apocalypsos | (no subject)

I'm not sure how many of the rants I can do, considering some of them I either know nothing about or have no opinion on anyway, but here goes a few of them:

For

fizzygp, On public restrooms...

It's the curse of public restrooms ... other women using them.

And you know, I wouldn't have a problem with the other chicks who are usually milling around the bathrooms I use at the movie theater (which is the most common public restroom I end up using) if it weren't for the fact that I've inevitably just tried to find a stall and remembered that lots of women are fucking slobs.

Seriously, how difficult is it to put your ass on a seat? I've said it before and I'll say it again: nothing is coming up through the pipes to bite your ass off. I've seen that movie, too, and I can officially guarantee that a hungry, discarded pet alligator is not going to fit through the piping of a public toilet.

Oh, wait, you're going to catch something if you put your ass on the seat, right? Some horrible wasting disease that'll make your arms fall off and your knees turn to jelly? GOOD.

Oh, right. It's disgusting, isn't it, because other people have used it and they may have pissed on the seat. Well, guess what? When you crawl down from the dangling chair you've attached to the ceiling with toilet paper and your own spit and I find that you've sprayed your own urine all over the seat and you're trying to sneak away, I'm going to learn from Brad Pitt on the Fight Club DVD (who said urine is sterile and you can drink it) and I'm going to make you lick it off. Gross? Yes. But not as half as revolting as leaving your own piss (or any other bodily fluids) all over a public place and thinking that's perfectly acceptable. You do not urinate battery acid -- trust me, it's safe for you to wipe it up.

For

jedusor, On people screaming you should worship God on subways ...

Here, correct me if I'm wrong, but shouldn't religion and which faith you adhere to be a very personal decision?

I can't say I've seen it in the Metro yet, but I've definitely experienced it in college, where a guy continually stood on the quad on a rise in the grass and preached at the students as they passed. And he wasn't obnoxious about it, so nobody (including me) ever had a real problem with him. But I always felt like stopping and asking him if he honestly thought I was going to suddenly decide to change religions back on my way to my photography class.

I mean, if you're being a fire-and-brimstone, offensive asshole (which most public preachers I've seen don't seem to be), then seriously, go away. No, really. If you're going to scream loudly about discriminating against anybody based on religion, I don't want to hear your shit and I doubt anybody else with any brains does, either. But if you're going to go out there and expect to get converts on a sidewalk, it just scares the hell out of me.

Know why? Because I know you're going to get converts on a sidewalk, and that's what bothers me. Your faith is a very serious decision, and you're going to make it on the way to the market?

... the hell?!

For

palmetto, On Michael Moore ...

Oh, Michael Moore. Shut up.

You know, Michael Moore suffers from the same "Stop being on my side, damn it!" shade of asshole-ishness that Bill O'Reilly suffers from. (I wouldn't say "suffers from" so much as "revels in," actually.) Neither of them knows when the hell to shut up.

And I hate George Bush. You all know I hate George Bush. And I've realized I don't hate people who voted for Bush, I just don't understand why. Even when those of you who did vote for Bush explain it to me, I still can't understand it. We've had two wars in the past four years and we're probably going to get another one in the next four years, we've got a record deficit, pretty much everybody else on the planet hates our country, the current administration is trying to write discrimination into the Constitution and might try to make abortion illegal (which is only going to make it more difficult for the lives of women in this country, like it or not), and you like this guy?

So, yes, I like Fahrenheit 9/11, but I like it because anything that makes Bush looks bad amuses me. But it's like hearing a really funny joke from a monkey. If there's any possible way that Michael Moore could get more paranoid or condescending, that'd be really nice. (Read 'nice' as 'fucking annoying'.) It might be less bothersome if he could make a coherent argument in his documentaries, or maybe -- for once -- not actually show up in one of them ... nah, he'd still be a little loud-mouthed bastard.

Of course, at least he's not wandering around calling everybody who bothers him "bomb-throwers" like some gigantic, conservative radio-show-host-making-dirty-phone-calls dicks I can name.