Sunday, January 27, 2008

HORSE at bars

This weekend I discovered maybe the greatest bar game of all time. Try this with your friends:
  1. Go to a bar with another single guy.
  2. Point out a group of people, either girls or a mixture of girls and guys.
  3. Think of something outlandish to say to them. For example, "you guys are definitely not having enough fun for a Saturday night" or "if I wasn't flamingly homosexual, I might think you are kinda cute".
  4. Tell your friend to say this to that group of people.
  5. Either he immediately does it, or he gets an H.
  6. Repeat.
  7. The loser gets to buy drinks for the rest of the night.
Why it rules:
  • It is extremely fun.
  • It gets you talking to strangers and working on your social skills.
  • It usually leads to new friends for the night.
  • If you don't, there's a much lower chance you'll talk to any strangers.
  • Almost anything can be entertaining if made into a game.

Push vs. Pull

Ok, I have a beef with the English language. Push is the opposite of pull. So whose brilliant idea was it to label the words with the first two letters identically? Wouldn't it make more sense of pushing was called pushing and pulling was called inorting or something more intuitive like that? Every time I open my trunk or gas cap, the label says push for one and pull for another, and I mix them up a LOT. I can't be the only person in the world who does this. I say we should change the dictionary.

3:10 to Yuma

Ehhh, not nearly as good as I hoped it would be. I have very high standards for Christian Bale movies based on the fact that every movie he's ever made is freaking awesome. Alright maybe I have a slight mancrush on him even. This movie was alright, good acting, some cool music, some cool action scenes, but it was about as realistic as Toy Story, yet this was not animated. A few examples:
  • Russell Crowe's character behaves in a way that makes no sense as he's being escorted as a prisoner. He cooperates when he shouldn't sometimes and other times doesn't cooperate at all.
  • The people escorting him give him a fork at dinner and let him talk constantly despite the fact he is an evil bastard. He can physically dominate them, yet they let him ride a horse and walk next to them.
I'm sorry, but this just left me shaking my head at how dumb the leaps of faith were at the end. Come on, he likes Christian Bale's character so much that he'd risk his life for it? Then he'll kill all the people who just risked their lives to rescue him?? Sorry for ruining the movie. Very frustrating. I'll give it a 5/10.