My own denials of rationality.

[thesummerqueen]

Spent some time living in Georgia and South Carolina. Georgia was plagued with heavily-devout baptists in particular who just couldn't leave god out of anything. They prayed for rain, for sun, for their job to be easy that day, for their car to not stall, to not get in an accident, for having good sex, for this cigarette to be a good smoke. They prayed for EVERYTHING; holy SHIT it drove me nuts. They weren't even trying to convert me most of the time; they just kept saying "god god god god god god god god" for everything. Best way to erode my already marginal grasp on sanity? THAT.

I spent some time thinking about your OP. This shouldn't have been a hard exercise, as I frequently have Lewis Black-ish rants about things.

I have a slightly less violent reaction as you to vegans and vegetarians, simply because I know people who do it for sheer health reasons - diabetes and such - and they don't throw it in people's faces or act morally superior. For whatever reason, such diets work with their body chemistry and it's cool. But the ones who like to bandy it about...yeah, let me tell you - I've been at a point in my life where I had to choose between food and rent and I didn't live like a carnivore or a vegetarian by choice, I lived by what was on sale. There's not a damn thing morally superior about eating veggies over meat when you're hungry. Trust me. So yeah, those douchebags make me angry - especially the ones who get overly spiritual about it.


I can't stand people who argue in lines at the check out or a fastfood restaurant. These days a lot of places are trying to run on minimal staff and they don't allow the "worker bees" (non management staff) to make many decisions in the best of times (I worked retail, I know how it is - even if you have a good brain, they don't give a fuck). By arguing in the regular line, you cause unnecessary hold ups and I swear that worker is going to have to get a manager ANYWAY. In a grocery store, fucking go to customer service. In a fast food line, drive around and go to the desk. Do NOT waste my fucking time arguing about how one size frosty is 20 cents cheaper than the other and why you don't understand that - especially if you're driving a BMW or similarly priced car. That makes you an asshole. The rest of us have places to go and things to do and I waste precious time sitting behind your ass while you pretend 30cents or less is going to break your bank. Perhaps then you shouldn't be dining out - you literally just spent more of that in wasted gas by idling while you flapped your gums than it would have been to get the higher priced milkshake to feed your cottage-cheese covered ass.


Truckers. I can't goddamn stand them. Let me preface this by saying that I understand not everyone is as intelligent as the next person and my problem isn't as irrational as "they're dumb fucks." My problem is that they are dumbfucks even at what they do. You drive for a living - it should be reasonable to expect you to know how to use a GPS unit and/or a map. I shouldn't have to stay on the phone guiding your retarded, tobacco chewing, "lawdy!" shouting ass wherever you need to go. Most of my headaches during the day come from truckers who call - even from completely out of state, or several states away! - asking me how to get to our facility...and we're RIGHT off the main road. They are by and large lazy, ignorant, and worthless, so far that I can tell from the ones that have come through our plant.


People who call back unknown numbers that didn't leave them a message, asking "who dis?!"


Twilight. Seriously. I have not read the entire books, but I have read snippets and summaries and seen bits of the movies. I can't stand it. I can't stand the phenomena and fucking hate the actors. Don't tell me that it was similar when Lord of the Rings or Harry Potter came through...no it isn't. Both of those are based on a legitimate "hero's adventure." Even the shite-worthy Eragon was better than Twilight. I waffle between whether this is irrational or not, but I think the level of worship for this story both exposes a disgustingly stupid underbelly of the world and a disgustingly greedy marketing underbelly willing to cash in on an appalling level of mediocrity and bullshit. I'm not saying I don't like harlequin-esque stories either - I really do, and I call them for what they are and enjoy them, but I don't call them great books or encourage people to read them or pretend they are anything other than what they are: soft core on paper. Except twilight takes too long to get to the fucking. So what are you doing for all those pages till then? Orgasm denial? Also, Bella is a HORRIBLE heroine. Even Tolkein's highly traditional fantasy story includes a woman kicking ass and taking names.


Traffic. I cannot. Stand. Traffic. People do not seem to have a sense that there are other fuckers behind them and therefore maybe they should learn how to use exit lanes and how to merge onto the highway (hint, you're supposed to speed up) so that the flow of cars can continue. Go back to driver's ed, you fucktards. Please learn how to do the speedlimit. Also, please stop speeding up to get into a lane and then slowing down to 5 or 10 under the speed limit. That is an asshole move.


Related: anyone who takes up two parking spaces in an attempt to keep their car from being hit or in any way touched deserves a key-mark right on the hood. You, sir or madam, are a douchebag. You are a slightly smaller, but more idiotic, douchebag if it's simply because you can't park