Jeers - To abuse vocally; taunt: jeered the speaker off the stage.

Every once and a while people do things that can amaze you to the point of actually wanting to get up off of your lazy ass and tell people about it. However, I find that people are just as capable at doing things that are stupid and thus again causing you to want to rant or poke fun in a public forum. Considering I have to do it on a regular basis anyway…

Over the course of this past week I was witness to two different events that stuck in my mind. Although not huge revelations, they were enough to make me want to write about them.

Cheers: To the Internet Community
Earlier this week we discovered a blog (web log) that had been stealing our material and passing it off as their own for about half of a year. This isn't the cheers part yet. After gasping like a grandma hearing a penis joke, I wanted to know what we could do to this plagiarist. My fellow columnists got straight to it. They emailed everyone who was associated with this stealer of words to ask them to take immediate action. Within 4 hours of us discovering this, the culprit was shut down. My cheer goes to all of those involved in smiting the actions of said perpetrator. I discovered that the Internet community has, despite all of the bad press, a sense of right from wrong. The webring that was associated with this wrong doer, banded together to express their dislike for such actions, calling for him to be removed from the ring and the Internet all together. Truly a community on to itself, a band of brothers who looks out for their own. Once again cheers to you and thanks. A special thanks to Waistdog and skittish.org

Jeers: To the Unshushables
We've all been in a theatre that has them. We've all thrown our comments, shushes, and sometimes popcorn at them. They have been around since the inception of the moving picture show. They are the Unshushables. Those people, nay, those morons who just can't shut up at the movies. How long have we had theatres people? Has there ever been a time when it was considered a good thing to make tons of noise at inappropriate times during a movie? Sure you should laugh when it's funny, you can scream when it's scary, but you don't need to talk about it for ten minutes afterwards. Wait until the movie is done, THEN you can talk. Oh and to those people who yell at the screen…here's a hint: They can't hear you! And quite frankly I don't want to either. If you want to talk with your friends, go to a coffee shop or stay at home. The rest of us paid money to see the film, not to hear about how that slut in homeroom is dating you ex-boyfriend.

Thanks to all of those who make our world a better place...and to those who make the list of Jeers...well...piss off.

What do you think poopy? You know where to find me.

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