Pet Peeves

[Born of Fire]

You know how annoying it was when you'd be on a bus and some cunt would be playing shite music on loudspeaker on their phone? Well here in Chile it's common to encounter folk with Bluetooth speakers playing reggaeton, which only reinforces my opinion that reggaeton is the absolute worst, aural torture.

[warhead]

You're from Ex-Yugoslavia, how many fine minds were proud of the third way, the relative success of a non-conforming economy? Loads, rightfully so!

The Americans and pals had planned to carve it up into squabbling banana republics, obliterating the system, blaming the evil Serbs and withholding aid from any republic which didn't declare independence. All planned before any nonsense in Bosnia, revive old hatreds and watch them eviscerate each other. Michael Parenti puts in very well.

https://youtu.be/6Jnws5UyFLs

Violently separate Kosovo Mij from Serbia, pretend it's independent , and pummel the poor fuckers who were dumb enough to sort out their own territory and have their former countrymen laughing and clapping at their misfortune:) Hook line and sinker. All my Serbian friends, including a dentist and a company director are extremely nationalist and have no nostalgia of any kind for Yugoslavia. Hate Alija, hate Tudjman, upi shiptare and fire off AK47's out the window when Croatia lose the World Cup final. Mind control, pure and simple.

This a too broad topic, yes, Americans probably started the fire, like in most other territories where they were bringing freedom and democracy.
I have my own opinion on who is to blame the most, but that wouldn't help anyone.

[Caomhaoin]

I could hazard a guess

[warhead]

I could hazard a guess

And I'm sure you'd be guessing right 

[Black Shepherd Carnage]

The Jews??

[warhead]

The Jews??

Well, they kind of always are in the game 

[Black Shepherd Carnage]

You're not exactly what I'd call an ideal straight man 

[warhead]

You're not exactly what I'd call an ideal straight man 

Not ideal, but doing my best, whenever possible.

[StoutAndAle]

The phrase "Let's make use of the time" and workplace twats.   

Said to me by a jobsworth cunt who went around the building looking for me at lunchtime, last Friday, while I ate in a disused office that's now used as an auxiliary canteen because we can't have two people in the main break room at the same time.

"Ah, Stout. Found you. Are you busy?"

(He was looking at a 6' 2" 18 stone man eating a sandwich and soup with headphones on)

"I'm eating lunch."

"Ah OK. Let's make use of the time. I just wanted to go through a few of the projects that we have finishing up this side of Christmas".

"Please go away. I'm eating my lunch."

"It won't take long."

"No. I'll find you when I'm done."

"I must go home again in 15 minutes". (He works from home, I don't, he appears every once in a while like a fart in a lift)

"No."

"If we could just make use of this free time"

I then ignored him and went back to my podcast.

[Carnage]

Water outages without warning. Pain in the balls.

[Eoin McLove]

I don't know if this is a trend in Ireland now too but there is an ad campaign running here about being kind. I mean fucking seriously! Don't forget to be kind to the shop assistant. Don't forget to be kind to other people. "The standard you pass is the standard you set". I feel like I'm in primary school reading this shit. I can't help but be put in mind of Bill Burr's sketch about the wife beater seeing the billboard sign about not beating your wife and thinking, Oh really? I should NOT beat my wife?? I never knew that!

Who are these ads aimed at, I wonder.

[Caomhaoin]

Posturing if you ask me.

'Be nice', what the fuck does that even mean? Be polite? I think most civilised and right minded people are on board with that, thanks. Reading between the lines, maybe don't react angrily to government measures on immigration/COVID or what have you?

Remember when those kind of ads used to have a point? Like that one from the 80's about not leaving dog out at night time because he might pal up with a lash of other dogs and go killing sheep. That ad put the shits right up me as a young f'la.

[Eoin McLove]

The gas thing is Melbourne is probably the most multi ethnic place I've ever been to and people seem to rub along on a day to day basis without a lot of friction. An important part of a civilised society is people generally keeping their opinions to themselves in public and being polite to one another. If you're at the stage in life where you have to be told by a billboard while sitting at traffic lights not to be a twat to people, it's probably too late. Likewise if you're the type of stuck up cunt who loses it at people working in the service industry- specifically in a country where the servers all call you mate and say stuff like "too easy"- then a note on the door asking you not to be a dickhead is a bit of a fart in the wind. In the case of the notes on shop doors it feels like virtue signaling. In the case of the billboards it feels a little more like social engineering.

[Blackout]

Posting about your friends suicide on LinkedIn for whatever purpos is about as low as it gets. Why do people do this?

[Caomhaoin]

Posting about your friends suicide on LinkedIn for whatever purpos is about as low as it gets. Why do people do this?

The disease of social media exhibitionism knows no bounds. Posting bullshit or holiday/baby pictures is, in hindsight, mildly embarrassing. The kind of shit that you're describing is lower than whale manure. It's gone from 'look how cool I am' to 'look how great and sorted and happy my life is' to 'look how this has affected me emotionally'.

This shite Facebook are developing is the next logical step in providing cunts with a parallel life. It would be great if those shadowy Russian hacker special ops could sabotage FB and Twitter.