Tuesday, May 26, 2009

I don't know about you...

Anyone ever open a sentence with that? My brother did, as he was yelling at me. While he was yelling about the fridge (or global warming or something, I wasn't listening) I got to thinking about what that opener means.

Wait, before I go on let me tell you what he said:

"I don't know about you, but I plan on bringing children into this world."

Ok, moving on...

Now when I heard that I instantly thought "This asshole is saying he's having kids and I'm not, and I'm some how ruining this world for his as of yet non-existent kids". This then got me thinking to what that opener means.

Here's what it means: "You're an asshole, shut up, let me tell you what's what." Think about it, has anyone ever thrown a compliment out after that? NO! They always insult you.

Other common openers that lead to insults:

"I'm not saying ..., but ..."
"No, shut up, listen"
"Raise your hand if..., not so fast"
"*sigh*"

Just a heads up. Who's looking out for you? That's right, Yom is

Monday, May 18, 2009

If I have to explain it then it's not funny

Sorry for the delay, but this writing stuff is hard. Hard because coming up with stuff to write about is difficult, and because some of the stuff I think is funny doesn't translate well. You ever tell a joke then had to explain it to someone? You know how those jokes are never funny and you only get pity laughs? Yeah, I'm in the same boat. But at least I'm trying...and failing. But trying is key here.

And another thing, you might have noticed that my pronunciation and enunciation is rather poor in the videos. That's because I've got a retainer jammed into my grill. The plastic removable kind, not the one that everyone else had cemented into their mouth. So I apologize for that, but please don't take my mispronunciation as me using the wrong word. Someone decided to try and correct something I said in today's video. I said DUCT tape, but it sounded like DUCK tape. #1 it used to be called DUCK tape and #2 I know it's called DUCT tape! We'd have subtitles if we could figure out how to do them, but since I hit about 90-ish% of the words we don't need them.

Oh, and as far as the word thing is concerned I'm still all about bringing some words and saying back, but also taking words and applying them differently. Words such as fathoms. It's a unit of measure, but I want to use it as an adjective. Use it to describe someone like "That chick just has fathoms of ass" or "The fathoms of his stupidity are boundless". Just a little food for thought