Wednesday, July 05, 2006

Pet Peeves

The icy hag in me is raging to come out and play for a while. I'm exceedingly crabby and sick, and sick of being sick. This is BY FAR the worst year ever!
I have had some kind of cold/flu at least 6 times this year. I actually have symptoms not unlike the bubonic plague. I think people believe me to be faking, like some of my coworkers. I think once they hear my voice (which is deep when I'm sick, and I actually SOUND like a man), they know I am sick. Anyway, after nearly 48 hours of constant misery, I don't see an end in sight. I am going to the doctor and spend an unknown fortune to have tests done to see why I am so susceptible to illness. I swear if someone sneezes in my direction I get sick.
So, with the dizziness and nausea, and my pounding head feeling every beat of my heart so acutely, my pet peeves seem to have become surprisingly clear.

I'll limit myself to 10 or so. For now.

  • 1. WWE, RAW, etc., - the so-called Professional wrestling (pronounced rastlin') - what is it with the mentality of people that this form of entertainment is catering to? I have talked to people who actually believe it to be REAL and not scripted. As if. Sci Fi recently has joined the taste-challenged list of networks showing these low-brow red-state shows. To add insult to injury, I was flipping the channels and saw one of those Girls Gone Wild videos being advertised at 8:30 PM on USA! Trash.

  • 2. Girls Gone Wild, et al, - those videos that objectify women in a derogatory fashion as useless objects just put on Earth to be used by men.

  • 3. Divorced Congressmen who claim to be 'protecting' marriage by banning gay marriage. Um, hello? Talk about hypocrites!

  • 4. Rusty cars with broken windows, full of women wearing sweat pants and tube tops, hauling their 15 children and 13 pets around, using George W. Bush stickers to hold their cars together. Wake up already!

  • 5. People who insist on buying two of something in smaller quantities, thinking that it is actually cheaper than to buy the same quantity in a single container. Example: baby formula (costs over $1 more) and pop ($2), among numerous others.

  • 6. People who whine they have no money but drive 15 miles to buy a single can of pop and a pack of cigarettes while a convenience store is across the street.

  • 7. Mac users who act like Windows users are some kind of pariah. I don't insist Mac users convert to Windows, so leave me alone. I'm NOT out to convert you.

  • 8. People who buy Sun Laundry detergent because it is cheaper but buy brand name cigarettes when the generic are made by the same company and cost far less. If you don't care about clean clothes -Sun doesn't really work - why care about cigarettes? They are the SAME thing, just in different packages.

  • 9. The new Ford commercials with that guy from Idol. He has no talent and his voice is not unlike fingernails scratching down a blackboard.

  • 10. People who actually watch - and purchase from - infomercials (paid programs) that air at 3 AM CST.
  • 4 comments:

    Brett said...

    Hi there

    Please don't get well - I've just read thru your top 10 bitchin' list - and it's heaven...will try to channel the bitter when I'm next feeling like death warmed up...
    Brett

    http://the-classic-eccentric.blogspot.com

    Anonymous said...

    I am retired and gardening is my biggest joy. I am in a new home in suburban Houston near Galveston Bay. It is on a cul-de-sac lot meaning a small front yard and large back yard 65 x 85 where I have the most plantings. Here is a picture of my front lawn with a hedge of wax myrtles as a barrier on the property line:

    http://thumbsnap.com/v/AgDQEwO9.jpg

    I like your "pet peeves" as most are also mine. People who buy "brand" names are foolish IMO. My mother was a tailor years ago before clothing manufacturing went offshore. She worked for Hart, Schafner, & Marx, but they sewed on other labels too like Sansabelt, Jaymar. The top of the line did have the women take more time to snip off all of the loose threads, but one can do that themselves when they get their purchase home.

    Another company she worked for sewed in Sear's Hercules labels along with several other "brands", using the same thread, seamstresses, machines.... So the snobs who will only buy Hilfiger, or Ralph Lauren may be buying a shirt that comes from the same sewing machines in say Honduras that make generic brands for K-Mart.

    I am a big consumer of "generic" brands. I don't like paying big money to wear a piece of clothing with a designer's name in big letters. They should pay me for being a walking advertisement.

    I love the "knock-off" counterfeits at our big Mexican markets. The "Tommy" t-shirts will have Fruit of the Loom or Hanes labels! You can get $15 "Oakley" sunglasses that look like the $150 pair at Sunglass Hut.

    The guy who is behind "Girls Gone Wild" first bought a house that he never moved into in Pacific Palisades and a family friend here in Houston, in professional sports, bought it for $3 million. The GGW pornographer then bought a $12 million home in Malibu. The worst is the Alpha Alpha Pi sorority girls, who "are so glad the videos of their lesbian, naked loving-making will be locked in the sorority vault, FOREVER!" Of course, there is no Alpha Alpha Pi sorority existing anywhere.

    Anonymous said...

    Aw, Matthew, I like it when you do icy hag. ;)

    Love the flowers. They are incredible. Is it okay with you if I use a couple for CD labels? They're just so pretty!

    Hang in there, icy...
    :)

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