Halloween: The Whoreifying Holiday

BOO!!!

I remember the first time I heard about the concept of Halloween; as a kid it's so incredibly difficult to grasp this at first. Why do I need to wear this ridiculous costume? Who's giving out candy? Why are we walking around the neighborhood? Everyone we know is just giving out candy?



This seems like the greatest thing you've ever heard in your entire life. Your first few Halloweens, you're an armature, taking out the plastic bucket shaped like a pumpkin, often times wasting precious candy retrieving time amusing the old people with how "cute you look." But by the time you're 9 or 10*, you're practically a candy retrieving veteran. Everyone remembers that one Halloween where you took out the pillow case or garbage bag, and by god you had a game plan for how to maximize your candy load. ::bing bong:: What Am I supposed to be? I'm supposed to be done by now lady wanna move this along?! This is what Halloween used to be about. 10 years later, what has Halloween become all about?...

BOOBS!!!

Pop quiz: What do Girls Gone Wild and Halloween have in common? Answer - both activate something in a woman's mind that makes them dress and act 10x more slut-like than the other three hundred and sixty-four days of the year. Everyone knows that there will always be women in the world who are just good old fashion sluts. Yet, I think Halloween might bring out something in each woman that absolutely blows my mind. I mean, we're talking about women who on any other day, would file a law-suit against you at work for commenting on how beautiful she looked that day. Yet on Halloween, that women feels inclined to wear the smallest skirt in the smallest little bo-peep costume you've ever seen.



OK let me put it this way. Ladies, if on Halloween night, you're at a party and some creepy guys are hitting on you, and won't leave you alone...keep in mind that you're dressed like a hooker. Typically these creepers are genetically born with a radar that scopes out the loose women in each room, but on Halloween, y'all look alike!

















SIDE QUESTION:


Exactly how old is too old to be going door to door?


If a parent is with a small child, are they permitted candy as well?

Community College Prejudice

Me: Hey, I'm brian how's it goin?

Stranger: Hey I'm _____, real good. Do you go to school here?

Me: Oh no, I go to (Local Community College).

Stranger: Oh..I see.::walks away awkwardly::

OK, I understand for the thousands of dollars more people pay to go to major universities for four to five years, will allow them to achieve a higher grade of education with in turn could result to a higher paying job. However, the blatant degree of dismissivness that I receive when I tell people that I in fact don't attend a four year school, is pretty rude, and just down right wrong.

Students of all ages are attending community colleges across the nation, whether it be straight out of high school and you just want to save some money, your grades weren't what you would've liked in high school, or if their life took a turn down a wrong path and has lead them to the decision of going back to school. Community college gives students who deserve higher education, but don't necessarily meet the particular requirements(academically or financially) of four year institutes, a fighting chance.

In years past, certain students who couldn't afford the tuition rates of four year schools, or who couldn't make the grades of those institutes, were pushed immediately into the workforce. Out of each student who graduated from high school in 2007, 67% of them went on to achieve higher education. I don't understand how some people, could consider one person's higher education, lesser than their own. I am proud to say that I am a student at DMACC, and yes, I do plan to attend Iowa State University in 2009. Would I be satisfied with my life if I ended my education with DMACC? Yes. Would I feel short-changed in some way if I stopped with DMACC? No. I'm hoping, that in the coming years, when I'm living up in Ames and going to ISU, that I meet people who go to other colleges; because I hope i get the chance to be the change that I'd like to see in others.

5 Things That Bug me about Facebook

First of All

Before I begin, I need to get something out in the open. I am a huge hypocrit. Many of the things that I'm about to write about, I'm completley guilty of myself. Yes, I do change my status once an hour, and yes I am facebook friends with 1000+ people. I'd just like to point a few things out...oh and I'm not writing this with any particular person.


With all of this in mind...





5. "The New Facebook Sucks"

It is completley natural for people to be resistant when something they've become acustom to makes a big change, but I've noticed that certain groups of people have been a little more than open about expressing how much they hate the new face-lift. The key things to consider are that, although you may have been in love with how facebook formally looked, many people abused the old facebook. If you had ever tried viewing a person's profile that had 50+ applications on it, you know what I'm talking about. The people behind facebook are some of the smartest mind's in the world. and I can assure you that they wouldn't do anything if they didn't think it would be for the best.


4. Groups

A few weeks ago, I wouldn't have placed Groups on this list, but my inbox has been filled with unbelievably dumb group invitations. So, I had to do it. Which group invite pushed me over the edge? "MARK ZOMBERG SAID IF 1,000,000 PEOPLE JOIN THIS GROUP HE'LL GO BACK TO THE OLD FACEBOOK!" (The creator of Facebook is Mark Zuckerberg." I'd like to point out that this isn't even close to the dumbest group invite I've gotten. Rule of thumb: Only join a group of you'd actually go out and join an interest group in your community.



3. You Are Your Digital Self

I hate to sound like some reporter on CNN that tries to warn parents about what their children are doing on the internet, but seriously...ask yourself these questions, and try to answer them truthfully.


A. Would you walk up to your friend, in front of every person that they know, and say "oh shit we got so fucked up last night!!!"

B. Would you walk up to your friend and put a sticker on their shirt? How about 30 of them?

C. Would you mail out pictures of yourself going to the bathroom, passed out, half naked, puking, or gettin' all up on a person who's name you can't even remember; to everyone that you know?

The reality is, everyone has access to what you post. on the internet, and anymore, employers are searching

websites like facebook and myspace to get a behind the scenes job application. (By the way, if your answer to letter C is yes....)



2. Single, Relationship, Complicated, Relationship, Single, Complicated...

This speaks for itself. If you don't have your shit together, that's ok. It really is. Being in a crappy relationship happens to the best of us. The issue isn't that you're in the crappy relationship, the issue is you are filling my newsfeed with your drama. Don't waste my time please. (And as a little hint, if you're in a relationship like that, you're wasting your own time.)



1. Photoshop+Professional Photographer=Art
Photoshop+Anyone else=Annoying as Hell




I'm not sure what bugs me more, the new fad of people changing colors, warping, adding effects, and writing all over their pictures. Listenn, I don't need you to write in super silly letters "BFF FOREVER AND EVER" all over a picture of you and your friends hugging...I get it. Scrapbooking in real life, and doing whatever it is people call these messed up pictures, are two entirely different things. Why did this make #1 on the top five list? Because I really hope it is stopped. I've seen more and more of it latley, and pretty soon people will feel the same way i do. Please, stop ruining your pictures. There is a happy medium between spending half an hour on your pictures making them look like color-by-numbers, and not even taking the time to rotate your photos. Please, let's find that happy medium.

Welcome to WBB?

Who Cares?
Although I am creating my very first blog today, I still feel like my life is so uninteresting that there is absolutely no reason why I need to be blogging.

However, lately I have found myself with a huge amount of spare time when I'm not going to class or working at the bank. I decided that It was time for me to find a hobby, and this is one of the many things that I came up with.

What to Expect
I'm not entirely sure all the stuff I'd like to put on here,
But one of my first tasks is to write an article about all the little
thing's people do that really bug me. (Hence the name What's Bugging Brian?)


What's Bugging You?
If there are things that are bothering you and want me to write about what I think, just shoot me a message on facebook, or write me an email to my Gmail account.


This could turn out to be a good hobby..