The other night the news was on. Of course you can't really call what the media puts out these days as news. It never fails to amaze me, the utter base quality of reporting. There is absolutely nothing worth watching... with the exception of Amanda Lang and Kevin O'Leary.
I have heard him mention this before and he did it again the other night. The government should set up a duck wading pond education program to keep these stupid ducks from going where they shouldn't. He says it with a straight face and you just have to realize that's he's poking fun, except that the idiocy of things is that he is basically saying that he wouldn't put it past the government and the voters to do just that.
Just before this Peter Mansbridge got through interviewing a 'social media expert' studying the impact of social media. Holy Crap!!! What exactly is a 'social media expert'. Is that like somebody who really wants to be a nerd but isn't smart enough and try as they might to understand why nobody in chat rooms wants to take them to those deep dark corners they are just too awkward to convince anybody that they have a real function in society so they go and print up some free Vista Print business cards that say "I study social media".
That's just amazing to me. This woman who couldn't get anybody to pay attention to her at a cocktail party even if she were the bartender is touting herself as a 'social media scientist'. I can't remember exactly what she kept calling herself but she just kept doing it. Every sentence started with her reinforcing her roll as a student of social media (it was so inane that Masbridge kept smirking every time she used the term). I think she got a government grant and is working on a masters degree based on watching the Daily Show with John Stewart.
People like her are fascinated by the idea that somebody who has an opinion worth listening to actually has people listening to him. On top of it all the guy is funny. Really funny. Political commentary aside, pull up an old Sesame Street clip with Stewart singing the ABC song. He's a riot and he's got a certain geeky cuteness about him.
Doing your thesis on people like John Stewart and Stephen Colbert is tantamount to standing at the top of the highest mountain, using a megaphone to tell all the little people that instead of having sex at night you'd rather watch them (well sometimes so do I) and then shrugging your shoulders and going 'hey, look at all that pretty snow crashing to the ground, weeeee!'
At this point, I say (wait let me give a fiver to the squeegee kid who actually got out of bed to try and do something useful today)get off your lazy but and do something. Get a real job. Even driving pizza or backing midnight doughnuts would have more purpose than your attempts to unravel the mysteries of the human mind.
If I want to understand social media, I'll just listen to Lesbian Lu talking about trolling for muff on CFNY. Sorry, was that too graphic? I'm just quoting the boys on The Edge. It seems that the popularity of Facebook is mostly driven by homosexual teenagers in remote rural communities who just can't get some in their home town because they'd get beaten to a pulp. Now that's something you don't learn everyday.
