G20 is over and gone. But how did these “peaceful protests” actually end up? Well, as predicted it ended up in riots. People were smashing windows, spray painting shit on walls, and lighting cop cars on fire; all to prove a point, whatever that might have been. This led to the closing of several stores in downtown Toronto including the Eaton’s Centre (with some hilarious results).

Now remember that protest expert I mentioned in the last post? She was back to say “the cops just stood there and did nothing as the people lit the car on fire.” She seemed to believe that every cop in the city was in some conspiracy that all the cops did was try to make a great TV show out of the riots. So she blamed all the violence on the cops instead of the people. Makes sense right?

These same people complain about police brutality. Come Sunday, the cops were making lots of arrests. We’ve all heard the testimonials “they were just standing there and doing nothing wrong.” Yeah right, everyone is always innocent. Didn’t you hear, all the people in prison are innocent too. Just because you didn’t see them doing anything doesn’t mean they did nothing wrong. Cops have said that they arrested people for what they did on Saturday. The news were bombarded with calls from people complaining about the cops.

“THEY JUST STARTED USING TEAR GAS ON US FOR NO REASON.”

Meanwhile, it was confirmed not to be tear gas.

“THERE ARE WOMEN AND SMALL CHILDREN HERE, WHY ARE THE COPS DOING THIS?”

Why the hell would you bring small children to a protest? Oh right, it’s a tactic. People seem to think that having kids there will protect them. Terrorists use this all the time. They send women and children in front of guys with rifles.

Among these, there were reports of people who were just downtown for “no reason.” Shit, why the hell would you be down there for no reason. Would you be chilling in a battlefield in Iraq for no reason? A lot of this had to do with a “law” that anyone within 5ft of the barricade was subject to a search. People were just standing around near the barricades and getting arrested, this was apparently cops being paranoid? First of all, why would you be 5ft next to a barricade? Do you go chill in front of Walmart with in intent of going inside? Secondly, ignorance to the law is not a valid reason of breaking it.

With all the insane, complaining, bullshitting hippies; we also had the complete fucking idiots. I had one friend on my Facebook post “fucking G20 ruining my plans.” I’m sorry, we’ve only known about G20 for the past few months. It’s not the government’s fault you can’t plan around it. Sure, roads were closed, stores were closed, and it was generally a bad idea to go downtown. But we all have known about it.

So in Toronto we have this event happening now called G8 and G20.You have probably heard of it, it’s when all major world leaders come together to discuss some key issues. Sounds good right? Having a bunch of people talking about how to change the world into a better place? Apparently some people disagree and choose to protest, as a result the governemt has spent 1.1 billion dollars on security of this summit.

This 1.1 billion dollars was a reason for more people to protest. CP24 had some hippy protest lady explain. “Every time we spend more and more money on security and we don’t get more and more crime.” Well miss hippy, do you think that maybe because we spend more money we don’t get more crime? She later went on to say “at worst these protestors will smash a few windows, but that’s about it.” In my opinion destroying shit isn’t a peaceful protest.

The same lady also talked about police abusing their power: taking things that could be used as weapons, looking into suspicious people, hitting the protestors, none of which were EVER reported before. The police are also using something called sound canons which apparently can cause hearing loss. Protestors are trying to sue the police to stop using them. In reality, the protestors should simply not get violent.

So I’m pretty sure we all heard it by now: that annoying buzzing sound during the FIFA World Cup games. In case you don’t already know, this sound is caused by the thousands of fans blowing something called a vuvuzela. The simple solution? Ban it! Though they’ve already tried that and it didn’t work.

It seems that the South African community complained that the vuvuzela was a part of their culture and how you can’t play soccer without it. The FIFA commission was quick to listen to the outcries, after all South Africa is the host the the event. Oh good Lord, how would anyone play soccer without annoying horns blowing all the time.

That’s another thing I don’t get, why are the horns blowing ALL THE TIME? I understand blowing the horn during a goal or save, but all the time? Isn’t that a bit excessive?

Now, we all know how loud it is on TV, just imagine how loud it is in person. Well, it’s about as loud as a power saw at 3 feet. Now imagine thousands of these power saws all around you. It’s no surprise that all this loud noise has forced people attending the games to buy ear plugs, leaving most pharmacies in the area sold out. If it’s so distracting to the fans, imagine the players. They actually have to concentrate during the game. Some people were even as disrespectful as blowing them during national anthems.

So what can be done about these vuvuzelas? Well there are dozens of online petitions going around. They did start making quieter vuvuzelas, so hopefully that will help. Certain TV stations are also thinking of running  the audio feed through a filter to remove/reduce the noise of the vuvuzela. Godspeed.

After falling behind the evolving technology, Apple has finally announced a phone that gives current devices a run for their money. Yes, this phone is exactly what Gizmodo revealed in the leak but Apple still had some tricks up its sleeve. Sure, I’m not going to buy the phone, but it’s really interesting to see how HTC or Motorola is going to combat this new phone. But what is exactly to make of all this Apple hype? In short, it’s all bullshit.

One thing is insanely awesome that can’t be matched: the screen, oh yes the resolution is fucking beautiful. This is the biggest improvement in the iPhone 4 in my opinion. Though, that’s mostly because the previous iPhones had horrible resolutions. Needless to say, this resolution can’t even be matched by the HTC Evo. However, Apple is marketing this as being 4 times better than the 3GS, which is true. However I can easily say my phone is 4 times better than the iPhone as well. Hell, my XPERIA has over 300 DPI as well, thoughthats because the screen and resolution are smaller.

Apple finally jumped onto the video conferencing bandwagon as well. They’re not the first, though they are trying to act like they are. Followers of Apple were quick to say that Apple is the first company to do it correctly. I’m sorry, but how is restricting it over WiFi “doing it correctly?” Say you want to make a video call, you have to notify the person you are calling “hey man, I’m gonna videocall you, can you get on your WiFi?” That is just one inconvenient step, adding to the fact that you can only call iPhone to iPhone using the FaceTime software. Back on my XPERIA, I’m able to make a video call to anyone else that has a video camera on their phone. Asians and Europeans have been doing this for ages, why is America falling behind on this?

Apple also introduced a LED flash on the back of the camera, giving some reason that it’s awesome for low lighting. Newsflash Apple, phones have had this for ages. Just because you finally have it doesn’t make it a revolutionary new feature. Want something revolutionary? The Nokia N8 has a fucking 12 megapixel camera with a Xeon flash. It’s really something. Apple demoed how you can edit the video taken by the camera using an app called iMovie (which is not actually included with the iPhone and you have to pay $5 to get it. Apparently this is supposed to give you a rich experience in editing movies. What I say is, just plug the phone in and edit the videos with the desktop version of iMovie. The mouse will really help.

Apple had some problems with Cisco before for using their name for “iPhone” and now Apple borrowed from Cisco again by using iOS. That’s not the only problem Apple had with naming issues. Apple had to purchase “FaceTime” as well. In my opinion, the name FaceTime is stupid. Why would Apple go out of their way to acquire the name? Would a simple name like “Video Call” be good enough? It seems pretty inconsistent to have FaceTime as the video call but not have AudioTime as the regular calling name.

There were some laughs to be had during the press conference. During the keynote Steve Jobs had problems connecting to the WiFi on the new phone. He asked everyone to turn off the WiFi in their laptops. I found it pretty funny. When he still couldn’t get it to work, he asked for suggestions and some guy yelled out “VERIZON!” This was a very awesome moment in the press conference.

But I’m going to admit, this is a pretty fancy phone and it’s bound to bring in some great competition. It just frustrates me how Macfags try to ignore how the iPhone didn’t have the features for the last couple of years while other phones did and now that they do then the phone is the greatest thing ever. But whether you love or hate Apple we can come to the conclusion that Farmville sucks.

Also, fuck MicroSIM.

So if there is one phrase that means that some  bad shit is coming up, it’s “I don’t mean to be gay but…” Whenever I hear that I just know that the following sentence is going to be something extremely gay. Sometimes I have no warning, sometimes someone just says some gay statement followed by “no homo.”

Let me go back about a week. I was sitting at a bar with a buddy of mine. Beside me there was this one guy, I’m guessing he was about 21 years old. Anyways, I order my beer and he says “hey man, great choice.” Fine, a little chatter doesn’t hurt me. However an hour later I’m guessing he was pretty trashed. The guy taps my shoulder and says “hey man, I think you’re fucking hot, no homo.” No homo? That’s pretty damn gay. You can’t use “no homo” as an undo button. You fucking said that, and there’s no taking it back. “But Matt” you might say “the guy was drunk and didn’t know what he was talking about.” Bullshit, when people are drunk they don’t come up with completely random things to say. They say things that they thought about when they were sober, but didn’t have the balls to say.

The thing is, I’ve heard people say “no homo” even when they weren’t intoxicated. They said an extremely gay comment, and they tried to take it back by saying “no homo.” Fuck, that shit is disturbing. If you say those kinds of things out loud, I can only wonder what you think of inside your head. That stuff is probably gay as fuck.

And if you are gay, then the “no homo” thing doesn’t apply to you. Since you have a reason to say that. Perhaps the people who say “no homo” are probably still stuck in the closet.