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Groan

Saturday, March 14th, 2009

I’m currently in Nova Scotia. In the airport on the way here a man talked to me while I was buying some Vitamin Water. Apperently he was on the same plane as me, because, according to my mom, he sat across from us when we stopped at the terminal in Winnipeg. I didn’t even notice him. This probably made him sad. Things like this happen a lot. I hardly ever notice the people that notice me.

A disturbing amount of the women in Nova Scotia are going bald. Also, way too many of these people are missing teeth. My mother says that it’s because they’re a bunch of inbred diabetics. I laughed.

Went to see the Watchmen movie tonight. It was good to see Mr. Manhattan’s uncircumcised penis. Hollywood’s lack of foreskin disturbs me. Now they just need to bring pubic hair back.

We also watched Nights in Rodanthe. Why was James Franco in it. WHY!?

I Can’t Win

Tuesday, January 27th, 2009

Sooooo… Last year, I decided I’d really step my game up oral-health-wise. You know, flossing and mouthwash every single day. And, this year, I go to the dentist and I am told I have six cavities that need filling. According to the dentist, my oral hyigene is really good, but I have really deep crevices that are impossible to reach or some shit (I do get seeds caught in them with alarming frequency). Anyhoo, all the cavities were single-surface, which I hear is the best kind of cavity to have. I need to stop eating so much sugar and acid (I mostly eat meat? (Anemia?)). (Is it true that orange juice has more acid than pop? Someone google this for me. I am too lazy.)

Actually, apparently, I might’ve had these cavities for years, because, according to my mom, my old dentist didn’t believe in filling in tiny cavities, preferring to wait and see if they got bigger. My new dentist likes to fill in cavities before they get bigger. One of the black dots he’s going to fill, I’m pretty sure I’ve had for about 10 years.

And, I might be getting my wisdom teeth out. I don’t think they’ll be coming in all the way anyway. Damn bacteria factories.

In other news, two years ago, I had a really bad experience with some asshole landlords and their asshole apartment managers.  Now the government says I deserve a tax credit for the rent I paid to them. The only problem is that I have to obtain records from the landlords to get the credit. I don’t think that the credit is worth enough to warrant dealing with these douches again, my mother disagrees. Someone remind me to stop letting other people read my mail.

December Update

Sunday, December 14th, 2008

I can’t sleep again. And so I write.

I’ve just read some H.P. Lovecraft for the first time. The only thing terrifying about it was how crazy racist Lovecraft was. Seriously, the douche refers to various brown peoples as mongrels and ape-like, he seems to have some sort of vendetta against the Congo, and, in one story, some dude owns a cat called “Nigger-Man”. And how the shit do you pronounce “Cthulhu” anyway? Douche.

My family is celebrating Christmas again, despite the fact that we’re all either atheists or pagans. We even have a nativity scene dealie, even though my mother believes that Jesus was an alien and his ascension toward Heaven was really just him being beamed up to the mothership. I think Saturnalia would be a much better winter solstice festival for us. No, not Festivus. We already have enough of the “Airing of Grievances” over the holidays.

Whatever happened to that “Girl Power” fad? Girls these days are defining their self-worth by how pretty and slutty the boys think they are  and it makes me want to burn all the Bratz dolls. Also, burn these girls. Burning.

Anyhoo, melatonin time.

Socialism Has Been Good to Me

Thursday, October 30th, 2008

Hi United Statesian politicians. A lot of you have been knocking Socialism. This doesn’t make much sense to me. Varying degrees of socialism are present in all systems of government. For a country to be completely free of socialism they would have to remove all government and privatise everything. The entire point of a having a government at all is to centralise power and to collect and redistribute money and resources. So my point here will not be whether your government should be socialist or not, but rather that it should more socialist.

So, here we go, kiddies, some reasons why socialism is the awesomest.

Health care for everyone. This one pretty much goes without saying. Basically, if I were to crawl out of my igloo, slip on the ice and crack my head open,  I can get me noggin patched up for free.  Plus, medication costs less for when we do have to pay for it. No $80 bottles of Baby Tylenol for us. There are very few situations where I would have to choose between my health and not being in a lifetime of debt.

School funding by size. A 1000 student school in a poor area gets the same funding from the government as a 1000 student student school in a rich area. Well, it’s a bit more complicated than that, involving some sort of strange formula, but since funding is based on need (not property taxes), most of the disparity in quality of education is from whether or not the school hired douchebags as teachers.

Federally operated prisons. Since no one profits from people reoffending (the goverment just loses more money), there is more of an incentive to rehabilitate people. Seriously, why would anyone privatise their prisons? The mind fucking boggles. The same goes for privatising the military. I hate you people so much.

I think I had a few more examples, but I’m getting tired and incoherent. Hit more for some selected jabberings about other stuff I hate in the US right now.

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Irksome News

Thursday, October 2nd, 2008

Apart from the whole economic meltdown, which I would care about, if I actually had any money, there have been a couple of things bugging me lately.

Is Sarah Palin really a young earther? Seriously? Is there some way we could detach Canada from the US, because them Amuricains are really starting to scare me.

Soooooo, I get my Nitendo DS all tricked out with a SD reading flash card dealie and then Nintedo anounces the Nintedo  DSi, that will come with a SD card reader already in it. Also, the thing has a camera in it. Mark my words, one day, there will be digital paper, a few microns thick, with a camera in it, so we can document the stupid faces we make when we’re trying to spell things and post them on Facebook V6.7 .

Speaking of Facebook, the “Pieces of Flair” application tells me how many people are using the flair I created, but not who they are. I must know these people that enjoy my “David Bowie’s Area” flair.

I’m not chopping my hair off for charity, EVER.  Stop asking me to do this. Fuck the children with cancer. I’ve already dealt with family members with cancer, that’s my fucking contribution to the “cause”. If you want hair donated to charity, you can spend the time and effort growing it and then chop off your own fucking hair, you dipshits.

Here, have a prediction: the bloody Conservatives are going to win the upcoming Federal Election, because the lousy Boomers have lost their idealism. Yes, the people that discovered all the good drugs, don’t want anybody else to use them. For SHAME. Also, they don’t want me to be able to file share, but I LOVE file sharing.

In Summary:

  1. I didn’t have any money and I still don’t have any.
  2. The Earth is over 6000 years old.
  3. My brother may be getting my DS in the near future, maybe.
  4. I, for some reason, want to stalk pervs.
  5. I value my own vanity, over the preservation of human life.
  6. The hippies sold out.

Fake Vachon

Tuesday, September 16th, 2008

Wal-Mart has started selling evil fake Vachon cakes.

I’ve tried the Caramelina and it only marginally tastes like an Ah Caramel! and although the Angelica looks like a Jos. Louis, I belive that it’s actually a clone of a lesser known Vachon called a Mae West. They actually cloned all of Vachon’s products. It disturbed me. This is useful information. I like useful information. Surely these things are infringing on numerous patents and copyrights, though. Someone sue Great Value.

Snacky cakes are important to me.

In other news, I just got back from Chicago. We got lost in a ghetto, again. I busted my knee in the U-505. We saw sand cats and an epileptic zebra. Some other stuff happened. I hate their crappy American beer. Seeing giant renaissance art was cool. There was Domokuns in the Target. The Field Museum has waaaayyyy too much taxidermy, but seeing a giant evolution exhibit in an American museum put some hope in me. I wish we had Chipotles in Canada. Anyway, good times were had by all and I managed not to lose anything and I was only slightly injured.

Stream of consciousness just makes you look retarded Laurel.

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:

A Part of Our Heritage: Peacemaker

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 either  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.

I’m Going to Kill Fred Phelps and then Picket His Funeral

Wednesday, January 23rd, 2008

Heath Ledger has been dead now for less than a day and already the Westboro Baptist Church Fucks are planning on picketing his funeral. A stunt that will no doubt provide them with more media coverage than any of their previous crimes against humanity. And there will be Fred Phelps spouting hate and ignorance, all the while pretending that it’s about upholding God’s law or something, when it’s really about Fred feeding his ego.

Isn’t Pride a sin or something there, Phelps? I know Wrath is one and with the amount you go on about hating things, you definitely exhibit buckets full of Wrath and since getting absolved or rebaptised or whatever the fuck would involve you admitting you’d done something wrong, you’d never do it. By your on stupid religious laws you’re fucking doomed, bitch.

I’m not really sure what I’m going on about here. I guess I’m just pissed off that an actor that has brought lots of entertainment and joy into my life is gone and that some stupid bigoted asshole is going to try and fuck with the bereaved’s shit, just to get his ugly shit face on television again and the fucker will, regardless of whether picketing happens or not.

I’m also pissed off at myself. Until now, I’ve watched the antics of Fred Phelps with indifference. He was just a crazy guy doing crazy shit. It took some stupid shit involving a pretty-boy actor to get me incensed. I’m disappointed in myself for not caring about the little guys Fred’s been fucking with.

Sooooooo, anyway… You like being like Jesus there, Phelps my boy? I’ll make you a fucking martyr. You can even have your own cross to carry, if you want one. Only above yours the plaque will read “King of the Assholes”. On the third day, instead of of you rising from your grave, I’ll be pissing on it and the the world will be a fucking better place.

Well, that’s enough of me venting. I’ll probably regret this in the morning.

Here’s to the day when I have a calmer head that will prevail or whatever.