Non-horror bitch session

[GiveMeGore]

I got one. This issue is genuinely making me depressed.

We're getting dumb. Really fucking dumb. And by we, I mean human beings. It's getting bad.

On a daily basis, I encounter fucking morons left and right. And maybe it's just because I'm thinking about it more, and noticing it more.....  but my fuck, this is getting bad.

Guy at the convienant store I stop at every morning. I swear to christ the guy gets a headache counting my change. He gave me an extra 5 dollars the other day. I was paying with a 10 dollar bill.

I work 2 nights a week at a bar doing dishes. Some kid the other day, asked me how to tie a knot in the trash bag he was throwing out. This is a fact. "I don't know how to answer that, man....without making you look like an idiot"   direct quote from GMG.

I don't have food in my apt. I eat out every day. Mostly at local pubs. I often stop by for a quick bite and a beer. I cannot tell you, how many conversations I've over heard, that make me want to wrap my lips around a sawed-off just so I don't have to listen to these mutts anymore.

I think a part of it has to do with the fact we're no longer capable of having a decent, normal conversation face to face with anyone anymore. So when we are actually in a LIVE forum with living breathing human beings, the conversation is so akward, the dumbass conversations I overhear are a result. They're probably not as fucking stupid as they sound, because they're so uncomfortable looking at someone else in the eye and you know.....TALKING. And you see this often, two individuals sitting next to each other......silent......both face down in their I-Phones. It's a miserable, miserable scenario for our species.
I swear when it's all said and done, Steve Jobs will no longer be remembered as the GOD he's currently portrayed to be......he'll be known as the one who turned human beings into fucking robots who are incapable of simple thought without referring to their I-Phone, I-Pad or whatever other pointless device that distracts us from that little voice in our head.......

*don't get me wrong....I'm not saying I'm a genuis by any means. But I'm pretty proud of the fact I do not have a smart phone, I do not use facebook nor twitter, I do not have a computer outside of work, I have never watched the local News or any reality television show......  and if you want to sit down and have a beer or two with GMG, I promise you will NOT see my phone and I'll genuinely LISTEN to what you gotta say......   sadly, that last part is pretty rare. Because with all the above, our attention span is fucking nonexistant.

[GeneralCinema]

I got one. This issue is genuinely making me depressed.

We're getting dumb. Really fucking dumb. And by we, I mean human beings. It's getting bad.

On a daily basis, I encounter fucking morons left and right. And maybe it's just because I'm thinking about it more, and noticing it more.....  but my fuck, this is getting bad.

Guy at the convienant store I stop at every morning. I swear to christ the guy gets a headache counting my change. He gave me an extra 5 dollars the other day. I was paying with a 10 dollar bill.

I work 2 nights a week at a bar doing dishes. Some kid the other day, asked me how to tie a knot in the trash bag he was throwing out. This is a fact. "I don't know how to answer that, man....without making you look like an idiot"   direct quote from GMG.

I don't have food in my apt. I eat out every day. Mostly at local pubs. I often stop by for a quick bite and a beer. I cannot tell you, how many conversations I've over heard, that make me want to wrap my lips around a sawed-off just so I don't have to listen to these mutts anymore.

I think a part of it has to do with the fact we're no longer capable of having a decent, normal conversation face to face with anyone anymore. So when we are actually in a LIVE forum with living breathing human beings, the conversation is so akward, the dumbass conversations I overhear are a result. They're probably not as fucking stupid as they sound, because they're so uncomfortable looking at someone else in the eye and you know.....TALKING. And you see this often, two individuals sitting next to each other......silent......both face down in their I-Phones. It's a miserable, miserable scenario for our species.
I swear when it's all said and done, Steve Jobs will no longer be remembered as the GOD he's currently portrayed to be......he'll be known as the one who turned human beings into fucking robots who are incapable of simple thought without referring to their I-Phone, I-Pad or whatever other pointless device that distracts us from that little voice in our head.......

*don't get me wrong....I'm not saying I'm a genuis by any means. But I'm pretty proud of the fact I do not have a smart phone, I do not use facebook nor twitter, I do not have a computer outside of work, I have never watched the local News or any reality television show......  and if you want to sit down and have a beer or two with GMG, I promise you will NOT see my phone and I'll genuinely LISTEN to what you gotta say......   sadly, that last part is pretty rare. Because with all the above, our attention span is fucking nonexistant.

That was actually very well written and I agree with most of it.  Cable TV providers are a big part of this.  Everyone's watching TV or online and while we are more "connected", we are completely disassociated with one another.

It's more sad than anything else.

[Splatterscribe]

*don't get me wrong....I'm not saying I'm a genuis by any means. But I'm pretty proud of the fact I do not have a smart phone, I do not use facebook nor twitter, I do not have a computer outside of work, I have never watched the local News or any reality television show......  and if you want to sit down and have a beer or two with GMG, I promise you will NOT see my phone and I'll genuinely LISTEN to what you gotta say......   sadly, that last part is pretty rare. Because with all the above, our attention span is fucking nonexistant.

I can't agree with not following the news..if you want to stay ahead of the curve, you gotta know what's going on. The problem is choosing which news broadcast to watch. The network crap is censored and lacks objectivity much of the time. I watch the BBC World News report instead. it's completely objective  and it isn't censored. Plus it covers what's happening all across the globe, not just here.  Some of the best journalism ever to grace the airwaves. Public television airs it every day.

I use Facebook  a lot less than I used to.  I'll keep my account because there are  a number of people I know (or am related to) who live in other states and long distance is just too expensive to keep calling. Also, its a quick, easy way to coordinate plans with friends for the weekend. Beyond that, I agree. it's grown far too important to American culture.  I also have a Twitter account which I use so infrequently that I sometimes forget it exists, because fuck tweets, that's why. Seriously, I gotta go for it and just shut that damned thing down.  I don't even remember why I opened it in the first place.

As to the rest..yeah pretty much, man. Nailed it. I hate that the art of conversation is dead..and as an occasional volunteer English language tutor, I'm  particularly aghast that there is an entire generation of kids who have grown up under the impression that text speak is an acceptable substitute for the English language. Kids can't write anymore nor do they feel its an important skill. Real life is just waiting to kick them in the nuts with a harsh reality check the first time they need to fill out an employment application.

[GiveMeGore]

Kids can't write anymore nor do they feel its an important skill. Real life is just waiting to kick them in the nuts with a harsh reality check the first time they need to fill out an employment application.

U r right......kidz dez days R stoopid.

[GeneralCinema]

http://notalwaysright.com/alohomorons/20643

This is where society is right now.  It's more sad than anything else.

[GiveMeGore]

and to touch upon your point with the News, Splatt.......  I agree with you, but the problem is, you're in the severe minority as far as wanting to know what's going on in the world.......the vast majority of the assholes watching the news are doing so just to feed their massive need to know other peoples business, not trying to become a better informed individual. Caught a story on the news at the bar yesterday afternoon...... they were showing some creep who works at a local cable station being removed from his place of employment because they found kiddy porn on his computer. Learning about what this freak chooses to jerk off to, is not usefull information to John Q Citizen, I'm sorry..... 

[Splatterscribe]

Annnnnd..arriving on cue to prove GMG's point with chilling accuracy is this news item from the past 48 hrs about a Bronx woman who decided to run over her teenage lover with an SUV, killing the poor bastard because he broke her Iphone.

http://www.whptv.com/news/local/story/Older-woman-kills-teenage-boyfriend-over-busted/aPsHu3AkE0KydR34Ce9nfg.cspx


I........

....I got nothing.

[GiveMeGore]

Annnnnd..arriving on cue to prove GMG's point with chilling accuracy is this news item from the past 48 hrs about a Bronx woman who decided to run over her teenage lover with an SUV, killing the poor bastard because he broke her Iphone.

http://www.whptv.com/news/local/story/Older-woman-kills-teenage-boyfriend-over-busted/aPsHu3AkE0KydR34Ce9nfg.cspx


I........

....I got nothing.

You see, you see.......if this crazy bitch had GMGs 9 dollar samsung fucking flip phone, this poor bastard would still be alive, texting as we speak.

Seriously though.....if you know someone with an I-Phone..... and you're hanging out with them..... pay attention and see how long they can go without looking at it, for whatever reason. The over/under is about 3 and half minutes, I estimate. No....that can't affect the human mind. Not at all.

[traumamama]

I've had variations of this conversation a hundred times.  Kids think they're smarter than any generation before them just because they started learning new technology at an age when things absorb more than they do for adults.  All they really have to learn is how to google, and any question they have can be solved.  School becomes a joke.  Whenever I see a group of young people anywhere, at least a couple of them are staring at their phones.

I don't know if any of you have seen WALL-E (It's great, you really should if you haven't) but their depiction of humans in the future is scary stuff.  This movie was released less than a year after the original iPhone came out, and it's scary that part of their prediction for humans in the future has already started to come true.  People don't even realize there is life beyond a screen in front of their faces.  For an example, check youtube for the video of a woman falling off a pier while texting.

NOW, with all that said, I love my iPhone.  I can listen to music wherever I am, I can read BBC online, I can read a funny Cracked article, I can play Scrabble with my friend in Japan.  I can text my sister whose job causes her to be out of the country most of the year.  If I hear a song I like somewhere, I can hold my phone up and it'll tell me what song it is, and provide me with the link so I can instantly own it.  It's pretty sweet.

BUT I have the common sense to not use my phone when I'm hanging out with other people.  Maybe I'm lucky that my friends are entertaining enough that I never even think about checking my phone when we're hanging out.  I'm just as social now as I was before all this technology.  Maybe more so because it's easier to plan group activities.

I don't think the problem is the technology itself, the problem is people who don't realize that spending a majority of their time staring at a screen is not healthy.  Kids who don't even know how fun it is to just hang out in the company of others, shooting the shit.  Parents need to get their kids outside and playing.  If they never get to experience playing with a group then how will they ever learn any different?  Kids not playing outside anymore because of "stranger danger" is bullshit.  If you're scared someone's going to kidnap your kids then fucking watch them.

So, it comes down to learning the lesson that there definitely can be too much of a good thing.  There's always going to be morons who make us ashamed of this world, it just seems more apparent now that we have access to news from everywhere.

And finally, if it weren't for this technology none of us would know each other and we'd have much fewer people to discuss horror with without getting that look like "What kind of sicko watches that stuff?" So obviously it's not all bad 

[GiveMeGore]

Well put Traum......   for the record, I never said anyone who HAS an I-Phone is a dumbass. You're obviously extremely intelligent, my friend....    but I think people who are borderline just plain dumb, the smart phone has given them that push over the ledge, into the Re-Re pool.

I think the majority of my depression on this subject stems from my office. Oh my fuck are people simple around here. I'm talking about people......who have done the same friggin thing.....day in and day out for over a decade......STILL not having a fucking clue what the hell they're doing. It disgusts me to no end. More so, the acceptance of the incompedence from my surperiors is especially discouraging, to say the least. I'm sick to death of answering the same fucking questions, over and over again. Fucking smarten up, pay attention, before I kick ya fucking teeth in.

[WL Paynecraft]

I love this thread.  A couple comments.

I agree with everybody.  The young generation is in the shitter.  What can you possibly be texting about? Facebook still amazes me.  Who gives a fuck? Sure, it's handy for keeping in touch with good friends and family, but for it to become the behemoth that it is is beyond me.  We are going to have a social media bubble pretty soon.  Somebody is going to say "Wait a minute guys, NOBODY gives a shit about this stuff!" I'm seeing it with these tech/social media/website IPO's that everybody is talking about.  I first seen it with that damn Groupon stuff.  The business models just don't seem long-term, but everybody is overpaying for them.  Of course I thought a bubble was going to happen with reality tv and I was sadly mistaken.

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Tulip_bubble

Check out my wiki link above for a sad example of history repeating itself.  At some point somebody finally said "Wait a minute, I'm not paying $50,000 for a fucking flower!".  It's coming.

GMG, you wash dishes a couple times a week? Interesting.  I did that for a couple years back in the college days.  Hard work.  No tips.  Good character building, and the occasional untouched pan of catering food to bring home and work on for a couple days.  Bam!

[WL Paynecraft]

I just noticed that the tulip link I sent you guys to was about a billion pages long.  Sorry! The story is poignant though.

Here is something I have mixed emotions about.  Netflix.  I love it, though I rarely use it.  I guess I like the idea of it existing.  Sometimes finding something to watch becomes more fun than actually watching it.  This isn't my problem though.  My problem is that it is taking away from my beloved horror movie collection.  I used to search long and hard for the rare and hard to find horror movie.  I find myself shying away from this process because alot of the movies (not all) are on Netflix.  Why pay $20 for a vintage movie when you can watch it for free? I'm mixed, much like buying digital cd's over physical ones.  Guess I'm overly nostaligic...

[Splatterscribe]

No sooner  do we get on the subject of how ridiculous the new generation is when this teacher brings it home perfectly. Skip ahead to about the three minute mark to begin the part where he makes the comments that have made this video a viral hit. Amen, teach. Well said.



http://news.yahoo.com/video#video=29599955



And Payne..in deference to your last entry.... Netflix can blow me.  I will never in my life deal with those cretins again. They appear have charged me sixteen bucks they had no authorization to take (I tried to sign up a few days ago,  decided against the account after all and cancelled four minutes later.  I got hit with over thirty dollars in charges within ten minutes. Part of it was refunded, but another sixteen is still outstanding). Those chuckleheads are about a mouse click away from getting reported to the FBI for cyber theft.

[GiveMeGore]

GMG, you wash dishes a couple times a week? Interesting.  I did that for a couple years back in the college days.  Hard work.  No tips.  Good character building, and the occasional untouched pan of catering food to bring home and work on for a couple days.  Bam!

Yeah man, it's pretty sweet. It is very hard work....but I kill it. I'm like a stealth ninja back there, bro....  very small kitchen, alot of traffic (about 3-4 servers on top of 2 bar tenders constantly coming by)  but luckily I have the reflexes of a cat and the speed of a mongoose, so I keep a mightly clean kitchen if I do say so myself. Sat and Sunday nights. Take home 100 bucks a week. Pays for my reefers. I eat for free.....kill ice cream sundays like it's no ones business.....eat mad rolls..... look at nice tail all day, and no one bothers me, no team work involved.....be alone with your thoughts most of the night. OH and listening to the constant bickering and down right viscous exchanges I get to witness from upclose, is always entertaining.....Very pleasant, indeed mane....   Did I mention it's a bar, and I normally have a beer or two and a shot of wiskey most nights after I'm done getting my mop on.... for free of course.

OH this is a bitch n moan thread....I forgot..... ummmm....   well the dumb fucking owner jewed me 5 hours on my check yesterday. Bastards.

[GiveMeGore]

Yeah so back to this "People are fucking SLOW" thing.....   I swear I can't avoid it. Doesnt stop. All day. Every day. And by "it", I'm referring to dealing with fucking morons and observing moronic activity.

I'm waiting in the drive thru line at Wendys yesterday. Lovely afternoon. The guy behind me decides there are too many cars in this drive thru, "Fuck it, I'm going in". So he pulls out from behind me into a parking spot. He walks passed my car, then has a "Shit, I forgot something" moment, turns around, and goes back towards his vehicle. I figure he's probably just grabbing his wallet. Nope. What does this asshole grab. HIS CELL PHONE. You have GOT to be fucking KIDDING me! You mean to tell me, you fucking asshole, that you cannot go the 4 and a half fucking minutes it'll take for you to order your god damn number 3 with a leomonade without your cell phone? You fucking mutant you.

I was pissed off for a solid hour after that. I shouldnt say that. GMG doesnt get pissed (too often anyways)   but I was downright sad after witnessing that.

*update. I saw a woman on the back of a motorcycle yesterday as I was stopped at stop sign, drove by me.....  back of the motorcycle, TEXTING. This bitch was leaned back, both hands on phone, fucking texting. I almost followed the dykes to the next intersection, hopped out the car, and kicked the whore in the side of the head just out of principal. Then I would have robbed the two bitches cuz GMGs gotta eat.

Almost, fantasized about....same thing, same thing....