Wednesday, August 19, 2009

Filling Time and Escaping Reality.

Whilst I spend my waking hours (generally between 2pm and 7am at the moment) trying to amuse myself, or amuse myself quietly (poorly I might add) so my husband, the household breadwinner, can sleep (wakes if you move more than a centimeter), I cruise the interweb looking for time fillers and avenues of escapism.

I do this to stem the dull roar of silence which harbors endless internal questions – existential, philosophical, or just plain obsessive – keeping me from sleeping properly, or, indeed, if at all. The lights turned out before exhaustion sets in, is akin to going fucking mental.

Must find hobby, creative outlet, purpose to life. Or drugs.

Hmm, on second thought, maybe, they are all inclusive.

Here are some of the better time wasters.

www.reddit.com - better than Digg in so many ways. Quicker than Digg too, in every sense of the word. You can find out, on a daily basis, how fucked our leading countries of world economies, and by default, the leaders of the world are.

America - flagship nation of sex offense laws "wont somebody think of the children". I am astounded by the shit that goes on there. Peeing in public is the new one. Once you are on the sex offenders list, your entire life is pretty much fucked. This includes all the teenagers being done as child pornographers for sending nude pics of themselves or for having underage sex (usually with someone a year younger than them).

Current political debates point out the redneck right of the US liken Obama to Hitler because he wants to pass a national healthcare plan. Although, I have to say, he is quite good at speeches. Download Obama ringtones here - thanks reddit.

UK... no fucking better. The Biggest Bother of them all. Most policed nanny state in the world, where you are on film daily. Is it 20 000 times whilst shopping downtown? Say cheese. Now forcing parents to take parenting class, and arresting people because of their height. Passing 7000 new crimes in the last year. Can anyone say 'thought police'?

There is a myriad of shit on reddit which makes you both laugh and cringe. Like this , or this, informative like this or banal yet funny like this. Only yesterdays examples. Anyways, it's a veritable interweb buffet.

My all time favourite for time wasting are the celebrity bashing sites. A true leveler. Post more fatty cellulite pics I say. And wrinkly faces of 40 year olds, which haven't been photoshopped.

www.perezhilton.com first and foremost. Has become less bitchier the more popular he becomes, *sighs*. Bring back the white pen vandalism. When he runs out of shit flinging, or horrid self promotion of himself and his friends I then go here, getting more desperate as things run out, I then turn here, then disgust myself by going to this lame PG rated site out of Canada . Ending off with this. Needless to say self loathing has set in by this point.

So anyways, thats a couple of hours of good entertainment there, and thats before hitting the blogs.

A site found which I thought could be quite promising due to my lack of English speaking contact here in Bangkok, was Omegle, where you can talk anonymously to strangers. But since I am probably now one of the 'older generation' on there – no seriously, I find myself having discussions with closet atheist teenagers who have the attention span of a gnat. One guy was an Australian with the email of greasywog@yadda, living in the western suburbs of Sydney, with his schizophrenic mother, drug dealing since he was 15, having girl problems and pining for rehab because of his gambling and drug addiction. I suggested a 12 step program.

After the first couple of times, the hit rate was like one in 30 before you could get something that resembled a conversation going. Many non native english speakers on there, using you for practice, *snores*. Mostly it just makes you feel old though, since everyone is in fucking high school. As soon as you tell them your real age, they seem to freak out a bit or lose interest. Not to mention, I now have to watch what I say, "wont I think of the children?"... *pukes*. So not as exciting as one may hope.

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