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Don't Pick a Fight With an Old Guy... 

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If He is too Old to Fight, He Just Might Kill You. 
 

Stuff That Pisses Off Old Guys (John)
 
These rantings are in no particular order. 
 
Feel free to e-mail John if you have any suggestions for this list.

 

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Megaphone-Mouthed Drama Queens/Kings - People that walk around in public loudly talking on their cell phones about the DRAMA in their lives.  Drama belongs on the Dr. Phil Show, I don't want to hear your drama while I am in the beer aisle at Walmart.  Actually. I don't want to hear drama at all.  That's why I watch Married with Children and World's Dumbest, not Dr. PhilThat reminds me - F'ing people that CREATE DRAMA- You people please stay away from me so I am not tempted to start some real drama by trying to slap some sense into your attention starved pea-brains.
  
And there's the R.I.B.'s (Really Important Bastards).  These people are Sooooo F'ing important that they have to talk on their cell phones everywhere they go.  What the hell did R.I.B.'s do before cell phones?  I have seen R.I.B's that are so 'important' they can't stop talking on their phone long enough to drop a deuce in public rest rooms - "...Yeah...(strain, grunt)...I told you...(grunt, splash, tinkle) that I wanted that report to me YESTERDAY!...(role, wipe, flush...)" yack-f'ing-yack...  One thing about talking in the rest room though, the echo might make it sound like they have a really big office.
 
Parents that let their kids scream - When I was pup, my mom used to say, "Stop crying or I'll give you something to cry about."  That was mom code for knock that crap off before she whips out her wooden spoon and makes like my butt is the throw rug on cleaning day.  This was a very effective deterrent to us kids whining, crying or otherwise acting up.  Fast-forward 50+ years.   These days I see some parents pushing their kid around in stores and the kid is crying and screaming at the top of his lungs about who knows what, while the parents just keep shopping.  I don't know how long it takes to scar your eardrums to be able to ignore a kid screaming 6 inches from your face, but I know it is way longer than it took my mom to open up a kitchen drawer.  I'm not sure what these parents have in their 'raising kids proper' tool kits, but it seems to me some of them should take a cue from my mom and reach for the spoon.  My siblings and I and my kids are proof that using the threat of the spoon might help their kids grow up to be decent people.  And it might help the parents avoid needing Miracle Ear in their 40's. 


Just Wondering:
1. Does it make sense to drive around a parking lot to find a parking space up close...and then walk into the L.A. Fitness to go run on the treadmill for 20 minutes?
2. Do litterbugs actually LIKE to see litter on their streets?
3. Do TSA agents believe that an 80 year old blue-haired woman might actually be packing a bomb in her orthopedic loafers?
4.  Are smart phones making us dumber?
5.  Is the disposal of the toxic stuff in the worn out batteries of electric vehicles considered when pushing these cars as 'good' for the environment?
7.  Have the people that want more restrictive gun laws ever fired a gun?  OK...have they ever held a gun?
8.  If the number of people on food stamp programs continues to increase, who will be left working to pay the taxes to support them?
9.  Sign in liquor store window - " We Accept EBT Cards."-???
10.  Why is the government handing out free cell phones and service...Making sure kids are not hungry I get, but making sure everyone has wireless service?
11.  Why is it a problem to ask for proper ID before you can vote?  Hell, the clerk at Home Depot asks me for ID when I buy manure with my credit card.
12.  Do modern cars still have bumpers?
13.  When they drive down I-5, how do the guys at Cal-Trans ignore the sofa sized, filling-loosening pot-holes?
14.  Do all the street signs in Washington DC say "Left Turn Only"?
15.  How does my wife always seem to know when I am about to do something stupid?
16.  How does my wife find something in 30 seconds that I looked for for an hour?
17.  Do negative people have an overactive 'Fight or Flight' response mechanism? 
18.  Did you notice there was no #6 above? 
 

Wussies – We are turning into a nation of wimpy ass-ed pussies or wussies for short.  Besides the forced wussification by the Government, who keeps poking their noses into our lives to save us from ourselves ‘cause we be 2 dum to be able to decide things like....when we should be wearing helmets...how big the sodas we drink should be...or what kind of food we pack in our kids school lunches...I have another theory.  The lack of the use of Iodine.  Folks that grew up in my era remember iodine.  We would routinely get scrapes and cuts when we played army outside killing bad guys with toy guns and cardboard tubes that were our bazookas ("Army?!-Guns?!Killing?!-AHHH!!" - Calm down ya wussies, we all survived).  Good old mom would wash us up with soap and water and dab on the iodine.  The burning from the iodine was often worse than the pain from the injury.  So when we got hurt we had two choices; #1 - The Iodine Rx; or #2 – Suck It Up.  Either of these options made us tougher.  Chubby X-box 360 generation kids don’t get too many scrapes from playing Madden 16.  And if they do get a blister on their ‘passing’ finger, their helicopter moms will put on some pain relief Neosporin and a Hurt-Free Band-Aid.  Heaven help us if there is ever a bad natural disaster or a war where these wussies would actually have to pry the couch cushions off their butts and try to deal with seeing real blood.  (Sigh)...I'm actually missing the sting of iodine.

 

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'I'm Offended' - Thanks to the liberals that have basically taken over public schools and most colleges/universities, we have a whole bunch of young people that think it is OK to get upset or 'offended' if you say anything that doesn't fit into their wisdom-less view of the world.   These brainwashed souls have not had enough real-world experiences (i.e., jobs, responsibilities, bills-to-pay, taxes to pay, kids...) to understand that using the "I am offended" phrase is a crutch to avoid views/discussions that are different than theirs.  They have turned into a bunch of narrow-minded, whiners that think you win an argument by shouting-down those that you disagree with.  When they disagree with someone they resort to name calling as a tatic, as if that somehow justifies thier positions.  Real discussions on viewpoints are lacking with these guys.  The anarchists that protest/riot at universities when a 'conservative' speaker is scheduled to talk just don't get it.  That is not how a 'Free' society works.  A free society lets anyone talk (even assholes you don't like).  A free society doesn't shout-down or violently shutdown someone just because they don’t agree with them.  Heaven help us if it becomes the norm that it's OK for a violent crowd to decide who gets to talk in public. 

 

Most of these still-living-in-mommy's-basement dwellers have been indoctrinated to think that our capitalism based counrty is unfair.  They think the goverment needs to have more control so that 'they' can fix all the things that aren't 'fair' and make things more 'equal'.  That socialist shit don't work...Just ask the poor folks in Venezuela.  Venezuela has the largest known oil deposits in the world and thanks to the socialist goverment, they don't have enough food feed their people. 

 

Life experiences help give us wisdom.  More experiences come with getting older and in general older people understand what is important in life, and what works and what dosen't. They understand that life is not always 'fair' and that success and happinness is based on what energy and work you put in.  Working hard, being a good person and doing the right things are what help make people happy and lead successfull lives.  Bigger, more intrusive government is not the answer.  Hopefully these young whiners will open up their minds and listen to other people that can give them different perspective and ideas to think about; not the fantasies that they have heard in school.  

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Anyone/Anything that is PC (Politically Correct) - Be careful getting sucked it to this bullshit y'all as it chips away at our "Freedom of Speech" guaranteed by the First Amendement of the Constitution of our great (and still) FREE country.  When I was in Kindergarten I learned the old children's saying "Sticks and stones may beak my bones but names will never hurt me.".  What happened to teaching that useful life lesson?  Now young adults in colleges are being taught they can run to safe spaces if they hear an idea or words that offend them.  What a bunch of pussies!  Ripping a cabbage and bean salad induced fart in an full elevator should offend people, but words or different opinions should not.  Call me an old fat redneck bald guy - I won't give a F'k.  If you say something I don't like, I'm a big boy, I can take it.  And I can either tell you why I don't like it or I can ignore you or I can leave.  Pretty simple shit.
 
I am sure there will be plenty for this PC category so here we go:
 
People that say 'Happy Holidays' instead of 'Merry Christmas' because they might offend someone.  I get that not everyone celebrates Christmas, but those that don't should be able to conclude that people saying 'Merry Christmas' to them is just a nice gesture.  You could say "Happy Goat Lover's Day." to me and I won't get upset, I'll say "Umm, Thanks?" and just walk away thinking you're a weirdo.  BTW - You people that get offended by or won't say 'Merry Christmas', you are F'ed.  Santa is a fellow old guy and he told me he won't be bringing you ANY presents this year.
 
Letting school kids pick what restroom they use based on how they FEEL.  WTF?!  What if a kid feels like a cat one morning, will he be allowed to take a poop in the school yard sandbox?  Which restroom kids should use is not about Feelings - It's about plumbing.  If you can grab a hold of your pee pole and write your initials in the dirt when you piss outside, use the boys restroom; if you don't have a pee pole, use the girls restroom.  Hey you liberal school pukes - keep feelings out of school decisions and stick to teaching kids skills they can use to make a living one day.
 
People that talk about limiting 'Hate Speech' -  This is another sneak attack on our Free Speech Rights.  People that talk about limiting 'Hate Speech' are really just saying they want to limit any speech that they don't agree with.  The ''We need to stop Hate Speech" crowd touts themselves as being tolerant.  But really they are only tolerant of people that have the same ideas and values that they have.  Discussions on immigration or who should use what bathroom or whether a family owned bakery should be able to refuse to bake a cake with two grooms on top, quickly results in the 'tolerent' crowd resorting to calling people that don't agree with them haters.  In my 60 plus trips around the sun I have noticed that people that profess to be this-or-that are often quite the opposite.  So when tolerant people call others 'haters', it's a good bet that they are really describing themselves. 
 
A Good Quote, "If we don't believe in freedom of expression for people we despise, we don't believe in it at all." - Noam Chomsky
 
Local newscasts that filter information so as not to offend.  Not that I watch TV news much as it is mostly liberal leaning, filtered, sensationalized crap.  I do get sucked in to watching at times by the hubba!-hubba! centerfolds that are reporting the weather.  It drives me crazy when I-Wimppy News puts out a report like this; "...The suspect is described as a male, 20 to 35 years old, 5 foot 9 to 6 feet tall, with medium build and brown hair and brown eyes.  This person is considered very dangerous.  If you see anyone meeting this description please call the police or call our we tip hot line.".  Really?  They should call it the we wimp hot line.  That description fits a good portion of the male population.  How about you narrow it down a bit by reporting the 'alegeded' dirt-bags race and/or skin color?  Reasonable good citizens do not get upset if they hear about a bad guy being the same race or color they are.  But in the bizarro PC world it is more important to worry about hurting the feelings of some than it is to put out an accurate report that might actually help catch a bad guy.  These shows are all about ratings, so do what I do when you hear crap like this, cuss out the smiling manikin that's reading the 'news' and pop in the 'Dirty Harry' DVD.
 
Rule Breakers - Rules are made to help keep order.  Not following rules invites chaos.  A simple concept to grasp.  Lately it seems that more people are acting as if rules only apply to everyone else.  Like...the guy that has 14 items in the 10 items or less line...pointers that use their turn signals only when they are about to cut you off...people letting their dogs leave dukies on/near walkways...a healthy looking guy jumping out of his car that he just parked in the handicapped space...using a personal email server to send and receive classified U.S. government information for 'convenience'.  'Me' generation narcissism sucks.  For those of you that follow rules, thank you for considering others and helping to keep some sense of order.
 
Overreaching Freedom Stealing Laws -  All of the entities that make laws to save us from ourselves need to chill.  These bureaucratic do-gooders have never met a law they don't like.  And they keep making more laws that restrict our personal freedom.  For instance; I don't like cigarette smoke, but laws restricting tobacco use have gone overboard.  And now law happy helpy-helpertons are busy making new laws that treat electronic cigarettes like real cigarettes.  E-cigs vaporize water with nicotine in it.  Their output is water vapor, the stuff clouds are made of.  It's not smoke.  And many of these same law loving jokers are also pushing to make smoking marijuana legal?!?  Hey dip-wads; smoking marijuana creates real smoke, and BTW, it also gets you high.  Water vapor does not harm you, but smoke can.  The lack of reasonableness and consistency that lawmakers display by making laws like this is a glaring testament to their self-righteous bullshit.  They need to stop making laws, especially laws that whittle away at our personal freedom to choose.  Where does it stop?  I bet there are some 'I know what's best for you' lawmakers huddled in a government building somewhere, plotting on how they can ban Cinna-Bun restaurants from cooking in malls because the yummy smells make us dumb, weak-minded citizens unable to resist making impulse purchases of high calorie food.  We have enough laws dagnabbit!  STOP making moreAnd don't you law creating clowns go get'n any ideas, I'm just kidding about the Cinna-Bun thing.  And for the record, I have no issues with people responsibly smoking tobacco or pot outside; just make sure I am upwind or far enough away please. 

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And what gets me to stringing colorful four letter words together like a sailor that just banged his head on a bulkhead? That would be 'Pointers' - A.K.A motor vehicle 'drivers', but these people don't drive their cars, they just point them in the general direction they're going.  So calling them drivers doesn't properly describe them - Call them Pointers. 
 
Road Hog Pointers that have no CLUE about the law that states "SLOWER TRAFFIC KEEP RIGHT".  These road rage generators point their vehicles down the road in the left lanes, oblivious to the dozens of vehicles behind them they are blocking.  Road hog pointers seem to develop immunities to high-beam lights flashing in their mirrors, middle fingers being vigorously waved at them and to pissed off drivers cutting very close to their front bumpers as they get passed on the right.  I wonder what these boneheads are thinking about as they point down the highway in their self-centered worlds?...On second thought, I don't want know.  Dear Road Hog Pointers...please MOVE RIGHT...and take the nearest exit.
 
Roller Coaster Pointers - These are the chuckleheads that are incapable of maintaining a constant speed; it's 55 MPH to 75 MPH to 60 MPH...  And these folks don't understand the concept of gravity, that is that they should be pressing harder on the accelerator when going UPHILL and let off when going DOWNHILL.  Hey Roller Coaster Pointers, most vehicles have cruise control - use them.
 
Not Respecting Law Enforcement - A recent Internet news item read, "The entire staff at Krystal fast food restaurant refused to serve police officer...".  When did it become okay to be disrespectful to law enforcement personnel?  I really don't get the weenies pushing this upside down message.  These activists go around blaming the unfair 'system' for their woes and make excuses for criminals because of some perceived 'injustices'.  Let's see...the police are law enforcement and it is their job to...Enforce Laws.  Don't break the law and you have nothing to worry about.  I hate to think of what our great country would be without our world class law enforcement personnel.  On that note -  Hey you burger-for-brains ingrates at Krystal restaurant, you might want to think your actions through a bit more before you go pulling any more dumb stunts.  For instance, who the hell you gonna call when some meth-fueled punk sticks a .45 up your nose and orders a double-cheeseburger and a bag of cash to go?  Let me help you..Yep; it's the police!!  But being dedicated, professional public servants I am sure the police will still respond quickly to come help your misguided sorry ass after you've soiled your britches from having that unwanted gun-barrel boogerectomy.
 
Check Writers - Yes - it happen to me just the other day - Some dork used a check to pay for groceries.  Come into the 1960's people - use a credit card (or cash) so you don't hold up everyone in line behind you.
 
Some Scooter Drivers - Having to quickly squeeze my shopping cart far right for a 400 pounder on a heavy duty battery operated scooter barrelling down the pastry aisle to get to the 1/2 off sale on Häagen-Dazs.  'Nuff said on that one. 
 
'But' Abusers - People that abuse the word 'but'.  You know but what they have to say is waaay more right, relevant or important than what you just said.  Saying 'but' to me is my cue to butt out of this conversation; oh wait, I mean lecture.  'But' abusers would rather hear their own words rattle around in their magnificently gifted heads than to actually have a conversation.  You say 'but' - I say 'bye'.  Here's a tip, say 'and' instead of 'but', you might keep sensitive folks like me in a conversation longer, but don't bet on it.  Being an old retired guy...I pretty much get to pick who I listen to....NICE! 
 
Walkway Hogs -  Are related to Road Hog Pointers.  Usually in packs of two or more, these sensory impaired doofuses slowly meander down walkways, side-by-side, sipping their Starbucks, veering left..then right...then left again, essentially blocking any effort to get around them.  And to make sure they fill as much real estate as possible, walkway hogs like toting things like huge purses, double-wide strollers, rowdy kids and small dogs.  To break up these slow moving human barricades I am considering deploying a mini-air-horn.  I figure Fifi squirting some doggy-dodo in their Gucci bags might encourge them pay attention and move along.
 
Cheapskates - You know the kind that you go to lunch with and when it comes time to pay, first they fumble around looking for their wallet and then they say.. "Ummm let's see, I had the chicken and you had steak, and I had iced tea and you had beer...excuse me 'Waiter' how much was my iced tea?"  Ay F'ing Carumba!!  You cheap bastard!  How about I pay the bill and you go have a good F'ing cheap ass life. 

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Self Important Celebrities - Why do celebrities think ANYONE wants to hear their opinions? How do they figure that being entertainers makes their opinions any more relevant than...SpongeBob’s (no offense SpongeBob)?  Living in mansons and jetting around the world doesn't give them any special insights that I can relate to.  I don't care to hear Miley Cyrus’, Kim Kardashian’s or Chrissy Teigen’s opinion about climate change, gun control, who should be president or anything else for that matter.  Now Miley was a good Disney channel star that showed she could ride a wrecking ball with the best of them; Chrissy was a beautiful Sports illustrated swimsuit model and Kim has made a TON of money with her amazing, umm, uhhhh…figure, but I have zero-zilch-nada-no interest in what they think about anything.  Seems their agents/momagers would clue them into the fact that they might make more money by not pissing off 50% or more of the folks that may watch/support them.  Hey celebrities!  Stop talking about politics, gun control, climate change, etc., and just entertain us.  We don't care to hear your opinions.


 
Old Guy Rant - October 2023

I was watching a show about the fall of a great ancient civilization.  Seems the working class got fed up and rebelled against the ruling class.  The ruling class underestimated the commitment of workers to want change in an unfair system.  The rulers assumed that due to their power and influence they were safe from the lower-class workers; after all, they knew what was best for the peons.  With the advantage of larger numbers and fire, the working class burned out the dwellings of the ruling elites.  The power of fire was an equalizer.  Sadly, a once great civilization faded away.

 

It occurred to me that today in the USA we have a similar situation.  A small number of powerful ‘elites’ continue to undermine the God given rights and freedoms of the working class.  The elites in power believe they should be able to tell us dumb citizens how we need to live our lives, after all they are way smarter and know what is best for us peons.

 

They are already telling us what kind of light bulbs we can purchase, how much water our toilet can use and how many bullets our guns can hold.  They tell us that soon we must all drive electric cars and then next they will tell us where and how far we can drive them.  They want to tell us what food we should eat and how we should cook it.  They are telling our doctors what they can and can’t tell us regarding our personal health decisions.  They think they know what is best for our own children and threaten to take them from us if we don’t play along with their latest version of the gender alphabet game. 

 


The working class is seeing that much of what we have been and are being told is bullshit.  We were told the ‘vaccine’ was “safe and effective” and we needed to lock-down for just “two weeks”.   We see that our institutions have become corrupt: the Government is controlled by big business; Medicine is controlled by big-Pharma; Education is controlled by unions and communists and the Justice System has become weaponized and a one-sided.

   

We see big cities and our roads crumbling.  We see crime increasing and that criminals face little consequences for committing them.  We see government officials continue to chip away at our rights to protect ourselves, while they are surrounded by heavily armed bodyguards.  We see that it is normal to have people live and shit on sidewalks while shooting up drugs.  We have witnessed shoplifting become a real career.  We see Biden’s government cancel petroleum pipelines/drilling and fuel is now near $6 a gallon, a trip to the grocery store is $400 and fast food for 4 costs $50+...  We see that many young people will never be able to afford a home of their own.

 

We are told us that giving 100+ million dollars a week to Ukraine is vital, while in the USA, poverty, the deficit and inflation are increasing out of control.  We see that our southern border is being overrun by who knows who at the same time we send billions of dollars, equipment and troops to other countries…to protect their boarders?  We see the big Government war-machine pushing us closer to WW3.

 

Most working-class Americans see the controlling, lopsided game that is being played.  We are tired of Big Government making decisions based on money and not what is best for the people.  We are tired of putting other countries before our own.  We are tired of giving more rights to criminals while losing our rights.  We are tired of shoplifters, drug addicts, robbers, burglars, pedophiles, rapists, gangs and murderers roaming and living on our streets.  We are tired of the government telling us what is best for our children and what they must learn in school.  We are tired of being told there are more than two genders, that drag queen storytellers and furries are normal and a man can say he is now a woman to compete in women’s’ sports.  We are tired of elites and freaks telling us how we should think, what we can say, what we can drive, what we should eat, what we can buy and how we protect our families…. Stop telling us how to live our lives!  We are tired of watching this rigged one-sided game play out that is turning the USA into an unfree bizzarro world.

 

I believe that many of those that are in power don’t understand that the working class is feed up.  And they don’t realize how committed we are to maintaining our rights and freedoms.  Hopefully we can save this country by booting out the freedom hating elites.  History and human nature tell us that those in power are reluctant to give it up, but we do have numbers and the equalizing power of fire on our side. 


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