"-ish" is a strange ending to a word.  you can't really add it on to things and not come across as somehow discriminatory.  like white-ish or black-ish or gay-ish.  just get a bad vibe from it.  except jewish.  one can say 'she's jewish' but saying 'she's a jew' is somehow worse off.  then Spanish is the lazy form of people speaking something from spain?  

who gets to decide what really is offensive?  the news always shows someone who is saying someones statements have been offensive to some group of people.  its more amusing when the spokesman or the outraged person isn't even part of the offended group.  saying how a group should be offended is just a load of moose-dookie.  i can't remember the last time someone was on the news saying how white males should be offended by anything...is that because its racist for white people to be offended?  i don't know.  theres that whole shpiel about how white people don't have a white history month, but that we used to have the whole year until we started to feel bad and start handing out months...i feel strange using 'we' in that sentence.  

i really don't get offended as a white person.  i get more upset when people say things are racist.  why do comedians get to get away with things that offend people and the rest of us can't?  just because a person has a stereotype or a joke about them is that the worst thing in the world?  

the only reason a person gets upset with another person is because that persons reaction to someone else.  a person can't control what another person says but you have the ability to control how you react to something.  the reason i don't like some people is because i don't like things they have done.  but still my thoughts that tell me to not like that person are still my thoughts as to remember to hate or be upset with them.  instinctually getting mad at someone for making fun of you for something you do is your natural defense to getting made fun of.  calling someone a racist i always felt was often more racist than a comment that might mention skin color.  if you want to call someone a racist you have to already be convinced that its going to be racist and has no other meaning.  so basically aren't you assuming someone is a racist by calling them a racist?  and by assuming then you don't really give any benefit of the doubt to a person.  

hearing a comment then assuming someone said it because you think they assumed something is still an assumption and makes you look like a dick.  

people are stupid, and mostly overly aggressive when listening to people.  i wish people would listen better and stop assuming such horrible things behind comments. 

i like to make fun of people when they say things that i find are worded strangely or at least i could rearrange their words just to tease them a little bit.  usually i do this in a friendly context.  thats my bit of sense of humor. if they don't like it then we're probably not friends.  

its no fun if you can't make jokes about people.  there should be protected classes of people you can't make jokes about?  i say that with a question mark since well if you can't say anything about other people then what can you say?  am i only supposed to make comments about white people?  thats silly.  because of every little subsection of the hunan race does something funny at one point or another.  i mean there are holocaust jokes out there.  just let that soak in i'd say.  

or you could just argue we are all just human beings and why not get to make jokes about ourselves?  can't laugh at ourselves then what can we laugh at?  others?  WELL THATS JUST WRONG!  ah fuck em' 

if we can't laugh then what else should we do?  laughing is a great stress release and a great coping mechanism.  i laugh and make jokes about people that tick me off and i laugh and make some jokes about other people sometimes so that they will lighten up and laugh it off as well. sometimes it doesn't work.  so what?  you laugh at when i make fun of other people but don't laugh at yourself?  is that  lesson you should take in?  

people make fun of me ill just take it or enjoy it.  people started just calling me boob since my name's bobby and i grew to just go with that and it doesn't bother me at all.  another example of me choosing to not be bothered by something.  

people need to lighten up.  and i need to go to sleep.  

who would have thought that children's shows could still be so entertaining.  got on netflix the other night with some friends and ended up watching the first ever episode of rugrats and then the new adventures of pippi longstockings.

what does that sound gay or something?  no and it wasn't just me i was with 2 other guys.

not that having had a few beers made it more entertaining, but seeing a small redheaded girl get thrown around a boat, being poorly dubbed, followed by a talking hoarse, possible dirty lyrics, and an ice cream fight this movie had everything.  And that was just the first hour of the movie. Movie making magic right there.

what happened to such light hearted moments?  why is it though when i think back to childhood memories all the old tv shows pop up first.  good old friend the tv.  like legends of the hidden temple when that creepy steve irwin (RIP) impersonater tries to interview 10 yr old kids about going thru a maze.  what do you expect them to say?  "i tried to go fast"  thanks for that update.  now since you won you get roller blades and a trip with your family to the bahamas.  Congrats a trip that you are too young to really appreciate and a gift that if you keep for more than 5 yrs and use you will be shunned.

then theres doug. theres a classic.  i feel like dougs family was the only white family.  skeeter was like blue-green.  patty was really tan...that beebee girl was reddish purple.  roger was green.  mr dink was purple.  how do i remember these names?  this conversation has come up before.  what was his dogs name?  pork-chop.  superhero name?  quail man.  wore underwear on the outside and a belt on his head.

rugrats another classic.  who wouldnt want to watch babies crawl around and go on crazy adventures?  there seems to always be a target audience for watching babies.  i'd guess pedophiles are mixed in there.  but theres so many baby entertainment movie/shows.  look who's talking, 3 men and a baby, baby geniuses, baby muppets, baby einstein, 2 and half men.  charlie sheen needs to just stop...

thinking back to all the great shows that used to be on cartoon network and nickelodeon makes me remember how bad the new shows are on those channels.  live action has been the downfall of those programs.  i dont want to watch icarly.  spongebob is the savior of that network, though i thought a kid died trying to find spongebob once.  whose fault is that?  the locksmith.

where or where did childhood go?  now on tv i find myself sinking into a couch watching other people live their lives when i feel mine is to boring to try and do anything.  i try to watch things that are funny, i feel it keeps my humor fresh at times.  then when people turn on jersey shore i want to break things.  how do people watch that garbage?  is TV the bane of mankind.  quite possibly.  i was reading a book about how terrible TV is for civic engagement.  ironically though i found myself thinking that this book is doing about the same thing as i sit in my room reading about how being at home alone really cuts down on community time.  so as i wrapped my head around that one i put the book down to write about how much i love old tv. ironic?  or just a waste of time?

i don't know how to qualify things as a waste of time.  i'd think it would have to be when you're super pissed off.  otherwise if you're not unhappy at least you have that going for you.  like a waste of time might be rebuilding levees for a town that's built itself below sea level.  that seems counter intuitive.  i wonder if film makers ever think to themselves how as much entertainment they may be creating how much time they are taking away from the publics family maybe.  just as i write these words down...i could be doing something so much more productive like homework.  well you only live once, unless maybe you have the necronomicon.  gosh Army of Darkness is a good movie.  check it out.

anyhooo

happy travels