“How To Get Anything Through TSA Nude Body Scanners”
(Source: youtube.com)
*sigh* This is what’s wrong with YouTube. They approve every single copyright complaint, even if it’s from “al-Qaeda.”
But If You Call It an NES-001, is It Worth $13,000?
Kotaku hit it spot on. This new “Mark” guy on Storage Wars in an idiot. My brother thinks he’s a plant by the producers to make the show more interesting and to have a villain character that was previously filled by Dave. What millionaire douchebag goes around overpaying for storage lockers just so other people can’t have them? I would hope millionaire have better things to do with their life than participating in what essentially is a poor person’s job. I’m not hating on Storage Wars, but this Mark guy talks out of his ass and seems pretty suspicious in general.
The story of the most inane game imaginable
During middle school, kids always came up with the most asinine ways to not only make the day more interesting, but also to cause chaos and destruction among the other students in my class. During the weeks before Christmas break in my 8th grade class, one of these absurd things was a simple game called “left-hand give it up.” The origins of this game are unknown, but I’ve heard that one of my classmates borrowed it from his stay at a high school for a day. The rules of the game were quite simple: if you happen to touch anything with your left hand and other student said the words “left-hand give it up,” you would then give the item to the other student with no questions asked, no matter how valuable the item was. There was one exception to this rule: if you touched something with both of your hands, then you didn’t have to give the item up.
The game started out innocent enough. Most of the time students would loose rulers, pens, and pencils, which nobody really cared about for the most part. I decided to join in the game as well; how hard could it be not to touch something with your left hand? Well, it’s not as easy as it sounds. Pretty soon kids started stalking each other for the sole purpose of left-hand give it up. Everybody knew that sooner of later, a person would slip up and touch something with their left-hand, and when they did, another student would be there to claim the item that was touched. Kids started to loose their school books to other students and the only way to get it back was to catch that same person touching it with their left hand. Sometimes they would be successful in getting it back, other times they were not so lucky.
One time, during math class, the teacher put a bunch of problems up on the board. We were supposed to write down the problem and write the answer down on a sheet of white paper. This was back when math was fairly easy for me, so I quickly wrote down all of the answers and the next thing I knew, a student not quite as bright as me proclaimed those words, “left-hand give it up.” I was pissed beyond belief. I thought I was touching the paper with both of my hands, but kids will think of any excuse to take something away for you. I submitted to the rules of the game, and gave my paper and pencil up. As consolation, my long term friend gave me another pencil, but I was still pissed. I started to complain and say that the game sucked and that I wanted out of it, but the class tough guy said that “once you play, you’re locked into it for the rest of the year.” Typical. Kids always make up the most inane excuses to screw you over. In protest, I simply walked to the other end of the classroom, and took my piece of paper back. I was finished with the game, and I wasn’t about to let some tough guy tell me what I can and can’t do. Well, typical of any tough guy, he started calling me a little bitch for quitting. I didn’t really care, I wasn’t going to adhere to the laws for a dumb game and let my grade suffer as a result.
Then, during home room, out of nowhere, somebody said I had to give up everything I had received from left-hand give it up and get punched by everybody in classroom. I fulfilled the first requirement, because all I had ever taken was a ruler and a pen I didn’t want. I gave those back, but I denied the second requirement. Eventually, everybody stopped caring about me quitting and they continued to play amongst themselves. My friend later stole the tough guy’s favorite pen because he had it in his left hand, and he was really pissed. It was quite amusing.
After Christmas break, everyone stopped playing the game. I knew everybody would forget about it over the break, it’s the natural course for a game that everybody knows it stupid, but continues to play anyway. Left hand give it up was a unique game in it’s own right. It justified the act of stealing things from another person, and everyone was okay with that.
My experiences in middle school were unmatched by anyone else. School was fucking easy, and everyone did a bunch of stupid shit to entertain the class and make each new day an exciting and hilarious experience. I’ll never forget left-hand give it up. It was fun for what it was, until everyone creepily started to stalk each other just so they could take something.
(Source: aguiney)
