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School – Part 1

So here it is ladies and gentlemen, another mildly entertaining post, from yours truly.

I recently finished my adventures through post secondary education, University if you will. Over the course of my education I learned a plethora of useless information, and a couple things that are likely to stick with me forever.  But lets start with the useless stuff first, it’s more fun anyways.
For example: the meniscus, and I’m not talking about your knees here.

I learned that, in order to pass certain classes, you need to:

a. show up,
b. buy their text book (which is, of course, written by the prof),
c. read 6 of 647 pages,
d. and finally, hand in one report detailing why that book was a bigger waste of money than paying for the class, which may have actually cost you brain cells, as well as roughly $75,345,899,834.

I have essentially spent the last 67 years in a school of some kind, and by 67 I mean 20.  I have learned a variety of wonderful things, 99.57% of which I will never use again, nor could I recall if I had to.  That being said, I can tell you all about the meniscus. No, not the piece of cartilage in your knee that everyone seems to tear.  I’m referring to that little bubble of liquid that forms at the top of your glass.  The very same one that forms when I have poured as much wine as humanly possible into it, before over flowing into your lap, or onto your brand new white shirt. Thank you 8th grade science, I’ll never forget you.

Here’s a short list of things I have never found a use for:

  1. Raising my hand (Sorry Mrs. Jones)
  2. Coloring inside the lines (Miss Mcewan – you tried, but those lines could never hold my colors)
  3. Binomials (Miss Baltitude – this has yet to help me calculate my way out of any situation)
  4. Trinomials (Again, not helping)
  5. The Quadratic Equation (refer to points three and four)
  6. Long Division (One word: Calculator)
  7. The fur trade (I’m still not sure what happened here)

There’s plenty of room for more, feel free to add.

Now here’s a book that’s bound to get a child through school:


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As for the important things, stay tuned while I try to figure those out.

 

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Instagram Ads and Tinder Fads

Okay, so I know most of you out there reading this already know me.  But for those of you who don’t: I’m a 24 year old male, who is a few weeks away from (potentially) completing his never ending post secondary adventure.  I have been single for the majority of my life, and entirety of my adulthood.  So why, in the world of permanently single people, is Instagram showing me ads like this: Instagram Marriage Ad

Tinder bots. First off, thanks for being interested in my day, but its Friday, not Tuesday. I understand we’re all trying to make a living out here, but the least you could do is customize your opening messages to make a guy feel special.  Don’t even get me started on the punctuation issues here. Where are the capital letters? Have you ever heard of an apostrophe?! I’m sure you’re a wonderful Physical Therapist, with a budding career, and a glowing personality, but I think I’m going to pass on your tempting offer to sign up for “www.whoresnap.com”.

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And finally, to conclude my Friday afternoon rant: Those of you who are complaining about being woken up by a text, or phone call, at 2 in the morning, they created SILENT for a reason, use it.

Yours truly,

Someone planning to call you at 2am. Repeatedly. Possibility inebriated. Or for his own general amusement.

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“Hi, do you have Snapchat?”

If a study hasn’t been conducted yet, it should be.

In this week’s volume of “The Tinder Diaries” we address just how shallow and short sighted our generation is.

I can almost guarantee that the duration of time we spend talking to someone on Tinder, Bumble, Hapn, pick your poison, (they’re all a variation of the same thing), is measured purely by how physically attracted we are from the start.  And, that’s IF we even bother to start a conversation.  90% of the time we accumulate “matches”, show our friends the new “Babe”, “Stud”, or “Rocket” that we’ve just fallen in love with and, 37 seconds later, forget they ever existed and continue swiping, be it left, right, or otherwise. Why are we so shy and afraid of starting a conversation with a person who we’ve essentially already told they’re hot?

Below is a blatant, failed, attempt, at achieving the 21st century idea of dating, aka the Tinder/Bumble dream.  You know, the one where you meet a stranger, have 39 seconds of the worlds most disappointing sex, and then forget they ever existed?

Exhibit  A: Genius of the day.  Just as you thought he might turn out to be a proper gentlemen, he goes for it. Throws the long ball, Hail Mary, and follows up with everyone’s favorite move: The Double Text.  The move that comes after minutes of long debate, and ends with you feeling slightly pathetic on the inside.Hi, do you have Snapchat - ADHDating EditHere’s what probably happened.

You matched. Came up with a witty opener, maybe something like the oh-so-classic:

“How much does a polar bear weigh?”

or perhaps you wanted to show off your literary skills and go a step further:

“Hey you’re super cute
I’m bad at breaking the ice
So here’s a haiku”

Then went on to talk for another 10 minutes.  Told yourself, and the person you’re talking to that, “I’m here to meet a great person, and I’d really like to get to know you better….do you have Snapchat?”.  Right, because Snapchat is the foremost leader in getting to know a person. I’m sure you can see their beaming personality through that half-naked shot he just sent you of his abs, or that snap of her left arm covering her naked chest.

For a generation that is so highly interconnected, due to the 973,345 different forms of communication and technology that we have available to us, we sure are bad at communicating.  My personal favorite, when you meet someone through one of these 768 dating apps, or services, have a full-blown conversation for the following week, and then see them on the street and walk directly past them like you’re complete strangers.  Whether you want to admit it or not, over the course of that week-long conversation, you two creeped the absolute SHIT out of each other.  Either you were compulsively checking their profile pictures, to make sure they are just as hot as you thought they were, or their Instagram, Facebook, and Snapchat, just to confirm that, yes, your initial judgement of their aesthetics was in fact correct. Congratulations, give yourself a round of applause, and a pat on the back.  Or, y’know, do the unthinkable, avoid the awkward, half ass’d eye contact/half wave /I’m just brushing my hand through my hair/waving at the person behind you/ stretching, and say hi.

Okay, we get it, you think I’m hot, I think you’re hot. Next.

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NoFilterFriday

The 2am Scramble

This week we bring you a special edition of #NoFilterFriday, from my drunken celebratory fingers, to your sober eyes.

I’ve done it, you’ve done it, the guy next to you has done it, and so has the gorgeous girl (or guy) in class that you’ve been staring at for the last two hours.  No it’s not Tinder, it’s The Drunk Power Text…..or at least, for your sake, I hope it was a drunk decision.

It’s getting late and the worst part of the night is nearing, the lights. Shortly after realizing this, it begins: the race, the 2am scramble, your last chance at finding “love”.  When dignity goes out the window and you throw it all on the line for a shot at love, or at least 15 minutes of love…or in my case, 30 seconds. Becuase hey, you’ve just told yourself that it’s now or never, and besides, if you come out looking like an idiot, chances are you’ll never see them again. Till you go out next weekend and realize your city is WAY too small, and they’re staring back at you like they’ve just seen a ghost, dressed like the drunk idiot they met last weekend.

Here we have the Tom Petty of texters, Mr. “Wont Back Down” himself.  Sadly, this one wasn’t me, but his odds seem to be increasing with each unanswered message.  All topped off with a real nice paragraph to establish just how likely it is, that he is not getting laid tonight.

How not to get laid, Sam Simon, Davis Cup, Tinder, Raptors

 

Ladies and gentlemen, despite how STUPIDLY well aware we are that the double text, triple text, or in this poor guys case, sextuple text (yes, I Googled that), doesn’t work, every drunken once in a while it happens.  And if I wasn’t here to make light of it, we would all wake up tomorrow morning, look at our phones, and proceed to delete the embarrassing reminder that we were in fact THAT guy last night.

Exhibit Me

Either I have a serious memory issue that needs to be addressed,  or I just missed out on another shot at love.

If you’re reading this, I’m sure we had a lovely time together, and it was great meeting you!

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The Mustard Man

If you’re heading into the weekend, dreading the next 2 weeks of exams and final papers, you can rest easy knowing you’re still better at life than I am.  At the VERY least, your luck is about 6,7859,282 times better than mine. Realistically speaking, my luck can only be compared to this guy right here —->

bad luck brianHow does this shit happen. I mean really. You kind of joke about it with a friend, or maybe you’ve seen it in a movie or TV show, but real life?

I’m sitting at school working on a paper, decide to go grab some food  I figure, you know what, I’m gonna be a nice guy and grab my friend some food as well. She asks me to grab her a hot dog; ketchup, mustard, the works.  Sure, no problem, it’ll take an extra 30 seconds out of my day.

So I trek across campus (all 200 feet of it) to the only place that sells half decent food.  The kind of food that wont stop your heart after the first hobbit sized bite, or send you into cardiac arrest. I proceed to order my wrap, and her hot dog.  While I’m waiting for my food I see the girl, who’s supposed to be working the cash machine, run off with the box that is meant to hold the hot dog, totally normal… About a minute later she comes back, her co-worker hands me the box, and my wrap.

Head over to the condiments, open up the hot dog box and find a note written under the lid “Thanks for being hot <3” insert stupid smile on my face, then move about 2.6 seconds forward to the moment I’m about to put mustard on the hot dog, anddd BOOM. If you haven’t figured it out yet, that “BOOM” was  the sound of the mustard machine exploding. I may as well have showered in it.  Did I mention I was in a white shirt? Or that I was standing in the middle of the only restaurant (if you can call it that) in school?

I spent the next 6 hours walking around school looking like the neglected love child of the red and green Teletubby

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NoFilterFriday, The Early Years

A Year of Firsts

Age: 15
Grade 10
Month: January
Day: How the hell should I know?!
Movie: The Notebook – Don’t judge me, you’ve all seen it!

It’s roughly 10:30 in the evening on the night of January 17th, the year was 2007, I was 15.
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30 Second Modeling Career

Mondays

If your Monday’s off to a rough start, just remember that I spent the first day of my 21st year of life, incredibly hungover,  looking like this:

Professional mustache model.

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A model, Idiot

– Derek Zoolander

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I Need an Adult, NoFilterFriday

The Little Voice

You know how most people have that little voice in the back of their head? The one that tells you not to do certain things, and occasionally tells you to stop while you’re ahead? I think it’s referred to as common sense? Ya I’m not so sure I’ve got much of that. Either they skipped right over it during the creation phase, or it was removed in the delivery room. I’ll let you be the judge. Continue reading

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NoFilterFriday, Tinder

Blind Date (aka The Tinder Test)

We’ve all done it.  Despite all the times you have told yourself that you wouldn’t, you still did it. Whether you were laying awake, tossing and turning into the wee hours of the morning, looking for something to entertain you, or on a drunken mission, in the hopes of finding love – if only for the night. You did it. You downloaded Tinder. Continue reading

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