OPEN MIC NIGHT

Writings of a wannabe comic.

Tuesday, October 11, 2005

Internet Dating Part 2

Browsing through more singles profiles on the net, I was shocked at the illogical ways people try to market themselves to attract a mate. One girl put as a title on her profile "Sunshine Needs More Light". Wow sunshine needing "more" light. Boy, are we in for dark times!
Another woman put "please give me a try, I am a nice person" so when I sent her an email, she came back with, "don't send me anymore emails." Wow we have a split personality crisis here. I just thank god that that did not happen after the wedding vows.
Tell me what is a guy supposed to think when he reads a woman saying "I am looking for my soul mate." Is he supposed to tip toe through the tulips with tights and meekly say "Here I am." It is so idiotic that people feel that way...that there is one true person out there for him/her like God put us all together and number us each twice...and it is up to us to go and find the person with our number. "Hey you were my number ...why are we getting divorced?" - "Because I thought my number was 19 but I had it upside down - it is really 61." So the girl goes out and starts to yell " 19 ANYONE OUT THERE GOT 19 - I AM LOOKING FOR MY SOULMATE". Some people just never get it...they don't grasp the reality of the situation. Rather, than giving us numbers to correspond...God really says...ok you want a number take a number...do whatever with it...ok now.. you can marry...you can live alone...you can marry and then live alone...you can marry and think you are living alone ...You can live alone thinking you are married...and you can live alone just living together etc.

Another thing I hate is when people try to pass off cliches as their own original thought. "I work to live and not live to work." "I am not counting the moments of breaths I take rather the ones where my breath is taken away." or something like that...Where do these people get these expressions and then why do they try to pass them off as original....don't they know I am going to read it in three out of every four profiles I read? If we do this during exam time it is called CHEATING! In the dating world it is called RECYCLING and it is pretty worthless especially if it is cliched. In the end you should ask not what your country can do for you but what you can do for your country.

Saturday, October 01, 2005

The Ambiguous Women in Commercials

Do you ever notice how women are portrayed sexily to the hilt with almost no imagination needed in commercials? I mean you don't even have to wonder about nipple placement in certain commercials. So why is it that these commercials are so open about women's bodies but yet others are so timid?
For example, one commercial will start off "Hi my name is Karen and I have a yeast infection." Obviously, many women know what this is but to your average guy ...he probably thinks it has something to do with the woman's problems in baking bread. "Why is she complaining about that? Go to a baker, order a loaf or two...problem solved. I am going to be watching the bread she serves me more carefully!" Guys are very visual ...we need to see the actual yeast infection so come on ...don't hold back. Show us. Then we can say...Oh..I understand....well ...I am not getting anywhere near that tonight." Actually, guys might be more eager to get rid of that yeast thing for their girlfriend if it is going to affect a certain nocturnal activity. I could just picture a guy in a pharmacy to a worker..."I need this product to cure this yeast infection by 10pm tonight...you got something here that can do that?"
Why do women have to do the confessional thing on the commercial? You never see a guy coming on the tv and saying "Hi I am Brad and I have hemmorhoids and that is why I am standing right now. Please, help me to be able to sit again." "Hi my name is Harold and I have erectile dysfunction. My wife is about to divorce me. Make it go up!" I saw another commercial with a girl saying "Hi I have genital herpes." This girl spent the entire commercial being with her boyfriend. Hmm. I am thinking he is probably not the one that gave it to her or she would have thrown something like a huge metal object at his head. So if he did not give it to her that means she got it from someone else and this poor loser has no idea...unless of course he sees the commercial. I scream at the tv set to warn him but it is no use, he is being affectionate with her...oh well..I try to help in my own way but in the end you sleep in your own bed.
The last commercial in this group is the one where the girl is out on the beach in her bathing suit and the other friends are worried for her because she is having her period. She says "don't worry I took so and so brand and everything is all right. There is no cramps." I am thinking that cramps would not have to be your first worry. Umm how about having a real red splotch on the crotch of your bathing suit if you weren't careful. This is what the commercial should show. They should show a woman getting rejected for approaching a guy on the beach with her bathing suit because there is that infamous red splotch with some red liquid running down her leg. The guy would look at her and say..."Thanks but I am married..." even though he is clearly single. It is funny how these commercials can be amazingly gratuitous in terms of sex yet so discreet in terms of women's "health" to the point that we men have no idea what the fuss is really about.