Weather with a side of ranting
The weather channel is raising a great hue and cry that we're getting a severe winter storm. I don't disbelieve them, but it just seems like any time we're to get some above average weather, be it snow/wind/rain/whatever, I can't help but think of the SNL sketch about killer bees. Basically, a news team is doing a story about something in California and the anchors keep bringing up how it leads to killer bees. It's funnier than I describe it, honest. At any rate, this hullabaloo over the weather reminds me of that. And maybe a little of the Kids In The Hall sketch where one character keeps shouting "you're all gonna die" to everything said.
Weather network is forecasting 15-25cm (6"-10")of snow accumulation for today and tomorrow. They also say flurries are happening right now in my area and... no, they're not. Honest. The window is right in front of me and there are no flakes falling from the sky to be found. I know a system is moving in from the US and they're slated to get smacked, too, but I guess it's Danger! Crisis! fatigue setting in for me.
Can we please stop with all the wailing and moaning and gnashing of teeth for days on end when somebody you don't know from a hole in the ground dies in some tragic way? I'm not saying that it's not awful for a child to be killed by a stray bullet while watching TV in their house or a loving mom dying because some drunk plowed into her as she was jogging on the sidewalk. Those are tragedies and I hope to never experience the grief of their families.
What I'm talking about are the total strangers showing up at the funerals, crying their big crocodile tears and taking every opportunity to wail about how a bright light has forever been extinguished to anybody who'll listen (most often news media). Please. Get stuffed. You wouldn't have known them if you'd walked straight into them. It's false and I think it's disgusting. You're a hollow person who apparently needs to have emotions manufactured for you.
The media needs to shut the hell up about it, too. Fine, I'm a heartless excuse of humanity for saying that. But we seriously don't need days and days (or sometimes weeks) of coverage of somebody's death when all they say is how senseless that death was and how crushed the family is. Trust me on this. When a family loses a member, we all know they feel the hole in their lives. We don't need the media reminding us ad nauseam for days on end. I can't think the families appreciate having it shoved in their faces by the media every day either. By all means, tell us when/if the killer is caught or if there are new developments in the case. But shut the fuck up about saying so-and-so died last week in a tragic whatever without adding anything new.
I've heard of people saying they felt depressed and upset and couldn't go to work for days after so-and-so died. How is that even possible when they literally didn't know that person existed until the media splashed it over the news? I'd even heard of people taking several days off after that school shooting in Connecticut when they didn't even know anybody involved and lived in a different fucking country! I call bullshit. Serious fucking bullshit. Yes, we're all connected through the miracle of the internet but that doesn't mean you're automatically fast friends with every person on the damn planet. Keep your cheap, false grief to yourself because you're only whoring for attention on the backs of those who feel the real pain of the tragedy.
Weather network is forecasting 15-25cm (6"-10")of snow accumulation for today and tomorrow. They also say flurries are happening right now in my area and... no, they're not. Honest. The window is right in front of me and there are no flakes falling from the sky to be found. I know a system is moving in from the US and they're slated to get smacked, too, but I guess it's Danger! Crisis! fatigue setting in for me.
Can we please stop with all the wailing and moaning and gnashing of teeth for days on end when somebody you don't know from a hole in the ground dies in some tragic way? I'm not saying that it's not awful for a child to be killed by a stray bullet while watching TV in their house or a loving mom dying because some drunk plowed into her as she was jogging on the sidewalk. Those are tragedies and I hope to never experience the grief of their families.
What I'm talking about are the total strangers showing up at the funerals, crying their big crocodile tears and taking every opportunity to wail about how a bright light has forever been extinguished to anybody who'll listen (most often news media). Please. Get stuffed. You wouldn't have known them if you'd walked straight into them. It's false and I think it's disgusting. You're a hollow person who apparently needs to have emotions manufactured for you.
The media needs to shut the hell up about it, too. Fine, I'm a heartless excuse of humanity for saying that. But we seriously don't need days and days (or sometimes weeks) of coverage of somebody's death when all they say is how senseless that death was and how crushed the family is. Trust me on this. When a family loses a member, we all know they feel the hole in their lives. We don't need the media reminding us ad nauseam for days on end. I can't think the families appreciate having it shoved in their faces by the media every day either. By all means, tell us when/if the killer is caught or if there are new developments in the case. But shut the fuck up about saying so-and-so died last week in a tragic whatever without adding anything new.
I've heard of people saying they felt depressed and upset and couldn't go to work for days after so-and-so died. How is that even possible when they literally didn't know that person existed until the media splashed it over the news? I'd even heard of people taking several days off after that school shooting in Connecticut when they didn't even know anybody involved and lived in a different fucking country! I call bullshit. Serious fucking bullshit. Yes, we're all connected through the miracle of the internet but that doesn't mean you're automatically fast friends with every person on the damn planet. Keep your cheap, false grief to yourself because you're only whoring for attention on the backs of those who feel the real pain of the tragedy.