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It Was Never You.

Started by The Good Reverend Roger, August 13, 2013, 08:01:42 PM

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The Good Reverend Roger

August 13, 2013, 08:01:42 PM
It was never you.  It was the world going dark, the horrible little man in my head telling me that you're ignoring me, laughing at me, sneering smiles my way while talking around me, around that ridiculous bald fucker up there in the mountains.

But it was never you.  It is a virus-smashed reticular formation that looks like a world war I trenchline.  It was the screaming captain, the shot in the arm, the helicopter ride.  Helicopters are great things, by the way.  They come and take you away from undesireable shit.  Everyone should have a helicopter...But of course, they are reserved for rich people and the dogs that fight their battles.  Dogs like I used to be.  Dogs like my children are.

So it was never you.  It's a world gone bad, a future we cheerfully signed for without opening the package.  It's the door booted in at 2AM, it's the prison industry "protecting" you, it's the child thrown in prison alongside genuine monsters for 30 years.  It's the continuing war in Afghanistan.  It's the fact that we're the bad guys now, with secret prisons and "extraordinary rendition".  It's the fact that the government is acting in this horrible fashion because we've forgotten how to act any other way.

See?  It isn't you.  It's the sense that my stewed veggies for lunch (Thanks, God!) have been poisoned.  It's the inescapable feeling that someone's been fucking with my car's brakes while I've been in my office.  It's the fact that I'll get in and drive anyway, because why the fuck not?  Just drive faster, that's it, just drive faster with the window open, try to get some air into my dead lungs, because there aren't any more helicopters for me, ho ho!  No, I am no longer useful in that fashion, and those resources are needed elsewhere.

So don't ever let me tell it you that it's you.  Because it really isn't.  It's brain damage, it's my own mind turned against itself, and if I say something out of line, I hope to God you'll forgive me.

Because it isn't you at all.
" It's just that Depeche Mode were a bunch of optimistic loveburgers."
- TGRR, shaming himself forever, 7/8/2017

"Billy, when I say that ethics is our number one priority and safety is also our number one priority, you should take that to mean exactly what I said. Also quality. That's our number one priority as well. Don't look at me that way, you're in the corporate world now and this is how it works."
- TGRR, raising the bar at work.

Q. G. Pennyworth

#1
August 13, 2013, 08:11:30 PM
I don't know if this is in response to something specific, but it's a thing of beauty.

The Good Reverend Roger

#2
August 13, 2013, 08:23:06 PM
I was just trying to explain.  To state my case. 
" It's just that Depeche Mode were a bunch of optimistic loveburgers."
- TGRR, shaming himself forever, 7/8/2017

"Billy, when I say that ethics is our number one priority and safety is also our number one priority, you should take that to mean exactly what I said. Also quality. That's our number one priority as well. Don't look at me that way, you're in the corporate world now and this is how it works."
- TGRR, raising the bar at work.

Cardinal Pizza Deliverance.

#3
August 14, 2013, 12:00:38 AM
Reminds me of my Marine buddy who went cuckoo for Cocoa Puffs. When the world is going dark it's hard not to believe that every person in the world is going dark right along with it, willfully.
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#4
August 14, 2013, 12:52:40 AM
Quote from: The Good Reverend Roger on August 13, 2013, 08:01:42 PM
So don't ever let me tell it you that it's you.  Because it really isn't.  It's brain damage, it's my own mind turned against itself, and if I say something out of line, I hope to God you'll forgive me.

Of course.
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The Good Reverend Roger

#5
August 14, 2013, 07:00:41 PM
I think, on reflection, that it's Tucson.  One of my best mechanics got arrested this morning, we completed a grueling job changing agitators in the reactors...Only to find AFTER we'd put them in that they were cracked, and it's hotter than hell out there.

The fates conspire against me.  The fuckup fairy is my constant companion, and Colonel Murphy lives in my office.  At home, snakes keep finding a way into the house, and lemme tell ya, I am MOTHERFUCKING SICK OF THESE MOTHERFUCKING SNAKES IN MY MOTHERFUCKING BATHROOM.  And they're real, too.  TGG also saw them.  So shut up.

The streets are full of people bent over under the weight of the sun; it's like my city is composed entirely of Tom Waits clones, all gnarled and miserable.  I passed a bunch of Cops looking all sick inside next to a crashed 70s-something Volkswagon minibus this morning on the way to work, and the KOLD reporter guy was throwing up in the ditch.  Don't fucking look at that shit.  There's nothing there that will brighten up your day.

Jim is out of town, and Princess Lilly is doing her best to make sure my guys are doing it right.  Her utter lack of technical expertise in these matters doesn't seem to slow her down in the slightest.  Filthy assistant babbled something at me about welding the cracked agitators until I screamed at him, and now he's sulking.  "YOU CAN'T WELD AN AXIAL SPLIT IN A 4" THICK SOLID STEEL SHAFT, YOU ASSHOLE."  Perhaps I could have handled that better.  Maybe given him a sno-cone and THEN yelled at him.  Or had Ed hold his hand and dry his tears.

The radio is useless.  It plays only Taylor Swift and some new whiner that makes Johnny Cash puke blood in his coffin.  And the "rock" station is no better.  There are no current top 40 acts that ARE rock and roll.  It's all whimpering shit that would have fit in the 60s, if the bandmembers didn't all look like the lead singer of Train.

So it isn't you, not at all.  It's purgatory.  It's the eye of an angry god blazing down out of an empty sky onto a parched and barren Earth.  It's a refinery that is remarkably similar to the aircraft graveyard next door, all dead equipment and abandonment.  It's ghosts playing in the ruins of what was probably never a functional endeavor.  It's where the sidewalk ends, and brother, you STOP when the sidewalk does.  Or THIS SHIT happens to you.  Forever.  And there's no way out.


" It's just that Depeche Mode were a bunch of optimistic loveburgers."
- TGRR, shaming himself forever, 7/8/2017

"Billy, when I say that ethics is our number one priority and safety is also our number one priority, you should take that to mean exactly what I said. Also quality. That's our number one priority as well. Don't look at me that way, you're in the corporate world now and this is how it works."
- TGRR, raising the bar at work.

LMNO

#6
August 14, 2013, 07:12:55 PM
Whoa.  And I thought I was having a bad day.

The Good Reverend Roger

#7
August 14, 2013, 07:14:45 PM
Quote from: LMNO, PhD (life continues) on August 14, 2013, 07:12:55 PM
Whoa.  And I thought I was having a bad day.

You really should visit, just for a week or so.

You'll never, ever complain again.
" It's just that Depeche Mode were a bunch of optimistic loveburgers."
- TGRR, shaming himself forever, 7/8/2017

"Billy, when I say that ethics is our number one priority and safety is also our number one priority, you should take that to mean exactly what I said. Also quality. That's our number one priority as well. Don't look at me that way, you're in the corporate world now and this is how it works."
- TGRR, raising the bar at work.

EK WAFFLR

#8
August 14, 2013, 07:44:28 PM
Christ, Roger.
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The Good Reverend Roger

#9
August 14, 2013, 07:48:19 PM
Quote from: Waffleman on August 14, 2013, 07:44:28 PM
Christ, Roger.

It's just Tucson, man.  It's just aerosol coyote poop.  It's just the bastards up in Phoenix thinking up cute lies to whisper in our ears while we die.  It's just your next heart attack.  Even planet Earth needs hemmeroids, and so we are the polyp of the world.  IT'S JUST A GOOD FUCKING TIME.  ALL THE TIME.

As God is my witness, I have no idea why I stopped drinking and eating peyote.  This is BULLSHIT.
" It's just that Depeche Mode were a bunch of optimistic loveburgers."
- TGRR, shaming himself forever, 7/8/2017

"Billy, when I say that ethics is our number one priority and safety is also our number one priority, you should take that to mean exactly what I said. Also quality. That's our number one priority as well. Don't look at me that way, you're in the corporate world now and this is how it works."
- TGRR, raising the bar at work.

The Good Reverend Roger

#10
August 14, 2013, 08:18:41 PM
And ALL THREE WELDING MACHINES JUST DIED. 

I can't stand it.
" It's just that Depeche Mode were a bunch of optimistic loveburgers."
- TGRR, shaming himself forever, 7/8/2017

"Billy, when I say that ethics is our number one priority and safety is also our number one priority, you should take that to mean exactly what I said. Also quality. That's our number one priority as well. Don't look at me that way, you're in the corporate world now and this is how it works."
- TGRR, raising the bar at work.

LMNO

#11
August 14, 2013, 08:21:00 PM
And then Roger chewed someone else's arm off.

The Good Reverend Roger

#12
August 14, 2013, 08:21:44 PM
Quote from: LMNO, PhD (life continues) on August 14, 2013, 08:21:00 PM
And then Roger chewed someone else's arm off.

Have to.  I ran out of my own.
" It's just that Depeche Mode were a bunch of optimistic loveburgers."
- TGRR, shaming himself forever, 7/8/2017

"Billy, when I say that ethics is our number one priority and safety is also our number one priority, you should take that to mean exactly what I said. Also quality. That's our number one priority as well. Don't look at me that way, you're in the corporate world now and this is how it works."
- TGRR, raising the bar at work.

Wolfgang Absolutus

#13
August 14, 2013, 08:25:12 PM
I was feeling depressed and aimless. Then I read this. 5/5 unflushed toilets.
Thinking and Breathing are my main occupations.

The Good Reverend Roger

#14
August 14, 2013, 08:25:47 PM
Quote from: Wolfgang Absolutus on August 14, 2013, 08:25:12 PM
I was feeling depressed and aimless. Then I read this. 5/5 unflushed toilets.

Count your blessings.
" It's just that Depeche Mode were a bunch of optimistic loveburgers."
- TGRR, shaming himself forever, 7/8/2017

"Billy, when I say that ethics is our number one priority and safety is also our number one priority, you should take that to mean exactly what I said. Also quality. That's our number one priority as well. Don't look at me that way, you're in the corporate world now and this is how it works."
- TGRR, raising the bar at work.
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