⛧ First Church of Hypocrisy, Blasphemy, and Self-Righteousness ⛧

Why is it that none of these grocery stores teaches their baggers how to do their job? And why is it that none of the people they hire as baggers has enough brains to figure out you don't put heavy stuff on top of bread and you don't put hot deli stuff in with ice cream? It's like these places go out of their way to hire the biggest morons in the world as baggers! It's to the point I'm tempted to start saying, "No, I'll bag it myself because none of the baggers these places hire has enough brains to fill a walnut shell."

Just like many Christians, the majority of vegans desperately want to believe they're being oppressed, they want to force other people to eat their stupid cult diet, they condemn and bully people who don't belong to their stupid cult, they pop up constantly being annoying as frick with their "holier than thou" attitude, you can't reason with them because they don't give a fig about facts (and so having any kind of disagreement with them is like playing chess with a pigeon), and also they're all massive hypocrites (pretending they care about animals and the environment and then turning around and eating vegan products that are worse for both than meat, such as arugala, agave, and avocados; also they don't care about human suffering from the exploitation of workers or the myriad people murdered for the avocado cartels in Mexico. Oh and there's everything PETA gets up to).

Honestly the only difference is they don't have any actual power yet, unlike the Christians. (And I hope to Satan it stays that way!) But on a purely personal level they're far more annoying because they infest my life almost more than Christians do. If Christians are lice, vegans are bedbugs.

I hate my body. Got a headache, while my stomach has been uncomfortable for reasons I can't pin down. It's better now than it was before, but I don't know why. Sure, I ate something, but just a couple pickles and some diet Dr. Shasta. When I ate a mini pizza earlier, that made it worse.

And while I'd normally be sleeping off my headache, I can't because I tried that and my teeth kept clacking together sharply no matter what I tried to do to stop it. At one point it happened so hard I was briefly convinced I'd chipped a tooth.

I really truly hate this piece of shit body, and I want to get it exchanged for one that actually works well.

I really, really, truly loathe and despise the tendency of people in this society to fill their spaces with noise (shitty music, especially).

There's a guy outside the Starbuck's I'm in right now, who is holding a sign saying "Weed is legal, discrimination is not." Every time someone enters or exits the building, he shouts "(Garbled) is not okay!" With this, I have just enough information to know that whatever the fuck he's protesting, he's a fucking asshole who needs to go away, and I'm frankly astonished that the employees of Starbuck's haven't called the cops on this fuckhead.

I keep vacillating between the desire to tell him that nobody can fucking understand what he's saying well enough to have clue one what his damned problem is, and telling him to go fuck himself.

Him: "(Garbled) is not okay!"
Me: "Yeah, well neither is standing outside a business shouting incoherent gibberish like a dogfucker for no damned good reason either, yet here you are, doing precisely that."

EDIT: My hypothesis on his issue is that he tried smoking weed in or near the building and got kicked out for it. Which, if true, is doubly stupid because Starbuck's is a no-smoking business. In fact, I don't think it's legal to smoke ANYTHING inside a public building in Portland.

I have been seeing a marked increase in bad drivers the past couple weeks, especially the idiots who pull up into the pedestrian walkway area. One guy's car was not only blocking it entirely, but was too far into the intersection anyway.

I think the laws should be changed so that anyone with a driver's license has to pass a written test once a year, either in person at the DMV or online, in order to keep their license. If they fail the test, their license is suspended until they pass their second attempt. If they fail the second attempt, they are required to take both a written test AND a driving test, to get their license back.

Even if people cheated on the online version, they would at least have to look up the answers and thus would be reminded of the rules, which would really be the point of the yearly test. (Well, that and weeding out bad drivers.) And I think the test should look for the same answers for some rules, but the questions worded differently each time, so they either have to look up the answer multiple times, or use their brain for more than holding their ears apart.

Yeah, this should be the new system.

Copied from my Tumblr.

The fact of the matter is, I agree with the vegans on a lot of points, like factory farms suck, which is why I was a vegetarian myself for 10 years. But the lack of any coherent logic, the bleeding-heart childish personification of creatures that are not human no matter how hard you want them to be, and the general fucking preachiness of most vegans really pisses me off so much that even when I was a vegetarian myself I couldn't stand most other vegetarians, and I can't recall a single vegan I could tolerate. I cannot tolerate people who go about proselytizing their fucking cult, no matter what their beliefs, no matter how much I agree. I couldn't abide most vegetarians and vegans when I was a vegetarian, I couldn't stand most atheists when I was an atheist myself, I had low tolerance for most LaVeyan Satanists when I was one myself, and someone could agree with me 100% on pretty much everything I think, but if they were even half as annoying as most vegans, I would unfriend them/unfollow them in a heartbeat.

Yeah, I kvetch on my blog, and I tag things. But I'm not forcing anyone to read my blog. If they wanna go trolling through the tags, they have nobody to blame but themselves for reading what's on my blog. They could choose not to reply. It's not like I go around looking for idiots to get in fights with; I only bitch about/because of the idiots that wander into my personal sphere on their own.

I am reminded of one of the tenets of Satanism: do not complain about that which you need not subject yourself. Vegans could do to start living by that maxim.

So a week or so back, I saw on Tumblr a post about H.P. Lovecraft having been a racist, and an unusually vocal one for his time. I may have even reblogged it, I dunno.

I was thinking about that post again today, and remembering how it was calling for a boycott of Lovecraft’s works because of it.

Um… my basic thought to this is what would be the point of that? I mean, it’s not like the guy is still alive and making money off his works. He’s dead! He’s been dead so long that his writings are all in the public domain! And as far as I know of, his estate is not making any money off sales of his books and even if they were, his estate is not promoting or funding racism in any way. Also, from what I read on Wikipedia, he only ever expressed his racist views in essays and letters, and how many people read that kind of shit? It’s his short stories and books that are still being read by everyone, and there’s nothing that says his views ever made it to his stories. So how is his racism even relevant? And what purpose would be served by boycotting him? HE’S DEAD. LONG dead.

If it was someone like Orson Scott Card who is actively and vocally a raging homophobic shit stain on the cum-rag of the planet, someone profiting and using their fame and profit as a soapbox for their bullshit, I could understand it; I will not give that motherfucker any money nor read his shitty books. But how many people knew Lovecraft was racist before reading that Tumblr post? And how many people read his essays? I sure as hell didn’t know until that Tumblr post.

Besides which, if people boycotted every author that ever had an opinion that was offensive, there would be fuck all left to read. Me, I hate extremist Christians, but if I boycotted all Christian authors, I’d have very little to read. I also hate extremist atheists, too, like Richard “Dickhead” Dawkins, but I’d be stupid to boycott all atheist authors. And I am opposed to the Sex Offender Registry because it does more harm than good and because why should we have an SRO if we don’t have a registry for murderers? I mean, murder is a far worse crime than rape! Rape you can survive, murder - by definition - you cannot. But should I boycott everyone who disagrees with me? Of course not.

But yeah, some may shout about false equivalence there, but seriously, all those things I mentioned above are actively hurting people just as much as racism is: the SRO is filled mostly with people who have done nothing more harmful than drunken pissing in bushes, and often far less. Extremism of all forms alienates a lot of people and actively hurts others when the extremists start acting (often violently) on their extremist views. So yeah, I don’t think it’s a mistake to say those things go in the same kind of “harmful” category as racism.

Oh, and like I said, if it was someone alive and actively using their fame to spread their fucked-up ideas (like Orson Scott Card, Dick Dawkins, or John Boehner), I would understand it. I would also understand boycotting someone whose fame was caused by their racism (like Adolf Hitler), and/or whose writing were nothing but racist/homophobic/sexist garbage (also like Hitler). Or if someone is famous for something that they actually sucked big-time at, like how Carl Sagan is this famous scientist but he kept stepping out of his particular scientific speciality like he was Mr. Omniscient Science Man but in reality got most of his so-called “facts” terribly, horribly wrong, and was a fucking extremist skeptic to boot, then yeah, boycotting is good.

But someone long dead whose only racist comments are in obscure essays and letters? Someone whose racism does not seem to have informed his fiction writing, or at least not marred the beauty of his works? My basic comment to that is this: if you’re going to stroke your rage boner over something so ancient and irrelevant, please do it in private.

I was out and about a few days ago, and I watched this guy waste 5 minutes using a leaf blower on a mess that would have taken him 2 minutes or less to do if he'd used a broom instead.

Yes, you could fill a whole dictionary full of the things that piss me off. But leaf blowers are one of those. Who invented this pointless waste of electricity? What was so difficult about a broom that they felt they had to invent the leaf blower? And if you've ever seen someone use one, you quickly realize it's the least efficient tool ever not only in terms of electricity use, but also in terms of personal energy output. He worked at least twice as hard wasting his time with the leaf blower than he would have with a broom.

There is literally no use for a leaf blower that would not be better done with a broom. Think about it; you can't even use the leaf blower when the leaves are wet!

I am very pissed off. I got the eighth Harry Potter movie from the library because I've never seen it. Unlike number 7, it has unskippable ads and other bullshit before you get to menu. This is highly annoying, but what makes it worthy of my being pissed the fuck off, is that because of that, and because of scratches on the DVD, the DVD won't get past that crap.

Let me clarify: normally when a DVD skips, I just click to a part past that point, if the skipping gets so bad that it freezes up. Sometimes works, sometimes doesn't. But with the unsurpassable ad bullshit, you can't do anything at all if it skips during that part. All you can do is speed up the rate of play, which doesn't help. Now if this had happened on the DVD for movie #7, I could have right-clicked, hit the thing to get to the main menu, and then done “play” and gotten to see the movie, even if there were scratches in the pre-menu section.

So basically, because of their fucking HORSE SHIT ads that they force people to watch, the entire fucking DVD is unplayable. They've shot themselves in the foot, metaphorically speaking, and because of it I wish they would shoot themselves in the fucking mouths with a goddamned elephant gun.

And they wonder why so many people pirate movies these days. Well DUH, you fucking monkey-raping, maggot-infested, sewage-drinking, half-sentient talking human-shaped piles of cat shit and horse intestines: it's because people can ACTUALLY WATCH THE FUCKING MOVIE when it's pirated!

I think, from now on, I am not buying or renting from any company that pulls that bullshit, ever again.