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April 16, 2015

The Worst

The worst people in the 1st world:

1)  NIMBYs; want their houses powered and well landscaped, want it cheap but also locally sourced, bitch to no-end when a wind farm or quarry is started within 20 km of their Xanadu.

2)  Anti-vaccination'ers'; needs no explanation.  If you're reading this, its probably because you've had vaccinations.

3)  NIMBYs; want to consume lots of things, and toss the packaging for those things in the garbage, then move into houses next door to the place where that garbage is piled, and complain.

4)  Pseudo-science hucksters; most reasonable people don't actually consult astrology anymore.  But in its place, about a billion people, half of them on your Facebook feed, with the perfect aromatic or nutritional solutions to all your problems.  All without any peer reviewed, reproducible evidence of efficacy to be found.  That aromatic oil you're buying? Snake oil, at best (probably didn't even come from snakes, which would at least be sort of cool?)

5)  NIMBYs; move into huge, new build McMansions with no backyards, but still find a way to complain about their backyards.

6)  MLB home-plate umpires.  The rules of the game are not your own to interpret.  Stop calling the strike zone as though it was.  No team bias here, watching plenty of neutral games a year, I just want to see the zone not as interpretive dance, but as a clear, concrete thing.  Robots could easily do it.  Don't give MLB ammunition going into your next #umpshow collective bargaining agreement.

7) NIMBYs; move in to nice new subdivisions near airports, pre-dating subdivison construction, then complain about noise from objects magically flying through sky (those things are only okay when flying to 5 day, all inclusive getaways in resort-land).

8) Politicians.

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