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QUESTION: What do you think of “flash mobs” in general?
Dear HillBuzz,
I saw this commercial on TV this weekend and was horrified. I cannot believe that AT&T would condone and encourage flash mob behavior in such an off-handed manner. What I have seen of flash mobs are not the innocent dance/verbal rhetoric depicted in the commercial but a lawlessness that is disturbing and detrimental to the fabric of our society.
I have tried to contact AT&T to voice my complaint but cannot get through to anything other than a computerized menu. Perhaps this needs to blasted in cyberspace instead.
Sincerely,
Laura in New Jersey
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What do you think of these “flash mob” things?
When this all first started, in Europe of course, five or six years ago, I thought the people involved were mainly sad women who never were asked to the prom and closeted gay men who dreamed of living inside Broadway musicals (or, at least, the “Once More With Feeling” episode of Buffy).
Back then, groups of dancers or musicians would assemble in train stations and start singing carols or playing classical music of some kind, as if none of the people involved knew each other.
In time, these “flash mobs” became more obnoxious as more people possessed the technology to take part in it.
The same thing happened to the short-lived adventure “sport” of geocaching — which I used to love because it felt like being part of a Scooby gang, hunting treasure. This is before cell phones with all the do-dads, when we used portable GPS devices to hide treasure boxes in odd places and an honor system was in place where you’d take one item of treasure from a box you located and replace it with something of yours for another person.
Just like with the flash mobs, geocaching was ruined when the GPS technology got so cheap that young punks and thugs had access, and of course they just took all the treasure out of the boxes, or they’d leave fake clues to dangerous places where people could get robbed or otherwise harmed.
Has anything you’ve personally ever enjoyed been ruined like this?
What do you think of the flash mob phenomenon?
What’s your opinion on the commercial above?
What do you think is the next weird fad related to technology?
It’s official! Oprah Winfrey banned from ever becoming a Marine. Stedman Graham still clings to dream of being “Maureen”, however.
Word came down today that a new bureaucratic policy officially prohibits Oprah Winfrey from ever being a United States Marine.
Oprah, hard at work driving viewers away in droves from her OWN (Oprah’s Weird Noises) network, apparently was agast at the new regulations.
“Too many chili days at Harpo Studios, too much demon in me,” the former talk show host and proprietress of a cable station watched primarily by household animals reportedly said.
New Chicago Tour from Margaret Hicks at Chicago Elevated: The Disaster Tour!
Margaret Hicks is an absolute riot.
She’s a local tour guide from Chicago Elevated who gives the most amazing tours of various parts of the city, with as much emphasis on humor and fun as history. If you are coming to Chicago and looking for something interesting to do, then Hicks’ walking tours are a really fun way to do something different…and actually SEE Chicago, instead of looking at mostly the tops of cars driving by while on other tour buses.
Hicks’ new tour is about famous Chicago diasters.
Hot British soldiers sing Glee
If you are a straight guy, you can totally still enjoy the above. Just think of “hot” as being dudes out in the desert. Singing Glee.
While there’s no way possible for me to make that remotely straight, in the least, it’s JOURNEY they are singing. And Journey is, in a word, AWESOME.
I always love seeing soldiers using their creativity to let off a little steam, putting these videos together. It is a blessing they get any down time at all to have fun, when they are doing so much to protect our freedom. These are British troops in the video above, providing back up support to our own men and women in uniform. There aren’t enough words to adequately express how grateful I am every single day for the sacrifices they make.
I hope I am not alone in praying that every soldier singing to Glee above comes home safely, so he can make videos to his heart’s content wherever home is.
Interesting Facebook exchange in Boystown evidencing disenchantment with Obama even in the Leftiest of Leftist ranks
Here’s an interesting exchange I noticed on Facebook today, involving mainly guys here in Chicago’s Boystown. Remember, these were people who bought all the hopeychangey snake oil Obama sold back in 2008. On top of that, most of these people screamed and yelled RAAACIST! at anyone not supporting Obama or believing he could deliver unto us a perpetual flood of unicorns. The gay community is routinely used by the Left as goons to target, intimidate, and berate conservatives…and in 2008 this dovetailed with the Left’s committed usage of the black community to call anyone opposing Leftist policies RAAACIST…just because.
Ridiculous.
While I caution you that it’s very unlikely any of the people in the thread below — all of whom I’d wager were 2008 Obama voters — would ever think of voting Republican, it sure seems likely at least a few of these gay guys will find something better to do on Election Day in 2012 than making a production of going out to vote for Obama a second time.
2011 Easter in Boystown Photos
It feels like Full Moon Friday
I’m sorry…I know there are some very serious things going on in this world….but sometimes you just need to laugh. Are these guys serious?
The very wise Van Helsing sums it up nicely….If you managed to sit through that, you now understand why moonbattery isn’t something to be reasoned with — it is something to be eradicated, like a horrifically repulsive fungus.
This is just downright creepy.
