Rant by me, posted from a forum.
(Posted orignally at APB Forums by me, posted here because of awesomeness.)
I know the thread is heading down towards the pits of this forum hell, but I thought I'd breath some life into it.
Okay, smoking, pretty disgusting habit, I do it, blah blah blah, I get it. Smoking = bad, I get that.
Just want to point out a ridiculous double standard that exists in society though:
It's alright for people to rip into a smoker, I've had it done to me where some crackpot liberal just started talking to me like I was her friend she wanted to save from the burning cancer sticks of hell. Seriously, she kept ranting on and on and when I just put forth a few flimsy arguements as to why it was none of her business and that she should just bugger off. Well, she lost it, pretty much she ripped in to me loudly about how disgusting it was, how I probably have yellow teeth, my fingers are horrible and pretty much went on and on about how my eyes were swallowed back into my head (At that point I cut in to point out that, "Bitch, the whiskey does that, not the smoke.") and she keeps going off the handle about it, pretty much telling me how physically unattractive to her I was and how I'd die alone with a fag in my hand. This was on a boat tour thing I got bitched in to going on, in Finland, and no one stood up to defend me, everyone just shrugged and sorta watched her just rant on about it and insult me.
Later I threw her overboard and fed her to a shark or some shit.
Right? Now from that event, lets rewind back a few years.
I was on a bus, on a three hundred kilometer journey. I was stuck on the back most seat and in the seat infront of me is this fat motherfucking bitch who takes up 1.8 seats. Also she's got this skinny motherfucking man next to her who takes up 0.2 seats and from the look on that asshole whipped face I can see he was her boyfriend. So, I've been sick as a dog all week, got the flu and pretty much any smell that hits my nostrils makes me want to firstly hurl and then beat the shit out of everything around me. So, the first 150 km of the journey go just fine, then the bus stops and most of the people get off to get something to eat and piss and such. Right? I stay at the back of the bus and watch the queen of fat squeeze through the aisle of the bus. So, she comes back with a ton of take out food, greasy motherfucking food that stinks the whole thing up and no one says anything. I don't say anything either, since I don't feel like being a bitch. After ten minutes though, my nostrils have been assaulted by the most disgusting smell of food and constant sound of her eating with her mouth open, I can hear the food being crushed into tiny little bits and I pity the guy who has to sit infront of them and collest the spittle of food flying from her mouth on the back of his head.
So, I learn forward and pretty politely ask if she could just stuff all that shitty food back in a plastic bag and throw it in the bin (yes, it's one of those big long line buses, has a bin,) well she's like no. I shrug and explain why and ask again, she says no and in no uncertain terms tells me fuck off and mind my own business.
No one, not even fat mofo's who could crush my body with the weight of theirs, tells me to fuck off when I'm in that pissy of a mood. So I just start ripping into her eating habits, pretty much going on about how fucking disgusting it is to see and how fat and ugly she's made herself look. Pretty much I go on to state how harmful it is to her, how her children will probably be fat too, how people see her and how she'll die before fifty if she keeps stuffing her piggy mouth like that. Soon enough I've worked into a full force rant and she's blubbering over words, unable to say anything in her defence, I'm in my zone. All of the sudden though, her boyfriend starts just screaming his head off, every insult known to man and nothing of relevance (I wasn't shouting by the way and never did I stoop to shouting, much more effective,) and this draws the attention of about 2/3rds of the bus. Pretty much it's me against them, I keeps just saying what I've been saying, the food annoys me and that she's a fat bitch commiting suicide by stuffing herself.
What do you think happened? They fucking flipped out! People on the bus started shouting me down, well they tried, pretty much telling me how I shouldn't be judging people, that people came in all shapes and sizes, how I was discriminating, hurting her emotionally and the full range of bullshit on why fat people need to be cuddled and loved because they have a problem.
(Oh right, eventually Mr Bus-Driver man came about, I explained what I'd initially explained to the woman (Noting that I'd asked politely at first and she'd gotten hostile at me, always a good tactic when sucking up to an authority figure, plus some nice fella in the front backed me up on that when queen mcfat started to bitch and say I was lying), and he agreed with me, womans food got thrown in the bin and everyone was told to calm the fuck down.)
So in summary.
A smoker: Has an addiction and can be ripped into in public and everyone will be fine with it, because it's an awful and useless addiction that makes them a horrible and bitter person.
A morbidly-obese human: Has a problem and should be defended at every turn, cuddled and protected from those bad, bad, bad people who might point out that it's actually just an addiction to food.
And I've seen both happen to other people too.
See my point? Of course, it is necesarry to eat and not necesarry to smoke, I know this and this is what seperates the two things. The fact is that there's double standards about this stuff, I'm pretty sure there are more obese people in the world than there are smokers and even some obese smokers. So why is it that being obese is okay and I'm being an inconsiderate jerk for not coddling them over their addiction, while it's alright to just rip into a smoker and call them the same things?
Just something that has been pissing me off for a long while.
Damn, long post.
I know the thread is heading down towards the pits of this forum hell, but I thought I'd breath some life into it.
Okay, smoking, pretty disgusting habit, I do it, blah blah blah, I get it. Smoking = bad, I get that.
Just want to point out a ridiculous double standard that exists in society though:
It's alright for people to rip into a smoker, I've had it done to me where some crackpot liberal just started talking to me like I was her friend she wanted to save from the burning cancer sticks of hell. Seriously, she kept ranting on and on and when I just put forth a few flimsy arguements as to why it was none of her business and that she should just bugger off. Well, she lost it, pretty much she ripped in to me loudly about how disgusting it was, how I probably have yellow teeth, my fingers are horrible and pretty much went on and on about how my eyes were swallowed back into my head (At that point I cut in to point out that, "Bitch, the whiskey does that, not the smoke.") and she keeps going off the handle about it, pretty much telling me how physically unattractive to her I was and how I'd die alone with a fag in my hand. This was on a boat tour thing I got bitched in to going on, in Finland, and no one stood up to defend me, everyone just shrugged and sorta watched her just rant on about it and insult me.
Later I threw her overboard and fed her to a shark or some shit.
Right? Now from that event, lets rewind back a few years.
I was on a bus, on a three hundred kilometer journey. I was stuck on the back most seat and in the seat infront of me is this fat motherfucking bitch who takes up 1.8 seats. Also she's got this skinny motherfucking man next to her who takes up 0.2 seats and from the look on that asshole whipped face I can see he was her boyfriend. So, I've been sick as a dog all week, got the flu and pretty much any smell that hits my nostrils makes me want to firstly hurl and then beat the shit out of everything around me. So, the first 150 km of the journey go just fine, then the bus stops and most of the people get off to get something to eat and piss and such. Right? I stay at the back of the bus and watch the queen of fat squeeze through the aisle of the bus. So, she comes back with a ton of take out food, greasy motherfucking food that stinks the whole thing up and no one says anything. I don't say anything either, since I don't feel like being a bitch. After ten minutes though, my nostrils have been assaulted by the most disgusting smell of food and constant sound of her eating with her mouth open, I can hear the food being crushed into tiny little bits and I pity the guy who has to sit infront of them and collest the spittle of food flying from her mouth on the back of his head.
So, I learn forward and pretty politely ask if she could just stuff all that shitty food back in a plastic bag and throw it in the bin (yes, it's one of those big long line buses, has a bin,) well she's like no. I shrug and explain why and ask again, she says no and in no uncertain terms tells me fuck off and mind my own business.
No one, not even fat mofo's who could crush my body with the weight of theirs, tells me to fuck off when I'm in that pissy of a mood. So I just start ripping into her eating habits, pretty much going on about how fucking disgusting it is to see and how fat and ugly she's made herself look. Pretty much I go on to state how harmful it is to her, how her children will probably be fat too, how people see her and how she'll die before fifty if she keeps stuffing her piggy mouth like that. Soon enough I've worked into a full force rant and she's blubbering over words, unable to say anything in her defence, I'm in my zone. All of the sudden though, her boyfriend starts just screaming his head off, every insult known to man and nothing of relevance (I wasn't shouting by the way and never did I stoop to shouting, much more effective,) and this draws the attention of about 2/3rds of the bus. Pretty much it's me against them, I keeps just saying what I've been saying, the food annoys me and that she's a fat bitch commiting suicide by stuffing herself.
What do you think happened? They fucking flipped out! People on the bus started shouting me down, well they tried, pretty much telling me how I shouldn't be judging people, that people came in all shapes and sizes, how I was discriminating, hurting her emotionally and the full range of bullshit on why fat people need to be cuddled and loved because they have a problem.
(Oh right, eventually Mr Bus-Driver man came about, I explained what I'd initially explained to the woman (Noting that I'd asked politely at first and she'd gotten hostile at me, always a good tactic when sucking up to an authority figure, plus some nice fella in the front backed me up on that when queen mcfat started to bitch and say I was lying), and he agreed with me, womans food got thrown in the bin and everyone was told to calm the fuck down.)
So in summary.
A smoker: Has an addiction and can be ripped into in public and everyone will be fine with it, because it's an awful and useless addiction that makes them a horrible and bitter person.
A morbidly-obese human: Has a problem and should be defended at every turn, cuddled and protected from those bad, bad, bad people who might point out that it's actually just an addiction to food.
And I've seen both happen to other people too.
See my point? Of course, it is necesarry to eat and not necesarry to smoke, I know this and this is what seperates the two things. The fact is that there's double standards about this stuff, I'm pretty sure there are more obese people in the world than there are smokers and even some obese smokers. So why is it that being obese is okay and I'm being an inconsiderate jerk for not coddling them over their addiction, while it's alright to just rip into a smoker and call them the same things?
Just something that has been pissing me off for a long while.
Damn, long post.