I really can't stand Christmas, it doesn't make a whole lot of sense to me. The only time it really did was when I was a kid, I understood the receiving part perfectly well.

First, I don't get why Christians hate it when people call it x-mas, I understand the whole concept of they don't like that 'Christ' in Christmas was taken out, but really... how much 'Christ' is there in Christmas in the first place?

Secondly, why should I go out and buy someone else a gift, get all sorts of frustrated wondering whether or not they will actually like it, when they could buy themselves what they want and I could buy myself what I want and we each can unwrap our gifts from ourselves. I can't get beyond the 'exchanging' of gifts, it feels like I'm playing the lotto, first to decide if I even bought anything good, and second to find out if they bought anything good.

People spend all sorts of money thinking that this is what you do on Christmas, I spent over $200 and I'm pretty sure that is chub change for some people. I thought about buying everyone, including myself remote control cars, then we could play destruction derby after Christmas, that would have cost me, for all the gifts, a whopping $120, and I think it would have been far more fun then all this other stuff.

Now don't get me wrong, I love to give gifts, and I've given plenty. I just hate the fact that it isn't really a thing from the heart, it's more like something we expect. 'Well I bought you a CHRISTMAS PRESENT! Where is MINE!?' type thing.

Christmas has a lot of potential to be awesome, but it's not.

So this song According to You, by Orianthi just doesn't make any sense to me whatsoever. Actually, I take that back, it does, the thing that catches me off guard is it really isn't hitting in the direction I'm guessing she was hoping. She seems to be telling him she doesn't care that he doesn't care, but really she does.

If I was the guy she wrote this song for this is what I would have noticed

1. She wrote me a song and not him, he is just the one getting used to show me what I'm missing

2. Obviously she misses me, and likes me better than him

3. This line really sums it up for me 'Why can't you see me through his eyes?' = I'm attracted to you, and you should be a little more like this guy so I can ditch this guy and get back to being with you.

4. She started and ended the song about how I saw her, not how he saw her.

Picture Source http://melodicrockconcerts.com

So I hadn't planned on sharing any of this stuff on here. However, I figured what the hell, it's almost Christmas and it's been collecting digital dust for the past 5+ years, might as well drag it out now.

I for one like to game, it is cold outside for most the year where I live (and NO I don't live in Canada, though given current circumstances...) and I really really hate the  cold. I like to go skiing or snowboard once in a while, but I can't do anything cool and most the time I'm worried about taking a tree on face to bark.

So I tend to stay inside my warm house, not play paintball with frozen paint that make me cry, or build a snowman that makes my hands throb when I go inside a warm house. Nope, I just sit here and stare at my computer and lose all my awesome muscle I built up.

Anyways, on to the point. Anyone who is a gamer, or at least has bought a game to play, has experienced the painful thing game companies like to call 'anti-piracy' measures. They want you to connect to the internet, type in a bunch of mumbo-jumbo, call 10 different people, and send in a photo ID just in case... or at least, that is how painful it feels sometimes.

I remember when Battlefield 3 came out, there were plenty other issues beyond the activation (anti-piracy) step, such as EA's new, less than loved Origin program which you must have and must have opened to play the game. People were locked out of the game that they purchased because EA's activation process was all locked up, while, of course, those who pirated were already playing the game free of the painful process of waiting for EA to get their heads out of their ass.

So, while they fight off people who are stealing their games, they drive more people into stealing their games... I mean, they might as well install a new device in all the cd-roms and any new gaming system that installs your game and evaporates your disk after installing. (In case you read this EA, I WAS JUST BEING SARCASTIC)

Towards the beginning of this month I was asked to write an essay, I was given the choice of what it would be on and so I chose the Jetsons vs the Flintstones. Upon my research I came up with a disturbing insight which was heavily influenced by the clip below.

The other one I caught is 1 million times bigger!

Think on this.

Why does Mr. Slate fire George but always rehire him?

The alarm clock in George's room forces him out of bed and MAKES him take a cold shower.

The Flintstones have the same type of technology, with most of it being doubled by 'animals'

Where are all the resources on earth?

The robots control everything on earth and in the sky, they have separated humanity from one another, on one hand humans are completely reliant on them, George doesn't so much as lift a finger to put his shoes on in the morning, and the machines are so simple even their dog Astro can operate their vehicle. (Don't ask me why he can't just drive himself to obedient school then.)

Your very own maid robot - Price: Your soul

So why don't robots just kill all humans? Well...

Humans produce years of renewable energy

You don't have to be a genius to realize that we humans are highly adaptable, able to do a lot of complex things, can work simple or hard jobs, and we last a long time. We are also easily distracted if we don't watch ourselves. (George states he went to work once with shoes on his ears!) Why should a robot forcefully enslave us to do what we are already willing to do for a small price? Or worse yet, kill us and waste all that energy.

Now that's a smart robot

So how do they keep the skyrise people entertained? Plenty of ways of course, however, one of those ways is the Flintstones, why not make use of the security footage on earth while keeping an eye on those pesky dirt ball humans? The robots can't bring them to the skyrises cause that might plant the idea of going back to earth in the skyrise human's minds, they can't exactly kill them either because that would take from their efforts in the sky. So instead, rip all their resources away (probably need them for skyrise repair anyway) and make sure they don't figure out how to fly stone thousands of miles in the air.

Or manage the paper spacecraft next.

So now you're probably thinking, well sure, this all makes sense, but what about

The poles that presumably hold up the skyrises!?

Wouldn't the Flintstones see these strange poles shooting clear into the sky?

To tell you the truth, I have no idea what those poles are even for, it's not for ground support though, that much is certain. In the Jetsons meet the Flintstones the skyrise begins to shake as the Flintstones are accidentally transported to the skyrises instead of the Jetsons. A statement is made that disqualifies the poles to be supporting the skyrise, at least from earth.

"I don't know what is happening, it can't be an earthquake, we're not on earth."

The effect of an earthquake would not only be felt in something like a skyrise if attached by a long support bar, the quake would be magnified immensely.

I won't continue on, most of the evidence is already there in the video, I just had to clarify that the Flintstones are not the Jetsons future, they are the under-class society given this role by robots.

Everything that can be invented has been invented.

So... I think PETA does good things, but I think they do a lot more stupid things. Perhaps someone needs to make a REAL organization for protecting animals. Honestly, I don't even remember what PETA stands for, I'm so used to hearing 'People Eating Tasty Animals' and "People Encouraging Terrorist Acts' type things that the actual meaning has slipped me.

I think it's something like "We like to make noise cause we are bored." I think it's an entertainment industry maybe? I mean, how could THIS be real?

http://www.g4tv.com/thefeed/blog/post/718153/battlefield-3-called-out-by-peta-for-sadistic-rat-stabbing/

Come on DICE, the rat just wanted to play! You should have given it cheese!

Thousands of virtual human lives lost every day from online crisis, not a peep, one virtual rat dies to save one of these human virtual lives and PETA has had it.

Thank you PETA for giving my plenty to laugh about (unless you are successful with this claim, then I'll have to cry)

See here how many virtual humans died, and died by a knife in just BF3s beta test.

On a side note, Doritos has started putting AXE into their Chips.

EDIT:

So truth be told, PETA does not eat tasty animals, (or at least I don't think they do), however, they do KILL healthy animals who are not virtual.

See here and here

Now if that isn't a twist, I don't know what is.

So I'm slightly confused... and this must be the oddest things I've ever heard. Why would the military, the people who defend our freedom and give up a lot of their rights for it, be facing pay cuts or no pay at all?? Instead those who sit in congress get fat and lazy and spend our hard earned money on stupid shit like this

They say the new generation is screwed up when the old one runs our country like this?? Maybe it's just carelessness passed down.