Stop Forwarding Nonsense

This blog will not be as humour filled as previous ones but it’s an issue that I need to vent about. Anyone with an email address, a Facebook or access to a rumour mill has probably seen or heard of lists that reveal lesbians, gays, bisexuals, STD carriers and now “scabbicals. These lists are taken as almost gospel and forever anyone on the list is exposed and branded for life or at least until the next such list comes out to distract the silly minds that abound.

I doubt most if any of you would remember or even know this story but it is one of the reasons why I get annoyed and frustrated when people forward stuff without care. Somewhere around 2003/2004 I came home from UWI to hear that someone had called my home and my mother answered to be greeted by the words “is this where that bulling boy Bovell lives?” Imagine the annoyance and disturbance caused to both family and person by such a claim. This was a result of an email coming out that exposed a member of UWI’s volleyball team as an undercover faggot. The email then listed all of us who played and/or limed with the team mate at that time as faggots too and a variation of this email appeared with numbers attached. Was the gentleman in question gay? I do not know. I can however state for a fact that I never was and currently aren’t and have very little likelihood of being on a future date gay.

Luckily for me my name was a minor addition to the intent of the email to attack one person. I however know people who personally were attacked with pictures edited to suit the purpose of the attackers’ intent. My hotmail box received those emails multiple times a day with the request that we forward them. There are females out there who may in a state of love or young euphoric giddy headedness sent pictures to a male or allowed those pictures to be taken. The pictures somehow got out and we hurriedly forwarded them to everyone with the title showing the person’s name, address and even place of employment. These ladies did something millions and millions of females do daily for their lovers. Only difference is for some they let it be recorded and it got made public. Many of you reading this probably have sent or taken such pictures and the only difference is yours have not made it to the public eye.

Over the last few days I have received 2 forwards with list of “pretty boys” who are supposedly pretending to be straight and some even list promiscuous lives with females but are closet homosexuals. I will admit that scanning through the list my mind processed some of the well known names and I immediately thought to myself that I always suspected him as being such but I will not forward it as requested. What a man chooses to do with his life is his own decision and it is not up to me to decide if his carefully guarded secret should be made known.

The old adage we shouldn’t throw stones when we live in glasshouses rings true to me always because all of us have some aspect of our personality and character that even if it is suspected we wouldn’t want being forward to the world. How would you like for that immature moment from your childhood to come back and affect your work or personal lives? Yet we get these forwards and send them on with no regards for the fact that these people have lives and that we may negatively be affecting them when we send these forwards.

I’d prefer no one send me these emails or broadcast but realistically I know at some point I will get them. I can only hope that someday people will do what I do when I get them and that is to hit the delete button after I’ve insured that my name nor that of a love one appears on it.

Facebook Giving Soldiers The Blues

The husband rolls over and sucks his teeth violently because he cannot believe that his once loving wife gave up on the opportunity for a night of consummation to feed her ever growing addiction. In a matter of minutes the affect of the horny goat weed and lil blue pill would be gone and his soldier would be as dead as how his sex life had become when his wife became a victim of the relationship crippling drug known as social networking. Maybe he should have tweeted to his wife that the drugs were fading but he doubts that she would have left Facebook to come romp with him seeing as though Farmville required her to harvest her crops.

In the past the major worry in the work and personal worlds were the affects of addiction to illegal drugs or maybe gambling to relationships on the professional and personal scale. Now the major vampire that is sucking the life out of it is the plague known as Social Networking. Instead of working at their desk employers have to worry about who is checking out pictures from the latest fetes. Husbands and wives have to worry about who is giving virtual pokes to their significant others as these virtual pokes can lead to physical poking. Wieners run rampant and erect in this environment it seems.

Partying has been transformed due to the vicious social networking scourge. People cannot leave home without first posing to take a picture and post it to Facebook as they pull off from in front their homes whilst tweeting “off to the club to get shankle.” Females must take the token bathroom shots and males must pose with Corky-esque finger signs and drink in hands. You are no longer free to place a female in a 6:30 like daggering pose or risk having it posted on the Internet before the second “juck” has been delivered. Courts, Digicel and Lime are struggling to keep up with the demands for smart phones to feed the hunger to stay in touch with tweets and Facebook postings.

As I finish type these lines I have plans to send a link to my Facebook and to tweet for my followers to see the link. However I’m a level 2 or 3 social network addict so I will not let my soldier rise for a task and then send him back to sleep singing the blues. When you spend too much time farming or tweeting someone else may be raising a cock on your watch and finishing what Weiner started.

Can't Have it Both Ways

This will be short and to the point and even a little bit disjointed but it must be said. I have discovered who the most confused and miserable people on the planet are. They claim to stand for 1 thing but when they act many times they reflect a totally different being. They are loud and adamant that their cause deserves much better treatment yet they do not want to do the work for this. These hypocrites of all hypocrites are those beings known as feminist.

Feminist fight for equality and for equal recognition for women yet they will not admit it but they want to benefit from the weaker gender treatment that has been passed down from generation to generation. If two candidates go for the same job with the same qualifications and the male is hired we are bombarded with claims of gender bias and subjugation. Yet if the male is not hired we would never hear that he was picked on. Despite these happenings we are still expected to open doors, lift heavy items and protect the ladies in our lives from harm.

My qualm is now if you want to be treated equally then do equal work. Lift that divan up the stairs, kill the cockroaches yourself or open the door let me in. I think it is only fair that you do such since you want to be treated equally. Further to the point do not bother me to mow the lawn or clean the grease trap. However in this feminist world these tasks are seen as manly task and not for females. To you I say make your mind up. Nothing can be seen as female or male biased if we are supposed to be equal.

So make your mind up for the sake of rationality(which seems to be lacking where ever feminist are involved) and either let us share jobs equally and I will do all the lifting etc and you the softer task or you do everything for yourself and don’t call me for any help.