Tank Man

Almost two decades ago, the horrible Tiananmen Massacre occurred. Thousands of demonstrators and students were mercilessly killed, most of whom were actually in the city of Beijing, not Tiananmen itself. After the massive crowd of demonstrators had been dispersed, one man rose in defiance against a column of tanks. His actions changed the world, but no one knows what became of him after his act of courage.

This documentary is about that man. (It's about 1 hour 15 minutes long.)

China

1. Censorship

Note from Daniel: Ayup. Blogspot is banned too.

2. Attacking citizens; Tiananmen
3. Focusing on military instead of farmers/peasants
FUCKING COMMIES. [elaboration to come]

Frappucino

I ordered a frappucino, where's my fucking frappucino?

Bump: Assembly....urk...

So, I just returned home from school. And let me tell you, I did NOT have a good morning. We had an assembly today for the annual fundraiser, and it was absolutely ass-backwards-retarded. Ok, so the guy doing the assembly was very enthusiastic, and I understand that. He did his job just fine[albeit with his head stuck up his ass~Wibs].But the problem is this: Ok, so to entice us to sell crap for fundraising, we get these prizes depending on how many things we sell. BUT. THE DAMN PRIZES SUCK ASS. SE. RI. OUS. LY.

• "Oooh look! If you sell three things you get a freaking FAKE TATTOO!!!!" Ok seriously man, a fake tattoo?! That's just so retarded I don't even want to talk about it. Actually, that would mean I wouldn't want to talk about anything else here either.
• "Sell a bit more and you get a BEDROOM DOOR ALARM! OMG!" At this point, a small portion of the sixth graders were beginning to get riled up and excited. I, (and many of my friends) was just becoming less and less amused. No one needs this crap. If you catch a sibling in your room, just land a few good ones on them and that should teach them to stay out forever. No need to get a door alarm that beeps and is easy to bypass.Who says you need to turn the doorknob to open the door? The credit card trick'll get past that really nicely and quickly.
• "Next is the Mini Webcam!!! You can take up to 64 pictures and put 'em on your computer!" Now the sixth graders are getting really excited. A few of the seventh graders also started jumping up and down like idiots too. Have these fools ever heard of webcams before?! Why the hell are these retards screaming with desire for a webcam? Seriously. Even worse, when he showed us a short demo of its "capabilities" (more like deficiencies), the resolution was absolutely HORRIBLE. Yep, he definitely got THAT thing from the dollar store.
• "Liek omg, nao we have our freakin MP3 PLAYERS!!!! WOO!" At this point all the sixth and seventh graders had absolutely lost their minds. I was prepared to euthanize all of them, as it surely was painful being so retarded. We had no choice. We were the only sane ones left. Seriously. There was no doubt that these were those really crappy bootleg MP3 players I see all over the place when I go to China. Yep, sure enough, the interface was copied right off of the iPod, complete with THE SAME EXACT MENU CHOICES. Ugh. Disgustarific.
• As we went up to the high level prizes, consisting of actually desirable things such as Xboxes, Wiis, and PS3's (not so sure about the desirable part on that last one x3), one thing struck me that those previously marked as insane obviously didn't realize. These prizes aren't worth the trouble! Nobody in their right mind (then again there were few people who actually retained their sanity, namely US) is going to sell 100 magazines (roughly $2,000 worth) just to get an absolutely horrible cellphone and one year of service. Nor are they going to sell 150 (or was it 200? I don't know. I shredded up the prize sheet upon receiving it because I was that pissed) magazines for a MacBook which they don't mention is the cheapest model. But oh, all those people screaming at the top of their lungs in excitement don't REALIZE THAT!

Ugh. So yeah, the assembly sucked. At least I had my penmod with me so I could penspin.

Note from Wibs: By the way, you forgot to mention the people who thought up the lame "theme" had their heads stuck up their asses. "Mission Possible"...how lame is that?

RE: Note from Wibs: Oh yeah huh...I guess I was just too steamed to remember that part...

Sssssssssssssssssssssssssssshunnnnn.....

the non-believer....shhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhunnnnnnnnn.....

[in response to Assembly II]

Assembly III...Yes, there must be a follow up.

I think its quite nice to sell magazines, earn free stuff, and help out your school financially all AT THE SAME TIME!

Ok, you really sound like a marketing person there. Here we go. First off, the prizes are not free. They require your time and effort, and pretty much your money before you may obtain them. That means not free. And so therefore, that means not worth it. And help our school financially? They don't need this. I can see several major ways to cut costs and modernize schools at the same time. For example, textbooks should be made available on the internet, rather than in actual textbooks. Our history texts are already on the internet in complete form, which shows that it obviously can be done. If every single textbook was digitized this way, the schools wouldn't have to spend thousands upon thousands of dollars on these things. Enough people have internet. We don't have to live like bloody savages and use books to learn our classes.

"They just have that high-colored backside of the prize sheet in order to hype up the students in the fundraiser."

The prize sheet that I happened to tear into shreds in front of my first period class, yes.

Assembly II

Well, Daniel. You have to admit, they played their part well. Remember, its not THEM that are idiotic, its the students. The people who make the fund raising activity are actually quite intelligent. They realize that the kids will go crazy over such mundane prizes, and take advantage of them.

(PS. Redwood is late, Colina already finished our fundraiser 2 weeks ago.)
(You're also in for a video "Mission Possible, Daily Announcement" every day!)

Anyways, I quite enjoyed the Assembly, me and my friends laughed alot, while we were verbally abusing the assembly host's enthusiasm together. As for the prizes, the fundraising company doesn't actually EXPECT for kids to sell over 40 orders anyways. They just have that high-colored backside of the prize sheet in order to hype up the students in the fundraiser. I do not think the prizes are all the bad, heck, you get them for free! I think its quite nice to sell magazines, earn free stuff, and help out your school financially all AT THE SAME TIME!

(I like to think of the fundraiser as a pyramid scheme.) ^^