"The 7 types of people you’ll definitely meet when travelling in your 20s".

LINK:
http://www.theplaidzebra.com/the-7-types-of-people-youll-definitely-meet-when-travelling-in-your-20s/


Ok, so the title of the Article is pretty self explanatory. Although these are kind of things you'd see through living in a city or at a larger college, the 7 types were broken down into:

1. Selfie Stick Wielding Instagram Hero
2.  The Trust Fund Kid
3.  The Person who's Confidently Homeless
4. The Gemstone Healing Hippie
5. Middle Aged guy trying to relive his youth
6. That Brutally Honest person
7. The Australian w Alcoholic Tendencies

Reddit Thread: What’s a Trap That Almost Everyone Will Fall For At Some Point In Their Lives? PART 1

Another Reddit Thread i came across and would like to elaborate on is "What’s a Trap That Almost Everyone Will Fall For At Some Point In Their Lives?". Right off the bat i assume you have/get a rush of thoughts and emotions to where you can rattle off a couple relatable answers no problem. So here we go: Theres 11 of these that were highlighted within the 1000's of comments, and i don't want to just have some longform piece, like a hardo. Im going to split this into 3 separate blogs. Less is more.

Trap #1: Comparing yourself to other people.

In my opinion this is pretty close to impossible to do, but effort certainly counts in this situation. Throughout your life everything is calculated. You're grades for 12+ years in school, sports/games as a kid/young adult, social status (being rich poor popular bullied etc). It's very tough to get out of a mindset that doesn't revolve around numbers and keeping score. All that type shit. But the older i get the more I'm starting to understand: Fuck it. Be selfish in your self evaluation and progress. Still keep a good attitude and always be trying to get better though.
But stuff happens whether good or bad. Oh well. Gotta keep it moving no matter what.

Trap #2: No, you won't stay for one more drink.

Kind of wish i took this advice once in a while during my 2009-2015 endeavors roaming around Winthrop and Bridgewater.  You never know, staying for that one more drink may have gotten you very important things in your life. Wouldn't have bumped into that broad who's now your girlfriend, wouldn't have been there to help your buddy not get his teeth kicked in, etc. But i feel like the 2016 equivalent to this is being "For the Boys". Don't get me wrong, friends are very high on my list of priorities, but tapping out once in a while may be better in the long run. (cough cough me going from a WR to DE in stature) Shoutout those people who remind me whenever i piss them off enough.

Editor Note: Also shoutout Kenny Chesney, "One is too many, and a thousand is never enough."

Trap #3: Letting Things Overwhelm You.

This is a little bit of 1 & 2 mixed together to some extent. In terms of positive thoughts, yeah FOMO sucks, couple examples for me would be not finishing school at the pace you would like, missing a prime Yirrell day, stuff like that. BUT most fun things can be replicated one way or another, or as long as things get sorted out eventually no big deal. For negative scenarios, worrying about shit (especially when its out of your control) is the WORST and is something we all battle. Whether it be school, social life, work...I'm personally trying to #TrustTheProcess. Unless its like a pending court case that will send you to the slammer, then id worry.





Next 3 will be up in a few days, maybe. lol


***Heres the link for anybody who wants to look ahead or whatever. Id embed it but I'm not trying to spoil my stuff later so you've got to copy & paste that shit. Getting 40+ page views rather then 75+ certainly isn't going to pay the bills anytime soon.
https://redditblog.com/2016/01/19/whats-a-trap-that-almost-everyone-will-fall-for-at-some-point-in-their-lives/?utm_content=bufferb6cdc&utm_medium=social&utm_source=twitter.com&utm_campaign=buffer/

RS Rebuttal: O/U Vinny Staples Video

This video was one of the funnier & interesting things I've came across on twitter in a while, 4 minutes and 18 seconds of Vinny being real but still showing a sense of humor. Now I've had this in the drafts for months, but sometimes with this blog i end up taking a break for whatever reasons and end up going silent for 3-4 weeks like an idiot.

Going to take each statement or phrase given, and then spit out my own response, whether i agree of disagree, that type shit. Also I'm aware I'm Vulture'ing here.

OVERRATED/UNDERRATED

1. SOBRIETY

Vinny S: "Sobriety is underrated man. I'm all about the necessary, and I'm all about going hard or going home. If you're getting high, and not off the crack rock, I've got to worry about your commitment to the cause. My boy DMX hit the pookie & went platinum."

Bobby S: Im pretty torn here. I've been laying low lately; i do think it for the most part sobriety is underrated. Not blowing money on temporary shit (buzz/drunk/high), not messing with your immune system and brain is pretty dope. BUT to quote my man Frank Sinatra (supposedly) "I feel sorry for people who don't drink. When they wake up in the morning, thats as good as they're going to feel all day."

PS: This depends on the time of year. Summer? Overrated. Winter? fuck it.

2. THE AMISH

Vinny S: " I don't know if the Amish are rated at all. I don't trust the Amish. I think they got iPhones. They don't got black Amish people. (Looks at somebody) They got black Amish? They got Puerto Rican Amish? I will never be Amish. Its not my movement. You know let them have that We are trying steal people shit in America man, taking oil, took peoples Playstations, Let people be. Im not putting on that stupid ass hat."

Bobby S: Tough to disagree here. 100% Amish are not on my radar. Pretty sure any negative thoughts i have came from that TV show they had called Breaking Amish on TLC. Weird people making a buck on being weird. Also i don't really have sympathy for people who purposely stay behind the times. I mean I'm not saying every Nana should be a wizard with an iPhone, but putting yourself at a disadvantage in 2016 isn't a good look. God and Faith will do that though. Not necessarily relevant but i do fuck with Matsiyahu though.

3. KFC

Vinny S: "KFC is overrated. Fuck the Colonel. Fuckin Asshole he's a slave owner."

Bobby S: First, RIP the colonel (if KFC the brand ever sees this). Im going to go with overrated though. I do like the Famous Bowls, had more than my fair share going to the one in Bridgewater. Only problem was it is basically a laxative for the lack of a better term. But Vinnys prob right with the slave owner statement. So i agree there with him there.

4. BILL NYE THE SCIENCE GUY

Vinny S: "Bill Nye is underrated man. Bill Nye is the reason all these kids know how to proportion the lean in their beverage. He taught us these algorithms. Very underrated, is he dead?

Bobby S: OVERRATED. Man F Bill Nye, and Lean. Tried to do fake lean once at 19 with two friends. Bought the big CVS cough syrup bottle and that shit got us soooo sick. Like my eyes crossed and shit. Pretty sure the baby bottles are what helped people start proportioning shit out correctly (s/o Future). My underlying opinion of Bill is that he's like Bob Saget (s/o Entourage). Just a closet asshole, weirder, sex addict. If I'm wrong I'm wrong, no big deal.

5. LOBSTERS

Vinny S: "Lobsters are underrated, they don't die. You have to kill a Lobster for it to die. You think I'm fucking around, don't you? Look at my face, do i look like somebody who doesn't know what they're talking about right now?"

Bobby S: F Lobsters too. First because i don't like Lobster or seafood. Maybe fried scallops and if I'm hungry enough i can deal with Crab Rangoon. Lobsters yeah they live forever, but they're bottom feeders of the Ocean. Pretty sure Feitelberg had this type take so I'm piggybacking off it. No need for a Lobster Roll to be $20 also, with fluctuating prices depending on the season. FOH. Overrated.

6. OPRAH

Vinny S: "Oprah underrated man, because people forget she has that trash ass broadcast network. And she founded Dr.Phil, and some other people probably, Dr. Drew?....Probably Beats by Dr. Dre."

Bobby S: Oprah's the GOAT. You get a car! You get a car! You get a car! Has so much money she doesn't know what to do with it. (kidding)

7. TOM CRUISE

Vinny S: "Tom Cruise is underrated. ("Why?"), cuz the Mission was Impossible.......then he pulled it off. Three Times!"

Bobby S: Tom Cruise in the 80's and 90's? Underrated. Top Gun. Risky Business. Jerry Macguire. Outsiders. Cocktail. Guy played with whatever he wanted whenever wherever. The Tom Cruise Scientology version? Hell no. Overrated. How the fuck you going to split with Katie Holmes like that. Him being like 5'4 doesn't help his case either.

8. KEEPING IT REAL

Vinny S: "Fuck all that Keep it Real shit man. Just be yourself, you might be a fake ass *****. If you a fake ass motherfucker you not keeping it real by being fake. But whats real? Cuz like you know some people are just not real. We know they know. But we got to act like we don't know that they know that we know. At the end of the day, they know that we know that they don't know that we know."

Bobby S: 100 emoji. Spot on. I have this situation going on with a few people currently, no big deal though. What you eat don't make me shit. Cole World.

9. CYBER BULLYING

Vinny S: "Cyber Bullying is overrated man. You wanna be mean to people go gang bang. Get shot in your fuckin ass. Bullying fat people man fat people are lovely. One of my Grandma's is fat.....lover her to death. So you bullying fat people then you bullying my Grandma? Imma fuck you up."

Bobby S: Cyber Bulling's low key one of my favorite things to do. But i understand theres a time and a place for everything. Making fun of Adam Schefter calling him Lord Farquad? Fun. 6th grade girls bullying each other via IG comments and snapchats? Not so much. TIE. Equally overrated & underrated. Sometimes the Cyber Bullies end up getting Cyber Bullied. Circle of Life.

10. PETA

Vinny S: "I dont fuck with PETA. Ive never seen PETA save one animal. PETA worried about furs, theres dude gunning down Rhinos. PETA out here worried about what people wearing rather than saving Rhinos. They out here DEAD theres no more Rhinos. Either all the white ones or gone or all the black ones are. What if Rhinos killed all the white or black people? We'd be mad as fuck right?"

Bobby S: Overrated. Good point about the Rhinos. But yeah PETA is going after shit when the damage has already been done. PETA definitely has good intentions, but messing with establishments and events in the "name" of wrongful killing or whatever the terms are does nothing. Just like the professional protesters who you see everywhere waving their freak flag.

11. PET OWNERSHIP

Vinny S: "Pet ownership is very overrated, its JAIL! People be hitting they animals and shit. And they wonder why Pitbulls start eating  motherfuckers. Okay you keep kicking me? Imma eat your fucking baby. Only white people treat animals like people. We think they're "crazy" but they think they've got the right idea. Give em a bedddd. Give em some toys. Fuck it if you really wanna be cool give them a house. You like Tumblr? Look up fancy dog houses they got two stories, swimming pools in them. Exactly people know how to treat these fucking animals. But i guarantee you if you put a Pitbull in a house like that with a dog elevator, it will never touch your child. Feed my ***** kibbles and bits. Slap with with a newspaper? He gone go rogue one day man."

Bobby S: VERY Underrated. Pets keep people from going insane. Dog is mans best friend. I have nothing to say though about what he said with the dog house, toys and shit. My cats are basically Garfield, they have everything they could ever need. But for the Pitbull stuff, I'm all for whatever people want. Hands off topic for me. Because i know there people who are very very left or right on that.

LIVE: BRENDAN RONAN BLOG. "When did we become the Yankees?"

PSA: BRon insists on sending me paragraphs upon paragraphs via text (every 2 out of 3 involve bullshit like Kelly O & the Celts) when things go on in or around Boston Sports teams. Got to the point where i said sack up and write a blog, and ill post it here (and future content) since hes only a Facebook warrior these days. So heres his take on the Chris Sale situation and the Sox as a whole going forward.

 So as many of you have heard (or will be soon hearing), the Red Sox just made a deal that will bring Chris Sale, left-handed ace of the White Sox, to Boston. I want to start off by saying for many reasons this is obviously a good move by Sox brass. Among many reasons including the fact his nickname is "the Condor" (and the bevy of personal nicknames I'll give him like "Three Days of the Condor"), he's been a strikeout machine (led the league in '15) and Cy Young quality arm the past five seasons. A Cy Young quality arm that will be added to a rotation that all ready features past (David Price) and current Cy Young award winners (Rick Porcello). Let's not get too much into Rick though .. Kate Upton will start blowing up my phone or destroy what's left of my existence on Twitter. Gotta love super models complaining about how hard their life is..  BUT LETS GET TO WHAT I REALLY WANNA TALK ABOUT HERE.... When did we become the Yankees?

      

 For those of you who didn't instantly catch the reference (which I'm sure many of you did), Red Sox management of the past few years have made multiple moves that eerily remind me of the Yankees during the early-mid 2000s. Breaking out the checkbook every offseason, the whole idea of "buying championships" pretty much became the Evil Empire's motto and seemingly led to the demise of an organization that found themselves in the postseason for the better part of 20 years before (1990-2010). Once heralded as the "good guys" or the Rebellion (if we're gonna run with Star Wars metaphors), we are now becoming the First Order, or the second version of the Evil Empire -- the Yankees .. Okay, I'll stop with the Star Wars references now. 

BUT MY POINT IS .. we, the good guys .. Or WHO WE THOUGHT WE WERE (RIP Denny Green) are now using the same practices the Yankees regime of yester-year got their organization stuck in the proverbial mud with. Mud that consists of overPRICEd contracts, trade packages sending away the farm, and an all too aggressive GM driven for immediate results .. Sounds all too familiar, ehh? 

  

Well look, there are still many differences. The Sox currently have a great core of young players (something the 2000s Yankees lacked) and there are still many pieces in our farm, including top-ranked 2016 pitching prospect Jason Groome and the future at 3rd base hopefully sooner then later Rafael Devers. I say sooner then later due to the fact the Sox have a Goodyear blimp disguised as a Panda bear currently stationed at 3rd base (I know I know, I saw the pic .. when's his Nutrisystem commercial coming out?). Which brings me to the kicker .. Or the end all be all to this discussion to me .. who is Red Sox manager, John FREAKING Farrell.

Regardless of all the similarities I can draw to the Yankees, or the potential of a Sox team flourishing with young talent, if you want to stake your interest in the Red Sox future .. The man who will decide it, for now, is Farrell (and Trader Dave .. And a few others .. BUT MAINLY FARRELL). As the Sox transition away from the Papi Era, with the help of some vets (more like one vet, Pedey), Farrell will be responsible of guiding the ship forward from here and he can make this dream the past decade or so continue OR can remind us why history will repeat itself and so far history says YOU CANT BUY RINGS. And one last thing, has anyone discussed when Sox throwback jersey night is? Probably wanna let Sale know about that. 

                                                                                                                                                    I appreciate the opportunity the contribute to the No Shame Swanson Bobspot .. FUCK YOU GUMBY!!!.