It's cool to hate stuff, dontcha know? It's become an art form so ingrained in the psyche, that when I read a positive Facebook status someone posted the other day, it took me aback. I realised how rare this positivity phenomenon is. Why? Why do people revel in hating things? Trivial things? I figure mostly it's because it makes them feel superior to everyone who doesn't hate what they hate. Yet, when they do, they have to try and prove they hate it more than everyone else! Does that make sense? It also seems as though it's cool to hate certain things. So I made a list of things it seems it's cool to hate, but I, being the uncool dweeb I am, actually like.
Facebook: how many times have you seen someone post about how much they hate Facebook on Facebook? They post things like "I hate the changes Facebook keeps making." OR "if anyone else clogs my newsfeed posting about a sporting event/TV show/celebrity death/wedding/Easter/ Christmas etc. I will delete you." o0o0o0o0o do it, then. Go on, I dare ya! And when these Facebook-addicted Facebook haters are asked why they don't delete their account it's always everyone else's fault. "I can't leave Facebook. Everyone is on here and besides, it's an easy way to keep up to date with my favourite bands." or "I just hate the commercialism of it all blah blah blah"... so many excuses.
I like Facebook. :o Yes, it's true! Don't hate me because I'm so uncool. I like it because it's a great way to keep in touch with the friends who live all over the place. I like that I can communicate and commiserate with my uni buddies on the Facebook page. I like reading people's boring status updates and I like looking through everyone's 9023429742 holiday or family photos. If you hate the ads on Facebook, install an adblocker. If you hate all the updates about a TV show or whatever, you have many options. Unsubscribe from the people, or, just GET OFF FACEBOOK FOR HALF AN HOUR. You won't die and by the time you come back it will have probably blown over and you can move on to the next thing on your "I hate" list.
Television: How many times have you had someone say to you, "I never watch television"? It's usually said with so much condescension you want to smack them in the nose and install spy cameras in their houses because you know they're lying their arses off. It's like they think they're so much better than everyone who does watch TV because all those people are brain dead halfwits. Well, whatever.
Guess what? I don't mind a bit of the good old idiot box. Admittedly, I mostly watch shows streamed from the net ad-free, but I'll admit to watching Big Brother. And for everyone who says that show is for teenagers with single digit IQs, I'm a full-grown adult with a triple digit IQ. Feel superior to me all you want, but I'm secure enough in myself to admit it and be judged.
Nickelback: I totally don't understand the vehement hatred toward them. There's a lot worse out there. Chatting to a friend on the phone last night about his intense dislike of them, I can only put it down to the fact that they're just like that inexplicably annoying person who shows up in every social environment and whose mere presence irritates everyone to an irrational extreme.
I hate bands like Matchbox 20 and Foo Fighters much more than Nickelback. In fact, I don't hate Nickelback at all. I've even been to a Nickelback concert - and enjoyed it!
Stupid people:
And now it's cool to hate stupid people. I see these stupid people memes everywhere and wonder, "what makes you so friggin' smart?"
These memes really shit me (hey, look at me ironically hating on the haters), because when people post these things, I can automatically think of a few 'stupid' things they have done. I consider myself to be of reasonable intelligence - I'm not an Einstein - but, like most other reasonably intelligent people, I have done a lot of stupid things or made stupid decisions or momentarily forgotten my common sense. That's friggin' normal. As Forrest Gump's mumma said, "stupid is as stupid does."
No one is perfect, not even the people who post these ^.
There's so much more, but I have to go now.
Facebook: how many times have you seen someone post about how much they hate Facebook on Facebook? They post things like "I hate the changes Facebook keeps making." OR "if anyone else clogs my newsfeed posting about a sporting event/TV show/celebrity death/wedding/Easter/ Christmas etc. I will delete you." o0o0o0o0o do it, then. Go on, I dare ya! And when these Facebook-addicted Facebook haters are asked why they don't delete their account it's always everyone else's fault. "I can't leave Facebook. Everyone is on here and besides, it's an easy way to keep up to date with my favourite bands." or "I just hate the commercialism of it all blah blah blah"... so many excuses.
I like Facebook. :o Yes, it's true! Don't hate me because I'm so uncool. I like it because it's a great way to keep in touch with the friends who live all over the place. I like that I can communicate and commiserate with my uni buddies on the Facebook page. I like reading people's boring status updates and I like looking through everyone's 9023429742 holiday or family photos. If you hate the ads on Facebook, install an adblocker. If you hate all the updates about a TV show or whatever, you have many options. Unsubscribe from the people, or, just GET OFF FACEBOOK FOR HALF AN HOUR. You won't die and by the time you come back it will have probably blown over and you can move on to the next thing on your "I hate" list.
Television: How many times have you had someone say to you, "I never watch television"? It's usually said with so much condescension you want to smack them in the nose and install spy cameras in their houses because you know they're lying their arses off. It's like they think they're so much better than everyone who does watch TV because all those people are brain dead halfwits. Well, whatever.
Guess what? I don't mind a bit of the good old idiot box. Admittedly, I mostly watch shows streamed from the net ad-free, but I'll admit to watching Big Brother. And for everyone who says that show is for teenagers with single digit IQs, I'm a full-grown adult with a triple digit IQ. Feel superior to me all you want, but I'm secure enough in myself to admit it and be judged.
Nickelback: I totally don't understand the vehement hatred toward them. There's a lot worse out there. Chatting to a friend on the phone last night about his intense dislike of them, I can only put it down to the fact that they're just like that inexplicably annoying person who shows up in every social environment and whose mere presence irritates everyone to an irrational extreme.
I hate bands like Matchbox 20 and Foo Fighters much more than Nickelback. In fact, I don't hate Nickelback at all. I've even been to a Nickelback concert - and enjoyed it!
Stupid people:
These memes really shit me (hey, look at me ironically hating on the haters), because when people post these things, I can automatically think of a few 'stupid' things they have done. I consider myself to be of reasonable intelligence - I'm not an Einstein - but, like most other reasonably intelligent people, I have done a lot of stupid things or made stupid decisions or momentarily forgotten my common sense. That's friggin' normal. As Forrest Gump's mumma said, "stupid is as stupid does."
No one is perfect, not even the people who post these ^.
There's so much more, but I have to go now.
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