Don't Get Me Started On...: August 2017

So there's this new fashion trend going around where girls like to draw on their eyebrows. Well to draw on pretty much everything and to reconstruct their face with contour and foundation. But anyway, back to the main topic, eyebrows.
So here's what a normal eyebrow should look like:

Both of those photos I believe can be seen as pretty good guidelines, and I would think many others would agree with me. Those are nice and clean, not too thin, not too thick. You can see them. They're not too light, and they're not insanely dark. However, many people who feel the need to draw on their eyebrows, do not follow this.
All I can say is, WHY? It does not look good at all.

Not a single one looks good. All of these women look like they just went down the road to a random five-year-old and said "Here, take this sharpie and draw on my face." Or perhaps, maybe these poor women have never seen another person's eyebrows before. Maybe they have some weird disease that makes it impossible to look at eyebrows. Or maybe they're blind. Or maybe they just don't own a single mirror in their house and so just do their eyebrows without looking and hope for the best.
Now those are pretty bad, but at least these women think their eyebrows look nice and normal (even though they clearly don't.) But there's another trend I recently heard of that is the absolute worst. Feather Eyebrows. Yes, it's exactly what it sounds like. It's where you spend God himself only knows how long, picking and gelling at your eyebrows to make them look like a feather.

When I asked Star what she thought about it her exact words were "Why? I don't like it."

Yes, because that's all I've ever wanted in life, for my eyebrows to look like a feather. I look up at birds in the sky and I'm like "Those bastards and their feathers, I want to steal their look." (Not to mention that eye makeup making the girl look like she just escaped the set of The Walking Dead.) I can't imagine why people would want to do this but whatever. If they wanna do it, let them do it. If people want to look like an idiot, then it's not up to me.

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School Blocks

Okay so here's the topic for today: The Neosho R-V school districts blocking system.

So how it works is it has a few pre-set words that the system goes through and blocks any website and YouTube video that contains these words.

The only problem is that this system only blocks popular sites and videos. Say you want to listen to your favorite song, but oh no, it's blocked. One way to get around this block is to simply continue to scroll down the YouTube list until you find one that's unblocked.

So basically unless there's one of those blocked words in the title you can still find and listen to your song fairly easy. It's time-consuming but easy. Now there are other ways to get around the school blocking system to watch videos that are blocked, but I'm not getting into that.

Now, onto the next part. Just exactly what are some of these blocked words? Well, some are understandable. Various cuss words, and many other touchy things. But what else is blocked you may ask. Absolutely ridiculous things such as: fist, bloody, naughty, snatch, (okay I know that can mean something bad but in the context of the song it meant 'to grab') and various other things.

On one hand, I get that they are 'violent words' but on the other, come on! We are in high school. Also naughty? Naughty, seriously.

If this isn't ridiculous enough just to hear, let me appeal to your logistic side. I can give example after example on how this heeds my learning.

My freshman year. I'm in debate, which covers many controversial subjects. I'm trying to write a speech on gun control but I can't. Why? Every website I clicked on was blocked for talking about guns. Well, no shit Sherlock. What was my speech about again? Oh yeah, that's right, guns. So explain to me how I write a speech on guns when I cannot research information about them. Well here's your answer: not very well.

Now part 3. The part that annoys me the most. Earlier I gave an exact list of a few words that are blocked. I bet you're wondering how I knew those words, right?

Well here's your answer. The Chromebooks tell you. When you go to a blocked video in big text blocking out the video it reads something along the lines of "This video is blocked for containing the key blacklisted word 'fist'" (or whatever the word the video may contain is.)

So you're telling me I can't listen to this song, this song I listen to every day, because it says fist or suicide or whatever, but I can read this word on my screen, which will then cause me to look at my screen in disbelief, and disrupt the class to show everyone. That makes great sense.

The actual song Bohemian Rhapsody doesn't even say suicide in the song??

*Slow clap for the school*

Don't get me wrong, I do get their reasoning behind it. At least here's what I think. It's to show us why. It's their way of saying "Hey we're not being jerks but we can't let you listen to this song and here's some proof." I get that. That's why I've always assumed they've done it, and I do appreciate it, but I still think it's somewhat ridiculous.

(Seriously though, fist is a ridiculous word to block. If anything, that's a body part?)

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