RANT HERE ;-)
I was all ready to write a general "stoopid people" rant this morning, because i couldn't on facebook. Oh, i COULD, but when some of the nicest people in real life write mind-bendingly stupid things, it makes one terribly conflicted -- you want to say "WILL YOU LISTEN TO YOURSELF? Are you REALLY that dumb, or just blindly sentimental? How do you manage to stay employed, if your grasp of logic is so tenuous?" I like DJ, DM and GL, but some of the stuff they post is ... astonishingly brainless. "If i can get 1000 likes, my daddy will stop drinking!" ...WHAT???
But then i thought, i'm not the only one. And it's not easy to find the right place to vent -- it's gotta be somewhere "they" can't accidentally find it. So i offer you the opportunity to get shit off your chest! :-D Wanna "out" your boss' or MIL's vacuousness? The comment section is open! Have at it!
LET'S GET STARTED! :-)
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drive-in movie speakers!
Woolworth lunch couners!
crackers that came in a tin!
using a pencil to fix your cassette tape!
WHO GIVES A DAMN?
But, but, that is just age and location if we remember those things. How about harnessing work horses, cranking tractors, and hand milking cows?
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Those drive me nuts!
- or cleaning the candle wax off the glass of the buggy lamps. (My Uncle had a horse cart for his milk round).
ReplyDeleteWhen the pencil or biro trick didn't work and you managed to snap the tape there was always the thrill of many yards of tangles after dismantling the casing.
Apart from blatantly progressive antiquity I seem to tolerate fools less well than I used to & can spend two or three days in annoyance but for now I'll just stake an ambit claim on this space for potential future outbursts --- there's always tomorrow!
:)
C.
I'm happy to leave tapes and vinyl to the hipsters. Downloading MP3s a la carte, without all the filler songs or the annoyances of tapes and bulky LPs, and shuffling the songs and creating playlists is awesome. So is finding music on Youtube and Netflix that you'd never hear on the radio. Speaking of radio, I DON'T miss three-hour loops of the same old songs by the Stones, the Who and the Beatles--the oldies stations have been playing that stuff for 20 years.
DeleteI was all ready to write a general "stoopid people" rant this morning, because i couldn't on facebook. Oh, i COULD, but when some of the nicest people in real life write mind-bendingly stupid things, it makes one terribly conflicted -- you want to say "WILL YOU LISTEN TO YOURSELF? Are you REALLY that dumb, or just blindly sentimental? How do you manage to stay employed, if your grasp of logic is so tenuous?"
ReplyDeleteThree words: Circle of competence. Venture beyond it at the risk of looking stupid.
That said, I miss the days when crazies were kept in mental hospitals. The woman who told me she called animal control because my dogs were in my car on a 75-degree day for 20 minutes with the windows rolled partway down: crazy. (The same morning, she did the same thing at the same place to a guy with his dog in a pickup truck.) Sister-in-law who gives her opinion on my mother's finances when she can't even afford to put gas in her car: not crazy, but what a dipshit. Neighbor who complained bitterly about my barking dog and how it was bothering someone staying in the shed behind her house (which is against city codes): another dipshit, but at least now she's off my back since she gave me some dirt on her. Coworker who wanted me to answer questions about software I've never used: what am I supposed to tell people? "Hang in there"?
i'm also getting thoroughly fed up for all the prayers.... pray for _____! "you're in my prayers" ... YEAH! don't actually DO anything, just PRAY!
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The racist homophobe colleague of mine who can't keep his stupid opinions to himself.
ReplyDeleteThe 20-something who refuses to learn the difference between you're and your, no matter how many times you explain it.
I get the impression social media is brilliant at exposing someone's stupidity/ignorance/bigotry. I have enough trouble stopping myself from reading the comments section of click-bait 'news' articles - there's no way I could handle FBook.
As Lori said, there are some humans with an incredibly small circle of competence. And "dipshit" is under-utilised in today's vernacular. Made me laugh.
Sister-in-law who sunscreens up her son before a 730 practice in the PM, because, you know, the sun is still up. Stupid: no. Able to critically think for oneself: maybe not so much.
ReplyDeleteracist and homophobe rants from my Midwest friends- I think they must be kidding, they are not!
ReplyDeleteThe mention of "I could cut off my leg and lose 50 pounds right now, doesn't make it healthy". Please! I work in Anatomic Pathology. Please. limb amputations are not something to joke about. Thou shall honor thy intact body parts.
See, that study says we can eat carbs, no excuses not to eat carbs. WTH.
Thanks for helping me vent.
"My 'belief' is as valid as your scientifically-supportable knowledge."
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Online recipes with a dozen photos, just in case you don't know what chicken, spices and butter look like or how tongs work. It forces you to scroll up and down between ingredients and directions.
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