The Most Wrong Way Possible

          
           I personally can't stand people who use incorrect grammar. I understand that everyone makes mistakes every once in a while, but sometimes people misuse grammar entirely too often for it to be a mistake. There are a few thing that especially just eat away at my sanity that people seem to do on a daily basis. Here are a few of the most annoying mistakes people tend to make:

1. Using double negatives, and not correcting yourself
2. Not using 'is, has, have', or any other form of be other than 'be' itself
3. Saying 'on tomorrow' instead of just 'tomorrow'

          Thee grammar mistakes tend to be a habit more than anything else, and would be easily corrected if the person was willing to put in the effort not to sound like an ignorant fool. The people who want to correct their mistakes, I have no problem with. However, when I hear someone say that they are proud of sing incorrect grammar all the time, I want to slap them across the face. I know that when you make mistakes while speaking and someone corrects you, it can make you very embarrassed. Most people, however, tend to take the correction and use more effort in making sure they speak correctly. I am not saying that I am perfect in my use of grammar, in fact, I am the first to point out when something I said was grammatically incorrect. I also am the first to admit that I sometimes fudge my grammar on purpose to make a point. Apparently though, some people take pride in their ignorance of the English language.
         The reason that I am so irked about those who take pride in what is, in essence, blatant ignorance, is because of something a girl said in one of my classes today. This girl is always talking, she is like background noise, always their, even with headphones in. Anyways, today I caught some of her conversation, or rather her incessant rambling, and she was talking about how she will never try to fix her grammar, and how everyone was always correcting her. Apparently, she had misspoken, and her friend and instantly corrected, on a reflex, and the girl replied with, "I don't care, I speak incorrectly all the time. My English teacher don't even try to correct me no more." I almost started banging my head against the wall half-way through her little speech. Perhaps I should also say that she has a very southern accent, which only added to the stupidity of her speech.
          After she had declared herself a hopeless person, she proceeded to talk about how all of her elder family members tended to correct her. She said her dad and mom corrected her frequently, and her grandmother always corrected in an instant. This seemed to amuse her for some odd reason, instead of making her embarrassed. Then she started speaking about hoping to find a guy who could put up with her incorrect grammar. Then she said, "Dude, I hope some guy tries to correct me, and when he does, I am going to correct him in the most wrong way possible."
          Please for the sake of your well-being and for others' sanity, if you use incorrect grammar, don't go around proclaiming how doing so is the best thing to happen to you, and how you won't change it for the world.


*"She said, she ain't take it to this degree, well, let's agree to disagree..."-Kanye

Thunder Thighs?

            Perhaps it's just me, but when I go to see someone live the first thing on my mind is not their appearance. Yet in today's society it seems that is all that matters. In one of my classes recently most of the people were discussing a Ke$ha concert they had gone too. The conversation started off normal at first, talking about how she sounded good in the front and horrible in the back. Then they moved on to the weird costumes that she and her backup dancers were wearing, and after a while to the people in the audience who apparently really enjoyed throwing bottles of glitter on everyone. For a while I just sat there listening because I hadn't gone to this concert because I didn't have the money to buy a ticket and it seemed rather interesting since I listen to Ke$ha on occasion. So after they finished talking about the show itself they all started talking about how she couldn't really sing live, kind of like Taylor Swift, and where they had been during the performance. Out of the blue one of the discussions participants says "Yeah, I was like right in front of the stage, and she's kinda thick." The comment didn't seem that out of the ordinary so I just kept listening until someone remarked with, "Yeah, I mean her thighs were huge. Thunder thighs much." That was the end of the conversation for that class, but it seems some people just can't let stuff go because the same girl who had started the discussion about Ke$ha's "thunder thighs" brought it up again in another class. She was talking to someone about the performance and the only thing she seemed able to say was, "Yeah, she was okay, and her body is okay but damn those thunder thighs!"

This is a picture taken from a recent performance in Memphis. Does anyone else classify legs like those as thunder thighs? If those are thunder thighs then what the crap are Kirstie Alley's legs* called.

              Now, maybe this isn't a big deal to most people because the media of today endorses ridiculing people for their weight as much as possible. However, to me it's sad that as humans we can't even go to see something that is supposed to be entertainment without judging someone because of the way they look. I'm not saying that saying something along the lines of "She looked different in person" is wrong, I just don't understand why you have to fixate on something so trivial as her thighs. Somehow that screams insecurities of your own to me.

 *Just because I referenced Kirstie Alley doesn't mean that I approve of weight bashing directed towards anyone. No matter if the person is in fact overweight, they most likely don't need you to point it out to them, they probably already know.