The Arrogant Italian

So, fuck drivers! I was going to lunch today, and some guy in a giant truck pulled out in front of me and didnt get to speed, like at all. He didnt cut me off, there would have been plenty of room, if he had just accelerated to speed. He was driving a truck, but still, I shouldn’t have to slam on my brakes for your dumb ass cause you dont know the gas from the brake.

This was not an isolated incedent, this happens all the time to me.

If you are going to pull into traffic, don’t be an ass hole, and if you are on a phone, dont get madd when I honk and flip you the bird. I’m not the best driver, but I at least try to be aware of the traffic arround me, and I try not to be a dick, when I dont have to be.

So since when is Gay an offensive term. I am of course referring to a recent post I made in the UCF LiveJournal. which is run by a bunch of overly conservative individuals who are hypocritical to the point that they threatened to ban me from the community if I did not remove the word form my post.

This is the post in question:

Hey Everyone,
Just wondering if anyone know the like discount coupon code for ticket master for the UCF v. Tulsa game on the 20th. I know the one for the Texas game was like “brighthouse” or something gay, but I don’t know if one even exists for this one. Its kinda lame that I have to spend $35 to get my brother in so he can sit in the student section… figured I would ask.

The thread went somthing like this:

Only morons or twelve year olds on Xbox Live use the term “gay” as a replacement for lame. Edit your post or I’m killing it and banning you for a week.

Thanks,

Management

And to elaborate and add to this to the OP…

Editing your post with *** to replace gay is no edit at all.

If you’re using it in place of “lame” or “stupid”, say those words.

and finally the best of them all

And the way you edited it there isn’t cute.

I’m deleting this.

And if you repost it, we’ll ban you.

Im leaving the posters names off in purpose of course. So the question now becomes, what right do they have to censor me? I honestly thought the first post was a joke, so I jokingly changed the word “gay” to “***”. then it just grew from there so instead of actually changing it to something else I just censored myself, changing “***” to “<insert non-offensive term here>”.

Does anyone really find my use of the word gay in this case offensive? How does he know that I was not using it to mean “happy”. And since when is a Live journal community like a communist country?

Needless to say I had to post everything here, because they removed my post, so if you have any info on the original post, or any comments on the thread that followed I would love to hear them.

I grew up in the kitchen (and my physique is proof). But I helped in the kitchen the whole time I was a kid. I learned from a young age to to simple prep activities, peel garlic quickly, chop onions properly, how to handle knives etc. When I was in middle school I would have dinner ready for my mom and brother when they got home from work/school.

The question is where do people learn these tasks if they don’t learn them from there parents. If Home-Ec is as lame as Drivers Ed was in my H, then they wouldn’t learn there. I would think they could learn them in college (like a CC or something). But like I wouldn’t even know where to look. Do culinary schools provide basic knife skills, and prep classes, cause I would think they would expect you to come in with some working knowledge.

My point is this, and I don’t think I have even expressed it, but I think basic cooking skills are something that you need to learn early if you want it to come naturally, like I don’t think its something that you can learn late in life. Its like learning a language, the earlier you learn, the better you become at the basics, and you need the basics to move onto anything better.

I don’t really know what my point was here…. but I am bored at work, so I figured I would post something.

Oh Yeah!! That’s the other thing, if you don’t know how to cook, try anyway, the best way to learn is by doing. But don’t get mad when people don’t like it cause it does not turn out exactly how you thought. I encourage everyone to try to cook, that’s the only way to learn this skill really, and I will try to eat it, but I’m gonna tell you how it was, so don’t get all pissed off.

If it sucks, I will tell you.

I know this is off topic, but… uhhh GO KNIGHTS!!!

Most people think this is a simple task that needs no attention, but there are some things I have learned while living in an apartment for the last 4 years.  These are thing that while living in a one story house, I never really thought about, and things that when I moved into an apartment I learned by experience, but if I can help even one person figure them out faster (passably Stompy my neighbor), the world will be better off.

1.  Take off your shoes when you come in, walking in shoes in the apartment makes you walk a little harder (plus it makes the carpet dirty).

2. Don’t throw stuff, even small stuff can make a loud thud when it hits the ground.

3. If its more than just you using the fridge, get a mini fridge for drinks & beverages.

4. Be mindful of your neighbors, I cannot stress how important this last one is.  You are not the only one who lives in the building.  Don’t walk hard, don’t stomp around, don’t be an ass an pier over the edge of the balcony and say “Those are some big hot dogs” then giggle to your stupid ass roommates about it.   You never know when you will need help from the people who live near you, don’t piss them off.

That’s basically it, I’m sure other people have stuff to add, but I have to get back to work.

PS Stompy, if you are reading this: SHUT THE FUCK UP!!

Okay, so maybe I’m an arrogant dick-weed, but I don’t like canned/jarred sauce on my pasta. I just don’t like it, and when I think about the few times that I have actually had it, it makes me cringe. I know other people may like the nasty sauce, go ahead, eat it. I don’t care, but don’t be an ass when I say I don’t like it.

On that same note, also don’t freak out when I don’t wanna put shit in my sauce (like carrots). I have been eating/making my sauce all my life, I’m not going to fuck it up and make it taste like shit cause you like weird crap.

So, to make a long story short, I only like my sauce and I don’t care who what you think. I might be arrogant, but I don’t care.

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