Talyseon's Top Ten Things To Hate.Feb 20 '09 (Updated Feb 21 '09) Write an essay on this topic.The Bottom Line I could say blame Lyoness913, but its all me. Ten Things I Hate. Well, it takes a bit of effort, but I have whittled it down to ten. 10) People who talk on cell phones while driving. Expand this to include applying make-up or eating non finger food. I am on this road too, and would like to survive the experience. There is no law that says you MUST answer that phone. Check who called at the stop light. If you feel it is important, pull into a parking lot and return the call. 9) People who share their music with me from their car. If I can hear your radio through two windows, it is too loud. Further, most people who do this seem to like songs with lots and lots of cusswords. I have the answer to this though. When this happens, I use the one thing able to drown out Rap Music on trunk mounted speakers, my little factory installed system playing....BAGPIPE MUSIC! That cuts through anything! And I LOVE it. 8) Politicians who do not care about the truth, or the law. I hate it when a politician says "This was a bad bill, and that is why I voted against it." When the congressional record showed they voted for it. Or who claim they were cleared of a charge when in point of fact they were not. Here is an extreme example; a politician who acts on information he knows to be false and invades another country to get rid of fictitious Weapons of Mass Destruction. Do they think we are all idiots without resources to check the truth? 7). Politically Correct Nazis. I once commented on how difficult it could be to be queer and a primary caregiver. I was read the riot act by a woman who objected to the word Queer. My colleagues winced, because they know I do not suffer fools well. I told her excuse the h3ll out of me for insulting myself. When I finished with her, she was crying. And the idiot would not leave it alone, so I slapped her with a complaint for subjecting me to a hostile work environment. I also refuse to refer to my mentally retarded clients by the preferred term "consumer". I think it makes them sound like a swarm of locusts. Also, you are not a maintenance engineer, you are a janitor. When did that become a bad word? It is a good, honest living. Ah, I could go on all day... 6.) Parents who have perfect children. When the twins were growing up, there was a simple rule; if you were in our house, you were under our rules. If you acted up, or sassed, you got what the twins would get. I had two parents object, and I told them quite simply, that was the way it was, if they did not like it, they were to instruct their kids not to set foot in our yard. That was as far as it ever went, and they continued to play with the twins, and to mind their manners. Several years later, I was running the Pokemon League at the Local Books-A-Million. I had between 300 and 643 (our record) kids at one time. And I kept order. It finally came to pass that I had to kick one little kid out for repeated violations, including stealing. His mother came flying up, breathing fire. I stood my ground which just enraged her. Finally, I banned her too. This boy had serious emotional problems, and these behaviors were a cry for help, but her steadfast refusal to accept that he ever did anything wrong made it impossible for her to see this. He is now serving time for trafficking. 5.) People who insist America is a Christian Nation. No, we are a secular nation. We are primarily composed of Christians of various flavors, and we say One Nation Under G*d, but there is a separation of church and state. It is there to protect our churches from the state as much as to protect the state from religion. We are a nation of many faiths and philosophies. All are equally welcome, and all are equally excluded from setting policy. 4.) People who talk on their Cell phones like they are in private. I do not want to hear about the cute boy who sits next to you in history, or about your suppository prescriptions side effects. If a conversation takes a personal turn, tell the other person, "I am in public. I'll tell you later." In fact, if you are in public, excuse yourself away from your neighbors. Step outside the store. Step outside the restaurant, or head to the bathroom. And if you accept a phone call in the movies, I will borrow Toiletoctopus' taser and come after you. 3.) People who want to impose their beliefs on me. This is a multifront operation. I include PETA, who wants to scream at me that meat is murder, and little old men who want to explain why John McCain is the only hope for America, and most particularly those who want to explain that gay marriage will somehow destroy America. That somehow, two men committing to a life of monogamy and devotion will cheapen their union. If people really want to protect marriage, outlaw divorce. If you ask them why they object, it always boils back down to religion. They think there are scriptures that say G*d loves everyone, except the homos. Homosexuality offends their sensibilities, and therefore homosexuals should be treated as second class citizens. (And don't ever mistake that we are not. We have fewer rights than straights.) And they think this is okay, because the Bible tells them so. That refers back to #5, and ahead to #2. I will eat meat, vote my conceince, and ignore bigots. 2.) People who want to tell me what the Bible Says, but do not take the time to read it with understanding. I can not tell you the number of people who will misquote the Bible and expect that you will give up because they brought G*d in on their side. Main issue for me, Homosexuality. Let's not even get into the positive gay relationships in the Bible like David and Jonathan. There are five passages that deal with Homosexuality in the Bible. They do not say what most people think they do. There is a wonderful book "What the Bible Really Says About Homosexuality" by Father Daniel Heimeliak. It is a very scholarly book, written by a Catholic priest that looks at the language of the Bible, and its historical context, and lets the reader draw their own conclusions. I have used it to try to enlighten my detractors. Sometimes it works. But some people have made up their minds, and nothing, not even the Bible, is going to change them. Oddly enough, it is usually these people who can not be bothered to understand the Bible who insist the hardest that I live by their interpretation of it. 1,) People who do not take responsibility for the Blood on their Drugs. I am not talking about junkies here; that is a different issue, and a tragic illness. I am talking about the casual user; the person who does a line of coke on the weekends, a little Ecstasy at the club, an occasion hit of Meth, or who just Smoke Weed, man, nothing heavy. The fact remains drugs are illegal. There is money to be made, and there are people out there who are going to make sure they get that money. These people, the Drug Cartels are highly organized and vast, and they move drugs particularly from south of the border, up north, and the money back down again. It is supply and demand. And if anyone gets in the way, they are going to get killed. Mexico is in a state of civil war. On one side is the Government. On the other are the Drug Cartels. And they are having a war in the streets. The people of Mexico are caught in the middle. People are dieing by the thousands. There are drive bys, and daring daylight raids, and actual attacks on drug enforcement agents to eliminate them. Mexico is at war, and they are LOOSING. And why is this? Because there are a lot of people in America who are willing to buy a little coke, a little crack, a little reefer. And they pay good money, and it adds up, and those men are not going to let anything stop them from getting it. In fact the only way to stop the Drug trade is to cut off the DEMAND. And the only person that can do that is you. No single raindrop believes it is responsible for the flood. But they are. They all are, each one fully and equally responsible. There is blood on all illegal drugs. Don't get it on you. Take responsibility. That is my list. Some of it is b*tchy, some of it is preachy. But it's all me.  |
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