I know for a fact that if a lot of people read this, I will be deemed a rascist, an A-hole, an impatient bastard, and an overall hateful prick. Even though I'm none of those, everyone has a right to their own opinion. Nonetheless, I'll be vilified shortly....
But, guess what, I'm going to say it anyways. Why? Because, even though it's a touchy subject, it needs to be said.
I'm sick and tired of waiting in line behind someone who doesn't speak a word of English and gets angry/pissed/offended when the cashier/teller can't speak Spanish or Mexican. (Don't bother with yelling at me that Spanish and Mexican are the same. They aren't.) Just about everytime I bring up this complaint, there will be people tell me that a lot of Mexican nationals come here for vacation. Why? The hot, dry temperature? Our sandy beaches? Golfland?
No, in my estimation, the majority of Mexican nationals in this city aren't here for vacation purposes. Since when has Mesa been a tourist hotspot?
Now, I must clarify, I do have friends that were born and raised in Mexico. And there are a few that are here unbeknownst to customs officials. But at least they know at least the basics of the English language. If I ever go to Mexico, I know the words I'll need to use to solve any problem I might get into."Arizona?" (while pointing multiple directions), "Cerveza, por favor?" if I run out of beer, and "Zapateria?" when I lose my shoes after using the previous phrase multiple times.
But, never will I start berating an employee in a language they've already emphasized to me that they dont know. That's just rude.
Also, don't come up to me at a gas station and start asking me stuff in a foreign language and get pissed when I look at you funny and say I don't know what the hell your saying. We speak english here.
I could understand all of this if we were in Long Beach, LA, San Diego, Tucson, Miami, or any popular tourist town that deals with foreign languages on a daily basis. But this is Mesa. We ain't got shit.
If anyone reads this and wants to give me crap about it, go ahead. I welcome your opinion.
Anyways, I'm done for tonight.
Hate me if you want, I don't really care.
-B-
About Me
- -B-
- Cynicism, sarcasm, and Political Incorrectness are my specialty. Or specialties. Whatever, just shut up and read....
Monday, August 31, 2009
Wednesday, August 26, 2009
Religion, Racism, and Sports fans....
You might be wondering what the three things in the title have in common, well I'm gonna tell ya. If you belong to a group that others were taught to hate, you're screwed. In all three of those categories people tend to believe what they've been taught all their lives. Let's just say your dad was a Cowboys fan (God forbid), was a die hard fan and he took you to all the home games. Every waking moment he'd be telling you the other teams were stupid, worthless and not worth your time. The Cowboys were the one and only way to go.
Now, lets look at the other two things mentioned in the title. If you think about it, the same logic applies. If you've spent you're whole life being indoctrinated towards one way of thinking, well, that's what you will believe. Unless, of course, you're one of the few who can step back, look at the big picture, realize the differences and the similarities, and just respect people who have their own beliefs. I have to say that my references toward respecting peoples beliefs only applies to the religion aspect, since racism is just wrong.
I want to dig a little deeper into the religion aspect first. Whats the most popular religion these days? Catholic? Well, in my opinion, Catholicism is forced guilt. Always wanting you to confess your sins and submitting to saying multiple prayers as a form of repentance. Why should you have to repeat yourself? If god is supposedly an all loving, all forgiving god, why to you have to constantly ask for forgiveness? Next! The next highest ranking religion is Islam. And conversion to Islam in America is on the rise. But, if you were raised in a community that was democratic and based on a level playing field( both male and female) how could you believe in any religion that said women were basically a possession that was bought and paid for? And even if your married, say you die for the cause, you get 72 virgins in heaven. How does that signify any respect for the woman you married? Bah, I'm done with that and moving on.... Next up, Mormons...
I saw this comment for a video on youtube, I'm going to post it then respond....
"Mormonism is a ridiculous scam created by a fraudulent self-obsessed liar trying to win back credibility for being convicted in a court of law for being a fraudulent. He was sued by the state for telling people he was "a finder of precious metals in the earth" , and he was getting paid when he never found anything. Its so ridiculous that so many people follow this complete moron. i feel sorry for all these people. "Momonism" should be called "moron-ism" Joseph Smith is a Moron."
What causes this sort of thought? Anger? Hatred? Logical thinking? No, to all of those. It's all based on word of mouth, friends saying this and that, or maybe his/her pastor/priest/shaman "testisfyin'!" Who knows.
As far as the Mormon religion goes, I was raised in it, and I still believe in some aspects of it. The religious part? No, I'm not convinced. But as far as the whole Family values/ respect your elders/ overall treating people right, and just being a good person: I'm good with all that.
Everyone is born with an empty page in front of them. Their parents will write the outline for the first few chapters. After that, the individual must forcefully take the pen and write their own story.
I'm done for tonight.
Goodnight,
-B-
Now, lets look at the other two things mentioned in the title. If you think about it, the same logic applies. If you've spent you're whole life being indoctrinated towards one way of thinking, well, that's what you will believe. Unless, of course, you're one of the few who can step back, look at the big picture, realize the differences and the similarities, and just respect people who have their own beliefs. I have to say that my references toward respecting peoples beliefs only applies to the religion aspect, since racism is just wrong.
I want to dig a little deeper into the religion aspect first. Whats the most popular religion these days? Catholic? Well, in my opinion, Catholicism is forced guilt. Always wanting you to confess your sins and submitting to saying multiple prayers as a form of repentance. Why should you have to repeat yourself? If god is supposedly an all loving, all forgiving god, why to you have to constantly ask for forgiveness? Next! The next highest ranking religion is Islam. And conversion to Islam in America is on the rise. But, if you were raised in a community that was democratic and based on a level playing field( both male and female) how could you believe in any religion that said women were basically a possession that was bought and paid for? And even if your married, say you die for the cause, you get 72 virgins in heaven. How does that signify any respect for the woman you married? Bah, I'm done with that and moving on.... Next up, Mormons...
I saw this comment for a video on youtube, I'm going to post it then respond....
"Mormonism is a ridiculous scam created by a fraudulent self-obsessed liar trying to win back credibility for being convicted in a court of law for being a fraudulent. He was sued by the state for telling people he was "a finder of precious metals in the earth" , and he was getting paid when he never found anything. Its so ridiculous that so many people follow this complete moron. i feel sorry for all these people. "Momonism" should be called "moron-ism" Joseph Smith is a Moron."
What causes this sort of thought? Anger? Hatred? Logical thinking? No, to all of those. It's all based on word of mouth, friends saying this and that, or maybe his/her pastor/priest/shaman "testisfyin'!" Who knows.
As far as the Mormon religion goes, I was raised in it, and I still believe in some aspects of it. The religious part? No, I'm not convinced. But as far as the whole Family values/ respect your elders/ overall treating people right, and just being a good person: I'm good with all that.
Everyone is born with an empty page in front of them. Their parents will write the outline for the first few chapters. After that, the individual must forcefully take the pen and write their own story.
I'm done for tonight.
Goodnight,
-B-
Monday, August 24, 2009
Kids these days.....
I don't know about you folks, but in my opinion, all this texting vocab or TXTing has gotten way out of control. I will admit, without any regret, that I prefer sending text messages to talking on the phone. But, I cannot abide by all this texting shorthand BS. Numbers and letters all jumbled together, missing vowels, lost punctuation, complete removal of grammar, and all that crap.
Now, having said that, I must admit that I do have some wicked texting skills as far as time is concerned. But I type words out, no 2's or 4's or l8tr's in my messages. And I spell my words correctly too. Mostly because I don't want the person recieving them to think I'm an idiot. Obviously, kids these days don't care. They don't have the time to type words out, 'cause they have to get back to watching "The Real World" or "Big Brother", sending more rapid fire texts out to their friends, or updating their Twitter status.
As much as it makes me sound like an asshole, I would love to see all the cell towers shutdown for a day. To watch all the children out there become completely lost and give up all hope because they couldn't text their friends for the 49th time that day, or "Tweet" for the 63rd time, and to watch them just break down into tears 'cause the world hates them and makes them suffer a bit....
I would bathe in those tears while smiling.
And I would point and laugh at every single one of them. For I remember the days when I had to ask permission from my Mom to use the phone to call my girlfriend. And I only was allowed 15 minutes a day. There wasn't any text messaging, no voice mail, hell there wasn't even caller ID back then. A mobile phone weighed 3 pounds, and most of those were wired into the car. It wasn't even called a mobile phone, it was the car phone.
In my opinion, kids, adults, or anything with opposable thumbs shouldn't have a phone unless they can pay for it themselves. 12 yr old kids don't need them. If your kids want one, tell them to get a job and pay for it. Don't come whining to me when your 13 year old kid runs up a 200 dollar phone bill. I warned you.
NEwayz, I'm done 4 2nite, TTYL.
LOL.
I thought that would be funny, but I'm hating myself for even typing it....
-B-
Now, having said that, I must admit that I do have some wicked texting skills as far as time is concerned. But I type words out, no 2's or 4's or l8tr's in my messages. And I spell my words correctly too. Mostly because I don't want the person recieving them to think I'm an idiot. Obviously, kids these days don't care. They don't have the time to type words out, 'cause they have to get back to watching "The Real World" or "Big Brother", sending more rapid fire texts out to their friends, or updating their Twitter status.
As much as it makes me sound like an asshole, I would love to see all the cell towers shutdown for a day. To watch all the children out there become completely lost and give up all hope because they couldn't text their friends for the 49th time that day, or "Tweet" for the 63rd time, and to watch them just break down into tears 'cause the world hates them and makes them suffer a bit....
I would bathe in those tears while smiling.
And I would point and laugh at every single one of them. For I remember the days when I had to ask permission from my Mom to use the phone to call my girlfriend. And I only was allowed 15 minutes a day. There wasn't any text messaging, no voice mail, hell there wasn't even caller ID back then. A mobile phone weighed 3 pounds, and most of those were wired into the car. It wasn't even called a mobile phone, it was the car phone.
In my opinion, kids, adults, or anything with opposable thumbs shouldn't have a phone unless they can pay for it themselves. 12 yr old kids don't need them. If your kids want one, tell them to get a job and pay for it. Don't come whining to me when your 13 year old kid runs up a 200 dollar phone bill. I warned you.
NEwayz, I'm done 4 2nite, TTYL.
LOL.
I thought that would be funny, but I'm hating myself for even typing it....
-B-
Friday, August 21, 2009
Getting Older.... (It's a genetic thing)
This is an excellent email that was passed along to me from my awesome sister. I figured I'd share it with the rest of you. And by "the rest of you" I mean the 2 or 3 people that may read it. Random thoughts from people our age...
-I wish Google Maps had an "Avoid Ghetto" routing option.
-More often than not, when someone is telling me a story all I can think about is that I can't wait for them to finish so that I can tell my own story that's not only better, but also more directly involves me.
-Nothing sucks more than that moment during an argument when you realize you're wrong.
-I don't understand the purpose of the line, "I don't need to drink to have fun." Great, no one does. But why start a fire with flint and sticks when they've invented the lighter?
-Have you ever been walking down the street and realized that you're going in the complete opposite direction of where you are supposed to be going? But instead of just turning a 180 and walking back in the direction from which you came, you have to first do something like check your watch or phone or make a grand arm gesture and mutter to yourself to ensure that no one in the surrounding area thinks you're crazy by randomly switching directions on the sidewalk.
-That's enough, Nickelback.
-I totally take back all those times I didn't want to nap when I was younger.
-Is it just me, or are 80% of the people in the "people you may know" feature on Facebook people that I do know, but I deliberately choose not to be friends with?
-Do you remember when you were a kid, playing Nintendo and it wouldn't work? You take the cartridge out, blow in it and that would magically fix the problem. Every kid in America did that, but how did we all know how to fix the problem? There was no internet or message boards or FAQ's. We just figured it out. Today's kids are soft.
-There is a great need for sarcasm font.
-Sometimes, I'll watch a movie that I watched when I was younger and suddenly realize I had no idea what the f was going on when I first saw it.
-I think everyone has a movie that they love so much, it actually becomes stressful to watch it with other people. I'll end up wasting 90 minutes shiftily glancing around to confirm that everyone's laughing at the right parts, then making sure I laugh just a little bit harder (and a millisecond earlier) to prove that I'm still the only one who really, really gets it.
-How the hell are you supposed to fold a fitted sheet?
-I would rather try to carry 10 plastic grocery bags in each hand than take 2 trips to bring my groceries in.
- I think part of a best friend's job should be to immediately clear your computer history if you die.
-The only time I look forward to a red light is when I’m trying to finish a text.
- A recent study has shown that playing beer pong contributes to the spread of mono and the flu. Yeah, if you suck at it.
- Was learning cursive really necessary?
- Lol has gone from meaning, "laugh out loud" to "I have nothing else to say".
- I have a hard time deciphering the fine line between boredom and hunger.
- Answering the same letter three times or more in a row on a Scantron test is absolutely petrifying.
- My brother's Municipal League baseball team is named the Stepdads. Seeing as none of the guys on the team are actual stepdads, I inquired about the name. He explained, "Cuz we beat you, and you hate us." Classy, bro.
- Whenever someone says "I'm not book smart, but I'm street smart", all I hear is "I'm not real smart, but I'm imaginary smart".
- How many times is it appropriate to say "What?" before you just nod and smile because you still didn't hear what they said?
- I love the sense of camaraderie when an entire line of cars teams up to prevent a dick from cutting in at the front. Stay strong, brothers!
- Every time I have to spell a word over the phone using 'as in' examples, I will undoubtedly draw a blank and sound like a complete idiot. Today I had to spell my boss's last name to an attorney and said "Yes that's G as in...(10 second lapse)..ummm...Goonies"
-What would happen if I hired two private investigators to follow each other?
- While driving yesterday I saw a banana peel in the road and instinctively swerved to avoid it...thanks Mario Kart.
- MapQuest really needs to start their directions on #5. Pretty sure I know how to get out of my neighborhood.
- Obituaries would be a lot more interesting if they told you how the person died.
- I find it hard to believe there are actually people who get in the shower first and THEN turn on the water.
-Shirts get dirty. Underwear gets dirty. Pants? Pants never get dirty, and you can wear them forever.
- I would like to officially coin the phrase 'catching the swine flu' to be used as a way to make fun of a friend for hooking up with an overweight woman. Example: "Dave caught the swine flu last night."
-I can't remember the last time I wasn't at least kind of tired.
- Bad decisions make good stories
-Whenever I'm Facebook stalking someone and I find out that their profile is public I feel like a kid on Christmas morning who just got the Red Ryder BB gun that I always wanted. 546 pictures? Don't mind if I do!
- Is it just me or do high school girls get sluttier & sluttier every year?
-If Carmen San Diego and Waldo ever got together, their offspring would probably just be completely invisible.
-Why is it that during an ice-breaker, when the whole room has to go around and say their name and where they are from, I get so incredibly nervous? Like I know my name, I know where I'm from, this shouldn't be a problem....
-You never know when it will strike, but there comes a moment at work when you've made up your mind that you just aren't doing anything productive for the rest of the day.
-Can we all just agree to ignore whatever comes after DVDs? I don't want to have to restart my collection.
-There's no worse feeling than that millisecond you're sure you are going to die after leaning your chair back a little too far.
-I'm always slightly terrified when I exit out of Word and it asks me if I want to save any changes to my ten page research paper that I swear I did not make any changes to.
- "Do not machine wash or tumble dry" means I will never wash this ever.
-I hate being the one with the remote in a room full of people watching TV. There's so much pressure. 'I love this show, but will they judge me if I keep it on? I bet everyone is wishing we weren't watching this. It's only a matter of time before they all get up and leave the room. Will we still be friends after this?'
-I hate when I just miss a call by the last ring (Hello? Hello? Dammit!), but when I immediately call back, it rings nine times and goes to voicemail. What'd you do after I didn't answer? Drop the phone and run away?
- I hate leaving my house confident and looking good and then not seeing anyone of importance the entire day. What a waste.
-When I meet a new girl, I'm terrified of mentioning something she hasn't already told me but that I have learned from some light internet stalking.
-I like all of the music in my iTunes, except when it's on shuffle, then I like about one in every fifteen songs in my iTunes.
-Why is a school zone 20 mph? That seems like the optimal cruising speed for pedophiles...
- As a driver I hate pedestrians, and as a pedestrian I hate drivers, but no matter what the mode of transportation, I always hate cyclists.
-Sometimes I'll look down at my watch 3 consecutive times and still not know what time it is.
-It should probably be called Unplanned Parenthood.
-I keep some people's phone numbers in my phone just so I know not to answer when they call.
-Even if I knew your social security number, I wouldn't know what do to with it.
-Even under ideal conditions people have trouble locating their car keys in a pocket, hitting the G-spot, and Pinning the Tail on the Donkey - but I’d bet my ass everyone can find and push the Snooze button from 3 feet away, in about 1.7 seconds, eyes closed, first time every time...
-My 4-year old son asked me in the car the other day "Dad what would happen if you ran over a ninja?" How the hell do I respond to that?
-It really pisses me off when I want to read a story on CNN.com and the link takes me to a video instead of text.
-I wonder if cops ever get pissed off at the fact that everyone they drive behind obeys the speed limit.
-I think the freezer deserves a light as well.
-I disagree with Kay Jewelers. I would bet on any given Friday or Saturday night more kisses begin with Miller Lites than Kay.
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-I wish Google Maps had an "Avoid Ghetto" routing option.
-More often than not, when someone is telling me a story all I can think about is that I can't wait for them to finish so that I can tell my own story that's not only better, but also more directly involves me.
-Nothing sucks more than that moment during an argument when you realize you're wrong.
-I don't understand the purpose of the line, "I don't need to drink to have fun." Great, no one does. But why start a fire with flint and sticks when they've invented the lighter?
-Have you ever been walking down the street and realized that you're going in the complete opposite direction of where you are supposed to be going? But instead of just turning a 180 and walking back in the direction from which you came, you have to first do something like check your watch or phone or make a grand arm gesture and mutter to yourself to ensure that no one in the surrounding area thinks you're crazy by randomly switching directions on the sidewalk.
-That's enough, Nickelback.
-I totally take back all those times I didn't want to nap when I was younger.
-Is it just me, or are 80% of the people in the "people you may know" feature on Facebook people that I do know, but I deliberately choose not to be friends with?
-Do you remember when you were a kid, playing Nintendo and it wouldn't work? You take the cartridge out, blow in it and that would magically fix the problem. Every kid in America did that, but how did we all know how to fix the problem? There was no internet or message boards or FAQ's. We just figured it out. Today's kids are soft.
-There is a great need for sarcasm font.
-Sometimes, I'll watch a movie that I watched when I was younger and suddenly realize I had no idea what the f was going on when I first saw it.
-I think everyone has a movie that they love so much, it actually becomes stressful to watch it with other people. I'll end up wasting 90 minutes shiftily glancing around to confirm that everyone's laughing at the right parts, then making sure I laugh just a little bit harder (and a millisecond earlier) to prove that I'm still the only one who really, really gets it.
-How the hell are you supposed to fold a fitted sheet?
-I would rather try to carry 10 plastic grocery bags in each hand than take 2 trips to bring my groceries in.
- I think part of a best friend's job should be to immediately clear your computer history if you die.
-The only time I look forward to a red light is when I’m trying to finish a text.
- A recent study has shown that playing beer pong contributes to the spread of mono and the flu. Yeah, if you suck at it.
- Was learning cursive really necessary?
- Lol has gone from meaning, "laugh out loud" to "I have nothing else to say".
- I have a hard time deciphering the fine line between boredom and hunger.
- Answering the same letter three times or more in a row on a Scantron test is absolutely petrifying.
- My brother's Municipal League baseball team is named the Stepdads. Seeing as none of the guys on the team are actual stepdads, I inquired about the name. He explained, "Cuz we beat you, and you hate us." Classy, bro.
- Whenever someone says "I'm not book smart, but I'm street smart", all I hear is "I'm not real smart, but I'm imaginary smart".
- How many times is it appropriate to say "What?" before you just nod and smile because you still didn't hear what they said?
- I love the sense of camaraderie when an entire line of cars teams up to prevent a dick from cutting in at the front. Stay strong, brothers!
- Every time I have to spell a word over the phone using 'as in' examples, I will undoubtedly draw a blank and sound like a complete idiot. Today I had to spell my boss's last name to an attorney and said "Yes that's G as in...(10 second lapse)..ummm...Goonies"
-What would happen if I hired two private investigators to follow each other?
- While driving yesterday I saw a banana peel in the road and instinctively swerved to avoid it...thanks Mario Kart.
- MapQuest really needs to start their directions on #5. Pretty sure I know how to get out of my neighborhood.
- Obituaries would be a lot more interesting if they told you how the person died.
- I find it hard to believe there are actually people who get in the shower first and THEN turn on the water.
-Shirts get dirty. Underwear gets dirty. Pants? Pants never get dirty, and you can wear them forever.
- I would like to officially coin the phrase 'catching the swine flu' to be used as a way to make fun of a friend for hooking up with an overweight woman. Example: "Dave caught the swine flu last night."
-I can't remember the last time I wasn't at least kind of tired.
- Bad decisions make good stories
-Whenever I'm Facebook stalking someone and I find out that their profile is public I feel like a kid on Christmas morning who just got the Red Ryder BB gun that I always wanted. 546 pictures? Don't mind if I do!
- Is it just me or do high school girls get sluttier & sluttier every year?
-If Carmen San Diego and Waldo ever got together, their offspring would probably just be completely invisible.
-Why is it that during an ice-breaker, when the whole room has to go around and say their name and where they are from, I get so incredibly nervous? Like I know my name, I know where I'm from, this shouldn't be a problem....
-You never know when it will strike, but there comes a moment at work when you've made up your mind that you just aren't doing anything productive for the rest of the day.
-Can we all just agree to ignore whatever comes after DVDs? I don't want to have to restart my collection.
-There's no worse feeling than that millisecond you're sure you are going to die after leaning your chair back a little too far.
-I'm always slightly terrified when I exit out of Word and it asks me if I want to save any changes to my ten page research paper that I swear I did not make any changes to.
- "Do not machine wash or tumble dry" means I will never wash this ever.
-I hate being the one with the remote in a room full of people watching TV. There's so much pressure. 'I love this show, but will they judge me if I keep it on? I bet everyone is wishing we weren't watching this. It's only a matter of time before they all get up and leave the room. Will we still be friends after this?'
-I hate when I just miss a call by the last ring (Hello? Hello? Dammit!), but when I immediately call back, it rings nine times and goes to voicemail. What'd you do after I didn't answer? Drop the phone and run away?
- I hate leaving my house confident and looking good and then not seeing anyone of importance the entire day. What a waste.
-When I meet a new girl, I'm terrified of mentioning something she hasn't already told me but that I have learned from some light internet stalking.
-I like all of the music in my iTunes, except when it's on shuffle, then I like about one in every fifteen songs in my iTunes.
-Why is a school zone 20 mph? That seems like the optimal cruising speed for pedophiles...
- As a driver I hate pedestrians, and as a pedestrian I hate drivers, but no matter what the mode of transportation, I always hate cyclists.
-Sometimes I'll look down at my watch 3 consecutive times and still not know what time it is.
-It should probably be called Unplanned Parenthood.
-I keep some people's phone numbers in my phone just so I know not to answer when they call.
-Even if I knew your social security number, I wouldn't know what do to with it.
-Even under ideal conditions people have trouble locating their car keys in a pocket, hitting the G-spot, and Pinning the Tail on the Donkey - but I’d bet my ass everyone can find and push the Snooze button from 3 feet away, in about 1.7 seconds, eyes closed, first time every time...
-My 4-year old son asked me in the car the other day "Dad what would happen if you ran over a ninja?" How the hell do I respond to that?
-It really pisses me off when I want to read a story on CNN.com and the link takes me to a video instead of text.
-I wonder if cops ever get pissed off at the fact that everyone they drive behind obeys the speed limit.
-I think the freezer deserves a light as well.
-I disagree with Kay Jewelers. I would bet on any given Friday or Saturday night more kisses begin with Miller Lites than Kay.
-The other night I ordered takeout, and when I looked in the bag, saw they had included four sets of plastic silverware. In other words, someone at the restaurant packed my order, took a second to think about it, and then estimated that there must be at least four people eating to require such a large amount of food. Too bad I was eating by myself. There's nothing like being made to feel like a fat bastard before dinner.
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