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Bullies in the Internetz  

Posted by Job in , , ,

Bullying of any form is wrong.
I remember back in high school, we were bullied for being nerds. So we fought back. A dozen or so fistfights later, the bullying ceased to exist. And strangely enough became sorta friends with the other belligerent students. But that was high school, a time when fistfights do not have any real consequences.
When kids get bullied, it's usually something they had not a lot of control over. It could be the braces, or that funky hair, or the way they walk. Or any random thing. Some kids live with it. Some kids are scarred for life. Some, like us, fight back.
Fighting is wrong.
It's just that in that situation, it kind of worked out well.
And then came tha Internetz. 
Christopher Lao and the Reporter Who Couldn't Keep the Sarcasm In
Christopher Lao should have been informed.

It was a different sort of bullying. No one can steal your cap in there. Or hit you on the head when you're not looking. Sure you get insulted, humiliated, and get all those memes made in your name. People laugh at you. The crazier ones call you names. The ones with no breeding curse you online.
It's degrading.
You can never live it down.
And you can't search yourself in Google anymore.

But really, whose fault was it that you're in a perfect position to be humiliated by even the dumbest prick and twats online? (Also, there are a lot of them, all deserving of the title, dumbest.)
Barney's Assault
Robert Blair Carabuena is pudgy and he's wearing purple.
That's why witty Internet residents call him Barney.
Also, he bullied that MMDA guy.
Victims of cyberbullying. They probably did something quite stupid. Did they deserve the humiliation? I believe they had it coming. Am I right? The Commission on Human Rights might beg to differ. Carabuena and Lao had something in common: Bad decision, caught on video. Are they that stupid in real life? We'll never know. That's where Tito Sen is different. You see, he's macho. Tito Sen came from a time when manly men can never be wrong. 
Plagiarism is always wrong.
Sure, it's not against Philippine law. Sure, everyone in the Senate does it. Apparently that means we should it slide. They're in a way. Politicians steal taxpayers money. It is as much as a truth as they are plagiarizing mofos. It's not that we're letting it slide. We just can't do much about it.
Atty. Hector Villacorta is a lawyer. I forgive his lies, they are part of his job description. I guess I just did not expect him to be that stupid. (My bad!)
L-R: Tito Sotto with brother Vic, and pal, Joey at a time when he still had credibility.
It probably sucks to be insulted by anonymous people on the Internet. They should do a Maricar Reyes. Shut up, disappear. Keep quiet. We've already established that people are dumb panicky animals with the attention span of fungus. When you're a victim of cyberbullying, take it from the Internet: STFU.

Please, stop humiliating yourselves.


 

False Advertising  

Posted by Job in ,

I've been doing a lot of lurking, mostly because I can't think of anything meaningful to write about. This includes internet forums and of course, blogs. That's how I chanced upon this particular entry...

digital cameras??

Digital camera for sale!!! Intriguing. Especially if you look at the first line that says... "I'm selling 2 video cards." Curiosity got the best of me and I clicked...

digital cameras?

Now, I'm not a gadget guru or anything, but I'm pretty sure graphic cards of today (and probably of the far far tomorrow) do not offer digicam features. Man, if they did, that'd be just a whack! Imagine, you're playing World of Warcraft on your PC and suddenly felt the urge to take a picture of that tree right outside your window. Your cellphone camera just won't do, so you open up your PC, pull out your video card and *click!*

Ahh, technology. It's goooood.

The Perez Pe Benito Pickle Jar  

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Good and attractive women love falling for jerks/guys who look bad.

Yeah sure, girls will deny this. But see for yourself. Walk around the mall a bit. In a few minutes a really pretty girl will come your way. And that pretty girl has a dog with her. Oh wait, the dog has a really pretty girl with him. Silly me for not noticing soon.(This theory might work for guys too, but I really don't care)

Now, why? Why is it so? Here's a true story from a friend. A few years back, we interviewed a female friend on what she's looking for in a guy, what she wants for the future, yabadah, yabadah, the kind of thing you only talk about in the influence of alcohol (or something much stronger, like say, crack).

To which she replied, "I dunno, smart, probably, maybe a doctor or something. Tall, good-looking, kind thoughtful... A future with a house on the meadow, white picket fences..." And of course, we responded, "Awwwww.."

A few weeks later, she introduced us to her boyfriend. Someone she described as "Mas guwapo kaysa sa mabait." The first time I saw the guy I wanted to splash him with holy water. If he looked better than he was nice... then this guy is the devil himself. On a scale of one to ten, ten being the highest, the girlfriend ranked the guy at 5-6. We totally agree. He definitely looks like two 2.5s put together with cheap glue. IQ-wise, the guy was err, let's just say he's not that smart. All right, all right, I was being too harsh, in fact he probably has an IQ of 25.

Doctor eh? Tall and good-looking eh?

Truth is, I realized there actually are sure-fire techniques if you want to "snag yourself a hottie" even when you dont have the looks or the brains. Two I can name offhand. The first is be filthy rich. If that's not your case, then the second one might be easier. It takes a little more effort, and a great deal of concentration.

Here it is...
Be really, really mysterious.

I'm not saying be seemingly gay, just be make the girl think you're not interested in any woman. In worse cases that you're stuck up in a world of your own, and that you really don't want to be sociable. It takes years of practice to master this technique.

Whoever thought of this first is a genius. Sure, girls frown at the idea of guys trying to do something crazy like you know, conquering the unconquerable (read: climbing Mount Everest). But the truth is, girls are into that kind of thing too. Only on a different level.

Fellow researcher Philip and I call this phenomenon, The Perez Pe Benito Pickle Jar. (Some guys at time management research thought they were witty when they used the Pickle Jar to name their theory as well, bastards) The idea of course is, to be the really hard-to-open-pickle-jar that you are. Don't open up, brood, brood, brood, scowl, scowl, scowl. A female will try to open you in no time.

It takes experience to learn the pickle jar craft, and some guys are naturally good at it, while some are not. Word of advice though, do not open so soon when some chick tries to open you. What you do is open a little, make her think she's doing it, then close again. Be the real you (an asshole). Then open up again. Boom, she's caught in the trap.

For guys who cannot master this technique, there's always technique number one, be filthy rich.