Sometimes Things Go The Right Way

The Walt Disney Company announced yesterday that they were withdrawing their application to trademark the name “Seal Team 6”.   Disney planned to use the trademark to produce a line of toys and games, as well as a TV show for ABC. Apparently a SEAL Team 6-themed snow globe was on the list as well.

What an amazing amount of douchebaggery the original application represented!  Did the suits at Disney actually think that anyone would stand for the desecration of this group of brave and honorable soldiers?  A cartoon?? A fucking SNOW GLOBE?

Now granted, if the Snow Globe had depicted the assassination of Bin Laden and had red liquid and bits of brain tissue instead of snow, it would have been *awesome*, but I think it’s best that things turned out the way they did.

Planking or Pillaring. Which one is right for you?

In case you’re not like me and actually have things to do in your life other than ride the intertubes, the definition of Planking, according to Wikipedia, is ” the action of lying face down with arms to the sides of the body, in unusual public spaces and photographing it.”

Up to now, it has been mostly an Australian Facebook phenomenon, although word has it that it is headed to American shores.

But alas, all is not kittens and rainbows in the Planking world.  As is always the case, some dipshit always comes along and spoils the party for everyone else, as did Acton Beale, a 20-year-old male who plunged to his death after reportedly planking on a seventh-floor balcony in Brisbane, Australia.

Thankfully, if you don’t have the balls to off yourself for the sake of some meaningless social networking street cred, there is another path you can take. Pillaring.

So, how do you decide which is right for you?  Well, thankfully, the answer is pretty straightforward.  If you’re a pretentious douche nozzle who craves validation from a group of people of whom 80% are people you barely know or care about (or you’re under 20 years of age) then flip a coin and do either.

The rest of us will be off doing something important.