I can’t stand it anymore. I have to say something about the asinine, infantile names being given now to Internet applications, little hand-held devices and food products.
Like twitter/tweet. Birds twitter and tweet. People don’t twitter and tweet. Canaries do. Only an utter jackass would feel comfortable admitting he or she twitters and tweets, and yet our President openly admits to it — which is certainly a clue….
I can see that someone could be silly and effeminate enough to name their Internet social site Twitter and invite people to “tweet” on it. People do worse things. But for so many of us to actually DO IT and admit to it just boggles my mind. Doesn’t anyone know the meaning of dignity anymore?
There’s a fast food chain called Wendy’s that doesn’t call their hamburgers hamburgers. They call them stars. Super stars, pooper stars, whooper stars, whatever. Which is why I never go there. I’m not five years old, I quit talking like a five-year-old a very long time ago and I would feel like an idiot ordering up a “Super duper star”. MacDonalds has Big Macs and Burger King has Whoppers. That’s not out of line for a sandwich name. But Super Stars is over the top.
So is McNuggets, little marble-sized pieces of deep-fried chicken purveyed by MacDonalds. I have never in my life ordered McNuggets. I just can’t seem to get the words out somehow, maybe it’s because I have too much self respect? McNuggets are for McDipwads, McFairies, McDumbasses and McObese’s.
How about Iphone and Facebook? Is that any more sensible than MePhone? And what in Hell is a face book? There is no such thing anywhere in the known Universe and if there was, no one would have a clue what to do with it anyway. These names were created by creatures from another dimension, they had to be, and yet the mindless mass out there totally accepts whatever garbage nomenclature is thrust upon them and parrots those empty names as if they actually meant something. Hello, they don’t, hello, hello.
Most people are incapable of thought. I’m pretty sure all humans have frontal lobes of some sort, but clearly nearly all of them are inoperative. The proof of this isn’t just in the mindless acceptance of stupid product names but in the leaders they choose. Barack Obama is a fine example of this. Most of the people who voted for him did so because of his skin color. They were told to vote for him because he’s black and that would prove America isn’t racist, and it never occurred to any of these mindless proles that voting skin color is as racist as it gets.
Most people are unutterably stupid regardless of their I.Q.’s and never question what they’re told to call something, never concern themselves with the qualities of those they vote for, never worry about what’s in the food they buy or the safety of the toys they buy their children.
Our Western economies aren’t collapsing because of bad mortgages and too much borrowing, as we’ve been told to believe (and so everyone does.) They’re collapsing because all our manufacturers sent their factory equipment over to China and had the Chinese start making shoes and furniture and car parts and toys and baby food and clothing and scissors and medicines and virtually everything else that we purchase in our daily lives. That’s why.
Workers were made jobless by the millions and the tens of millions and the hundreds of millions. That’s why the real estate bubble burst and all the other financial bubbles. Because people who don’t work can’t pay off mortgages and other loans. People who don’t work start sucking at the welfare teat and dragging the economy down even further and the only ones coming out ahead in this are those at the top of corporations with the massive paychecks and golden parachutes.
No one points the finger of responsibility for world poverty at big corporations, because the big corporations control the media, they know most everyone is stupid, and they simply tell people what to think and the people do exactly that.
So twitter and tweet away in your inimicable infantile fashion, little moron. Eat your Stars and McNuggets and be happy while you play with your Iphone that was made in China as you post on Facebook. Oh, and don’t forget to vote for the one with the nicest smile.
It’s the very few who stop in here and post a cogent comment once in awhile who maintain my faith that the human race isn’t entirely a dead end of evolution. Almost, though. Almost.
Eeee, yer miserable old git.
Obviously I am never remotely silly or puerile myself but those things you mention seem fairly trivial compared to the idiocy of those driven by religion.
To believe in something because it makes you happy is fair enough, what really seems sumpremely idiotic is when people take a base of total nonsense and try to build rational arguments on it. Came across a Bible site the other day where they were arguing about what the serpent would have looked like and how it would have moved before god commanded it to crawl on its belly.
Now, how entertaining would it be if I ranted about religion all the time? All I’d succeed in doing would be to piss off believers. What fun is that? I mean, sure, for a few times but then it gets old. It’s so much more fun to spread the wealth around, so to speak, and piss off as many different groups as possible. In this particular rant I succeed in pissing off almost EVERYONE. Now, that’s what I call a successful rant.