"MIscellaneous"

Another Sunday night after another eventful week: State of the Union, Egypt uprising, Stock market dive, Glenn Beck cried, Charlie Sheen checked into rehab.....Lindsay Lohan checked out of one.. All worthy subjects but I thought I would just clear my head of these items:

#1. Several of you have asked how can you use the comment feature. Go to google and simply create a google account. No strings, nothing sent to you just a filter to eliminate me getting ads, and nutty people trying to slip other things in. Once you've done this you can comment all you want.

#2 Uprisings in Tunisia, Yemen, and Egypt. Many hail this as a good thing and I truely do hope any bad in those countries will be replaced by good but before we pop champagne corks and send out congratulatory notices maybe we ought to see what the NEW will be. I'm hopeful of a better leadership but let's not forget we didn't get that in Cuba, The Dominican Republic, China, Venezuela, Russia and about a dozen African countries. Plus, let's not forget the poster child for a good idea gone bad and was the 1789 French Revolution that saw the peasants rise up, throw off the shackles of oppression only to institute their own Reign of Terror. Thousands of innocents died in an orgy of revenge and violence. (OF course that was France and they never do anything right)

#3.Once again we have to put up with the insufferable week long orgy of words about the Super Bowl which will be played this next weekend. I can't take it. I don't want to know what the right guard had for breakfast, I don't want to know if Ben Rothlisberger still feels bad for feeling up that woman over a year ago. I don't care if the coach of the linebackers had a polyup removed. What is Green Bay's center's astrological sign? I don't care, stop asking about it, stop writing about it and why must we have 9 hours of tv coverage on the day of the game? It's a football game for God's sake not the return of Harry Houdini! How much analysis do we need? No wonder people eat food and drink booze, it's our only distraction from the non stop blathering.

Speaking of annoying things here is my current list of the most annoying stupid expressions I hear all the time:

"Have a good one" Good what? A good bank robbery? A good drug deal? A good dinner? A good kick in the nuts? It means nothing! Just social chit chat. Can't we just say goodbye? And do we really care if they had a good one? Do you call them up later and ask if they had a good one? NO!

"MY Bad" oh really? your bad? Well numnuts don't compound your bad by now putting your bad into my head, consciousness and thereby making your bad my bad.

" Hi, it's good to see you"
At the Shell Gas Station in California when you pull up to the pump a tv screen and recorded person comes on and says " Hi, it's good to see you"
This precorded corporate clown tells me he is happy to see me, again. He always says that to me. Well, I always tell it the same thing: Fuck you clown, you don't even know me.

"It's all good" really? All of everything is good. The entirety, the whole thing is good. Nothing isn't good. Every last thing is good. I won't have to worry about anything ever being bad again because "It's all good"! UGH

"You saved 24.50 today Mr. Bailey"
The worst is when I buy groceries and the clerk says this to me at the end of the transaction. Really, I did? I thought I just spent money, didn't I just give you money? Now if you gave me my groceries for say one dollar then I guess I would be saving something but you didn't. I'm just not paying the 24.50 extortion fee you would have added to my bill if I hadn't given you all my personal information like e-mail addresses, bank information, phone numbers, who I am dating and my blood type. I love it when they take their marker and circle the 24.50 as if I'm too stupid to find it on the receipt myself. No wait, that is only the lesser reason for the circling. It's really intended to distract you so you'll look at this mythical savings instead of the reality of how much you did spend. That way if you were double rung up or in some other way cheated you'd not notice. I hate this, hate this, hate this. It's a cleverly thought out piece of manipulative bullshit. I don't say anything to the clerks because I know they have to do it but they are so "perky" and "chipper" when saying it to you like "Gosh darn it Mr. Bailey it's a fact, you saved money"!! It's the shell game, three card monty, bait and switch all those rigged games rolled into one.

I also hate: "Big Box Stores", " Handling Fee", "Shipping and Handling", "Baggage Fee", "Easy Terms", "Mail in Rebate", "Player", "Process and handling Fee", "carrying baggage", "blended family", "What would Jesus do", "he got game", "get in the game", "app" and so many other stupid sayings.
Which ones grind your teeth?