Tag: coarsening of the culture

Boors ‘R’ Us

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Just now, I happened to glance out the window just in time to see some guy walk all the way up our sidewalk and across our yard and parking lot, taking his son–mask and backpack–to school. Cutting across other people’s property is a shortcut.

I can’t imagine someone doing this in 1960. It would’ve been considered rude, presumptuous–maybe even feral. “What, were you brought up by monkeys?” You didn’t just use other people’s yards as a thoroughfare.

But then there are all sorts of dopes in this neighborhood and who can’t wait to dump all their fast food waste into somebody else’s garbage can. You get rather tired of that.

The question is: “Well, if it wasn’t monkeys, who raised these louts?”

Beats me.

‘Trivial but Annoying’ (2015)

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SSee the source imageome people let their cars fill up with trash–especially fast food wrappers, along with remnants of mush-burgers and about a third of the milk shake left in the oversized cup. Eventually they either have to get rid of the trash or get a new car.

So they dump their garbage into other people’s garbage cans.

Trivial But Annoying

I’ve never caught them doing it. You go out in the morning to bring in your garbage can, and it’s already full of stuff from somebody’s car.

And now, with everything but whatever’s absolutely Essential shut down, somehow the freakin’ leaf blowers are still going a mile a minute. I’m sorry to say St. Francis’ Church, across the street, is the biggest offender; but they have plenty of company.

We don’t have to live like this, and I don’t know why we want to.

‘New Words for Liberals’ (2015)

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None of these behaviors has gone out of fashion since I wrote this in 2015; but since then, more leftids have added more violence to their repertoires.

New Words for Liberals

Since Election Night, 2016, they’ve torn off the mask and bared their snarling faces. Somehow their side losing an election gives them license to attack people, either physically or by trying to destroy their victim’s reputation.

Or both.

Yeah, It’s Disgusting

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Let’s look at something wholesome instead. This is an axolotl.

Coarse, crude, vulgar, crass–yeah, that’s our popular culture. That’s the toxic waste dump we all have to live in.

It has gotten a little more toxic with the publication of movie has-been Demi Moore’s autobiography, which I prefer not to mention by name, lest I be accused of helping her sell it.

In this… book… she claims to regret “taking the virginity” of some celebrity I never heard of. Years ago. So he comes out of the woodwork to say she’s wrong, he lost his virginity in high school.

Why would anybody write such things, for thousands of strangers to read? Is this supposed to prove Demi is a sex queen? Who wants to know a thing like that? What if we don’t want to be dragged into the bedroom, or the back seat of a crummy car, or wherever, with this pair of bucket-mouths? Well, yeah, we can always not read the book. But what better book was bumped out of the way so this garbage could be published?

Personal liberty–some people haven’t got the foggiest idea what to do with it.

‘Dog Poop Bags Left Everywhere You Look’

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Where the country’s headed–San Francisco’s already there.

We’re seeing more and more of those little plastic bags strewn around the neighborhood.

Dog Poop Bags Left Everywhere You Look

It’s not just the dog poop anymore. People love to throw their fast food waste here, there, and everywhere. The coarsening of our culture proceeds apace. Soda containers, bags containing uneaten french fries with clotted catsup, and those little plastic bottles of vodka–the only people who will benefit from this are archaeologists.

This is the stuff that will tell them who we were.

Airline Passenger Gets ‘Nose Bitten Off’ in Brawl

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Maybe now they’ll come out with “Brawling Drunks” paper dolls.

Remember when airline travel was sort of glamorous? When people got dressed up for it? When Dixie Dugan became an airline hostess (“stewardess,” back then)?

Our culture has somewhat coarsened in the interval.

This weekend, aboard a Ryanair flight from Tenerife to Glasgow, two drunks got into a fistfight, quite alarming for the other passengers, and the guy who tried to break it up–well, he got his nose bitten off, according to several witnesses (https://metro.co.uk/2019/03/17/ryanair-passenger-nose-bitten-off-brawl-kicks-off-flight-tenerife-8917945/). The two brawlers were arrested by police when the plane landed.

An old proverb says, “Those who in quarrels interpose/ Oft must wipe a bloody nose.” And how.

The poor guy–he was only trying to do what he thought was right. He can’t help it that the ambience of an airliner has come to resemble that of a saloon in an old Western. All they needed was somebody at the piano playing Oh, Them Golden Slippers.

We reap what we sow.

 

‘Trivial But Annoying’ (2015)

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Yesterday it was some jerk parked right in the middle of Main Street, creating a traffic jam, while he went into a store. There were no parking spaces open, so he just left his car in the middle of the street.

Betcha anything he’s a liberal.

Trivial But Annoying

And P.S., you’ve gotta watch your step around here now, because some other schmendrick is walking his our her big dog all around other people’s yards without cleaning up the creature’s enormous feces.

The Lout in the Gym

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I wanted my exercise yesterday, so I went to the Y to play some basketball. “You should know, we have no heat in the gym today,” they told me at the desk. I said I’d work hard and generate my own eat.

Well, they weren’t kidding–there was no heat, and the gym was very cold. That’s why I was the only one in it. But I worked myself hard, and the cold wasn’t cold enough to make me stop.

By and by another guy came in, and he used the other basket. And then a third man entered the gym.

He brought some kind of gizmo with him, set it up on the bench, and began blasting the gym with really loud, really crummy “music.” Just like it was his gym and he was the only one in it.

This is what you get when people are raised by comic books and video games. This lout, this oaf, goes shambling through life unaware that there is anybody else who ought to be considered. He is oblivious to the presence of others. The only way he’ll stop doing something is if someone makes him stop.

You see more and more of this lately. There are now yobbos who double-park on the busy main street of my home town, creating traffic jams for everybody else. They park wherever they feel like parking. They play their “music” at you. When they walk their dogs, they leave the neighborhood decorated with little plastic bags full of faeces. They toss their fast-food scraps into your garbage can. They aim powerful floodlights at your bedroom window all night long. They talk on their cell phones as loud as they can in restaurants, in movie theaters.

Go ahead, tell me I’m wrong and our culture is in good shape.