I just came across something online I found astonishing.
There was a young man on a website who had posted a complaint about his girlfriend and the fact she had dumped him because he wasn’t like Edward Cullen of Twilight fame.
What the fuck happened to the world?
What exactly does she expect? Does she now need any potential suitor to have a permanently repressed desire to drink her blood and sparkle when sunlight hits them? (Really, sparkle – what happened to Vampire folk law? I’m sure sunlight should make them explode, but we can’t have Edward Cullen exploding and causing an entire generation of brainless teenage girls to piss their pants in one singular moment).
I’ve made no secret of the fact I thought Twilight was unremarkable shit (go watch 30 Days Of Night – that’s a Vampire flick) and that Robert Pattinson has all the acting skill of a recently soiled pair of under-garments - sure, the dude is bloody good-looking but unfortunately for him it’s the only talent he appears to have. Has the world gone mad when something so insipid can inspire a generation of impressionable girls to judge their partners on a fictional character?
I hope this doesn’t extend itself to my generation or girls in their mid/late 20’s will start expecting me to have super-human strength and speed and to be at odds with a family of Werewolves.
It’s the equivalent of me dumping a girl because she isn’t like Trinity and can’t perform gravity-defying martial arts.
10 Comments
November 4, 2009 at 10:08 pm
Don’t be so surprised, JJ.
The whole fucking world seems to be obsessed with image over substance these days.
How else do you think talentless wankers such as Cheryl Cole, Leona Lewis and whoever the last faceless twat to win The X-factor was, get to be billed as stars.
…or Tony Bleeurgh gets to be considered as EU president.
November 4, 2009 at 11:53 pm
I blame Andy Warhol for the whole image over substance thing.
November 5, 2009 at 12:05 am
Oh & JJ I’m sad to say that it has extended to the mid/late twenties crowd. My lady friend complained, after reading the first two books of the service, that I wasn’t romantic enough. To which I honestly replied “Bitch, I just shared half my corndog with you! It doesn’t get much more romantic than that.”
So now I’m out half a corndog (that I was really jonesing for at the time) & she’s mad at me. Girls are dumb.
November 5, 2009 at 12:06 am
*series (sorry I got so worked up I didn’t double check what I had writen)
November 4, 2009 at 10:56 pm
I couldn’t agree more.
Those two twin currently on X-Factor are beyond my comprehension – how thos two talentless fuckwits can constantly escape the boot they so richly deserve is mind boggling.
Gracias for the comments.
November 5, 2009 at 12:06 am
Not surprising that folks think that life should be like the movies to the tee…fact of the matter this chick prolly takes meds……30 days a night was freakin phenomenal i thought….zman sends
November 5, 2009 at 4:44 am
All the more reason not to date 20-somethings, although I’m sure there are as many 40-year-olds enamored with Edward Cullen.
Hell, when I was 20, buying me a good meal would do the trick. You wouldn’t even have to suck my blood.
November 5, 2009 at 6:57 am
Thank you for the input guys – much appreciated.
DiF:
I don’t think I’ve heard a more romantic statemnt than “Bitch, I just shared half my corn-dog with you”
That’s beautiful, man.
November 5, 2009 at 3:27 pm
What can I say, I’m a ladies man. ;D
November 8, 2009 at 10:44 pm
I love Edward Cullen.