I Hate Dumb People
One of the hazards of being an even semi popular (and do imagine finger quotes here) blogger is that I often feel like I can’t say what I want to say because someone may read it and take offense.
Stop that. I see you rolling your eyes and pointing to some of my bitchier posts. I know I’m not exactly nice (more finger quotes) some days.
But, really, days like today? People are annoying the hell out of me. People annoy me every day but some days I deal with it less well than others and want to sit down and type a blistering bunch of vitriol about half the world.
And I can’t. Cuz then tomorrow, when I’m less cranky and wasn’t up until 5 a.m. playing with my blog template, and I’m back to being able to deal with the irksomeness of the human race, I’ll regret what I said the say before.
No, that’s not right. I woudn’t really regret it so much as I’d have a ton of people pissed off at me and then life would be unpleasant. Because most people take venting personally and wouldn’t be over it the next day like I would be.
So. Yeah. Unlike when I had ten readers and could type whatever the fuck I wanted to, I now have to think about the fact that the people I’d like to vent about are probably reading here and I have to bite my tongue. Or my fingers. Whatever.
And, you know, it’s not that I hate people or anything. (shut up!) I like people. I’m not a hateful whore. I’m just intolerant of blazing stupidity.
That’s not true either. Seriously stupid people, like low IQ, shuffling dolts, cant’ help that they’re stupid and I’m very tolerant. But when semi (or even fully) intelligent people act stupid? Or are so wrapped up in their own little Land o’ Me that they can’t see beyond it to how what they do or say affects other people? I get growly. (On an amusing note, my own profile states I’m very wrapped up in my own little world and rarely notice what’s going on outside of it. But that’s not really true. I lied! But not really. I am wrapped up in my life and my family but I’m also pretty observant. Or maybe just perceptive. Maybe it’s why I get so aggravated. Cuz I just want to drown out all the chaos and do my thing but it invades anyhow. Or something. Wow. This is still in parenthesis. I need to move on.)
Ahem.
Anyhow.
Little things bother me. Here is a list, as anonymous as I can make it, of random irksome stuff.
- if you have four followers on twitter and retweet your blog post link six times in one day? c’mon. seriously?
- if you’re an adult who still lives with your parents and you bitch about them, publicly, more than once a month? move out. now.
- if you think repeating yourself and talking about the same damned thing incessantly is good marketing and PR? get a new job. if you think it’s just a good way to get some attention? talk to my pal bob. isn’t he aggravating? you sound just like him!
- if you bitch about the fact that the dog pissed on the steps and don’t follow thru by wiping it up? i am going to want to kill you when I get a wet sock later
- getting all involved in world aids day so you can sell more of your product? it’s crass, man. condom cases are not going to prevent aids. srsly. (oops, less than anonymous there)
- prudish, blatant sex negativity and hatred of other women disguised as sarcasm or satire is ugly. just admit you’d rather fuck a pickle than your husband, that you’re jealous of anyone who you think looks better than you and shut the fuck up. you’re not funny and your husband would probably rather fuck a pickle, too
- when someone has done lots of nice things for you, expecting nothing in return and you tell them no when they do need something from you? you’re a dick. man, woman or lizard, you’re a dick.
- using big words doesn’t make you smart or better than anyone. using french words is even worse. unless you’re french. otherwise you’re just pretentious.
- a review of a faux penis, vibrating or non, is not ever going to be a great work of literature. ever.
- don’t lie. you write reviews for the free stuff. otherwise you wouldn’t turn stuff down. you’d take that stinky jelly dong and review it well for the educational opportunity it provides. (which reminds me. if i have to review one more push button watch battery bullet I may kill myself. )
- if you’re going to compare your style of s&m play to ours? (ours being mine and Taylor’s, of course) you might want to make sure you don’t hit like a girl. or maybe learn the difference between similar and opposite.
I could go on and on but this is boring for you, isn’t it?
I’m sorry. I like to bitch on my blog, though. It keeps me from murdering Taylor when he doesn’t wipe up the pee. And it keeps me from saying stuff *to* people that will make things tense and stressful when, generally, my irritation fades within a day or so.
I’m an easy going bitch, I am.
*blink*
And now I’m off to make some coffee with a large dollop of cinnamon bun coffeemate in it and work on this blog template. The archives are still doing weird things – though if you scroll down past the errors you can see them – categories aren’t coming up right and all sorts of odd stuff.
I really like the soft, pale pink and the design but they gotta fix the glitches, man!
Thank you for listening to me bitch. (Whomever you are. See? I used to know exactly who was reading me. Now? It could be my mailman!)
Let me know if you notice any weird glitches or general oddness with the theme. Do y’all like it more or less than the old one?
xoxoxo
I think I love you for this post. I really do. I hope you get more sleep tonight and your blog is finally how you like it. Blog templates are annoying and so is everything you’re bitching about. You rock. Hard. =)
Heh. Thanks. The template is stressing me out to the max and I”m pretty sure everything else is stressing me because it’s on TOP of the template issues. Gah. :P
Seriously, I need you to help me up off the floor! Wait………lemme stop laughing first! I love the pink. More people should appreciate pink.
Pink will some day rule the world.
Or something. Lol
More, it’s more condensed/organized and less free form. And you’ve definately got enough content to pull off the condensed/organized.
Thats too funny about the puppy! My yellow lab, when he was a puppy, used to do this extremely irritating/weird/worrysome thing where he would lose it and just start to pee…only, he’d do it the entire way down the (carpet) stairs. So instead of just wiping up a puddle, it became a process of sponging up this ginormous trickle all the way down. He grew out of it (thank god), but we ended up putting down that sticky moving plastic for awhile. lol
.-= Purple-Foxglove´s last blog ..Holiday Top 5 =-.
I’m glad you like it. I worry when I make changes. People freak. Oy.
We pulled up the carpet on the stairs when the rottie was a puppy so now the new puppy is peeing on bare wood.
At this rate, we’re going to have to pull up the steps.
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Little else in this world makes me wanna curl up in a ball of tears and hurl lava comments at passers-by than dealing with CSS or HTML or PHP.
srsly.
I had my own issues this morning with e[lust]. Trying to find a template a few weeks ago for it that did what I wanted? Nigh on impossible.
And I get you here….Last week I did a “less than anonymous” rant and who knows if I pissed anybody off. But I also swallow a lot of it because I know they’ll read it on my blog.
Oddly enough, I don’t swallow semen.
.-= DangerousLilly´s last blog ..Fucking For Art =-.
OMG This is my favorite post of yours! ROFLMAO!
“getting all involved in world aids day so you can sell more of your product? it’s crass, man. condom cases are not going to prevent aids.”
This makes me want to punch people.
.-= Backseat Boohoo´s last blog ..A few clarifications… =-.
I like the new template. It is clean and very soft.
.-= Alley´s last blog ..HIV and Family =-.
Well I dunno. I can say I agree on some points and really, material snobbery when we’re all getting it for free ticks me off as well. Not even just for the snobbery.. but because I’m of the opinion that just being a clean person and taking proper care of things will do more for you than obsessing over the chemical content of your toys. I mean, nothing else we live on or live in is obsessed over in that manner. Maybe it’s just me.
As far as semi-anonymous rants, I know for sure I’ve been the cause of one and possibly I’ve been included in some other ones. But, at this point.. I have the friends I need. There are billions of people on this earth, if I piss a few or even a few hundred off.. they can deal. I mean really.. if they’re allowing me to have that power over them to piss them off… its as much their fault as mine for whatever I did.
I can say I’m guilty of bitching about my family. But the reason I bitch is because I’m not capable of moving out. I know it doesn’t matter to anyone but me. But, if people don’t wanna hear it.. then they shouldn’t be following me on twitter.
.-= Darling Dove´s last blog ..Cyberskin G Spot Vibrator =-.
Ah, Carrie Ann you crack me up. It’s ok to be bitchy. I definitely feel like ranting sometimes but I usually tell my boy about what’s bugging me and he usually agrees and we bitch about it then laugh about it and then it’s over. Hurrah!
I think I’m the dissenter who liked your previous blog theme more than this one. But I’m a fan of contrast, and this theme isn’t that contrasty. *shrug* One technical thing that you may already know about is that the “Love, life, sex, reviews, BDSM, dirty dishes.” line is sitting partially in the nav bar below it. I’m using Firefox 3.5.5.
.-= Rockin’ With a Cock in´s last blog ..On animal instincts and sexuality =-.
I feel ya on this. I almost hope my blog never really gets popular, so I can keep saying whatever the hell I want. That’s why I started my blog in the first place, as a safe space where I could say what I wanted to say.
People piss me off, too, especially when they use the anonymity of the internet as an excuse to be an ass. (on a side note, it amuses the hell out of my close friends that I’ll sometimes pull one of them aside and tell them I need to rant about someone on “teh interwebs”. They say it’s funny when I start flailing around with my arms and inventing new crazy things to call people)
I’m on the fence about the new theme. I like the colors, but I could use a bit more contrast between the white lettering and pink backdrop, for the sake of readability. Otherwise, I like! ^_^ Good luck working the kinks (no pun intended) out of your theme, so you can de-stress!
Too good. Really! i love the fact that you’ll rant, that you show us different emotional states…It all makes you more real (finger quotes). And while i know that this blog is just a tiny peek at who you are, i read each entry voraciously, even if i don’t agree with you. Your writing never seems to be less than you meant to say, or edited to be more P.C. than you want to be.
And the new blog layout? It are teh awesomes.
.-= jenpet´s last blog ..past vs. present =-.
As far as feedback on the layout:
I liked the old one better, because it seemed simpler to me and I’m a fan of simple layouts.
The main glitch I see is the line “Love, life, sex, reviews, BDSM, dirty dishes” is hidden slightly behind the menu bar.
.-= Saraid´s last blog ..Guess what’s coming later tonight? =-.
There is absolutely NO reason you should censor yourself on your blog just because you have more followers and are more ‘popular’. It’s still your blog. I had to consider the same thing when I started SubmissiveGuide. I thought many times that my personal struggles would make the advice I give on the Guide to be false or not worth people’s time. It has, in fact, done the opposite. It’s made me a real person.
I like the new theme. It’s similar in organization to the one I use for SubmissiveGuide.
You do have a glitch in your RSS Feed. At the bottom of every post is a list of broken links (Array). It means that the php code isn’t breaking the content out of the array and into smaller bits. I’m thinking it might be your share links from the post not working in the RSS.
The footer needs a bit of work. I’m sure there’s supposed to be 3 columns but it’s only listing 2.
.-= lunaKM´s last blog ..Faith Based Thoughts =-.
Gah, another glitch. There were supposed to be separate paragraphs there, not all run together. Ergh.
.-= lunaKM´s last blog ..I’m Thankful =-.
How odd! It shows three columns over here.
Anyone else only see two???
On the very bottom: just two. Looks like there is space, but it knocks ‘em over. i use Firefox mostly, but it also does it in Internet Explorer. Just checked it in Google Chrome and it looks fine (three columns).
.-= jenpet´s last blog ..past vs. present =-.
I love you. You rock. I wish you’d bitch more often. :)
I would like to add one item to that, if I could be so bold:
If someone says some crap about you on a blog that you don’t like. It’s ok to be upset about it and get cranky all over Twitter, on forums and comments on people’s blogs, you know, for like a week. But three months later? Come on now. Move the fuck on.
.-= laurel´s last blog ..The Slut Chronicles #9 ~ On Board =-.
Why has no one pointed out my pretentious use of the word faux yet?
I’m so pathetic I’m sitting here trying to fit myself into each and every one of those. I’m not really sure when I forgot to wipe up the pee, though. Sorry, dude. :oP
Love the new template. It’s absolutely gorgeous. Sometimes you make me jealous that I’m not the only decision maker when it comes to ours. =D
<3
.-= Rayne´s last blog ..Like a Ton of Bricks =-.
OK, I’m guilty of having a hatred of women, but it’s not due to the things you listed so I know you’re not talking about me there. lol And, hey, if I ever do piss you off with the shit I go on about, go ahead and tell me. I don’t mind!
But I really feel you on all of this. In fact, I was just thinking earlier how I really have to watch what I say on Twitter (not that I always do heh) and on my new blog when it launches. Sometimes, though, it overwhelms me so much and I am such an ornery fuck that I want to go off on a huge rant and alienate, well, probably just about everyone. But I somehow talk myself out of it.
I don’t know if I’ve told you this already, but I really dig the new layout. As Alley said above, it’s clean and very soft. And it works.
.-= Eliot´s last blog ..Last post =-.
“if you’re an adult who still lives with your parents and you bitch about them, publicly, more than once a month? move out. now.” YEs. Also, the pickle fucking thing is slightly more amusing because I just read an article about some frat boys who had to insert pickles and then those pickles somehow were ingested by unknowing engineers who got sick.. and that’s NOT funny but the timing? Is.
.-= Adriana´s last blog ..Does Your Affiliate Program Suck? =-.
Also, in your chunky footer everything is in two columns, not three.
.-= Adriana´s last blog ..Does Your Affiliate Program Suck? =-.
That is SO weird cuz on my computer, in every browser I try, it’s three. What browser are you using, Firefox? (It’s the only one I don’t have so haven’t tested) Does it look messy and bad?
.-= CarrieAnn´s last blog ..Tickle me Pleased! =-.
I only see two in your footer, too. :/ And yes, I use Firefox. It’s not so much messy and bad as uneven and disjointed.
.-= Rayne´s last blog ..On Genderwhatever =-.
Hmmm. Try a different browser for me and see what you see?
OK, I’m using Firefox version 3.5.5 and I see only two columns in your footer, and I just tried IE8 and saw the same two columns.
.-= Eliot´s last blog ..Last post =-.
Craziness! What screen resolution do you two column folks use?
This is what it looks like on my screen;
1280X1024
On my screen, the first column has the EC banner, a blank space and the pleasurists block. The second column has recent posts, comments, and two banners. And the third is blank.
.-= Rayne´s last blog ..On Genderwhatever =-.
Grrr. I dunno how to fix that.
*heads back to the support forum*
1152X864
I have a 15″X12″ monitor and find those settings are the only ones that look right on my monitor. I tried other resolutions and they all resulted in the two-column effect.
.-= Eliot´s last blog ..Last post =-.
OK, I just downloaded Chrome and I’m on it now.. the three columns are there.
So it’s definitely a firefox issue. Hmmm. My thinking cap is burning!