Monday, December 6, 2010

Cankles can be cured: copyrighting our everyday words

I was browsing the internet and came across a post on a hideous site from Egypt
that opens its pages to frustrated and perverted youth who choose to voice comments
about sex, getting wasted and how cool they are for doing drugs.

I got hooked, it was sad to see that youth choose to make fun of such issues and
broadcast it in a way that may seem cool to other lame youth. Anyway, to get to 
my point, i came across a post about cankles. Yes, cankles. I had previously 
written a status on facebook that "cankles can cured", an inside joke between 
a friend and i, and an explanation of why i thought that was the case. 
Lo and behold, i find the same exact post, with my little witty explanation on 
the site, but with a negative connotation, as expected, to make it 'fit in' with 
the rest of the pervy comments.

I understand why people would want to steal meaningful shit from other people,
but to steal MY words about cankles is just lazy. We Egyptians that still make 
some effort to be a little creative and write our OWN random comments and 
words should copyright them from now on. 


You never know where you may find them a couple of weeks later.

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