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"Would you like to save a child for only one dollar a day?" Part 2

2010-07-22T00:58:00.008-04:00

The day of observation came. I bussed over, this time, dressed in a less extreme fashion: wearing only a shirt and tie. I was prepared for a very tiring day. Being curious as to what type of job this could be, and honestly, being quite anxious, I almost missed my bus stop. When I arrived at the office, this time a little later, there were still many people waiting in the green room. It seems their interviews continue throughout the day. I was given another form to fill, just an agreement that I am not being paid on my day of observation, again handed to me by that very attractive and tall receptionist.

I finished my form, again, waited silently and awkwardly with a few other people. I recognized some of them from the day before. The attractive French lady, the man with the leather boots.

Suddenly - "(Loud indiscernible ruckus)" followed by repeating "(Loud indiscernible ruckus)."

"Sales... serious business" one man in the waiting room exclaimed. Everyone chuckled, but I chuckled because I have a strong suspicion this man is from 4chan.

After what seemed to be 15 minutes of this, the ruckus stopped, and the team broke out of the room in a very excited manner. As they walked by, I got a good look at this strange group assembled before me. A couple of what looked like, gang-bangers, some guy wearing an emo hairstyle, some very attractive girls, and some normal looking people (but I found out later, none of these people were, to the true definition of the word - it will be explained). The boss (Rocket Richard), came up to each person in the waiting room and assigned a partner, a mentor, a buddy. I was assigned to Pistol Pete (I changed the interviewer's name to machine gun max - 'cause it fit his nature better). I was told that Pete was one of the newest, yet most consistent leaders. He had just come back from PEI, on road trip, and he will be teaching me the ropes today. We shook hands, became good ol' pals, and he got down to business.

He asked whether if I brought a notepad with me. I didn't. In fact, I didn't bring anything, since I had no idea of what to expect. Thankfully someone else had a notepad and he wrote down a few quick pointers. We jumped into what looked like very, very second hand van. The outside looked like it suffered an extreme amount of wear and tear. The inside burnt my nostrils of putrid smelling smoke. Even though, as I learned almost immediately after, that they were not allowed to smoke in the van, the van remains tainted of foul tobacco smoke. How could it not? Everyone, and I mean absolutely everyone there, were smoking. It seems the only things driving these people to live everyday is to sell sponsorships, and smoke.

A few others got into the van with us, their names are not important so I won't waste the time to assign names to each. We were a team, and we traveled down the highway in this van to some part of Ottawa unknown.

Pete, took the time to teach a few basics to me... hopefully I can still remember them.

The first thing he wrote down: SEX. Real mature acronym :P

But it made sense - Smile, Eye Contact, and Excitement. He taught me that this was the most important weapon in his arsenal of tools. Without SEX, don't expect to impregnate anybody with your product. What is our product? We are saving children. This is also important to understand, but I had a tough time accepting this.

Then he wrote down a quick way of breaking down a sale

1) open 2) introduction 3) short-presentation 4) close 5) rehash

Following that, the correct way to work

1) maintain postive attitude

2) be on time

3) be prepared

4) work your turf correctly

5) work your whole turf

and 3 others that I can't quite remember. These were not too important.

I was told that I would have a test on this when I go back so I better memorize them throughout the day.

We were dropped off in a corner of a small community, it seems each had a special area to cover. Pete and I got out of the car, he came out first, and I climbed out second. By the time I got out, he was already in the middle of lighting a cigarette. He showed me a black and white photocopy of a section of the map of Ottawa. There were other black lines on various roads, and we were dropped off in a section marked off with highlighter. Our "turf" for the day is the section within the highlighted box.

We were dropped off at around 1AM, when hardly anyone was home. But our goal was to talk to at least 50 people by lunch which is around 5PM. He asked me what kind of people would be home at this time, I used my implicating skills learned from business class and deduced that we would be talking to old people, housewives, and unemployeds. He asked me how I would be able to sell to these people considering they either don't want to, or they can't really afford to sponsor a child even if they wanted to (which they didn't). I didn't know how to answer this.

Then he told me, it doesn't really matter whether if we sell to these people or not. Using the law of average, the more "no's" talk to should mean that we come closer to a "yes." Some bullshit statistics, but I think it's more about keeping morale high than anything. And anyone not familiar with statistics would have gobbled this up like a chicken gobbles up corn. But I went along with it, and I'm glad I did.

We talked to various kinds of people. The ones who shut their doors on our faces (the quick no's); the ones who listen to every word, then quickly rejects us (time vampires); the sympathetic people who already donated recently, be that donation legitimate or not. And every time a cute girl came to the door, Pete would work his charms, and I was amazed at how easily the girls were charmed by his words (while also quickly taking mental note for myself in the future :P).

Here's what a typical pitch would sound like:

"Hey! How are you? Don't worry! I'm not a salesperson (and if there was a dog - 'you don't need to sick the dogs on me!), I'm not asking for donations. I'm actually hear doing something I'm very proud of doing." *Quickly opening the Port containing the laminate of information and suggestively handing it to the homeowner.*

"My name is Pete, and this is my bodyguard" *points at me* (this usually gets a few chuckles, considering how nonthreatening I look... damn).

"We here on an emergency campaign today, due to all the natural disasters happening in the world lately, and we have been given a few children that have been waiting the longest for a quality sponsor such as yourself to provide food, water, shelter, basic necessities."

"Do you know how much it costs to save the life of a child? Only 1 dollar a day, do you think you can afford to save a child for only 1 dollar a day? I mean, to us a dollar is pocket change, but to these kids. To these kids, it means another day of living."

I won't retell the entire pitch, but it generally revolves around that. The rest is about customizing, getting the home owner to talk about themselves.

I was later taught that I should ask questions like "where do you work? do you have any kids?" as hooker questions. They prod the person to talk and usually they give much more valuable information of which you can easily use to your advantage.

A few impulses I learned later - urgency, nonchalance, emotional, Jone's, (and a few others I can't quite remember). And it was always important to sell yourself, to sell your enthusiasm for the program so that people sponsor a child not because they're saving a child, but because you showed them how much it means to you so they do it for you.

Urgency - "we're only in the neighbourhood for the day"

Nonchalance - "oh, that's okay, well, I'll just move on to the next door then"

Emotional - "saving lives, and communities"

Jone's effect - this is where other people are doing something, and you feel compelled to act that way too "your neighbourhood has been very good to us today, we started out the day with 6 kids, but we're left with 4"

That's usually a lie, we start the days with only 4 people.

Also, something else I learned, the less number of options you present to the client, and the later it is in the day, the easier it is to sell. It's easier to sell your enthusiasm this way, and when you end the day with only 1 kid left in your portfolio, they are compelled to help you make a perfect day.

Our goal was not to sell anything, our goal was to make a 4 second friend, then convince him that this was a good idea. So it's usually important to get out the "my name is... oh, what's yours?" "How's your day? ya? I'm fine thanks, most people don't ask me!" "Oh, like your shirt, where did you buy it?"

Anything to connect with the person and show him/her you are human, and not to hide behind the mask that is World Vision, or Planned Canada.

The day went smoothly. We talked to 50 households before 5PM, and by that time, we haven't had one bite. Some nibbles, but no bites. But it's okay, we were about to make a second trip around the neighbourhood after lunch. This way, we already crossed off the people who were absolutely "no's" and all that are left are people who expressed interest before hand, or people who had jobs.

By 9 o'clock, we had 3 deals. One of which was to a schoolteacher who was going to get the entire class involved. The idea was suggested by us. We were playing a bit of daylight inception, step out of the way Di Caprio and Nolan!

3 deals in one day is a lot. If someone carries out 3 deals in all 5 days of the week, they would have 15 deals in that week, earning them not only a high hourly wage for the week, but also an Ace of Spades. You get your picture taken and have you face and accomplishment forever plastered to the wall.

The van picked us up at the same street corner and we drove silently back, exhausted. 8 hours of solid walking and knocking on doors will wear you down. But to be honest, I hadn't felt how tired I was until I sat down in that van. Pete went through what he had taught me early in the day, and asked me whether if I was prepared to work very hard. 'Cause this job is not forgiving, and if I wasn't willing to work hard, I'd better just leave now and not waste both of our times. I agreed to try my hardest... and in the week that followed, I proved my worth.

I wrote a short quiz in the office, and Pete had talked to Rocket Richard who then called into his office alone and asked me why I wanted to work here. I told him that I want to work here because it was something that I figured would get me out of my shell (I was very right), and to be honest I was between jobs. But I would be committed to work my hardest for him.

I went home that night with an acknowledgement, and a job. Rocket Richard asked me to come in on Monday and start working officially. I shook hands with Pete, said goodbye, and went home, dog tired, and just waiting to pass out at home.

Now understanding what the job is about, I was prepared to come back in and prove my worth on Monday. Monday would be my first official day -- on Monday, I get to do the selling. But what happened thereafter was not exactly according to plan.

-Wayne

"Would you like to save a child for only one dollar a day?" Part 1

2010-07-21T02:30:00.006-04:00

I've told to many of my experiences as a door-to-door salesperson helping organizations like World Vision and the Foster Parent's Plan to get sponsors. I've never completely told anyone about the story from beginning to end, however. It was always snippets of what I thought was really interesting, but in reality, the entire experience was less than anything of exciting.

It was a hard job, but it wasn't a tedious job (mostly), and it requires quite a bit of cunning. And I miss it.

I started working for Top Notch Advertizing Inc in the beginning of this summer, when I was in the middle of looking for summer employment. I scoured the internet of ads and postings hoping I would be able to find a quality, if not, well paid position. It was extremely difficult. Government offices were not accepting my resumes and applications and I was feeling the pressures of getting a job as by this point, my father had been out of work for a year and a half.

My parents kept our financial struggles away from me, but I'm not an idiot, and I've always been good at calculating finances. We've all been tightening our belts, but if better news didn't come soon, my dad would lose his EI in the next little while. So I felt the pressures of at least finding *a job* towering over and raining down on me like the erupting Mount Vesuvius.

One day, I took interest in an ad on Kijiji -- "performance based pay... hourly wage, not commissions based." I was skeptical as to what kind of a job this could be and gave a call as that was the only source of contact.

"Hello, Top Notch Advertizing, how can I help you?" Answered a man who spoke with the speed of greased lightning.

"Uh, just responding to an ad you posted on Kijiji, I would like to apply for said position" (and I thought to myself, whatever the position maybe)

"Do you think you have what it takes to be Top Notch?"

"Yep!"

"Cool, come in tomorrow at 11am for an interview, dress to impress."

"okay..."(that was easy)

Of course, for the rest of the day, I thought I had just stumbled upon some big scam. What kind of company would offer an interview just like that? I decided to follow through - it says it is not commissions based, so what have I got to lose?

I went to the interview the next day, dressed in a suit-and-tie. Followed the directions and drove to a sketchy industrial neighbourhood just off of Carling Ave. I was sketching out a bit at this moment, and was contemplating on whether if I should step into the door, and if I do, whether if I will see my family or livers again.

I pull open the dusty door, which looks like an emergency exit more than an entrance. I see a narrow staircase, with light shining at the end. I climb up. *thump thump thump*

"Hello, are you here for the interview?"

In front of me sat the receptionist. It probably because the office had huge windows and the sun outside was as bright as Einstein, but I swear her face glowed. She was beautiful. She had blond hair, a blue dress, and a stud in her nose, right under the bridge. The office looked nice enough, a few meeting rooms, a huge fish tank, and an empty room behind me with whiteboards. Haven't I seen offices like these before on TV? The ones telling us how they lie about their operations, take our down payments, then disappear the next day?

If they asked for down payment for anything, I will leave. Not worth leaving now, plus, there's a hot girl here asking me to fill out my name, address, and personal information, what could possibly go wrong, right? She could be asking for my number so she could call it in the future, right? ;)

I took the board, and asked to fill it out in a green waiting room with 5 or 6 framed motivational posters on the walls. It seems like they are trying way too hard to seem like a professional working environment.

There were also 3 other people here with me: a white guy with a beard, suit jacket, dress pants, and... leather boots? 2 black girls filling out one form talking in a very secretive manner. Soon a white girl came in, she was speaking in French... damn, not bad looking. I fill out my sheet, and by this time, another guy came in. Geez, high traffic eh? Well, I guess they didn't really have any screening process pre-interview. In this job economy, anyone will take anything.

A loud short man in a white suit comes up the stairs. The receptionist, we will call her Shaw (last name Tee), greeted the strange little man in the cheeriest way... shit this must be the boss. They have some inane conversation about the new fish he had just put into the tank, and the man disappears into the back. I just realize how quiet the waiting room had been the entire time. No one was saying anything, and it was really awkward. I guess everyone had the same questions in mind "What the fuck am I doing here? When do the interview begin?"

I looked at the time - 11:30. Cool. Punctuality is not an issue in this office. That's reassuring.

Another 15 minutes passed. Okay, this is getting ridiculous, when are they going to star-

A mulatto dressed in a full greysuit walked into the room with a clipboard, called out a name. It was one of the people before me, shook the guy's hand, introduces his name (we'll call him Machine Gun Max), brought the man out of the room and they disappeared around the corner. Shit -- will we ever see that man again? If I wanted to run, now's the time...

Another mulatto came around, introduced his name (Sureshot Steve), and brought one of the black girls away for an interview. Apparently the other girl was just there to accompany her friend.

This went on for a bit, with the two men alternating. My interview happened to be with Max. We get past the cordialities, and I follow him to an office, at the end of the snaking hallway. This next part became hazy because the guy started to talk. This guy talks like he's driving on the Autobahn. If there were a speed limit to talking, the vocation police would have called out the entire fleet to chase this man, helicopters and everything. Hardly grasping what he said, he'd always end each segment with a question, and I'd be stunned for a second, retrace the memory of what he'd just said and agree.

But basically, he explains that this job is very much like a door-to-door job (I think he called it "a performance based job with a lot of opportunities to work outdoors -- you like working outdoors right?"). He explained that his company was working with quite a few big name clients, showed me the list. I saw Red Cross, Planned Canada, World Vision, and a few others on the list (placing a mental note that I would never donate to this places again). He explained that it was not commissions based, and that I will be paid for every dollar worked. Except, my wage will go up if I performed well, and I am given 2 weeks of paid training. Not all bad.

We concluded the interview with him informing me that tomorrow I will have a second interview on the field - my day of observation. I will be working with another employee and it will be determined whether if I am suitable for the job. I thanked him for his time (and silently thanking him for allowing me to leave with my organs). Upon my way out, I took another look at the beautiful receptionist, another look into the green waiting room where even more people now sat, and I took a look into the empty room with a lot of white-boards wondering what secrets this mystical shrine possessed.

I left dazed and confused, and with a lot of unanswered questions. "What kind of people will I be working with?" "What kind of door-to-door will I have to do? What is door-to-door like?" "Should I even keep this job? I mean, door to door is quite a transgression of my morals..."

"Where in the world is Carmen San Diego?"

Too many unanswered questions, my head hurts. Just drive home for now, forget about tomorrow, and have a good night's rest. Because tomorrow will be a fucking long day.

-Wayne

Understanding Myself.. part 1

2010-07-14T13:49:00.005-04:00

My frosh week was absolutely uneventful... I can blame other people for it, but the real problem was me -- I didn't want to socialize with new people / I was scared to in such a setting.

Readers who know me, know that I do not play any sport and know that I am not too active. So I felt difficulties in striking up a conversation with other people, because they always inevitably ask, "what sport do you play?" I can't say none either, because then they ask, "oh yeah? what do you do then?" Whatever response then I come out with will seem lame and make me look like a geek. And god forbid I look like a geek, because I'm cool! Maybe it's time to pick up a sport?

I have come to terms with what I am like, but whenever I meet new people, I try to change that perception of me. Then people think I'm boring and 1-dimensional, then I grow bored, drop the facade. It takes a long time for people to know me on a personal level, and this is why I like to hangout with old friends, and have a difficulty making new friends in the beginning.

And I can't start playing a new sport because I'm afraid of making myself look like a fool... which I'll inevitably do for the first little while playing whatever sport. And quite frankly, I just don't find any of them fun. Plus, (I might just be making excuses for myself) it's hard to start sports at an age so much later than other people, maybe starting to play a sport young would have helped? But I did play sports when I was younger, up to pretty much until grade 9. Even in grade 9 I played badminton. So what's the problem?

I can't answer this question.

I'm afraid I've realized how arrogant and vain I really am. I hold myself in a really high esteem, and as the Chinese would call it -- I have very thin skin. I've even realized I possess certain dark traits. And I masquerade them through trying to appear as a normal functioning citizen of society.

Haha.. those last few lines make me seem like psychopath / serial killer. No, nothing really big or major (arguable by some people), and I do have morals... at least I believe I have strong morals.

Anyways, how did I end up typing all of that? I realized my only motivating factor in life is to blend in with society and seem sociable. Otherwise, I don't really have a desire to do anything.

I mean... I enjoy playing the guitar, but I have no motivation to do better; I enjoy going to the gym only when I'm in a routine, but once I out of my routine, I'm in a rut and nothing motivates me to go back. This ties back to my dislike of sports, and everyone knows physical activity results in endorphins, making people happy. I feel a need to interact with people, but I also dislike talking to people for a long time. It exhausts me. I usually just like to live life in my own little world. Which is why when I'm high (OMG!! YOU DO DRUGS?!?)*, I don't talk at all, or at least, don't want to talk at all -- I'm too busy lost in my own little world. I'm too busy talking to myself (in my head). That's partly the reason why I don't want to smoke weed again. I probably still will... maybe once a year or something of that frequency. V EQUALS LAMBDA F!

*Grow up people, marijuana is less dangerous than alcohol. And no, I'm not a junkie or anything (as if you can be a marijuana junkie) I just occasionally "puff-puff-pass".

What a strange blog post. That felt more like a therapy session than stories.

There will most probably be more to come, but they won't be in chronological order -- or in any order really.

Off for now, doing whatever,

Xman/Wayne

LMOM 3.0

2010-07-04T23:42:00.005-04:00

Hey everybody... whoever you are...

Haha.. why I laugh is beyond me - I must be going insane.

So this post is gonna a mushy sentimental piece of crap... so don't read until you've finished your meal for at least an hour.

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Now. I've never kept track of my life on a day to day basis like using a journal or keeping a diary, but I've had to write about significant events in my life throughout much of my young life. Homework... from home. I remember hating to do those and how every single kid on the block didn't have to deal with this BS; I remember how I thought I had the worst parents ever and how I would wish for anything to get me out of writing them.

Heh, life is ironic. I love reading them now, and through this way, I kept a lot of absolutely amazing memories from being lost... forever. Time is a bitch.

The thing is, I never begin to realize how fast time goes until I start to reflect on the past... and it just makes me so sentimental. But I can't afford to be sentimental right now, I have an entire life to live, I have my old age to reflect on how great my life had been.

Which brings me to the next part. I want to, once again, keep a log of what's been going on with my life. The past two years have been magnificent. The last year of high-school and the first year of university are and will probably be the closest events to being polar opposites in my life in a back-to-back fashion - and what a crazy time these two years have been. They were full of energy and magnetism.

I have read some of my older posts... I've matured beyond them. This means I will no longer be writing long opinion-based essay-articles. I had fun writing them, and I'm even enjoying re-reading them. But like the blog states... my opinions don't matter. Life goes on whether if I want it to or not, let alone liking it.

I will not be updating this daily, but I would like to update it at least weekly. I might write a few articles in the next few days regarding significant events of first year. My life will be open to the world, and if you happen upon it. You now know a little bit more about someone you didn't even know existed. My life will be like a story book to you, just like how everyone else is just like an NPC in an MMORPG.

I do not wish to sound so geeky, but no other analogy describes the situation as well. Other people are just like computer programs to you as you are to them. To everyone, everyone else only reacts based on their decisions. I wish to bring you, the reader, into my life and imagine my life through my eyes, and understand and know me even though you will never meet me.

I also do not believe Asquaredx2 nor phleet will ever contribute again, but I do welcome their inputs, as this blog isn't even truly mine.

I thank you for reading through that long piece of e-garbage if you did.

More updates will be coming in the next little while, and LMOM will soon be back on schedule in another fashion.

Signing Off,

noname/x-man

A Last Word...Perhaps

2009-06-02T00:51:00.002-04:00

I cannot, with a straight face, pretend that I have kept up with this website. Nor, I imagine, have you. For this I offer the following reasons: one, that other work, especially in the educational sector, has multiplied in quantity and quality; two, that I have become more interested in a sports capacity, and have moved on to different internet communities; three, that the sheen of the undiscovered wonders of the internet has largely worn off, which is perhaps not a positive. Nevertheless, I’ve been struggling to get an idea out of my mind, and seeing it as an opportunity to use this site for that purpose which it was originally designed: to offer my own half-assed opinion. Thus, to whosoever may pass by, I ask this question simply as a point for reflection:

I think there is a strong sentiment, amongst the more politically attuned of us, to villainize the Corporation. By this I mean, to render the corporation as a faceless, cruel monster to which we all fall victim – to make it the villain. I am by no means an ardent supporter of MNCs (those who know my political views would know that I am hardly ultra-capitalist), and to some extent this is true. But can we absolve ourselves, the consuming public, of all blame?

There is always a desire to attack corporations for acts that appear quite clearly to be wrongdoings. We condemn the Exxon Valdez for negligence resulting in environmental catastrophe; moreover, we raise the point that double-hulled ships should have been considered necessary. We berate companies for the use of sweatshops and other methods of cutting cost by cutting the quality working conditions. Most obviously, we despise the Bush regime for its apparent economic motives for wars in the Middle East.

Those are all, I hope you agree, terrible things, and I do not argue that such a desire is necessarily misplaced. Anyone who doubts our complicity in these actions will argue that hardly any member of the consuming public would have wished such things to occur, and I can only agree. Complicity can be found in a number of other ways, but again, we can point to fixed elections, limited purchasing capacity, and covered-up information to remove ourselves from the equation. It is these evil corporations and governments who are to blame, and not us. We are two, separate, distinct entities. At least, that is a common attitude.

However, we are inextricably linked. It is naïve, I think, to believe that we are enslaved to these institutions, and that the relationships are not at all reciprocal. After all, as much as we provide funds for them, they are to provide services and products for us. And it is the desire of the vast majority of Western society, I would think, to live as decadently as is possible in our respective incomes. We want to be able to get as much as possible – a result of this is that we, for the most part, demand as low prices as possible. If products A and B could be purchased when manufactured in Country Y for the same price as only product A when manufactured in Country X, the majority of us would want the former. Part of this materialism stems from the relentless advertising of corporations, but more still stems from basic human selfishness.
It is, therefore, not necessarily with great malice that corporations go into third-world countries for manufacturing purposes or raw materials. The Exxon Valdez used a single-hulled ship not out of hatred for the environment but for the desire to offer as low a price as possible: these low-as-possible prices originate from our desire to be able to afford more. The result is that other things: the environment, the third world, etc. end up paying the difference.

The Exxon Valdez, I think, is a good example, because our way of life is entirely predicated on cheap oil, and cheap energy. Suburbia is made possible by it. The ability to have international products and food transported to us is made possible by it. The ability to heat our houses in the winter and cool them in the summer, to power our electronics, to keep our food refrigerated: all of this is made possible (or fueled, to use a pun) by cheap energy.

In this way, in this relentless demand for as low-as-possible prices, we are made indirectly but ultimately very directly complicit. To be sure, much of the wrongdoings of corporations originate from their desire to turn a buck, but a large part of this is to fulfill the demand of low costs to the consumers: because, for the most part, we want to live as decadently as possible, so long as we aren’t directly wronging someone. Out of sight wrongdoings, however, are out of mind.

It is for this reason that I roll my eyes when well-meaning souls muse that they wish everybody had it as good as they do. The polarization of the world is not coincidental or a case of us simply not printing enough money for the other 80%: our standard of life is predicated on the poverty of the rest of the world. I do not feel that blaming the corporation or placing more restrictions on them is a way of solving this issue. We have to take a good look at ourselves. What this means is reduced consumption (alternative forms of energy, for all they’ve been lauded, may not make up for the peaking of oil), and more ethical consumption when we do consume.

Ethical consumption does, of course, mean increased prices. This is a sacrifice we must make if we have any real desire to improve the other man’s lot. Corporations pursue minimum production costs (and thus, largely limited ethical production) because we have dictated that what we desire are minimum prices. If the consuming public should suddenly up and demand more ethical means of manufacturing – in exchange, of course, for a bit more dough – then any moderately intelligent corporation will listen to those demands.

A good example of this idea is the recent phenomenon of “selling green.” A sizeable portion of companies have bought into this, advertising products that make the consumer believe that they are doing something good for the environment. Another, if less wide-spread phenomenon, is that of Fair Trade, a foundation on which Bridgehead has seen a meteoric rise, at least in Ottawa.

This has not been a final solution, however. Companies still often have one small segment of a product be “green,” but market the product as though it is entirely so. This reminds us that many companies remain a part of the problem. But this is a solution that requires us not merely to make ourselves seem the victim, but recognize our role. We must do much of the work. Otherwise, we will continue to close our eyes as we fire bullets into the rest of the world.

Cinderella: the Hidden Message – (from a Humorous Perspective)

2009-01-10T00:17:00.004-05:00

As a note to readers, I wrote the following because I was bored and wanted to practise my writing abilities, I hope you will like it.

The tale of Cinderella is a heart warming classic. It teaches a very valuable lesson to kids: if you believe and follow your dreams, they will come true – a great and timeless moral that will fill children of all ages with hope. However, there is a deep and disturbing underlying message that parents tend to leave out during their nightly ritual of bed time stories. Although Cinderella follows through with her dreams, it is never supposed to have occurred as she does nothing to try and achieve her goals. It is by pure fortuitous chance that she just happens to have a fairy god-mother waiting for her hand-on-foot, ready to pull her out of any devastating situations. When Cinderella’s step-sisters and step-mother goes out to the ball, probably leaving a sink full of dirty dishes behind, Cinderella just plants her derriere on a stool and unleashes the waterworks by the bucketfuls (after she makes sure the plates are sparkling clean, I assume).

Instead of doing anything, like going out of the house or borrowing one of her wicked sisters’ dress (she can leave the house, she’s an adult for Pete’s sake!), she decides to give up and hope, by magic, someone will whisk her out of her desolation and fly her down in front of the prince and have him swoon over her. So in a way, as she forfeits her dream and is about to live as an abused miserable housemaid for the rest of her life, her magical aide comes to clean up her mess of an existence and completely, and I mean completely, turns it around. If only this world had a bit more magic, then all the little girls will be marrying princes, all the little boys will be superheroes, and all the free-market advocates will never have to face retribution. Or is the story telling us that magic is provided to only those who are worthy? Then I wonder to myself, “who makes this judgement?” and “why does that person have so much power?” Nobody should be awarded with this much control over others!

I also question just how happy her life with the prince will truly be. A spoiled royalty who halted the entire nation’s productivity to find a girl he will be sick of after a week, marries a raggedy Anne who knows absolutely nothing about the outside world with the only credentials “kind and do windows.” When it is finally the prince’s turn to rule, I give this kingdom one year before its armies are decimated, its economy left in total ruins, and its head of state becomes nothing more than a “head-on-stake.”

-=n0n4m3=-

p.s. Make comments on my writing, that's what I'm concerned about the most here.

That's it - This has gone on for too long!

2008-12-11T22:31:00.005-05:00

NOTE: All Links are Essential to the Essence of the Article!

To all Ottawans: You should already know, without reading the rest of this post of what I am about to say. The OCT has gone too far and too long on this one.

The OCTranspo has been on strike since yesterday morning at 12:01AM (December 11, 2008), amidst a snowstorm, and has put the entire city in pretty much a standstill, a ground halt. Although the city is currently "earning" money through it, each individual in the city, I guarrantee you, is not. I know my family has already lost the greater half of a grand over these two days which is enough money to buy an annual OCT pass, for an adult.

Just what is this strike about? So far, through reading OCT drivers' comments on websites, I interpret the cause of the strike as a need for respect, safe environment, good wage, and fair hours... Which, in my opinion, is exactly what they are receiving right now, but okay, let's hear them out first.

First off, they are saying they want a wage increase of 10% over three years. This was pretty much their primary term in the initial proposal. The city said, no, that's too much, and offered 7% increase over 3 years with $2000 in lump sum to all transit workers - over 2000 of them. Just in lump sum, that is at least $4 000 000 distributed by the city, a city that currently has financial issues itself.

They refused, and said it isn't just about money, it's about respect and safety. Most of them don't know whether if they will make it home by the end of the night (what a load of bull shit). They say there's a possibility of people puking on them, and "attacking" them, and being rude (and which job that deals with the public doesn't?)

Then their next big term was the scheduling issue. The OCT wants block scheduling, and wants to choose the schedules themselves...

Yes, you must be INCREDULOUS at this point. Have you EVER heard of a job where you get to choose your schedules?

I can only imagine the conversation being like this:

Worker: "Yo, Boss! I want monday morning & aft, tuesday morning & aft, wednesday morning & aft, thursday off, and friday morning & aft. That only leaves you with the evenings and thursdays to cover... you want to do that man? Ya, thanks, that'd be great.

While you're at it, fetch me a beer and a paper. Then get down on your knees and suck me off."

I don't even need to say how crazy inefficient this is.

Next comes with the respect. I admit, some bus drivers really do deserve respect. The one I usually encounter on the 87 in the afternoon at Mackenzie King Bridge is very kind and helpful; but the majority of them tend to

a) drive past you a bit and make you run beside it

b) see you coming, and drive off (probably while also laughing manically, and twirling their handlebar moustaches) just for the schadenfreude

c) be COMPLETELY rude to you when you get on

I had one driver threaten to confiscate my month pass because I forgot to write the numbers in.

Thing is, if you want respect, please earn it. Back it up with actual skill, and the respect will come naturally, this is natural law. You can't be respected if you don't deserve it!

We are in an economic slump right now, and large numbers of people are getting laid off. Yet these chaps are pouring oil into the fire by slowing down the activities of the city, and demanding more conditions while they are at it. Hey geniuses, learn the art of retribution. When you fuck with the economy, the enonomy fucks you 10 times harder.

They just obliterated the Communism/Socialism ideal. I had hopes for communism, but now I realize this: humans do not deserve it. This is a huge blow against my beliefs, and now I will go hang myself.

Unions, what used to be organizations for workers' protection, are now abusing their powers and have lost of their original meaning. What they are doing is actually worse that what the Somalian pirates are doing. They are blackmailing the public and holding the city and the public at a ransom, when they finally do receive what they ask for, what do you think is gonna happen for the public? Nothing. What's the benefit for the public? Nothing. In fact, when the union does finally sink their hands into their pile of dirty money, the bus drivers will keep being rude, and the riders will keep getting screwed over.

I seriously feel that I am paying more and more for a poorer and poorer service.

I wonder how much the bus drivers make in the first place. I think I heard from more than one credible sources that the average pay is 60k per year. That's a lot considering what they do and how much education they need for this occupation. If you don't like your job, please quit. There are always people who are more than willing to replace you for less than what you make, and less perks than what you had. You knew the terms when you joined. Don't go complaining about the conditions now.

And I love how someone on a forum said

"alot of people have said in this thread "if they dont like their job they should quit"

why dont those people quit THEIR job and work closer to home so that a bus strike can't affect theM?"

What an intelligent remark. Oh boy, I can't believe how my life could've been complete without that comment. I can't believe how much thought and logic had been put into that rebuttal. Right now, people are disgruntled about OCT employees, not their current employers or their current working conditions. WE ARE ANGRY AT THE OCT, BUT WE STILL LOVE OUR JOBS. So there is absolutely no reason for us to quit... idiot.

Since the OCT crosses 2 provinces, it is out of the juristiction of the city and provinces. It is up to the federal government to enact the law of making transit an essential service, barring transit workers from striking. We all know how efficiently the government is working right now. Face it, we are doomed. All cities require a working public transportation system, pairing them alongside other famous city characters such as CuCu the cop car, Mamby the ambulance, Fucker the firetruck. I guess, in a way, what I'm trying to say is, unless Ottawa gets a proper transit system working, it will never be a very interesting or signifcant city.

Here are a few news clips of reporters talking to the Union head. It's funny because Andre was being totally incooperative for both, and that pretty much sums up what he has to say.

"I have no idea, give me some time to think of some blatant lie"

http://watch.ctv.ca/news/latest/commuter-chaos/#clip120211

http://www.cfra.com/chum_audio/Andre_Cornellier_Dec10.mp3

I got these from Frank.

"No, I will not let my members vote."

Hmm... Well then, the strike has to be justified right?

Here's more information about the discussion:

http://www.octranspo.com/mapscheds/Contingency/FAQs_final%20offer_revLR_en.pdf

You can tell obviously that he is just making up shit. It is just so damn obvious, because if he knew what he was saying or believed what he was doing was justified then he'd have given a proper explanationg without hesitation. Remember, in both cases, the union was being completely disobliging - does that sound like they want to resolve this issue quickly?

Child: "HEY! I think this bread is moldy!"

Mother: "Here's some money, you can go to the store to buy a new loaf"

Child: "No, I want more money, and I want to eat at a restaurant for 5 weeks."

How convincing. This strike is 80% about the money. They think if they extend this shit for a long period of time, then the city will definitely succumb to all demands. Contrarily, I think, when this shit drags on for too long, people will find their own way of surviving in the city. There's a reason we humans, as a species, are still living and existing in this world. Survival of the fittest.

I also love the fact how the picketers are blocking off the university shuttles... even though exams are going on right now. This act pretty much sums up how low these workers will stoop.

Thanks a lot OCT, it's not like I don't have enough things to juggle in my hands. Now you've taken away my independence as well, and made me miss an ortho appointment. What used to be a 20 minute trip for 2 dollars has now been extended to over an hour for 10 dollars of gas, at the same time, parents' are losing work hours, because they have to pick me up.

You've really done it this time you selfish bastards. You chose the worst time purposefully to inconvenience an entire city, causing loss from damages, increased car accidents, and probably patients in emergency situations to not reach the hospital in time. I hope that extra few buck in your pants can buy back your conscience. Go ahead and picket. We have long lost sympathy for you and your kind just because you pulled this dick move. You want respect? Stop this damn strike. I just hope somebody in a position of power will act soon, and send these sloths to their work without any changes to their contracts whatsoever.

"Do you want negotiations? Suck my dick and then we'll talk. "

-=n0n4m3=-

(Btw, I do not agree with privatizing the transit system - there's something sinful to the concept of privatizing a public service)

My Thoughts on the U.S. (World) Financial Crisis

2008-09-27T20:23:00.003-04:00

Hello readers of LMOM. I'm sure there are very few of these people still left, but I always found this blog to be a good place to dump my thoughts or opinions.

Today's topic, which has been on my mind for sometime now, is the current financial crisis, an issue which has been bothering us all (if you haven't started worrying about it yet, it's time).

Here's a little background information to those who has not been paying attention or just don't really understand:

*Ahem*

This world has been running on a credit system ever since the introduction of money. What is a legal tender (note)? Why, it's the promise that for whatever services or goods which has been provided toyou, you will pay back that person with that much money's worth in gold. Where is this sum of gold stored? Our national treasuries. This concept of passing down a worthless sheet of paper down as if it's the jewel of the world became quickly popular around the world. What has been a very practical means of transaction was soon taken advantage of by leaders and financially influential people of the world. They started increasing the worth of money when they really didn't have the gold to back up that claim.

If everyone in the world decided to buy back gold at the same time instead of holding on to our money, we would soon find ourselves extremely short changed. The influence on the worth of our money has been slowly evolving and adapting to the changing demands of the consumers (us) and the dealings of business around the world.

No longer solely influenced by the amount of gold a country's treasury has, the price of the dollar has been inflated slowly but surely.

This, my friend, is the credit system.

Does it sound unstable? Well that's because it is. As more demand for a certain country's money increases, their money's worth also increases, just like the stock market; and if demand decreases, the opposite happens. This system can be easily taken advantage of by the richest people world, making them even richer... And it has been! Take a look into the Asian Financial Crisis in 1997.

(I'm not exactly sure if I'm completely right on the above and if you wish to correct me, please do so in the comments section.)

But that was just a short prelude to what I'm about to tell you.

Keeping this in mind let's turn our eyes back to Wall St.

Wall St. has been funded under the credit system where you borrow money to make more money. Doesn't this sound stupid, sounding like the theory of perpetual machines? Well, no, a smart person can take advantage of this and become really rich, and the dumb person will make a poor financial decision equal to the degree of the rich person's financial success, balancing the equation (not every single person can be rich at the same time, and ultimately, there are way more idiots than there are geniuses). But this has just always been a floatsam economy (not a real term, it was made by me), where everything looks steady and firm on the exterior, but will surely break apart or float away one day.

Here's the problem with the credit system. When the financial situation is good, it will function, and it will keep improving. But as soon as the economy hits one hiccup, we could be facing complete and utter failure. Sure things can seem alright in the present, but a problem will come one day, and no one will know when.

As soon as there is enough bad finacial news in the media, some people will abandon their stocks and cease to spend more money, because of this, the demand for stocks decrease, and the price of stocks drop. As soon as there is a slight drop in stocks plus the negative news outputted by the media, more people will start to sell, letting bears (people who either believes or wishes for the stocks to decrease in order to make money or just lack market confidence) overtake the market. If the news isn't bad enough, bulls (opposite of bears) will believe that market will make another rise, thus, restarting the cycle.

But what if the news is really bad?

That brings us back to what happened in 1930.

People were borrowing money to buy investments, markets were HUGELY inflated, and one significant drop made the huge mass of naive fools pull out. Markets plummetted, and people wanted their money pulled out of their banks to ensure their assets. Banks ran out of money, because people who borrowed money to make investments couldn't pay back. Banks went bankrupt (bank raped?), people were left with absolutely no hope, no sense of direction, and, of course, no money.

New policies were developed by our governments after the Great Depression to help prevent this event from ever happening again. But pretty much, as long as this credit system continues, it will always just be a band-aid on an open gash. This system pretty much violates one of the first Chinese peoples' fundamental principles, spend what you have, sparingly, earn what you need, diligently. Of course, this isn't exactly right, if everyone was prudent, no one would be rich. This principle was largely founded after the fall of imperialism in China, and the KMT did a poor job of managing the country. Money was worth less than paper, and vests/clothing were put into banks instead of money. The populace faced extreme hardships and went to bed each night dreaming for a fulfilling meal. Of course, 2 generations later, this sense of prudency will disappear along with their generation, and China's attitude will match that of the Americans'.

Anyways, you should always save a portion of your life savings for emergencies, and you should always spend ONLY what you have / will get in a short period of time with guarrantees. Don't live your life with debts trailing you like a piece of toilet paper on your shoe.

Anyways, in the case of the present American financial situation, the news was bad enough, and there are enough people pulling out.

The subject of the news? Negativity on the reign of Bush (he'll doom us all), huge American debts, oil prices rising at speeds which is only second to that of my penis when my right hand is firmly attached to it, and my left hand is opening a playboy magazine.

The businesses, sensing this change of market direction must follow accounting principles and write off a) their projected earnings and b) their receivable accounts (assuming there is an increased number of people not paying). Giving the investors and consumers a conservative look on their financial situation. This write off will dispel current and potential investors, plummetting their stock prices to new lows. That's what happened with the Lehman Brothers, they acquired an immense amount of bad mortgages, and offered 40-50 year mortgages to people who had no steady income or jobs or appeared to have no valid form of repayment. This caused them to rack up monumental debts when the stocks started to plummet. The problem? They only considered the present. When the times are good, no one remembers the bad, when the times are bad, people wish they would've remembered the bad so the times could've stayed good. Make sense?

Anyways, when the markets plummetted in constant 3 digit figures, they had to write off a bunch of bad debts causing their expected revenue to be lower than their expenses. Seeing this, investors are spooked, and creditors demanded their credit to be paid back in full before they have no more money to pay back (sound familiar?). Since they really don't have the money to pay back creditors - their assets are still tied down with sketchy people who might not even (be able to) pay back - they filed for bankruptcy. Like this, the market crumbles like the dead skin flakes on the back of a 90 year old man. Don't place all your trust in creditors, they will loan you an umbrella when it's sunny, and take it away when it rains.

Just to tell those readers who are confused, the reason the Lehman Brothers offers these of mortgages is because the amount of revenue they earn from interest will be HUGE if the debtors actually pay back in full.

When 1 giant falls, another must be dragged down as well (think of giants falling like dominoes). Washington Manual (WaMu), one of America's BIGGEST banks, the next to follow after Lehman Brothers, fails. The government has to bail it out, people were standing outside bank branches in huge lines waiting to withdraw their money, branches of WaMu run out of money.

This is not a joke, this is not a what if story, this is not a fairy tale with a moral attached recited to kids before they make their tribute to the fucking sand humanoid-monster.

This is happening now.

I want you to take a big breath, and fully grasp that concept. Unless the US government acts soon, more banks will fail, and again, when 1 giant falls, another must be unwillingly tripped in the process, causing a giant(adj) giant(n) rumble on the intersections of Giants Ave and Giantess Blvd, leaving half the world in smoldering ruins, and the other shaking in their own urine, sweat, blood, and tears.

No, it won't be that bad, I'm just exaggerating.

But guys, I mean it, we are witnessing the greatest recession of our time, and the emerging of another world power (after what happens with the US now, no country will be extremely confident with them in a while). Maybe even another Depression, ultimately leading to World War III. This time, we will have the power to wipe this tiny, insignificant, and unspecial planet out of the solar system, and smear it off of the face of the universe. I hope it's not a depression, but who knows what the future can bring us.

What this article meant to do is to inform you people from my point of view. Hopefully, I've done enough to let you want to do research on your own, or to become smart consumer. Know when to spend, and know when to save.

Now's the time to save guys. Technically, in my opinion, now's the time to spend. Everybody in the world, spend your asses off, and our economy will be saved. The $700bn plan will actually help the American people, and probably save the world. But obviously, no one else can hear me, so save up guys, and prepare for an extra harsh, cold, long, and bleak winter.

Oh, sorry, we're already in Canada.

-=n0n4m3=-

PS. Jamie, if you could, can you please ask your dad what he thinks of the situation? He's a prof in Queens teaching economics, I'm sure he has extremely credible opinions, and I'm genuinely interested in what he thinks.

A Follow Up Post

2008-06-24T17:15:00.002-04:00

Hello,

Needless to say, it's the summer time....

AND THERE ARE GREAT MOVIES OUT!!

I want to watch them.

So leave a comment in the comment section which movie you guys want to see and we can go see together.

Here's The List:

Get Smart (Just saw it today):

GREAT movie. Fantastic humour. 5/5. A definite must see.

Ironman:

Heard great reviews - many of you probably saw it already. But meh, I'm posting it here.

Kungfu Panda:

Kids movie, but it got great reviews and looks decent.

The Incredible Hulk:

Looks MUCH better than the 2003 version.

The Dark Knight:

I don't usually like Batman films. Correction. I usually hate Batman films - but this one looks very promising.

Hancock:

Not your average, everyday hero. He's got issues - huge issues. That makes the movie interesting :D.

Step Brothers:

Not really sure if I'm excited or not. But I am willing to watch this movie.

And some notable mentions:
Wall-e
Hellboy II (Need to watch Hellboy I first)
The Mummy (Need to watch The Mummy 2 first)
Starwars - The Clone Wars (Need to watch every other Starwars movie first XD)

So ya, leave a comment on which one you want to see, and we can plan for a little something something (Preferably girls... Lot's of girls.. You other guys butt out!! Or a one-on-one with a girl. Or just A girl).

Peace,
-=n0n4m3=-

Summer Time! Hurray! - Epic Update

2008-06-23T17:47:00.002-04:00

Needless to say, it's summer.

-=n0n4m3=-

A Random Post About... Nothing?

2008-06-04T19:57:00.003-04:00

That's right. You read the title correctly, this is a random post about absolutely nothing.

I feel as if I have lost the will to rant.. lost my vigour.. my youthful "stick-it-to-the-man" attitude.

What could be causing this?

I bet none of you know.. I definitely don't.

Uh oh, I'm starting to reach a topic, better change the subject again!

Man.. I've been meaning to make a worthwhile post to my undying, faithful fans for a while now.

But there is absolutely nothing to be opinionated about anymore. What the hell is going on nowadays?

This is so boring, can't wait for classes to be over, can't wait for exams to be finished, can't wait for summer vacation to arrive... then... school again.

Life is flashing by before us and all we do is work, work, work.

"We need to GRAB THAT NEXT MARK!"

"We need to go to a GOOD UNIVERSITY!"

"We need to have a set plan for LIFE!"

"We need to MATURE!"

"We need to have a PLAN"

....

Fuck it all. Just fuck it -
Print those sentences off, cut a whole in the paper, and start fukkzing it. Or if you are a girl.. you know what to do.

What is procrastination? What the fuck is procrastination? Fuck!

Fuck Fuck Fuck.

What a pointless fucking post. You just wasted 3 minutes of your fucking life. Go back to work work-monkey. Do it.

I promise that I'll do better next time. I feel like I've hit a dead end with rants and opinions.

..So dead..

...

-=n0n4m3=-

Funny Pictures

2008-04-22T23:20:00.012-04:00

Some funny pictures:

As a side note, we do not agree with some of the views expressed on some pictures. Or else, I wouldn't find them funny. I laugh only at how wrong they are.

(Credit to Jamie for this one)

Mostly 4chan pictures (views discretion is advised).

The Tibet Situation: The Truth and The Lies

2008-04-11T19:29:00.007-04:00

It is I again. I have been dormant for too long. I have too many things to say, but time (or the lack of, should I say) limits what I can write.

I have been called forth from my slumber regarding the issue with Tibet. As I write this, I am wasting what precious homework time I have. Need I remind you that I could also be working on my company (FOR ALL OF YOUR HOSTING SOLUTIONS, CONTACT ME ON MSN).

Therefore, you can safely assume that I have something important to say.

In the beginning, when the mass revolt (and I say revolt because it was not a peaceful demonstration) happened in Tibet I lent an ear here or there listening to what the western world is planning next to derail China from its destined path to greatness. I sat waiting, seeing what would happen.

Finally when I decided that the Western World has given up and has accepted that China is just far too superior, it began (it's a conspiracy I tell you). I don't need to go over the rest of the details with you because I expect you to know about it already.

The whole issue with the Olympics. I now think that the whole situation is a disaster. China took it way too seriously. When I went back this summer, the Olympics-fever was everywhere.

And I tell you, it disgusted me a bit. What is the reason? China is recognized by the western world as a socially stable nation. My opinion, who cares what the West thinks? As long as they get their cheap toys they won't do anything too drastic toward China anyways. They can't do anything drastic, they need us. I expected some small troubles to arise, but as you can see now. It is becoming out of hand.

I was discussing this issue with Jeremy and he agrees with me on this topic.

Here's our conversation:

Matt - just like the whole fecking tibet situation
i bet if u asked 90% of the people where's tibet?
they will tell you:
duh, it's in asia
and things like why should tibet be free?
duh, 'cause they're oppressed
duh, 'cause they're enslaved
from who?
duh, the chinese gov't
how?
using military force
when?
i dunno

Jeremy - yo, matt, believe it or not
just the other day, my mum's bf
whom i have very little respect for
was bashing china
he was like
blah blah blah... china is bad.... blah blah blah
falun gong is good... blah blah blah opressors

Matt - lol
FALUN GONG IS GOOD?!
LMFAO

Jeremy - but basically, his argument boiled down to if you support china
you support the rape of women
and the enslavement of children
and organ harvesting
and I'm like, wow.
and yeah, I did mention the whole brainwash cult thing
but he was like, freedom of religion, bitch
so i tried to explain to him
that falun gong is a brainwash cult that tends to harm it's own devotee's
a la people's temple
see, what I think the problem is is that
people read the news, or watch it or they hear it
and then they jump on it
as if it's the godspoken truth
and then boast about knowing it

Matt - they feel after they heard one snippet

Jeremy - as if it makes them so well educated, so well informed

Matt - yeah
they know about it all

Jeremy - when all they've heard is one damn bit

Matt - from one side
from one view

Jeremy - not comprehensive, not even one sidedly intelligent

Matt - one opinion
exactly
...

*PLEASE NOTE* Jeremy's opinions only pertain to what he wrote in the conversation above. Please don't hold any grudges against him for whatever else I have written

The conversation continued, but that was the general thesis.
Jeremy, by the way, is running for co-prez this year. Based on the conversation mentioned above, I can personally say, he is ready to lead.

Anyways, back to the original topic.

People in the western world are always criticizing bigots. *DING DING DING* I taste irony. For once, I want the western people to stop minding the other people business, and mind their own.

The western nations have done so much wrong, their sins are splattered throughout the pages of the history.
Yet they are so quick to criticize other people, other nations, other communities, other factions, basically to any if not all who oppose their own views and bias.

Have you noticed that the western countries call for change of other countries, but never pronounce their own? Have they evolved to the point where nothing else can ever be improved? I leave that for you to decide.

China has 56 unique ethnicities, and this does NOT include all the other nationalities who immigrated to China over time:

If Canada is multi-cultural, what is China? Food for thought.

I now find the Olympics to be a giant hassle. I was used to be excited for China, now I realize that it was just a huge trap.

That incident in Paris? Mind I remind you that the torch bearer is a handicapped girl sitting in a wheel chair. May that burden the conscience of the terrorists who tried to extinguish the flame, FOREVER.

La flamme olympique chahutée à Paris
Uploaded by rue89

What do I see? A gaggle of peaceful protesters? On the contrary, I see savages.

Pictures are worth 1000 words:

Truth brought by a Tibetan:

*Hard to read, but proves the point none-the-less, can't find another bigger version.*

More pictures: http://military.club.china.com/data/thread/1011/977/03/45/0_1.html

Everywhere I turn, I see sinophobia (a pun from xenophobia). These protesters are not pro-Tibet, they are anti-China.

With that note, I end this entry. But before I go, I will provide you, the readers some more reading material. This is the side less heard about in the World of the West.
If you do agree, these will further our arguments.
If you don't agree, these will broaden your horizons.

Friendly Feudalism: The Tibet Myth
by Michael Parenti, PhD
http://www.swans.com/library/art9/mparen01.html

Tibet: The Truth
http://youtube.com/watch?v=Xsoc4-QnplY

Proof of Western Media Distortion:
http://youtube.com/watch?v=uSQnK5FcKas
http://www.anti-cnn.com/

More information:
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=x9QNKB34cJo

~n0n4m3

My Reasons For Inactivity

2007-08-21T21:50:00.001-04:00

Sorry for not being able to fulfill my promise to you guys of updating in China. There were a number of reasons, and one major one was Blogspot was censored in China. I was also using dial-up so the loading times would have been unbearable. Plus, who really wants to write on this crappy website when they could be having fun in China.. (that's also my excuse for the other things I haven't done)

When I came back to Canada, I was jet-lagged and had appliances put on my teeth. From laziness, pain, general drowsiness, and I-just-don't-give-a-damn I have failed to update this website.

I solemnly swear that I will change.. *maybe*

Hopefully I will upload some other pictures, and tell you about what I saw, or what I did..

..ya..

-=n0n4m3=-

Another Vid Dump

2007-07-16T17:30:00.000-04:00

So my last video dump before going to China.. I'll make plenty of tourism posts after I get there though.. Maybe..

Anyways

Extras (A British TV Show)

Derren Brown: Russian Scam

And the scam explained..

Derren Brown: Paying With Paper

Derren Brown: Gifts

Triumph The Insult Dog

See you guys later.. And I hope you guys have a great summer!

*edit* Thanks BQ

-=n0n4m3=-

Growing Up

2007-07-14T13:23:00.000-04:00

This is going to be my last formal post before I go back to China, hopefully in China, the internet won't be too slow, so I can upload some pictures quickly, and have enough time to write about interesting events.

As for today's post..

Growing up is inevitable. We can't help it, we can't change it, and most importantly, we can't slow it down. Growing up can make a person happy, but it can also make a person sad. That goes without saying, and I'm sure I'm just saying everything you already know.

I don't care if you know or not, because this is my opinion.

Thinking about growing up, I feel excited, and want to do the things that a grown-up wants to do. But, I know in my heart I don't want to grow up. I don't want to face the responsibility. I'll be old quick, and all my friends will drift apart... We can help slow the drifting down, but you all know we won't be spending as much time together. Highschool is going to be over fast, and when that time comes, we can only look back at our times together as we are about to head off to different schools, cities, or even countries.

I asked many grade 12 students what their opinion about graduating is, everyone of them had the same response: "Bittersweet."

What a clichéd statement, but thinking about it, what's a better word to describe it? Our youthfulness is about to end. Observing my parents as they grow older, I start to realize, what will happen to us? Our memories starting to fail us, our physical abilities becomes limited, and we sleep earlier. Everyday is the same: wake up, eat, work, eat, work, go home, rest, sleep. Those of us with a cubicle job will feel even more confined, but what about the people doing physical labour.

Working at Bulk Barn really made me look at the world, looking at the people working there, I cannot help but feel sorry for them. What a sad life to lead. Earning just a bit above minimum wage. If you're the manager, you're better off compared to the workers, but even if you are a manager, you're still not making a lot. The better question is, is that my future job?

A job is not the most important thing, it's your family, but how is your family relationship going to be? When are you going to start having a family? Are you going to have a family? These are some of the things to consider.

What about retirement?

Why worry about this when we haven't even attended University yet? University is the most important step right?

Most of you probably think you have it all planned out... Sorry to say this.. but you don't. How can you have a plan when you don't know your future? Time is passing by more and more quickly, so when we are in our 30 somethings we can only acknowledge the fact that we are entering mid-life.. If time is going to go by quicker and quicker, will it eventually just be a blur? Imagine that.. living a blur..

We are entering the stage of our life where we have to look at life in the big picture. Our life. We are growing up my friends.. we are bound to change.. let's just hope that change can bring us closer in the future..

-=n0n4m3=-

Summer Video Dump 1

2007-07-11T20:23:00.000-04:00

So, hearing what some of you feel, I want to cheer everyone up a bit with some funny videos...

Worst Movies Ever

Worst Movies Ever 2

Street Soccer Freestyle

Annoying Apartment Neighbour

and through the request of Travis...
Maraka

Now I'll be searching for more funny videos/websites/things

Have an enjoyable summer!

-=n0n4m3=-

My Summer

2007-07-06T17:37:00.000-04:00

Wow... who knew summer could by so boring... anyways, I decided to follow the K-man's idea and use Opera... Success!

So now I will be alternating between Opera, Firefox, and IE, HURRA!

Anyways, I really have nothing to say right now... not even entertainment, but I do understand it is summer, and many of you are having the same problems as I am (meaning boredom), so I have decided to start with video posts again.

-=n0n4m3=-

(Btw, is that^ what everyone was talking about?)

Updates

2007-06-30T11:32:00.000-04:00

Sorry about not updating guys.. and girls.. but my mozilla is bugged for some reason, and right now I'm using IE.. so.. ya.. I'll try to fix the problem, however, if it persists I'll either reformat the comp, or update on IE (which I hate by the way..)

Have an enjoyable summer, and don't change.

-n0n4m3

Final Workplace Rant

2007-06-13T17:55:00.000-04:00

Just a notice to people, I have finally quit my job... for those looking to apply for a job, we are definitely looking for people (I wasn't the only one, 2 guys and 2 girls left as well)...

Anyways after that last rant, I sort of gave up on the customers...

Anyways...

But lately some idiots came in, and complained about things again... I'll only tell you what happened, I've grown desensitized to such nonsense (Can you BELIEVE THAT?!).

*Ahem*

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Asshole Number 1

So it was one of those typical not-busy days in the store, very few customers, great conditions for the workers... I was just going through the "touch-ups" and we were going to close in 1 hour, I can't wait to go home. So I was daydreaming, and just cleaning the bin lids, when suddenly, an old menace loomed before me. She was old, and she was crabby. Of course, I only greeted her with my kindest regards. She completely disregarded that, and started to speak (She did not look like she was in a pleasant mood).

"I was watching you."
(oookkk... like that doesn't sound creepy...)

"You are cleaning the top of a bin, the underside of the bin lid, the scoop for that bin, and going to the next bin... I think that cloth is dirty!" said the "unpleasant woman" (Yes, I put a quote around woman).

"Oh, well I'm sorry, but I can't really change anything, if you have any complaints you'll have to talk to the manager," I said.

"Do you know how many germs there are on that cloth, and the bin lids?" "She" questioned.

"Well, really, I'm sorry, I can't change anything, If you want I could bring the manager - "

"I THINK YOU SHOULD KNOW BETTER!" and "she" stormed out of the store.

I'm guessing she's never coming back again, good riddance to bad rubbish.

Later I told my manager about this incidence, and he merely laughed that I got in trouble with a customer...

By the way, the bins and the cloths are probably cleaner than the one's in your home from constant use, and constant cleaning, there are just stains on it that makes it look extremely dirty.

Lesson Number 1: No one gives a shit to an asshole with no courtesy.

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Asshole Number 2

This time, the store is busy, and I just finished helping a customer. *Message to Jamie W, I was also busy*. Suddenly a Buzz Lightyear pinata fell down on top of a customer (keep in mind, these pinatas are very stable, and can only be knocked down when someone starts shaking the bins). I didn't see how it fell, I had my back turned towards it, and when it fell I picked it up and put it in the back room. When I came out, a large lady (trust me, she's neither weak, feeble, nor old) cried out "Aren't you going to ask if I'm ok?"

"Oh, I'm sorry I didn't see it fall - "

"Ya, your Buzz Lightyear pinata fell on my back, and you didn't even ask if I'm ok."

"Like I said, I'm sorry, I didn't see it fall -"

"AREN'T YOU GOING TO ASK ME IF I'M OK?"

"Are you ok?"

"TOO LATE NOW!"

... No lies, that was basically the conversation, not giving me a chance to respond, she kept asking why we didn't care how she was, and when I did, she said it was too late. There's this other co-worker beside me, she's white, so the yeti didn't give her much trouble (=P). The yeti went to the cash, knocked all the other customers waiting in line out of the way, and asked where the manager was.

The supervisor was the cashier at the time, and the yeti proceeded to give the supervisor shit.
"Your Buzz Lightyear pinatas fell on my back, and none of your staff seemed to care. I think some discipline is necessary, and you better watch your pinatas, because they are a lawsuit waiting to happen!"

After that, she left the store, but before that, made a mess in the aisles. I just want to say, the pinatas were frickin' empty and they weighed practically nothing, plus (I know this sounds mean, but) she had like fifty layers of blubber protecting her, I don't even think a bullet can penetrate her.

By the way, she was flipped out, I really don't know why, her face was red, and she was shaking, and she was yelling, her voice was loud enough to make the entire store hear her. I think she thought she had the customers on her side, but when she left, the person I was helping out before this all happened came up to me, and gave me a reassuring look.

Lesson Number 2: Don't over react, you only make yourself look like a fool... and an asshole...

And ya... that's basically the kind of memories that I will keep forever, I was not traumatized one bit during either incidences. Both times, the person in charge just laughed at me for being so unlucky.

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Time for A WORKER'S EXPERIENCE!!

There's this black guy who works in the store, and we're pretty good friends. And there's a kind of birdseed called Nyger Seeds.

So apparently a redneck came into the store looked at the things on special advertisement, saw the Nyger Seeds, and gave a soft chuckle. Looked at my colleague, and asked him where the n****r seeds are at.

"Excuse me?"

"Ya, your n***** seeds, where are they?"

The manager walked by at the moment, and said:

"Our NYGER seeds are this way, it's pronounced NYGER."

Ya, he looked like a redneck, idiot, and... you guessed it, an asshole...

Lesson Number 3: Don't be racist, you're only making yourself look bad... and insulting against large groups of people... do any of these sound smart to you?

My colleague will be bitter about this for a long time... I don't blame him...

So there you go... my Final Workplace Rant, not really a rant, sort of a series of unfortunate events.

-=n0n4m3=-

Starcraft 2 -- Best Game Ever? Or Worst Blizzard Mistake?

2007-05-19T17:26:00.000-04:00

This article is going to be short, because I won't say anything. It's your choice, go to:

SC2

IGN SC2 INFO

tell me what you think on the forum

kk, off for now, gonna work on history summative... (ie read more sc2 info)

p.s. watching the trailer, I was so excited I screamed out in ecstasy, and sprayed my babies everywhere

-=n0n4m3=-

Happy Mother's Day!!

2007-05-13T20:17:00.001-04:00

Ok, I know none of our viewers are mothers, but I just want to remind you guys that today is the day you do something special for your mom. Remember, she was the one that threw away your diaper no matter how disgusting it was.

Mother's Day

-=n0n4m3=-

Virginia Tech Massacre

2007-04-18T21:38:00.000-04:00

First, a long moment of silence for those who lost their lives in one of the most horrific school shootings in history. The Virginia Tech Massacre. May their souls rest in peace.

I myself am of Chinese decent, and was quite shocked to hear the news reporting the shooter as a Chinese student. It is shameful, and it made me tense. Then the US medias corrected their mistake, and said the killer was a South Korean, I'm not racist, but I was definitely more relieved... but also felt a little angry.

Why? The American government relies so heavily on China, yet, they pass on lies about China and just right away PRESUMES the shooter as a Chinese, they are so hostile towards China, and I'm mad because China (and the rest of the world even) could not/ did not do anything about this, or stand up to the US government's sins against humanity (Maybe a little to far? I don't think so). Of course, I decided to surf the web looking for other people's opinions upon this matter, and I'm surprised at how much hostility there is towards China even still. I don't understand...

I quote: "Why chinese media grabs and relishes this unimportant aspect is beyond me at present."

First of all, shut the FUCK up, you know nothing, so your opinions don't count. The western propaganda has worked its way into the media, the teachings, signs, attitudes, etc. The message is: China is a prominent evil waiting to attack. I'm surprised at how many people actually have a negative attitude towards China when they don't even know what China is like. Of course, we learn in history class at what propaganda is, and how they were used in the war and Communist China.

Now let me explain something to you:

propaganda, and Propaganda.

propaganda: the act of manipulating the masses discreetly, less noticeable, definitely very effective.
Propaganda: the act of manipulating the masses directly, posters, campaign, you name it...

Which is more evil? In my mind propaganda, because at least we know when Propaganda happens. What is definitely present in the Western world? mostly propaganda and sometimes Propaganda, What is used in China, mostly Propaganda, and sometimes propaganda. Know the difference, know how they relate to each other, know so you can tell when it happens.

Rewind to the shooting incident, the guy continued to say, Americans were definitely more politically correct, because their medias don't emphasize the shooter's nationality, what the FUCK is he smoking?

When the shooter was first thought to be Chinese, it was in the media EVERYWHERE. When they found out they were wrong, they didn't even apologize to their mistakes, and changed Chinese to South Korean unceremoniously.

I swear to you, if the shooter was Chinese there would have been an international outcry demanding the Chinese government's apology, plan to change, ETC! But South Korean is not as badly portrayed as the Chinese, so Americans continue to try and find more fault into the Chinese society, their media. "Why does the Chinese media emphasize the nationality so much, so much racism in China."

You may say, n0n4m3, this is just some random idiot from the US who knows diddly-squat, wears a "I'm a Dipshit" sweater everyday, smokes CrystalMeth, gets beat up everyday because he is a loser, and a poser. This is just one example of American STUPIDITY. What about the others.

I don't like to discriminate against Americans, I've met some very nice, very interesting Americans. I swear, those people's intents and attitudes are non-hostile, and most times even friendly. What can I say, the other population is just... well, dumb...

I just want everyone to realize that propaganda is happening, and it is against the Chinese government, be weary of what you read. This is why the Chinese media emphasizes the nationality so much, because they don't want even more anti-China western propaganda.

Yet, ironically, it happens, propaganda is so deeply rooted in the American Society that it passes on by itself.

I can't say anymore, I'm tired of arguing, propaganda is too strong, I feel drowned, brainwashed... ready to become one of its victims, but I can't be, and I won't be. I will be always fighting, and I'm sure the people visiting this website are intellectuals, and you too will fight against it.

Of course, before I go, I would like to say, I am truly and deeply sorry for the lives of all that is affected by this terrible, disgusting incident. Why a man decides to do such a thing, I will never understand, they just CANNOT be right in their minds.

Humbly Yours,
n0n4m3

Understanding Yourself

2007-03-16T16:37:00.000-04:00

I found this really random video online:

Rolling Bomber Special

Its pretty funny, but I found it to be also very philosophical... the guy didn't understand himself, and the Freshmen kept telling him that he was evil. He never thought he was evil, but after multiple times of the Freshmen's encounter, he became evil. Who is he really? Who are we really? Have you really given much thought into who you are, and what kind of a person you are?

-=n0n4m3=-

It's Time For a Revolution...

2007-03-14T09:44:00.000-04:00

Don't you hate the movie ratings... Have you ever wanted to watch a sweet movie, but was held back by a small rating sign, and some other snobby teenager?

Let's put everything in reality here... how exactly FAIR is the rating?

Let's take a look at the list of what is in the 18A section:

Nudity: seen that on TV...
Violence: seen that on TV...
Explicit Language: Puh-Leeezz..
Gore: It's some pieces of flesh, and we're all desensitized... what ever...
etc.

Of course, some of you may say... I haven't seen any of that!!
...
Ya right.

Just because we are teenagers with our hormones at the most excited levels, it does not mean we are going to be overly excited after seeing some exposed penis, breast, or vagina. (*Gasp*, my virgin eyes!) I would understand when the rating is 10-14, because that's when puberty is not reached yet, and innocence level is at a high.
When you are in a school yard, or around a group of teenagers, mention the word violence, see who turns around, see who gives a GAWDDAMN FUCK!
What about explicit language? Please read the sentence above.
Wee... Gore... let's go on the news, and look at some Iraq footages, or some terrorist footages, its either shooting, suicide bombing, killing, kidnapping, blood splatterings, blood spraying, or intenstines flying...

I like the way the adults think. Let's not let children watch some movie with fake deaths, fake sex, fake gore, but let them watch something ten times worse and real, the news.

What kind of people started this rating system?

***Men and women who don't have enough to do, and want the ruin the lives of the next generation, and housewives who are bored of their life, and want to feel important. They join these committees and rate movies only to not have enough time to watch their children, while they go watch "explicit content" or smoke pot.

So, I ask... how exactly fair are the ratings?

This is why I call forth a revolution... The revolution of young minds. Beat down the old corrupt system, and make the idiots who rated these movies to go suck themselves off...

Now my question is, who is with me?

(btw... the movie I wanted to watch was 300, story about that might be posted in the forum)

-=n0n4m3=-

***Not all men and women think this way, and not all housewives think this way... Please don't sue me!!

Questions About Life...

2007-02-27T16:27:00.000-05:00

I'm not the best at putting down my thoughts into writing, or to express it in anyway in fact...

But, there were a couple of thoughts that had been in my mind for quite a long time... I'm just going to write it down, and everyone is free to discuss it in the forum...

*Ahem* Let me begin.

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This all started one night when I laid in bed and started questioning life, death, and beyond death. I'm sure many of you have put much thought into this, but received no answers. The harder you pondered the question, the more confusing it became. What is life? What is the meaning of life? Why do we die? Is there a God? Is there a heaven? Will I make it to "heaven" even though I do not believe in God?

I wanted to see what the Christian answers to my problems were, so I picked up the bible, and started from the beginning, right at The Genesis, full of hope that maybe "God" would let whomever into heaven no matter what they believed.

How wrong I was indeed. The story of Noah's Ark gave no relief to this feeling. Flooding everyone because he believed no one worships Him anymore. That gave me no help... I continued reading, and the more I read, the more I realized, this "God" is not what he is all cracked up to be. I like Chinese mythology better (by the way, I'm reading the psalms right now).

I may have put the Book down, but my questions are still not close to being answered. Once or twice I thought I had come close, but later realized I was just dozing off to sleep. For a grade 8 speech, I chose the topic "The Meaning of Life." I tried to "research" something about it, what did the other people think? It became too deep to fully explain, so I had to completely B.S. the assignment and get a bad mark on it.

Then I thought about what if humans have researched something that, by the time I come close to dying, can use it and to live longer, or forever? Would I want something like that? All my cells will be dead or dying, I would be paralyzed, I would be sick of life, but still, would I be brave enough to embrace the concept of death?

If not, what are some ways of becoming immortal? Cloning yourself? I became enthralled by the idea by the idea of asexual reproduction, however sick that may sound... What are some other ways of becoming immortal? Something to make cells undergo mitosis with a renewed vigour? Something that can kill cancer cells, or make them beneficial? A couple of days ago at work I was vaccuming the store (vaccuming is the most boring job ever, so while I vaccumed, I pondered the question some more) and realized, cloning is not at all the answer. What you will get is an identical twin, and instead of calling it an identical twin, you call it a clone. If your twin lives, do you somehow live through your twin? I'm thinking not...

But the question jumped back at me again, do I want to become immortal? I realized that I do not. I want to know what becomes of the world, because of my curiosity; but the end will be too sad for me to handle.

So, is my life based on a destiny? Like a completed book, from cover to cover. Maybe it is filled with fantasy, comedy, fiction, reference, and maybe even romance. Last night, my dad told me of a man who used to live in the building across from his. This man died in a huge earthquake. However, the irony about this death was, he was the first to escape from his building, he was the healthiest, strongest man in the community, and no one else but he died from the earthquake in that community.

I'll give you a background story: In 1976, there was an earthquake in Tangshan, China. It is considered one of the most destructive earthquakes in Modern History of the World.

Wikipedia explains it better:

"The Tangshan earthquake (Chinese: 唐山大地震; pinyin: tángshān dà dìzhèn) of July 28, 1976 is one of the largest earthquakes to hit the modern world, in terms of the loss of life. The epicentre of the earthquake was near Tangshan in Hebei, China, an industrial city with approximately one million inhabitants. The earthquake left 242,419 people dead, according to official figures, though some sources offer much higher estimates. A further 164,581 people were recorded as being severely injured. The earthquake came in a series of events which shook China both literally and figuratively in 1976, which was later labeled a year of curse.

The earthquake hit in the early morning, at 03:42:53.8 local time (1976 July 28 19:42:53.8 UTC), and lasted for around 15 seconds. Many sources list it as 8.2 on the Richter scale, but Chinese Government's official sources state 7.8. It was followed by a major 7.1 magnitude aftershock some 15 hours later, increasing the death toll. It was the first earthquake in recent memory to score a direct hit on a major city.^[1]"

^-Wikimedia

My city is right beside this city if you look at the map, it is Tianjin:

It sent a shockwave through the city and leveled many buildings. The community my dad lived in were all buildings, but none of them collapsed, only some of the walls of the buildings crashed down. After the earthquake occurred, they found one person who lived there to be missing... they went everywhere looking for him, but after several days could not find him. One man picked up a rotting stench somewhere from under the rubble. So they flipped the rubble, and found that he was indeed under the rubble. They dug him out. Remember, this all happened during a HOT summer with temperatures going up to 30-40 degrees, and even more in humidity. It rained often, anndd... I do not think I need to explain more.

Turns out he only had one shoe on, and ran down as quickly as possible. Ironically enough, the building he lived in did not collapse, the walls did not even collapse. What killed him was the wall from the building next to him, it fell down, and fell on him. Remember, in a community of more than 20 households, only one person died, and he was the healthiest.

Sometimes, things happen, that no one would ever expect. These coincidences seem to be too unlikely to be JUST coincidences... This goes back to my original point, maybe our lives are controlled.

So that must mean, there is no meaning to life, there is an omnipotent figure controlling us.

But I am an athiest, and as an athiest I do not believe in this theory very much. I will always want a scientific truth to life... But maybe, this is why being an athiest so hard.

*Sigh* This entire article led me to nowhere, only back to where I started. Maybe life was never meant to be figured out, only to be accepted blindly...

-=n0n4m3=-

"Reports of My Demise Have Been Greatly Exaggerated"

2007-02-19T16:27:00.000-05:00

Boy, it has been a while. I've heard subversive mutterings about the demise of Asquaredx2, but believe me, I've been here, although I haven't been posting perhaps as much as I should have been. Allow me to elaborate.

This site is not at the top of my priorities. I am not making money from this site, and you, my viewers, are not paying to view this site (except perhaps for internet bills), and as such there are several items which I value more. In this case, it is ironic since I have two tests tomorrow. If you are completely blind, you would be unaware that there are other posters on this site, so this site can continue to be updated even if I'm not the one doing it. However, since this site is not (yet) presented in a manner which is discernible to the visually impaired, I don't know what you're doing on this site anyway.

Sometimes I just want to reads other people's input, but for those who suggest I retire: it's not going to happen, because I still enjoy doing this. At any rate, I have a head start because I've still done about 70% of the posting here anyway. Trust me. It's in the archives.

There have also been ongoings in my personal life, which is considerably more important to me at this point. For those who don't know, I've become a syndicated author, with my vast collection of children's stories as based off titles presented here.

Any treasury of my writings would include classics such as "Daddy Drinks Because You Cry", "Pop Goes The Hamster, and Other Great Microwave Games", "You Were An Accident", "Barney: The Prison Years", and "Curious George and the High-Voltage Fence". Here's and excerpt from the latter:

"...'Oh Noes!!!!1' cried the Man with the Yellow Hat as George's lifeless body crumpled to the sidewalk. He quickly put out the flames, ensuring that he shielded his eyes from the oncoming crows who had gathered to watch the spectacle and now were looking to feast on the remains..."

I have also starred as co-writer in "Curious George and The Ebola Virus" with Aidan Parchelo and "The Little Train Who Contracted Necrotizing Fasciitis" with Thomas MC (I've mispelled your last name to many times to attempt it now). And finally, my epic ballad, "The Fire Demon", also known as "The Secret Lost in The Water Which Happened to Be On Fire", is now a major motion picture with Paramount Pictures, and is nominated for seven Academy Awards, including Best Fire.

At any rate, this is perhaps an update as I am announcing one project that has finally been completed instead of our executives continuing their indecisive ways. If you are an original reader, you'd recall that this website has a habit of starting projects but never actually following them through (ie, the webcomic that only ever had one comic [glares at Aadam]).

In this case, however, our executives basically just decided to go for it and make a decision. As such, I am now announcing publicly the installation of a forum. "Why a forum? You already have a commenting function!"

There are a few advantages to the forum that our current commenting features just can't do. The forum allows you to interact with our material, but also express opinions, which is something I've kept in the back of my mind since the inception over one year ago. Also, it allows you to start threads, and basically talk about your issues instead of listening to me whine all day. However, if you are too lazy or too insecure to register for an account, then continue to use the commenting function. That's fine too.

This is the first step to bringing this website into the 21st Century (despite the fact that it started in the 21st Century). If you know me, I'm not exactly the 1337357 of people, so whenever I try to do the most basic HTML codes, I end up completely screwing up my template (except for bold or italic) . We (the LMOM team) are still looking for a new template, we're looking at new archiving methods, and Yuxuan has some plans that if I told you, I'd have to kill you.

At the very least, this represents a step in the right direction, and hopefully adds some form of reader involvement (which many people have approached me about). If you have any further suggestions, talk to me about it in the Forum.

And now for something that's extremely overdue,

~Asquaredx2

P.S. A post without a vid! ZOMFG lol th47 15 teh amazingzor lmao t0tally 4 f1r5t! Lol kk gtg bai

*n0n4m3 edit*
Too lazy to start my own post, but our forum is undergoing what many would call, "Open-Beta". It is not "officially" started yet, so, any suggestions to make it better is absolutely welcome. If you want to be a moderator, first read all the rules, do not break any, and start posting. Who knows... You might even be a global moderator...
*n0n4m3 edit*

Happy Chinese/Lunar New Year!

2007-02-18T10:50:00.000-05:00

Man am I ever homesick. At this time of year in China, we get a month of break, AND we get to light fireworks...

I miss my relatives, and the general atmosphere. I like crowded places, it gives you a sense of anonymity. You also get a tonne of money, with seven or eight relatives, you can get up to $800. That's pretty insane...

to every Chinese, Oriental, Asian, or even Western people...

HAPPY CHINESE/LUNAR NEW YEAR!

May the year of the Pig bring you much joy and happiness in you lives.

By the way, Chinese New Year is about excitement, and almost chaotic... Last night, New Year's Eve, should have been a day of much noise, and rejoicing, but since it's against the law in Canada, they had to ruin the tradition for us...

Here's a video of fireworks from my home"town" or like a town of 3 million people:

That is all from civilians firing fireworks, none of it from the government. This mass firework shooting begins at midnight.

This video doesn't come close to how crazy it gets, but it at least shows a bit of it...

Want more information on Chinese/Lunar New Year/ Spring Festival? Here's some information from wikipedia:

The Lunar New Year, also celebrated by Koreans, Vietnamese, Mongolian, etc. for hundreds of years, is called Korean New Year, Vietnamese New Year, etc. by other peoples and known in Chinese as the Spring Festival (Simplified Chinese: 春节; Traditional Chinese: 春節; pinyin: Chūnjié) or the Lunar New Year (Simplified Chinese: 农历新年; Traditional Chinese: 農曆新年; pinyin: Nónglì xīnnián). It is the most important of the traditional Chinese holidays (The second most important one is the Moon Festival). The festival proper begins on the first day of the first lunar month (Chinese: 正月; pinyin: zhēng yuè) in the Chinese calendar and ends on the 15th; this day is called Lantern Festival (Simplified Chinese: 元宵节; Traditional Chinese: 元宵節; Mandarin Pinyin: yuánxiāojié; Min Nan pe̍h-ōe-jī: goân-siau-chiat). Lantern Festival is also known as the fifteenth night (Mandarin Chinese: 十五晚; pinyin: shíwǔwǎn or Min Nan Chinese: 十五暝; pe̍h-ōe-jī: cha̍p-gō·-mê).

-Wikimedia

Here's a link: Chinese New Year

So once again, keep yourself safe, and enjoy the next new year...

-=n0n4m3=-

Valentine's Day

2007-02-14T17:47:00.000-05:00

I quote Jamie Gardiner, "I don't have a valentine's date because I didn't foreward a chain letter!!!!" Now, back to the theme...

As you all know it is Valentine's, and I believe today is a day of loving. Not only between couples, but for everything. You can express your love to a cup of coffee, because it made you more awake, you can express your love towards your parents... etc... etc... so there shouldn't be any people having the excuse of "not having a date." As long as you express your love, you are celebrating Valentine's day.

But of course... I started to wander, how did Valentine's day start? Who was Valentine?

Here's what I found:
"Saint Valentine's Day or Valentine's Day is on February 14. It is the traditional day on which lovers express their love for each other; sending Valentine's cards, candy, or donations to charities, often anonymously. It is very common to present flowers on Valentine's Day. The holiday is named after two men, both Christian martyrs named Valentine. The day became associated with romantic love in the High Middle Ages, when the tradition of courtly love flourished."
--wikimedia--

didn't tell me much... so I stopped searching... if you want to read more, here's the link: http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Valentine's_Day

Alright,
I'm not the most exprienced with love, nor am I the most romantic; but I can say this, I love this site, and to every viewer, I love you! Now, if you want this love to spread, spread this url... tell as many people you know about this amazing website. Really, this is not for our gain, more for raising our efforts and enthusiasm to update this website. And please, just make a quick little comment to every update, it tells us there are viewers, and the viewers like the post. It can be as simple as "This sucks" but we know what you really mean...

if you did not like a post, express how you didn't like it
if you feel a post was offensive, express how it was offensive etc... etc...

We, the people from LMOM, is working hard to make this site better, we are in the process of getting a new template, we are also thinking of starting a forum... maybe even a radio show?

We want to know what you think about this... do us a favour and post a comment...

back to my usual vid dump:

Love Corner

Fast Food Love

WaterBoy

Pick Your Own Adventure: Valentine's Date

Go take a look, absolutely fun and hilarious...

Atomfilms: Spelling Bee

A bit Anti-Valentine's... but worth watching...

So once again another post done...

On behalf of the LMOM crew, happy Valentine's day!!

-=n0n4m3=-

The Month Of L-O-V-E

2007-02-03T23:07:00.000-05:00

Well, we're finally into the yay! month of February, and so, for a limited time only, actually forget that last part I just said about it being a limited time, Ima post the Love Calculator, where you type in your name and someone elses, and it calculates the % of leurve you two are in. Wow that was a long sentence.

HERE it is!

Also, THIS is a game I love. It's called Line Rider, and it's really addicting so you should all watch out. You draw lines, then click play and watch the dude in a sled try to take on your line.. slope..

Also, in order to help you all out with your increasing amounts of homework, if you add smarterchild@hotmail.com to your msn contacts, the bot will help you if you type in homework, or you can play games too. But don't swear at it, or else it won't love you.

As part of the Jesus thing, I had, before I stopped playing for a bit, made new jokes on RO and ran around shouting them. They were..(BTW, French are replacing a different Race. I don't want to be racist or anything so I'm putting French.)
1. How many French does it take to screw in a lightbulb? None, the instructions are in English.
2. Why did the Frenchman cross the road? To teabag the chicken. (Only FPSers and RPGers will get this. Only ROers will get the reason for it.
3. What's the difference between a Frenchman and a rock? Rocks haven't surrendered to Germany. This one's actually meant to be for French. :D. I made it up just now.

Anyways, in the excitement of the Lovely Semi-Formal coming up and the exciting Winterlude, I am leaving with an exciting bye.

Bye.

It's All About the "Cuteness"...

2007-01-30T20:56:00.001-05:00

So, everyone is finished with exams, or some of you will be finished with exams soon enuff... no point with the humour posts this time, gonna change it up a bit...

I bring you, THE CUTE

Weird Puppy Runs Around

Sleepy Kitten

Sleepy Puppy

Cute Animals Compilation

Kitten Puppy Love

weird...

Ninja Baby

Panda Sneeze

kk, people, go have fun.

-=n0n4m3=-

Balls of Steel!

2007-01-26T19:10:00.000-05:00

Alright, so, I was studying, then a certain someone *cough* CHITPIN *cough* told me to post on lmom. I felt, I had a duty, so now, here it is.

Clips from Balls of Steel:

The Man Trap

Neg's Urban Sports: Urban Sprinting

Neg's Urban Sports: Big Stranger Rodeo

Neg's Urban Sports: Burger Bowling

Neg's Urban Sports: Make'em Move

Militant Black Guy

Bunny Boiler

Lie Detector

Annoying Devil

And that is all for today!! For our visitors, keep on coming, and keep on commenting!!

-=n0n4m3=-

SNL Shitz

2007-01-18T15:59:00.000-05:00

Now this first video has nothing to do with Saturday Night Live... actually, I'm not sure if it does...

StarWars Screen Test

Celebrity Jeopardy SNL

more can be found here...
Milk and Cookies

Vanilla Ice Performance

the guy is... weird... but, it was popular...

Jim Carrey - Vanilla Ice

that was pretty funny... (nothing to do with SNL)

Best Fight Scene of All Time

Now THIS is funny... (nothing to do with SNL)

kk thats all

-=n0n4m3=-

The CWalk

2007-01-11T16:25:00.000-05:00

Hullo everyone. Well, after a lot of practising, I finally made a CWalking video. Please note that my sister was playing a random song so I decided to CWalk to it; I had no vote in the song at all. Anyways, please comment on it. Give some criticism. I know for next time I should point the camera a bit lower. Anyways, here it is!

w00t,
h0s

NOTE: THIS WAS COMPLETELY IMPROVISED. NO PLANNING WAS DONE.

All About Dugongs

2007-01-10T19:34:00.002-05:00

Alright, I know this is going to be a really short post.. but I can't help it. A song this good can't be kept secret for that long. Here it is! The Dugong Song! Sing Along with me at school! I have listened to this about 50 times and it's still entertaining.. By the way.. reading this is definitely wasting your time, as I only did this as filler material. Aren't you happy you wasted 30 seconds of your life? Without further ado, the

DUGONG SONG
Dugong, Dugong,
It's the cow of the Sea-ea-ea!
Dugong, Dugong,
Also known as the manatee!
He doesnt have wings
Cuz that is silly.
Doesn't live in a tree,
That would also be silly.
Compared to the dolphin
His very close cousin
He's quite uglyyyyyyyyyyyy (So very ugly)
Repeat x Infinity

Most Sincerely,
h0ss0m3

Music! Dance! Fun!

2007-01-06T13:29:00.000-05:00

Yes.. my amazing title tells you all...

This post is about: Music! Dance! Fun!

(by the way... I suck at dancing...)

Loituma - Ievan Polkka

The Lyrics To The Song

The Evolution of Dancing

Dick In A Box

Justin Timberlake's Christmas SNL Song

Classic Christmas Songs With An Ominous Twist

I would just like to make a mention of another website, very much like ours, actually, almost exact replica if you will, but some people just can't get original ideas *glares at Boyang*

just kidding, take a look at the site...

its called OBESE
*The people of Like-My-Opinions-Matter do not share or agree with the opinion expressed by the people of OBESE. Viewer's discretion is advised*

-=n0n4m3=-

Fucking Back from Fucking Break

2006-12-31T18:46:00.000-05:00

Sorry everybody about my 1 week of being AWOL. I just really needed a break, because the break sort of found me... (being sick for a week)

now I choose this day to be back because it is

NEW YEAR'S EVE!! FUCKING YA!

...sorry...

I actually hate new year's... reminds me of another year gone, another year closer to death, another year of wasting away... just another fucking year of fucking stupidity...

so I'm here today, to talk about fucking new year's

new year's fucking sucks...

JUST FUCKING KIDDING!

enough of new year's bashing

time to fucking pwn (pronounced "own")

For the Gentlemen, the Most Useful Guide You'll Need In Life
The Fucking PMS Survival Guide

Some Fucking SNL Shit To Blow Your Fucking Mind
Jennifer Aniston's Fucking Monologue

She's Fucking Hot

Some Fucking MadTV Shit to Blow Your Fucking Mind
Tickle Me Emo

What To Fucking Do When You're Caught Fucking Cheating (...While Fucking...)

Robot Chicken (5 Stages of Fucking Death (...Not While Fucking...)

And that was my fucking post...

Once again, the hard working people here at LMOM or Like-My-Opinions-Matter.Blogspot.com would like to wish you a GREAT FUCKING NEW YEAR! MAY ALL YOUR PLANS BE MET, AND MAY ALL YOUR DREAMS COME TRUE IN THIS NEW YEAR!

-=n0n4m3=-

Christmas Filler

2006-12-23T23:42:00.000-05:00

Right, so Blogger's acting all laggy and delayed, and everyone's pretty busy at this time, so I guess it's Filler Time^® (that's right, it's registered). 'Tis the summative season and everyone's quite, quite busy, meaning that not only are we not going to be able to update frequently, but Aidan, Thomas and I are going to have to delay the release of our Christmas CD featuring musical hits like "Rudolph the Manically Depressed Reindeer", "The Twelve Days of Stabbing", and "Michael Jackson's Coming To Town". I know, I know, the news is heartbreaking. Anyways, I thought as filler I could mildly amuse you (or horrify/disturb you) with pictures of babies terrified by Santa (thanks Aidan for finding this). Just click on the pic above.

Have an overwhelmingly politically correct holiday or a generally festive late december/early january!

All the best,

the LMOM team...or more specifically, just
~Asquaredx2

Jesus Episode 2

2006-12-16T16:02:00.000-05:00

***Note: The Assassin Guy in the third Pic got really pissed at me. I don't think it was a girl...
Game Master(GM) Harrassement

Don't you just hate it when people start reporting you for every little stupid thing you do in a game? You could just be waltzing down a street and they'd be like omgwtfh4xdanc0rzreported before you tell them to type /waltz or whatever. Well, I know for a fact that the GMs hate this stuff, and pretty much hate being talked to, bothered, or even given presents. They pretty much suck. It must come from sitting on the computer 24/7 telling kids not to do things. Anyways.. I hadn't tried to pick up anyone for a while, but there were some Game Masters hanging around in a city, and I couldn't resist. So, I went through my pickup line sequence and they got really pissed at me and banned me from the game for three days. I told them that hitting on GMs wasnt illegal, and they knew I was right. So, they unbanned my Jesus, but made a new rule saying"no GM harrassement. THIS INCLUDES HITTING ON THEM." That's pretty harsh stuff right there. I mean, they should be flattered! Not Everyone gets..... wait.. nevermind.
Note: All these experiences occur on Nameless Ragnarok Online. If You want to join Jesus and his crusade, tell me.

Jesus... Episode 1?

2006-12-15T22:59:00.000-05:00

Alright, so today is a very special day. It marks the day that Adam and Yu Xuan agreed to have me write up my very own Ragnarok Online story about Jesus, my character. I made Jesus a couple of months ago, and his purpose is to severely piss off pretty much everyone in the game by killing everyone, using pickup lines on everything and everyone, and hitting on GMs. These are just a couple of stories about Jesus and his beautiful, beautiful life.

Striper18
Alright, so a couple of days ago, I was trying my luck in pvp and this one person kept trying to kill me. Seeing as the person was a girl, I tried some ridiculous pick up lines on her. I froze her in the game, which doesnt allow you to run away from me, and tried my luck :P. These were the ones I used:
1 Jesus Loves You!
2 Ever wonder what it's like to do Jesus?
3 What's a 5 letter word for sexy? J-E-S-U-S
4 I'll show you what the word SIN really means (Only RO people will get this one)
5 omg a grl!!!1 Cyber plzoxozzx1
6 You remind me of my dead ex-girlfriend
7 T> 10 Million Zeny (the cash in this game) for some FUN!
8 I love you. Marry me now. (Btw i have 6 other Wives in game :D Jesus is so pimpin')
9 I want YOU in my collection
10 Come on... you can't get pregnant again!
So, I really was expecting to get brutally told off like all my other victims, but this one was BR*. When I told her the 5th pick up line, she said "kk". I was like WTF? That should never work, so I ended up running away. Except this girl kept following Jesus around. I actually had to change characters and was too afraid to go back on Jesus that day. This and some stories to come are just some of Jesus' amazing adventures in the world of BR private servers.
* - BR people pretty much live on RO, they play it 24/7. The problem is, they dont speak english, yet they play english MMOs. It pisses everyone off.

WINNERS!!

2006-12-13T17:17:00.000-05:00

Ok, very happy that this contest is over so fast, this means, a lot of you are ready to take on the challenge! Yay!

Now, I will announce the winners...

THE WINNERS ARE...

*drum roll*

NUMBER 1 WE HAVE.... SINGCHERN!!!

NUMBER 2 WE HAVE.... BOYANG!!!!
Congratulations to both of you, and the prize will be given next week!
***
as for the answers..

1. When was the first blog entry? We accepted 2 answers: December 13, 2005, and November 2005

2. Where was the first LMOM posting? On Adam S's msn live spaces.

3. What was G33K's original name? Acub3dx3, ya, tried to copy but failed... lol j/k

Congratulations to everyone who tried, and keep visiting LMOM for the next competition! Because the next winner might just be YOU!

***The prize is not a WII...
you wish Boyang... you wish...

100 POSTS!!!

2006-12-11T16:09:00.000-05:00

Yes, very happy to announce, it is the 100th posting!!

Originally, Asquaredx2 was going to do this post, but he decided to pass it onto someone else...

So, on behalf of Asquaredx2, Ho5, Phleet, and... I guess G33K... he didn't do much...
we want to thank our frequent visitors, and hope you would keep on coming! Of course, we are trying to make this site better, so stay tuned for wonderful events!

Ok as a special 100th post! We are going to come up with an event! A LMOM TRIVIA*!!!

The winner wins great** prizes!!

*Only participants from Ottawa
**May not be so great...

To win this prize, you MUST answer all three questions correctly, as a reminder, LMOM members are not allowed to help, not allowed to participate, if found out that a certain player had an unfair advantage, the contest will be cancelled, and maybe renewed...

1. When did LMOM begin?
2. Where did it originally begin?
3. What was G33K's original name?

the first person to answer all 3 questions correctly will win..
to answer the questions, please send an email to:

www.lmom@gmail.com

for lmom team members, pm me for psswrd...

THIS CAN ALL BE SEARCHED, OR FOUND OUT ON THE INTERNET, IF YOU HAVE A LITTLE BIT OF LUCK, AND A PATIENCE YOU WILL FIND THE ANSWER!!

**PHLEET = JAMIE W
H05 = JOSH D
G33K = AADAM N
ASQUAREDX2 = ADAM S
N0N4M3 = YUXUAN G

now back to our original content...

Pokémon!

German pokemon?

Darth Vader Pokemon?

Natalie Portman Gansta Rap

Very Funny

Should Be Titles For OJ Simpson's Books...

(click on picture for more)
While we are here, I just want to hear you opnions about this guy, we are now 90% sure he commited this crime, and obviously, we should be put in jail...

but he's not! Because of one law, Double Jeopardy. Do you think, we should allow a second trial?

If so, why? If not, why?

Personally, I think so, because of incidents like these, plus, what good does it serve anyway? If a person didn't commit a crime, they don't need to go on trial for a second time, so they're guilty...

so why do we still have this law? I mean, everyone can see that this law is pretty much useless...

ANYWAYS... PEACE OUT

-=n0n4m3=-

Summatives and Such

2006-12-06T21:13:00.000-05:00

Well, it's summative time, and French class of course makes ours due so we have to stress on about it all through vacation. So im here to bring along some french humor:
http://yoyo.its.monash.edu.au/~mongoose/french/
Be sure to definitely check this out, i recommend looking at the french pronunciation and insulting french phrases. I've always wanted to know how to say "haven't the cops caught you yet?" in french. WARNING: You might take offence to some of the stuff on that site.

Anywho, as the TIK2O computers summative is also up and running, i will supply you with possibly the best joke known to humanity. You've probably all heard it but here goes...
Why do computer programmers get Halloween and Christmas mixed up?
Because DEC25 = OCT31!!!
Zomg. So... it's dutch christmas today so if any of you feel like putting out your clogs next to the fireplace, Sinter Klaus may put some oranges or something in it. Or coal.

Anyways, I'm off! Vrolijke Kerstmis aan allen,
H05

Update

2006-12-04T20:57:00.000-05:00

Inspiring message found here.

Alright, made a couple little changes to the site that may or may not make your life easier (at least, the infinitesimal portion you spend looking at this site easier).
Number One: comments will now appear in a pop-up window. This way, you can comment while not leaving the actual post page. I'm not sure if this is complicated by pop-up blockers, if it is please fill me in and if need be I will go back to the older system.
Number Two: I am now requiring word verification for comments. This may seem like a pain in the ass at first, but I've gotten alot of bot comment which I hope this will get rid of.
Number Three: I added a new member. More members = more posts = better. Or so I hope. Unless he's the second coming of g33k (curse your bi-annual posting.)
Number Four: None of you could care less about this one, but I got rid of "oddum's adventures" in the sidebar. It doesn't exist anymore. I'll hopefully add more links when I find good ones.

Right, that's about it, just checkin' in and filling you in on why an annoyingly white box pops up in when you try to comment.

~Asquaredx2

Long Time, No Post

2006-12-04T20:49:00.000-05:00

Wow..its probably been about a year since I last posted. Anyway, I thought I'd try my hand at a video post, so here goes:

300 fps: Retarded paintballers
Shotgunning! (Its not what you think)
Scary Movie 4 Clip <- Listen, don't watch
And Finally, a game, Thing Thing Arena 2

Remember, this is my FIRST video post. Nyah.

~g33k

P.S. Someone teach me how to embed video.

Webfilter Violations

2006-12-04T20:11:00.000-05:00

At school, don't you just hate it when you can't get onto those games sites you've been wanting to go on since grade 9? Well, we have a solution! http://p.ipzy.com is the site for you! All you have to do is uncheck all the boxes, then type in the URL you want to visit and click browse. It'll work for pretty much anything. However, I know it doesnt work for Facebook or other log-in places.

I especially hate it when you REALLY want to play some other good games when you're in the computer lab, and your teacher won't mind at all, seeing as they are dumb/dead/momentarilly knocked unconscious. http://www.frenchhelp.info changed my life XD. It is a site composed of two forms, one with "french help", and one with a games list full of games not blocked by the webfilter thing. All you gotta do it click and drag the screen to make both forms fit on the page. Simple as that.

Anyways, that's about it for my uber first post,
TTYL!!!1
H05

Stories from the Working Life

2006-12-03T20:32:00.000-05:00

Anyways, I decided this post wasn't going to be a vid post...

instead, I wanna get a few things off of my mind.

Working at Bulk Barn is fun, but sometimes the people... man, they just drive me OFF THE F***ING WALL...

Here are some events...

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Today, I was vacuuming, suddenly the power shuts off (this is normal, sometimes people unplugs it accidentally, this I can take), when I go back to plug it in again I meet the old fruit bag that unplugged my vacuum, she says:

"my buddy and I think this cord is too dangerous... so i unplugged it..."

right then, i was furious, i wanted to smack her! I worked 6 hours already, and have 2 more to go, I'm dead tired, and this imbecile unplugs my cord expecting me to stop vacuuming? WTF was wrong with her head?

think about it, vacuuming has to be done, anyone with an higher IQ than Bush knows that... do you want food that was half eaten by rats? or do you look on the ground, see the cord, then walk AROUND THE FU**ING THING?

ok, let's forget that, here's something else that she could've taken 30 seconds to think of, maybe, the person vacuuming can't do SHIT about this? maybe you have to talk to the manager, who DOESNT GIVE A FU** ABOUT THIS EITHER! but might have? maybe the manager, or better yet, the owner could change this..

how does stopping me from working so I get off work EVEN FU**ING LATER, benefit her?

she was my asshole of the day...

... ok ...

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Another day...

I was mopping, I had just finished this aisle, when suddenly a person decided to walk down it, she was looking directly at me, eye to eye and she smiled, said "Oh, I'm sorry." Continues to walk down the aisle, not EVEN looking at anything in the aisle! Meaning, she wasn't even look for ANYTHING in this FU**ING AISLE!

this is like, somebody cuts you, smiles and says "Oh, I'm sorry." then continues to cut you...

obviously not as extreme, but think about it... it's not hard...

... ok ...

----------------------------------------------------------------

similar incident, except...

i finished mopping an aisle, we were 5 minutes from closing, an old bat hurries into the store, walks down my aisle to go to the next aisle...

first of all, you're NOT supposed to shop 5 minutes from closing,

second of all, you should LOOK at where you walk...

i had to fu**ing remop the aisle again... the second i was done, she comes, says "Excuse me" pushed me to the side, walks down the aisle, stops half way, gets something, then leaves...

ok... remop again...

i was almost done, and she walks down my aisle!

i wanted to... yes.. you guessed it, smack her silly...

... ok ...

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co-worker's experience...

she was a cashier, a person comes down, and puts hemp granola on the counter, (for those of you who didn't know, hemp granola has pumpkin seeds in it), cashier says,
"hemp granola..."
person: "no, pumpkin"

cash: "ok. hemp granola"

btw, it was hemp granola for sure...

person: "no! pumpkin!"

cash: "there's pumpkin in hemp granola, i know..."

person: "no! pumpkin!"

anyways, it took a while but finally, the person found out it was, in fact, hemp granola.

...ok....

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i am now done my long rant from the working life...

here are just some funny names for food products

there's a kind of cereal in the store called: Adventure Crunch!

who knows wat will be in ur next CRUNCH! (no, it just doesnt work for food products, especially cereals...)

and there's a kind of snack mix called: Garden of Eatin'

*no comment*

...... ok....

-=n0n4m3=-

For Business Class

2006-11-28T22:44:00.000-05:00

This is just an alternative for business class, if our CD doesn't work, so for our faithful viewers, if you really want to, go ahead and watch it, just commercials..

actually! do watch it, kinda funny...

Repetitive Ads

apparently, its applied to the forehead...

TV Commercial

wow, lotr-esque

JINGLE!!!

the juicy fruit jingle from 1989!!!!!!

if u dont understand the new commericals, it means they r tearing down the old and starting a fresh (ahahaha... get it?)...

This is kinda funny...

Random Video Dump (Yet again...)

2006-11-20T16:04:00.000-05:00

absolutely sry everyone, i've been really busy lately, and had no time

so here are some vi-D-Os

Lars the Emo Kid

Poor Guy

Cake For One - video powered by Metacafe

some good music...

Trapt - Headstrong

Killswitch Engage - Rose of Sharyn

Banned Mythbusters Episodes

lighting up a fart

Do girls pass gas?

Dancing on a pair of crutches!

Amazing What Technology Has Come To..

TED

_-=n0n4m3=-_

Lest We Forget...

2006-11-11T20:03:00.000-05:00

~Asquaredx2

ITS BIGGER THAN EVER!! ITS ME!!!

2006-11-05T15:02:00.000-05:00

so yes.. it is me (PLAY RO!!!)

first off some really cool costumes

TRANSFORMERS!!

play RO

Technology on a whole new level!

Printing out your breakfast?!

play RO

That Mitchell and Webb look (again)
the green clarinet

German SS Officers

play RO

Slimming Down With Steve

play RO

Family Guy

best 10

play RO

His Dad's New Mustang!
of course after this title, you know that hilarity will ensue

play RO

Amazing Keyboard Talent Show

play RO

the rest of their videos are really weird

Repeat

is our life so pointless?

pessimistic yet well made (open for discussions)

play RO

Hallowe'en

2006-10-31T22:08:00.000-05:00

Yes, it is Hallowe'en... (yet I spent the whole night working, what a shame...)

but more importantly it is Asquaredx2's birthday, yes.

On Behalf of the rest of the staff from LMOM (LMAO!! WHAT A JOKE!!) and our numerous visitors (LMAO!! I CRACK MYSELF UP!) we wish you the best birthday EVAR! And best of luck to you in the future!

Here is a birthday cake, its just a picture, however you can print it off then eat it... if you really want to i guess...

*note* I was going to post some more videos but YouTube was really slow tonight...

~n0n4m3

The Halo God

2006-10-30T16:55:00.000-05:00

OK, I'm feeling pretty bored right now, so I guess I'll make a couple more posts. This is a video I'm sure alot of you have seen, it's on Google Video, Metacafe, and probably YouTube (I didn't bother checking), but I guess I like the Metacafe embeddable player the most. Eventually, I'll stop just putting up vids, and hopefully have some slightly oroginal content, but man, does Mr. McCabe assign alot of work. But I digress. Halo 2, developed by Bungie came out November 9th, 2004, and is widely considered to be the best game out for the Xbox 360. To me, it comes down to a tie between Halo 2 and GRAW, but it's just a matter opinion (yes, I'm trying to avoid using that joke, it gets lamer every time. As if it ever wasn't lame).
Since that time, an organisation called Halo Pro has been established for people who are absolute freaks at/for the game, which sponsors the gamers, meaning they don't have to go to work, so they can spend all their time playing the game. This guy/girl is one of them. I personally don't understand how people can get this good at a game in so little time, even if they spent all their time playing it. Seriously. The no-scope head-sniping and no-look sticking is ridiculous.

Halogod - The Untouchable - video powered by Metacafe

~Asquaredx2

More On Borat

2006-10-30T16:37:00.000-05:00

Alright, this is a new movie coming out, starring Sacha Cohen, also known for his work as Ali G. Based on your response to another vid we showed advertising Borat, either you guys just don't care, or haven't heard of it coming out. But I am hyped for this movie. Here's another "official trailer, I think this one is a little funnier than the other one. Warning to Jamie: He sunbathes in this one too. Just close your eyes.

Borat -I Come To America - video powered by Metacafe

~Asquaredx2

High Precision Archery

2006-10-29T11:59:00.001-05:00

When I was about 8 or so, my dad bought me a fiberglass bow and some arrows. I remember trying to hit a target from about 5 metres away, and missing pretty much every time. Eventually, I gave up, and my dad and I just had contests to determine who could shoot an arrow farther. I don't know what that has to do with this video, but I know from past experience that this is harder than it looks. Which is really saying something.

Ultra Precision Archery - video powered by Metacafe

~Asquaredx2

Very Interesting....

2006-10-24T16:08:00.000-04:00

Sweet, Borat's movie is coming out soon, I know I have showed some of you his trailer already, and yes, it is rated "R," but it is really a funny movie, some of you may find this insulting towards other countries and such, and he makes fun of Jews, but just keep in mind, the beginning is actually filmed in Romania, and he, Sacha, is Jewish.

This is not showing of direct hatred towards other countries, and it could as easily have been Canada, so please, don't get offended, or at least try not to....

First 4 Minutes of Borat

You'll love this website..

The History of Computer Commercials

computer

a little family guy...

Prehistoric Playboys

I'm pretty sure you guys have heard of David Blaine, if not, he is a street magic performer... now some people made a spoof about it:

David Blaine: YouTube Edition

I'm With a Rapist!
not really... no...

That is all for tonight, I have to go sleep now...

Less Updates!

2006-10-16T20:32:00.000-04:00

I would just like to say something short but may affect your life for the worse! (or for the better)

I, n0n4m3, will make... LESS... POSTINGS!

Yes, Yes, all very upsetting, I understand... but with pressing school work, and "work" work (that sounds funny), I have decided to lessen it to either 1-2 postings per week, like I said, I will try to make posts, but I can't guaranty anything.

This is shocking news, I understand, I now have "some" sort of a "life" and can no longer quench the thirst of the masses....

So without further ado, I bring you:

KITTEN VS. PAPER SHREDDER
(Its a cute video)

3D Tetris

tetris

this is just confusing...

India Micheal Jackson!

the latest rip-off from Bollywood

Crazy Hobos!

"Don't stop rolling, this is great stuff..." Smart guy! Smart guy!

New Aircraft Designed to Take Tourists to Space

omg... my dream come true?

That Mitchell and Webb Look, A Heroin Addict's Christmas

these guys are pretty funny!

That Mitchell and Webb Look, Funny Money

That Mitchell and Webb Look, Biomedical Drama

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That would be all for today, tune in for next week!

BTW!!!! JOIN RO!!!

Mike Check Test Test One Two

2006-10-13T22:50:00.000-04:00

Well, I'm back from my "vacation." The school year has started, the soccer season is rolling, not to mention basketball preseason, hockey, fotball, and MLB playoffs. I will not lie to you, my mind has been else where. Actually, a while back I attempted to post something, but it wiped out the entire website and I had to delete the post, which IMHO was really well written. Friggin html. Anyways, one must applaud N0n4m3 (I hope I got that right) 's efforts by practically going at a post-a-day rate, so I felt bad for not backing him up. The hitcount has soared over the past few weeks, and I'm very thankful for that. Right. Anyways. My problem in posting was when I tried to copy - paste a story from another site, and somehow the written stuff blacked out. I kept trying to fix it, and the whole site got blacked out. So that's my lousy half-assed excuse as to why I haven't posted in a month. OK, since I don't want to return with some lame post that makes you wonder why you ever came here before Yuxuan, I guess I should stick in something that makes it worthwhile for you to read this.

The following is an excerpt from Russell Peters famous comedy night thing, personally one of my favourite parts. The entire thing was filmed, so maybe I figure out how I can stick all the parts together and get a working piece. As head lawyer of LMOM I must tell you; The following views expresed are RusselL Peters' and do not reflect those of LMOM. Some of you may find this racist. Please do not sue.

Tight Chinese - video powered by Metacafe

~Asquaredx2

Here's a link dump for any of you who made it this far:

Joga Bonito: The Zlatan Gum Chewing Incident
Very well done vid of "Fat" Ronaldo
Really Really Really Really Stupid Criminals

First Saturday of October!

2006-10-07T13:59:00.000-04:00

Didn't post last two days, and reason will be...

PLAYING Ragnarok Online!!!!

You have gotta play! Come join our Canadian guild headed by Hos D.

(No full names will be displayed)

It is actually quite fun, if you want to play contact me at:
bartmanrules@hotmail.com
or
my gmail account

or contact Hos D

so come on and join up!

(I may provide a song with it later on... if the need arises)

ok
so first of! The greatest fairy tale ever!

Girls may resent that...

Fry that Chicken

Ten Best Borat Skits

Top 10

Cartoon SuperStars to the Rescue

I think this promotes drug-use...

Google Code Search

Jamie might like this

What an... Interesting... Documentary...

Jesus Camp

He Spins Stuff Better Than You

Is this F***ing Insane or What?!?

Nerf Sniper Rifle

Lego Gun

omg.. I have to build these things!!

That's the post today, maybe more on monday!

BeatBoxing

2006-10-04T19:41:00.000-04:00

As the name suggests, this post will be mostly on beatboxing. Beatboxing is an art that has fascinated me for quite a while now... I just wanna know how to do it!

(If anyone knows, please teach me, lol)

First off
Beatbox Effex

The beginning is weird, but it gets better as he progresses...

UK BeatBox Championships

Holy Cow...

Rahzel

Here's just some random guy...
Random Guy1
Random Guy2
Random Guy3
Random Guy4

Done for the day!

-=- n0n4m3

Very Happy Day!

2006-10-03T19:40:00.000-04:00

Today, I am extremely excited because you may or may not of heard (I use that a lot) I got my first real job today, so as a celebration I will make an extra long post!

(Hope this works!!)

This page will mostly be dedicated to music!

Bob Ricci
Dont know if you guys had heard of Bob Ricci yet, he makes music parodies, if you've never heard of the newer songs, fastforward to "Mrs. Claus," I'm sure you've heard of this!

(Yes, weird looking guy... I know... But seriously, good music...)

Da Breakup Song!

Make Your own breakup song so the breakup won't be so harsh!!

Just enter the name and the reason!

The Sad Music Video of Boxman

The Simpsons' Couch compilation

Very funny!

THE WORLD'S GREATEST LOVER?

lmao!! So funny! Retarded guy...

THE BEST LOVER!

The Secret of The Magic "8" Ball Revealed!
oooo... ahhhh...

WTF?!?
If you can make sense out of this video, you get...

Someone Make Sense Out of This!

A CONGRATULATORY SLAP ON THE BACK!!! *Angelic Music*

Done with my post for today, maybe more tomorrow!

Testing, Testing, 123...

2006-10-02T21:00:00.000-04:00

This is my post to test how stable LMOM is right now, it will be a quality post, so take a look, however, if it doesn't work so well, it will never be seen again... EVER!

a first person shooter (fps):
For those of you who don't know who he is, he is "FPS_Doug,"
visit http://www.purepwnage.com to find out more information, and watch some of their videos
*warning explicit content PG14*
btw, you should have a pretty intense gaming vocabulary to understand...

this is just weird... an 60's - 70's music dance video that fits a modern POP song perfectly!

That is all for today, hopefully, this post will stay...

We'll Be Back

2006-10-01T12:16:00.002-04:00

As everyone may or may not have known, Like My Opinions Matter has been having some issues over the past week...

We are still trying to find out what the issue is before we can make another post, so this problem will not happen again. Please stay with us for another bit, and stay tuned for a post from Asquaredx2 to find out what will happen.

-n0n4m3

Short But Sweet

2006-09-26T16:59:00.000-04:00

You may be wondering what's with my title... well, I'm not feeling too well today, so, this post will be short by sweet...

This page will be mainly about Arrogant Worms, some of you might have heard of their music, I know that Asquaredx2 definitely did!

Here are some of their music..

I am cow
Greatest Song Ever!

Canada's Really Big

Assumption Song

Yes Asquaredx2, this is the reason why I think you have heard of their music...
Lol, keep listening to the credits, that's another of their song, called "Santa's Gonna Kick Your Ass"

If you like their music, take a look at their website, just google "Arrogant Worms"

This movie will prove that Top Gun is really about gay guys...

Gay Top Gun
*WARNING* PROFANE LANGUAGE 14+

Yep, that's the post for today, sry about the "shortedness"

BTW!! If you like or dislike my post please comment about it, as in I want to know how everyone likes my posts, so please! Post your likes and dislikes about my posts! I want to know how I am doing...

There will not be a discussion item of the day, I have decided to cut down on the number of discussion items per week, so tune in for more information tomorrow!

Monday, Monday, Monday, Mon....

2006-09-25T16:49:00.000-04:00

*****BY THE WAY FOR PEOPLE WHO DON'T KNOW ABOUT THIS!! CLICK ON PICTURE FOR VIDEOS!!******

You must all be devasted when I didn't make a post yesterday! (not really?)

Well, I have decided from now on, I'll take a rest on Sundays...

Bad decision? Don't like it? Too bad! Like Asquaredx2 says all the time, we are NOT getting paid for this in anyway, I repeat, NOT.

The BEST soccer goal evar!?! (Yes, I know I spelt "ever" wrong, no I'm not an idiot...)

(WHAT THE @#$@% IS THIS?!? Yes, this is a picture)

This is actually VERY cool!

Rube Goldberg Devices

Canadian Anthem

I Am Canadian Anthem

Sprint Text Messaging

Why talk when you can type?!?

Discussion Item of the Day

How badly did we @#$% up our planet?

By the way everybody who visits this website, these discussion items are not there really for ornamentation...

Sing-chern thought there were too many random videos and thought not enough meaning and discussion.

It would be pleasant that everyone who sees these videos please voice you opinion in the comments, I understand it is more forum oriented, but hopefully one is coming soon. However, if there is still low feedback, I will be forced to remove it...

I know Sing-chern, I feel your pain...

So, please, don't do this for me, do it for Sing-chern, and see into your heart to take a few minutes to talk about it.

~n0n4m3

Post of the Day

2006-09-23T19:31:00.000-04:00

Saturday, yes, I know, I'm a loser. But if you liked my posts, then it was time well spent...

First off! Another test, which Harry Potter Character are you?
Harry Potter
I got Voldemort, I don't get it... am I really a killer?

A great flip book done by some guy...
Robot Fight

What a retarded thing to do!?! Playing with grenades?
Grenade

This is just hilarious! Mr. Rogers puts in the wrong tape for a show...
Harmonica
If you don't know who Mr. Rogers is, he is a daytime children's show host, an old man as you can see... (don't think he's still alive)

This guy is pretty good dancer...
Elsewhere

On the topic of dancing... An amazing freestyle DDR(Dance Dance Revolution)
Superstar

Game of the Week
This game is called Stick Arena, don't know if you guys know of this game...

Unfortunately, if your computer isn't fast enough, you will not be able to play...
Stick Arena

See you and have a great weekend

~n0n4m3

September 22/ 06

2006-09-22T17:38:00.000-04:00

As you might have noticed, it is the third time i have contributed.

Down to Business!

What is this? A new way to play the guitar? Pretty amazing...
Guitar Tapping

Ever heard of G-Unit? Well you should, if you didn't, bring your head out of the bucket once in a while and take a sniff outside. *joking of course, but seriously go on the internet more*
Well, I bring you P-Unit!
Tea Party

What kind of Mental Disorder do you have? Apparently I was a psychopathic killer. Well, you better watch out next time...
Mental Disorders

Have a hard time of keeping track of Fridays? Well worry no longer!
Fridays

Discussion Item of the Day

This is a poem by someone, and some other person did the video... which brings us to our next discussion item(s)

forgetfulness, and death

Huge Link Dump

2006-09-21T19:39:00.000-04:00

Alright, for you whiners out there! *ahem* Travis *ahem*, just bear with my posts, and look at the next batch. Sheesh... and a discussion post? Thats more forum oriented, however, I'll start looking into that, and maybe open up a forum if Asquaredx2 agrees with it.

Anyways, back to today's quality posting...

For you Warcraft people, some german dude made a song about playing it, I find it very, very hypnotic, why I decided to post this? It's not a bad song...

DotA

The Mother of All Trailers! Yes, it is here! No more wait!
The Mother of All Trailers

Roxorloops is a beatboxing champion from Belgium, and I have to say, he is truly amazing!
Roxorloops

Don't you hate it when the people at McDonalds keep trying to upsell you? Well, these guys are trying to see how far they will go before they stop trying to upsell you, by trying to buy everything...
Upselling

Wanna see some very pleasant knittings? Well, trust me, you'll be quite surprised by these...
Knittings

Discussion Item of the Day
What we are...

Take a look at these videos and voice in your opinions...
Monkeys

HeyHeyHey Everybody!

2006-09-20T19:38:00.000-04:00

Alright, hopefully, a new member will have this site jam packed with traffic!

First off, no one likes commercials right? Well, take a look at these... http://www.veryfunnyads.com

You should visit the TBS website, because it is actually pretty cool...

Wanna talk like a pirate? Here's a guide!
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=2tL1jbs0ppQ

Here's something for the guys, male washroom etiquette..

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=2tL1jbs0ppQ
wow... that's why they always ignore me in there!

And last post of the day...
Google Map saves the day?!?
News Article

Joga Bonito (again)

2006-09-11T21:08:00.000-04:00

The new Joga ad. Hopefully this will help me make the soccer team: )

Skills Gift - video powered by Metacafe

Here's another cool Joga I found.

~Asquaredx2

Never Forget...

2006-09-11T19:19:00.000-04:00

Remembering the lives affected on September 11th, 2001...

~Asquaredx2

Source

Welcome Back!

2006-08-31T19:58:00.000-04:00

Canoeing on Lac Verte.

Yup, it's that time of year again, when the kids are going back to school, people are returning from vacations, and the world turns dreary and mundane again after a two month reprieve. It's also the first entry since going on vacation, and I know that my three faithful viewers were complaining that it's high time I updated again.
So I thought that I should maybe inform you of what's going on. Those upgrades I promised, well, it's gonna have to wait until I get a version of Adobe Photoshop that works *looks at Jamie*. I haven't been updating a whole lot recently, in fact I did nothing in the month of August. I was spending July toiling in summer school classrooms with no AC and some very odd students ( in fact, if I ever hear the phrases "say word" or "why you trippin'?", then two weeks of therapy will go down the drain). As a result, I felt that I needed a break from computers and this website (which I remind is not a money making venture and as a result is not always my top priority) and spent more time outdoors. I suppose it was unconventional to just not update for a month instead of warning you of my one month sabbatical, but if I were to do it the unoriginal way then it would be just like school, wouldn't it? ; )
My summer basically consisted of soccer (My team did better than Josh's team!), the occasional tennis game, and camping in some desolate rock with my family and my dog, but after careers, anything can seem exciting. Oh yeah, and a trip down to Maine, but we got rained out and I wrecked my nice new shoes. And a hell of a lot of wintermauls (Etienne you addict).

Me pwning Etienne at Magic

Yeah, so that's basically what's goin' on down here at LMOM, just trying to let you know that I haven't died of massive internal bleeding or anything like that. That's my welcome back to you all, the guys down at Homestar Runner did one too and I have to say their's is much, much better than mine (despite the spelling error).

~Asquaredx2

OK, the Homestar Runner thing is kinda lame, but I'm tired and running low on material at the moment. And come on, Baloney Sandwich truck. Amazing.

Some links to check out:

Cat mother "eats" kitten (for you Aidan).
Antoine Vermette skills competition goal
Apology to America (This Hour Has 22 Minutes)

Gaming Update

2006-08-28T18:18:00.000-04:00

Finally, another gaming update. Even though no one really cares about these games, I post them anyway. Here is a fun game with Worms-like gameplay. Territory War.

Now, on a completely different note, If I had $3000, what should I do with it?
What would YOU do?

The Headbutt

2006-07-16T23:16:00.000-04:00

The Fifa World Cup Of 2006, held in Germany, was one of the most successful sporting events ever. It brought in record crowds, showcased amazing talent, and, for a brief month, seemed to unite the world. The stage was set for the final match-up between the Azzuri (Italy) and Les Bleus (France), and it promised to be a climactic finish as the World Cup 2006 would go down as one of the best of all time.

Instead, in my opinion, it was a disaster. Picture this. The score is 1-1 in the 108th minute, the game appears to be heading for a penalty shoot-out, as neither team really seems to be able to get any pressure on the in opposing team's zone, and there's a seeminlgy harmless exchange between French Captain and star midfielder Zinedine Zidane and Italian defender Marci Materazzi. Materazzi seems to hold on to Zidane's shirt, Zidane says something, then Materazzi says something, Zidane appears to walk away, and then WHAM! runs into Materazzi, headbutts him in the chest, Materazzi falls to the ground. Zidane goes on to get a red card. Watch a video of it all happening here.
But before I break it all down for you, I'd like to tell you a little bit about Zinedine Zidane.
Zinedine Zidane is generally considered to be one of the greatest footballers of all time. He has won the FIFA World player of the year three times, and once as European Footballer of the year.

On April 26th, 2006, he announced he would retire from the sport, after the FIFA World Cup 2006. As such, the Final was the last game he would ever play, and he had a chance to retire on top of the world. Instead, he decided to headbutt some Italian defender and get a red card, and was ejected before the game even finished.

Why?

Materazzi and Zidane were watching a ball fly over when Materazzi grabbed his shirt. Zidane turns to him and according to lipreaders says "If you want my shirt, I'll give it to you after the game".

Zidane, who despite playing for the French team actually comes from Egypt, says that Materazzi then insulted his mother and sister, while other reports from lipreaders say that Materazzi called him a fucking terrorist.

Materazzi denies the claim saying "I didn't insult his mother. I lost my mother when I was 15 years old and I still get emotional when I talk about it." "I didn't call Zidane a terrorist and I certainly didn't mention his mother. I did not bring up Zidane's mother; for me a mother is sacred".

And here in my opinion is the absolute kicker:

"Zidane is my hero and I have always admired him alot."

Quotes taken from BBC SPORT.

Needless to say, this got alot of conspiracy theorists running, one of the most strange conspiracies being that the Italians had been developing these insults for two years before the World Cup, and had one for every major (non-Italian) player in the tournament. Unlikely, yes, but if true very disgusting.

Anyways, I suppose you're all wondering why I would bother to research so much on one topic. Well, this site, if I'm not mistaken, is called Like My Opinions Matter and I haven't really given my opinion on anything. So, I say that this whole scenario should be looked into further, and if conclusive evidence is found, Materazzi should be forced to return his World Cup ring (although this would never happen). If I happen to find out there's no such thing as a World Cup Ring, then I'll figure out some other punishment. I don't think getting fined is enough.

And before you go, here are some ways that Zinedine Zidane will be remembered:

A new way to solve problems
The Headbutt game
What really happened

~Asquaredx2

A few thoughts and announcements:

I KNOW this is a long time after the incident and no one cares, but I worked on it for a while and I've been pretty busy.

The reason I haven't been updating that often is because currently I am in a reach ahead course and there's alot of homework, plus I worked pretty hard on this one.

As for the site upgrades I had promised, they're coming, but I'm having some technical problems with the software necessary to do those things, and I'm really busy.

I don't think I need to say this, since most of my visitors come from his site, but be sure to check out Phleetside again, cos that one's up and running again after a brief shutdown. It's in the sidebar if you have no idea what I'm talking about.

Metacafe recently underwent a site upgrade-ion (or however you say it), and I've used alot of their vids on this site, so for those of you who have pretty bad media players, I'm deeply sorry, but it may be time for you to upgrade (points at Aidan).

Yeah, that's pretty much all.

Joga Bonito

2006-07-09T10:26:00.000-04:00

Joga Bonito is something I have borrowed from many times, but I've never really looked into Joga itself, and I (as well as many others) am often confused as to why there's an old guy introducing everything, and what Joga really is.
Joga Bonito is a term meaning "play beautifully" in portuguese. Joga Bonito is used by Nike, in addition to Google, to sell Nike products yes, but also to promote fair play and the better side of football.
The old guy who we so often see is Eric Cantona, a former French soccer player who played for Manchester United.
Famous players appearing in Joga Bonito include Ronaldinho, Thierry Henry and Wayne Rooney, as well as Fernando Torres, Sergio Ramos and Cicinho (for pantherezz).

Anyways, I do have a clip, called the Joga Chain, because my attempts at performing the actions I said I would do in the last update are delayed due to technical difficulties.

The Joga Chain

~Asquaredx2

Michael Jordan sued by man for $832 million because man looks like Michael.

Update

2006-06-28T15:25:00.000-04:00

OK, this isn't really an update because I haven't been able to accomplish anything yet. I just want to keep you in the loop of what I'm planning to do with this site.
So, here's what I want to do:
Personalise the title. I know that may sound wierd and trivial but the way the design looks now it's not as personalised as I want it and also it doesn't have enough pizzaz.
Create a games page. I know first hand some people (Aidan) spend alot of time playing our games, and I want to maybe make them easier to access and and organise the site a little more. Eventually I might want to categorise the whole site, but that would take alot of work.

After I've accomplished these two things I'll look to maybe switch around the template a little more, and maybe edit my profile and make an about page.

Another thing I noticed was that when I go to a post page, the comments are really hard to read. I'll fix that. If you have any bugs to report, email me (you can find my email in my profile)
or comment on the site.

Anyways, because this really wasn't much of a post, go watch a family guy clip.

~Asquaredx2

Typewriter Creations

2006-06-27T10:26:00.000-04:00

An artist who uses an old type-writer to create art I couldn't draw with a pencil. Amazing.

EDIT: The commentator should have his throat slit. I know.
EDIT EDIT: For those of you with crappy media players who can't watch this, click here to view it on the metacafe site.

~Asquaredx2

Life's Unanswered Questions

2006-06-26T23:30:00.000-04:00

If conjoined twins participate in sports, do they count as one or two players?
Can fat people go skinny-dipping?
Why isn't phonetic spelled the way it sounds?

You'll find plenty more of these at www.crazythoughts.com

~Asquaredx2

EDIT: this is just filler by the way. I wanted to keep you satisfied with a nice four-entry day.

Hunting With Dick Cheney

2006-06-26T23:20:00.000-04:00

In case you didn't know, Dick Cheney was involved in a hunting incident where he "accidently" shot and injured a man named Harry Whittington in February. Yep, It didn't take long for Family Guy to do something with this, although it took me a long time to post it. Anyways, I'm quite happy because I've found a TON of Family Guy clips, but I have to pace myself.

EDIT: For those of you with crappy media players who can't watch this, click here to view it on the metacafe site.

~Asquaredx2

Criss Angel

2006-06-26T23:11:00.000-04:00

Even though he may not be the best magician out there, Criss Angel can get some pretty sweet reactions out of people, and he explains things very well. In this magic trick especially, the screams from the people are absolutely priceless.

Also, check out some other tricks by Criss Angel:
Magic with a coin and a can
Criss Angel's Party trick
Vanishing tokens

EDIT: For those of you who with old media players who can't watch this, click here to view it on the metacafe site.
~Asquaredx2

More Pranks

2006-06-26T14:15:00.000-04:00

Ok, I promised more updates and I didn't deliver. I hope in the following days I can make it up to you. Here I have two pranks, one by John Hargrave, whom you might remember from the fortune cookie prank, and the other by another pranker(?) from the zug site. Check out the Turnpike Prank by John Hargrave, and Scamming the Scammer: The Powerbook Prank by MyNameIsJeff.

~~Asquaredx2

Bird Mimic

2006-06-21T09:18:00.000-04:00

This bird is one of the coolest things I've ever heard. I don't want to explain it. Just check it out.

Bird Mimic

Asquaredx2

EDIT: I'm too lazy to add the html script that makes this link open a new window. If you want to return to the site after watching the vid simply click the "back" button (duh).

Cristian Ceballos

2006-06-19T16:47:00.000-04:00

Well, this update has been loooooooooooooong overdue. And for that I apologise. You must remember, however, that I do not do this for a profession, nor do I make any money for this, so updating is not always my highest priority. That's why I have hired someone to do gaming updates, although now that he has a webcomic I fear they might be less commmon. Anyways, I've given you a bunch of video's with young talent, and I have to say that this one might trump them all. His name is Cristian Ceballos, he is twelve years old, and he is absolutely amazing. Here he is.
To those of you who don't have a good enough video card, watch the video on metacafe here.

~Asquaredx2

"Maestro"

2006-06-09T22:49:00.000-04:00

This may be the weirdest thing I've ever seen. This guy has attached a bunch of bike horns to his body, and plays them by contorting his body into a pose where the horn is squeezed. Sorry about the french though.

~Asquaredx2

Futsal

2006-06-05T22:42:00.000-04:00

Man, and I said that I wouldn't put any more soccer clips up for a while. But when I put up clips I rate them based on how good they are, not necessarily the genre. And soccer is the best stuff I can find. Actually, it's not soccer. It's futsal, a game derived from soccer. The name comes from the spanish words futbol sala (accents thingies not included), and the Portuguese words futebol de salao. According to wikipedia, these both mean hall soccer. OKay, enough history, just watch the damn clip.

~Asquaredx2

Gaming update

2006-06-05T20:46:00.000-04:00

Hey ppl, Aadam here.
A couple more games for you entertainment.
First, Bowman 2, a simple but fun archery game.
Second, B.L.A.C.K., a 2d military shooter.
Also, I Oddum's adventures is back, as a webcomic.
It going to be a while before I can get the comics to decent quality, but...
Here it is.
P.S. on the webcomic, comment on my other blog.
I would appreciate comments there so I know someone is at least reading the comic(s).

P.P.S. Adam, plz link your site to mine.

Ronaldinho, Henry, and C.Ronaldo

2006-06-05T16:56:00.000-04:00

I've put up a lot of sports videos recently and I will try to broaden my horizons but I've been trying to find a collage of top players that actually features some nice moves. This features three of the top players in the world, maybe not C.Ronaldo but he does have exceptional individual talent. So Hos just close your eyes when you see parts with him. And to those of you who need to install a better video player, I'm kind enough to give you a link to it here so you can watch it on Metacafe.

~Asquaredx2

EDIT: the song sucks, and contains a little profanity. I would advise playing it with no sound.

B-Ball

2006-06-03T23:08:00.000-04:00

Some sweet basketball tricks by a bunch of kids. Pretty intense. Song sucks though, I would advise playing this thing with no sound.

~Asquaredx2

Family Guy Gameshows

2006-06-01T17:13:00.000-04:00

Now that I have a little spare time, I can give you an update or two. This is a great moment in family guy where peter goes on "Wheel of Fortune". Apologies to Aidan who can't see this. To those of you who can't see this, watch the clip on metacafe by clicking here.

~Asquaredx2

Ping Pong

2006-05-23T16:30:00.000-04:00

In light of our playing ping pong in gym, I thought it would be suitable to put on a little vid to show us all what n00bs we are. Except for you Hos.
Anyways, this will be my last post for a little while, at least till summatives are over, which won't be until June.
I also promise* never to use the words n00b, l33t, hax0r, or any other computer word in my posts.

~Asquaredx2

*Not an actual promise.

More Crazy Juggling

2006-05-22T23:08:00.000-04:00

OK, I apologise for going so long without posting, I've had a lot of stuff going on. This is an experiment because I am trying to embed the Metacafe player into the site. Apparently it's possible.

~Asquaredx2

Ronaldinho Juggling

2006-05-14T15:30:00.000-04:00

Wow, the 50th post on the site. How time flies. Anyways, this video features some intense juggling with Ronaldinho and some other kids. I couldn't believe it the first time I saw it. These people are amazing.

~Asquaredx2

Intense Dunker

2006-05-13T14:51:00.001-04:00

AND1 ad featuring a six foot two dunking machine. Very impressive.

~Asquaredx2

Oh, and also, this gives me a chance to explain my thinking on the whole background thing. I like the white because it allows you to focus more on the content, and is easier to look at. I like the black because it gives the site some diversity from other sites. Anyways, don't be surprised if it changes a lot.

The Domino Effect

2006-05-10T22:36:00.000-04:00

A little vid about the domino effect. I would advise playing this without the volume on because the little them song they sing is extremely irritating. Other than that, it's pretty cool.

~Asquaredx2

Gaming Update

2006-05-09T19:50:00.000-04:00

Whoa, its been a while.
Anyway, I have two great games to show you.
First of all, the long-awaited sequel to thing thing two...THING THING 3!!!
And another series, one that has no guns.
Try Capoeira Fighter 3!
Or the inferior prequel, Capoeira Fighter 2!
Once again, comments are appreciated, particularly if you hate these games.

Edit: Fixed Thing Thing 3 link.

Update

2006-05-08T22:18:00.000-04:00

OK, instead of the approach I took in my other post, I have decided to just change my background to white and see how it looks.
If you like it more, comment and say so. If you don't like it, comment and say so. If you want to see the old system, look at the link in my previous post. I don't think I'll post again until I get this whole background issue over with.

~Asquaredx2

Oh yeah, so that I don't entirely rip you off, here's a guitar video.

Hacky Sack

2006-05-08T21:51:00.000-04:00

Two footbag videos. Here is a very impressive video (link also in picture) from an actual hackysack competition, and here is a video of some random shirtless guy (no stupid comments please).

~Asquaredx2

And here is another concept for a background which I quite like, although I admit that black is nice because it's different from other sites. I know the first concept was stupid, that was just a test to see if people would would comment (which a few did). Anyways, I'm considering switching to this version, but my opinions matter less than you the non-paying customer. I would greatly appreciate your input.

Choose your Canada

2006-05-04T21:23:00.000-04:00

These are really old, but I wanted to put these on the site a long time ago : ) :

"Just now at the Subway on Bank Street, I was buying my lunch and there . . . in line . . . standing in front of me . . . was a soldier. In our cities. In Canada. A soldier. He seemed to be ordering the six-inch ham and turkey. With chipotle sauce. In Canada. We’re not making this stuff up.”

“Stephen Harper has a dog. You know who else had a dog? Hitler. Adolf Hitler. That’s who. Did Stephen Harper train his dog to attack racial minorities on command? We don’t know. He’s not saying. Choose your Canada.”
“Stephen Harper likes to wear black. You know who else liked black? Darth Vader? We’re not making this up.” “Stephen Harper wears glasses. For reading. You know what he reads? The Bible. You know who else reads the Bible? George Bush. Will Stephen Harper turn Canada into a Christian theocracy? We don’t know. He isn’t saying. Choose your Canada.”

Anyways, I found the originals here.

~Asquaredx2

Rubix Cube

2006-05-04T16:44:00.000-04:00

Six-year-old Chun Hoo Ulf Wong solves a rubix cube in 37.89 seconds.

~Asquaredx2

Update

2006-05-01T18:20:00.000-04:00

OK, thanks to some shrewd programming from Phleet (my technical support), the site is up and running, and the archiving is actually working. I will try to get my sitemeter up and running again, but I don't think that applies to you anyways. Again, my thanks to Phleet for his help. Go thank him yourself by looking at his site, conveniently located here or at the sidebar.

~Asquaredx2