Have you heard this phrase lately? It seems to be gaining popularity and for good reason. The world is just full of these people and it seems like it is just getting worse everyday, or maybe I am just noticing it more.
Yesterday, we had a "tropical storm" here. there was a driving, pounding rain and winds of up to 50 MPH. It was not fit for man nor beast outside. Most normal people hunkered down inside and would not even think of going out. I even got a call from the emergency system via my job warning of the severe weather conditions and an advisory to stay indoors.
Taking all of this into account I am genuinely wondering why is it that some people decide to go to the beach in a situation like this? There were several stories about people attempting to go surfing and going for rides in their boats despite warnings about the potentially life threatening conditions at sea. They showed a man in a boat with two small children trying to go out for a ride. He was stopped by police several times and still, he kept at it. If not for the fact that he had those children with him I really think a guy like that should be left to his own devices. Someone that simple needs a good scare. There was also a story about a guy who decided that he thought 12 foot waves would be really cool to go surfing in. What on earth is missing in the brains of these people? The thing that really kills me is that emergency services people actually risk their lives to save people like this. They are akin to people who race with the bulls. You don't see police in Spain trying to talk people out of this dangerous event do you? They just let people go off and do it and that is that.
A few months ago we had two people in one day scale the New York times building. It was a spectacle. People lined the street to watch. Police were stationed at nearly every floor trying to save these idiots. Now I could understand if mental illness was involved but it wasn't. Both of these individuals were trying to prove a point. Don't ask me what it was now, I have forgotten but it was a social statement for both of them. Couldn't they have just donated to their causes? Was it really necessary to do something that required that much manpower and the time and energy of rescue teams? They even endangered people on the streets below. What if they had taken a fall and landed on some poor schmuck that happened to be walking by on his way to get his lunch or something? The nerve of these people just infuriates me.
Today I am just disgusted with attention whores. That is what these people are. For some reason they seem to feel the need to do attention getting things and to be heard. I would bet they are also loud talkers in public places. "LOOK AT ME", that is what these people seem to be saying. From now on, I think we need to leave these people be. If they want to walk on a ledge on the 40th floor of a high rise, let them. If they want to drive their cars onto an icy lake "just to see", let them. Unless they are putting the lives of others at risk and we are sure they are not mental, they deserve whatever fate they bring on themselves.
The famous version of this would be someone like Paris Hilton. She lives for having her photo taken. She walks out of her house with her hand in the air waving and her tiny dog peeking out of her giant purse. She even made a sex tape that she seemed to be quite proud of. She is an embarrassment and quite frankly I am shocked that she has "fans". Who on earth are these people?
Right now I am watching this horrendous infomercial on TV ,and it is an ad about some colon cleansing program. I clicked to this channel and the very first thing I heard was some guy with badly dyed hair and terrible skin saying "the majority of Americans are walking around with 5 to 25 lbs of compacted fecal matter in their digestive systems!" He then went on to say that we should be "eating and releasing" (nice phrase there huh?) 3x a day and any less means we are carrying around at least 5 lbs of poop that is killing us slowly. He even went into detail about how he watched his small daughter poop and that he was amazed at how large her deposit was in comparison to her body but that he has learned that it is healthy and that we should all be making mammoth drops. It means we are completely cleansed and healthy. People, this man is what we call a FREAK. The attention whore part of this is obvious, he wants to sell his colon cleansing pills but can you imagine making your mission in life using the word "fecal matter" in every sentence that comes out of your mouth all day long? Is nothing sacred anymore? Where is some restraint here? What in life lead this man to this point? Did his other career not work out? This must be a last resort for him. I refuse to believe he wants to be doing this. First Dr Oz and his poop talk on Oprah, now this? Why is poop such a big issue these days? Please, I am publicly begging here for society to stop talking about poop at every turn. I am at wits end with this.
Yesterday, we had a "tropical storm" here. there was a driving, pounding rain and winds of up to 50 MPH. It was not fit for man nor beast outside. Most normal people hunkered down inside and would not even think of going out. I even got a call from the emergency system via my job warning of the severe weather conditions and an advisory to stay indoors.
Taking all of this into account I am genuinely wondering why is it that some people decide to go to the beach in a situation like this? There were several stories about people attempting to go surfing and going for rides in their boats despite warnings about the potentially life threatening conditions at sea. They showed a man in a boat with two small children trying to go out for a ride. He was stopped by police several times and still, he kept at it. If not for the fact that he had those children with him I really think a guy like that should be left to his own devices. Someone that simple needs a good scare. There was also a story about a guy who decided that he thought 12 foot waves would be really cool to go surfing in. What on earth is missing in the brains of these people? The thing that really kills me is that emergency services people actually risk their lives to save people like this. They are akin to people who race with the bulls. You don't see police in Spain trying to talk people out of this dangerous event do you? They just let people go off and do it and that is that.
A few months ago we had two people in one day scale the New York times building. It was a spectacle. People lined the street to watch. Police were stationed at nearly every floor trying to save these idiots. Now I could understand if mental illness was involved but it wasn't. Both of these individuals were trying to prove a point. Don't ask me what it was now, I have forgotten but it was a social statement for both of them. Couldn't they have just donated to their causes? Was it really necessary to do something that required that much manpower and the time and energy of rescue teams? They even endangered people on the streets below. What if they had taken a fall and landed on some poor schmuck that happened to be walking by on his way to get his lunch or something? The nerve of these people just infuriates me.
Today I am just disgusted with attention whores. That is what these people are. For some reason they seem to feel the need to do attention getting things and to be heard. I would bet they are also loud talkers in public places. "LOOK AT ME", that is what these people seem to be saying. From now on, I think we need to leave these people be. If they want to walk on a ledge on the 40th floor of a high rise, let them. If they want to drive their cars onto an icy lake "just to see", let them. Unless they are putting the lives of others at risk and we are sure they are not mental, they deserve whatever fate they bring on themselves.
The famous version of this would be someone like Paris Hilton. She lives for having her photo taken. She walks out of her house with her hand in the air waving and her tiny dog peeking out of her giant purse. She even made a sex tape that she seemed to be quite proud of. She is an embarrassment and quite frankly I am shocked that she has "fans". Who on earth are these people?
Right now I am watching this horrendous infomercial on TV ,and it is an ad about some colon cleansing program. I clicked to this channel and the very first thing I heard was some guy with badly dyed hair and terrible skin saying "the majority of Americans are walking around with 5 to 25 lbs of compacted fecal matter in their digestive systems!" He then went on to say that we should be "eating and releasing" (nice phrase there huh?) 3x a day and any less means we are carrying around at least 5 lbs of poop that is killing us slowly. He even went into detail about how he watched his small daughter poop and that he was amazed at how large her deposit was in comparison to her body but that he has learned that it is healthy and that we should all be making mammoth drops. It means we are completely cleansed and healthy. People, this man is what we call a FREAK. The attention whore part of this is obvious, he wants to sell his colon cleansing pills but can you imagine making your mission in life using the word "fecal matter" in every sentence that comes out of your mouth all day long? Is nothing sacred anymore? Where is some restraint here? What in life lead this man to this point? Did his other career not work out? This must be a last resort for him. I refuse to believe he wants to be doing this. First Dr Oz and his poop talk on Oprah, now this? Why is poop such a big issue these days? Please, I am publicly begging here for society to stop talking about poop at every turn. I am at wits end with this.
I just don't know what else to say here. I seriously wonder why people are so needy like this and seem to have no boundaries and sense of how to behave in public. From the common man to celebrities to sales people trying to scare me into using their product...have some class and restraint. You might be surprised at how good it feels to just shut up about your darkest secrets and use your common sense from time to time.
That' all for now. :)
2 comments:
Thank you, thank you, thank you! I, too, do not want to know anything about anyone elses poop habits or some crazy-looking faux-tanned (or was that the poop?) bad-complexion'd creepy fella on tv discussing poop!
All I can think of is, what's next? And I really don't want to know.
I completely agree on this :)
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