It's Ventin' Time!

I realize I haven't posted here in a while, but I've had a frustrating day and I needed to get some stuff off my chest.

1. Why is it that no one ever seems to get it when I'm being facetious? I have another blog where I mainly write about sports, and I often make posts that have a tongue-in-cheek tone. I try to be funny but I always get stupid comments asking me how I could think something or other. For real? I make statements that no one who knew anything about sports would make and they think I'm being serious. It's frustrating because you'd like to think someone out there got it and appreciated the humor, but most of the comments indicate otherwise.

It's not just on my blog though. Even in real life people don't seem to pick up on it. I'm I just too subtle or am I just a really poor communicator?

2. Why does Lou Piniella keep putting Bob Howry in the game? Hasn't he figured out by now that he isn't good?

3. I got a message from Firefox asking me to upgrade to the new version. I'd gotten this message before and I figured I'd just do it so I'd stop getting the message. If you're using an older version of Firefox I have some advice for you: Don't upgrade to Firefox 3.0. It has this new URL bar, apparently called the AwesomeBar, and it's a piece of crap. It gives you way too much information, like the headers of the pages you've visited and things that are already in your favorites. It might not be so bad if you could turn off this particular option, but you can't. I'm really upset, but I'm not sure how good an idea it is to reinstall an old version of Firefox due to security issues.

I'm aparently not the only one who feels this way judging by comments I've seen on other forums, but Firefox apparently thinks their new URL bar is the best thing since disposable diapers and intends on keeping it that way. I just want to type in the URL without getting a bunch of crap. Is that too much to ask?

4. It's hard being a young single guy. I work with several guys in their 40's and 50's and they constantly make references to me getting married and having children and such. I'm really getting sick of it, because this is a touchy issue for me. I don't have a girlfriend and the longer I live the more likely I think it is that I never will. I'm not so sure I'm cut out to be a father either. I've told them these things before but they apparently don't think I'm being serious, because they insist on bringing it up over and over again. Why don't people just listen?

Anyway, it's been a rough day. On my "Idol" blog I had been planning to post another Top Ten list but never got around to it. Perhaps I should work on that, even though no one even cares about Season 7 anymore. Hopefully Season 8 will be better, but I doubt it will be if they tinker with it too much.

I Hate Women's Fashions

Recently I noticed that my sister was wearing clothes that made her underwear visible. Our society seems to have an epidemic of visible underwear, and I don't like it. I asked her why she was wearing it, and she told me that it's nearly impossible to find anything that looks feminine that doesn't reveal underwear. I found her answer upsetting, because it shows what a sad state we're in as far as fashion goes.

Personally, I've always had a hard time respecting girls who let their underwear show. I'm a guy, so it's hard not to look at it. Even visible skin between the shirt and pants is attention-grabbing and inspires inappropriate thoughts in me. Why is it that most girls allow that stuff to show? Perhaps a better question would be why there aren't any better clothes out there for our sisters to wear. Why must they sacrifice respectability in order to meet the criterion of femininity?

This issue is only supports my belief that American society is destroying the truly beautiful women. When I see movies that take place in the old days I feel like it would've been so much easier for me to find a wife back then. In those days women wore long dresses, so there wasn't a modesty problem like there is today. Society taught that women were to be respectable. I'm sure someone would argue that it was a worse time, because society didn't allow women to have as many rights back then. Still, I'd imagine that most women want to be loved and respected. Perhaps the old-fashioned values of yesteryear meant that a man was more likely to find a woman he could love and respect. Women like that are certainly harder to find these days.

I don't want to be preoccupied with sexual thoughts anytime I'm around a woman. I want to be focused on her virtues and inner beauty. Honestly, the women I've known throughout my life have never seemed more beautiful to me than when they were dressed up in winter clothes. Perhaps it's just a personal preference. Perhaps I'm more focused on inner beauty when a woman is bundled up. All I know is that I love the cold months for the beauty they bring out in women. While my carnal side enjoys seeing the women during the warm months, it's equally unenjoyable because of the constant struggle it brings with it.

I hate the idea that guys are looking at my sister's underwear. She's better than that. Unfortunately, she's becoming an adult, and I can't stop her from wearing what she wants to wear. I can only pray that God will convict her on the issue. I also hope that the tide will turn toward modest fashions. Women shouldn't be forced to give up their modesty to fit in. They should know that God gave every one of them beauty, and that revealing clothing doesn't exhibit it, but rather suppresses it.

What's the Deal With Piercings?

One fad I don't understand is getting pierced. From what I hear it's painful to get pierced, which I probably would've guessed had I not been told. The part that makes it really ridiculous to me though, is that piercings are ugly. Getting a piercing is the equivalent of saying "I'm making a conscious decision to look worse."

There's this semi-famous girl who I find to be pretty attractive. I recently saw a picture of her with a huge stud in her nose and she suddenly seemed a lot less attractive to me. Why do girls think nose piercings are "cute" or good-looking in any way? They're not. It seems like every other girl has her navel pierced these days too. I don't understand the point of that either. If you wear clothes that reveal your navel you don't look very respectable, and it serves no purpose but to get in the way if no one can see it. Eyebrow, tongue and lip piercings are equally useless. I look at people with these things and try to figure out what made them want to get them. My best guess is that they reached a certain age and decided "If I punch holes in my body that'll prove I'm my own person!" When you break it down getting pierced is a pretty vacuous activity.

As an American I grew up seeing women with pierced earlobes as acceptable. While I don't particularly like pierced ears, it's the only type of piercing that doesn't turn me off due to my being exposed to it at an early age. Anything else though, is just unnecessary and unpleasant to look at.

All I can say is that I hope piercing will go out of vogue someday. This fascination with affixing metal to one's anatomy is rather disturbing.

Move over Andy Rooney. You've got company.