Things I hate

A common element of a blog, I suppose.  A list of certain things that I cant stand, and why.  Enjoy.

1.  Ketchup-It's disgusting.  The smell, the taste, the bland color, that gross, not-liquid but not-solid texture, the sound of it coming out of the bottle, everything about it.  Keep that shit away from me.

2.  Advertising-Nothing but lies, gimmicks, and non-related images mostly for products that are not entirely necessary.  The worst offenders are for technologies (apple especially).  Either they're flat out lies (both verizon and at&t boast the largest and most reliable 3g networks!) or just retarded eye bait.  On top of that, most companies' budgets revolve around advertising, usually absorbing the majority of the funds.  And for what?  To remind us that McDonald's serves quarter pounders and has milkshakes?  I dont think certain things leave your head after continuing to be relevant for most of a century.  These funds could go to paying the employees more, modernizing and repairing the stores (the average is three broken pieces of equipment per McDonald's), or even improving the quality of the food.  But no, they feel they need to present an image with their product, even though everyone already knows its sub grade food and piss all over the bathroom floor.

3.  Guys who spend more making a car look cool than what they paid for the car itself.  A Focus with a spoiler, chameleon paint and scoops that arent vented is still just a golf cart.  They even make speakers you can put into your car to make it sound like you put in a turbo kit. Speakers, for christ's sake.

4.  That bouncer at the club that wouldn't let me back in even though I had a wristband, all because I left my id at home (I had to sneak in earlier and ask one of the wristband girls for a 'new' one), which was weird because I had been bar hopping all night and not ONE other person carded me.  Dude was like 350, though, so I didnt want to start shit.

5.  Not having a monkey-still waiting.

6.  Pop music.

7.  Knowing that there will never be an eradication of suffering or war anytime soon.

8.  Knowing I probably wont be able to inflict any of that suffering or war myself.

9.  Shitty Discovery/History Channel lineups.  Fucking seriously, Pawn Stars?  "Dur, history happens every day!"  Yes, but it sure as hell doesnt happen to four fat asses selling junk in Vegas.  Oh, the junk has historical value?  Too bad its still a terrible premise for a show.  Then there's American pickers, which is the same theme of old crap that somebody somewhere is going to pay hundreds for while they pay a fraction of its actual value to the owner.  I once saw 14 solid hours of these two shows on the tv guide, and they looped, too.  And when they're not playing that crap its "Guys Doing Laborous Jobs", for the other ten hours of the day.  The rest of the content is mostly doomsday/apocalypse programming, one of them even taking cut scenes from that terrible 2012 movie.  I will hand it to History, though, they do return to their roots during the Sunrise With Hitler block at 4 freaking am.

10.  TV in general-I dunno, its just not fun anymore.  Im told what to watch when, most of the good shows are on pay channels, and anything else worth watching is just a rehash of something else (ie The Killing = Twin Peaks).  Adult Swim remains watchable, but most of their good stuff gets cancelled too soon and they hang on to crap.  I do appreciate the anime, as they do find gems from time to time like Cowboy Bebop, Paranoia Agent and FLCL.

11.  Asshole parents who let their bansee spawn run around the god damned restaraunt and do nothing more than raise their voices and give their kids a mean look that only goads the child on.  I like kids, but when they actually make enough noise to make the windows vibrate I kind of want to punt them.  Even so, its the parents I hate in this one, so mind that.

12.  My dog pissing on my bed without even giving a "please take me out now" bark.

13.  Ugh, hmm...ah, trying to eat a quick breakfast before work and having to change gears all the time wth food in my hand because of stupid traffic.

14.  Finding an old toy or collectible, remembering it used to be worth something and checking to see that its only fetching three bucks on ebay.

15.  Spiders.  Fuck them.