Eastbound & Down

If you do not know already.. this is Kenny Powers. He is a character on the HBO show Eastbound and Down, where he is a majorleage pitcher for New York.

When people think of professional athletes, they condsider them to be role models and conduct themselves respectfully... and yet Kenny is the opposite.He is very straight forward and rude (quite entertaining).

Here are some quotes from this T.V. show that show this display of breaking norms.

-"Im the man who has the ball. Im the one who can throw it faster than f**k. So that is why I am better than everyone in the world.

-"You remember the class where I taught you all how to make it rain? Thats what Im gonna be doin every single night- dolla dolla bills y'all.."

-"Alot of people ask me, 'Kenny Powers, you're a giant superstar. You can get any woman. Have you ever paid for sex?' And the answer is yes, I have. Several times, in fact. And it's actually kinda cool."

-"Boom! A strike. Strikeout! Hey buddy, dont beat yourself up there, you pretty much hed the entire force of God coming at ya."

Kenny breaks the norm of a typical MLB player. He is not someone a child should look up to. He is racist, rude, and inconsiderate; yet this character is loved by everyone who has seen the show or heard of him.

YOUR F**KING OUT & HE"S F**KING IN!

Group Sickness

This weekend I spent literally over 48 hours with the same 12 people. Even more so with a group of four people who i shared a car trip that totaled 16 hours. As a result I got to know these teammates a lot better but I also came down with a nasty sinus infection. And I was not the only one to get one. I figured that someone on the team had one and it got passed through either air or water bottles around the team. This isn't the first time that the team has had a sickness spread like this. Not that long ago the 24 hour bug went around the team after a shortage of water at practice.

This relates to the communicable disease section of class, in which we talked about beer pong and the spread of cold sores through social circles. My social circle is the frisbee team and we spread stuff to each other.

Man I Love College

During Week 8 we discussed internalized norms. Rules/values that you set and enforce on yourself. For example, Ted's daughter did not eat her cookie because she did not finish her lunch. I was trying to think of an example from my own life of an internalized norm I have for myself. I can only think of the opposite, I don't enforce rules on myself as much as when I am around someone who enforces them, like my parents. 

College is a big temptation on internalized norms. It's your first time living on your own, you don't have a Mom or Dad around telling you to eat your vegetables or take out the trash. Living in a dorm room is like the step between living at home with your parents and living completely on your own. In a dorm room you still have someone cleaning your bathrooms and you have a meal plan so you don't have to worry about making meals. There is still a large amount of responsibility though. I don't have my mom here to yell at me when all my clothes are on the floor and you can't even see the carpet. I don't have my dad to yell at me to turn off the TV until my homework is finished. You definitely have to set some rules for yourself in order to succeed at college. I force myself to eat the fresh fruit over cookies. I get my homework done before I hang out with my friends. If I have a lot of studying to do or homework to complete I won't go out until I am finished. I fail at making my bed every day and remembering to take my Vitamins. I always had my dad to remind me to take my vitamins!

Internalized norms are important for all aspects of life. I think it's important for everyone to have their own personal set of values and rules. Self discipline is always a good thing in order to succeed. It's definitely a hard adjustment when you first get to college. I learned the hard way, I didn't impose any internalized norms on myself when I first moved in. Within a week of hanging out with my friends and ignoring my school work, I was so far behind. I've definitely learned that college is constant work and you have to do daily work to stay on top of things. Partying is fun, but save it for the weekends. My dad constantly tells me "Work hard now, play hard later"

You boys like MEX-I-CO?!!

I can't even describe how I feel about Super Troopers. It is by far my favorite movie of all time. This movie gives many examples of highway patrolmen who break social norms.. which is HILARIOUS! I wish more people conducted themselves like these fine officers.

A good example of breaking a norm would be when Farva tries to order a liter of Cola at a fast food restaurant (which also became a meme).

To make these easier I'll just list the examples:

-When Foster Plays the "meow" game with a speeder.

-"Snozzberries taste like snozzberries".. which is what is said when the stoned kid licks the window divider in the cruiser, I dont think this normally happens on arrests, so Im gonna consider it breaking a norm.

- When Mac tests the new Bulletproof-cup. (without blanks)

- One work: Bearfucker

-Having a syrup drinking contest in a local dinner, then having a brawl with the local cops.

There are many more examples because the whole movie is basically a Highway crew breaking norms by messing with people and having fun on the job. This is the Greatest movie ever...

GO WATCH IT :)

Yea I'll help you out ;)

We all knew the guy in high school that never did his homework... then walked up to you the day of class asking if he could borrow it "just this one time".

For me this was one of my good friends... sadly though it had to end.... One day when he asked for my algebra, rather than just tell him no I left him with something he would not forget... I gave him a pile of shit that made no sense i scribbled on a piece of paper lol. He had no idea... recieved a zero on the homework assignment and never asked me again.

Some may call this mean or too far, but he never asked again, and he actually did his work from that point on after being embarrassed in front of the teacher.

LETS GET READY TO RUUUUUUUUMMMBBLE!

Ever since we were young we have been matched up against and set apart from the other gender, why? You hear all this talk about gender inequality, but isn't it the people pointing this out that are spurring it on?

I feel gender inequal is as bad as it is because of the people that bring it up all the time! If people would just let it go, stop stating stats all the time, then tempers wouldn't flair and people would no longer think about it!

Was this a touchy topic in your schools as well? Hearing things like, "male chauvinist", or "bitchy feminist"? Takes me back to the anything you can do i can do better song you used to hear all the time. Even the tv is flooded with news coverage of men vs women in the workplace. Can't we just let it go?

Prepare for Carnage!

So a few weeks ago my family bought the new Xbox kinnect and Halo (Reach). The Halo video game is an example of a social network which we've talked about in class alot, but normally about Facebook. But on this network, tons of people across America, even other countries, connect online and battle people thousands of miles away. You can also communicate through mics or in my case, the Kinnect (which I do belive is ran by the Government because it stalks you around the room... weird?). You can also message players and add friends to your profile. To make a story short, Im basically addicted now. I tend to stay up til 5:30 in the morning playing Slayer. During these many hours, that I am stuck in a Halo coma, I like to talk to the people Im playing against and talk shit about how a girl just beat them.So basically.. MV Mayhem owns at Halo, so if your part of this wide spread social network--> HIT ME UP!