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Twitter followers to avoid (and/or block)

While I have thoroughly enjoyed my Twitter experience to this point, I am quite thankful of the "block" option, especially when it comes to the following demographics: PA (Pacifieroholics Anonymous) : Unless we're talking about our own children, I can't think of a time when a person would say, "You know who I love more than anyone else? Whiners!" Just the other day, I posted a link to an article which a follower didn't find interesting, so she felt the need to comment, saying, "Are you ever going to post anything of importance? Seriously?" Really? If she had read the article and wanted to make a comment about it, so be it, but of what point is there, other than whining, to go out of her way to complain about an article's title which doesn't intrigue her? So, as I typically do, I handed her a pacifier and carried on with my day. Seriously serious : There are times I wonder if people even bother to read my profile before following me....

Kenny Britt's penalty may have been a missed call, but did it matter? Survey says... Not a chance...

As I've made mention at other points in my blog, I was born and raised in Nebraska. As I've also said, the only sport Nebraska really has is Cornhusker football. During football season, 84.2% of the state treat Nebraska football like a religion. Every Saturday during the season, I see between 5 and 20 Facebook statuses pertaining to Nebraska football. Keeping that in mind, I've found it to be utterly hilarious what what Nebraska Facebook friends have focused they're attention on since their team lost the Big Ten title game to Wisconsin. Early in the 3rd quarter, Nebraska scored a quick touchdown, which was called back because of an unnecessary roughness penalty on wide receiver Kenny Britt. Via replay, it appeared as if Britt didn't make helmet-to-helmet contact, but the hit was so vicious, that it left the Wisconsin player down for a couple minutes. This is what Nebraska fans have focused their attention on in the world of Facebook. While I feel the penalty was v...