What is WRONG with people?
Jan. 10th, 2004 03:55 pm![[personal profile]](https://www.dreamwidth.org/img/silk/identity/user.png){kind=small}
vovatWell, I got my car tuned up and my hair cut, and I bought some new pants at Kmart. I guess I'm in pretty good shape. I also went with my mom and brother to see Big Fish, which I thought was good, if kind of sad at the end. The father's story about knowing how he was going to die reminded me of the Stavromula Beta bit from The Hitchhiker's Guide to the Galaxy. My mom said that she thought the fighting tree was a Wizard of Oz reference, but I'm not sure about that. It didn't really make me think of it, and there have been fighting trees in other stories.
Anyway, for your reading pleasure (or lack thereof, perhaps), here are some types of people I just can't understand:
People who purposely buy overpriced stuff for "status" reasons. Maybe it's mostly because I'm not rich, but plenty of other non-rich people do some things of the sort, like high school kids getting clothes from the trendy stores at the mall instead of, say, Kmart (buying pants at Kmart today was what actually made me think of this) or Wal-Mart. I guess I've just been brought up to be a bargain hunter, for the most part. Now, there are some things that are only cheap because they're crappy, and I can see paying a few extra dollars for something if it's supporting a business that can't afford to sell things as cheaply as a store like Wal-Mart. (I'll buy things at Wal-Mart, and the prices are generally good, but I really don't support their "let's bankrupt the competition" business practices.) It's the "this is better simply because it's more expensive" kind of philosophy I really don't get.
Homophobes. How does it hurt a straight person for someone else to be gay? Yeah, I know some people say they hate homosexuality for religious reasons (and often add in some bullshit about how they don't hate gay PEOPLE, just the ACT of being gay, which is an immoral choice, and blah blah blah), but, even if they turn out to be right about this (which is highly unlikely, but who knows what God thinks, if He exists at all?), why do they worry so much about people they don't like ending up in Hell?
Really competitive people. SOME level of competition is natural, but isn't thinking you have to be better than other people to have any self-worth kind of pathetic?
I was thinking of saying something about people being really obsessed with sports, but I probably have plenty of obsessions that sports fans wouldn't understand. Then again, I don't think riots have ever broken out over Oz books.
I'm sure I'll come up with more types of people to add to this list later on, but that's all I can think of just now.
Anyway, for your reading pleasure (or lack thereof, perhaps), here are some types of people I just can't understand:
People who purposely buy overpriced stuff for "status" reasons. Maybe it's mostly because I'm not rich, but plenty of other non-rich people do some things of the sort, like high school kids getting clothes from the trendy stores at the mall instead of, say, Kmart (buying pants at Kmart today was what actually made me think of this) or Wal-Mart. I guess I've just been brought up to be a bargain hunter, for the most part. Now, there are some things that are only cheap because they're crappy, and I can see paying a few extra dollars for something if it's supporting a business that can't afford to sell things as cheaply as a store like Wal-Mart. (I'll buy things at Wal-Mart, and the prices are generally good, but I really don't support their "let's bankrupt the competition" business practices.) It's the "this is better simply because it's more expensive" kind of philosophy I really don't get.
Homophobes. How does it hurt a straight person for someone else to be gay? Yeah, I know some people say they hate homosexuality for religious reasons (and often add in some bullshit about how they don't hate gay PEOPLE, just the ACT of being gay, which is an immoral choice, and blah blah blah), but, even if they turn out to be right about this (which is highly unlikely, but who knows what God thinks, if He exists at all?), why do they worry so much about people they don't like ending up in Hell?
Really competitive people. SOME level of competition is natural, but isn't thinking you have to be better than other people to have any self-worth kind of pathetic?
I was thinking of saying something about people being really obsessed with sports, but I probably have plenty of obsessions that sports fans wouldn't understand. Then again, I don't think riots have ever broken out over Oz books.
I'm sure I'll come up with more types of people to add to this list later on, but that's all I can think of just now.
