My biggest pet peeve of all time is when bicyclists decide to ride on the road, and I know I’m not the only one who feels this way, although I might be the one who feels the strongest. Not only does riding your bike in the road create an inconvenience for the drivers who then have to slow down or swerve to avoid hitting you despite there being a sidewalk that literally was made for the purpose of transporting yourself beside the road when you don’t have a car, it also reveals the major sense of entitlement that cyclists hold themselves to. Like, it’s not the Tour de France, it’s 8 a.m. on a Tuesday. I have somewhere to be and you have the notion that you are as fast, or important, as my car; and guess what, you aren’t even comparable to my four-ton vehicle. But the worst, most irreverent act of cycling that one could possibly conduct is that of riding side by side with other cyclists. This means that there is no physical way for a car to speed up and go around you because you and your gaggle of Armstrong-wannabes have decided to start training for a race. In all likelihood, you won’t even win said race, meaning that you made me late to work for a participation trophy at that.
GET YOUR GREEN BEERS READY. It’s one month away from the best holiday for Americans stealing other cultures’ things in order to make money!!! Forget Valentine’s Day, why be bummed that you’re single and surrounded by hearts when you can be drunk and “Irish dancing” with your friends. I am Irish, like if you were to go back to like the 1800s someone I am somewhat related to would’ve been in Ireland. Yo I like potatoes, beer and causing a ruckus, it’s in my genes. For those of you who were left alone this Feb. 14, just remember that the holiday based around aggressively drinking is right around the corner. I am excited and you might catch me at the Olney Transportation Center trying out my best Irish jig, decked out in green.
Mental health is not a joke, but WTF is going on with Kanye. Who is letting this man just openly display his mental breakdown on social media where he continues to attack Kim Kardashian and anyone who doesn’t agree with Ye. Mr. College Dropout is not the only one going through it during the worst month of the year, February is the worst month just agree with me. S**t is just hitting the fan and the only shining lights are getting drunk on green beer in a month, spring and then summer as well as sleep. Kanye is truly going through something, but so are we, so ball out and act like you’re worth millions of dollars and maybe you will make it through to noon beers season.
It’s friggin cold and it wasn’t cold last week. With temperatures last week reaching 50 degrees fahrenheit and this week not only dropping to the single digits, but then jumping back up to 60 degrees, I have come to a scientific conclusion: Earth is not in fact warming to life-threatening temperatures, but actually throwing a fit because humans suck. You heard it first, the human race is causing the planet, our planet, Earth to throw a b***hfit and mess with the temperature mid-February to spite us. The study by someone from some Ivy League in some obscure part of the country says so and you should believe me because I said it in a newspaper. The temperature-tantrums caused by our s**t-head actions, mostly you single use water bottle people and not large corporations who create large amounts of waste and toxins for the Earth. No, definitely you non-recycling bastards, just buy a reusable water bottle. Oh, and it’s not the single-use plastic that every company uses to package food products, either, just the water bottles. In fact, just our generation is to blame, but only the regular people who are just trying to buy products within our price range. No, it’s not older generations’ faults, even though they were pretty f*** up on alcohol and drugs or the large companies that mass-produce plastic, waste and toxins. So, yeah, own up to being the reason why the Earth is throwing temperature-tantrums.
I can crack almost every joint in my hand in various ways and regularly do so. I also crack my back, knees, elbows and toes but those are more of an unintentional crack from years of sports trauma. Basically, I am that person who just starts cracking their hands in the middle of class out of habit. Most of the time I don’t realize that I’ve started to crack my knuckles until I am multiple cracks deep. I do realize that there’s a population of people that don’t like and or hate the sound of the body cracking. The people who curl their toes and cringe at the pop of a finger or the crunch of a back or the click of a wrist have to suffer with people like me. Now, I am willing to change my ways if it is an ick for the majority of people who have read this article. So, if you will please choose your vote on the poll, and maybe next week you will see an article on my knuckle cracking withdrawal.
The characters on this show are not good people, genuinely. I love each of these characters, minus Nate and Cal Jacobs, but they’re all so shitty and do such shitty things especially to the people they care about, as well as to strangers. These are my opinions and the characters are different from the actors, so this article is in no way a reflection of my opinions on the people who perform these characters. Now that I’ve said that, I would physically fight Nate and Cal Jacobs as well, I think each of these characters needs a slap in the face.
Season one, we saw Maddy literally engage in consensual sexual activity with a random guy to get back at Nate after they broke up. Then she spun the story that she blacked out and accused the kid of sexual assult on a minor and got him sent to jail, all for her shitty boyfriend to not get in trouble for literally choking her out. Maddy is not an angel when you look at her actions to help Nate, who is the worst person ever, who emotionally cheated on her with Jules and used her best friend as a sneaky link. As much as Cassie sneaky linking with Maddy’s ex in season two is one, against girl code and two, just shitty behavior, it’s pretty on brand for her considering she cheated on her boyfriend in season one.
Cassie. Our poor girl with major daddy issues, poor decision making skills and no backbone just got caught by the one person that will f*** her shit up. Girly is gonna lose Maddy and Kat, her two best friends over a guy who is just using her and emotionally manipulating her *screaming and crying and throwing up.* Kat, who doesn’t really do anything wrong and actually is a pretty good person with bad friends, just needs to break up with Ethan and deserves much more screen time, period. The same with Lexi, who is about to put Cassie and her friends on blast with her play.
I AM HOLDING OUT FOR FEZ AND LEXI. Lexi, our unproblematic queen, who does need to, like her sister Cassie, get a spine and stand up for herself more, and Fez the drug dealer with a heart of gold. The power couple we need and want from this show. Fez is a pretty decent person, but he does sell drugs, so he is not the best person to most people, I am not most people and he’s my favorite character.
SPEAKING OF DRUGS. Rue, our narrator, the performance that deserves another Emmy, is something else. Obviously her struggle with addiction is what majorly influences her actions and drives her to act out in order to fulfill her needs. Her mom and Gia are the only two people who truly are looking out for Rue and deserve better. After her overdose at the beginning of season one, you would think her friends would pay more attention to her and what situations she is put in, but no. They actively bring a recovering addict into party scenes where drug and alcohol use is happening and while Rue can always say no to going to these events, what teenage girl wants to spend her weekend inside while all her friends are partying? If one of her friends even just took a second to pay attention to her, they could’ve seen how destructive it is to Rue’s progress to go to these parties with the environment and substances that would cause her to relapse. Elliot is a product of Rue going to a party, he didn’t know of her addiction at first, but clearly when she almost goes into cardiac arrest after taking too many drugs there’s an issue there. He fuels her issue by enabling and participating in her drug habit, unlike Fez who calls her ass out and will not sell to her if she is being destructive.
The true villain of Rue’s story is Jules. Jules herself is fine, not the best person, but is horrible to her partner especially in season two. With the two getting back together in the second season after dating in season one, you would think Jules would know when Rue is using, but she doesn’t care to pay attention to her partner. It is certainly not her job or any of the other characters’ jobs to babysit their friend, but she is clearly high and has been clearly high the whole season. Taking five minutes to actually pay attention to Rue by any of the characters, they would’ve been able to see their friend had relapsed. While the excuse of pot could be a possible explanation to her actions, smoking or eating majiuanna is very different from the drugs that Rue’s been using in season two. You’re telling me that Jules, who is dating Rue, seeing her everyday didn’t notice that her girlfriend was doing HEROIN, FENTANYL and various PILLS. On top of her ignorance of a person she is in a relationship with, Jules cheated on Rue with Elliot, the same person that has been enabling Rue’s drug use. Jules cheated on the person she “loves” and continued to have a physical relationship with Elliot after he told her that Rue relapsed and he was doing drugs with her. Then she turned around and told Rue’s mom about her girlfriend’s drug use and dumped all the drugs, really just sending Rue into debt with a drug dealer. Jules just f***ed Rue’s life and Fez’s life all because she decided to jump in at the last second, a last ditch effort without any context and dumped 10k worth of drugs.
If Fez dies because of this I will be so sad. Homie deserves to have a good and honest relationship with Lexi and maybe he will grow beyond dealing, but no, he’s def gonna catch the shit from Rue’s actions that he told her not to do. Like lowkey idc about Ashtray, but if either him or Fez dies, it’s Rue and Jules fault. While Cassie and Jules have very similar plotlines this season, with them both hooking up with people they shouldn’t be. The consequences of Cassie’s actions is that Maddy wants to beat her ass and is directly affecting her. Jules’ actions have a slight consequence on her with Rue, but Rue and Fez’s life are at jeopardy for being a hero and dumping a suitcase worth of drugs with the worst of it not affecting her life. Overall, these characters need to figure their shit out because someone is going to die, no joke. Sam Levinsten should’ve done so much more with his characters and listened to his actors when they had opinions on the direction their characters were moving towards. As well, if they could stop casting 20+ year olds as teenagers then maybe people would sympathize with the characters’ ages and how they act rather than becoming angered by adults acting poorly. Anyway, Barbie deserves better and that’s on that.
Born and raised in Pennsylvania, I understand and respect the drip of waking up and throwing on anything to prevent the cold from ruining one’s day. Monday, before waking up at 7 a.m. for my lovely 8 a.m. shift, I thought that I would wear jeans and try a little for the first day of the week. Now imagine me waking up to 10 degree weather that early. I wore leggings, a La Salle sweatshirt and my trusty UGG boots, fully showing up to campus bringing back a common high school fit for Claire. The outfit itself is not uncommon for PA cold, so I thought I’d highlight some outfit choices that match post-winter-break, freezing cold and painfully-waking-up energy.
UGGS
You know them, you love them, any form of UGG; boot, slipper, shoe etc. A solid choice for all, the not-animal-friendly clothing and shoe brand really does make the best shoe for not caring and just wanting to be warm. In addition, their clothes usually are rather good for the cold weather.
We don’t like Shia but his pic works
Hoodie jacket combo
Now it’s cold cold, but that doesn’t mean you should have to suffer with your puffer jammed behind your back during class. The hoodie and jacket — North Face, Patagonia or whatever light jacket brand you prefer — is a solid way to be warm enough without the lack of arm movement and excess chest heat.
Beanies/Hats
All rise the Carhartt hat people who broke that jawn out in October and have worn it every day since. Has it been washed? None of my business, but maybe you should just throw it in with your next load. Hats don’t look good on me, but maybe I’ll break one out on a particularly cold day. The only negatives with any headwear is head sweat and hat hair, so just make sure you’re not going to be doing anything hot or taking your hat off at all.
Dishonorable mention: shorts
“Now go stand in the corner and think about what you did” — “Better than Revenge” by Taylor Swift
High socks
No one should ever roast your socks, because once your toes are numb and your ankles burn, there’s no saving the rest of your body warmth.
I’m sure that other states also wear these articles of clothing, but it’s also PA and we don’t really care, so yeah.
I try to keep my true opinions that will start unnecessary drama to myself, but Spotify is f***ing stupid. The sI am not a football fan. I have never claimed to be a football fan. But I am an Eagles fan, so you know I love a good underdog. The Cincinnati Bengals are going to the Super Bowl for the first time in a long time to go up against the Rams this month. Do I genuinely care about who wins? Like no. I am really excited for Tom Brady to finally just leave the conversation as well as the Patriots, also known as the people who lost the Super Bowl to the Eagles in 2018. It would be really nice to see the Bengals win so that the people of Ohio finally have something to be proud of. Joe Burrow might be a good quarterback, but he also is just a nice person to look at especially when he wears his sunglasses. Will I be watching the Super Bowl? Probably not. Go birds.
As a public relations major, learning how to write emails is like half of every class and the other half is sending those emails. I am just kidding, even though emails are a vital part of PR, we learn other things……if you circle back to me in a week I’ll tell you what those things are.
HAHA, funny, yeah yeah, emails suck.
There is no good time to get an email and while the content might not always be horrid, the vibe is just incorrect. Receiving an email is like when you order your Starbucks through the app and they tell you it’s ready and it’s not, they’re just missing 90 percent of what you ordered (no shade). Yeah, not excited about that part of my career path, but hey it could be worse. I could tell people I’m a business major.
The La Salle Collegian 