into a clove-flavoured Necco Wafer and promptly burst into flames.

Why the Hell would anyone make clove-flavoured candy!? That’s like the most evil thing that anyone could possibly do!

Cloves are only for sticking into oranges and making those stupid drawer fresheners. They are NOT for eating! They are especially not to be used to flavour candy!

GRAAAAAAWWWWHHHH!

Boourns, Boo-Urns or Boo Urns?

Saturday, July 28th, 2007

Well, I went and saw The Simpsons Movie, with my mother, her boyfriend and his kids (BLARGH).

The movie was basically just 90 minutes of fan service and the creators indulging themselves (“*LOL* we showed Bart’s penis in the movie, because it’s too HAWT for TV”) . This would be perfectly fine if this movie were the grand finale to the series, but there is a new season coming up and the show is probably going to be running for 500 years more, which makes the sort of “last hurrah” tone of this movie kind of ultra-ridiculous.

I’m not saying that The Simpsons Movie isn’t funny, because it really, really is, but I’m a massive internet nerd, so I’m going to list the reasons why this is the WORST MOVIE EVER, in bullet form, because I’m too lasy to formulate any more paragraphs.

  • Bart has a baby dick and he should have started puberty by ten.
  • President Schwarzenegger looks and sounds just like Ranier Wolfcastle.
  • Green Day and Tom Hanks guest star. (Guest stars in a movie?)
  • The animation is slightly different than it is in the show and it made me angry.
  • It contains environmentalist propaganda.
  • Not enough Disco Stu.
  • We never find out where Curly’s gold is hidden.
  • Marge and Homer’s wedding video shows guests at the wedding, but they eloped in the show.
  • It was too damned zany.
  • Sexually tension between Homer and the pig.
  • It’s just like an extended television episode and doesn’t really offer anything new or special (other than full frontal nudity.)

Hi, are you stealing my interwebs of the air?

Monday, June 18th, 2007

So this guy comes knocking at our door (during dinner) and he asks us if we’re the ones that are stealing his wireless internet. We tell him that we aren’t and he grumbles off.

I did some sleuthing (I clicked the scan button on my wireless network dealy) and I’m pretty sure that the guy didn’t even bother configuring his network at all (unless he thought that naming it “linksys” and having no password was a good idea).

PROTIP: It’s easier to set a password than it is to track the people stealing your wireless signal down.

Penis on a Sunny Day

Saturday, June 9th, 2007

Penis on a Sunny Day

You know, there was a time when I wanted to become an artist and then I drew this…

The thought of a bunch of educated jerks gathering this and seriously critiquing it sickens me. There is no deeper meaning to “Penis on a Sunny Day”. It’s exactly what the title says it is. I have a complete inability to add any pretension to any of my drawings or paintings, which is why I can’t be an artist.

Also, cocks…

Theft is a Justifiable Means of Acquiring Sustenance

Thursday, May 31st, 2007

I had this dream once where I was the beef patty in a hamburger and along came the Hamburglar to try and steal me. I called out to Ronald McDonald for help, but when he turned around to look at me, he had no face. The Hamburglar ended up stealing me, but instead of eating me, he threw me in the air and I flew up and up and up, until I hit the moon.

ROBBLE ROBBLE ROBBLE ROBBLE

Fish Are People Too!

Wednesday, May 16th, 2007

We took my grandmother to the dentist and there was a fish tank in the waiting room.

There was this scary looking lady standing with her noise pressed up against the glass of the tank and she was saying things like: “These fish can’t possibly be happy!” “How would you like it if you were locked up all your life!?” “How can the people that run this place be so monumentally evil!?”

She had a horrible flaky bald patch on the side of her head, smelled of doodie and thought that the best way to prepare for a dentist’s appointment was to chew thousands of mints (the kind that are almost entirely sugar) with her mouth gaping open.

I think she’s right. We should let the fish go free and put her in a tank.

I Hate You, Robert Munsch!

Thursday, May 10th, 2007

Your manic stories gave me ADHD and the “s” in your name screwed up my spelling for many years.

Also, you look pretty crappy without the beard. Grow it back!
Robert Munsch