Heh, this is a fun thread.
People in general.
Okay, too easy. Let's start with something light. Kids who think email is for "old people". Email. It's not even that old and I'll tell you, I can't stand texting with people who don't write complete sentences and do not spell words out correctly. I just think an email exchange can be far more nuanced and express greater clarity of thought. If I need to talk to you immediately and
you have your phone with you, voice communication is still far more efficient.
Speaking of the phones, people who are actually sort of proud they can watch movies, browse the 'net, or stream TV shows on a phone. Who wants to watch a movie on a 2-inch screen?? Bigger is better.
People who walk around for apparent hours wearing those damn earbud phones. Hey, Lieutenant Uhura, you can't possibly be that in demand. And if people don't stop talking on their phones in public restrooms...
I am greatly upset by people who park in
my parking spot at the condo development I live at. It's obvious it's
not theirs. I bought it, it's mine. The fact that I also have a garage is immaterial. I have done...
things to cars that did that. Things that wouldn't be obvious for a day or two, or things that looked like accidents that happened before they parked there...
The drastic slowdowns I see people maintain while moving onto the highway onramp. Didn't they ever see those old Goofy cartoons? You
accelerate to highways speeds as you enter the ramp.
Political extremists in the national discourse and the so-called "news" programs they're given as platforms. I don't want to hear from morality-legislating chickenhawks
or filthy hippie nanny-staters. Sean Hannity needs a beating, so does George Clooney.
The staggering insensitivity and/or false outrage regarding race in our society. Again, both political extremes get it here. Looking for an excuse to be upset because Don Imus is insensitive while hip-hop acts say things dozens of times worse is just as bad as wealthy white men getting on TV and acting
shocked that there may be some remaining traces of racism in a nation that had a civil rights movement
only 50 years ago.
The utterly warped and twisted views on sexuality in the United States. Most humans will have sex in their lifetimes. Most will not kill someone else. But violence on TV is okay, sex in almost any context isn't...especially nudity, regardless of context. One nipple shows and the world ends, apparently.
On that note, the disturbing and hypocritical sexualization in the media and culture. Marketers encourage pre-teen girls to wear a whore's uniform, but we someone manage to act like being sexually attracted to a girl who is physiologically mature makes you a monster, regardless of whether one acts on it. So which is it? Are we okay with an 11 year old with "Jucy" on the butt of her hotpants? Or are we horrified that a 16 year old girl might actually
want to have sex and the very notion is an affront before God and Nature?
Then we get that double-standard. A 14 year old boy who has sex with his 38 year old female teacher is lucky and obviously always wanted it, but reverse the genders and that's suddenly impossible? Have some people ever
talked to a woman and been told what she thought as a teenager?
Security theater in airports. Need I say more? Tell you what: I'll keep my shoes
on in line, and if someone tries to hijack the plane, I'll help jump him. Deal?
The inability of political discourse in the US to contain more than one thought at a time. You
can completely support the Armed Forces and be against their current mission. It's totally possible.
People who have children and then seem to take no interest or responsibility, especially in public. You let your kid run full-tilt into my legs at a store and then look at me like it's my problem?
I will cut you.
Women who
own things. Women aren't people, they're things. You don't give a thing a thing. My breadmaker can't
own a laptop. Sheesh...
And that's what really Grinds my Gears.
There are so many things that annoy me, I just don't know where to begin!
We pull piggy-backed new trucks from the factories to dealers and body shops. I'm actually considering going to work for Schwans or Brinks so i can be home every night.
