I feel like complaining today. I think I have run across every inconsiderate moron in the world so far today, and the day is only half over. Is it really too much to ask that you stay in your own lane while driving? And what about texting and driving - have you not SEEN the commercials? It causes a person to become distracted and thereby fail to stop at stop signs! All that before work and it was two separate occurrences - not even the same person, if you can believe that! I wonder sometimes how these people survive at all. I assume it is because the rest of us are on the lookout for idiots such as these.
Okay, so since I'm on a roll: This is why I hate Bing: Clicking on any of the "stories" below the top third of the MSN home page leads you to, not a story, but to a page with search results. For example, at the top of the second third of the page is what you would think is an article entitled Find: Celebrities' Strange Final Wishes and a photo of Marilyn Monroe. If you click on that it takes you to a MSN Money page with a slider of photos. Clicking on a photo gets you a blurb about a famous person and then a bunch of links underneath where you have to do more clicking if you want to find out what the person actually stated in his or her will. That's ridiculous! And I don't care about what other people are searching for! I keep seeing these commercials about how different and better Bing is. Well, it's different alright! Half of the time it brings up search results that result in more searching. It makes me furious most times, and I don't agree that it is better. If you have to click more than twice to find out about a topic, then you're clearly not better than your competitor - just more frustrating. By the way, the only reason I am even on Internet Explorer is because its the only browser that is compatible with the death certificate site.
Okay, so since I'm on a roll: This is why I hate Bing: Clicking on any of the "stories" below the top third of the MSN home page leads you to, not a story, but to a page with search results. For example, at the top of the second third of the page is what you would think is an article entitled Find: Celebrities' Strange Final Wishes and a photo of Marilyn Monroe. If you click on that it takes you to a MSN Money page with a slider of photos. Clicking on a photo gets you a blurb about a famous person and then a bunch of links underneath where you have to do more clicking if you want to find out what the person actually stated in his or her will. That's ridiculous! And I don't care about what other people are searching for! I keep seeing these commercials about how different and better Bing is. Well, it's different alright! Half of the time it brings up search results that result in more searching. It makes me furious most times, and I don't agree that it is better. If you have to click more than twice to find out about a topic, then you're clearly not better than your competitor - just more frustrating. By the way, the only reason I am even on Internet Explorer is because its the only browser that is compatible with the death certificate site.
And furthermore: It's important to note that when attending a funeral or visitation, stay or go, but stop running in and out the door! Sometimes there is so much activity outside that I begin to wonder if someone brought a keg and is handing out beer from the back of a pickup. Another interesting tidbit is what passes for funeral wear for some folks: for women, any black skirt or dress, with or without stains, and flip flops, and for men, jeans with holes and any shirt with a collar, regardless of holes, stains, or cigarette burns. I had no idea strapless cocktail dresses with sequins and nine inch (pardon the expression however accurate) hooker-heels were appropriate funeral attire.
These things are all minor irritants, but what really has me upset is how friends and family - people who claim to love one another, now! - seem to lose all sense of respect and caring when it comes to politics. This past Tuesday was Election Day and the Democrats are mad because the Republicans are now in control and they are throwing all kinds of slurs out there and even calling their own fellow Dems stupid because they allowed the Republicans to gain ground. Members of my own family went as far as to call Republicans in general racists by the simple fact that they opposed Obama. By this so-called logic, if I say that I don't like the job Obama is doing as a president, or if I didn't vote for him that makes me a racist. Well, I didn't care for Bush either, what then? Two of my cousins posted on Facebook how stupid Republicans were and how they pretended to be Christian but in reality they were rich, racist poor-punishers, yada, yada, yada. I commented that, unfortunately, there was plenty of stupid going around on both sides and that Americans should vote according to the issues and the candidates's record, and not strictly by the party. Is that not sound advice? Shouldn't you know the issues and the candidates before casting your vote? I got blasted by one and then the other one ganged up on me with a "Well said, ____(insert other cousin's name here)!" These are two people that I love and respect whom I thought loved and respected me also. Apparently I was wrong because instead of offering a simple "I don't agree", I was blasted. I do happen to be a Republican, but that doesn't mean that I agree with everything they do as a party, and the last time I checked I was neither rich nor racist. My parents were not wealthy or anything like it, and they taught me that God did not see color when it came to people and neither should I. Honestly I don't closely identify with either of those two parties because they neither one resemble their original founding tenents, but if I want to vote in a primary election, I have to be registered as one of them.
These things are all minor irritants, but what really has me upset is how friends and family - people who claim to love one another, now! - seem to lose all sense of respect and caring when it comes to politics. This past Tuesday was Election Day and the Democrats are mad because the Republicans are now in control and they are throwing all kinds of slurs out there and even calling their own fellow Dems stupid because they allowed the Republicans to gain ground. Members of my own family went as far as to call Republicans in general racists by the simple fact that they opposed Obama. By this so-called logic, if I say that I don't like the job Obama is doing as a president, or if I didn't vote for him that makes me a racist. Well, I didn't care for Bush either, what then? Two of my cousins posted on Facebook how stupid Republicans were and how they pretended to be Christian but in reality they were rich, racist poor-punishers, yada, yada, yada. I commented that, unfortunately, there was plenty of stupid going around on both sides and that Americans should vote according to the issues and the candidates's record, and not strictly by the party. Is that not sound advice? Shouldn't you know the issues and the candidates before casting your vote? I got blasted by one and then the other one ganged up on me with a "Well said, ____(insert other cousin's name here)!" These are two people that I love and respect whom I thought loved and respected me also. Apparently I was wrong because instead of offering a simple "I don't agree", I was blasted. I do happen to be a Republican, but that doesn't mean that I agree with everything they do as a party, and the last time I checked I was neither rich nor racist. My parents were not wealthy or anything like it, and they taught me that God did not see color when it came to people and neither should I. Honestly I don't closely identify with either of those two parties because they neither one resemble their original founding tenents, but if I want to vote in a primary election, I have to be registered as one of them.
I'm also kind of incensed by the sweeping generalization that because I'm a registered Republican I'm also a fake Christian. My feelings have been wounded, and because of that, I haven't made any response to my "offenders". If I was only angry then I would have fired off something snarky and been done with it. But this hurts, and it came from an unexpected direction, too, so I'm still processing and haven't addressed the issue yet. I did, however, post on my feed a quote by JFK, which is probably too subtle for them to get, though: "Let us not seek the Republican answer nor the Democratic answer, but the right answer. Let us not seek to fix the blame for the past. Let us accept our own responsibility for the future." And, um, yeah: he was a Democrat.
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