Friday, October 30, 2009

We're lovin' it. -_-

We shed our usual atrocities in favor of other atrocious wear for Halloween.
The usual mishmash of epic costumes, failed and otherwise were present in force.
[Emos were less popular this year, thank god.]

More and more costumes are tending towards the slutty, but that's to be expected, after all, guys want to see more and girls want to wear less. Or did corporations just pound that into our heads so they can reap in a little more profit? Sexualization of everything for profit? Whatever, ethics class "research communities" are finally over.

Ugh, those research communities were a tremendous example of fail. Sure they made you think and philosophize (is that even a word?), which is the point of the class, but we're not evaluated on that now are we? You're evaluated on what you say. FAIL right fucking there. You are not evaluated on whether or not you've achieved the goal of the class. That's like me building a car and then say it fails because it doesn't fly even though it drives perfectly fine.

It might as well be a public speaking class. Even worse, the importance of the frequency of your interventions is placed above the importance of quality. Hello? Quality before quantity? No point building a million cars that won't run.

What if you don't feel like saying what you're thinking? What if you can't explain? Not being able to explain to someone else doesn't mean you can't understand what you're thinking. In the end, people spew out CANNED shit-arguments to get points. Painfully obvious, mostly repetitive, and only on occasion smart. It NEVER leads ANYWHERE. With good reason. This isn't a debate, it's just people taking turns talking about their interpretation. I support X because Reason A. You support X because Reason B. Am I really going to tell you you're fucking ape-shit wrong and that you should support whatever I'm supporting for the same reasons as me? No. But it is something the teacher does with predictable regularity.

And wow, I notice I've gone off topic. So, back to Halloween. Best costumes were awarded to the four people who decided to dress up as Ronald Mcdonald, Fries, Big Mac and drink.

Mcdonald's really got to us hasn't it? That clown scares the shit out of me.