Doing + Tweeting

Delaqroux Inc Updates.
For those who have me on their facebook friendlist or following my tweets, you might have seen that i make tweets/shoutouts a whole lot. And, as much as i make shoutouts, i follow people's updates and take them seriously too. However, one thing has been bugging me since awhile back and that's the tenses they are using in their shoutouts/tweets

For those who are going; "tenses?"; well, tenses are... (flips grammar book) verbs that shows an action done within a particular time frame... and shit. really? well, i'm not too sure if that's accurate enough but basically, tenses are those indicators of actions done in certain times. Present tense means i'm doing it now, Past tense means i've done it, Future tense means i will do it in the future. And Continuous tense means i am still doing it. There's other category of tenses but i'm not gonna go thru that. Yep, Dark Delaqroux, English teacher.. and that's my take on grammar...bitch!

AAAAAAAAAAAaaaaaaanyways, i've been reading through people's shoutouts and i have realized that those shoutouts are made in different tenses. Some indicate a past action, some're planning for the future and some are.. well.. doing it now. The latter bugs me the most. How can they are doing something and tweeting about it at the same time? Take this one for example;

Now, i dont care about the fact that the guy is dressed Mexican style, free-falling and eating ice cream all at the same. For all i know, he might actually possess the capacity to do that. But tweeting about doing something while guy is doing it? I cant help but to wonder, is that possible? Yeah, i know it's a minor thing but i just cant help wondering if that is humanly possible to the extend where i will actually try doing it myself. Okay, so you may say that the example above might still be a possible case. And in another example;

Now that example right there, while in present continuous tense, is do-able. You can enjoy ice cream while tweeting. I've tried that and while i have slightly sticky phone keypad afterwards, tweeting while eating ice cream and waiting for fireworks is possible (of course, i'm not too sure about free-falling). But let's just say, you argue that it IS possible to tweet while free falling, let's get the ice cream and free falls out of the examples and see this one below;

Okay, now seriously, how is that possible? First, note that the shoutout was not made using facebook mobile (the app where you have facebook in your mobile phone) and one time, i figured, yeah, it's not really impossible to make out with a girl and hold a handphone on one hand and typing at the same time. But they are actually making out while the guy (who is totally not me.. no, seriously) is on his laptop. Well, technically, the girl should be on his lap's top while the pc is on the desk for that being possible. But the guy has to has a real good stealth keyboard to not make any sound if he is typing while making out. that, or ninja fingers. Also, it could have been the fact that the making out session is too loud that the girl couldnt hear him typing. THAT, or they both have a mutual agreement where the girl dont mind the guy making out while posting a shoutout... huh.

So, yeah, i really put up alot of thinking in this. God knows why. Now i studied linguistic and i do know the fact that the use of present continuous tense to describe a past event is acceptable. News headlines do that all the time. But, what bugs me is the fact that when they post those updates or tweets and using present tense, it just makes me wonder whether is it possible to do those things while tweeting? I mean, obviously, the last example guy was not making out while also on his computer. But what if he really is? How did he do that??

Til then, i'll still be wondering and making more blogposts.
Delaqroux Out.

(Tweets and status updates above are not taken from anyone, i snipped my own shoutout and photoshopped them with the pic and text. Also, none of the updates were real but they are based on real tweets and shoutouts i have seen before. If it's similar to any of yours, that's purely coincidental.. Go tweet yourself :p)