What the ... fucktardery?!?!?

I don't know if there was something in the water the past week or there is just a rise in stupidity around the world.

You have the "couch surfing" morons I already mentioned.

Then you have ESPN and the racist headline they used, Chink in the Armour. How in the fuck do you NOT know that will be taken as offensive? It is nice they fired some people but that is something that never should have even been considered seriously as a headline.

Now you have NATO trying to apologize for an "error" that led to copies of the Koran being discarded and "possibly" burned in Afghanistan. An "error"? Is that like being a little pregnant? What kind of a monumental fucktard in charge could let something like that happen? Not surprisingly, the Afghans have been rioting and people have died.

What a bunch of Uber-Tards.

Bottom of the fucking food chain.

One of the top stories right now is about the death of a man in Quebec. He was "couch surfing". My reaction was ... what the hell is couch surfing?

These brain trusts hook a couch up to their vehicle and pull it down the road. The stupider of the group will "surf" on it. I suppose it is the next illogical step for the morons who were into planking.

The fucktards in the article ended up causing an accident. A driver in the other lane ended up hitting the couch. Now one of the fucktards is dead. The fucktard who was driving is now being charged with hit and run causing death, dangerous driving, and criminal negligence causing death. He had fled the scene.

The person I feel sorry for is the driving of the car that ended up hitting the couch. He will have to live his life dealing with what happened, even though it was the stupidity of the morons who caused it all.

I hope the idiot who was driving gets the maximum penalty.

Metro Transit

I am one of the lucky ones. The current transit strike doesn't affect me because I don't use the bus. I gave up on the public transit system here decades ago.

When I was going to University I took the bus most of my first year. I had problems with it just about every other day. There was no direct route to University, which wasn't a big problem. A simple transfer to another bus solves the problem. Unfortunately, the bus I had to transfer to rarely ever waited. Which meant a longer wait. Not a big problem but definitely annoying.

The buses would often be too early at the stop near me. I would get there 10 minutes BEFORE the bus was supposed to be there to find out that it had already been there.

One summer I worked in Burnside Industrial Park. There was no direct bus there. I would have to go all around town, and transfer 2-3 times, to get there. Add to that the bus that did run there ONLY ran once an hour. If you missed the bus you were screwed. From my nephew's experiences busing to work in Burnside it the service hasn't improved since then.

I will continue to drive instead of using Metro Transit if/when the strike is over.

DoOks

I love walking the dog. He loves walking. Unfortunately, he gets aggressive when on leash. Aggressive or protective. Or some kind of combination. Off leash, at Camp Bow Wow he is fine. On leash he will be good nose to nose and then he gets a snappy (at the air by them not at them directly). Grizzly was really head shy when we first adopted him and although he has gotten better about it he is still defensive. So, I always warn other dog walkers and there has never been a problem ... with other dogs on leash.

It is the dog mooks who insist on letting their dogs off leash in areas that are NOT designated off leash that are a problem. It is nice that your dog is good off leash and you know he is friendly. MY dog gets upset when strange dogs rush into his space and face.

I had a run in with a DoOok the other day. His dog, a big shepherd, was off leash and came charging up the path. He yelled for it to come back and the dog didn't listen. My dog saw this big fella running at him and was ready to fight. I had to control Grizzly and at the same time get between the dogs, which isn't a good place to be.

Needless to say I yelled at the guy to get his dog under control ... or else. He managed to get his dog and back off. Then he made the mistake of getting chirpy with me. "My dog is friendly." "There was no harm." "Nothing would have happened." "No need to yell at me I know how to handle my dog." Stupid fucking mook.

I told him off in no uncertain terms. He didn't seem to appreciate that. When I pulled out my cell phone and called Animal Control he decided it was time to shut up and leave.

All of this happened pretty much under one of the several signs in the park that say pets must be on leash at all times. Fucking DoOoks.

What the ... unfriending?!?!?

A friend told me something many moons ago that a supervisor of his does at work. Sometimes he will point out when someone is doing something wrong by making an innoccuous and unaddressed comment over their radio system. That way only those hooked in can hear.

For example if he saw someone with their hands in their pockets and said "Are your hands cold?" over the radio. Someone who wasn't being addressed replied "Are you talking to me?" His reply was "Should I be?"

I found the fact that someone would reply that way interesting. What were they doing, or had they done, that would lead them to think they were being addressed? Did they have a guilty conscience for some reason?

All of which came to mind when I found myself unfriended and blocked on Facebook as well as unsubscribed to here by someone after my post "Becoming a bully" was put up. It made me wonder why. Do they feel guilty about something? Did it touch a nerve? Do I really care?

The former two questions, meh, no idea. I can only speculate. Odds are yes but considering my reply to the third question those questions quickly became moot.

The latter question, considering it took me almost 3 weeks to notice the actions of the person, I would have to say no, I don't really care.

In parting all I have to say to them if they see this, and to anyone else who does and automatically assumes it is aimed at them and scurries away, is that I wish them well in their life and future endeavours.

Shit Morons Say ... when making up an excuse.

According to the Captain of the Italian cruise ship that crashed he was not on the ship because he, and I guess the crew in the lifeboat with him, was thrown out of the ship and into the life boat when it crashed. Seriously? What a fucktard.

This ranks up there with the North Korean's claiming their soccer team was all struck by lightning during practice to explain why they sucked so much at the last World Cup.

Becoming a bully.

One of my friends, Jokey, used to be pretty spineless in his younger years. he would let anyone walk all over him and abuse him without saying a word. One person, Dean, really liked to pick on him and I often found myself intervening to end it. Sometimes physically.

Sadly, that person, Dean, was also a friend. A friend who had been picked on and bullied all through school and by his father. He took a route that people with similar experiences sometimes take, he became a bully himself when he found someone weaker.

One day Jokey grew a spine. It was nice to see him stand up for himself for a change. Unfortunately, he didn't grow a filter or a sense of discretion. When one guy pissed him off he felt it was fair play to lash out verbally at that persons wife in public and create a scene. He went from being a door mat to being the type of person who used to pick on him. In effect, at times, he became Dean. He became a bully.

It is actually a fairly easy transition from victim to bully. Sometimes they bully their old bullies. Sometimes they just fixate on a weaker person. The internet makes it even easier to bully or just flat out attack people. Some people do it directly while others take a more circuitous route and try to be anonymous. In the end they become that which they hated. A bully.

It is a path I can see myself taking if I didn't have boundaries I try to stick to. There are lines I try not to cross. It is tempting sometimes, and I can't claim that I am infallible and will never cross them, but I try not to do it.

*note* I posted this prematurely ... hit publish instead of save ... but I figured what the hell, it can stay as is.