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There are people on the net that have nothing better to do with their time
then be nasty to other people online. They post rude comments, spend hours
a day talking about sites they hate so much, that they well, spend hours a
day talking about them. (lame) They mock the owners and posters for their
opinions and their right to free speech. They expect everyone to fit into
their narrow-minded little world view or else they throw a temper tantrum.
To these people I say grow up.
Here's a bit of info people...the web is
a HUGE place. If you don't like what I say here, or who I am, or what I
do, or talk about, or what I look like, or the color of my hair, or
whatever asinine thing you dwell on, go somewhere else. It's
really, really easy. Honest. You just click the little "x" in
the corner of your browser and *poof* the offending, big, mean and nasty
site has disappeared.
I pay for this site. It's mine. That
means I can use it for whatever the hell I want to. Don't like it if I'm
bitching about something in my life? Oh fucking well. Go somewhere else.
Think I'm stupid for expressing my thoughts? Too fucking bad, don't read
them. Somewhere along the line, someone forgot this simple fact: Live
and let live Don't like me, cool, fine, whatever, I don't care.
This journal is NOT for you. It's for me. I'm not in it for popularity or
fame or anything stupid like that. I write it because I need to write and
express myself and get things out of my head sometimes. So read or don't,
it doesn't matter, but don't waste my time (or yours) bitching about it.
*gets off soapbox*
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Saturday, December 31, 2005
For Auld Lang Syne
So it's that time again. The end of a year. How did that happen and where did it go...? Of course, with the drunkenness and the parties and the fireworks, there's always one other highly annoying tradition. People who get snarky about "Auld Lang Syne." Inevitably, you hear - at great repetition and frequency - people get snarky and ask, "what the hell does that mean anyway?!" this time of year. They revel in their ignorance and enjoy acting like being too lazy to do the easiest of the easiest searches to actually, oh, novel concept here, learn something. Instead of taking some perverse pride in the fact you don't know what it means and making jokes about how "dumb" it is, why not just go and look it up? For those too lazy to do, I will once again provide my annual informative post on what the song means in the desperate hope that someone will find the entry and stop being so proud of willful ignorance. (What happened to the sense of curiosity in the world? *sighs* I digress...) Auld Lang Syne is a very old Scottish song dating back to the late 17th or early 18th century depending on what source you reference. Auld Lang Syne means ``old long since'' and is adapted from a traditional Scottish folk tune. The basic words date to at least 1711, though some scholars say it was mentioned as early as 1677. Scottish poet Robert Burns is credited with first publishing it, in the mid-1790s, and, researchers say, smoothing out some of the verses and changing the melody. So what are those words exactly anyway? Should auld acquaintance be forgot And never brought to mind? Should auld acquaintance be forgot And days of auld lang syne? Chorus For auld lang syne, my dear, For auld lang syne We'll take a cup o' kindness yet For auld lang syne. So what's "auld?" Well, quite simply, it means "old." Which begins to clue you in to what the "auld lang syne" part means. The phrase refers to "days gone by" or "times long past." But knowing what the words mean, doesn't necessarly impart understanding of the point of the song, so let's break it down a little further. The song starts off asking if old friends and people in our lives should be forgotten and never thought of again; should we forget the days (times) long past? The chorus, however, tells us no. For days gone by, we should toast them, remember them, cherish them. It's actually not a bad little song. And it's worth taking a few moments to learn about it and where it comes from. Especially if you're going to badly hum it while drunk each year. So consider this your last PSA for the year. A few interesting articles on the song and it's history and meaning: http://chronicle.augusta.com/stories/123199/cy2_124-4983.shtml http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Auld_Lang_Syne As for me, I'll be home. I was hoping to go see Barenaked Ladies. They were here last NYE and Love's company had some free tickets. We didn't end up going and they didn't have any freebies this year. So no BNL for me. *pouts* We're broke, so it'll be a couch-and-tv kind of NYE for us. (Even at $25 a ticket, that's $50 more then I have to spend.) So a happy new year to all. Everyone stay safe and toast a drink to not only what the new year can bring, but the days that brought us here; for auld lang syne.
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