I once had a friend tell me that, in her opinion, being a teenager didn’t stop until you were 23. And that made me feel a little bit better, because teenagers do a lot of dumb things. In general, a lot of dumb things that don’t take into account how they can and will affect the lives of others. For example, the following “prank”:
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=IzfQqt5q0Ak
From one angle, I guess the idea of freaking out shoppers with an over-the-top pratfall, pushed further by an explosion of the liquid of your choice, is kinda funny. From another, more empathetic viewpoint there’s the unavoidable fact that the people working at these supermarkets are going to have to clean up your mess. These people don’t make a lot of money, why are you making their lives more difficult? I mean, dang. Continue reading
Posted in Comedy, internet, morality, Shame Day, Youth
Tagged attack, bombing, death, empathy, entertainment, funny, jewish, knockout, knockout game, knockout king, milk gallon prank, polar-bear hunting, polar-bearing, punching, shame day, teenagers, viral video, Youth
By request, this Shame Day is going to be a triple-feature, with three of the most insidious corporations out there out in the stocks. Now I’m currently boycotting all three of these companies (and have been for some time) and made banning them from campus the priority of my college activism. That’s all just to say that I’ve had a long time to build and hone my venomous rage and hatred of both these companies, so buckle up- this is going to be vicious one.
Let’s start with Nike.
Nike
Even the mildest of the companies many, many offenses is still pretty vile. Take a look at this ad Nike ran back in 2008 for the Beijing Olympics:
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Tagged 3rd World, a dream deferred, Australia, baby, baby formula, banana republic, board, borneo, bottle, Boycott, breast feeding, breast milk, CEO, child labor, chiquita, Coca Cola, Coke, colombia, commercial, deposit, ecosystem, el salvador, environment, fair labor association, grace mugabe, Guatemala, hospital, human-rights, India, infant, Ivory Coast, jim keady, kerala, langston hughes, Mali, maternity, milo, morality, mugabe, Nestle, news, Nike, northern australia, Olympics, orangutang, plastic, regulation, robert mugabe, slave, slavery, south america, st. john's university, sugar, sugar cane, sweat shop, Thailand, the philippines, union, united fruit company, West Africa, zimbabwe, zimbabwean
Well, you’ve probably all heard about Rob Ford by now. You know, smoking crack, allegations of domestic abuse, recently said this while defending himself to a crowd of reporters [Warning: for mild language]:
I’m not actually a Torontonian, in fact, I live on the other side of the country so other than my irritation that people like Ford are able to retain leadership in our country, the Ford story doesn’t really affect me. I’m not even going to get into the embarrassing antics of Ford since I’m sure you’ve heard most of them already, but if you would like all the details I’ve heard thus far, you could check out this episode of the Fifth Estate. It features practically all the allegations against Ford that are out there, and delves into the danger this controversy has caused for the community where it took place. Continue reading
Posted in Canada, environmentalism, news, politics, Shame Day
Tagged Enbridge pipeline, Enbridge tankers, environmental disaster, environmentalism, Fifth Estate, first nations, government, greater than 90%, Huffpost BC, incompetent, media coverage, oil tanker spill, pipeline, politics, risk of failure, Rob Ford, shame day, Simon Fraser University, Smoking Crack
Sometime last month a friend of mine on Facebook posted the following status:
“So wake me up when it’s all over, when I’m wiser when I’m older. ~ Avicci”
As a person who only really catches up on pop music when he’s sitting in a car listening to the radio, I went to YouTube to check out what this was all about. I was pleasantly surprised to find that this was a song that I could listen to 10 to 15 times an hour for days:
Posted in morality, music, Shame Day, writing
Tagged Aloe Blacc, Avicii, background vocals, backup, credit, EDM, funk, I Need A Dollar, Legalize America, music, National Day Laborer Organizing Network, NDLON, soul, vocals, Wake Me Up
I’ve fallen in love with How I Met Your Mother. I chose my timing wisely, waiting until the very last season began to air before I let myself become sucked in. As a member of the generation of binge or marathon watchers (depending on what kind of spin you want to give to it) I just can’t handle waiting each week for a new episode. This way the control is in my hands.
There is just so many lovable characters on the show. Even the unrealistically lucky womanizer Barney makes me laugh. Sometimes while ticking me off at the same time.
By lucky, I mean that he’s lucky he isn’t dead yet, not that he is lucky because of the number of women he has “banged.” Come on bro, quality over quantity, eh?
But my favourite character in the show is definitely Lily.
Posted in family, health, media, Shame Day, television
Tagged Alcohol, Beer, birth control, cause and affect, CEA, cracked, criminal justice, FASD, Fetal Alcohol Spectrum Disorder, HIMYM, How I Met Your Mother, Lily and Marshall, poison, pregnancy, prison, rates of incarceration, SEA, sex, Special Education, Special Needs, TA, wine
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