Jive Talkers
It’s just your jive talking
Bringing me down
Who, me? I’m single.
Some people SAY they value animals as much as humans. It would be trivially easy to prove they don’t.
I doubt it: I would choose a select group of people to save beyond others ( some family etc. ) but generally if I could only choose one or the other from drowning or whatever, I would chose whichever creature can be saved first, whether that be human or any other animal. I’m not going to play favourites
Except for cats.
And I put ‘People who have the senseless belief that humans are more important than other species.’ because the belief that humans are more important has no validity either from a God-believing attitude nor an atheist one.
But we enjoy it, and they just get bored and disappear.
People who always want to lead a prayer* (even at inappropriate times like at work functions) and then use the word “just” at the beginning of every phrase.
“Lord, we just thank you, and we just praise your name, and we just pray that you will . . .” I writhe in my seat like a possessed child being sprayed with Holy Water. **
Mutliply that by 1,000 for the people who make each “just” more fervent than the last, as if they were building up to an orgasm.
In fact, anyone who prays aloud in such a way that the words “self stim” awkwardly intrude upon my thoughts. :mad:
- Actually, I could stop there.
** Ummm . . . :eek:
Yup, that’s a pretty “innocent” group.
Foodies. For god’s sake, I don’t give a crap about your artisanal cheese and 90% cacao chocolate with cayenne pepper. I still suspect most of them are just pretending-or convincing themselves- that they can actually tell the difference between bacon from a lop-eared heritage pig and bacon from Kroger.
People who talk in the school library. Goddammit, I am trying to either work, play, or relax here, and I do NOT need to hear your inane fucking conversations. (This is happening across from me as I speak.)
They don’t mean well, they are lazy! “Oh, you lost your job, I will pray for you” instead of “Sorry you lost your job, I will check my network and see if anyone has any leads for you”.
People who have a motorcycle and feel perfectly justified in making noise with it early in the morning while others are sleeping.
The asshole who seemingly drag-races against himself on our street at 8 o’clock in the morning every Saturday. I hear a loud engine noise, as it goes down to a full stop. Then… RRRRRRRRRAAAAAA RRRRRRRRRRAAAAAAA! as he tries to break the land speed record.
Halloween Edition:
-The dude in every group of costumed people who thinks it’s hilarious and innovative to dress in drag.
-The chick in every group of costumed people who thinks it’s sexy and innovative to dress as a cat.
The 20-something guy on the train yesterday who was talking to his buddy a little too loudly and kept going on and on about “graffito” he’d recently seen, without a hint of irony. Reminded me how much I hate pretentiousness.
Have we gotten to leaf blower people yet? Them.
Perhaps not as trivially easy as you think. Certainly not in all cases. Accounts like this shed some perspective on the subject.
Tenured college professors who think it’s perfectly acceptable to take off in the middle of the day to do personal things ignoring their posted office hours. And no matter how horrible of a teacher they are, they can’t be fired.
They could be fired for not doing their jobs. Tenure doesn’t protect you from that. But universities don’t consider teaching ability important when hiring professors: they’re not likely to consider it as something to fire them over. Universities want professors who publish and who bring in grants. They have to teach, but they don’t care whether they’re good at it.
I will defend to the death the right of ANY sexy chick to dress as a cat whenever she damn well pleases. Rowr!
Actual bumper sticker I saw:
I’m not religious.
I just love the LORD!
:smack: