This is the scenario that I imagined as I walked past the guys running the table on the street about clean energy. We’re amongst the lucky few who don’t have to pay any utilities in our apartment so I’m not sure what this guy would’ve suggested I do. Maybe petition my landlord to switch over to clean energy? That’s assuming the building isn’t already hooked up to clean energy sources in the first place which would be something I’d have to ask about first.
I’m sorry, but I just never want to stop walking when I’m going down the sidewalk no matter how admirable the cause is. But you know, the guy begging for change almost never guilts me when I say “Sorry” but this man with a clipboard had to throw out the “I’m just trying to help children” to guilt me. I’ve never been the man on the street with a clipboard but I’d like to think that I wouldn’t feel the need to guilt people who didn’t want to stop to give a donation.
Really when you work for the ACLU and you ask someone if they want to help to stop all the human rights injustices it’s not fair. Obviously any good human being is against those things, but sometimes it’s really cold and I just don’t want to stand around talking about them when I have somewhere to be. Yes, that’s what the girl said as I passed her on the street.
I’ve been sitting on this one for a while. Basically as soon as the weather seemed to get nice again I saw Greenpeace people on the street with their yellow shirts. Though I noticed they were in closer formation than I’m used to seeing them in. Usually they just occupy both sides of a street, but this formation made it look like they were prepared to swarm upon anyone unfortunate enough to walk around. Then again, no one has the swarm technique down like the guys selling M&Ms for their “basketball team” nearby where I work.
I think this every single time I see someone on the street asking for donations. After that I typically quicken my pace or cross the street to avoid them entirely. Though sometimes the tricky bastards are stationed on both sides of the street so you can’t avoid them entirely. Ideally the lines should be read in the fashion of Invader Zim when he yells out “DOG WITH MEAT! DOG WITH MEEEEAAT!!!!” Which happens of course in the episode with the explosion that’s exploding very slowly.
“Won’t the ‘sploding hurt???”
-GIR
I was offered to see the new film by the director of “City of God” (at least that’s what I remember her clipboard saying) when I was waiting for the subway last night. I would’ve said yes had I not already known that I was going to be working overtime at work today. The ironic thing being that the company I work for is in advertising which means that sometimes we get the information that comes from these surveys. That would’ve been a fast way to make her walk in the other direction. I also hear that they don’t like film students to go to these things because they can be real pretentious dicks who aren’t really the key demographic they’re having trouble appealing to.
I’ve been to a bunch of these screenings but only one where they actually surveyed us at the end. That was for Mamoru Oshii’s live action film “Avalon” that Miramax sat on for a while before releasing straight to video, bastards. Though the general consensus they must’ve reached was that the movie wasn’t nearly mainstream enough to be released in theaters. I wouldn’t have been surprised that the woman last night was working for Miramax since I also was offered to see “Infernal Affairs” before it was released. But the weirdest thing about that was they didn’t tell me what film it was, but I figured out that it was “Infernal Affairs.” To which the guy said “Oh, are you Chinese?” I believe the question he was looking for was more along the lines of “Oh, you’ve heard of it?” So that was funny.
I wish I had been on one of the test screenings for the dubbed version of “Shaolin Soccer” so I could’ve said something like “What the hell are you people retarded? Release the god damn movie subtitled and in its original form! Why take an already successful film and then changed it so that it’s not in the original form that made it successful?” The mentality when releasing foreign action movies is just so horribly skewed over at Miramax.
I rag on the Greenpeace guys a lot because of their consistency, and they’re easy to spot. There are several other people out there looking for donations, like the people for starving children. I don’t know what the cause of the guy this comic is based off of but they did actually ask for five seconds of my time. I wanted to do the dick move of giving them five actual seconds and then leaving, but they probably had to deal with that all day long.
This is a partially true story. Usually when the character makes a wiseass comment I probably said nothing at all like most normal people do when they have the impulse to say something incredibly wiseass. Someone was taking a survey outside of a supermarket that I shop at which is what inspired this comment. I know that they just asked that question to get the conversation going, and I do that a lot too when I could simply cut to the chase because the first question is just asking for a wiseass comment.
This has long been a pet peeve of mine with Greenpeace. Maybe pet peeve is too harsh a word, but it still irritates me. Greenpeace guys with clipboards on the street asking for donations wear yellow. Yellow. They’re called Greenpeace, is it so much to ask that they wear green? Is there something bad about green shirts in their eyes? Is green more expensive somehow, will someone please explain this to me?
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