Saturday 4 August 2012

Being A Facebook Douchebag - A Comprehensive Guide


Disclaimer: This article is written in jest. I actually love looking at the weird shit people put on Facebook. Sometimes stuff gets so bad it's funny. So don't get offended. Also I'm fully aware I've done lots of these things myself. Hypocrisy FTW :D

We all see them on our news feeds. Maybe we’ve even been then sometime. But it’s pretty hard for us intellectuals, with reading levels over the age of 3, and with a shred of common decency to manage to be a Facebook Douchebag all that often. So here’s a guide. Print it out and stick it to your computer screen. Not being able to see what you’ve written might just aid in the quest to piss off your online companions. But I digress...
  • Use hashtags in your statuses! - “Just ate a grap! #imsoquirky”. Or maybe try some cool phrases! “Going to get so drunk I need subtitles - YOLO!”.
  • Upload pictures of things you’ve cooked! Pretty cakes to beans on toast and everything in between! People love seeing that shit! Maybe stick a few up of your pets too. Everyone else cares about your Jack Russell so much.
  • Did you study French in Year 9? Ever watched Pans Labyrinth? Tell your Facebook friends you speak French and Spanish! It’ll make you look cultured, and no one can call you on it! (Unless they speak that language. But these are online people, you never have to actually see them...)
  • Grammar, punctuation and spelling are for nerds. Its Facebook. It doesn’t matter if it takes several seconds for people to decipher what you’ve said, maybe that way they won’t realize just how boring you are for a little while longer...
  • If you’re a girl, make an album with your name or a cutesy nickname, put a little heart next to it, and then start adding to it! Take a new photo after you’ve put your make up on every day and upload it. It’ll brighten peoples morning seeing your smug face once again, for no discernible reason!
  • Plus, you can then choose one of these pictures, instagram the crap out of it, add some cheesy text about ‘true love’ or ‘self respect’, and then put it as your profile picture! Everyone will think you’re so deep.
  • Make a Facebook group for yourself or your ‘hobby’. You’re a great Model/Photographer/Artist/Musician! Let the world know!
  • Write essays about the person you love as your status. Regardless of how things are going. You could write “I luff ma babee so much he is so good to me!” on good days, and “Why is he being so mean to me I don’t get it what have i done i love you..” on the bad ones. That way all your friends can feel guilty and try to reassure you every day until they get sick of it and delete you.
  • To make people pay even more attention to you, why don’t you try loudly announcing you are upset, and then not telling anyone why. People love that shit. Makes you seem mysterious.
  • If you have a significant other, as well as posting love messages on each other’s walls, involve yourself in everything else they do. Like all their statuses and join in on all their conversations with other people. Why wouldn’t they want you prying on every aspect of their life!
These are just a few quick ideas to get you started. Of course you could always try being insensitive to other people's beliefs, try to enforce your own beliefs on other people, or check in everywhere you go. That'll get a couple of people to unsubscribe to your newsfeeds.

God I'm an angry bitch sometimes, haha.

Tuesday 17 April 2012

I DON'T LIKE THE BEATLES - There. I said it.




No I'm not kidding. I really don't.

It annoys me that when you tell someone that, they'll start this long condescending monologue about how you haven't "matured" into it yet, or haven't "discovered" the right song.

Maybe I've heard enough of their songs to have reached this conclusion.

Maybe, just maybe, I want to listen to bands that I don't have to spend years "maturing in to" and have more than just "the right song".

Have a look at this page if you don't believe me that saying "I'm not fond of The Beatles" gets you a load of shit. http://www.facebook.com/pages/I-Hate-The-Beatles/254699572296

People act like if you don't like The Beatles then you are musically ignorant, and your opinion is null and void. I'm not ignorant. I listen to a lot of music. And old music too. I love Peggy Lee, Elvis, The Ink Spots, The Beach Boys, The Who, The Cure, Black Sabbath, Dean Martin, Frank Sinatra (Oh and a cheeky bit of Elton) - I'm not some kind of dunce who lives and dies by what's in the top 40.

Frankly I just don't like The Beatles. I don't like their voices (or the hair for that matter). And honestly I'd maintain nothing more than a respectful indifference to them if people didn't get so righteous about it.

While I'm here I might as well admit a few other things too. I don't care for Guns and Roses. ABBA and The Monkees make me homicidal. I don't think Lady Gaga or Madonna are musical "Idols", and I'm honestly not sure I've ever even listen to Rolling Stones.

I mean, I'm happy The Beatles existed, they inspired a lot of other bands that I do listen to. I'm not even here to say they're over-rated, because if people get so freaking pretentious about them, they must be doing something right for the other 99%. I'm just saying they're not for me. And that doesn't make me a leper.

"But they're the best selling band ever!" - look at how Twilight does at the box office and then tell me that statement actually means something.

All Time Faves :)