Showing posts with label youtube. Show all posts
Showing posts with label youtube. Show all posts
Saturday, March 7, 2009
Monday, December 22, 2008
Group #6: Rickrollers
They lurk on message boards and internet conversations. They strike when you least expect it. They may even be your brother-in-law. They are the internet pirates known as "rickrollers."
This was funny for four minutes back in March. It was even funny when I accidentally rick-rolled myself in September. It was even funny when someone had enough time to manipulate President-elect Obama's speeches into a rickroll.
Now it's just annoying. They are not as annoying as spammers, trolls, or those people who fall for those chain letter emails that say," you will die tonight unless you send this to 50 people" (look for future groups...). But they are annoying just the same. I'm minding my own business, surfing the internet, talking on some great message boards, when someone provides a link to a great YouTube video pertaining to our discussion. "You gotta watch this," they urge. My curiosity gets the best of me. Click. What a minute. Where does this cheesy 80s music comes from? And why does the singer look like he belongs on Saved by the Bell?
How the hell did I fall for this? Fool me once. On to another site. Ok. Back to normal. Oooh, I would love to see a video about cute puppies! I love dogs! Click.
DAMMIT! What the hell, man!? Where' s the damn puppies? Whatever. Check my email. Looks like my friend sent me an video about Dafur. Click. Oh hell no.
How is that even funny? Those poor people in Dafur. To think someone used their plight to get me to click on a site, so I can look at some singer wearing too much hairgel. This has got to STOP!
Rickrollers: stop ticking me off!!!
This was funny for four minutes back in March. It was even funny when I accidentally rick-rolled myself in September. It was even funny when someone had enough time to manipulate President-elect Obama's speeches into a rickroll.
Now it's just annoying. They are not as annoying as spammers, trolls, or those people who fall for those chain letter emails that say," you will die tonight unless you send this to 50 people" (look for future groups...). But they are annoying just the same. I'm minding my own business, surfing the internet, talking on some great message boards, when someone provides a link to a great YouTube video pertaining to our discussion. "You gotta watch this," they urge. My curiosity gets the best of me. Click. What a minute. Where does this cheesy 80s music comes from? And why does the singer look like he belongs on Saved by the Bell?
How the hell did I fall for this? Fool me once. On to another site. Ok. Back to normal. Oooh, I would love to see a video about cute puppies! I love dogs! Click.
DAMMIT! What the hell, man!? Where' s the damn puppies? Whatever. Check my email. Looks like my friend sent me an video about Dafur. Click. Oh hell no.
How is that even funny? Those poor people in Dafur. To think someone used their plight to get me to click on a site, so I can look at some singer wearing too much hairgel. This has got to STOP!
Rickrollers: stop ticking me off!!!
Saturday, December 13, 2008
Group #4: "Intellectuals" That Don't Know Squat
Socrates once said, "True knowledge exists in knowing that you know nothing." Well, there are alot of people out there who fancy themselves experts in everything, but are too stupid to realize that they are kidding themselves. And they tick me off.
Everyone knows one: the know-it-all that sounds dumber with every word that comes out. They insist that children get HIV needles in their Halloween candy, or that 9/11 was planned by the US government. They are part pseudo-academic and part conspiracy theorist. They point out politically correct facts that everyone already knows. Yes, we know that women are more likely to be raped by a familiar than a stranger. We also know that not every American speaks English or can read. Why do you think this is pleasant conversation?
They lurk places like Internet message boards and YouTube, spouting their warped statistics like some kind of Bill O'Reilly, Jr. Everyone else is wrong and they're right. They come in all forms: the racist academic, the European anti-American basher, the MBA who can't explain economics; the blue-collar everyman voice; the "doctor" who can't spell tibia; the "my dad says" teen; the anti-government nut; the "lawyer" who can't define due process, the mathematician that doesn't understand math; and the new college grad that probably drank his way through physics.
You are only going to make an ass of yourself. No one will think you are Einstein if you keep quoting chain letters that were emailed to you 15 minutes ago.
Pseudo-Intellectual Jerks: stop ticking me off!!!
Everyone knows one: the know-it-all that sounds dumber with every word that comes out. They insist that children get HIV needles in their Halloween candy, or that 9/11 was planned by the US government. They are part pseudo-academic and part conspiracy theorist. They point out politically correct facts that everyone already knows. Yes, we know that women are more likely to be raped by a familiar than a stranger. We also know that not every American speaks English or can read. Why do you think this is pleasant conversation?
They lurk places like Internet message boards and YouTube, spouting their warped statistics like some kind of Bill O'Reilly, Jr. Everyone else is wrong and they're right. They come in all forms: the racist academic, the European anti-American basher, the MBA who can't explain economics; the blue-collar everyman voice; the "doctor" who can't spell tibia; the "my dad says" teen; the anti-government nut; the "lawyer" who can't define due process, the mathematician that doesn't understand math; and the new college grad that probably drank his way through physics.
You are only going to make an ass of yourself. No one will think you are Einstein if you keep quoting chain letters that were emailed to you 15 minutes ago.
Pseudo-Intellectual Jerks: stop ticking me off!!!
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