just can’t resist…

The teaser poster for New Moon was just released and all I can think is:

…

You know I can’t resist Twilight bashing. Haha.

Twilight Made Me Do It*

*Rene Agulan, the Philippine Department of Finance & Bureau of Customs

I am of course, speaking of The Great Book Blockade of 2009 that supposedly began when Customs examiner Rene Agulan noticed the infernal numerous amount of Twilight books being imported into the Philippines and got greedy.

Not that Twilight’s really responsible for anything but oh the glee of it being ever so slightly to blame for something (unlike the other people in the popular Livejournal icon I posted above, it is a possible excuse for Rene Agulan if he is ever confronted by a horde of angry book lovers. hee.)

It also goes without saying that it’s infuriatingly unfair that they’ve decided to tax books. Of course, if the tax on books went to the development and maintenance of public libraries, I wouldn’t mind so much but we all know where our tax money goes (or doesn’t go.) I am hoping for the best but the pessimist in me dreads the futility of arguing with Stupid People Who Think They’re Right. (Forgive me, I’ve barely recovered from the exciting new contract filled with wonderful benefits that my beloved company has offered me that I’ve skipped Bargaining and gone straight to Depression/General Acceptance of the inevitable. But that’s another story.)

For example, this part of the article struck me as incredibly stupid:

Take the official’s interpretation of the following sentence in RA 8047 (the Book Publishing Industry Development Act): “the tax and duty-free importation of books or raw materials to be used in book publishing.” According to Sales, this lacked a comma after the word “books,” which meant that what was tax and duty-free was only books used for book publishing.

People in the book industry were left scratching their heads, wondering what a “book used in book publishing” is. Customs went further and said it interpreted the Florence Agreement to mean only educational books are tax-free, with Customs deciding whether a title qualifies as being educational or not. Booksellers responded that this went against half a century’s common understanding of the treaty; did this mean everyone had been wrong and Customs suddenly right? Sales replied, “Yes.”

Ah yes, because the lack of a comma totally justifies the lack of common sense. How idiotic to base a loophole on a punctuation instead of logic. Oh well. I’ll stop now because I’m sleepy but for more information about this go here or here.

Rated S for Stupid

Our friendly neighborhood censors have decided to that Big Love, a TV show currently airing on Velvet, will cause, and I paraphrase,

“Irreparable damage to the psyche of the public…”

…because polygamy is immoral and illegal.

…because MTRCB forbid[!] anything immoral and illegal be filmed and shown to the public.[!!!] (Of course it shouldn’t…it gives the public ideas. And we all know what people can do with ideas.)

what the fasdlfkuqpeoragnjalsdfuqpweasldkupqoweiralgj!!!!!!!!

*facepalm*

*headdesk*

*runsamok*

I don’t know whether to laugh or cry…

…

okay, I choose to laugh.

bwahahahahahahahahahahahaha….

oh, censors, have they never heard of this little concept we like to call “fiction”?

or this little thing we call the remote control*?

*It’s easy. All you have to do is press a button and the immoral, illegal, fictitious story causing irreparable damage to your psyche will go away. Trust me, it works**.

**unless the battery’s dead. Like your brain.

Why So Stupid?

*from snarky cards

Don’t men boys ever learn?

I’m horribly disappointed that you always manage to attach yourself to boycrazy flirts. Why must you always disappoint me, Stupid? It’s disappointing.

Because we both agree that talking to me is useless…

I call him a barking puppy and the most original insult he comes up with is I have a messiah complex? Hahahahaha. Someone needs to seriously work on his diction. Really, if he wants me to respect his intellect the least he can do is insult me properly. The term he’s looking for is superiority complex. Messiah complex is when someone thinks they can save the world which certainly does not apply to me. Even I don’t think I can save the world from stupidity. Okay, okay so I did put on my condescending tone but at least I know what I’m doing. He, on the other hand, is totally clueless. Which is funny and tragic at the same time.

This is strictly a visceral reaction which is why I won’t enter it into the “arena.” I no longer wish to battle with someone who believes that “98% of people think so is so. Therefore so and so is true.” is a valid argument. Seriously. It’s like fighting a hysterical scarecrow that you have to pick apart straw by straw. Too arduous for me, no thanks.

Conceited as I am, though, I just can’t resist a final reply. Let’s just hope that the hysterical-straw-puppy develops a little more finesse, for the sake of the next person he tries his argument skills on.

To Whom it May Concern

The plural of footage is…

FOOTAGE.

Please, footages is not a word.

Stop saying footages.

Just stop.

Sincerely,

Your harried colleague.

He Knows He Have Wrong Grammar

while capturing video for my He Knew He Was Right episodic plug noticed this was written on the label:

He Knows He Was Right

oh, he knows. he knows…