8/14 Pix in Book Six: Trying to Hold On 2019

Yes, ladies and gentleman… it is entirely possible for a grown ass man who has not watched a Disney Animated movie in a while to get a Disney Animated Movie Song stuck randomly in his head. As I walked to my car for lunch, I started humming. Stopped. Wondered where that song came from. Identified it. And continued humming. :p

That being said, here’s an interesting thing! Some of my cases have been “taken away” from me. Like… my boss volunteered to do them. At any job before, I would have thought “Okay. That’s it. This means they are going to fire you. They are consolidating the cases in an effort to sack you!” But… I didn’t think that. It has been WEEKS and I didn’t even consider that until just recently and only as a “Huh, I didn’t even consider that.” So either… my recent traumatic employment experiences have made me an apathetic bitch… or I’m learning to be more secure in my employment attachment. Here’s hoping it’s the latter!

This first picture share is a walk down memory lane for celebrity dumb tweets. Some of these may be familiar. I’m going to add commentary below each Tweet that I share.

Classic Kanye and one of his most well-known tweets. On one hand, I could understand this. If this was a mom with three kids and luggage concerns and all of that… any added little item to watch out for is a big deal. On the other hand, this is a famous rapper with an entourage bitching about how a Water Bottle is too much responsibility for him.

As much as I honestly, genuinely, legitimately despise Joel Osteen… I do understand what he was trying to do here. However, fuck Joel Osteen. He just told you a good friend will “rub it out.”

I’ll admit, I had NO IDEA who this person was until I googled her. Never heard any of her music. That being said, first news article with her name was about how a male studio executive told her that she was “too old to be sexy” at the age of 29… so that’s bullshit as a 29 year old is NOT too old to be sexy… fuck, mate, Hellen Mirren can still do sexy and she’s 74!! That being said, this tweet Rexha shared comes across as… poor. If she’d perhaps been more specific we could know what she meant. I mean… did she want to be part of the French Resistance? Did she want to be there at Liberation? Did she want to be there at Reconstruction? These are… possibilities. But… few people would actively select a country in the hands of Nazis as their “Time Travel Destination.”

I despise Celebrity News for dozens of reasons, so I forgive anyone who may not immediately recognize why this particular “celebrity tweet” is a bit more cringey now in hind-sight. To educate: The person who tweeted this message is currently Justin Bieber’s wife.

I’m sharing this only mostly because Mr. Durant was on a team with Kyrie Irving and Mr. Irving is famous for having spread the Flat Earth bullshit around the NBA. No idea if Mr. Durant is making fun of his team mate or got caught up in Flat Earther Anti-Science bullshit but… worth pointing out.

For a man who has interviewed some of the most famous and influential people of all time, to call watching Daylight Savings Time switch the “thrill of a lifetime” seems like such an old, possibly dementia-aided thing to say.

Ryan Lochte is a world class douche and the very epitome of too many swimmers that I’ve run into when I was swimming competitively.

Jaden Smith, equally as famous for being Will Smith’s Son as he is for his idiotic twitter presence. This strikes me as one of those things that is said by someone attempting to be deep after their first semester in college. Yes, child. There are many different ways for people to learn and traditional schools aren’t always best for everyone. But what you said is plain stupid.

You’ll note that the above lacked any and all Donald Trump tweets. Despite being “more celebrity than politician”, I think we can all think back to our OWN favorite “Fucking hell, this idiot is president!” tweets. There are certainly plenty to choose from. (Circling back: Was anyone else thoroughly baffled by people saying “Fuck what celebrities are saying, I’m voting for Donald Trump, he’s a businessman.” Because… no, pumpkin. Someone like PDiddy who successfully launched a clothing line, recording studio, and Vodka Label is more of a businessman than Trump, “king of bankruptcy.” Trump is more celebrity less businessman than Bill Gates, Richard Branson, Martha Stewart, Gordon Ramsay, and Cher!)

Honestly, were I single… I genuinely worry that this would be me every night and most weekends.

This next tweet was posted by someone who is surely a Top Tier D-Bag. Let’s see how being a complete ass on-line goes for him!
ORIGINAL TWEET

Obviously, the man got a few responses suggesting that he himself was an ass, a wanker, a jerkoff, unfuckable, etcetera.





Of course, my favorite two responses were the last two. Because… what in the fuck makes this guy think that having or NOT having kids significantly impacts life between 40 and 80. One WOULD think that the biggest impact would be between 20 and 40! Plus, definitely agree with the question “What about dudes?” Because… there are guys out there that don’t have kids, too. What are THEY gonna do between their 40s and 80s?!

Ah, those of us who were in some way destined for either Acting, Politics, or Crippling Dysfunction. In some cases: ALL THREE!

Felt appropriate considering the song in my head





Mamma rollin’ that body got every man in here wishin


Yup, gonna post this every time I see it. Cuz yup!

One particular article was interesting but had no shareable content. However it had such a good conclusion I wanted to post the conclusion itself here: Flash games used to be like Robin Hood, people giving back to the people without desire for compensation and without being regulated. Mobile games on the other hand are more like the Sheriff of Nottingham.

Oh, you want to cross this bridge and get to the next level? That’ll be a micro-transaction tax. You’re stuck on the same level in Candy Crush? That will be $5 dollars for 3 more lives. Are you an Indie designer that just wants people to play your video game? Make sure you meet our requirements and sign this waiver in order to ensure someone else gets a piece of your pie. Isolating the video game community through Pay-to-Play, and restricting developers can quickly reduce creativity and potential of the medium.

Honestly? I’d buy this and create outfits based on the Villain Concept I was feeling. I would rock that shit






























I know I’m a freak, but I would totally wear this!


So if sexy girls are off limits, are badass girls? Cuz… I also find badass girls to be sexy? lol





So… the point of “Don’t lump everyone together” is valid but methinks this un-gentleman went about nine steps too far there, eh?







Another one that I’ve likely posted before, but I love it so re-posting


Hey there, look at my undergraduate degree there on the bottom of that list!













This graph is particularly interesting considering how I’m going to end this entry. The Chive has recently posted a letter to its users and I will share it here for you

Hey Chivers,

Gonna have a candid conversation here, taking the filter off for a second.

There are negatives and positives in what I’m about to say. First, we got an email from Apple who’s not terribly pleased that we allow non-nude female content.

Let me just say that Apple and their apps are one of the biggest gateways to adult content on the planet. You can download the Reddit app and find nudes in minutes. And Apple knows this. Will they ever remove the Reddit app from their store? Never in a million years. Instagram uploads more NSFW content every minute than we do in an entire year. Meanwhile, theCHIVE has never posted nudity, ever. At least never intentionally (cough cough — Doug)

theCHIVE app is easily the most downloaded humor app in the history of the App Store. Will they remove us? Probably not, that would cause quite a national stir and massive hypocrisy debate, but who knows. We do have to extend an olive branch and respect their TOS. When I tell the Chivers that we are the misfits and underdogs, I’m not kidding. We deal with this crap all the time. There are a lot of people who don’t want us to exist. Which blows my mind given that the sum total of our creative output is to make you happy.

We don’t do politics, we do not uphold people to hate or ridicule, and the foundation of theCHIVE is charity. I ran into an Apple moderator at a bar at SXSW last year and he literally had no clue we were a purpose-driven company about to cross $20 million donated to the orphaned causes of the world. Dude loved him some Instagram models though.

While the rest of the internet is pushing us to the margins and rewarding polarized points of views with likes and shares, we are bringing people together. But that doesn’t jive with Apple. Cleavage is the real bad guy here.

The internet is changing rapidly. Europe is regulating the entire internet, California is following suit. Apple aside, we’re all moving to a logged-in world whether we like it or not. And so iOS users must login to see all of our content starting today. You will still see content if you are not logged in, but you won’t see our best content.

KCCO,

John