TC the Terrible

I’ve got zero time today for blogging.  Damned real work keeps getting in the way.  I do have a couple of comments on some current events.

• Sugar coat it all you want, but these kids are defending cheaters. Their intellectual property arguements may have merit but that’s a fortunate side note at best.  All these kids are doing is saying that their generation is too lazy to formulate independent ideas.  The MTV generation is the beginning of the end for our society.  Like Mom used to tell me, rules only bother the people that plan to break them.
• I was pissed that Circuit City was firing people.  Until SDFM told me that she still has a job.  Now I really don’t give a flying fuck.  It’s too bad they cut her current BF, but he should be fine in a week or so.  Think they can out source the sales force to India or Pakistan?  That’s the next step in the process.
• TV causes kids to be fat?  That’s a crock of shit.  Parents not doing their job teaching kids what to eat and making them play outside is what makes kids fat.  This is smoke screen for adults who would rather have someone to blame than take responsibility for their own failings.
• We’re winning the Global War on Terror because Iraqi bloggers are happy.  That’s a really good metric to use.
• If school girls are dumb enough to give someone pictures of themselves naked, they deserve whatever comes from it.  Life is hard.  Being dumb makes it harder.
• Even with Tiger pushing for a quality event in DC the PGA is still going to screw us.  Tim Finchem deserves a flaming hot poker shoved up his ass.

That’s it.  Time to do some work.

I don’t know who complains more my kids or my co-workers but some one is always whining about how bad life is screwing them over. Most of the time though it’s just them not wanting to live up to their responsibilities as individuals that were designed to walk upright. I’ve about had my fill, so I’m posting this list of rules that we’ve all seen a couple of hundred times. Just in case anyone needs to be reminded again. Feel free to distribute as needed.
Rule 1: Life is not fair – get used to it!

Rule 2: The world won’t care about your self-esteem. The world will expect you to accomplish something BEFORE you feel good about yourself.
Rule 3: You will NOT make $60,000 a year right out of high school. You won’t be a vice-president with a car phone until you earn both.
Rule 4: If you think your teacher is tough, wait till you get a boss.

Rule 5: Flipping burgers is not beneath your dignity. Your Grandparents had a different word for burger flipping: they called it opportunity.

Rule6: If you mess up, it’s not your parents’ fault, so don’t whine about your mistakes, learn from them.

Rule 7: Before you were born, your parents weren’t as boring as they are now. They got that way from paying your bills, cleaning your clothes and listening to you talk about how cool you thought you were. So before you save the rain forest from the parasites of your parent’s generation, try delousing the closet in your own room.

Rule 8: Your school may have done away with winners and losers, but life HAS NOT. In some schools, they have abolished failing grades and they’ll give you as MANY TIMES as you want to get the right answer. This doesn’t bear the slightest resemblance to ANYTHING in real life.

Rule 9: Life is not divided into semesters. You don’t get summers off and very few employers are interested in helping you FIND YOURSELF. Do that on your own time.

Rule 10: Television is NOT real life. In real life people actually have to leave the coffee shop and go to jobs.

Rule 11: Be nice to nerds. Chances are you’ll end up working for one.

A few days ago KassyK posted about all the crap on TV these days. I don’t watch that much television so I took her word for it. But she did get me thinking about the lack of real news on the Internet. Then came the news that Anna Nicole died with a normal anus. I almost gave up on the spot.

Today’s Internet news carries headlines like these:

• Pope says Hell and damnation is real. Of course he does. If hell goes away tithing will drop and he’ll have to find a real job.
• Florida Man Says Ex-Wife’s Sex Change Should End His Alimony Obligation. Dumb fucking headline but I tend to agree with him.
• China can route porn to mobile phones. Interesting concept yet somehow I don’t see that as real news.
• School sued over a seven year old’s Tigger socks. Disney should pick up the kid’s legal fees on this one.
  
• American Fucking Idol has devolved to the lowest common denominator. The kid can’t sing and shouldn’t have made any of the cuts. Let’s move on now. And can the death threats.
• Some people can’t pee at the office, others can’t poop there either. Why is that anyone’s business?

And I’m not real happy with Newsvine, but thanks for suggesting it. Having my news ranked by how many people comment on it is not the best way to determine what’s important to the world.

News needs to be important stuff that we can use. It needs to be about war, famine, the economy, disasters, and heroes. Sports is news too, but only like it was back in the day when the sports pages were at the back of the newspapers.