One More Bitch

Cell Phones At Restaurants – OK, I admit that bitching about cell phones has become easy but as bad as normal cell phone bores are, the pricks who are out to dinner only to get on the phone to gab are beyond rude. Let me get this straight. You go out and go to a restaurant with a friend or lover and instead of giving them your undivided attention instead you answer your phone to chitchat about nonsense, thus leaving your dinner companion to look around the restaurant or re-read the dinner specials as you ignore them. Just bad manners, plain and simple.

ESPN’s Website – OK, I am a sports junkie. I admit it. So when I want to get information about sports, I search the web looking for interesting articles and what not. Well, ESPN the self-proclaimed sports leader makes you buy a years subscription to get most of the good data off their web site. If you want to read a column you have to pay the price. This is on top of all the annoying pop-up ads you have to navigate through just to get to their site. Doesn’t ESPN have enough money? Well, I am not paying and this has forced me onto cbs.sportsline.com, which is a nice site and is free.

Home Schooling – I know, all the pro arguments already, so please spare me. While, I admit that kids might get a fine education at home the social skills they are not learning can be fatal. Social skills and the ability to be to interact with different people who may have different views are crucial to an adolescent’s devlopment. By home schooling a parent is robbing a child of the high school experience and thus robbing them of learning to cope with people of the opposite sex, different races and different religious beliefs. This can cause culture shock once a child enters college or the real world.

“Born Again” Idiots – This is simply replacing one addiction for another. First off, you can only be born once. If you want to go pray to some imaginary tooth fairy I really don’t care. But getting up in my face with it is where I draw the line. These born again zealots take their God and their religion way to seriously. I have always felt that religion should be a private matter. The sad thing is many times these born again assholes are people who have severely fucked up with booze, drugs, porn, or something else and feel that by turning their addiction to God they are saving themselves. I don’t know about you but a drunken, smack addict, with a constant hard on is much more enjoyable to be around then Jerry Falwell.

USA Network – You know I am a simple man and I live by certain rules. One of them is that if you are going to show tittie movies, you have to actually show tits. If you happen to adhere to the FCC guidelines and regulations then well, you cannot show these movies on your station, because no one is watching said movies for the plot. So, therefore I propose that USA network must stop showing Road Trip and the American Pie trilogy because all anyone watches those movies for is the occasional flash of breasts and if you can’t show that what is the point.

Athletes Who Hide Behind Their Kids – Dusty Backer and Barry Bonds are two of the biggest offenders of this. Any time the Cubs have a tough game there is Dusty in the interview room with his young son. The feeling being that he knows he won’t have to face the tough questions from the media because reporters are less likely to go after him in the presence of his child. All of this is cowardness and makes me ill. Hiding behind a child because you aren’t man enough to face up to your fuck-ups is the ultimate in chicken shit, nonsense. Tell you what, grow some balls and be a man for fuck’s sake.

Mike North – For those who don’t know this loud mouth racist pig of a human, he has a morning sports show on the radio here in Chicago. I would rather listen to a jackhammer then this tool. The self-proclaimed former hot dog vender who never graduated high school spews his knee jerk reactions onto the drooling buffoons who listen to his abortion of a show. He is a know-it-all idiot who can’t construct one listenable sentence together. Logic goes out the window for North and I really believe you lose IQ points when listening.

Hand Dryers – All I want to do after I take a leak at a restaurant or store is to wash my hands and dry them properly. I don't want to have to sit there for five minutes rubbing my hands below a hand dryer that doesn’t even get my hands dry. I usually want to get out of that bathroom as soon as possible because usually public restrooms have a very pungent and distinct smell. And don’t give me that environmental bullshit. You can buy biodegradable paper towels so, please stop being cheap and start stocking some Bounty in the bathrooms of America.

Workplace Forced Participation Events – OK, I am all for building teamwork and having after work parties and what not. What I am against is when it is mandatory to participate. When you do that, what you are basically doing is removing any value that event would have had. Buy making participation at the employees discretion, it places the onus on that person. If they go to the company candlelight bowl, without being forced to I can guarantee that they will have more fun. If you are forced to do something, inevitably one will no longer look on it as fun and will look at it as an extension of their job. Trust me I think after work team building events are beneficial. However, management needs to make sure to make participation optional so that the event has a chance at succeeding.