I’m not trying to knock weddings or marriage, but I’m endlessly amused and baffled by how many things people engage in while having no idea where the tradition comes from or what the implications are.

A lot of wedding traditions seem to revolve around fear of evil spirits and the belief that sex is dirty and women who aren’t virgins at the time of marriage are whores. Cool! (sarcasm)

Here’s one interesting excerpt:

“The tradition of the groom selecting a best man to he lp him carry out the wedding traces its lineage back to Germanic tribes. Rather than helping carry out the wedding, the best man originally was tapped to help carry off an unwilling bride-elect, if necessary. The best man’s position beside the groom during the ceremony was meant to situate him as a shield between the groom and angry members of the bride’s family [source: World Wedding Traditions].”

How Stuff Works Article on Wedding Traditions

From the video’s author:
“The Pale Blue Dot: The picture of Earth from 4 billion miles away. As told by Carl Sagan through some my favorite films set to the music of Mogwai.”

From the website:
Elizabeth Gilbert muses on the impossible things we expect from artists and geniuses — and shares the radical idea that, instead of the rare person “being” a genius, all of us “have” a genius. It’s a funny, personal and surprisingly moving talk.

From the website:
At the Taste3 conference, chef Dan Barber tells the story of a small farm in Spain that has found a humane way to produce foie gras. Raising his geese in a natural environment, farmer Eduardo Sousa embodies the kind of food production Barber believes in.

This was in the “Recently Popular” section of the MySpace “Bumper Stickers.”

Wow! And people sit and complain about how hard relationships are with other retards that have no fucking clue how to be in a mutually respectful relationship either, and because they’re both clueless they convince themselves that relationships must just be hard cause they both are sharing similar experiences.

“Well if you and I agree then it must be true!! It can’t be that we’re identifying with each other simply because we both have the same opinion and have arrested development in the same area… nope! This must be the way life REALLY is!!” :D

Relationships aren’t “hard,” they just require that people look at themselves, and grow and adapt. Most people expect the other person in the relationship to complete them, and the other person in the relationship expects the person expecting them to complete them to complete them. It’s not that relationships are hard, it’s that people are trying to smash the concept of “relationship” into some fucking twisted hole that it was never meant to fit into (and never will). Relationships are like anything else in life, and they typically take some fucking thought and effort and willingness to work on yourself to make them functional.

Yes, there are other valid variables, but I’m generalizing the type of dipshits that made that “Bumper Sticker,” and who have made it “Recently Popular.” Sometimes I feel like we live in a world full of fucking apes who have been given the same rights as people who actually put some effort into being thoughtful and into evolving. A good example of this is looking at the type of fucking degenerates in our country (like KKK members) who have the same right to vote as everyone else.

I also love how loosely people throw around the words “woman” and “man,” as if they have any fucking clue what it means to be either of those things, as opposed to being a perpetual teenager who’s occupying a body that has gotten progressively older, and that can on sight be mistaken for an adult.

“I don’t wanna grow up!! I’m a Toys ‘R’ Us kid!!” :D

Every time I come across something that represents popular opinion it just makes me want to hide under a rock.