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Monday, October 6, 2014

Windows 10? More like Windows 1984


If you try to cope with the news on the internet, Microsoft has announced the newest version of Windows; Windows 10. And no, you weren't too busy you didn't notice Windows 9, they simply don't exist. [Something like the Xbox thing.]






Now Microsoft updating Windows isn't that big of a deal is it? It wouldn't be if Microsoft didn't have free access to the Microsoft 10 user's files, history and identity information. I'm being serious.










When I first heard that, I immediately thought of Orwell's 1984. Because let's face it, whoever will dowwnload Windows 10 will probably spend a lot of time online, so Microsoft has the change to literally spy on you. What kid of policy is this? What is their excuse?  I have been searching for a pretty good reason to make us say "Oh, okay, I understand.". But I haven't. Unless they are trying to find terrorists. Which isn't their job. And even if they wanted to do that, why announce it in the whole fucking world? Now you tell the terrorists, and everyone who doesn't want their files read by anyone else, not to choose Windows 10. How many people do you think are ok with this free access of yours Microsoft?




*dramatic mother voice* You disappointed me Microsoft. I expected more from you. Now I guess I have to download Ubuntu. [Just Google it and find out.]







See More Here:http://www.trustedreviews.com/news/microsoft-s-windows-10-policy-raises-serious-privacy-concerns

Sunday, October 5, 2014

Acceptable Use of Your Smartphone In Public


What is Acceptable: Two people using one phone. It's like saying two kids playing with one toy is bad.
What is NOT Acceptable: One person using their phone and ditching the others next to them.

What is Acceptable: Two or more people are using their phones and talk about it in the meantime. There would be no different if they were reading a different magazine and talked about the articles.
What is Not Acceptable: Two or more people using their phones without talking to each other while they are out at a cafe.

What is Acceptable: A teenager using their phone while at someone's house they were forced to go. Before you start talking about impoliteness, I'll explain: It's okay if you visit your aunt's house to eat with them like they do every Sunday. The kid eats, listens to the adults for three minutes and then is fucking bored because the adults will continue talking about things the kid isn't interested in for four more hours. So why can't the kid open the phone and play Angry Birds? I bet no one would have cared if the kid was playing with a Rubik Cube but no , it's a phone so the kid must be stuck with it all day.
What is Not Acceptable: Having your relatives from America to visit for the fist time after 45 years and the kid is on the phone.

What is Acceptable: Hanging out with your friends and at some point take a snapchat/tweet/post something on Facebook
What is Not Acceptable: Being with your friends and constantly doing the above without paying your friends attention and/or talking about the above all the time.

I don't know if these are common knowledge or just me. But the next time you assume two teenagers in a cafe are "influenced by today's technology to isolate themselves" think about what I just said.

Thursday, October 2, 2014

Vaya's 12:46am Thoughts.

I'm so sorry. It's late and I got emotional.  Again.
 And yes, I'll talk about weight again.
I'm litteraly surrounded by girls who eat a shitload and don't gain an effing pound. You have no idea how many times I've had one of those conversations:
Girl:*eats the fifth sandwich in one school day*
Me:*starving, not having eaten nothing the whole day* You're eating again??
Girl: Yeah. It's so crazy that I'm not fat or anything.

Ok. I exagerrated. Most of the girls I know arent acting like that. But you get my point. I think.

Anyway, I understand that some of you are going to tell me-or have told me already-that you would like to be more chubby. And that both overweight and really skinny girls have the same problems.

Let's be honest. You can find advantages of being skinny (easy access to small places, fitting easier on clothes, looking cute in oversized sweaters etc etc).
What are the advantages of being fat?
Carrying useless extra weight to your whole body? Spending a hundrend and two days in order to find trousers that fit you? Being constatly reminded by society that you're ugly?
There are a lot of adds and shows and stuff that tell me that. How many have you seen that tell you the same things?
No matter how many you find, I will always have more.
Spare examples I just thought:America's Next Top Model,  1346 doctors in shows talking about diets every afternoon. Adds everywhere, all the time. Magazines. The fact that while you're reading this you cannot name the last overweight singer who got as famous as Adele. Comments on Adele's videos. Comments on videos in which an overweight person says something someone disagrees with and decides to attack their looks.
Show me one comment that said "go eat something and then come talk to me you skinny bitch", while the topic of the video is not weight or looks or something like that.

Honey Boo Boo's mom does something weird with/for her daughter and everyone calls her a fat whale.
Hailey Phelps is being homophobic and disrespectful in a gay shouldier's funeral and no one called her a skinny bitch or a sceleton. They fought her ideas.
Why can't the same people fight only the bad parenting of Honey Boo Boo's mom and not her fat as well?

Tada. I just made a stupid post.
I dont even know why I write anymore. All my ideas are common knowledge.
I won't bug you again with something less awesome than my cat giving birth. I sort of promise to try to think about promising.

Vcay
xxxxxxx

Thursday, September 4, 2014

How to Trick People Into Thinking You Like Their Gifts

There are various occasions that you may recieve a gift:birthday, name day, marriage... But they are not all of them...how to say it....likable.But you also don't want to hurt the other person's feelings because, after all, they had spent money and time on that. So what do you do?

1. Imagine that you see a cute little kitten/puppy/anything cute. That way your expression will look more excited than it already is.

2. Pretend you wanted to buy that thing but you didn't have the time. Just be fast. You don't even have to get the shirt out of it's box. Another example: If it's a book, read the title really fast and say "[Insert Title]! Oh my God, what if I told you I had an eye on it when I saw it on the bookstore?" or , again, if it's a book, you read the back of it and say "Oh, that's the one? I wanted to buy it!", pretending that you didn't recognise the name or author but you have read the plot and liked it.

3. If you have another person near you, show it to them and say something like "Look at it! It's amazing!"

4. The next time you meet the person who gave you the gift, wear it. If he/she doesn't recognise it, imply it. Say something like "I'm wearing such a nice shirt/necklace/etc today! I wonder who gave it to me?!" with a smile on your lips. If it's a book, read a review online or something and pretend you have read half of it.

5.In order to avoid all this, just say "I'll open it later! Thanks!" Attention: This will work only at parties. If you're alone with the person, you'll just sound stupid.

So yeah, these are my advice! I'm such a horrible person....

Vcay
xxxxxxx

Thursday, July 10, 2014

What to do when you suck at drawing backgrounds:

What to do when you suck at drawing backgrounds:
Pray(if you are an atheist. uhm I don't know improvise.sorry

  • Don’t draw them at all (hey it did work for the creator of Naruto.
  •  Practice you lazy little star dust
  • Make your entire story on a foreign planet; all you have to draw is a round rock.
  • Draw porn nobody even cares about the backgrounds then. 

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  • Zoom into the characters a bit too much
  • Draw only the things that are essential for your story

  • Or to identify each place
  • Maybe.
  •  Don’t create comic books, create novels or something.
  •  Ask for help. Meaning: make a more talented friend of yours draw them for you.

 take care and be artistic and stuff
Zoey



More stuff about feminism and books I suppose

Hello youthful humans,
I am aware it hasn’t been such a long time since I updated anything. And yes, I also know this is exactly the opposite way I started all my previous posts too for some time. Oh well it is not fine there is somebody out there expecting me to write anything that makes much sense anyway. If I want you to know that I feel like a jerk right now.
Anyway, back to the point I was reading the chronicles of Vladimir Tod twelfth grade kills well again (inner fangirl screams) I was going through the 16th chapter where Meredith tells Snow that Vlad will never go out with her (I know high school drama what can you do about it)
And then Snow’s answer was
“You face it, princess. I don’t need a boy crushing on me to feel good about myself. If Vlad doesn’t date me, that’s fine. If he does, great. But I’m not going to base my entire sense of self-esteem on whether or not I have a date to the prom.”
Thank you Heather Brewer. I hope it’s not illegal to do this, it might be. Oh well you only die once or whatever idiotic people of this generation have been saying. This is a completely different subject. Back to the point, girls of the last decades more like centuries but who’s counting just seem to have no respect to their person unless somebody hands it to them (not I’m not going to say literally because that is the wrong use of the word.)
(God I am terrible at finding relatable pictures for my "articles". it is cute though concradulations to whoever drew this)
It is plain sad that the do not see their self worth and society also doesn’t try to teach them to consider themselves as equals. And no by that I do not mean have an actual sexual relationship with someone in your mid thirties but to do it only due to wanting to do it for personal reasons not because people will think more highly or lowly or you if you are sexually active or have are ‘beautiful’ on whatever societies standards. I’m not recreating that cliché lie of everybody’s beautiful because it is untrue. The brain perceives as attractive the person with the characteristics he is most accustomed to. Therefore, to put plainly, you are unique. Oh, look another cliché. I thought nobody would take  an enraged ‘feminist’ girl seriously so I will use parts of different books,  to point out that beauty is unimportant.
That was a long prologue...
 In the book ‘Women” by Charles Bukowski he talks to us about his girlfriend
And describes her saying that she has a big nose, her one eye was bigger than the other, her poetry was shit. I do agree that he was not exceptionally nice about it but any female reading it would not feel overwhelmed about another perfect specimen that so many writers meet or more accurately imagine. He liked her cheerfulness and that was the one trait that he did like about her and that made her attractive to him even though- No. No spoilers even though the book is very old. (I personally found it in the library so imagine.
Another one a little bit more  sweet and innocent this time ‘The perks of being a wallflower’ I fell in love with this book a few years back, yes to the unaware it was a book long before it became a movie. So Charlie, the main character tells to Sam the very widely known to all the people wasting their life on the internet
‘We accept the love that we think we deserve’ he says to a Sam wondering why things didn’t go the way se expected in her relationship with Craig.
Another example of girls not thinking they are for anything better than sexual intercourse is in the book I’ll spit in your graves by Boris Vian in a dialogue between the protagonist and a random girl he met that very day that a café, that ends up being a main character but at this pointing chapter 2 is a stranger.
‘You dance well for an old guy’ she said
‘My grandfather taught me’ I said
‘I can see that. So old fashioned.’
‘You are sure better than me in jive but I can teach you other tricks’
She half closed her eyes.
‘Old people’s tricks’ she asked
‘It depends whether you are talented’
‘I know where this is going…’
‘You sure don’t. Does anybody have a guitar?’
 That woman does have low self respect. Only me.
Okay.
I am aware I am weird. If you want to add another book to the pile feel free to
Zoey

Wednesday, July 9, 2014

Type of writers that everybody hates

So uhm here it is this is entirely my opinion and you shoulden't take me seriously:

 1) The fuck you I don't like my art I will rewrite the whole thing even though I have already updated 20 chapters just to spite you.


2) the shit I died in the middle of the third book type so you'll never know how it ends. With all due to respect fuck you, I know it is disrespectfull I'll send you flowers.

3) the person with the awesome ideas that writes so beautifully but every time you tell them so they will disagree with you. Do not publish then you little...

4)the enfluenced little shit that cannot write about anything that was not written by 2 million people before him/her.

5) that writer thattakes a story off great with confetti and crap and then feels obligated to add some romance. Why did you think turning it itto a cliche love story would be a good idea? Why?

6) And last but not least the cuntthat writes a n exciting first book and the rest are shit. Like the hunger games for example.




wasting your time with love,
Zoey

10 book recommendations

So school's out.dan dan dan dan. Sorry stupid pun, anyway I've read some really cool books throughout this school year that I actually think are worth your precious time of doing nothing so here I am recomending to you the best of them.

1 the curse workers-Holly Black





it is a 17 year old boy that has associated himself with the mafia and turned his crush since he was a kid itno a cat. oh the are also into a paralel universe and have superpowers.





2 the dissapearing spoon-sam kean

stories on on the elements of the period table. the way it is written is very amusing though














3 the status civillization-robert sheckley





I think it is supposingly in a future worold with a rotten society that sends all it's criminals to a different planet because it cannot handle them.











4 J'irai cracher sur vos tombes-boris vian





i don;t even know how to discribe without it sounding weird it is my favorite book though









5under the volcano-malcolm lowry







it is in mexicico at the day of the dead and describes the life of an alchoholic person that does nothing with his life.
it is always great to have a look into the future, right?






6 the death of the moth and other essays-virginia woolf




it contains the letter to a young poet that you probably have read anyway it is a great book.












7 the first three minuites-stephen weinberg







it takls about the origin of the universe ina way understandable to the averege human being it is quite old though











8 the feyman lectures on physics-feyman/leighton/sands





I think the tittle gives it away and it it doesn;t you're a bloody idiot.










9 les flewrs du mal-charles baudlair




a great collection of poems













10 illuminations-arthur rimbaud







and that's poetry too, sorry. 
my favorite one is war. if you don't want to read the book you can check it out online.
 I think..








And I am terrible at intoducing books. So never again. Probably
Anyway this is merely the order that i read the not based on how mach I liked them. I hope ypu enjoy them just as much as I did.
On an other note I have been reccomended a book called johnny got his gun or something between those line and I was considering reading it if you've read it please give me a rating
thank you for your time.
Zoey

Saturday, June 21, 2014

Sunday, June 15, 2014

Modern Family-Greek Version

I was watching TV the other day and I saw this commercial about a new show: Modern Family. At least, the greek version of it.
And I couldn't help but wonder if the concept was going to work and here are the reasons why.

The Greek version of Modern Family. I'll let you guess who's who.

A. Gay Parents Aren't At All Acceptable in Greece.


Mitch and Cam.
What am I talking about? Gay people aren't at all acceptable.There isn't a chance that two gay men could adopt a baby in Greece. There isn't a chance they would be so open about it the way Mitch and Cam are in the american one. There would be both burnt in stakes- I hope I'm speaking non literally.
Also Lilly's name. Every single name was changed to a greek one, for obvious reasons. But Lilly's name stayed. For some weird reason.




In case you haven't guessed yet, for left to right
Alex, Hailey, Luke and Manny.
B. They should be more concerned about money than they are.
Due to the economical crisis, I would never think that The Dunphies would be able to stay in a house like that, with that many computers etc with only Phil working.








Gloria and Jay. The letters in the box say "Married 6 months"
C. A Columbian woman and a Greek man?You can start the puns about the World Cup after I finish. Quite frankly, I believe there wasn't one Columbian in Greece. (Maybe in vacation?) But, I'm sure there wasn't one Columbian who married a Greek. Gloria is ok, because it's the USA. There are a lot of immigrants from South America so Gloria doesn't seem so odd. But in Greece? In the greek version, everybody acts like it's normal, or at least like an american would act if they saw a columbian in the street, while it shouldn't be. Too unrealistic.


From left to right sitting on the couch: Gloria, Phil, Claire, Jay,
Mitch, Cam. The one standing is probably one of the
 producers.
D. The budget.Even if the economical crisis doesn't exist in the show, it is a problem for the producers. As a result, the quantity of the whole show is much lower than the original one, and as a person who has watched both, it kind of ruins it for me.










Me honest opinion? No one should even bother making a Greek version of Modern Family. The best thing they could do was translate it and air the original one with greek subtitles.

Vcay
xxxxxxx

Friday, June 13, 2014

#EndFathersDay Bullshit

I really hope that this trend was made as a joke. If it wasn't, I don't know what kind of pig would say things like that.
First of all, you don't want to celebrate because of reasons, don't fucking celebrate. I understand that you may have your reasons for not having a party every father's day but some people want to celebrate june 14th because of their own reasons. An international day doesn't harm you in any freaking way.
You don't want to see a father's day commercial because your dad died? Your friends are spending father's day with their dads but you can't because he left you three years ago? Do what every person who doesn't have a mum does on mother's day, do what every person who's single does on valentine's day : Forget about it.
Grab some ice cream and watch a God damn movie. Go on Tumblr. Avoid Facebook, Twitter and Instagram. Watch anime. Do a Game of Thrones marathon. Sleep. You don't celebrate, you don't care.
I know I'm being a little over the top right now, because #endfathersday is probably a joke, but it got me really irretated.
 Even as a joke, it's a bad one. Go find yourselves some humor and come back later.

Vcay
xxxxxxx

A tittle entittled tittle.

Hey there human specimen.
After the terrors of the exams we are currently at Vaya's house with her playing Kindom Hearts and me trying to understand how  to delete the blog thingies.
Rumors say that somebody actually did something prodactive on tumblr.
Why on kindom hearts everybody's hot but the protagonist?
Sympathise with me people of the internet, this is one of the very little times with Zoey on the keyboard.
Yay..
Vaya's terrorizing poor little pirates. Pardon me, she says they are not pirates.
So what is the value of a soul? Seriously now. Necromancers (well not really necromancers because those were simply Hades's followers that predicted the future by socializing with the dead in ancient Greece. This blog just got too educational too soon)  Anyway they use a great number of souls to get other back. So how does that even work??? I've read somewhere that blood is supposed to attract spirits because it is the very indication of life but still...
No matter what you say Final Fantasy is better. (Vaya's winning at a tournament- good for her.)
I think the ideal date for me would be at 4 am talking about weird poetry under the stars. I would say that that was random but in reality the entire thing was so yeah. I don't need your critisism.
Anyway why the only poetry that I have seem floating around the internet lately is about about people's cutting, anorexia and boulimia? I'm not trying to be disrespectful but WHY WOULD YOU DO THAT?
What happened to intelligent weird crap with deep meaning that talked about all kind of emotions??
It's just unfair to serious artists these days.
 Well thank you for your time everybody.
I'll be around but you wont see me, like a ninja Jesus basically.
Zoey

Thursday, May 15, 2014

Όσο Μπορείς-Κ.Π. Καβάφης/ As Much As You Can-C.P. Cavafy

Κι αν δεν μπορείς να κάμεις την ζωή σου όπως την θέλεις,
τούτο προσπάθησε τουλάχιστον
όσο μπορείς: μην την εξευτελίζεις
μες στην πολλή συνάφεια του κόσμου,
μες στες πολλές κινήσεις κι ομιλίες.

Μην την εξευτελίζεις πηαίνοντάς την,
γυρίζοντας συχνά κ’ εκθέτοντάς την
στων σχέσεων και των συναναστροφών
την καθημερινήν ανοησία,
ώς που να γίνει σα μια ξένη φορτική.


And if you can’t shape your life the way you want,
at least try as much as you can
not to degrade it
by too much contact with the world,
by too much activity and talk.

Try not to degrade it by dragging it along,
taking it around and exposing it so often
to the daily silliness
of social events and parties,
until it comes to seem a boring hanger-on.


Tuesday, May 13, 2014

Not Another Post About Gay Rights

This post is not about gay rights, but about something a friend of mine, Maria said. Maria, coming from a religious family, always wears skirts (except P.E.). It's not something Zoey, Georgia and I mind, but a lot of people bully her about that.
She just said that it's not possible for people to accept gay people, when they can't accept a clothing choice of a person.
In my opinion, I don't think that the greek society is going to embrace the LGBT community in the near future.
We should start taking little steps and accept goth/emo/scene/etc people first.
I think that the majority of the greek population (mostly people 40+) are in a great percentage ignorant about teenagers who cut themselves, with low self esteem issues, with suicidal thoughts and if they do, they don't pay as much attention as needed. And that sucks, because these people are our parents.
The main reason of this is the fact that there were rapid changes in everything since our parents were teenagers. My parents didn't even have a tv in their house when they were kids.
Let's get this straight. It's too early for Greece to accept a lot of things.