Let the ranting begin!

Welcome to the first of, I hope, many rants.

What's the deal with airline peanuts? Ha, as if.

More like: What's the deal with comedians ranting about airline food? Get over it! Bring your own food! Easily solved.

As I'm writing this, Nathaniel decided to show me his origami frog. We are a rather productive Physics class as you can tell.

Alright, that's enough of my introduction, now for my rant.

It may seem weird that I am ranting about this particular thing, but, meh.

Am I disgusting if I burp? Possibly. Although in some cultures it is a sign of appreciating your food. Why can't we appreciate our food the way our body wants to? It seems to be a little more socially acceptable for persons of the male variety to belch during drinking contests or just in general. Why not for females? Of course we can just express our thanks for our meal verbally, but of course that would take the fun out of it.

Who decided that burps are not socially acceptable? Did our society in general decide upon this?

In my family, we don't care about such social niceties. Sure, we don't use our food as projectiles or smear it on our faces to make amusing fake moustaches (that often), but such trivial things as belching we pay no mind to.

My grandmother told my father that his frequent belching would come back to haunt him. And it has, in the form of me. Of course this is the grandmother that once threw her underwear at Tom Jones in concert.

Enough of that rant, for now.

What does it mean to be socially acceptable?

Everybody may be socially acceptable in their own way. Perhaps some more than others. I don't think you need to be a sheep to be classified as socially acceptable.

There is one key thing that helps. Confidence.

You could be the most foul mouthed person in the world and still be socially acceptable. Well, that's what I gather anyway.

Of course I could be wrong, I often am about social standings.

I wished to create this blog in hopes of not being pretentious, but still be somewhat interesting.

There are too many people who blog, and whine. (Although this is exactly what I plan to use this for.) They all share the same tone reminiscent of Gen-X. Although I do quite like whiny Gen-X music, so this doesn't make me any better than whiny teenagers from the 80's and 90's.

This blog has been a bit of a muddle I must admit. Next time I promise something a little more, shall we say...substantial? No, that's not the word.. Organised. Yes, that's the one.

I am afraid you will have to part from me for just a little while longer.

Yes, I'm sorry too.

-Alex.