A day in the life of a tea bag!

So let me start this off by explaing a commercial that's on TV for BK for those who haven't seen it so my post can make more sense. In this commercial the opening scene consists of a guy laying in bed, in his pajamas sleeping peacefully. The Scene then goes on to show him waking up slowly, then the Camera zooms out and beside him on the bed is the Burger King mascott (the big king guy who looks like a giant puppet) sitting on the other side of the bed on top of the covers holding a bag of Burger King food. The add then says "Wake up with Burger King". This add seems harmless enough right? I thought it was mildy amusing and most definately innocent.

Now for the second part of my post. So I get to work last night and a co-worker says to me "go check the messages". I think it a little odd that I was told to check the messages but I do it anyways. So the first message is of some woman who's order we messed up on and she wants a free meal. So I listen through and wonder if this was the message I was supposed to hear. Then the second message comes on and what I hear is "Hi this is John, and I am phoning to complain about an advertisement I saw on TV" Already I am groaning knowing that this is going to be a stupid message, because apparently our local burger king has the corporate power to sway what goes on national television and what doesn't. So I roll my eyes and listen some more.

John then proceeds to say "In the commercial it shows two men in bed together... that's not koscher, in fact its just sick" Well right at that comment my back goes up, I mean I am gay, and even if that had been the case I don't see anything wrong with it, ESPECIALLY since one of them is a giant puppet! I am sure he wouldn't have called to complain if it had been a female mascott bringing him the food... So I sit there and groan some more because I have to listen to some bigotted old man babble about his homophobia.

I listen on already knowing this is going to be a headache and offensive, but surprisingly it starts to become funny. The next thing he says is "If you don't pull that commercial from the air, I'll have to call the human rights commission people and have them remove it." So being a business major with two diploma's in Marketing and Management I know how television advertising works and how top managers and CEO's of corporations think and obviously John has no idea. For one, there is nothing even remotely implied in that commercial worth censoring. Two, the human rights commision would more likely support the way he interpreted the advertisement as promoting equal rights and probably praise burger king for airing it. Thirdly, you'd have to phone the major network playing the advertisement and ask them to stop and have them continue airing the commercial before you could take any kind of legal action. Lastly, if they didn't agree you'd have to contact the organization that controls televison censorship and they'd probably tell you there was nothing wrong with the advertisement and basically ignore your bigotted protest. If he decided to take it to court he'd end up bankrupting himself versus the BK corporation in legal fees and then STILL lose his case because it is absolutely stupid to begin with.

I chuckle to myself and listen on... "This advertisement isn't appropriate for children and Burger King is supposed to care about children!" I shake my head some more. Children who could potentially recognize this as a homosexual couple would probably also be old enough to know that the commercial did not intend that in any way and therefore dismiss the idea without a second thought. Children who aren't old enough to know what homosexuality really is probably wouldn't even pick up on the possibility because they don't know it exists or don't understand it well enough to make that assumption. I can also pretty much guarantee that caring about children is probably not even in the top 50 objectives of the burger king corporation. I CAN guarantee pleasing customers is and maintaining a family friendly environment is but in this day and age a family can consist of two same sex parents or have gay friendly values instilled within the children. So I don't see how BK made an unnacceptable commercial for children and I think other then a few extremists like John the commrecial was probably just as amusing for them as it was for me.

His last comment made was "If you care about getting this off the TV then I hope you'll do something about it, my phone number is ###-####". Well for one I really really don't want to remove the commercial from the air now that I know how much it offends this individual. I, in fact, applaud BK for their accidental faux pas. The only reason I'd phone him would probably get me in a lot of trouble at work and perhaps a lawsuit because this guy seems intent on taking legal action against anything he thinks immoral. I suppose I could always punch his number in on the yellow pages website and find out where he lives and show up in full drag with some leather daddy on a leash and make out with him on the street in front of John's house. I mean last time I checked there was nothing illegal about kissing in public ;)

Well I am not sure what it is that has put me in such a good mood lately but I hope it keeps up! Here are some of the things I think that have led me to feeling better:

1. The weather, thank you mother nature from bringing us warmth and sunshine, its long overdue!

2. The fact that I have been spending more and more time with my real life friends. I think my anti-socialness is finally fading away.

3. Shaynie and I aren't fighting at all and we're spending a lot of time together lately just talking or having fun.

4. Work has been going well and I am actually being praised for doing such an excellent job. Recognition goes a long way *nods*

If this keeps up I may just be a happy boy! Here's a wish list to any karmic entity out there listening who might wish to bestow me a few more good things.

1. A boyfriend! I could really use some kind of romantic interest in my life, I already have a guy in mind but I don't think he feels quite the same way, a little clarity on that might be nice.

2. A sign on which direction I should take my life next because I am still trying to figure that one out.

3. The courage to finally tell my father what I should have told him years ago about me being gay AND him taking it extremely well.

So yeah, I'll just sit back and try not to push my luck to much further, but thanx oh karmic entity who is breaking me out of my depression type state and bringing me back to life with a renewed sense of purpose and general well being. *hugs and kisses*!

So I have been evaluating my love life and I have come to a startling realization... I apparently attract bi-curious guys. I've looked at potential love/lust interests lately and examining them I realize ALL of them are "straight" guys who want to try and fool around with another guy. I really should be smacking myself upside the head for this and try to find some half decent gay guy to have some kind of relationship with rather then potentially fulfilling someone elses fantasies.

Of course on the flip side there is nothing hotter then converting a straight guy to the gay cause; so that has its brownie points I suppose. There's also the point that I can't seem to find/attract gay guys and the few I have been attracted too and actually spent time with weren't interested in me (I don't think...) So as this post is titled "Whats a boy to do?" I'll have to keep on thinking on it for the time being until I can figure out what to do.

/end rambling

So apparently the average canadian isn't smarter then your average american... I thought that maybe our voters wouldn't fall for Stephen Harper's month long slandering of the liberal party but apparently slander wins elections more then common sense.

As you can probably tell I am quite anti-conservative and the fact that they are running the country now quite repulses me. They won with platforms of bigotry and general stupidity saying things like "We plan on challenging gay marriages (again)" or "We will work on restricting abortions" (not exact quotes just idea's they've implied). Their stance on making the rich richer and the poor poorer upsets me a lot; I mean what kind of dumb idea is lowering the GST? Especially when their party implemented it in the first place! Think about it, to save any kind of money on a GST reduction you have to spend the money to save money, so the rich spend more and save more and the poor save barely anything because they can't spend nearly as much. I fear all social services are going to disappear (not that I actually use any of them but I don't mind contributing to them for a good cause.) I fear this because the conservatives want to privatize everything and with the obvious lack on taxes coming in mean a lot less funding for social services.

If people had issues with the Liberals (and I can understand that, not everyone is ok with public scandals or gay marriage or anything else the liberals had done last term) the least they could do would be to switch to voting NDP, Green party or any other party with any social responsibility. Of course so many people follow the herd and believe that they must vote for a party that "has a chance to win" that they don't vote intelligently; considering the absolute stupidity of most of what the conservative party stands for.

I was having trouble deciding on whether or not I should go to Australia but now I have to say its becoming a serious consideration again. I do not want to see Canada become the next United States and I sure don't want to be around when it does. Anyways I am done rambling now and I have to go to work. I'd like to give a cheer to anyone who didn't vote conservative (for any party but the conservatives) and a smack upside the head if you did. Ciao!

Hmm well here it is 6:04 am and shay_renoylds is laying on the floor playing with her laptop, studying some sort of fanfic is my guess O.o I am sitting here contemplating what to write on my first post. Being that it is just after 6:00 am my brain is a bit foggy so I'll muffle my way through this.

Let's start with an Introduction... I'll stick with the pseudonym Cordei for now because my real life friends obviously know who I am. Last I checked I was 22 years old and had male parts with a distinct lack of female parts. I am also more interested in male parts then female parts if you know what I mean ^^ I am a college graduate and currently trying to figure out what the heck my next step in life should be. I live with my friend Shay (see above link :p), she's my roommate and fag hag (and sometimes nag, but hey I need a little nagging now and then and she definitely knows it!) Umm, lets see, I am currently working at a rather dead endish job, but that’s only really to tide me over until I decide where life should take me next.

*draws a blank and spaces out for a few minutes*

Umm, what do I do in my free time? Well you might say I am slightly addicted to World of Warcraft, it's a great game to be sure but it has that soul sucking, never-gets-out, built in feature that comes with most MMORPG's. I guess you could term me as a geek, you know D&D and all that fun stuff, I don't see it as a negative thing though. Geeks are cool, I'd rather role play with my group of friends then be smoking crack down on the corner with the local druggies. I try and avoid falling into any stereotypes though, I am not a stereotypical geek, queer, or anything else really, although I wont deny that I don't have my moments. My hair changes color with every hair cut usually and sometimes I even have my natural color.

*rambles on for a little longer*

So... yeah... I guess that's all I can come up with right now, I've been typing on and off for 20 minutes now and my friend Raven is now chatting to me on MSN so I best stop dividing my attention. Besides it's almost bedtime anyways, so ciao until later!