What would older generations say when they see that people are selling poop covered coffee beans for 9x the price of regular coffee beans?
Sadly, I am tempted to buy some ...
Thursday, December 29, 2011
Tuesday, December 13, 2011
English Language
The internet has been a wonderful tool to help promote education, information, entertainment and much, much more.
One of the negatives of the internet is how watered down the English language has become. Below are some examples:
Example 1: Genuine Faux Pearls
Really? Can someone explain how you something is "geniune faux"? A quick google search for "Faux definition" turned up the following:
Faux - Adjective:
Example 2: Dumbledore's wand - "authentic recreation"
So my question to you is:
Which is worse? The person who describes the items they are selling as "authentic replicas" / "genuine faux"? or the person who buys these items because they are "authentic"?
One of the negatives of the internet is how watered down the English language has become. Below are some examples:
Example 1: Genuine Faux Pearls
Really? Can someone explain how you something is "geniune faux"? A quick google search for "Faux definition" turned up the following:
Faux - Adjective:
- 1. Artificial or imitation: "faux pearls".
- 2. Not genuine; fake or false: "her faux New York accent"
Example 2: Dumbledore's wand - "authentic recreation"
- Someone please explain the phrase "authentic recreation". The phrase alone is an oxymoron.
- How can you have "authentic" items that never really existed? But let's say that we let this slide, because Santa Claus exists and he eats the milk n cookies you leave for him. Let's assume that Harry Potter is "real" Yahoo explains the possibility of how this could be true
- "This replica of Dumbledore's wand is an authentic recreation of the old wizard's wand" - so again, if it's authentic then why is it a replica / recreation?
- "Made of resin" - Ok, so this "authentic replica" is made of resin? Can you at least make me an authentic recreation made of genuine faux elder wood & a natural synthetic tail hair of a real fantasy Thestral?
- "This replica of Dumbledore's wand is an authentic recreation of the old wizard's wand" - so again, if it's authentic then why is it a replica / recreation?
So my question to you is:
Which is worse? The person who describes the items they are selling as "authentic replicas" / "genuine faux"? or the person who buys these items because they are "authentic"?
Friday, December 2, 2011
Actual Wedding Invite Dilema
You have two single guy friends ... not close to either one but would hang out with them if they were there (i.e. you do not dislike them in any way).
Let's call them Subject N1 and Subject N2:
I'm going to keep a running tally of how these two may have affected their "wedding invitation" status through their actions.
Subject N1
-goes "Charlie Sheen" on a post in one of our boards. The post is directly addressed at the groom
Subject N2
-randomly finds a VERY old pic of the groom on fb and posts a comment about it. Makes me wonder: a) why was he looking at a pic that old? b) he is single and hasn't had a gf for a very long time ...
Mr Groom - if you read this feel free to add any other "interesting" facts you would like to consider before making your final decision.
Let's call them Subject N1 and Subject N2:
I'm going to keep a running tally of how these two may have affected their "wedding invitation" status through their actions.
Subject N1
-goes "Charlie Sheen" on a post in one of our boards. The post is directly addressed at the groom
Subject N2
-randomly finds a VERY old pic of the groom on fb and posts a comment about it. Makes me wonder: a) why was he looking at a pic that old? b) he is single and hasn't had a gf for a very long time ...
Mr Groom - if you read this feel free to add any other "interesting" facts you would like to consider before making your final decision.
How to decide who to invite to your wedding?
I find it interesting how something so simple can get so complicated. Everyone has a set of "rules" or "guidelines" they claim are the correct way to sort who to invite among your current friends to your upcoming wedding.
Someone should really make a reality TV show about this. People competing for a seat at a celebrity wedding. Imagine if Kim Kardashian had done this. Maybe you could mix it up and have a little bit of every reality TV on this show:
Show format:
12 people = 6 guys + 6 girls
separated into 2 teams / each team 3 guys & 3 girls
List of competitions in order they would happen:
2 weeks of Real World: both teams living together in an over sized apartment in some random town (I pick Little Rock, AR for the first season) working some really odd job like cleaning elephant poop at the elephant sanctuary. They throw 1 party each week and go out an additional 2 other times each week and celebrity guests attend these parties (like the cast of Jersey Shore one week, Real World / Road Rules perennials like Mike, Coral, Tonya, etc)
Elimination is voted through facebook. Most votes = elimination (to confuse people and purposely create controversy). Highest vote getter is booted off the show + highest vote of opposite gender from opposite team. I.E. If Mike gets voted off Team A then the other person voted off is the female from Team B with the most votes. Again more controversy due to the fact that the 2 most hated people may or may not leave the show.
(5 guys + 5 girls remain)
2 weeks of Rat Race / Amazing Race: Teams are re-made based on the votes. Lowest votes gets to pick their teammate first (must be opposite gender). Then in pairs, they are given $20 and told to find a way to get from Little Rock to Los Angeles. Clues are given and 3 pairs of tickets are hidden in different random cities. Teams can either choose find a way to LA or go to a city (presumably closer than LA) and find the tickets (Secret City Location may have 1 set of airline tickets OR 1 set of bus tickets OR 1 set of train tickets). 2 days into the competition, one individual on each team is given a clue on how to find a one-way airline ticket for themselves and if they can find it, write their name in it, they can ditch their partner and go on w/out them.
Last guy & last girl in LA gets eliminated.
(4 guys + 4 girls remain)
2 weeks of talent competitions: 1 week of singing and 1 week of dancing.
Week 1 (singing) - Internet votes for top 3 guys and top 3 girls (safe from elimination) & Bridal party chooses one participant to "save". Groomsmen vote on the girl to save, bridesmaids vote on the guy to save.
Week 2 (dancing) - internet votes for top guy & top girl & Bridal party choose 1 guy and 1 girl to save again. (same as above)
(2 guys + 2 girls remain)
2 weeks of "Meet the Parents": This is filmed the last 2 weeks prior to the wedding. Perks - The 4 remaining contestants attend family functions (i.e. rehearsal dinner, going to the bachelor / bachelorette parties, meet both sides of the family). They also get fitted for their tuxedos & dresses and get a fashion make-over with Tim Gunn.
During this final week, the 4 remaining contestants are asked to do remedial tasks by the wedding party all the way until the day before the wedding. This may include tasks such as going to the bakery & checking on the wedding cake (and of course something will not be as planned and they will have to figure out how to fix it) or last minute adjustments such as "please go to the location of the reception and tell the manager that we just increased our wedding list from 300 to 360 and make sure it is ready for this weekend"
Elimination - the night before the wedding, the contestants get to put on their wedding outfits and walk down the catwalk. The bridesmaids vote on which girl they would like to invite to the wedding the next day. Groomsmen do the same for the guy.
FINALE - each winning contestant is given a crash-course 120 min filming class the morning of the wedding and they are given a Digital Camcorder to film the wedding from their perspective. The video that sells for the highest amount to a magazine/tv/media outlet wins grand prize of $250,000
Would you watch this show?
Someone should really make a reality TV show about this. People competing for a seat at a celebrity wedding. Imagine if Kim Kardashian had done this. Maybe you could mix it up and have a little bit of every reality TV on this show:
Show format:
12 people = 6 guys + 6 girls
separated into 2 teams / each team 3 guys & 3 girls
List of competitions in order they would happen:
2 weeks of Real World: both teams living together in an over sized apartment in some random town (I pick Little Rock, AR for the first season) working some really odd job like cleaning elephant poop at the elephant sanctuary. They throw 1 party each week and go out an additional 2 other times each week and celebrity guests attend these parties (like the cast of Jersey Shore one week, Real World / Road Rules perennials like Mike, Coral, Tonya, etc)
Elimination is voted through facebook. Most votes = elimination (to confuse people and purposely create controversy). Highest vote getter is booted off the show + highest vote of opposite gender from opposite team. I.E. If Mike gets voted off Team A then the other person voted off is the female from Team B with the most votes. Again more controversy due to the fact that the 2 most hated people may or may not leave the show.
(5 guys + 5 girls remain)
2 weeks of Rat Race / Amazing Race: Teams are re-made based on the votes. Lowest votes gets to pick their teammate first (must be opposite gender). Then in pairs, they are given $20 and told to find a way to get from Little Rock to Los Angeles. Clues are given and 3 pairs of tickets are hidden in different random cities. Teams can either choose find a way to LA or go to a city (presumably closer than LA) and find the tickets (Secret City Location may have 1 set of airline tickets OR 1 set of bus tickets OR 1 set of train tickets). 2 days into the competition, one individual on each team is given a clue on how to find a one-way airline ticket for themselves and if they can find it, write their name in it, they can ditch their partner and go on w/out them.
Last guy & last girl in LA gets eliminated.
(4 guys + 4 girls remain)
2 weeks of talent competitions: 1 week of singing and 1 week of dancing.
Week 1 (singing) - Internet votes for top 3 guys and top 3 girls (safe from elimination) & Bridal party chooses one participant to "save". Groomsmen vote on the girl to save, bridesmaids vote on the guy to save.
Week 2 (dancing) - internet votes for top guy & top girl & Bridal party choose 1 guy and 1 girl to save again. (same as above)
(2 guys + 2 girls remain)
2 weeks of "Meet the Parents": This is filmed the last 2 weeks prior to the wedding. Perks - The 4 remaining contestants attend family functions (i.e. rehearsal dinner, going to the bachelor / bachelorette parties, meet both sides of the family). They also get fitted for their tuxedos & dresses and get a fashion make-over with Tim Gunn.
During this final week, the 4 remaining contestants are asked to do remedial tasks by the wedding party all the way until the day before the wedding. This may include tasks such as going to the bakery & checking on the wedding cake (and of course something will not be as planned and they will have to figure out how to fix it) or last minute adjustments such as "please go to the location of the reception and tell the manager that we just increased our wedding list from 300 to 360 and make sure it is ready for this weekend"
Elimination - the night before the wedding, the contestants get to put on their wedding outfits and walk down the catwalk. The bridesmaids vote on which girl they would like to invite to the wedding the next day. Groomsmen do the same for the guy.
FINALE - each winning contestant is given a crash-course 120 min filming class the morning of the wedding and they are given a Digital Camcorder to film the wedding from their perspective. The video that sells for the highest amount to a magazine/tv/media outlet wins grand prize of $250,000
Would you watch this show?
Subscribe to:
Posts (Atom)