there is NO excuse for stupidity.

Sometimes people ask me how i know about certain things. Maybe we'll be talking about something, and i will chime in with a piece of information that isn't very well known...then people are astounded by my knowledge...it's crazy.

Am i a genius? No. Am i blessed with a mind like a sponge...possibly....Truth be told, i'm not doing anything that ANYONE can't do. I'm simply learning, or rather teaching myself things that i am curious about. How? A little thing called "The Internet". Yes...i know, it sounds so futuristic doesn't it. See, when there is something i am curious about, or something i don't know about, i use this magical device to do something called "research", and i learn about it. Crazy eh? So instead of finding myself among people in a conversation where i just zone out because i am clueless, I can actually enjoy an in depth discussion and maybe even learn something more!

In today's times, there is NO excuse for people to be uneducated on ANYTHING. information is literally right at your fingertips. It honestly blows my mind how some people are still absolutely clueless about basic things. Now, i am not saying you need to research and learn about all the things that i personally would look up, and i'm not saying you have to learn about things you're not interested in...but wouldn't you rather have a basic knowledge of a lot of things rather than just a very deep knowledge of ONE thing? I mean, awesome, you can tell me the entire history of the Miami Dolphins, but you can't give me an opinion on colours for a living room...or you can talk forever about Obama's plans, but you can't tell me shit about world war II....like, at least have SOME knowledge about things...ANYTHING! take your interests, and expand them for fuck's sakes!

For instance, the other day my girlfriend was making chicken parmesan for dinner, and i wanted to pick up some wine for our meal. But what wine goes best with that dish? Hmmmm, instead of wandering aimlessly into the liquor store, and picking the wine that i thought would be good, i decided to take 30 seconds of my time to google it....for those of you that don't know, you CAN type a question into google, and you most likely WILL get what you're looking for. So i asked what wine goes best with chicken parm...pressed search, and BAM! I got my answer! i walked into the LCBO, found the wine, and before i knew it, i was enjoying a fantastic meal with a perfectly matched wine....now was that hard?

No, it wasn't hard. But in today's age, when so many people are just glued to their PS3s, or Xbox, or Wii, or whatever, everyone is just too fucking lazy to take a LITTLE bit of time to learn a little bit. Think about it. If you took a tiny half hour per day to just LEARN something, imagine how much more you would know in a week...a month...A YEAR! But no, you're all satisfied with your limited knowledge, basing your opinions on whatever you heard on your favourite radio morning show, or whatever the cool people at school were saying. It's actually kind of pathetic people. Start using your noggins. Seriously.

Now if you don't mind, I am going to go learn something.
Good luck beating your high score on whatever latest version of guitar hero you just wasted your money on.