How I got in Facebook jail

 I think I know how I got in Facebook jail. There was a post about Christopher Walken and they showed a picture of him as a kid. I paraphrased a quote from Joe Dirt and said "mom" instead of "my man" and somebody thought that I was going to "Stab them to n the face with a soldering iron." Since the person was an idiot that didn't know how to report a comment instead of a post, they followed me to my personal group and reported a post I made about MASH and said I was threatening violence. 

Of course Facebook would never explain what really happened or why I got in the penalty box for 30 days, so I can only assume this is what happened.

It gave me an option to protest my being put in Facebook jail, but it actually seemed like the moment I complained, they sent me the list of stuff I couldn't do for thirty days. It's like having the police tell you they were perfectly justified in giving you a life sentence for spitting on a sidewalk, and the judge agreeing to the terms.

No legal process, no jury, just crap and alligators all the way down.

The guy that reported me...I think he "wants to see homos naked."

"Pakistani"

 One time I made a post on live journal complaining about a Persian sounding customer. Maybe he was from Kazakhstan, not sure he kinda sounded like Borat, but I made the mistake of describing him as Pakistani. Practically everyone on live journal chewed me out, and they made a new community policy/rule just for me. 

All because I failed my geography.

"A lot of time online "

 I notice that a lot of guys that dye their hair and start dressing like a girl, or wearing makeup under an animal sports mascot suit generally explain their behavior by saying, "After spending a lot of time on the internet..."

More people need to go outside.

Giving up

 I wonder what percentage of gay people are gay simply because they have difficulty finding someone of the opposite sex that likes them, and have just given up.  People with poor self image who think that they will never find someone of the opposite sex to love them. 

I'm sure someone will argue against that being the case with all gay people, but what about a percentage of them? Certainly it has to be the kind of reasoning that leads some to be gay. They just don't believe they're attractive enough.

I've met a few overweight gay guys. I wouldn't be surprised if they're like that because they tried to pick up women once, and they had a really difficult time with it and gave up.

Badly titled Sweet Pickles books

 If you look in the back of any sweet Pickles book, you'll see a picture of Doubtful Dog with his arms crossed, saying "I doubt it," like some kind of mean skeptic. But if you read No Kicks For Dog (terrible title, by the way, it implies cruelty), it's about self doubt.

Also, "Hippo Jogs For Health" is the worst children's book title you can come up with, for a book that is actually not that boring. A better title would be Hippo's Health Craze. It's about not over exerting yourself. It's actually kind of funny.

Note: The page from Jackal Wants Everything about soybeans and friendship doesn't make sense until you read the Hippo book.  Hippo has a whole library of health tracts he gives everyone.

But make me pretty

 One of the most frustrating things about being a fine artist is "But make me pretty." Also known as, "Then why don't you make your own damn picture."

It's the reason why some artists charge lots of money for commissions. They're not really sure they want to do them.

 It's when someone asks you for a portrait, BUT. Like, they want to be younger. They want a nose job.

You start the portrait, and you can tell it's going bad when they immediately ask you to make them more beautiful but complain when they see your changes.

It doesn't stop. Ever. You show them sketch after sketch after sketch, and they say no and finally send you a sketch they drew.

And then, after you humor them by doing it their way, and commit the picture to expensive paper and materials, they suddenly chime in with, more and more facial changes, then resignedly imply that your portraits are no good by changing it to a copy of some anime character, which, although easy, seems to defeat the whole purpose of the original request. "Oh well, you're not as good as I thought. Just make it a picture of snoopy, lol."

If you can stomach a customer like this, you are a fine artist, and deserve to raise your rates.

Although I've seen some artists that draw stick figures and overcharge, I think some good ones have been burned by "But make me pretty."

Root cause

 As much as I want to blame this or that thing in society for the Texas shootings, in all honesty, the gunman was likely just a ball of mental problems and child abuse.

People want to blame guns or video games, but it's got to be more or less an issue of the guy not getting psychological treatment, and having parents that do terrible things to him, and teach him to solve every problem with physical or verbal abuse.

If someone at the school did similar things to him, he'd project his parents onto them. And if he felt he couldn't win against them, he'd grab whatever is handy to put himself into the abusive parent role. 

What they don't think about is how they have become just like their enemy, and how they will face police and swat teams and things that will be unsympathetic, and they might just face abuse in a different form from them, or from people in the prison they may end up occupying.

And that's probably why they end up killing themselves or trying to die in a gunfight. If they could think that far ahead, they wouldn't have started shooting.