Being Cool + SCIENCE

I find it unusual when someone expresses specific interest in a subject but then subsequently changes their mind when the conversation goes into greater detail.

It could be a conversation about turtles and how they grow... or something stupid like a cartoon you grew up watching. Someone will say 'That was my favorite show EVER!!!!' and then you talk about a specific occurrence or favorite character and they have no idea what you mean.

Your favorite show ever? Oh, turtles really interest you? You study a lot about them?

Then how come you don't know anything about them at all. I guess I called your bluff? Lie, then try to cover it up with more lies, that's the game? Why is expertise in Rocko's Modern Life a requirement to be hip? Is it such a staple on the hipster list of required reading that you need to lie about it?

I really want a conch shell to make a horn out of.

Seriously, and I know I'm a nerd, but is it that bad that if I want to have a conversation about something, I try to fill my head with ACTUAL information about it first?

I guess it is a lot easier to put retro Nickelodeon shows on your list of favorite TV shows and hope everyone who brings it up is as full of shit as you.

Airy is right, I do compete with people in this way. I just hate self-titled 'experts' so much that I have to be rude to them and shoot them down. What's misunderstood is that it is not some ego boost for myself. I judge myself based on what I know, not based on how much more I know than other people. I have respect for the information, and I know when I'm trying to show someone something about biology they didn't know before, I try to be as completely accurate as possible! I'm rude in the face of arrogance back by little to no information, I'm rude to people who assume to be experts despite knowing nothing. Everyone else makes every damned thing personal. Like your opinion or what you've said is attached to your god damned soul and if it is shot down, no matter how incorrect it may be, it's a direct insult to the person.

That's bullshit! Though, I guess it is an insult when you're pulling things out of your ass to begin with, because when speaking in a matter of facts, there is no reason why a misunderstanding or misinterpretation of information should be considered a personal flaw instead of something to simply correct with better information.

I guess when you have nothing else, or are too lazy to learn anything, pretending to be intelligent because of assumed knowledge is your last option. Too bad I'm going to call you out every time.

Secrets

1. Did you ever find out someone was lying to you about something just to win your approval? Someone you were really close to?

Doesn't that just PISS you off like nothing else?

2. I care so little about math that while trying to study, all I could hear in my head was "Who fucking CAAAAAARES, who fucking CAAAAAARES~!"

3. Sometimes I think it's bad that I still go on about video games that are like 20 years old... then I play them and remember they're fun as all hell and don't mind so much.

4. Gonna try to get into a summer research program here at school. Gonna have to see if I could still work and make extra money...

5. I used to find people interesting. Aspects of personality, development and habits... now that I've learned these things so well, I can't get them out of my head and people just annoy the shit out of me.

6. Why am I numbering these thoughts? I want my first professional purchase to be a research boat... Here's hoping.

7. I think indignation is hilarious. I'm talking about the sort of people who consistently do stupid things, knowing full well the consequences of their actions, and still think they're not idiots. If you smoke crack and you save a baby from a house fire, you're still a crackhead.

8. The other day someone made the argument that a friend 'was booksmart, but had no common sense.' This person was trying to imply they were intelligent where the friend was not. I think it is clear what I think of someone who uses such a phrase.

9. Not those trendy 'my life is my music' kids or the 'a hookah bar is an acceptable place to spend my time' idiots, but somewhere in between... you get these wastoid scumbags who think they're all philosophers and yet do absolutely dick with their time but get in a group and dilute their personality flaws by being surrounded by other scum. The more I'm aware of their existing, the more I want zombie apocalypse.

10. I'm serious. If one more of these dime-a-dozen social leeches ruins my day I'm gonna hunt them down and fillet their guts with a pick ax.

AND finally, 11. I'm totally serious.

Escape from Philadelphia

I don't belong in this environment. Over a million people in this city and there is no life anywhere.