From the pen of Ex-PH2;
There’s Something Really Wrong When….
– you keep telling people you’re male/female and you’re straight, and they ask “Are you sure?”
– you realize that some day, you’ll be able to use longhand (cursive) writing as a secret code.
– you wonder when in the blue-eyed world Common Sense took a vacation and didn’t tell you.
– the minute another Earth-type planet is announced, you start wondering if you could move there.
– the media people who use the suffix ‘-gate’ for every dumb fuckup possible, including shutting down traffic lanes as a spiteful move, weren’t even alive when Richard Nixon got fired for his approval of the Watergate Hotel break-in.
– people think it’s okay to let illegal immigrants on welfare into this country, while legal immigrants spend almost forever achieving citizenship and become role models without sponging off taxpayers.
– you realize that your dog or cat is smarter and better educated than a lot of college grads you’ve met.
– you go to a movie theater, see a ‘Gun Free Zone’ sign and decide to go home and watch the movie on Netflix or Amazon instead.
– people take selfies at accidents before they call emergency services.
– a pregnant woman about to deliver her baby can’t cross the street to her hospital because some conceited politician’s cavalcade of cars won’t let her.
– criminals video themselves committing a crime and post it on YouTube.
– the tabloids at the checkout line have fewer stupid stories than your newspaper.
– the only thing worth reading in your newspaper is the list of farmer’s market dates and the comics.
– you’d rather watch shows on the Antenna TV network than the current offerings
– when the news comes on, you’ve already found more info online than the anchors have in front of them.
– you find a news story on a foreign news service that says US troops had mustard gas launched at them, but nothing on the stateside news, and nobody does anything about it.
– the headline in the news, and two full minutes’ worth of media attention, is that a couple of overpaid so-so actors have decided to get a divorce because one of them can’t keep his pants zipped and his wick dry, but a gas attack on US troops gets 15 seconds of air time.
– the TV weather forecaster says there’s a storm on the way to your area but it will break up before it reaches you, and 15 minutes later there’s a downpour on your street, and the rain lasts all day.
– there are six different forecasts for the winter ahead, and you sincerely wish the weather people would just admit that they don’t really know.
– it takes longer to get through the security check-ins at airports than it does to fly or drive to your destination.
– some douchebag braindead media twit says it’s a good thing that a jihadist used explosives instead of guns in his efforts to kill people.
– a bunch of stank ass hippies and hyper-rich gasbags think that the population on this planet should be reduced from +/- 7 billion to about 1 billion, but when you say ‘you first’, they give you horrified looks and sputter in protest.
– you get an e-mail from your subscription service to an earthquake reporting group that says North Korea set off a nuke, creating a seismic event that registered 5.3M, with a 20 to 30 kiloton explosion.
– you wake up one morning and realize that the Cold War Triad (USA, China, Russia/USSR) has been revived and the threat of nuclear war has raised its ugly head again, but this time it’s Iran and North Korea, and now you wonder if your friends with the underground bunker are as nutty as you thought they were.
Those are just a few items. I’m sure you all have more.
