The stupid… It burns.

Another Open Thread

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I can honestly say that Sunday was a total drag. We were swamped, understaffed, and our boss gave all of us her work to do. Which we got done but our jobs suffered for it. Every single section looked like a disaster which I’m sure she’s loving right now. Especially since there is supposed to be a corporate visit.

If they call me in early (and I’m pretty sure they will) I’m going to enjoy a well deserved sleep. It’s my 7th work day anyway and I be plum tuckered out. She can at least be thankful that I cleaned out my fitting rooms. In one I’m pretty sure someone stole a pair of underwear. Someone left behind a thoroughly blood soaked pair as a gift for us. Oh well, this doesn’t happen too often. I remember we also had a guy leave us some leftover knuckle children on the floor one of men’s fitting rooms. People are so thoughtful and considerate of others. Also very giving…

Gotta love living in the brawndo era.

So… OculusRift got bought out by Facebook.

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Never in my life would I ever think to hear the words “John Carmack works for Mark Zuckerburg” in one sentence. Yep! The Oculus Rift project has been bought up by Facebook. So I guess now you’ll be able to VR Farmville, and maybe John Carmack will bring DooM to facebook! Oh god… The entire internet is in an uproar about this right now.

“Mobile is the platform of today, and now we’re also getting ready for the platforms of tomorrow,” Facebook founder and CEO Mark Zuckerberg says. “Oculus has the chance to create the most social platform ever, and change the way we work, play and communicate.”

Suddenly the Sony Equivalent is looking a tad nicer.

Birth Control: It’s for ladies who can’t control their vajayjays

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Do you suffer from wandering vagina syndrome? No? Well, apparently some people think it’s for women who can’t control their labido.

“I think it’s time Republicans no longer accept listening to the Democrats talk about a ‘war on women,’” Huckabee said during a speech at the Republican National Committee’s winter meeting in Washington. “The fact is the Republicans don’t have a war on women, they have a war for women, to empower them to be something other than victims of their gender.”

Yes, they want to empower the ladies… by telling them they can rule over the entire kitchen with an iron fist.

Huckabee said Democrats rely on women believing they are weaker than men and in need of government handouts, including the contraception mandate in Obamacare.

I wonder how these guys would like it if women attacked Viagra and Cialis as much as these guys attack Birth Control. Sounds like fair game to me. 😛

Huckabee said Democrats tell women “they are helpless without Uncle Sugar coming in and providing them for them a prescription each month for birth control because they cannot control their libido or their reproductive system without the help of government.

Oh god…. when I got to Uncle Sugar when I was reading this today I almost spat tea all over my monitor. I mean, Uncle Sugar? Someone needs to make a pimped out Uncle Sam with the title “Uncle Sugar wants yo fine ass to have birth control”.

But in all seriousness why do these guys make women the centerpiece of this war? They always make it sound like the woman is the sex crazed monster and the man just kinda accidentally gets his dick stuck between her legs.

What the duck?

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I’ll be honest. I’ve heard of Duck Dynasty but never really had an interest in watching it or looking up what it even was. I just knew that everyone else in town thinks it’s the bees knees for whatever reason. At work we sell lots of Duck Dynasty Merch (Shirts, Cups, Pillows, Beards etc) and by looking at it I thought it was some kind of fictitious redneck show about four guys that hunt and got famous by making a special duck call whistle. Then I find these pictures and find… well I’m half right. Look at these before and after pics:

Before:

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After:

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Damn, amazing what can happen to you in about ten years time. But yeah, I was half right about the fiction part. This is a reality show… now I’m even happier I haven’t made time to watch it.

Anyway, as I said earlier we sell lots of Duck Dynasty stuff where I work. Sales have increased since Phil Robertson, one of the four guys, made some comments about Gays and African Americans. Which Colbert does a good job discussing.

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=4NfbgA2sTSo

The funny part is the people decrying that all he did was speak for himself, so why should he be denied his freedom of speech? He’s not being denied… He has the right to say whatever he wants, and A&E has the right to run their channel however they want. It’s kinda like when Rush Limbaugh lost all of his sponsors after attacking Sandra Fluke and saying some, rather indecent things. People thought his freedom of speech was being violated when in reality it wasn’t. Freedom of speech can impact things. These people said things that pissed off a bunch of people, and they used THEIR freedom of speech to do as they pleased in both situations. In this case losing sponsors or getting rid of an racist anti gay fuckwad from a show on a channel you run.

In the end though it’s kinda funny to see someone talk about how wrong gay sex is, from the very guy who created a duck whistle to make male ducks think you want to fuck them. I think I’ll file this show under American Idol status and just bury it.

Update

Looks like the crazies got him back on the air. Soooo, about that free speech?

This is why you don’t tell people you’re a girl… or a gamer… or use dating sites… or breathe…

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This is from a webseries called “OKCupid is the best!” where the hostess solikebasically shares the strangest things she finds in her OKCupid inbox. In this particular episode some guy discovers that she likes games, the awkwardness is soon followed with morbid disgust.

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=CKXoTu5fMqM

Was that really necessary? Usually when someone doesn’t respond to you that means you move on, you know… more fish in the sea and all that jazz? Of course, she’s also getting criticized for doing the unthinkable and posting his messages to her in public for all to hear. Just think, this could have been avoided if he just dropped it after the first post.

Idiot of the day

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Damn, she was soooo close to being a candidate for the Darwin Awards… 🙄

A “female tourist” has been rescued by police in Melbourne, Australia after walking off a pier. It wasn’t a suicide attempt. She was just too busy looking at Facebook on her phone.

Victoria Police say the woman – who couldn’t swim – walked off the famous St. Kilda pier at 11:30pm last night after becoming “engrossed in social media”.

Sigh

YouTube’s new content ID system SUCKS

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If you haven’t been following YouTube’s rollout of their brand new content ID system and happen to like doing your own lets plays/videos with monetezation enabled you miiiiiight not like what’s been going down.

The new content ID system is so sensitive that it picks up on music from within your game. Once it detects a match you’ll get a copyright flagged, normally automatically done by a youtube bot. This has caused some big YouTubers like AngryJoe and Total Biscuit to stand up and say something.

The whole thing is ridiculous. Even to the point of small companies getting flagged over music in their OWN game trailers.

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If YouTube doesn’t do something soon they might have people march off and vote with their own feet. Remember, MySpace used to be the most popular website out there until Facebook came along. YouTube may be owned by Google, but there are alternatives out there, and if you’re going to alienate some of your users then it might be time to set sail to a different location. Even I’m looking into other options.

Slept in on Black Friday

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I slept off a good turkey coma. Woke up today with feeling happy that I didn’t have to endure this kind of shiz:

That was all to be expected. He got kicked out because he wasn’t buying anything or attacking anyone! I like how the cops didn’t do anything either. How is this even fun?

And finally a fight over a TV…. a fucking TV.

Of course. Right now as I speak I am shopping around online for some cool deals. Unfortunately Newegg doesn’t really have anything spectacular. But I am getting some nice presents from places like World Market and Amazon. I think I’ll hit up ebay next.

Forget the XBox One! Give me the box it came in!

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Seriously… what the hell? They’re selling on ebay for almost if not the same price as the damned console.

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The scary part? People are bidding on these. Either people don’t know how to read an entire sentence, or they want the special shiny packaging… Either way it’s weird to watch.