Pretentious musician names
Current mood: cranky

I just logged on today and happened to catch a msn that really got me to thinking about something I've wondered for quite a while.... the story was "The edge keeps the faith", how the U2 guitarist has some kind of mission to help people... a kind of new live aid thing or whatever.  Charity is all fine and good.  I also don't really mind celebrities getting involved in politics where they feel they can try to draw attention to an issue and break thru the apathy and impotent nonsense of the UN.  My concern is the pretentious S.O.B.'s name. 

How the hell do you decide that you're a cool enough guitarist to be called "the edge", or "the" anything?  How about "Sting"?  Oh, hey, I think I'm so sexy that I can call myself just "Sting" because it has some sort of sexually charged, predatory feel to it.  "Watch out ladies, I'm 'Sting', I'll sting you."  Hey, maybe he stings people with his nose.  You know what it looks like to me?  An upside down (you know what)

Later,

"the cynic"

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Welcome to "the people's babysitting service"

So everyone in china gets 2 week long holidays.  October 1-7 and May 1-7.  In order for the people to earn these holidays, however, the people need to work extra days on either end.  This week we had to work saturday and sunday, but pretend that they were fridays and mondays, respectively.  Of course, if the people are working, then the people's children must go to school.  Otherwise who would take care of them?

The reality is that a lot of students don't come to our intl school because the parents take them out to leave early for family vacations.  Anyone who remains isn't interested in learning and almost all classes become DVD watching sessions.  A big nonsense waste of time.

Oh hey, couple this with the fact that everyone in the whole damned country has a holiday during the holiday coming up, so train tix are hard to get, airline tix are more expensive, hotels are more expensive and you have to deal with a lot of others trying to travel too....

yay.

DR

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Caution: blogging complaints about porn solicitations just gets you more!
Current mood: cynical

So 2 hours after my last post I get 3 messages from a hot blonde named "lil brat", who is apparently in FL, and her almost clone "tastybabes" in Atlanta.  Both of them send the same basic message, and both sign off Sara?  Weird...

They both say they are cool chicks, and that they get "a long" with almost everyone.  Notice the spelling, it's important.  I bet they get "a longer" than status quo state of a certain organ from a lot of guys. 

Nice substitutions of numbers for letters too.... to get thru some kind of filter?  Whatever.

D

H3Y BABE !!!...Cool myspace u got there.. was just browsing people who live near me and found ya..... Feel free to add me to your M~S~N or A~I~M (both are listed on my MS page..I prefer M`S`N as A'I'M freezes on me so I may not get ur messages...I jusst m0ved so try!ng to meeet sum new people.. xoxox chat soon cutie xoxoxo Sara!

********************************* Im a cool chick, I get a long with almost everyone. I know how to have fun and make people feel comfortable around me. I'm a BIG fan of making-out lol.. Hit me up if u would like to know more :) Im looking for a nice sexy guy who has what it takes to keep me interested and wants to explore me like i want to explore him.Im not that picky but I do know what I want.Looks are not everything so I give everyone an equal chance!

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I could have lots of friends in the online "adult entertainment industry"
Current mood: apathetic

So the latest trend in online pornography seems to be myspace.  That's right, in the past several weeks I've gotten as many friends requests from HOT, BODACIOUS BABES whom I don't know and have never seen.  The most recent out of the blue friend request is a private profile and the only pic I can see without making this person a friend is a pic of a beautiful tropical beach.  Should I make this person a friend to try to figure out who it is, or just for kicks?  Will this person then be like "hey, now I can try to be 'friends' with all of his friends?  As if I don't know.

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My contributions to the English Language
Current mood: quixotic

I would like it to be known that I, early in the year 2005 coined a couple of terms....

The first is "Cameltoeflage", which describes any pair of shorts or beach wrap that goes over a swimsuit, bike shorts, etc in order to "camouflage" or hide cameltoe or potential cameltoe.  For info on Cameltoe, see www.cameltoe.org

The second term is "Bermuda Fur Triangle", meaning a specific part of the female body and/or the potential trap or draw of physical relations with a female.

With recent innovations, such as terms like "whale tail" and "muffin tops", I wanted to make a statement that "hey, here are some things I came up with, and I want credit for them if they one day become big."  I also want to encourage everyone to use my words with hopes that they one day become widely used.

D

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Internet Slowness

So several weeks ago a telacom cable off the coast of china was broken.... At first the internet was so extremely slow (for foreign web sites), but now it's just very slow. 

A lot of great resources like Youtube and so forth have been unusable and it's been a real pain in the butt.  Email services are still fairly slow.

It took me some time to log onto youtube and let me just say that I've got the image loading turned off on my web browser and why on earth do so many webpages have buttons and so forth that you really need as images only?  It ticks me off.  It's a waste of "bandwidth". 

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Christmas in China

So last year I had to go to the Carrefour to buy xmas cards... that was kind of weird enough in itself, going to a French supermarket/department store to buy English language xmas cards, in China.... This year when I went to Carrefour it seemed that the xmas display was a lot bigger and that Chinese people (I didn't see any foreigners) were actually buying some xmas related stuff.  I also noticed xmas cards that appeared at my local supermarket.  Some were from Korea, and were pretty nice.  Others were in Chinese or Chinesea and English, or just English..... sometimes with some kind of funny Chinglish.

At any rate, it seems (and from what my friends have said, it seems to be true) that Xmas is catching on amongst Chinese people in places like Shanghai, who have some disposable income.... They are catching the joy of the american style consumerism holiday spirit, they like the imagery, the glitter and all of that.  Amongst all the change that I see and hear about going on here, this seems like something that is creeping up and might just take off in the following years. 

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International Zipper Standard?

So what's the damned deal with zippers on shirts and jackets over here?  Anything you buy here that zips up has the actual "zipping mechanism", the part that moves up and down, on the left hand side of the garment.  This means that you either zip and unzip in a natural LEFT HANDED manner, (at least to zip up that's what I'm doing), then when you zip down, it is weird.   At first you feel trapped as you naturally pull the mechanism down with your right hand and it sticks at the very bottom.  You then reach across with the left hand to hold onto the right hand side of the open garment, so that the mechanism pulls free under tension..... It's freaking wacky.  The thing is, is this some kind of damned euro thing too?  I own a couple cycling jackets and so on that are European.... and they've got the same damned left handed zip thing....

The funny thing is that I complained about this for a long time, then got used to it and forgot about it (except when I switch to a jacket I brought from the states, which feels extremely comfortable and natural to zip and unzip.... that is when I don't accidentally use the silly left handed or crossover technique.....).  Anyway a friend brought a zip up sweatshirt back from the states to give to the special chinese girl in his life.  Her response to it was literally, "what is the deal with this stupid zipper?!"

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MySpace

I'm only on this damned myspace nonsense because I can't access my website here in China..... Now this freaking myspace thing isn't working.  What a pain it the butt it is living behind this internet iron curtain..... I assume that's where the problem lies.  I can't click on the people whom I accepted onto my friends list, in order to see just who the heck they are.  Is "Neanderthal" Neal, Guy or Stefan?  I don't know and I can't tell from the damned small image I have in the "my friends" box.  Please don't tell me, let me wonder!  Every time I try to click on one of them it's an internet deadend, 404 connection whatever the hell. 

Frustrated,

D 

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Insightful stupidity from the Commander in Chief

I got this off of http://news.yahoo.com/s/ap/20061117/ap_on_go_pr_wh/bush

The headline said "Bush compares U.S. wars in Vietnam, Iraq", so I thought yeah, the lesson is that you get out of there and you let things happen and eventually normalize relations later, especially as more companies start to do business there.  Anyway, when I clicked on the story I read what I would consider to be an insightful level of stupidity.........

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The president said there was much to be learned from the divisive Vietnam War — the longest conflict in U.S. history — as his administration contemplates new strategies for the increasingly difficult war in Iraq, now in its fourth year. But his critics see parallels with Vietnam — a determined insurgency and a death toll that has drained public support — that spell danger for dragging out U.S. involvement in Iraq.

"It's just going to take a long period of time for the ideology that is hopeful — and that is an ideology of freedom — to overcome an ideology of hate," Bush said after having lunch at his lakeside hotel with Australian Prime Minister John Howard, whose country has been one of America's strongest allies in Iraq, Vietnam and other conflicts.

"We'll succeed," Bush added, "unless we quit."

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Oh, yeah, so we should stay in Iraq to "succeed", just like staying in Vietnam was a recipe for "success."  Having invaded Iraq in the first place gave all the terrorists lots of fodder for propaganda and hatred (nevermind the fact that there are probably lots of moderate Iraqi people who view an anti-american stance as a stance for freedom).  Anyway, how does staying there help us to "succeed?"

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