Notes, ponderings, and miscellaneous musings from this thing known as The Guam Desk, or as it is informally known, “The Desk”.
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Maybe I’m just middle aged and cranky, or I didn’t get the memo, but when did it become fashionable to misspell? I realize that some people are horrible spellers, but it just seems to me that people are going out of their way to spell shit wrong, especially on the Internet. If you have a real problem with spelling, that’s one thing. That’s what spell-check and dictionaries are for. If not and you think it makes you sound cool, I have news for you; it makes you sound retarded.
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The primary election was held last Saturday here on Guam. Now that both parties have selected their respective candidates, we’re in the wind down to the general election. I for one am sick of all the politicians bombarding us with their bullshit. It’s everywhere you look, and you can’t escape it even if you try.
As far as I’m concerned, both parties and their candidates can kiss my hairy white ass, but especially those who are running for governor. I had to get bad-mannered with a guy not long ago when I told him that I didn’t want the literature he was passing out at my door, and no, he couldn’t come in my house to discuss politics. They’re worse than the damn religious zealots who appear at my door spewing their particular variety of gibberish.
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Speaking of religious fanatics, we had one of them at our door recently as well. I don’t know what group she was from, but she made it seem like the world would end if I didn’t allow her to come in and discuss her horseshit. Very sad looking woman, especially when I cut her off and told her we weren’t interested.
Maybe I need to hang a sign on our door that says “No Politicians or Religious Fanatics”. And if you are going to come door-to-door talking about religion, at least make it look like you’re happy in your faith. This woman looked like someone just killed and ate her dog and then sold her children into slavery, she was so gloomy and depressing.
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Every single time I start bitching about life here on Guam, I take a drive past Hagatna Bay (it’s my route to work) and everything suddenly seems OK. The water was really blue this morning on the way in. The area around Talofofo and Umatac is also insanely beautiful.
Wishing each and all a wonderful weekend.
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Maybe I’m just middle aged and cranky, or I didn’t get the memo, but when did it become fashionable to misspell? I realize that some people are horrible spellers, but it just seems to me that people are going out of their way to spell shit wrong, especially on the Internet. If you have a real problem with spelling, that’s one thing. That’s what spell-check and dictionaries are for. If not and you think it makes you sound cool, I have news for you; it makes you sound retarded.
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The primary election was held last Saturday here on Guam. Now that both parties have selected their respective candidates, we’re in the wind down to the general election. I for one am sick of all the politicians bombarding us with their bullshit. It’s everywhere you look, and you can’t escape it even if you try.
As far as I’m concerned, both parties and their candidates can kiss my hairy white ass, but especially those who are running for governor. I had to get bad-mannered with a guy not long ago when I told him that I didn’t want the literature he was passing out at my door, and no, he couldn’t come in my house to discuss politics. They’re worse than the damn religious zealots who appear at my door spewing their particular variety of gibberish.
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Speaking of religious fanatics, we had one of them at our door recently as well. I don’t know what group she was from, but she made it seem like the world would end if I didn’t allow her to come in and discuss her horseshit. Very sad looking woman, especially when I cut her off and told her we weren’t interested.
Maybe I need to hang a sign on our door that says “No Politicians or Religious Fanatics”. And if you are going to come door-to-door talking about religion, at least make it look like you’re happy in your faith. This woman looked like someone just killed and ate her dog and then sold her children into slavery, she was so gloomy and depressing.
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Every single time I start bitching about life here on Guam, I take a drive past Hagatna Bay (it’s my route to work) and everything suddenly seems OK. The water was really blue this morning on the way in. The area around Talofofo and Umatac is also insanely beautiful.
Wishing each and all a wonderful weekend.
The spelling thing drives me crazy too. I'm not a great speller by any stretch but when I see obvious mistakes on "News" stories from the AP etc I just shake my head. I saw one to day and it actually had "edited by..." on the byline. I love the internet but it has really done some damage to respectable news reporting.
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