Just My Rant

Is it me or is the human race in general getting dumber by the day? No I don’t mean book smart, or school test scores, I mean everyday, able to put your shoes on the right feet, common sense! What is it that turned the average joe’s evolutionary path backwards at what seems to be a warp speed. If there is one thing that will get my hackles up in a second it’s a person who hasn’t got the common sense of a slug. You see these meandering mutton heads on TV almost every day & god knows the internet is just loaded with them now. These are the folks that send out mass emails to all their friends within the next ten minutes so they don’t “break the chain”, the morons who send other emails out in droves because Microsoft will send you money for every one you send out …. PLEASE, YOU CAN’T REALLY BE THAT STUPID CAN YOU?

My favorite story about stupid people is a famous computer tech support one & yes it is true. It goes like this: A man calls a certain major-brand computer company tech support & tells the female tech agent he’s having problems with Word. Here’s close to exactly how the conversation went:

(Tech) what exactly is the problem your having sir?
(customer) I was typing a letter & the computer screen went black
OK, sir? can you look to see if all the wires are plugged in correctly?
Well I don’t know if I can see them, it’s rather dark in here
Why is it so dark sir?
We are in the middle of a black out

Now needless to say this tech just couldn’t believe how stupid the person on the other end of the phone line was. She asked the man if he still had the boxes the computer came in & when he asked if it was that serious she replied Yes, your too *%^#$ stupid to own a computer! She was fired & later sued the company to get her job back, and won. Now, customer relations aside, you have to understand this woman’s frustration with this imbecile. How dumb can you be to not realize your computer needs electricity to run! Now I do realize that half the world thinks computers are some kind of voodoo magic but this one just takes the cake.

But this my friends is just the tip of the iceberg. At least once a week you see some dribbling idiot on the TV who sent tens of thousands of dollars to some con artist who was either going to make them rich or cure their ailments. My favorite is the one about the deposed African leader who has millions stashed away but needs your $200 to pay legal bills to retrieve it. You look at some of these TV commercials (actually they call them infomercials now) about how for only five payments of 49.95 they will send you King Tut’s gold cast into a commemorative coin honoring the first flight of the dodo bird. GIVE ME A BREAK.

OK, you say “well the companies trying to pull this are at fault” and you would be partially right. But folks if the idiots out there wouldn’t buy this nonsense these companies couldn’t survive. These fraudsters feed upon the stupidity they know is rampant in today’s society!

Another absolutely maddening effect of this disturbing trend towards a human plant life are the warning labels and lawsuits that are now costing the average consumer billions of dollars on any given day. From my recollection this can be traced back to one famous lawsuit that everyone remembers, the spilled McDonald’s coffee. Yeah you know the one I’m talking about. This idiot woman sued & won millions from McDonald’s because she spilled her coffee in her lap & it was HOT. Well no shit sherlock, if it had been cold, or even lukewarm you would have gone back to the counter screaming that it wasn’t hot. But never the less she sued and won. This stupidity runs even deeper, along with a heavy dose of greed. Look at ALL the people who this case needed to go through before a verdict was handed down. The lawyer (well, OK that’s a total bottom feeder there), the judge, the court staff & the jury. Why didn’t someone in this whole process have the balls to look at this woman & her lawyer & say “You have got to be kidding me right - are you stupid or what?”. But NOOOO, they all just play dumb & the rest of the world has to pay for this stupidity.

Speaking of paying, don’t these escapees from the gene pool realize that every time one of these asinine lawsuits has to be settled by a company that YOU, as the consumer, are paying for it. Are they stupid enough to believe that the company won’t pass the costs along to their customers. Oh gee, maybe all the employees will give up there bonuses to pay for it so they don’t have to raise prices. Yeah right! NO STUPID, you and I are paying for it ……. and it’s the I part that REALLY pisses me off!

Folks, at least 50% of the increases in health care, insurance and many other such industries is because these companies have to worry about and have office buildings FULL of lawyers for, all because of these stupid people who are to dumb to know you don’t toast bread in the bathtub! Now before you think I am some corporate crusader, let me say (and this will be brought up in many other rants) that most corporations today are worthless, inhuman greedy monsters that ONLY care about one thing, their profits BUT at the same time we, the consumer and the general public, allow these inane lawsuits to drive up the costs of just about everything we consume so folks WE are 50% at fault. Why the hell do you think there are so many lawyers out there anyway? If there wasn’t work they would be doing something else. Society in general has become overloaded with a collection of whining imbeciles who feel they shouldn’t have to think for themselves and rely instead upon the government to pass laws and dole out restrictions to protect these non thinking buffoons from their own ignorance. These people are costing us millions in tax dollars and everyday purchases that are inflated with these protection costs and scariest of all are forcing our government into a Big Brother scenario.

One particular bit of stupidity is on a rather serious note. The absolutely scary fact that people are driving around doing 10 things BESIDES operating their vehicle. I see these accidents waiting to happen daily. Let’s see, Ill talk on the phone, eat my lunch, watch a DVD & jot down notes in my day timer all while I’m piloting a 3 ton SUV down a crowded 3 lane highway at 70 mph. These particular examples of two steps above plankton are the ones standing by the scene of a fatal accident they have caused saying “I don’t know what happened, all of a sudden we just hit” ….. brilliant deduction Einstein. How the hell could you know what happened, you were too busy doing everything BUT driving your vehicle! I’m sorry but ANYONE who causes one of these accidents by their idiotic attempt at multi-tasking should be tried and convicted of murder! Let see how well they multi task in a 4 by 8 cell.

So at this point your probably thinking that I’m picking on a certain class of people. My friend, how wrong you would be. I have one other story that shows that stupidity comes at all levels of the educational system. I built a website for a gentleman several years ago, a man who had, not one, but two doctorates from a very prominent college. He was having a problem with customers signing up for his site. They had to choose a username & then enter their email address so a password could be emailed to them. On any given day he received at least 10 - 20 return failed email notices. That means the person who entered their email spelled it wrong or something of that nature and the email servers couldn’t deliver it, it’s actually very commonplace on the internet. He called to ask what could be done, his take was for everyone of these failed emails he was loosing money - and he was right. I described the process & told him we could do all the checking in the world when they signed up but plain & simple if they spelled it wrong there was nothing we could do about it. He wanted me to build a program that would capture these bad emails & send them to him. When I asked him why he responded “So I can email them to try & get the corrected information”!

As you can probably imagine the silence from my end of the phone was deafening. Here I am talking to a captain of industry, a man who proudly added Dr. to the front of his name and he was going to email these bad emails to get the corrected information. To make matters worse I literally had to argue with him for an hour before he understood that if the email was bad to begin with there was no way in heaven or on earth that he was going to find these people! Just goes to show you that no matter how smart a person is they can still be as dumb as a bag of rocks!

Maybe it’s something in the water or the food, I honestly don’t know. I really think it’s probably the droning slime being hashed out on a daily basis by our old friend, the TV set. I remember hearing as a child that too much TV would rot your brain and you know what? I’m starting to believe it. Most entertainment seems to be gearing towards the lowest common denominator lately and it seems to me that it’s getting worse everyday. Reality TV has become all the rage in the US - who can eat something really gross, who’s stupid enough to jump off a cliff, and who can tolerate being locked up with 5 other impossible people before they go completely insane & start a slash and burn policy. What the hell kind of entertainment is this? Has society started the process of de-evolution by serving up this plate of brain mush in an ongoing onslaught called reality TV? This folks is no more reality than Saturday morning cartoons are! This is the desperate attempt of people who have no life to get one no matter what degradation they have to suffer!

To make matters even worse now we have 200 plus channels of this drivel (actually there are SOME good ones out there). Instead of an evening of stupid human tricks how about trying to read a book, play with your kids, or dare I say help your kids learn something (OH PLEASE GOD NO, NOT THAT). Hell go volunteer if you have that much time on your hands. Do SOMETHING that will cause at least a tiny smattering of brain activity - really, it won’t hurt I promise.

NO, on second thought you just sit there filling your face with processed chemicals (you call it ‘junk’ food) staring mindlessly at that never ending river of sludge that will, eventually turn your mind into an afterthought in the evolutionary chain ….. who needs a mind anyway. But then again, without your guaranteed right to vegetate in front of the tube what would you have to file your next lawsuit claiming “they made me fat” and where oh where would you then buy that Lose 100 pounds in 20 minutes miracle product?

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