Oct. 3rd, 2002

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Today I was riding the metro to work when I decided for the first time in about 14 hours that I hate people. I was watching some annoying woman ... well lemme describe the scene.

There was an Asian girl, about 20-25, sitting in the disabled seat. Her leg was in a HUGE brace that forced her knee to remain straight. She was a VERY considerate person, for at each and every stop when the doors opened - she stood up so she was not blocking people's way. Why was she doing this? Because some 'annoying woman' (original explicative removed) was standing on the opposite side of the middle of the car - leaving no room to get by.

I assaulted and yelled at no one, making me part of the problem.

This all reminded me of Sue and the foot.
I love Sue. We love Sue. We all love Sue.
Sue was never called Sue the foot, but she did have an amusing series of anecdotes when the incident happened. I don't remember how, but she hurt her foot and was stuffed in a series of casts for a period during the Roxy era (yes the Roxy was an era, so shut up). She joked with me about how people used the foot as a way to say hi "Hey, what happened to you?" "Hello again, how's your foot doing?" "Hey, how's your leg holding up?"

Is Sue (Gecko) on LJ?

Well, one day she recovered and got her foot back sans cast. She laughed at people who no longer had anything to use to start conversations: "So, your foot healed! Cool." "Hey, no cast." Long after the removal she still got foot talk.

Another one of my favorite Sue stories, from nowhere:
I was explaining that between alternative cinema, a strong Private Idaho impression, and Bravo late night - every time I heard a man speak German I just automatically thought was gay - making my Australian visit with my lesbian friends even more entertaining. She said "That's funny, whenever I hear a man speak German it makes me want to fuck him!"

I love Sue.

I hate people. I hate people on the Metro. "Riding on the me-tro-o-o...I was on a Paris train, I emerged in London rain, you were standing there - smiling as I pulled away..."

People don't make way on the platform when the door opens. They try to squeeze in while you are exiting the train. I didn't play football but I do block with my shoulders, asshole / bitch. People inside the train wait until it stops before they get up and try to make their way to the door. Everyone stands in the doorway, and won’t take a step towards the center of the train. Everyone takes the disabled seat - leaving the elderly pregnant disabled woman to stand (yes the 1 lady is all 3 shut up). Everyone sits in the outside of the two seats so you can’t pass them to get to the inner seat. Everyone leaves their Washington Times newspaper on the floor / seat when they leave (Post readers don’t seem to do this).

Some is every when you’re pissed.
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A? An? yeesh

Cut and changed from DCFreaks:
The people that I have known that object to this round of protesters, including myself, do not object to their protesting or their right to voice their dissent. I / We / They are very turned off by the disruptive behavior we have heard they want to engage in. If this information is inaccurate, then we are doing the best with what we have. If you’re a part of the movement and the press is inaccurate – then I’d address that issue.

I tend to generally trust the Washington Post and NPR – both fairly objective and arguably liberal. If anything, overall these sources bent over backwards to PRETEND there was a unifying philosophy behind these street parties...I mean protests. If the Wash Times (Mooney owned loonies) was the only source reporting these kids as morons then I’d be more skeptical.

I understand the protests from my grade school years - it's fun to be bad, to believe to be part of a unified subculture, to break stuff! Whee! You ever notice how when rioting happens looting occurs? How political is that new TV exactly?

To get myself in trouble: I read a well thought-out editorial by a member of an Islamic church that was pointing out that while he didn’t agree with the prejudice against middle-easterners and Islam after 9-11, that he gave SOME of the blame to Muslims for their failure to distance themselves from extremists within their movement. It’s one thing to blame others for lumping these unknown elements into one group – it’s another to be passive towards members who claim affiliation within your group.

I'm 100% anti-muslim. I'm prejudiced and not denying it. I'm 100% anti-christian, too. I am against any religion - what a crock of low self-esteem bullshit. I allow people to practice this insanity - not partially because if this is how they behave when the fear punishment for their treatment of other people then WOW imagine if they believed ONLY MORALITY guided their actions, as I do.

I 'dated' a muslim girl who hates me to this day. She was completely insane of course (see 'dated me'), but her last straw was when I told her to just ignore her parent's teachings and reach out for reality on her own. That was me being anti-muslim. My ex hated(s) me for being anti-christian and shutting down every time the bible is invoked. Um, yes, I think everyone that bends their head in prayer is an idiot. I try to be nice about it, but that is in fact how I feel. In my experience there is an inverse relationship between brains & mental health with degree of religious conviction.

I don't consider my prejudice to be unwarranted. I have found based on my readings and direct experiences that these are facts. I am open to the idea that there are exceptions and that I may even be wrong – but I am resistant to such information, as it is inconsistent with everything I know today. I don’t block this out on purpose, but I feel it is reasonable to do so. Extraordinary claims require extraordinary proof – and if one person told me Xenon was no longer inert in nature I’d consider them a fool unless I heard the same thing from multiple credible sources.

That’s one of those reasons I piss people off so much. It’s not so much the opinion or the way I express it – it’s more the feeling I give people that I am not listening to them, that I don’t respect their opinion. I don’t mean to hurt their feelings, but that is how I feel and I am very poor at hiding my feelings. I'm also growing really imaptient with...well everthing right now. Perhaps the fact I have no children is a good thing.

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