Hostile Reactions to Mundane Things

[LMNO]

Ok, I think I finally got it.  I've been trying to post in this thread for a while, but I got stymied.


When Dok rages and rants, he takes the small, annyoing frustrations, but then he ties them into a larger narrative, and strikes at the cholesterol-clogged heart of the human condition. 

What Cram's friend does is bitch about being mildly inconvenienced.

[Doktor Howl]

Ok, I think I finally got it.  I've been trying to post in this thread for a while, but I got stymied.


When Dok rages and rants, he takes the small, annyoing frustrations, but then he ties them into a larger narrative, and strikes at the cholesterol-clogged heart of the human condition. 

What Cram's friend does is bitch about being mildly inconvenienced.

I still don't get the part about the track team.   

We live in a nation of fat bastards, and this guy is mad because some people are doing something healthy?

[Don Coyote]

Ok, I think I finally got it.  I've been trying to post in this thread for a while, but I got stymied.


When Dok rages and rants, he takes the small, annyoing frustrations, but then he ties them into a larger narrative, and strikes at the cholesterol-clogged heart of the human condition. 

What Cram's friend does is bitch about being mildly inconvenienced.

I still don't get the part about the track team.   

We live in a nation of fat bastards, and this guy is mad because some people are doing something healthy?

Which is why I think Cram's friend must be fat or out of shape or couldn't make the cut in high school for track.

[LMNO]

Commenting on the shorts points to self-hating closeted homophobia.

[Cramulus]

Ok, I think I finally got it.  I've been trying to post in this thread for a while, but I got stymied.


When Dok rages and rants, he takes the small, annyoing frustrations, but then he ties them into a larger narrative, and strikes at the cholesterol-clogged heart of the human condition. 

What Cram's friend does is bitch about being mildly inconvenienced.

I still don't get the part about the track team.   

We live in a nation of fat bastards, and this guy is mad because some people are doing something healthy?

yeah that was what was so baffling to me, too. Part of his was about people that need to show off. Like people who always dress in gym clothes, it communicates to everybody how active and fit you are. He thought that was masturbatory.

"What's wrong with masturbation?" I asked

"Nothing," he said after a long pause, "as long as you don't do it in public."

When Dok rages and rants, he takes the small, annyoing frustrations, but then he ties them into a larger narrative, and strikes at the cholesterol-clogged heart of the human condition. 

What Cram's friend does is bitch about being mildly inconvenienced.

yeah, I agree there. Dok's rage has better aim than my buddy's. Part of the greater point though (and to be clear, this is directed at my roommate) is that it's no fun to hang around people that are critical and disgusted all the time.

Commenting on the shorts points to self-hating closeted homophobia.

Which is why I think Cram's friend must be fat or out of shape or couldn't make the cut in high school for track.

while he may have annoyed me on Sunday, to be clear - he's not a closet homophobe or a fat ass. He has tons of redeeming qualities. But when he gets in a foul mood he's frustrating to be around.

[Doktor Howl]

yeah, I agree there. Dok's rage has better aim than my buddy's. Part of the greater point though (and to be clear, this is directed at my roommate) is that it's no fun to hang around people that are critical and disgusted all the time.

What's funny is that one or two people I met in Boston expected me to be like that.   

There's a time and a place for everything.

[Cramulus]

yeah man, I imagine a lot of people who only know you on the net would be surprised to find out what an agreeable and good humored dude you are.

[Doktor Howl]

yeah man, I imagine a lot of people who only know you on the net would be surprised to find out what an agreeable and good humored dude you are.

Again, there's a time and a place for everything.  I can be a rat bastard if the situation requires it...But I prefer to be nice, if that's possible.  In Boston it was more than possible...It's a really nice town, and those of you whom I met are really nice people.

Tucson and Chicago, not so much.

[Richter]

I totally agree with Cram's point about the hostility, and it got me thinking about how much of it I spew myself.

Dok's example, like it was pointed out, has more purpose, and I've always tried to do this.  (My "Scum under the shelves", and "Celtic Cheese" rants beign two of my personal favorites.)  It's not JUST about venting hate publicly, it's about makign it moving, interesting, or at the very least funny.  (Ideas and more examples per Warren Ellis.)

As far as the gym shorts, or offensive clothing in general, I'd rather wince because of someone else exploiting a freedom we all share, than not have it.  In the case of clothing, architecture, art, child discipline, driving, etc., I also MUST have the freedom of speach to comment on it.  

The kids have the right to wear silly pance, roomie has the right to rant, and we ALL have the right to tell him to STFU before we throw his hateful sour ass out the temple.

(Exception: Spandex needs to be a controlled product.  You should need a licence, display a certain nonenveloping or rolling form, and pass a written exam about when it's wearing is acceptable.  This must be renewed yearly.)

[Mesozoic Mister Nigel]

I like my rage with a side of funny. That's one thing Dok is good at... he's so good-humored and fun to hang out with, and when he's raging he knows how to interject the horror with mirth in all the right places.

[Jenne]

You guys all came to the same conclusion I was thinking of while reading this:  it's a time, place and audience factor this guy was missing.  And I don't blame Cram for not wanting to get HIS hate on at the same time.  Especially since the guy was on and on about shit that really wasn't inconveniencing him, just vaguely annoying to notice.

What a waste of rage and a pleasant Sunday afternoon.  Like as not, something internal was making him unhappy...

[Mesozoic Mister Nigel]

Hate Wide Open!  That's genius, somehow. It needs to be USED.

[P3nT4gR4m]

Hate is the law.
Hate under will.

[the last yatto]

So while at the phone shop getting new screen protectors,

This old woman with a bible school size (who used to have FREE IRAN stickers all over it) mini van attempts to sign up two rugrats to her plan, sie they didn't look over ten, and her check wasn't accepted by the machine. She's bitching infront of the kids then storms out of the store. Sales clerk says "have a nice day" you could hear the silence as old woman slams the door.

Only to  come back in store and complains clerk didn't give her back her ID, which seeing that it was on the counter infront so behind computer and the clerks reach. The blond sales girl giggles "see I gave it back to you, your the one who didn't pick it up, Hope you have a nice day"

Old woman snaps now that her whatevers are in the car and out of earsight saying how rude it was of the girl to say have a nice day when she's clearly not and if it would be better service to say I'm sorry and be all apologized like. Clerk replies "no your being rude this entire time. I ran your check three times, so whatever is bugging you I hope it gets better HAVE A NICE DAY"

Leaving I hold the door for the customer who really needs to relax o wait too late she speeds out of the parking lot only to get pulled over by the police  

[Freeky]

So while at the phone shop getting new screen protectors,

This old woman with a bible school size (who used to have FREE IRAN stickers all over it) mini van attempts to sign up two rugrats to her plan, sie they didn't look over ten, and her check wasn't accepted by the machine. She's bitching infront of the kids then storms out of the store. Sales clerk says "have a nice day" you could hear the silence as old woman slams the door.

Only to  come back in store and complains clerk didn't give her back her ID, which seeing that it was on the counter infront so behind computer and the clerks reach. The blond sales girl giggles "see I gave it back to you, your the one who didn't pick it up, Hope you have a nice day"

Old woman snaps now that her whatevers are in the car and out of earsight saying how rude it was of the girl to say have a nice day when she's clearly not and if it would be better service to say I'm sorry and be all apologized like. Clerk replies "no your being rude this entire time. I ran your check three times, so whatever is bugging you I hope it gets better HAVE A NICE DAY"

Leaving I hold the door for the customer who really needs to relax o wait too late she speeds out of the parking lot only to get pulled over by the police