It may not be a merry time for everyone, but even in a shit situation it is fun to wish good cheer to all!

So Merry Non-Demoninational Ferretmas.

DOOK DOOK DOOK DOOK!

*tailpoof bounce bounce!*

AN INTERNET DARK AGE WITH LOSS OF NET NEUTRALITY!

This shit is important!

This is the reason people SHOULD NOT avoid talking about politics!

Those of you that run to your "SAFE SPACES" at the mere thought of anything political are one of the reasons this shit will likely happen.

The cable companies have been working for years on this with the democrats AND republicans alike.

So BOTH sides are to blame, especially these cable/telecom companies.

Check this out, it is a spreadsheet of donations to republicans AND democrats from the big telecom companies with the listed money amount AND the name of the person you should vote OUT! https://docs.google.com/spreadsheet.....5a21d1fb#gid=0

https://www.opensecrets.org/ The link is on the top front page of opensecrets.org if the document link doesn't load or is blocked.

Basically the internet will be turned into a corporate warfare battleground, with telecom and businesses doing all they can to block or restrict ANYONE and ANYTHING they don't like, just like they do with cable TV.

Hell, google and Amazon and Walmart are already fucking around with each others search results.

And AGAIN I will remind people, "NET NEUTRALITY HAS NOTHING TO DO WITH MONOPOLIES!"

Why do people keep thinking it has something to do with monopolies?!?!?

Monopolies are dealt with under anti-trust laws!

All Net Neutrality does is makes sure that EVERYONE that uses the internet gets EQUAL TREATMENT AND ACCESS!

Also, if people are going to protest, they need to do it outside of the telecom company headquarters and local offices, make it impossible for people and executives to even get in their buildings to work... Basically a customer strike with picket lines and everything. Bitching and moaning on a college campus or in-front of the local courthouses will do NOTHING as the ones making this happen are the telecom/cable companies.

These cable companies are just like the old world railroads trying to ban automobiles because it is hurting their bottom dollar and they can't keep up with progress... So they want to do the same with the internet by using a 1970s cable subscription model instead, and they have been planning this ever since the internet started hurting their cable TV subscriptions.

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Save all your porn, it'll be currency soon!

Net Neutrality, explained and simplified.

"Net neutrality is the principle that Internet service providers should enable access to all content and applications regardless of the source, and without favoring or blocking particular products or websites. That is all it protects. If you want to fight for busting up the monopolies and expanding rural access and speed, look elsewhere, because its not net neutrality’s problem."

Basically "Cable TV Companies" that own most the telecommunication infrastructure don't like the idea of an open and ad free internet for one price and EQUAL bandwidth, and want to apply the outdated cable company logic of buying separate "packages and tiers" so they can make more money than they already do.

The funny thing is, when cable TV companies first came out, the whole point was to pay for TV that did NOT have commercials, but then at some point they snuck them in and people ended up paying for commercials too... So they want to do the same with the internet, and control ALL the content you can access.

Also, America has a bunch of what we call "Local Monopolies" that aren't covered under federal anti-trust laws. So many people do not have a "CHOICE" when it comes to picking an internet service provider as companies like Time Warner, Verizon, or AT&T will "own" entire cities and area-codes internet infrastructure and be "the only choice or nothing" in certain areas.

So...

NOW with net neutrality:

ALL the uncensored internet is included EQUALLY in the price you pay for internet service, save for any particular site that requires a separate subscription.

The government is only involved in that it makes sure the internet is treated just like phones, AM/FM radios, and broadcast "free" TV, where no one thing can be treated better or worse than another.



THEN without net neutrality:

The government is out of the internet equality business and corporations take over everything completely.

The entire internet is broken up into tiers, subscriptions, packages, bandwidth speed-limits, and "fast lanes".

You want social media? That'll be $35 a month.

You want porn? That'll be $55 a month.

You want streaming TV services like Netflix? That'll be an extra $20 a month.

You want to do online shopping at Walmart or Amazon? That'll be an extra $25 a month.

You do a lot of video uploads? You need the "fast lane upload and download package" for faster internet speeds, only $95 a month!

And you get lots and lots of CENSORSHIP too! Sorry you cannot go to any website that a company deems "offensive" or "questionable" anymore, especially their competitors!

My gawd...

Just 4 episodes in and I've had multiple nerdgasms.

I am NOT a fan of the actiony JJ-Verse Lensflare-Trek. I can't fucking stand JJ Trek...

To me, J.J. Abrams is the "ANTI-NERD", because he has ruined "Star Trek" AND "Star Wars".

I honestly could not watch Discovery past the first 2 episodes... (I didn't like it and they wanted me to pay-per-view) Hell, I was cringing from the very opening... They might as well call it "SJW Trek". They have even admitted that the Discovery JJ Klingons are based on a hatred for Trump, of all things. It is WAAAAYYYYY TOO DARK! The bright colors and optimism of TOS and TNG are nowhere to be seen, unless you count the lenseflares and annoying "over-white" holographic displays and crap.

I fucking LOVED the Roddenberry Klingons in TNG being fleshed out as more than just the "Evil Bad-guy Patriarchy".

"STD" is a fitting acronym for THAT "Pay-2-Watch" show.

So I start watching "The Orville" expecting either "SPACEBALLS" amounts of humor, or fart jokes like Family Guy (so I was pre-cringing there), and a shitty low budget, and instead I am treated with a more sarcastic realistic version of Star Trek that is NOT afraid to be politically incorrect, or make actual hard hitting episodes, and being more human than even TNG was while still making full on nods to a lot of TOS campyness and TNGs more serious side... With a whole new humor that makes it feel so awesome.

And the budget? Holy fuckballs, they got some amazing makeup, full body stuff, and even the CG is pretty good! And the ships are bright and colorful without all the lensflares or whitewashing.

Yes, NERDGASM!

In this show, humans still drink booze, and even eat pot brownies, and no one is perfect, save for maybe Isaac.

It is even funny to know that "The Orville" is basically the "B-Team" ship and not the best and brightest, and that makes it so much more fun.

That and Norm MacDonald is a horny depressed sentient blob with a crush on the old lady doctor of the ship.

The Orville is VERY Trek-Like, TOS and TNG, but is still its own NEW thing. It is NOT Star Trek, obviously, but it fills a Star Trekless hole I have had since Voyager went off air.

I really shouldn't compare it to other shows, as it is its own thing...

I even got a little teary as I was watching it, realizing how much I love this genre of sci-fi, and that this comedy-drama-sci-fi (Comedy drama? Dramady? Comadrama?) show was making me feel like I did back when I was a kid and new episodes of TNG or Voyager were on each week, and how it has been so long since anything fit this hole after Voyager ended.

Seth MacFarlane is a MASSIVE TOS and TNG nerd, and the PERFECT producer of, and perfect awkward Captain of "The Orville".

I honestly didn't expect "The Orville" to be so serious, or have hard hitting and even emotional episodes only 4 episodes in, with just the right amount of humor to keep things fun and set it apart from the more serious stuff.

I just wish they could get a PROPER 20+ episode season to really flesh things out like TNG and Voyager did... I'm getting really tired of the ADHD 9-13 episode format crap.

I'm also terrified "The Orville" is on FOX, the killer of Firefly and many other great shows... But from what I have heard, it was instantly renewed for 3 seasons just 5 episodes in.

But my gawds, if you are a fan of TOS and TNG, and don't hate Seth MacFarlane, give "The Orville" a watch.




Also... FUCK THE CRITICS! Good golly Miss Molly, those fuckers are so out of touch with real human beings. Orville is getting "20 out of 100" from critics, while actual humans watching the show are giving it 80s and 90s.

My rating?

"Star Trek Discovery" = PAY-2-BARF!

"The Orville" = NERDGASM!

Today's uncommon "common sense" lesson is:

Just because someone disagrees with you, it does not mean they HATE you.

Just because someone disagrees with someone else, does not automatically mean they hate that person, or want them dead, or are a "whatever-O-phobe", or any other absolutely asinine assumptions I have seen people throwing around lately for any number of "triggering" issues.

Seriously... Just agree to disagree, or IGNORE the thing you don't agree with.

It really is THAT simple.

The trans"gender" stonewall riot MYTH.

Let's get some of this gay history straight! *chuckle*

I keep hearing this over and over lately to the point people are saying the Stonewall Inn/Bar was a "trans-gender-queer-drag-queen hangout" before the Stonewall riot....

I can assure you it was FUCKING NOT!

Time for the braindump!

I keep hearing "newfags" mentioning the absolute terrible shit FICTIONAL TV miniseries "When we rise" injecting modern politics into something that is historically inaccurate for ratings reasons. (yes I'm now old enough to call young gays, newfags ^_^)

I want to correct the misinformation I am seeing and hearing lately.

As for "transgenders" STARTING the stonewall riots, is complete bullshit. Unless someone wants to admit transvestites and transgenders are the same thing here... And even then it wasn't started by a single person.

One butch lesbian, and the VERY FEW "men in dresses" seen in pictures and videos were admitted "transvestites": Gay men that dress and act like women but otherwise like being male anatomically, and "Drag Queens": gay men that dress and act like campy diva "personas" for entertainment purposes...

Still gay MEN with evil gay penises!

The MAJORITY there at stonewall were GAY WHITE MIDDLE-CLASS MEN!!!

Yes, even MORE gay MEN with evil gay penises!

Stonewall was NOT a drag bar when the riots happened!

Transgender wasn't even a word until the mid to late 1970s and wasn't in barely common use until the late 90s or early 2000s

In many of the gay clubs of the time, 1970s and before, this includes stonewall; transsexuals and even drag queens and lesbians were usually NOT ALLOWED in GAY MALE gathering places, and even if they were it was usually only if they were really well "known".

https://igfculturewatch.com/2002/03.....der-stonewall/

(I must provide links or people automatically think I'm making shit up)



Here's some excerpts from interviews during and after the actual stonewall riots.

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Eric Marcus, Making Gay History

Actually, it was the first time I had been to the friggin’ Stonewall. The Stonewall wasn’t a bar for drag queens. Everybody keeps saying it was. The drag queen spot was the Washington Square Bar, at Third St. and Broadway. This is where I get into arguments with people. They say, “Oh, no, it was a drag-queen bar, it was a black bar.” No. Washington Square Bar was the drag-queen bar.

If you were a drag queen, you could get into the Stonewall if they knew you. And only a certain number of drag queens were allowed into the Stonewall at that time. […]

That first year after Stonewall, we were petitioning for a gay-rights bill for New York City, and I got arrested for petitioning on 42nd St. I was asking people to sign the petition.

I was dressed casually that day – makeup, hair, and whatnot. The cops came up to me and said, “You can’t do this.” I said, “My Constitution says that I can do anything that I want.” “No, you can’t do this. Either you leave or we’re going to arrest you.” I said, “Fine, arrest me.” They very nicely picked me up and threw me in a police car and took me to jail.

Martin Duberman, Stonewall

Washington Square was Sylvia’s special favourite. It opened at three in the morning and catered primarily (rather than incidentally as was the case with Stonewall) to transvestites[.] […]

If she was going out at all… she would go to Washington Square. She had never been crazy about Stonewall, she reminded Tammy: Men in makeup were tolerated there, but not exactly cherished. […]

If the raid went according to the usual pattern, the only people who would be arrested would be those without IDs, those dressed in the clothes of the opposite gender, and some or all of the employees. Everyone else would be let go with a few shoves and a few contemptuous words. The bar would soon reopen and they would all be back dancing. It was annoying to have one’s Friday night screwed up, but hardly unprecedented.

Note 39:

Section 887(7) of the New York State Criminal Code was the one traditionally invoked by the police against transvestites. The law was supposedly ignored on Halloween, though the police-department handbook specified that even then, someone dressed in costume had to be wearing a certain number of garments “appropriate” to their sex.

Note 40:

The eyewitness accounts in RAT (July 1969) specifically credits “one guy” (not a lesbian or a queen) for precipitating a scuffle by refusing to be put into the paddy wagon…. At least two people credit Sylvia herself with provoking the riot…. But I’ve found no corroboration for either account[,] and Sylvia herself, with a keener regard for the historical record, denies the accuracy of both versions. She does remember “throwing bricks and rocks and things” after the mêlée began, but takes no credit for initiating the confrontation.

David Carter, Stonewall: The Riots That Sparked the Gay Revolution

pp. 261–2:

The question of who gets credit for starting the riots is one that deserves consideration. The question, however, contains a premise: that an individual or group of individuals can be singled out as the prime mover in a complex process that many person s collectively created. This is important for two reasons. First, as John O’Brien pointed out, there was a continuum of resistance ranging from silent persons who ignored the police orders to move to those who threw objects at the police. O’Brien maintains that it was because of those person standing around and blocking the streets and sidewalks and keeping the police from being able to operate efficiently that he and others were able to engage in their tactics as effectively as they did: if there had been only about fifteen youths lobbing objects at the police the young men would have been quickly caught or chased away.

Second, I wrote the account of the first night to reflect my understanding of what happened, namely, that until the definitive outbreak of rioting when the police retreated inside the Stonewall Inn, there was throughout the evening both a gradual buildup of anger and, correspondingly, a gradual escalation in the release of that anger. In the course of that buildup there were numerous turning points, some more critical than others. With these qualifications noted, I think it is clear that special credit must be given to gay homeless youths, to transgendered men, and to the lesbian who fought the police.¹⁰

Footnote 10 from above:

Charles Kaiser suggested to the author that Stormé DeLarverie (see The Gay Metropolis: 1940–1996 [Boston: Houghton Mifflin, 1997], p. 198) was this woman, but she could not have been. To cite only a few of the problems with this thesis, DeLarverie’s story is one of escaping the police, not of being taken into custody by them, and she has claimed that on that night she was outside the bar, “quiet, I didn’t say a word to anybody, I was just trying to see what was happening,” when a policeman, without provocation, hit her in the eye (“Stonewall 1969: A Symposium,” June 20, 1997, New York City). DeLarverie is also an African-American woman, and all the witnesses interviewed by the author describe the woman as Caucasian.

And here’s what The Gay Metropolis actually says:

Several spectators agreed that it was the action of a cross-dressing lesbian – possibly Stormé DeLarverie – which would change everyone’s attitude forever. DeLarverie denied that she was the catalyst, but her own recollection matched others’ descriptions of the defining moment. “The cop hit me and I hit him back,” DeLarverie explained [in Kaiser’s own interview with her on 1995.12.09].

Continuing:

Among these, we can name three individuals known to have been in the vanguard: Jackie Hormona, Marsha Johnson, and Zazu Nova.

A common theme links those who resisted first and fought the hardest, and that is gender transgression. While we do not know how the lesbian who fought the police saw herself, we do know that her clothing was masculine, in keeping with her general demeanor. We know from Pine’s testimony that the first significant resistance that he encountered inside the bar came from transvestites, and Joel S. places them among the first outside the bar to resist. Marsha Johnson and Zazu Nova were both transvestites, and, as the reader has seen, the street youth were, generally speaking, effeminate men. All available evidence leads us to conclude that the Stonewall Riots were instigated and led by the most despised and marginal elements of the lesbian, gay, bisexual, and transgendered community. My research for this history demonstrates that if we wish to name the group most responsible for the success of the riots, it is the young, homeless homosexuals, and, contrary to the usual characterizations of those on the rebellion’s front lines, most were Caucasian; few were Latino; almost none were transvestites or transsexuals; most were effeminate; and a fair number came from middle-class families. Footnote 11 from that same chapter:

It is remarkable – and no doubt inevitable given human psychology – that in the popular imagination the number of transvestites at the riots is always exaggerated. Readers will note that in the [Fred] McDarrah photos of the riots there is one transgendered person[,] and none of the persons I interviewed, some of whom knew her, ever saw her actively involved in the riots. (Note that the McDarrah photographs, which do feature the street youths, were taken late on Saturday night during one of the lulls in rioting, when nothing in particular was happening….) The Ambrosini photo does not show a single transvestite. Craig Rodwell told researcher Michael Scherker that “one of the myths about Stonewall is it was all drag queens. I mean, drag queens are part of what went on. Certainly one of the most courageous, but there were maybe twelve drag queens. In thousands of people.”

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This is a good film PBS did back in 2011 with first hand interviews and the actual history/pictures/videos of the stonewall riots.

http://www.pbs.org/wgbh/americanexp.....lms/stonewall/

A lot of people mention "Sylvia Rivera", but even he admits to being a GAY MALE TRANSVESTITE, even starting a transvestite fund to help out transvestite and gay homeless street boys "street queens", He even admitted to not being at the bar when it started and not liking the transgender label back in 2002 before dying.

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Sylvia_Rivera

So again, I must say to these newfags and genderspecials, to stop trying to rewrite gay history to fit your modern identity agendas.

So if you really want to say who threw the first man sized high-heel at stonewall, it was a GAY MALE drag-queen or GAY MALE transvestite with an evil GAY PENIS!

Aaaand....

BAM!

Okay, I'm done here. ^_^

Just ran across this on NETFLIX.

https://youtu.be/YtvkFv7igno

This show is so awesome!

Made by the same guys that do "Robot Chicken".

The main characters are a metal-head snaggletooth semi-truck racing dog, and an albino greaser ferret mechanic with a an elvis hair-do and poofy tail.

It just showed up on my list out of nowhere and is freaking hilarious!

The weasels and ferrets in the show move around like little turbo slinkies, and its got the stop-motion style of "Fantastic Mr. Fox" with a mix of just outright silly and creative humor.

I've only seen 3 episodes but I have to rate this as a FURRY "must watch".

Jingle balls! Jingle balls!

Sexy man thongs for all!

Oh what fun,

it is grope,

a package oh so big!

Yay!

Thank the gods that dubstep was only popular for about a year before people realized how absolute SHIT it was.

Anyway, in case you don't know what Synthwave is, it is basically a modern callback to the idealized 1980s and early to mid 1990s movie soundtrack culture and nostalgia. Basically "Retro-Future"... Terminator, Robocop, Cyborg, Knightrider, Tron... The neon lights, shiny crazy cars, arcades, fingerless gloves, and even early computers of the time.

I love this music for the fact that is isn't tightly restricted genre-wise other than to "sound like the 80s retro-future". Too much electronic music lately has been limited to strict mathematical BPMs and intro-outro and blah blah blah... It's nice to see something that allows for individual and varied artist styles and beats while staying in the same genre and not sounding like the exact same song beat across artists... I always hate it when I find some "new" electronic music, then try to find more and realize every song is the same beat... So this Synthwave stuff is pretty freaking awesome to me! Especially the "dark" Synthwave stuff.

I thought I'd share this just in case any people reading these journals are fans of electro-music or 80s and 90s nostalgia.

https://youtu.be/KPa1_7AF1lM

https://youtu.be/8iNczzhZmbc

https://youtu.be/wUK3vqzECaA

I'm really hoping for an American culture resurgence of some sort, things have been so stale since the late 1990s... It'd be nice to see Synthwave or Electroswing be the soundtrack to a new identifiable American decade.

It's that time of the year again... One year closer to death and or immortality. ^_^

There will be good food and good whiskey. Yay!

Dook Dook Dook Dook!

I see so many people going fucking INSANE right now. Seriously, it is worse this time than it was when G W Bush got elected.

Hell, just on FA I see tons of journals of people cussing out entire groups of people they once got along with, burning bridges with people they once considered friends, all because of election year politics and butthurt over their "team" losing.

And I keep seeing journals and articles, especially on the left side of things, that are telling people not to EVER talk politics or religion or such with friends... As if they had some handy dandy guide to life.

That makes me wonder, how many people do they consider supposed "friends" that they have to tiptoe and censor themselves around?

That doesn't sound like a friend to me.

Real... As in REAL "actual friends" are usually friends BECAUSE you CAN talk politics and religion and hot button issues with them. They are likely friends in the first place because they have many of the same interests or ideals as you... That is usually how friendship works.

Any time you have to fear or censor yourself and not be yourself around supposed friends is NOT GOOD. It means you are being fake, you are putting on a certain persona that is not actually YOU and eventually it will be found out. I especially see this with the people that honestly think they can "make friends with everyone", at some point they burn out or people catch on to them.

Now the one place you DO NOT talk about politics or religion and such is WORK... You are there to do a job and get paid for it, not to hang around a water cooler and chat about the hot button issues... Even if there are people you agree with, just excuse yourself and make it known you are there to be professional, and not to make BFFs with everyone.

Again, the best friends are the ones you CAN talk about hot button issues with, and it is okay for friends to have disagreements, it is actually HEALTHY, as long as you don't go all extremist nutty. This is where "agreeing to disagree" comes in, there is no need to get hostile or throw away a friendship over something silly. And if you do want to throw away a friendship over a single disagreement, well, that says a lot about you, and it's not very good.

Looks like Southpark was right, America would rather have a giant douche over a turd sandwich.

Democracy has spoken whether you like it or not.

Oh, moving to Canada?

Good luck with that.

"One does not simply WALK into Canada."

I hear this same old Canada thing every election cycle, republican or democrat alike.

You also don't need to commit suicide, that's fucking stupid.

Sit your ass down and breathe.

If you are in California, pot is now legal so smoke up and RELAX!

If this had been Trump Vs. Bernie Sanders, the collective left side of America wouldn't be shitting itself and freaking out right now.

The DNC did Bernie dirty.

To be honest, I think the biggest reason Hillary didn't win was pretty much three-fold... And had little to nothing to do with E-mails or Bill:

1). This is the biggest one... When Bernie was running and proving to be much more popular than Hillary, she pretty much shot herself and the whole Democratic party in the feet when Her and the DNC and her Media friends rigged it so Bernie would lose.

2). Hillary has flip-flopped on the issues so many times, and has been so pro-wallstreet, and pro-big business, that even many hardcore Democrats wouldn't trust her.

3). The left sided media and even the establishment right side media spent so much time insulting Trump, and being Anti-Trump, and being so cocky with their constant "polls" saying Trump didn't have a chance, that they completely forgot to be "PRO-HILLARY". People were just not motivated to go out and vote for a person they hardly even knew or trusted because they thought Trump didn't have a chance to begin with.

I'm sure there could be more but that is what I have been seeing.

I'm more pissed the libertarians didn't get the 5% they needed to be considered a legit party in the next election. “5 percent of the votes ends the two-party abuse and allows Libertarian candidates equal ballot access and federal funding. ”

Like every every election, republican or democrat, now we see what happens and if it was the right or wrong choice.

This post brought to you by:

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A wise man, a man I hold dear to my heart, and that has helped me though some of the roughest points in my life, told me multiple times... This AMAZING bit of, well, wisdom:

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"Always prepare for the worst, and you will never be disappointed again!"

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Sure I'll admit I'm not retarded or rich enough to call myself an "optimist", but I am also not a pessimist...

I want to say I'm a "realist", though that may be up for other people's interpretations...

Most people will likely just call me a dick, asshole, or dickish-asshole. Or "Hey you! Awesome ferret dude!"

But seriously, which I rarely am, that one phrase has helped me though some of the toughest points in my life. And I'm talking the darkest, when I think life isn't worth living any more.

It could be pessimistic optimism... But it is none-the-less TRUE!

If you prepare for shit to be bad, you only set yourself up for "GOOD" and "EXPECTED" outcomes.

If things go sideways, I already prepared for that... Some may call it "pre-worry", but remember that time I said we should bring umbrellas and a tarp on the trip and you were all "Dude! It's not gonna rain! We don't need this extra shit!" and then the biggest storm you have ever seen happened?... We ended up being the only ones of the group that considered that a super FUN trip, while everyone else was soggy and waterlogged.

A person I consider a friend once asked me why I had grappling hook and crow bar and fire starting kit and metal coffee pot and a change of underwear and toilet paper in the back of my Station Wagon, I said "Just in case I ever fly off a cliff and survive or break down in the middle of nowhere or need to take a crap on the side of the road or warm up"... I'm talking "Worst case scenario" type stuff.

That one phrase is almost entirely eliminating the whole "bad" side of things in life.

Because it gets rid of that one thing that could really ruin someone's day: "Things not going as expected."

Sure we could go to the very end and mention "DEATH"... But hey, prepare for the worst includes that... I didn't die today, so the possible bad shit that may have happened is nothing compared to dying some horrible death... In case you want to throw in crazy muslims torturing me till I want to die, well that is what guns and screaming "I'm taking you with me!" are for.

There is nothing worse than the worst!

Again, this message brought you you by "Drunken Ferret" brand whiskey!

No matter how much I hear this shit about "Internet Bullies", they are still not ACTUAL BULLIES!

I have a wee bit of expertise in this area...

Sit back as I regale you with a story:

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Chapter one: "The bloody, bloody, early years."

As a kid, back in the medieval ages before the internet was even a thing, long ago before puberty hit me like Mike Fucking Tyson, I was mercilessly bullied in EVERY school I went to. Public and private... Sometimes even by adults and teachers since this was back in the days when pretty much anyone could legally get away with hitting children.

And I'm not talking about just getting called nasty names or being tripped in the hallway... I'm talking about that and everything from getting broken noses and broken fingers, to actual fucking GANG BEATINGS!

Yeah, my biggest GANG BEATING was from 20 kids that beat me (many of them multiple grade levels above me) because I didn't speak Spanish and dared to try standing up for myself to a bully pushing me around and pushing back, once. How dare me be one of the few white kids in a mostly Hispanic LosAngeles school! I ended up being ganged up on and beaten so badly I was in the hospital for a week, and that was 3rd fucking grade!

They could do this for any reason... From size, to being too smart for the class I was in, to if I was the only white kid in the class, to having a new pair of shoes or Knightrider lunchbox, to being the dork that needed an inhaler or wore glasses, to just me accidentally looking at someone or something the wrong way.

Had to learn the hard way to be situationally aware at a young age... Which is terrifying to a kid knowing at such a young age that the world isn't a safe place... And that the whole idea of safety is all just an illusion.

I don't think I stayed at a single school in my childhood for more than a year or two till I reached the end of middle school and the aforementioned puberty made me over six feet tall and someone not to fuck with. Hell my parents were even thinking of homeschooling me at a few points, often happened like that between schools since it was even harder to not get bullied when you are that new kid that came in half way through the year.

After the gang beating, my grandfather, a WWII veteran, started enrolling me in just about every martial arts class and such that he could find, especially after finding out that the playground monitor adults just stood there and let me get beaten till I stopped screaming for help because I had blacked out... Both him and my dad said the bullying wouldn't stop till I found a way to fight back or defend myself.

The only problem with teaching a kid martial arts is: it doesn't make them an actual bad-ass when they have bullies that are 3 plus grade levels above them... No manner of "sum-flung-dung" will prepare you for some hulked up 11 year old that hit an early puberty somewhere around 7. So again had to be situationally aware and adapt. Would always have my head on a swivel, always be looking for ways out just in case, only sitting in back corners to see anything coming, even learned how to pick locks on padlocks and certain types of doors to get into or out of certain places. I used to pick the locks to the ladder covers so I could have my lunch in peace on the roof of the school. Hell now that I think of it, I was a pretty good little ninja at that shit after a while.

Also, most REAL BULLIES come in groups of at least 2, brains and brawn style, plenty of single ones, but the 2-3 thing seemed to be the bully rule of thumb. There was always a leader and his dumb-shit followers. And the part that sucked the most is they could outright torture me, and if I ever fought back they would all make up stories to say I started it, and adults were downright assholes too, so "I" was usually the one getting suspended or expelled because "There's no way they could all have the same story about you starting it." Yeah because a timid kid with glasses and asthma would totally start shit just to get the crap beat out of him.

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Chaper two: "You done fucked with the wrong nerd!"

Eventually around the time I was 13 I had my LAST bully...

Here's the story:

He was one of those "held back for 2 years" types that had been harassing me since I was 10... The: "death by a thousand cuts" types of bullies with the "stand behind him and laugh" crew.

Always tripping me, knocking books out of my hands, shoving me into walls, pissing on my backpack or jackets (seriously, what the fuck is with kids peeing on things?), dumping their drinks on me, calling me names I didn't even know the definition of yet, stealing any manner of my property, setting me up to get in trouble some way or another... You know, REAL BULLY stuff, and the fucker was 2 grade levels above me.

Well it was a merciless day in class and out of class, spit wads, getting slapped around and all that shit.

Then before the last class he shoved me back against a wall, took my glasses off my face, threw them on the ground, and stepped on them... Of course pointing and laughing with the other merry bunch of idiots and calling me everything under the sun... Then he gives me one big shove till I fall down and drop everything all over, and throws my now crushed glasses at my face...

After that, the whole world slowed down and the rest was a blur...

Like Popeye eating spinach or the Grinch’s heart growing bigger, my balls must have grown 3 times in size and I went fucking postal on this asswipe.

Apparently I kicked him square in the nuts hard enough to bruise them both making him drop to his knees, then punched him right in the nose, causing a bloody nose, before kneeing him full force in the mouth and knocking out two of his teeth. His merry bunch of idiots ran away just as I started wailing on this vagina queef with 12 years of pent up "FUCK YOU!" to get out of my system.

Again this is all a blur, it wasn't until 3 separate teachers had to pull me off him and drag me to the office that I found out what happened and why my knuckles were bloody, I actually had people telling me what happened because I honestly didn't know.

I was expelled from that school pretty much right on the spot, the only reason the cops weren't called was because I had no previous record there and it happened in the middle of class break with about a bajillion people that were able to say the other kid started it... His parents even paid for me to get new glasses.

Of course I was bawling at this point and shaking and all that, because now I was in deep shit… Or so I thought. My parents took me home and the whole time my dad had this big shit eating grin on his face that he had one time before when I was 10 and got expelled for busting a previous bully in the face with a bathroom stall door and then pissing on his jacket after he had already pissed on my new backpack and rubbed my face in it, so I already knew I wasn't in trouble with dad for a change… Anyway, that shit eating grin, no talking, got me ice cream and a cheeseburger and a short talk from mom that went like this: “I’m not going to say what you did was right… But after all these years I’m proud you stood up for yourself. Now you are grounded for the rest of the day, take a shower and get to bed.”

Apparently what happened that final time followed me to my next school and all the way through highschool and even into early-adulthood. I became that guy people were afraid to screw with, glasses and all, like "Dude! Don't fuck with him, you will get laid the fuck out.", and I absolutely loved it because the bullying was finally over... I made it all the way through high school at a single School without a single problem from anyone else.

Hell I might even say if it weren’t for said bullying, I would have grown up a total little bitch.
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Anyway... Yeah, I know what REAL bullies are... And they are UNAVOIDABLE! And the only ways to deal with them is to, well, move to a new school/city every time, or FUCKING FIGHT BACK!

Now I am constantly hearing of "INTERNET BULLIES" and saying kids are committing suicide or some shit like that because they got harassed on facebook or twitter.

Internet "bullies" are NOT "REAL" BULLIES.

Just because someone(s) doesn't agree with you on a forum, or calls you out on facebook, that does not make them a bully...

"Oh no! There's a meanie bugging me on an entirely optional social media platform that only exists online! I'm such an autistic little sheltered snowflake I might as well die!"

Seriously, stop being such a pussy!

Life isn’t a SAFE SPACE… Life is turmoil and strife and fighting. Humans like to think they are so much more evolved than other creatures when they are not. There are pecking orders and they will be established whether you like it or not. The quicker you dive into life head first and learn to deal with it, the better off you will be.

"But social media bullies?!?!?"

Delete that shit if you have it, or never go on it in the first place!

And never fucking use your REAL NAME online.

Holy fuck, they have had Public Service Announcements for kids that have been going on since the early 2000s saying NEVER TO USE YOUR REAL NAME ONLINE!!! This is pretty much rule #1.

Problem solved!

It really is that easy!

"Oh but Ferretfuck, what if they follow you around IRL and bully you there?"

Then they go from being an internet dipshit to an actual stalker or bully.

"But what about if they say mean and untrue things about you online and it follows you around grade-school?"

Stop giving a shit because most people don't keep relationships from grade-school into their adult life... And anyone that believes any bullshit about you without knowing your side of the story is not someone you want to be friends with in the first place.

Before the internet there was this thing called "GOSSIP" where people spread nasty rumors by word of mouth. Now they just do it from a cellpone or behind a computer screen.

“But Jerkbag McFerretdingus, what can I do with these ONLINE buttfucks?”

Well my little autist, I got a whole series of amazing solutions for you below!

Ignore them (hell this one alone often works best because they get bored and move on), mute them, blacklist them, fire back at them with witty comebacks if you have the ability or brains to, quit farcebook or twatter or any of those other totally optional bullshit social media sites... Seriously, just turn the computer or phone off even.

And gone!

Poof!

Like magic!

Your life will be a lot better without all that stupid social media shit to begin with.

"Oh but Asshole Furret, how will I ever make or keep friends?"

By fucking talking to actual people face to face, and creating ACTUAL REAL WORLD SOCIAL SKILLS THAT DON'T PUT A SCREEN BETWEEN YOU AND SOMEONE ELSE! >.<

Hell the newest generation is already starting to rebel against the whole social media thing because it becomes un-cool when mom and grandpa are using it.

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If I had the option to choose how I got bullied when I was younger, I would have picked the fucking internet bullshit because then I could ignore them with just a push of a button!

Hell the internet crap isn't even a bully because: POOF GONE! Oh another account? POOF GONE! Oh his friends now? POOF GONE! Twitter and Facebook? POOF GONE!

In short:

You can't ignore, mute, or blacklist, a REAL bully.

A REAL bully breaks your bones and punches you in the face and steals your lunch money and pees on your things for some reason. So until you can get physically punched in the face through the internet, SHUT THE FUCK UP AND GROW SOME BALLS!

An internet bully doesn't internet steal your internet lunch money, or internet punch you in the internet face, or internet piss on your internet backpack, or FUCKING INTERNET GANG BEAT YOU!

“Oh no! My precious feewings were hurt by XxX420dInGuS-bLaYzEiT420XxX, time to commit Seppuku! “ *Achievement Obtained: DARWIN AWARD!*

You know your drunk when...

Steven Seagal movies are suddenly good and you can actually understand what he is saying.

I think the reason he squints so much and sorta grumble whispers is because he has a man crush on Marlon Brando from "The Godfather".

Or...

He had surprise buttsex from a donkey in Mexico at least once.

Like he looks at himself in the mirror, off set, and just goes "Oh god... I can still feel it up there."

Holy fucking shit! Bruce Campbell still has it!

Just saw the first few episodes on STARZ network...

So I heard rumors about this show and thought it would likely never get made, then I see it has been made while looking for a movie to watch... So I watch the first few episodes.

Holy crap!

I have not had a TV show get me this excited in a long time!

I'm having a nerdgasm! Gooey nerd juice everywhere.

If you like Bruce Campbell, and the Army of Darkness/Evil Dead movies, or even something like "Dale and Tucker Vs Evil" then you have to see this show!!!!!

If you like the show "Supernatural" but find it boring because they do the same shit all the time, watch this instead!

If you are tired of all drama and no action in "The Walking Dead", watch this show instead.

"Ash vs Evil Dead" needs to be hyped like crazy by fans or it may not make it beyond a 1 season shot.

http://www.starz.com/originals/ashvsevildead

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Ash_vs_Evil_Dead

http://www.imdb.com/title/tt4189022/

Since I like to point out the absolute bullshit "Our Dear Leaders" try to lead us "The Little People" around with...

Today's installment is: "THE PARIS CLIMATE CHANGE SUMMIT".

Some 50,000+ people from all over the world have flown in private and "tax paid for" airplanes, and individual and opulent luxury vehicles, to a vacation... Err... I mean important gathering about how to "save" the world from "poor people"... Err... I mean "climate change".. And get lots and lots of money in the process... Err... I mean save the world!

With estimates of the amount of shit they are spewing, not only from their mouths, but all said transit and opulent dining and accommodations around the area of 300,000+ TONS of pollutants.

My only response to this is: Anyone that believes or supports these overpaid lying politicians and supposed "leaders" is an idiot.

And...

If they really cared about the "environment" so fucking much, why couldn't they do this with a Video Conference from one of their many mansions? Or take a bus? Or fly coach with the rest of us plebs?

It's a fucking vacation and they are pulling the wool over all the little sheep's eyes.

Whenever I hear a story of someone "accidentally" shooting themselves, I laugh and call that person a dumb-ass.

Even dropping your gun and having it go off is not the gun's fault, it is your fault for dropping the damn thing.

The story usually goes like this "Mr. or Ms. Herp-a-derp was cleaning his/her gun and accidentally shot him/herself in his/her big stupid face."

Also, why the fuck are so many people cleaning their guns without clearing them first? You fucking morons! I have no sympathy for stupid. Here's your Darwin Award, thank you for taking yourself out of the gene pool.

Blaming a gun or other inanimate object for a person's own stupidity is, well, stupid.

Jeff Cooper advocated four basic rules of gun safety (gun control if you will), and they are AMAZINGLY simple and easy to follow, and eliminate all possibility of negligent discharge, I was taught this as far back as the cub scouts even with BB guns, and I have yet to shoot myself in my big stupid face:

1. All guns are always loaded. Even if they are not, treat them as if they are.

2. Never let the muzzle cover anything you are not willing to destroy/kill/shoot. (For those who insist that this particular gun is unloaded, see Rule 1.)

3. Keep your finger off the trigger till your sights are on the target. This is the Golden Rule. Its violation is directly responsible for about 60 percent of inadvertent discharges.

4. Identify your target, and what is behind/beyond it. Never shoot at anything that you have not positively identified.

Pretty fuckin' simple if you ask me.

Conservative religious nutjobs said fag marriage will lead to bestiality and pedophilia being legalized...

I wonder what the supreme court said about that part? ^_^

Though the religious nuts still believe it will somehow FORCE churches to marry people they don't want to... Talk about misinformation! You would think that churches of all people and places would understand the whole separation of church and state thing.

Seriously though, I am so freaking happy right now for the marriage equality ruling... I no longer feel like a 2nd class citizen in my own country... Even the White house has rainbow lights on it right now.

There is still stuff that has to be fought for for true equality, but this is a HUGE MASSIVE ENORMOUS FIRST PENI... err... STEP!

All the pictures and videos of lifelong partners, finally getting their lives together legally recognized, keeps making me get all sniffles and smiles.

Heavy metal? Check!

Amazing cars that were actually built to spec? Check!

Action up the ass and out the ears? Check!

Easy to follow plot? Check!

Over the top insane stunts and very little CGI? Check!

Post apocalyptic setting? Check!

Even though fuel is in short supply, everything is a gas guzzler? Check!


Holy crap I wish the movie was an hour longer!

I want the main baddies double-decker 59 Cadillac Coupe DeVille monster car "Gigahorse"... It has 2 V16 turbo charged engines pushing over 1200bhp each!

One could even say the movie was artistic in many aspects... Though I was mostly in it for the cars and over the top action. ^_^

I really hope George Miller decides to keep going with the Mad Max series if this movie is a big success.

If you like action movies, car chases, shootouts, kick-ass protagonists, metal, post apocalyptic settings... Go see this movie.

I wish more movies could be this FUN!

Oh my gawd... I am so tired of female voices nagging me all fucking day... Everything from the GPS in my car (I had to hack into an old GPS to transfer the male voice files over to my new GPS because they no longer offered male turn by turn voice options on the newer GPS), to Siri on the iphone, to Cortana on anything windows 10 based, to just about every futuristic video game with a computer voice in it, and in so many other things.

Why does the female voice seem to be the only thing people want to hear all day long, and why aren't there any male voice options? This is sexism against male robot voices! We need to protest and sign petitions and get all those zit faced SJWs whining about this everywhere possible! Mobilize my minions! Muhahaha!

Seriously, I thought we would have computer butlers with deep, elegant, male, British accents by now. I want Jeeves or Jarvis the computer butler or something like that, not a shrill, nagging female "assistant".

I got bummed out today when I heard about this, since I'm a huge Trekker/Trekkie since I had been into Star Trek since I was a kid, even before I knew about "furry"...

I got to meet him once and even got a hug from Him at an event organized through a family member with some ties to the movie and TV industry.

Though 83 is a pretty good age for someone to last that had smoked for decades.

I keep thinking of the funeral scene from the first time I saw The Wrath of Khan, when I was a kid... Damn it made me cry, and then I was so happy when Spock came back in Search for Spock.

He was an amazing person, one of those people with a presence to them, all they had to do was walk into a room or start talking and everyone was focused on them, he was also funny when doing Vegas Trek Con roundtables and such (Shatner stole my bike). And that voice was amazing, especially from all the science show voice overs he did through the years, right up there with James Earl Jones, Morgan Freeman, Vincent Price, John Rhys-Davies, Christopher Walken, and Christopher Lloyd. You knew it was him the second he spoke.

Don't know what else to say other than that, and inhaling smoke of any sort will kill you sooner than later.

So the FCC has said they will protect net neutrality today, and on the surface it is a very good thing.

BUT...

Don't celebrate just yet.

They are still trying to push the Thune-Upton bill that would reverse everything, as well as shady back room, closed door, agreements, along with the actual "secret" 330+ page bill that was just passed, that the public has not even seen yet!

So... Again... A massive, far reaching ruling, was just passed, on a massive bill that the public has not even seen! To me that sounds shady and secretive as all the blackest back room bullshit I've heard over the years. What happened to a government for the people, by the people? What happened to having the most transparent administration in history?

Not out of the woods just yet, so to speak, till the public can see what was just passed, and it becomes final and does what we have been hoping it does.

So I built myself a nice new custom computer... And then it began to drive me crazy! I could not get games like the Batman Arkham series, or texture modded Skyrim, or Far Cry 3 & 4 to run smoothly without lowering settings below what an older 760 card could run on ultra! After going through 3 different GTX970 4GB cards from Asus and EVGA that either had weird stuttering in games at 1080p the second they hit 3.4GB of usage, or stuttering AND massive coil whine and fan noise (like an angry hornet's nest)... I thought, something is weird here with the reference card (original design) at this point.

Well lo and behold nVidia screwed the pooch on the GTX970, selling it as a 4GB graphics card with the same rops and processing of a GTX980 (the 980 being over $250 more than the 970) when in all reality it had absolutely LESS of everything they said it had, less rops, less VRAM only 3.4GB is recognizable by games (they have a lesser speed 500mb section that causes the stutter and even black screen hard reset crashing).

I even tested it for myself between an older 4gb gtx760 and the 3 970s I tried out. DXDIAG 64 Saw 4096MB available (on board usable) VRAM on the 760 while it only saw 3367MB on the 970! What this means is that while the processing power of the 970 is 10-15% better (on paper) than the 760, the moment the 970 asks for 100% it only gets 7/8ths of that and the old 760 then blasts right past it.

nVidia then admitted multiple times that they were working on a fix, just to turn around a few days later and say they are not only NOT making a fix but that they NEVER will and then continued to do terrible damage control telling people that "1080p games would run fine and NEVER have a problem with the VRAM" and that "it's only a 1-3% difference between the 970 and 980 cards." Even when me and others are sitting at our computers with actual proof they are bullshitting.

Needless to say, if you are thinking of buying ANY of the gtx970 graphics cards, DON'T!

Supposedly nVidia is going to have some interesting Q1 releases to compete with this $300 AMD 8GB graphics card everyone seems to know is coming out but has no info on. So I would say I'll wait for the 8GB 970 if it is priced competitively that is "supposed" to come out in March or April before upgrading, because an 8GB 970 would make this computer future proof for quite a few years.. But only if all 8GB are usable. Likely the "next" next gen consoles will be coming out by the time I would need or want to upgrade.

This is the first time in YEARS I have actually thought of going back to AMD, but I really don't need a buggy, incompatible, mess of a room heater in my computer. The last AMD I had fused into the socket and would cause the lights to dim in the house... I think it might have been trying to time travel.

Here comes 2015, with flying DeLoreans and hoverboards and self lacing shoes and 80s diners!

Oh... Movie... Damn...

Well then celebrate the new year with some sexy man undies instead of those lame, ugly, unimaginative boxers or briefs.

Wear thongs, jockstraps, bikini briefs, string bikinis, g-strings, bootyshorts.... Something fun and sexy and creative!

When the new year drops, so should your pants!

So Happy Semi-Nude year!