Getting My Hate On
Posted By Teeni on May 14, 2010 |
This is a full-on rant. It is what it is. I was in a bit of a mood lately (yes, I have them too) and I refuse to password protect this post so that I don’t hurt anyone’s feelings. The way I see it is that if you recognize yourself as being guilty of these things, then big, fat, hairy deal. I may be guilty of some of them myself. Doesn’t mean I have to like it. 
The only thing I can do is try to be better in the future.
Without further ado, here are the things that I’ve been getting my hate on for lately:
- Lame-a$$ meme answers. How many times have you seen a meme with the following fill-in question, “I Love …” and the answer is always “Unconditionally,” or “With my Whole Being,” or “With My Whole Heart,” or something along those lines? All I have to say to that is,”Pfffffffft! Sure you do and so does everyone else on this planet. “ Seriously, wouldn’t there be a lot LESS race/hate issues on this planet if that were true? Wouldn’t people get along much better than secretly trashing other people behind their backs if it were true? Another lame-a$$ answer is “I am loyal to a fault.” This one makes me laugh out loud. Bwaaaahaaahaa! Sure you are, until you get a little inkling that someone was slightly rude to you or - god forbid - took the wrong tone of voice with you and then you do a complete about-face and are on the warpath about that person just as quickly as I would be. I know we are all human and get lazy at times, but all I’m saying is these are the type of meme answers that make me yawn when I’m reading them. Let’s all be a little more creative and think outside of the box a bit. Next time you have to do that type of fill-in, think of Mad-libs or something. “I Love … My smelly sneakers,” or “I Love … Eating chocolate covered frozen bananas while hanging upside down from the monkey bars,” or “I Love … reading VE’s Fantastical Nonsense Blog,”* or “I Love … The sound my car makes when I make a left turn,” are all much more interesting answers, don’t you think?
- Excusers - people who admit they have a fault then think because they admitted it out loud that they are no longer responsible for their actions/behavior. For example, “I’m Teeni and I am a kleptomaniac. “ Then I proceed to steal all your office supplies - stapler, rubber bands, and white-out (woo-hoo - gotta love that powerful stuff). Then I can just apologize to you by saying, “Oh, sorry about all that but I TOLD you I’m a kleptomaniac,” as if it were YOUR fault and you should not have left anything around that I could steal, making it YOUR problem and not my own. Seriously, just because you admit to having a weakness does not then make ME responsible to deal with your actions. YOU are still responsible to attempt to KEEP YOUR OFFENSIVE BEHAVIOR IN CHECK. A sincere apology along with a renewed determination to try to control yourself is much more appreciated.
- Public events - I don’t really hate all public events. I just hate the way most of them are handled. Not too well, in my opinion. When it is a convention or similar function, some people will line up really early and be in line for hours. In most cases, there will be thousands of people getting into that line. Then, the event workers want to really cram you in tight, even though you may be standing there for a very long time. This drives me insane. I hate being surrounded by people who are towering over me, coughing on me, and who would trample me without a second thought if there was a hint of a fire. Obviously, I value my life way more than the event handlers do. Maybe they should be paid more and be smarter.
- When people make a big deal of professing how poor they are and therefore beg off from buying gifts around the holidays but then you see them either 1) spending loads of money on the latest techno gadget gifts for their immediate family, b) driving around in a new car, or c) going on an expensive vacation or cruise. Really now. But it’s not up to me to tell people how to spend their money. If you would rather spend it on yourself then that is fine. Let’s just not pretend that having to buy moderately priced gifts for a few people would be like taking the food out of your children’s mouths and then go and proceed to do either item a, b, or c above, because it just makes you look like an a$$. P.S. If someone can afford home internet and cable or satellite television, plus cell phones and cell service, I hardly think they can be considered poor since none of these things are necessities.
- Hollywood Remakes - I absolutely abhor hearing that Hollywood is making yet ANOTHER remake of a movie. Some movies just should NOT be remade. I don’t like my childhood being messed with. Who do they think they are deciding that the version of a certain movie I grew up with just wasn’t good enough for the current generation, anyway? I mean, I realize that the movies I grew up with may not have been the most cinematically advanced, but they were serious pop culture references that should not be recreated with different actors and named the same as the original movies. I really have a hard time believing that Hollywood has run out of ideas to run with and I’m sure there are plenty of screenwriters out there who would agree with me. What is wrong with just creating a NEW movie, like a sequel, if they think the original was so worthy? Then they could give it a different name or a II after the original name. I don’t want to be talking with my nieces and nephews about a certain movie and then find that we are actually talking about two totally different movies, starring different actors but with the same movie name. Arrrrgh. This is not to say that I think all the remakes were crap - some of them were actually pretty good and can stand on their own, but they will never replace the originals that I grew up with in MY mind so why bother naming them the same thing?
Okay, I think that’s it for now. It feels good to get that off my chest. Thanks for reading.
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*Awesome read, by the way - humorous and well written. Do check it out!
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