I see that Hot Chelle Rae has just released a new single. I implore of you, do not buy it. Do not watch it on YouTube or listen to it on Spotify or Vevo or any other website. Call into your local radio stations and personally request they play anything else. If you are wondering why I hate them so much, do not indulge your bile fascination by looking them up, as it is not worth the .0001 cents it earns them.
Perhaps I should elaborate. I hate this band. I truly despise them. In case you couldn't gather that.
I first became familiar with Hot Chelle Rae thanks to a very poor choice in song from whoever controls the speakers in the dining hall. Their single "Tonight, Tonight" struck me as particularly awful, first of all because it was being played so loudly I could hear it through my headphones, which I specifically use to drown out the sounds of the obnoxiously loud, talkative, screechy-voiced people that seem to populate the campus quite thoroughly and the aforementioned awful musical choices. The other reasons are quite a bit worse.
Hot Chelle Rae is the Pauly Shore of music. I went there. They have no talent, instead relying on being able to copy the basic outline set up by other performers, although not the particularly skilled, whom they lack the talent to emulate in even the loosest sense; worse, they don't even copy the poor format well, instead just taking the basic cheap tricks with none of the context that makes it passable. The only reason they have careers is because of nepotism. They contribute absolutely nothing except a hollow, empty shell, distinguished only by being even worse than the dull, boring middle mark by which their media are judged. "Tonight, Tonight" is a party song, but unlike other party songs, it has absolutely no energy or flow or any of the other things that make good party songs. They have the absolute bare minimum amount of talent to qualify for a local talent show and get a "Participant" ribbon. They do not want to make music, they just want to be musicians.
Other performers repeat words in their chorus because they are thematically relevant or at least fit the song ergonomically well. Hot Chelle Rae constructed a chorus consisting primarily of "Tonight" because they clearly could not think of anything else. "Tonight" is already the most overused word in the pop lexicon outside "love", so much that it has become white noise. I don't hear it. By the time "Hey Soul Sister" hit, it was pretty clear the definition of "tonight" had become "n., too-NITE; a word with two syllables and no meaning". Constructing your hook out of it strikes me as lazy.
Hot Chelle Rae probably chose their name so it would sound awkward when critics inevitably labelled them "lukewarm". Listening to their music is the auditory equivalent of drinking flat soda.
I beg of you, force their careers into the ground. You, as an audience, have the power to drive these hacks out of business and into the dead-end jobs pumping gas they so clearly deserve so that actual good musicians, or at least those whose existence is merited by literally anything, can sell a few more songs.
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Monday, March 26, 2012
Tuesday, February 21, 2012
Selective Service
I'm overdue registering for the draft, and I've started receiving letters. Well that's fantastic. The draft is by far the stupidest, most outdated, least logical, most unethical government program currently active. How can I say that? Well, examine it, shall we?
THEN WHY DO YOU HAVE THE OPTION, YOU IDIOTS?
Problem number one: it's sexist. This is part of to what I'm referring when I say it's outdated. It is not something made with a modern mentality, it is something written decades ago and never revised. Women are perfectly capable of serving in the military. In fact, recently they were permitted to serve on the front lines, and I think it's pretty ridiculous that it took them until 2012 to do that. Moving on, the problem persists in that only men are required to register for the selective service.
In fact, it's not made with a mentality fitting of a few decades ago, either. It's made with ethics more fitting to the Roman Empire or an ancient Greek city-state. It's acting as if there is no greater contribution one can make than to serve your country in combat. While I do respect our soldiers, I politely disagree on the grounds that war is not good. I might hazard to say it's a little bad. Programs that encourage war would, by association, be less than optimal.
Frankly, it doesn't matter whether or not you agree, because I have my opinion. If my opinion is that war is rarely if ever justified, and I am being forced to serve in the military, then my right to my opinion has been violated.
The military is an enticing package. Scholarships, legs up in employment searches, decent pay (I said decent, not great, they're still underpaid for what they do). Believe me, if there was anyone who would be "just okay" with joining the armed forces, if there was anyone with little enough reason to resist that they wouldn't mind a sudden mandate for them to do so, they would have already enlisted. Just about everyone else would be doing so against their will. Not everyone, of course, but I'm going to say at least a good-sized chunk of the people who are registered for the draft would have a problem with being drafted.
Then they have the gall to say "current law does not permit females to register". Permit? PERMIT? Let us get one thing straight, this is not a privilege, this is a demand. This is reducing our liberties. That is just nauseating, that they would say "permit", as if this is some grand glorious right that we males are lucky enough to receive from our benevolent leaders. I have received letters ordering me to register. Golly gee, I hope they let me.
Let me make another thing abundantly clear: I don't love this country. Why should I? Yes, it's better than a lot of places; I could have been born into far worse circumstances. However, the United States is not the pinnacle of all that is good and right with the world, and it hasn't been for a very long time. "The Land of Opportunity" and "The Home of the Free" are borne from a time when the US was the only developed country not run by a monarchy. Nowadays, our monopoly on democracy is a bit less absolute. Further, America is one of the worse democracies available. What do we have that's so great? A system of election that's broken almost beyond repair from political parties, the spoils system, and rigidness? Citizens too stupid, stubborn, and/or apathetic to work towards fixing it? Public school systems so bad they're an active detriment to their students half the time? Corrupt businesses satisfied with making the American Dream a fairy tale? You're lucky I'm not actively fighting against you!
I'm not trying to blame Obama or Bush or Clinton. I do blame Bush Sr. and Reagan a little bit, but not really. Nor am I trying to blame any of the presidents before them. This was a gradual problem centuries in the making. While "The Founding Fathers Wanted" is an idiotic argument, I do feel the need to point out that the Constitution was mutable for the very purpose that they recognized they weren't perfect, and they wanted the government to be able to change to fit the needs of the people or to be able to incorporate new ideas that would improve it. We have not acted on that.
I'm actually a little more lenient with countries that have obligatory military service, like Israel. In that case, you know it's coming, you're signed up for it. I still think the government is spitting in the face of its citizens, but it's a little better than being given a packet of spittle and being told to hold onto it and apply to the eye when instructed.
June 25, 1993. I'm eighteen, like everyone required to register. This of course means I am seven years too young to be elected to the House of Representatives and twelve years too young to be elected to the Senate. Wonderful. This also means that everyone who might be able to argue on the topic will be entirely unaffected by it. That will work, we've seen how quickly they passed women's suffrage. At least it's better than the first several decades of the draft, when the average soldier in Vietnam was two years short of being able to vote. But of course, that's a matter of maturity. How can we count on someone so young to make important decisions, or be intelligent enough to study the important issues that rule political discussion? Not to mention they're young, we don't want to put too much pressure on them. Much better to give them a gun, ship them off somewhere they've never been, and order them to kill people they don't know. Much better indeed.
See, the government actually bankrolled an argument against their own policies.
Yes, eighteen is quite young. As I pointed out, they are twelve years too young to run for the Senate. They are 60% of the age needed to run for the Senate. They will not be able to drink for three more years, or rent a car for seven. Many of them are still in high school. Does no one else see anything wrong with this being our drawing pool? "But it's still the best age available!" some may say, but if the "best age available" is still an absolutely horrible age at which to be drafting people, then it seems pretty obvious there is no age when drafting is appropriate.
Here's the complete form. As you can see, there is no "conscientious objector" checkmark, no "opt out". You're eighteen, you're a guy, sign the form.
Really, we could pay for a lot of our underfunded programs by cutting money from the military. We have no real reason to be involved in so many international affairs, much less militarily so. As we've seen over and over again, getting involved with other countries ends badly for us, and we go bankrupt in the process. That's why the other countries are beating us. That's why they have things like universal wi-fi, high-speed rail, and decent education systems. They aren't wasting trillions of dollars screwing themselves over.
Honestly, I'm not even concerned about myself. I'm not a healthy person; I'm sure I've got something or other that disqualifies me from serving. I'm concerned about all those other men who are trapped in an unfair, outdated system.
I'm not registering. Not only do my plans see me living outside the United States anyway, but I would rather serve five years in jail than support this program.
THEN WHY DO YOU HAVE THE OPTION, YOU IDIOTS?
Problem number one: it's sexist. This is part of to what I'm referring when I say it's outdated. It is not something made with a modern mentality, it is something written decades ago and never revised. Women are perfectly capable of serving in the military. In fact, recently they were permitted to serve on the front lines, and I think it's pretty ridiculous that it took them until 2012 to do that. Moving on, the problem persists in that only men are required to register for the selective service.
In fact, it's not made with a mentality fitting of a few decades ago, either. It's made with ethics more fitting to the Roman Empire or an ancient Greek city-state. It's acting as if there is no greater contribution one can make than to serve your country in combat. While I do respect our soldiers, I politely disagree on the grounds that war is not good. I might hazard to say it's a little bad. Programs that encourage war would, by association, be less than optimal.
Frankly, it doesn't matter whether or not you agree, because I have my opinion. If my opinion is that war is rarely if ever justified, and I am being forced to serve in the military, then my right to my opinion has been violated.
The military is an enticing package. Scholarships, legs up in employment searches, decent pay (I said decent, not great, they're still underpaid for what they do). Believe me, if there was anyone who would be "just okay" with joining the armed forces, if there was anyone with little enough reason to resist that they wouldn't mind a sudden mandate for them to do so, they would have already enlisted. Just about everyone else would be doing so against their will. Not everyone, of course, but I'm going to say at least a good-sized chunk of the people who are registered for the draft would have a problem with being drafted.
Then they have the gall to say "current law does not permit females to register". Permit? PERMIT? Let us get one thing straight, this is not a privilege, this is a demand. This is reducing our liberties. That is just nauseating, that they would say "permit", as if this is some grand glorious right that we males are lucky enough to receive from our benevolent leaders. I have received letters ordering me to register. Golly gee, I hope they let me.
Oh yes, I'd hate for anyone not legitimately in America to take away my hard-earned right to unwillingly serve an entity I oppose.
I'm not trying to blame Obama or Bush or Clinton. I do blame Bush Sr. and Reagan a little bit, but not really. Nor am I trying to blame any of the presidents before them. This was a gradual problem centuries in the making. While "The Founding Fathers Wanted" is an idiotic argument, I do feel the need to point out that the Constitution was mutable for the very purpose that they recognized they weren't perfect, and they wanted the government to be able to change to fit the needs of the people or to be able to incorporate new ideas that would improve it. We have not acted on that.
I'm actually a little more lenient with countries that have obligatory military service, like Israel. In that case, you know it's coming, you're signed up for it. I still think the government is spitting in the face of its citizens, but it's a little better than being given a packet of spittle and being told to hold onto it and apply to the eye when instructed.
June 25, 1993. I'm eighteen, like everyone required to register. This of course means I am seven years too young to be elected to the House of Representatives and twelve years too young to be elected to the Senate. Wonderful. This also means that everyone who might be able to argue on the topic will be entirely unaffected by it. That will work, we've seen how quickly they passed women's suffrage. At least it's better than the first several decades of the draft, when the average soldier in Vietnam was two years short of being able to vote. But of course, that's a matter of maturity. How can we count on someone so young to make important decisions, or be intelligent enough to study the important issues that rule political discussion? Not to mention they're young, we don't want to put too much pressure on them. Much better to give them a gun, ship them off somewhere they've never been, and order them to kill people they don't know. Much better indeed.
See, the government actually bankrolled an argument against their own policies.
Yes, eighteen is quite young. As I pointed out, they are twelve years too young to run for the Senate. They are 60% of the age needed to run for the Senate. They will not be able to drink for three more years, or rent a car for seven. Many of them are still in high school. Does no one else see anything wrong with this being our drawing pool? "But it's still the best age available!" some may say, but if the "best age available" is still an absolutely horrible age at which to be drafting people, then it seems pretty obvious there is no age when drafting is appropriate.
Here's the complete form. As you can see, there is no "conscientious objector" checkmark, no "opt out". You're eighteen, you're a guy, sign the form.
Really, we could pay for a lot of our underfunded programs by cutting money from the military. We have no real reason to be involved in so many international affairs, much less militarily so. As we've seen over and over again, getting involved with other countries ends badly for us, and we go bankrupt in the process. That's why the other countries are beating us. That's why they have things like universal wi-fi, high-speed rail, and decent education systems. They aren't wasting trillions of dollars screwing themselves over.
Honestly, I'm not even concerned about myself. I'm not a healthy person; I'm sure I've got something or other that disqualifies me from serving. I'm concerned about all those other men who are trapped in an unfair, outdated system.
I'm not registering. Not only do my plans see me living outside the United States anyway, but I would rather serve five years in jail than support this program.
Monday, February 13, 2012
Last Words
On Sunday, February 12, 2012, the writer of this blog was found dead in his dorm. Next to him were found several notes recounting the events of the previous night, most of them apparently written in his own blood.
Saturday, 11.02.12 8:56 PM
So, I went to brush my teeth, but there were two people using the sinks to get water for ramen. College!
Saturday, 11.02.12 9:14 PM
I guess it's not just ramen. They're having a full-on food party out there in the hall. Some of the stuff smells pretty strong.
Saturday, 11.02.12 9:31 PM
I'm having trouble breathing and my eyes are burning. I think I'm allergic to something they're using, plus it smells just... awful. It's like the olfactory equivalent of sandpaper. I'm going for a walk.
Saturday 11.02.12 9:49 PM
Okay, seriously? I've walked all over the place and I can still smell it clearly as ever. I have no idea why someone would need that much spice. What is that, wasabi? Can you even eat that much and survive?
Saturday 11.02.12 10:10 PM
There is no use. The smell has permeated the entire campus.
Saturday 11.02.12 10:23 PM
The smell has permeated the entire town. I cannot escape.
Saturday 11.02.12 10:31 PM
I am upwind of the source. I can smell it. I can smell it against the tropical breezes. What does this mean?
Stardate 11.02.12 10:34 PM
Clearly the entire world has been contaminated and it has looped back around to here. We must burn it down, burn it all down, and start anew. Fire is the cleanser.
Saturday 11.02.12 10:40 PM
They fight my vision. They know not the evil they support. Pure, cleansing flames.
Saturday 11.02.12 11:16 PM
On February 11th, 2012, a date which shall live in infamy, American college students stationed in Hawaii were suddenly and deliberately attacked by Japanese spices.
Saturday 11.02.12 11:26 PM
Have I perhaps wronged them in some way? Please, if there's something I can do to make you stop, I'll do it!
Day in Glory of Saturn 11.02.12 11:34 PM
To the manufacturers of the Bug Bomb,
Have I got an exciting business proposal for you! If you consider joining your wonderful and iconic Bug Bomb with the cleaning power of air purifiers and cleansing bleach, I'm certain it would sell wonders. I believe you could make a working prototype and send it to the provided address within the next thirty minutes, and I will gladly let you keep the profits venture.
Day in Glory of Saturn 11.02.12 11:34 PM (scrawled on top of the previous note)
To the manufacturers of 2,4,6-trinitrotoluene,
Have I got an exciting business proposal for you! If you consider joining your wonderful and iconic trinitrotoluene with the cleaning power of air purifiers and cleansing bleach, I'm certain it would sell wonders. I believe you could make a working prototype and send it to the provided address within the next thirty minutes, and I will gladly let you keep the profits from this venture.
Saturday 11.02.12 11:55 PM
I promise to be a better Christian if I make it through this. Please just make the spices go away.
Sunday 11.03.12 12:00 AM
Better Muslim?
Sunday 11.03.12 12:03 AM
Was it Jamestown? Did I miss my chance already?
Sunday 11.03.12 12:12 AM
Oh, I get it. It's Shinto, right? Pretty tricky!
Tsundere 11.03.12 12:18 AM
If I don't make it through this, call every girl on my contacts list and tell her I love her.
Sunday 11.03.12 12:19 AM
Unless there's an asterisk by her name, in which case tell her I hate her.
Sunday 11.03.12 12:26 AM
I'm not sure why everyone hates Pauly Shore, Biodome was hilarious! He made noise with his mouth a lot.
Sunday 11.03.12 12:31 AM
I fear my mind has begun to failllllllllllme. Let it be known that I am a man who faces death with composure!
Sundae 11.03.12 12:44 AM
I drew a horsey [this note was accompanied by a picture of a horse, also drawn in the author's blood]
Dimanche 11.03.12 12:51 AM
Screenplay idea: a man struggles against the forces of darkness, despite the darkness's horrible smell and Japan spice
[the rest of the screenplay has been omitted from this report for brevity]
In addition, investigators estimate the author used well over the 4 L of blood contained in a single body in writing this screenplay. DNA testing is currently being used to determine from whom he took the rest.
Sunday 11.03.12 12:64 AM
I don't like Google Chrome. I just don't. Too fancy.
Soonday 8.6.75 3:09 AM
They're still out there. Why? Why are they still out there?
Monday Monday Why Would You Leave And Not Take Me April 14 802,701 AD
There is no place for me in this world. Farewell, foul stench.
4 8 15 16 23 42
Oh, wait! Tomorrow they're serving pancakes, aren't they? I'm gonna miss that.
There were no more notes.
Saturday, 11.02.12 8:56 PM
So, I went to brush my teeth, but there were two people using the sinks to get water for ramen. College!
Saturday, 11.02.12 9:14 PM
I guess it's not just ramen. They're having a full-on food party out there in the hall. Some of the stuff smells pretty strong.
Saturday, 11.02.12 9:31 PM
I'm having trouble breathing and my eyes are burning. I think I'm allergic to something they're using, plus it smells just... awful. It's like the olfactory equivalent of sandpaper. I'm going for a walk.
Saturday 11.02.12 9:49 PM
Okay, seriously? I've walked all over the place and I can still smell it clearly as ever. I have no idea why someone would need that much spice. What is that, wasabi? Can you even eat that much and survive?
Saturday 11.02.12 10:10 PM
There is no use. The smell has permeated the entire campus.
Saturday 11.02.12 10:23 PM
The smell has permeated the entire town. I cannot escape.
Saturday 11.02.12 10:31 PM
I am upwind of the source. I can smell it. I can smell it against the tropical breezes. What does this mean?
Stardate 11.02.12 10:34 PM
Clearly the entire world has been contaminated and it has looped back around to here. We must burn it down, burn it all down, and start anew. Fire is the cleanser.
Saturday 11.02.12 10:40 PM
They fight my vision. They know not the evil they support. Pure, cleansing flames.
Saturday 11.02.12 11:16 PM
On February 11th, 2012, a date which shall live in infamy, American college students stationed in Hawaii were suddenly and deliberately attacked by Japanese spices.
Saturday 11.02.12 11:26 PM
Have I perhaps wronged them in some way? Please, if there's something I can do to make you stop, I'll do it!
Day in Glory of Saturn 11.02.12 11:34 PM
To the manufacturers of the Bug Bomb,
Have I got an exciting business proposal for you! If you consider joining your wonderful and iconic Bug Bomb with the cleaning power of air purifiers and cleansing bleach, I'm certain it would sell wonders. I believe you could make a working prototype and send it to the provided address within the next thirty minutes, and I will gladly let you keep the profits venture.
Day in Glory of Saturn 11.02.12 11:34 PM (scrawled on top of the previous note)
To the manufacturers of 2,4,6-trinitrotoluene,
Have I got an exciting business proposal for you! If you consider joining your wonderful and iconic trinitrotoluene with the cleaning power of air purifiers and cleansing bleach, I'm certain it would sell wonders. I believe you could make a working prototype and send it to the provided address within the next thirty minutes, and I will gladly let you keep the profits from this venture.
Saturday 11.02.12 11:55 PM
I promise to be a better Christian if I make it through this. Please just make the spices go away.
Sunday 11.03.12 12:00 AM
Better Muslim?
Sunday 11.03.12 12:03 AM
Was it Jamestown? Did I miss my chance already?
Sunday 11.03.12 12:12 AM
Oh, I get it. It's Shinto, right? Pretty tricky!
Tsundere 11.03.12 12:18 AM
If I don't make it through this, call every girl on my contacts list and tell her I love her.
Sunday 11.03.12 12:19 AM
Unless there's an asterisk by her name, in which case tell her I hate her.
Sunday 11.03.12 12:26 AM
I'm not sure why everyone hates Pauly Shore, Biodome was hilarious! He made noise with his mouth a lot.
Sunday 11.03.12 12:31 AM
I fear my mind has begun to failllllllllllme. Let it be known that I am a man who faces death with composure!
Sundae 11.03.12 12:44 AM
I drew a horsey [this note was accompanied by a picture of a horse, also drawn in the author's blood]
Dimanche 11.03.12 12:51 AM
Screenplay idea: a man struggles against the forces of darkness, despite the darkness's horrible smell and Japan spice
[the rest of the screenplay has been omitted from this report for brevity]
In addition, investigators estimate the author used well over the 4 L of blood contained in a single body in writing this screenplay. DNA testing is currently being used to determine from whom he took the rest.
Sunday 11.03.12 12:64 AM
I don't like Google Chrome. I just don't. Too fancy.
Soonday 8.6.75 3:09 AM
They're still out there. Why? Why are they still out there?
Monday Monday Why Would You Leave And Not Take Me April 14 802,701 AD
There is no place for me in this world. Farewell, foul stench.
4 8 15 16 23 42
Oh, wait! Tomorrow they're serving pancakes, aren't they? I'm gonna miss that.
There were no more notes.
Saturday, February 11, 2012
Vegetarianism
I am vegetarian. Usually I try not to make a big deal out of it, but I am just seriously squicked out by the concept of meat. And don't worry, this rant is not going to be some appeal trying to get you to stop sticking cow parts in your mouth.
Well, that's not entirely true. There's one product that just... utterly disgusts me, and that's the hot dog. Basically taking pig organs, grinding them up into paste and sticking them inside one large organ, and then twisting it up a regular intervals so that the paste is under pressure and sort of solidifies. I don't care how it tastes, I just don't get how people could put that in their bodies. I'm not even talking about the health part of it, because I have a pretty crappy diet. Hot dogs just strike me as just about the most disgusting thing an animal could produce (yes, out of anything) and we've chosen to eat it.
I actually might overlook that, except that the sausage has existed for millennia. They may have had them as early as 1000 BC. This means that "ground up organ goo inside one large organ twisted up" predates all of the following:
-radio
-women's suffrage
-the steam engine
-the seed drill
-the violin
-feudalism
-gunpowder
-indoor plumbing
-paved roads
-the longbow, and
-democracy
They say "necessity is the mother of invention". Apparently at some point a pre-Hellene gentleman was looking at a pig and thought, "Hm, I've already stripped it everything edible, but there must be some way to get more of it inside me!" He then set to work, running experiments, creating hypotheses--at least, I imagine something along those lines, since this predates the scientific method.
This rant is concerning vegetarian food. See, I have come across some problems at my school's cafeteria. While there is a medium-sized salad bar, that gets boring quite quickly. The school does not seem to consider that, just maybe, not everyone who wants pasta wants it thickly coated in meat sauce. There is also that possibility that fries can exist without chili. I've watched the process, I've seen the point at which they add meat sauce or chili, but for some reason it is prohibited to interrupt it even once.
I'm not the only vegetarian, of course. However, they seem to fall prey to another annoying fallacy. Their thought process, as far as I can determine, runs along the track, "This dish does not contain meat. We should try to cover it in as many different spices and as much spice as we can possibly manage. Johnson, check the saturation point of oregano for this sauce." No, some people don't like that. I'm not sure if you've realized this, but some people don't like that. They've made a few stews that looked appetizing, but from the smell seemed nothing short of noxious. The cooks seem to believe that just because someone discovered a plant with a particular flavoring, it would be a shame to let it go to waste even for a single meal. Perhaps they accidentally misordered very large quantities earlier in the year, and they feel it would be a shame to let any of it spoil.
I try to expose myself to new things--film, music, nature--but when it comes to food, I have very bland tastes. I don't particularly care for sharp flavorings, odd spices, the sour or spicy. I'd appreciate it if they would at least offer a little more variety in that way. My preferences may be bland, but I will eventually get tired of cereal, salad, and waffles.
Also, their orange juice is perhaps the most disgusting vile thing I have ever tasted. Signing out.
Well, that's not entirely true. There's one product that just... utterly disgusts me, and that's the hot dog. Basically taking pig organs, grinding them up into paste and sticking them inside one large organ, and then twisting it up a regular intervals so that the paste is under pressure and sort of solidifies. I don't care how it tastes, I just don't get how people could put that in their bodies. I'm not even talking about the health part of it, because I have a pretty crappy diet. Hot dogs just strike me as just about the most disgusting thing an animal could produce (yes, out of anything) and we've chosen to eat it.
I actually might overlook that, except that the sausage has existed for millennia. They may have had them as early as 1000 BC. This means that "ground up organ goo inside one large organ twisted up" predates all of the following:
-radio
-women's suffrage
-the steam engine
-the seed drill
-the violin
-feudalism
-gunpowder
-indoor plumbing
-paved roads
-the longbow, and
-democracy
They say "necessity is the mother of invention". Apparently at some point a pre-Hellene gentleman was looking at a pig and thought, "Hm, I've already stripped it everything edible, but there must be some way to get more of it inside me!" He then set to work, running experiments, creating hypotheses--at least, I imagine something along those lines, since this predates the scientific method.
This rant is concerning vegetarian food. See, I have come across some problems at my school's cafeteria. While there is a medium-sized salad bar, that gets boring quite quickly. The school does not seem to consider that, just maybe, not everyone who wants pasta wants it thickly coated in meat sauce. There is also that possibility that fries can exist without chili. I've watched the process, I've seen the point at which they add meat sauce or chili, but for some reason it is prohibited to interrupt it even once.
I'm not the only vegetarian, of course. However, they seem to fall prey to another annoying fallacy. Their thought process, as far as I can determine, runs along the track, "This dish does not contain meat. We should try to cover it in as many different spices and as much spice as we can possibly manage. Johnson, check the saturation point of oregano for this sauce." No, some people don't like that. I'm not sure if you've realized this, but some people don't like that. They've made a few stews that looked appetizing, but from the smell seemed nothing short of noxious. The cooks seem to believe that just because someone discovered a plant with a particular flavoring, it would be a shame to let it go to waste even for a single meal. Perhaps they accidentally misordered very large quantities earlier in the year, and they feel it would be a shame to let any of it spoil.
I try to expose myself to new things--film, music, nature--but when it comes to food, I have very bland tastes. I don't particularly care for sharp flavorings, odd spices, the sour or spicy. I'd appreciate it if they would at least offer a little more variety in that way. My preferences may be bland, but I will eventually get tired of cereal, salad, and waffles.
Also, their orange juice is perhaps the most disgusting vile thing I have ever tasted. Signing out.
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