I understand the need to unload frustration and gripe. Especially anonymously, in a place you know your voice will be heard. However, I think the general population of this lovely planet is taking itself (themselves?) WAY too seriously. There’s certainly no harm in making a bitch on this website. It’s hilarious, and it’s way interesting to see what people are REALLY thinking, but some of you ‘bitches’ are bitching about the most ridiculous, petty things and it’s driving me nuts!
Why dwell on the littlest of things, especially when they have no other effect on you other than throwing off your busy schedule, or violating your personal beliefs or morals? I read a bitch not too long ago from some uptight asshole(s) complaining about the homeless people asking them for money on SGR. Seriously, what’s the fucking harm in a homeless dude asking you for a little help? Sure, they could sometimes go about it in a more polite manner, but if you’re just going to walk by them with no acknowledgment anyway, why the fuck would you make you angry? That’s just an example.
People are so quick to complain these days. They’re so content and comfortable with their lives, as soon as they’re given a problem to overcome, they reach for prescriptions and “professional help.” They over-use terms like “depression” and
“unhappiness.” I’d reckon 85 percent of society is stuck on auto-pilot. Just going through the endless loop of Work, Sleep, Rinse, Repeat. Whatever happened to LIVING? Getting out there and connecting with people? Exploring? Experiencing? Let’s get back to basics and stop with this whole, progress, innovation, business-minded BS.
People forget that we’re human. Seriously. We’re just like any other species on this planet, except we’ve developed a beautiful and overwhelming ability to think and be self-aware—often with self-destructive results. We’re not the technology we’ve created. We’re not the industrial structure. We’re not the money we use.
We’re fucking meat bags with too short a time on this planet to let the little things disrupt our pursuit of happiness (the only thing that should really matter).
WAKE THE FUCK UP, GET OUT AND MAKE SOME NEW FRIENDS, DO SOMETHING CRAZY. MAKE YOURSELF HAPPY, AND STOP FUCKING COMPLAINING. IT’S BRINGING THE REST OF US DOWN. —Keeping it REAL
This article appears in Mar 4-10, 2010.
I may not speak for all the community here, but I want to just say one thing: FUCK YOU.
There.
I’m happy with my life and if I want to waste my life eating Cheetos and drinking Red Bull, so be it. I know what I’m missing.
At least I don’t have the arrogant presumption that I’m better than every one else because I’ve gone out and “lived my life”.
Well said, Doc!
Also, OP, why read any of this if it brings you down so much? Maybe practice what you preach and “wake the fuck up, get out and make some new friends”??
This is the place for bitching, big or small, intelligent or stupid, so STFU.
I wholeheartedly agree with the OP; people eveywhere seem to be getting pickier, whinier and bitchier as time goes on. I have a similar philosophy- too bad I don’t employ it nearly as much as I’d like.
real, nah it would be too fucking boring. this is our way of life in this here sub culture that is on this site, the same as w.o.w. is to some.it‘s like our own little really fucked up disfunctional family here. sure we bitch, why the hell not? is there anything wrong with locking yourself in your cave for weeks on end playing wow?bet some here do, or did, i admit that yes, i was one for awhile. then i discovered this thing called bitching, here and abroad. you know what, it is better to bitch here, than to say, bitch alone, to yourself or a mirror. you vent your shit, maybe even get a good belly laught at it too. so, before you bitch out the bitchers, bitch yourself first, whew fuck that was tiring.
ahh yes, but it is the little things that make up life!!!
For Cripes sake, get the starch out of your self-important granny panties, OP – bitching is venting, venting is good – without venting we could end up a numbed-out Prozac jockey or fly into buildings kamakazi-style. Bitching is as natural as eating, shitting and fucking but often a whole lot funnier.
So I’m the only one who thinks shitting is hilarious?
Dammmn.
It can be hilarious. Usually in retrospect.
I remember a comedy bit that mentioned pebble shit, the disappearing log, corn turds, the whole gamut
Funny you mention comedy sketches Shrike, the OP says they’re keeping it real. I remember a specific series of sketches where “keepin’ it real” didn’t go so well.
I can dig that. Too bad folks are going to destroy the OP for trying to tell them how they’re living is wrong. I think I get the point they’re trying to make but it can certainly be perceived as negativity. Obviously a few of you who replied took it personally, but that’s bound to happen on this here internet thing. I like the message, OP and thank you for a little reality check.
trivial bitch or not, I always feel better after I’ve complained… and if I didn’t have a life going on out here beyond the bitch board I’d have nothing to complain about. Put that in your pipe OP and… get a life. Bitching at bitches is a waste of perfectly good bandwidth when YOU could be outside “living”.
You wouldn’t be trivializing the negative effect of winos and stumble-bums if you owned a business that was losing trade to larger centers where these unpleasant folks are soon disposed of…
that was wicked.
“but some of you ‘bitches’ are bitching about the most ridiculous, petty things and it’s driving me nuts!”
– you DON’T SAY!! I think this one falls under the category of ridiculous.
Look OP, maybe you’re trying to be ironic with a little Meta-bitching here, but this is what this section of the site is FOR. It’s like going to a fashion show and complaining about how everyone is obsessed with appearances. And as for getting out and making something of our lives, it’s a bit much to assume that a bitch post and a fulfilling life are mutually exclusive. This has taken me probably under two minutes two write, and they’re two very soothing minutes indeed. I don’t let my rants take over my day – do you?