Monday 31 August 2015

'Can't be bothered'

So, I have a friend, and when she is too lazy to do something, she says either "effort" of "can't be asked". Firstly, the phrase is supposed to be 'Can't be arsed'. And even though I have told her on numerous occasions that she is saying it wrong, she doesn't explain why if I ask her. She just says something along the lines of 'I just do'. Which is really freakin' annoying. I mean, since when is that a decent answer?! It should be something like, 'That's how I grew up saying it, and I'm now in the habit of saying that' or 'It pisses you off.'
Secondly, she does this with most things. I once asked her if she watched anime, and she said no. I asked her why, and she said that she didn't like reading subtitles. Well, that's perfectly reasonable. I just asked her why, because I never understood why, and she said either "effort" or "cba". Come on... This is one of the reasons she gets on my nerves.
She is a self-admitted lazy person, but when you can't be bothered to read subtitles, it's gone too far. If you can't concentrate on both the subtitles and what's happening on screen, then that makes perfect sense. If you prefer to just get lost in the action, then that also makes sense. But can't be bothered. I mean, jeez. That's ridiculous. Come on world...

Monday 3 August 2015

Emos, Death Metal and Misconceptions

So, I would count myself as an emo. I class an emo as someone who listens to a certain genre of music and dresses the correct way. Not that there is a 'correct' way to dress, but you know what I mean. I would say that an emo listens to rock music (and anything like metal and upwards) and dressed in darker clothes (blacks and greys). (Also, by the way DAMN YOU AMERICAN SPELLING OF GREY!!!!!!!!) Emos are misjudged nowadays. Not as much as they used to be, but they still are. People still think we all are emotional train-wrecks, listen to people screaming down a microphone and are all Satan worshippers.
(Quick side-note, The other day, I had someone ask me if I was a satanist. I don't know why. It was on Instagram, so it could have been some of my posts, but I don't actually know. But seriously?!?!?!)
We don't all worship Satan. I don't even believe in any sort of deity, so I couldn't be a devil worshipper, because I don't believe in the devil. We aren't all emotional train-wrecks. I have two friends with depression that I wouldn't class as emos. One is trying hard to be, but failing. I have one who I would say is an emo and has depression. But then there are all the people who don't have depression and are emos. There are an awful lot of them. We don't all self-harm and are not all suicidal.
And then we come to the music side of things. You don't have to listen to screamo/death metal or metal at all to be an emo. You can listen to Panic! At The Disco and still be an emo. P!ATD is pop-rock/pop depending on which song you listen to. What most people perceive as music for emos to listen to is death metal.
Death metal (mainly) consists of death metal screams and death metal growls. Screams are with lyrics and are intelligible, depending on the song, artist and person listening. But the best part is, it doesn't have to be intelligible. You can listen to the feeling in the screams, not the screams as words. It is how a lot of people can roughly understand death metal without understanding the words. Death metal growls are just screamy noises made to put emotion into the song.
People say that death metal is rubbish because you can't understand the lyrics. What song was really big a while ago. Oh yeah... Gangnam style. Could western audiences who didn't understand the lyrics like the song? Hell yes. They loved it. How is death metal any different. Oh, people do it because they can't sing, do they? That's why it's different?
No. It's not. Death metal vocals are hard to get right. Believe me, I have tried. In fact, I am still practicing. There is plenty of skill involved in death metal vocals. Especially if you wish to keep your voice. Death metal is one of the most taxing styles of singing.
But you know what's impressive? Eminem in 'Rap God'. You know what's more impressive? This: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=XAS5Ja0YzT8

ANARCHIC UPDATE!!!!!

So, since I created the blog, I have actually stopped being an anarchist and stopped caring full-stop. It would be interesting to live in an anarchist society, but it wouldn't work. This is because no political system ever works. It's a fact of life. Also, I like wifi too much to live in an anarchist society.
BYEEEEEEE

The Eiffel Tower made me temporarily racist?

MASSIVE DISCLAIMERS!!! ----> I am not racist, I have friends of many different races, but this is just something that happened to me. I am deeply sorry if you are even slightly offended by anything you read hereafter. This may happen. YOU HAVE BEEN WARNED!
So, at the start of June, I went on a school trip to Paris, the supposedly most romantic city in the world, but really, we just saw a lot of goddamn pharmacies. It was very interesting, even through the windows of a coach. Really, if you get the chance to go, go. Just go. Just pack a large lunch and a lot of music. However, there were some rather internally embarrassing moments for me.
When we went to the Eiffel, ou Le Tour D'Eiffel pour tu francais (je suis desole pour mon francais malard), we were warned about what the PGL people called 'lookee lookee men'. Basically, (basically no auto-capitalisation sucks) they would come up to tourists with mini Eiffel towers and trinkets and attempt to sell them. Of course, the whole thing is illegal, as is buying them. But all of them were young black men. I'm not exaggerating. There was not a single female or even white or Asian (or any other race) person doing the same thing. The thing is, we'd also been warned of pickpockets.
And for the rest of that day, I looked around for young black men near me, and checked for my wallet. Now I know that it was stupid, but I did. Needless to say, nothing happened, I returned to England with a lighter wallet - but only because I bought some Nightmare Before Christmas shoes. They're cool.
Now, I need to rant, otherwise my second proper post doesn't work. One of the only issues with the trip was the PGL guy that was looking after us at Chateau du Grand Romain, since he was a patronising asshole.
If there's something that I hate about people more that them being hypocritical and stupid, because I am guilty of both of them on purpose sometimes, it's when people are patronising. People treating others like they're stupid when they know that they're not or before they know them properly makes me really annoyed, because academically, I am/can be quite intelligent. I have been on the receiving end of this before, and although when it's forced, it's funny as all hell, when it's how you are as a person, I want you to crawl into an open grave and die. (No, please don't I was joking. But if you are like that and we meet, prepare for me to be pissed off.) If you don't know the person, treat them like an equal until you actually know what they are like. If they are stupid, feel free to treat them as matches their level of intelligence as long as it doesn't get offensive. If it does, don't let it. Just don't. People who get patronising towards a person before they properly know them are narrow-minded assholes. If you would get off your f***ing high-horse for two seconds and goddamn talk to people normally, you would realise how normal people are not stupid, and it is in fact, you who has been stupid by patronising people. (I would just like to point out that by saying 'you', I am not referring to YOU, the reader, I am using it to explain a thought.)