Today's Apocalypse Sign: Things I am Mostly and Certainly Done With

This is a weird quasi-New Year's resolution kind of list but I had to get these things down before I forgot them. My consciousness streams all over the place during the early morning breakfast hours. Today it landed on the things I am done with.

ON STEROIDS

       This term is now overused to the point of irrelevance. I know I am tired of everything being like something else "on steroids". At work, on TV, in general conversation. Somehow society has made the use of a harmful substance common vernacular for describing something good or better. Are we weird or what.


IT IS WHAT IT IS

       I mentioned this saying several posts ago but it bears repeating...hearing this from anybody makes me instantly want to punch them in the face.  It seldom is what it is in this day and age of  transformers, hidden agendas and "me first" mentality. Has there ever been a time where you could say a man's word was his bond any less than in today's society? I think not. Most of us are very skeptical at hearing anything even slightly too good...to be true. In business speak it is a conversation filler and means almost nothing. The time will come where I instinctively DO punch someone in the face as a knee-jerk reaction to hearing this blather. Just stop it.


OUTSIDE THE BOX

Get in the box, seal it and shut the hell up.

POLITICALLY CORRECT

All the fun went out of many things in life because of these two words.  Seriously, is everybody so damned sensitive and uptight (throw back to the 60's) that they can no longer take a joke or even laugh at themselves?? I ask you. It is almost to the point you cannot talk to people anymore without thinking out the whole conversation well in advance so as to make sure it is "polictically correct". I thought this meant it applied to politicians and not two people on the street talking. Saying polictically incorrect things at work can get you fired! I'm not talking about racist remarks or clearly offensive things...come on people!

WHATEVER

I dare you to say that to me...I will instantly and without thinking tell you to fuck off. I hate this condesending one-word blow-off more than any other word. Beside the fact (again) it means almost nothing and generally hides someone's ignorance of the subject at hand, it is almost an implied curse AT you without being a four-letter word. Be warned.

I am sure there will be more on this subject in the future but for now...the New Year has begun!

What are YOU done with??

Today's Apocalypse Sign: Things I'm Done With

I woke up Sunday morning to my alarm clock (WTF!) and immediately heard something that made me want to hurl my clock radio across the room. That inspirational moment led to this post. I got up, went to the computer and started jotting down things "I am done with".

I now present those things in no particular order:

1. "It is what it is" I swear if I hear this one more time I am going to take a life. These five words are for people who cannot hold a discussion or even a general conversation. They are not even a truism! In fact, what the fuck does this even mean??? Example: ME: "Dude, your cat got run over by a car." DUMBASS FRIEND: "I know man, it is what it is." I am lividly pissed just typing this one. Most things are not a resolution to what they currently are. In fact this phrase is a sign of giving up or in. Get away from me.
2. Morning breath denial. I am so tired of watching commercials, shows, movies, etc. where people just waking up hold a five minute conversation 1-inch from each other. I know it's acting but it is giving real people the okay to do it on a daily basis. Get real and just have them lay back talk to the ceiling like normal people.
3. People who mistreat children. This is a no brainer but after hearing something new week after week I have reached the end. Here in Dallas this last week some father (and I use that term very loosely) was sentenced to 99 years for his crime. The crime? He locked his three kids in a hotel bathroom for a year! Read the story here. People like this should be euthanized, just like the grizzly bear that attacked that family last week. At least the bear did what bears do protecting their cubs. This piece of shit told police he didn't know how he woke up in bed having sex with the 11-year old girl. Some people are not fit to be parents or apparently, alive.
4. Motley Crue's 'Girls, Girls, Girls". I never want to hear this song again. The radio still plays it so much I am starting to feel physically ill when I hear it. I don't even want to hear it while drunk in a strip club...not that that would even happen. Again.
5. Male enhancement ads. How gay do you have to be to do a commercial like this, "I remember rooming with 4 girls in med school and listening to them talk about their men. It's not length they wanted it was thickness and width." And then based on that "scientific study" he says he developed a product that will do just that. WTF times 10!  And apparently you cannot patent this snake oil because there are at least 15 ads for this stuff on the radio everyday. I must say I always did enjoy the smiling Bob commercials on TV...they found the plainest guy and the ugliest women to use in those spots and it always made me laugh.
6. The BP Oil Mess. How come the smartest people on the planet couldn't come up with a solution faster than 3+ months into this disaster. And now it seems people in BP and the government are already starting to say: the oil is disappearing, fishing grounds are open again, mother nature will clean up after us like she always has, etc. Please stop bullshitting us we are not ALL stupid and we don't feel better about it.
7. Pussy-footing around with Osama Bin Laden. I recently watched a show on how we have tried TEN TIMES to literally assassinate this wackjob. We missed, botched, stopped short (wasn't that George's dad's move?), or gave up each time. The first attempt was an L-shaped assault of Bin Laden's 3 car convoy. Simple and to the point, Noooooooooo, they fuckin' missed! They shot the hell out of the vehicles, blew up the one NOT carrying Osama, and could not. even. shoot. out. the. tires on the other two!!!! It was the funniest sad thing I ever watched. Someone needs to come up with a plan, see it through, and don't worry, the collateral damage will be forgotten about in a shorter time period than the war has taken so far. In the words of Larry the Cable guy, "Gitter done!"
8. Lindsey Lohan. Nuff said.

I am sure there is much more that I am done with, but I guess that will have to be for another day.

What are some of the things you're done with?? Let me know.