I shot the sheriff…but I swear it was in self defence!

So welcome back to The Infection, we apologize for our recent absence of late but we’re all busy people here. Today we  bring an old issue to the table that we feel needs to be addressed by us. This is an issue that we think shouldn’t even have to exist in this day and age but here we are sadly talking about it. Recently, some disturbing news reached us, this news involves a case of racial profiling in the United States. Somehow we’re not surprised that this case comes from the land of the brave and the so-called free.

The case that resurfaced our attention to the issue involves Harvard University professor, Henry Louis Gates jr., and his arrest outside of his own home for supposedly breaking and entering.  The case has attracted the attention of U.S President Barack Obama as well as Reverend Al Sharpton.This is what Obama had to say…

This issue now brings The Infection into thinking and talking about the issue as a whole. Now we’re going to be straight up with you all and say what the sensible lot of you are thinking- Racial profiling is bullshit, we’re all innocent until proven guilty and all that great sounding junk. Alas, racial profiling exists and more people than just cops do it, alot of people do it everyday.

To begin, what’s the first image that comes to your mind when you think of racial profiling? Most average people think of the cops beating down on some coloured youth from a ghetto simply because he was wearing nice shoes that they think he stole…or something along those lines and worse. The fact is that racial profiling is more than just that, the truth is that  it’s nothing more than an act of stereotyping based on race. People only call it racial profiling when the authorities get involved but racial profiling would not exist if it were not for the stereotypes that birth to people’s misconceptions.

Some of these misconceptions that you may have heard or slurred are…

“All black people know a drug dealer, are a drug dealer or are on drugs”

“White girls who go out with black guys are sluts”

“All indians are terrorists”

“All asians are good at math”

These are just a few of the one’s we’ve heard here at The Infection. As we’re sure all of our sensible readers know, most of those quotes are bullshit but the fact is that there are people out there who believe that this and much worse is true about other races. There are people in this world who are born and bred to believe in much worse about the other races in this world and it leads to problems like racial profiling.

The question we wish to ask people today is- Why must we generalize eachother so much? We all know the question has been asked and answered before by many people for us before but we want to throw the question out there to see what you all think. Also, who or what do we blame for this problem and how can we put a stop to it? Poison Apple thinks that we can probably put alot of blame on the media for helping to fuel people’s misconceptions about race and helping keep these problems alive. Most of all we want to ask you all for some more of the admittedly funny stereotypes you’ve all heard out and about other races including your own.

Finally, here’s some video material for you all that we at The Infection hope you will find informative and thought provoking.

First, here’s a fun little one about a south asian student…

Next, for your viewing pleasure we have a clip of comedian Chris Rock talking about race and the division of wealth within the United States. This might not seem to have anything to do with the subject but its a stereotype to say that there are no ‘wealthy’ black or brown people in America…

And the last video is for our friend, the good professor Gates who we are sure can relate to this song all too well…

We also didn’t forget all of our coloured friends who may need advice on how to avoid the worst when it comes to dealing with authorities…

With all that, keep us entertained people! We look forward to what you have to say.

The Infection presents: Poison on P—y!

Disclaimer: We are not liable if you, your children or anyone in the vicinity of you are psychologically harmed by the content presented in this post. We’re not going to bullshit with you, this will offend most people and we’re not sorry but we warned you. We’re going to be talking about sex, there might be pictures and links and all kinds of obscene material in this that you don’t want children or your mother to ever see so lock the doors, log out if you’re at work, say a prayer and read!

At least it's tasteful...

So a couple months back you all might remember us promising to talk about sex in the most foul and explicit manner possible. So here we are to talk about sex, we’re going to shit storm you (not literally…not even if you are into that kind of thing) with a nice explicit chat about sex. Today we’re going to have Poison talk about the who, what, where, why, when and how of sex according to him and hopefully we’ll get to hear from our other members on this steamy subject. Without further ado, The Infection presents: Poison on P—y!

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So for all you virgins and nymphos alike out there reading this post I’ll have you know that this is only my opinions on sex and sexuality and does not represent the views of the entire group. I’m going to keep it simple and somewhat clean by limiting my discussion to only talking about who it’s ok to have sex with, what I find to be acceptable in the bedroom, where I think it’s acceptable to do it, why it’s acceptable to engage in the act, and how we should all approach the subject of sex.

To begin, who you have sex with is your own choice and it should always be that way. Now, sex is a very important thing and I’m not talking about the whole emotional aspect of it because lets face facts people- sex is like pissing to people, we just do it because we can sometimes. Lets be real and I’ll put it out here when I say that the majority of you all will have sex with someone someday and think back on it and say “why did I do that?” but the fact was that at the time it probably felt good. We all do or all will have that one, two ,and for some too many, people we will regret having sex with and my advice to you all is to not put too much emotional baggage on the experience because it can fuck up a greater thing in the process…trust me I know. Otherwise, on a health level sex is great for you and if you can find a casual partner then you’ve cashed in. Did you know that you can burn about 200 calories in an average session of sex? That’s the equivalent of about 15 minutes on a treadmill. The average person only needs approximately 2000 calories a day to function but alot of us eat way more than that in a day but never find a use for all those extra calories that eventually turn into fat. Like holy shit…a few 20 minute quickies during the week can burn about 7′500 calories annually! That’s as much as you consume on 120 km of jogging! Take that all in people, there are more facts here. Anyways, I kind of went off topic here and I’ll go back to the main point which was that I say it’s cool to have sex with anyone you want as long as both parties are consenting and are of legal age…or the gap between them is no more than 2 years…and they should be at least 16 if it’s minors. If you all read and remember what we said back during the romance special then you’ll know that we still advocate the use of protection and we think that both guys and girls should carry condoms because safety is in everyone’s hands and it takes two to tango.

So now that we’ve gotten over the who it’s acceptable to have sex with question we have to ask what exactly is acceptable.  The ‘what’ in sex ranges from the touching of certain areas and certain acts done in bed to the use of devices and whatnot. I’ll throw in another variable when I say that it all also depends on ‘where’ you are doing it.

First of all, what happens in the bedroom should stay in the bedroom. Many of us, myself included , have been guilty of not keeping their mouth shut to close friends about sexual escapades but alas these friends don’t know everything and what happens there…unless they are there to see (O_o), stays there. What you find to be ok is up to you and your partner(s) and as far as I’m concerned anything goes if I’m not involved and everything is consensual. I do however have to draw the line when I say that there are times where you must have discretion on where something is ok or not. An example for the guys is to have sex with your girlfriend in your car, sounds ok right? Now what if the window’s aren’t tinted, it’s still somewhat bright out, there are loads of people out to see you doing your biz. Most likely people wont bother you about it depending on where you are and some people may be bothered but  the fact is that you should probably wait or find somewhere else if you really want to do it that badly.  There are so many other examples of when its ok to do your thing but the idea is that you don’t or shouldn’t broadcast to the entire world that you’re fucking someone by being seen in the act unless you’re looking to get a public indecency charge, scar someone or you’re being paid to do it professionally. With that I”ve now covered what’s ok and where it’s ok.

Now this might come as a joke to you all but I have to put it out there; why have sex?  Other than the purpose of preserving the human race we also have sex for pleasure. You’re all sensible people so you know why we need to go out and fuck people. Sex is also a great way to get closer to someone because of all the physical interaction mixed in with all the chemicals that we release during sex. A great example is when best friends become really good friends after they’re had sex once but alas, this can backfire and my best bet is to detach the whole act from emotion if you’re planning to live up the single life. Even if you’re not like me and want to be single as long as possible, I think people put too much emphasis on the emotional aspect of sex when it comes to relationships. I think that if people are involved in a relationship then it should be about more than sex, if anything the sex shouldn’t be important other than as a health issue due to the exchange of bodily fluids etc. Remember that a relationship is about how people feel about eachother and that’s whats important. As mentioned before  sex is great for your health in multiple ways ranging from cancer prevention to improving many aspects of your health that are unrelated to your sex life but all in all, you should go out there and have some good enjoyable sex.

Anyways, keep me entertained with your thoughts people, here’s a song for you all!

Why in the name of God?

Here at The Infection we respect each and every single person’s individual religious beliefs. We believe that people should be free to believe in what they wish but at the same time there are some of us here that are just annoyed to hell with people and their damn religions. Specifically, Poison Apple is annoyed with religion and here he is to talk about why.

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Some might call it divine guidance while others might call it coincidence that in the last week or so I’ve been approached by many different people trying to promote their religions or people that just seem too dense to be bothered by the fact that there are other faith in this world. This past week I was approached by a group of Mormon Christians who were very nice to talk to and I gave them a kind ear, they talked and asked me questions about my faith so I told them I was an Agnostic…which led them to believe that I was going to join them. I’m going to be clear, for those of you who think that I am something or the other, I WILL NEVER EVER JOIN ANY KIND OF ORGANIZED RELIGION NOR DECLARE MYSELF AS PART OF ONE. Kind as they were, the Mormon guys, they seemed baffled when I rejected their book and told them I was satisfied with my faith as is…even if according to many ignorant assholes out there I have no faith or god because I wont choose a religion. In the past week that’s only one example of people bothering me about my ‘faith’  and this leads me to have to come out here to you, my dear audience at The Infection, and tell you why I will not join a religion.

To begin, throughout history religion has done much good for us. The basis of all our laws and government came from religion and I’m thankful for that but when people look at religion they tend to forget one key fact. People tend to forget that there is a difference between a religion and God. I’m going to discuss that here and now.

A religion, to me, is a system organized by a group of people under the name of the being(s) known as God(s) to worship and give praise to this being(s) through song, prayer, offerings and living your life according to a certain code of conduct. If you don’t like my definition then look at the textbook definition. God, to me, is a being(s) of divine and infinite power who rules over the cosmos and is the bringer of doom and final judgment and all that fire and brimstone jazz. Now all you smart people out there will note that there is a major difference between God and humanity.

God is a divine being who cannot be tempted by the evils of lust, pride, wrath, sloth, gluttony, greed, envy and other vices because it is a god. Humans on the other hand can be tempted by these things. Now organized religion usually places a person in charge because since we’re not very sure if god exists at all and since god never does speak to the majority of us if it does exist, the religion needs to have someone lead the people and spread the faith. This is where we begin to run into our problems…well I do anyways. Here’s my thought process- if people are capable of lying, cheating and stealing then what bars someone from a religious organization, who is armed with free will, from doing the same?

Throughout history, organized religion has promoted one action yet gone and done the next. To be more correct, people in charge of an organized religion or religious group have gone and done what qualifies as great evil in the name of God. Some prime examples include the Crusades and more currently the September 11th terrorist attacks in New York. In both events innocent people were being killed in the name of God. Now looking at these people in charge of these organized religions, I think to myself- ‘Why should I follow them or anyone else in an organized religion when I don’t know if I could be doing something totally wrong yet this person tells me it’s right? Why are they better than me to interpret gods word and decide how to live righteously?’ From there my thought process continues and I conclude that I’m probably better off not joining anybody.

I think that religion is obsolete and primitive if we’re all wanting the same things. I have found that every religion, in it’s most basic form, all promote the same basic values of righteousness. Treat others how you want them to treat you, what goes around comes around, sharing is caring and all those other kindergarten values we all hopefully were taught is the basis of all religion. I’ll leave it to you all to research. Its knowing this that made me conclude that I dont require a religion of any sort to simply worship god or the gods or believe in some kind of higher divine governing authority. If wer were to simply forget about religion and live and let live then life would be good but I blame religion for alot of our problems today. So many conflicts that go on in the world now stem from people’s religious differences and in looking at that I choose not to be identified as part of any group in case I indirectly become involved in some kind of massacre.

All in all, I appreciate other people’s choices and know that we all have our differences which I will accept. It’s when people try to push their beliefs on others and bring them down because of what they believe in is when I get angry. When people are hurt because of something I find to be so primitive when we all want the same things in life  is when I get angry. Catholic women who aren’t allowed to get abortions because of their faith, Islamic women who can’t go out because their religion forbids it, sick people who aren’t allowed certain medicines because of their religion telling them not to, suicide bombers offing themselves in the name of Allah- these are some examples of why I think religion is foolish. People needlessly taking life, causing pain…all in the name of God.

If God(s) does exist, then I hope that it has a great excuse for letting alot of the shit that happens in the world happen. lets get hypothetical here and say that one random day God spoke, just said a random word, you know that would probably eliminate half of the worlds problems in minutes. Think about it- if everyone is now sure that there is a God then we would all be very afraid to do alot of things like kill, lie, cheat, steal because we would know for sure that there is someone watching. I’ve been told many times by many different people that God(s) loves us all and will protect the righteous etc. etc. but judging from what I see every time I decide  to turn on the news there all good and righteous people getting hurt all over the world…anyways, point is that I wont join a religion because as far as I’m concerned it makes no sense to follow someone else word about God and risk offending god and more importantly getting other people hurt by it.

Entertain me with your thoughts, here’s a song for you guys.

We’ve got alot to talk about

So here we are, it’s been over 6 months we’ve been active and we’ve spread out since our humble beginning. First and foremost, The Infection would like to thank all of our loyal readers who have still come despite our frequent lack thereof updates and empty promises.  So this month’s theme is dedicated to all of our loyal readers, every single one of you beautiful people who keep reading and coming back.

This month, and every 6 months hereafter, The Infection will have a 6 month update. In the 6 month update month we will go over everything we’ve talked about in the past six months and anything that we find was popular amongst our readers. This also means that we’re going to be going over everything that we promised to deliver but didn’t…well not EVERYTHING but most of the things we can fit into the space of the month. We also are going to vie for more reader input and ask YOU what you want us to talk about more.

So as usual here’s the layout for this month and what we want to talk about/recap.

week 1- That would be this week. We’re going to backtrack to our very first theme, Nigga- The Infection’s January black history month special…which was a month early. This time around we’re going to talk about racial issues and how we can help solve some of the problems ailing society that have to do with differences in race, religion and culture. We also might touch on the ‘Great hip-hop debate’ again, which was really popular with you guys back then.

Week 2- Next week we’re going to march off into the battleground of love and pull our second theme back out of the box which was our valentines day special. We all know you were all waiting for that hot and explicit post about SEX. Yeah, we know you want and we’ll have it. We also will be talking more about other relationship issues that we didn’t touch on that we feel we’re ready to tackle now that we’ve grown a bit and you know us a little better…we’re getting personal, real intimate.

Week 3- As we reach the end of the month we’re going to hit on our third theme which was ‘Spring’ but since it’s not spring anymore we’re going to have to talk about Summer and all the awesome shit you should be doing right now. Some places to go, things you should see in life and new things to try that you can only do in the summer heat. We wont mind if you’re not reading on this week since we’re going to be out living our lives like you all should!

Week 4- We’ll probably be going into August or we’ll be in August at this point in time, no use bullshitting about it. Alas, we’re going to be talking about some awesome cartoons and comics to look into in your down time, if you remember the May theme of cartoons and comics. We’re also going to be nice and finally give you that last post we promised from last month as well as the Anime North videos! Yup yup, we’re finally going to launch our youtube channel which means that you can look forward to not only getting to read The Infection but you’ll be able to watch us too!

All in all, keep us entertained with your comments…no seriously, we mean it. We wanna know what you wanna hear from us about and if there’s someone you wanna specifically wanna hear from then address them!

Now here’s the song for this month…makes no sense how this works but it’s a pretty random month so why not?!