Things I Hate
Warning: Portions of the following contain frank language that may be unsuitable for people who disapprove of frank language.
Granted, there are plenty of things to hate today. Millions of migrants violating our southern border. Imbeciles who believe democracy is doomed if Republicans are elected, or that climate change will end our existence. Democrats who don't see the causal relationship between government printing and spending money, and inflation, or the rise in crime from not incarcerating criminals.
Then there's NYS Governor Kathy Hochul fighting in court for her quarantine camp regulations, which would give her the authority to seize and detain indefinitely anyone who is suspected of having been exposed to a communicable disease. And let's not forget the 75 percent of "Palestinians"—history's sole perpetual refugees living in Gaza and the "West Bank"—who believe that cutting babies out of the wombs of Jewish women, then killing them, qualifies them for sovereignty.
With an abundance of things which warrants our hatred, it's easy to overlook the little things. I feel duty-bound to cite a few of them.
1. I hate the weather reports on TV news. The meteorologists are always too enthusiastic about the weather. A muthafucka who gets turned on by the weather should get a life, or get himself killed. The latter is preferable for me. I don’t fuckin care about cold fronts and high pressure areas. My life is a high pressure area! And I don't care about the weather on this date 100 years ago! I'm not a fuckin historian. Just give me the temperature and rain predictions currently, in the century I'm living in. That's all I care about. And only the weather where I live. Not in fuckin Idaho. And don't waste my time telling me it's raining outside now. I know when it rains because I got a fuckin window to peer out of. And stop talking a mile a minute. Slow the fuck down. It's not a race to see how fast you can get the words out. And stop being so upbeat and buoyant. It's just the fuckin weather!
2. I hate the outsourcing of customer service to people in non-English speaking nations. Not because I'm racist, but because I can't understand their pronunciation of every third or fourth word. I frequently have to ask them to repeat the sentence slowly. They're often from the Philippines, S Korea, Pakistan, Colombia, etc. The ones from India sound like they have marbles in their mouths. You wanna hire them to build my computer, fine. Soldering components doesn't require English proficiency. But speaking on the phone does!
A great example is this clip from "Father of the Bride" (1991), in which the father, Steve Martin, is trying to decipher some of the words of wedding planner, Martin Short, who's speaking with an accent from God-knows-where.
And what a great idea for people in Pakistan—who harbored Ossama bin Laden—to have access to my social security number, address, and date of birth! A place where the FBI has no jurisdiction. The same people who outsource our personal data have the gall to lecture us on preventing identity theft.
3. I hate artificial intelligence chatbots used in customer service. They're a waste of time because they're not intelligent. An example how of it goes:
"Hello, tell me how I can help you?" "Please transfer me to a customer representative." "Before I transfer you to a customer representative, please give me an idea why you are calling." "I want to know if there should have been batteries included in order 24325." "Thank you. If you would like to return order 24325, I can transfer you." "No, I don't want to return it. I want to know if there should have been batteries included." "Amazon sells batteries if you search for them online." "No, I don't want to buy batteries. I just want you to answer my fuckin question." "Thank you, I will transfer you to a customer representative now, please hold." "You can hold my dick, muthafucka!"
I'd rather deal with a fuckin Pakistani than with a chatbot.
4. I hate to keep seeing people wearing face masks. It was bad enough during the Great Stupidity of Covid Panic. Do these idiots plan on wearing them until they drop dead. If I were a nut job with a gun, I would make that happen now. Unfortunately, my only fear is going to prison or getting shot by cops. All I can do sometimes is tell them that medical studies say masks are useless. The virus is too small. They just look back at me like they're zombies. Stupid muthafuckin zombies. It's a shame that Natural Selection doesn't have these stupid people die off. Maybe China can develop a virus which can do that. Certainly, it would be a public service.
Please share with me some of the things you hate. Sometimes, hate is a good thing.
The American poet and novelist Charles Bukowski said, "I have one problem, I don’t hate people. They disgust me and I want to get away from them. I do not have hatred. I have an escape mechanism."