Why one shouldn’t talk to idiots.

I tried to state something extremely obvious to a bunch of morons who have written a bunch of fairytales in the meantime. It was funny to look at their crap for a while, but there’s a point when things change from lack of information to lies and protecting someone who could probably do as well without their pathetic protection. So, this is how it went.

Me: THE SKY IS BLUE.

Moron #1: Are you sure? Do you have a written proof of that? How about pictures?

Me: Dammit, the sky is blue!

Moron #2: Stop manipulating me, you twat!

Moron #3: It is clear that you don’t like the night sky, which is a pity, because that’s your loss.

Me: You don’t get the point, do you? The sky has been blue like this for a long time.

Moron #1: I’ve been to the moon!

Me: Who cares, that’s a waste of time and money.

Moron #4: Woof woof woof

Me: OK, each one to their own….

Facebook quizzes for “hot and bothered” girls and “chicas”

In my previous post, I said that I prefer Facebook to MySpace. However, just like I said, there are good sides to MySpace…

…and bad sides to Facebook. Like, really bad. And I saw it coming. A couple of months ago, I sat down to read a bunch of articles on the site’s history from ’round the blogosphere and, having learned how the applications system works, my first thought was: Shit, internet advertisers, horrible typers and “modern women” stereotype are going to mess it up, it’s just the matter of time!

Of course, I was right. And this is not going to be nice. Seriously, if you can’t stand it, go to Disney and enjoy virtual preps who, among others, made the women the mediocre figures so many of them are today - the way-too-sexy cartoon girls such as Jasmine, Hercules chicks and whateverthechicksinothermovieswere. They’re cartoons. I doubt Walt Disney would’ve loved them if he was fortunate to live longer than sixty-three years. Weren’t Aurora, Cinderella and Snow White the true romantic princesses, sacrificing everything for their ideals? At least, their spirit lives through Belle, who would be my favourite; and who’s the best ever because she was an intellectual, the one who cared about her family and the one whose love was not seeing colours, forms, firm principles et cetera.

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MySpace? Ummm…whosespace?

Following comments to Mira’s most recent post, I came across Simon Owens’ huge rant, I thought I’d just finish Simon’s list (or at least extend it, in case someone else would like to finish it.

So, here are my additions to Simon’s 10-piece-list.

11.The front page of MySpace appears as an “Unknown error” 2-3 times a day.

12. They list “pagan”, “wiccan” and other similar stuff as religions, while if you happen to be an Orthodox Christian, which is one of the largest divisions of Christianity, you have to select “Christian-Other”. Come on.

13. They replied me to say that they’re sorry, but they can’t change “Yugoslavia” to “Serbia and Montenegro”. Then, when Serbia and Montenegro split, they didn’t respond to one single petition about us having rights to pick the countries we actually live in. My current location reads Beograd, Serbia, definitely not, Micronesia, Federate States Of. I didn’t want to put Yugoslavia and either way, that country was just a pale reminder of the huge happy one I was born in.

14. No RSS on blogs. No way to export or import shit in the civilised, real Web 2.0. way. So, when I post a blog here, I usually have to write a bulletin on MySpace, while my Facebook and LiveJournal have RSS and my friends on those sites know that I’d updated squirrelism.

15. No way to go to blog’s homepage when reading a blog entry. And that is downright stupid.

16. No limit in adding STUPID SHIT to one’s profile. Yes, seriously, I arrived to your profile to watch twenty-four YouTube videos.

17. The lame and shitty top friends concept. Whose idea was it to rank friends, anyway? I’m keeping my favourite musician as my number one, a work profile as number two and I added a couple of charities and nonsense links there as well, as I don’t want to rank my friends. A friend who’s totally obsessed with MySpace told me that he’d add me back to his top friends now that we’re talking again. I mean, WHAT? Do you really think I care if I’m your top friend or not? It sure is slightly flattering to me, but how are your other friends feeling?

18. Did I mention bulletins? At the very beginning, I did not understand what were those for, but now it seems that some people are using them for various exhibitionist purposes. Some of the suggestive responses I’ve seen in people’s surveys scare me. But surveys will need their own topic, as some of the repeating questions are just…marvellous.

19. The ego-factor. One of my closest friends has become a less close friend when MySpace became an important thing in her life. She was actually resisting to make an account there and then she realised what exciting work opportunities it might bring to her (she works in, let’s say, public relations). Now she’s responding with Haven’t you seen my calendar on MySpace? I was at [insert place here] for [insert the reason here]! when I ask I have not seen you in a while. Where have you been? Are you OK? Love you. Whenever I am ranting about her at home, I tell my parents that MySpace took her away from me.

20. Horrible spelling is spreading as the freakin’ flu. I don’t remember seeing misspellings such as actaully, mascarea, exems and such before. Now I almost tend to believe that people see misspelled words and think it’s the right way to write or, even worse, the cooler way?

That’s all I could think of right now. I will need one more entry to cover the phenomenon MySpace apparently is here in Serbia, but I don’t know if it’ll be interesting to people who don’t live here.

Also, I might write an entry to cover the (minor) good sides of MySpace.

Yahoocracy?!

Last night I had to register an additional FlickR account to put up some of the artistic photos of Lush Christmas products that I’d taken earlier in the day. Yahoo prompted me to register a new ID, as one obviously can’t link two FlickR accounts to one. I noticed that Serbia and Montenegro were not separated on their provided list of countries, so I selected Serbia & Montenegro and…

…the result was that I had to lie that I’m from Macedonia, because their system was refusing to register me otherwise!

I do not know if they’d ever respond to my email, but this is sure a matter worth complaining about. Not only that they did not update the list, but they also don’t let me be from the country that I was from prior to the split in May 2006. Many sites still list Serbia & Montenegro together (and I have no problem with it), some other list Yugoslavia (I do have a problem with it because if there was one more US state they’d rush to add it and they couldn’t have updated this one ever since early 2003!); but whatever is they list, I am allowed to register when I select it. This is highly bizzare!

Oh yes, and MyBlogLog was giving me a MySQL error when I was trying to update my information. But this is worse.