Vote! Vote! Vote!

So yesterday was election’s day in Portugal. All of the good portuguese people went to give their opinion on which party should rule for us. I’m not a good portuguese but I got up and voted. I woke up complaining about life and it lasted until I put the cruce where I wanted to and left to go shopping.

Why did I go vote? Because not voting is as bad as not breastfeeding your newborn. If you’re a mother you’ll get what I am saying. You become the black sheep, you get stained. I should participate in the voting process because my right to do so was won by our ancestors. Even more if I am a woman. It’s like by not voting I am stabbing womenkind in the chest.

And I shouldn’t vote. And I tell you why.

I don’t know anything about politics. I’m sure I’ve already told you this. It’s true. I’ve also spent all the time between one voting year and another, NOT learning anything about the parties and NOT forming my opinion on what I think should be right for my country. I have not won the right to vote.

Why didn’t I vote blank?

Voting blank is giving an opinion. It’s saying that you know all the candidates and you think that none is worth it. I actually think they all look-alike but I feel I don’t hold enough information to stand up and say this.

Why did I vote?

This year I decided to vote. I decided that this will be my first step to change my attitude. So I found a party that in general stood up for things I appreciated.

But, in my opinion uninformed people like me shouldn’t vote. Having the right to vote is having the right to have a voice in what goes on in our country. Do you understand how irresponsible is to let these people to have a voice?

My boyfriend was listening to my ramblings and asked what my solution would be. My solution was to have someone test your knowledge beforehand. They would ask you if you knew the names of the parties in the campaign and what they stood for in general. If you could answer this, you were free to give your opinion. If not, please study and come back.

By the look in my boyfriend’s face I know this wouldn’t be a well received idea, but that’s my opinion. And I would fail the test.

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50 shades

I don’t understand all the hype around 50 shades of gray.

I haven’t read it, and most of all after reading and listening to some things about it, or worst, having the amazing idea of seeing the movie trailer, I refuse to ever read the book.

If I want porn I’ll read porn!

Everything is extreme

We live in extremism.

It had became such a normal thing that we moved it to such mundane things as food and exercise. Nowadays we have 2 trends that scare me:

The ones that make no exercise at all and eat on a crazy way:

And the ones that go to the gym at any given moment, and count the calories of everything that they eat.

There’s something called moderation!!!! Please use it!

PIG gate….

I’ve spent so much time wandering online and searching for strange news, that when they appear on the mainstream media, I don’t even acknowledge them.

It seems that there is a new unauthorized biography (all the interesting ones are unauthorized) of David Cameron that claims between other things that he smoked marijuana and that he was part of a weird ritual in which he inserted a part of his anatomy on a dead pig’s mouth (yeah, think sexually).

Is it true?

How does it matters?

Going back to my post about bullshit politics, who the hell cares? I’m more worried that this was an initiation, because that only means that everyone that was part of that have done it. And if that was an initiation, what else did they have to do?

And about the drugs, being a teenager in the 70’s 80’s, it was only him certainly.

Just stop being hypocrites.

Book of Disquiet

O Sonho é a Pior das Cocaínas

O sonho é a pior das cocaínas, porque é a mais natural de todas. Assim se insinua nos hábitos com a facilidade que uma das outras não tem, se prova sem se querer, como um veneno dado. Não dói, não descora, não abate – mas a alma que dele usa fica incurável, porque não há maneira de se separar do seu veneno, que é ela mesma.

Fernando Pessoa em ‘Livro do Desassossego’

Translation:

“The dream is the worst cocaine’s because it is the most natural of all. Thus he insinuates habits with the ease that one of the other does not, proves without meaning to, as a given poison. It does not hurt, do not bleach, do not slaughter – but the soul that it uses is incurable because there is no way to separate your poison, who is herself.”

Fernando Pessoa in the “Book of Disquiet”

50 shades of CRAP

I like a good erotic book once in a while. When 50 shades of grey came out and became a huge bestseller, I thought that it would probably be a piece of crap. Nevertheless I think that to criticise something you need to try it at least once. So I bought the first book.

It is a piece of crap!

The story, the way of writing, the stupid characters that I couldn’t relate at all, the ludicrous sex scenes. I don’t understand all of the high around this book. I really don’t. The only reason that I can think of is that there are a lot of frustrated people out there, that realized for the first time that there isn’t only the missionary position. You can try different things. This was actually a good thing that this book brought on. However, the number of people who have already been admitted to the hospital due to strange attempts on BDSM is rather concerning.

My considerations about the first book:

– I want to be the one to spank Anna. Gimme that whip! She’s so annoying!

– That’s not BDSM! WTH?! That’s a guy with serious problems!

– The contract! GOD! The contract! How many words were spent on this? It took me longer to read this that my own damn work contract!

– Mr. Grey is a gorgeous wealthy business tycoon. AT 27! Really?!

– “Inner Goodness”. Need I say more?

– TAMPON! Because there is nothing sexier than a tampon.

I’ve just read the first book and it was enough. I didn’t see the movie, only some scenes and I hated the actors they chose. They might be good apart, but they seem terrible together.

Now seriously, if your into crappy porn literature, please check my suggestions on Amazon:

http://www.amazon.com/Christie-Sims/e/B00CMBW1PC

Yep, it’s porn books with dinosaurs!!! My selection would be:

It’s as good as 50 Shades of Grey!

 

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