[rockingthehomestead]

Are you guys following this? I love Halloween, and pumpkins, but I don't know if I love them enough to hula hoop in tear gas! I know, I'm a total party pooper. Lol. Reading tweets about it is pretty hilarious though.

Thoughts?

 

[rockingthehomestead]

Oh yes, of course it is a mess, and the people doing this are a bunch of idiotic, privileged little punks. But there's still a twinge of humor in it, I think. Not like "Ha ha, its funny this happened to a community" but more like "Oh my god, these kids are so ridiculously stupid, you kind of have to make fun of them and laugh!" I mean, seriously, who riots over pumpkins? What are their motivations? Pumpkin spice justice? Lol. WTF?

 

[rockingthehomestead]

I really think Billy Corgan needs to make a public statement on all this, right?

 

[rockingthehomestead]

I heard they even had to call in the National Gourd!!

 

[rockingthehomestead]

Yeah, pumpkin spice pepper spray!

 

[rockingthehomestead]

I can actually relate to the rioters. I mean, give me pumpkin spice lattes or give me death, am I right?

 

[rockingthehomestead]

Wasn't it Ben Franklin who said "Those who are willing to sacrifice their pumpkins to gain a little temporary safety deserve neither pumpkins, not safety."?

 

[rockingthehomestead]

But those college kids ... They've got to fight ... For their right ... To paaaaaaarty. It's the only patriotic thing to do.

 

[rockingthehomestead]

Jon Oliver is probably to blame. Lol.

 

[rockingthehomestead]

I found it pretty disturbing and bizarre.

Like, who thinks something like this is fun?

Gives college kids a bad name...

Privileged kids. Entitled, spoiled, privileged kids who cannot begin to fathom the depths of their ridiculous privilege. But the media, predictably, describes the perpetrators as "rowdy kids", rather than as "violent thugs" as they do people who have less privilege and are actually protesting (95% of them totally peacefully) for a legitimate reason. Sigh.

 

[rockingthehomestead]

Oh, privileged idiots rioting is not a quirk of this generation. Denver rioted in similar fashion after each Super Bowl we won twenty years ago. And back in the day, riots like this were regular occurrences at CU after the Buffs played games. It actually seems like we've had far fewer riots in the last decade or so. I think in general Millenials are too lazy and anti social to ever organize anything as put together as a riot. In fairness, I'm right on the cusp of being considered a millennial myself, lol. But yeah, rioting is nothing new. Rioting over nothing is even nothing new. I just always thought it was a dumb jock thing. Was there a football game at the college that day or something?

 

[rockingthehomestead]

I can't take credit. I saw it on twitter several times and just about died laughing. Lol.