The official WTF?! topic!

[Ultra_Glior]

So this is what everybody's been dy......Oh, I mean, so this is the Grace Saunders character that I'm accused of being? What a Loon! LOL!

[RE-Hiro]

i think you're right, the truth is that all the people live faster and faster they lives, they woke up early and go to bed later, that means less sleep, less rest; more stress.

I´m studyng psychology, and the other day in class we were discussing about that too. Now the kids in kindergarden are overwealmed by the strees, they have some stress related diseases. this is because the society requires more and more agressive people; thats why we're all pressuring kids so young!!

[TheSelfishGene]

This ain't a scene, its a fuckin insane, bat-shit crazy arms race

Ok, this really made me go WTF. It's a blog I wrote earlier today, I thought I'd share it here. For those who don't know, I'm an English teacher working in Japan.

[SIZE="4"]"This ain't a scene, its a fuckin insane, bat-shit crazy arms race"[/SIZE]

Ok, right off the bat, I don't like the Fallout Boy song. But I do like songs with awkward titles, but nothing has toppled TISM's 'I may be a cunt, but at least I'm not a fucking cunt'. I'd give them an ARIA based on the title alone.

Anyways, imagine a forest, and all the plants grew to one foot tall.
And all the plants got sunshine, and all the insects living under the plants were happy. But then one grew a bit bigger, to snare a bit more sunlight, and cast shade on the others. Then again, one grew bigger, and they all competed, until there was a point when all the trees were 10 metres tall, and what is the result? The exact same as if they were all 1 foot tall, they're all the same height. They can't grow taller because if they do, the wind blows them over and they die. So, all the plants grow to a maximum height, simply to 'tread water', so the metaphor goes.

It's the red queen paradox from C.S Lewis' 'Through the looking glass'. You've got to keep running as fast as you can to stay in the same spot. To get anywhere, you have to go at least twice as fast! So says the Red Queen. You can't afford to not keep up.

It's the classical Darwinism, and the 'struggle for existance'. Anyone who's studied it should know just how much arms races have shaped the natural world around us.

So, in the hyper-competitve schools of Japan, nearly every student goes to some form of 'cram school', after school, just to stay competitve in the race for places at university. I work at an English school, but there are cram schools for everything.

So, how do you run twice as fast, in order to get anywhere, just like the Red Queen says you need to? I don't know exactly, but because everyone goes to cram schools, including alot of kids that arent so bright, they spend hours and hours studying, without much return. It's like saying you can take down a brick wall by smashing it with your skull repeatedly. Sure, it will get the job done eventually, but there are much better ways to do it.
Anyways, in an attempt to run twice as fast, to inch that much taller above the other trees, to cast a long reaching shadow over the inferior ones, and to make sure your genes are secure at least for one more genetation, I have a mother sending her daughter in for a trail lesson later this week. The girl is in grade 5, and she wakes at 3am to study, goes to school at 7am, until 4pm, an hour for dinner, then off to cram schools again. Home at 10, in bed at 11, and FOUR HOURS of sleep to be up at 3am to do it again the next day... She's in grade 5...

Talk about overbearing. I'm so anxious to meet her, I'm so curious to see if she's in for it, or if she's ready to do herself in... I can't imagine liking my parents if I went though a regieme like that.


I'm not alone in my thoughts that that is really really wrong am I?

[nemesis_lover]

.......well hello you two

[RE-Hiro]

i know it's a little late but congrats!!!!!!!!!! hahaha

[Gradon]

Will do:
On a side note, my brother gave me his Ipod yaaay! ^^

[RE-Hiro]

Congratulations!!! you´re a bandersnatch!!!!! hahaha reading all the postss back there i realize you and i were the only one that posted and posted!! hahaha and about Jake, I hope it all come out great!!! i perfectly undestand you, sometimess it´s difficult to admit who you like because there is a lot of bad people out there, i´ve been throught that, but now everyone accepted me and have someone i really love and i hope spending the rest of my life with him, even when he doesn´t like RE hahhaa!!! and by the way he´s in one of my picture i posted, (hint, hint) hahaha, don´t worry my friend, it´s all good!!!

[Gradon]

Erm...It's sorta personal, but he's this person I like...
Moving on:
t.A.T.u are God, it is true! I love them in everyway! xD

EDIT2: I mention him because this is the only place where everyone isn't an asshole, and I'd like to be myself then pretend to be what I'm not atleast once in a "public" forum, it's just most forums everyone is selfish and obnoxious...

EDIT: Oh look, my 200th post and it happens to be about Jake... o,o
I'm a bandersnatch! 8)

[RE-Hiro]

haha, that joke was way too sofisticate to me XDDDD it´s like:

There are 10 kinds of people in the world the ones who Knows the binary code and the ones who doesn´t.

XD hahaha

Edit: Gradon, you changed your signature, t.a.t.u?? cool!!! by the way who´s jake????

[Gradon]

Virus Name: ALPHA BETA DELTA EPSILON ZETA <INSERTPROJECTNAMEHERE> has been activated.
If you believe you have been hacked, press 1.
If you think this is a message from God, press 2.
If you are smart, press Delete.
If you are stupid, press ESC.
...
You pressed 2.
God has sent a message via I.M.
Sean Reddie (L) S.v.S - I can't wait for Summer...New York says:
t.A.T.u are God
And i'm being serious
God has spoken.

[RE-Hiro]

Now i really feel like part of this community, hahaha thankss my friend!!!

oh.. damn it!! my computer just exploded!!! XD

[Gradon]

Well Excuuuuuuse me.
*Storms out in a bitch-like way*

The events you have just read are non-canocil and not true, your computer will explode in approximating 60 seconds.

[RE-Hiro]

oh god, i&#180;m sorry!! but it seemsss the ratatouille DVD it's really mine and you're the one who stole it!!!!! i&#180;m gonna post this in evey little site i know, i&#180;m even gonna make a video on youtube about you stealing my DVD!!!!! it was so mine, i had a sad childhoold, i live in a wooden box with nothing else that my playstation and my RE games!!!!!! how dare you to steal something from me!!!! i&#180;m gonna pray Thor for you corrupted soul!!!! hahahahahahahah XD (so dramatic, that thor thing i heard it once on friends!!)

[Gradon]

How dare you steal my Ratatouille DVD! I'm not speaking to you again Hiro! T_T

[RE-Hiro]

HEY GRADON, my dear and oldest friend haha, let&#180;s fight/argue too, hahaha XD it seemss like most of the people here had fight/argue with someone, so i don&#180;t wanna be left out, so come on bring it on!!! XDDDD acuse for something i did&#180;t do, XD (just kidding!!! )