This is a short one, because I’m tired and mad. Hate on a motherfucker who insists on coming to work sick! I’ve got an illness set on slow-boil because one of my co-workers felt it was wiser to drag his infectious ass into work rather than stay home, where he’d only give his house plants the cold. Three days in a row he does this. I’ve been wondering why I wasn’t getting sick. Now I know, I was getting sick—slowly, but surely. I was up half the night, sweating so hard I thought I had pissed myself. Now I’m here at work, putting up with a long list of bullshit and all I want to do is go to bed. Have you ever seen the pictures from China and Japan of people wearing surgeon’s masks around town? They do that because they are sick and they don’t want to infect their friends, co-workers, strangers, etc. The Communists in China wear masks, but we’re all kinds of Socialist with our germs. They have better health care, too. Anyway, it’s Friday and I can look forward to spending the weekend sick. Thanks, Jeremy. I hate you.
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People in China wear masks because the air is too toxic to breathe not because they have some sort of moral concern about illness. Lung cancer is the leading cause of death in china..coming in second..car accidents. What I hate is a society that doesn't allow people to take sick days with out an enormous guilt trip. Buy yourself some airbourne, take some vitamins, drink orange juice, and get the fuck over it.
I'm confused love(antonym) - is this comment a hate on the associated post, a hate on lung cancer, or a hate on our oppressive society which guilt trips us out of most (if not all pleasure) including the right to take a sick day? Or...as I'm suspecting it might be...is it a hate on all of the above? Hmmm.
Easy Love. Clearly you've got a beef with the surgical mask fad. Or toxic air, or car accidents, or no sick days. To be honest, I have no fucking clue what your problem is. And although you're right about bad air in China, people do, in fact, wear those masks all over Asia as a means of reducing the spread of infectious illness like the cold, the flu and SARS. I welcome a citation war if you really want to push the issue. And who needs to get the fuck over what? Does society need to get over people needing sick days? Or do I need to get over being upset about being sick? I thought the point of this blog was a community that points its commentary outside, not within. But if we're going to direct our hate at one another, let's at least get our facts straight when we do it. Get the fuck over that.
This is not a hater conglomerate. If we can't be critical of each other than we have to right to be criical of the outside world. If you want to hate on the things I write I encourage you to do so. As for having a "citation war" I do no want that juvenile garbage polluting this site. If you want to have a contest to see whose balls are bigger than I urge you to do so in a different way with some one else. I also urge you to gripe about your co-workers somewhere else. None of us on this blog have achieved "sharp social commentary" yet but I sure as hell hope that we do. That's the goal.
Having been the one that came up with the "sharp social commentary" bit for the header, I have to say that I was being completely and utterly tongue in cheek. With that said, I'm all for whatever, though I have trouble thinking that a "hater crew" is not also in some ways a "hater conglomerate". I lost my dictionary though.
I am more critical of those who post on this site than most people; and guess what - you've all got my seal of approval. This hater community is being damaged by needless bickering. Shit - I'll hate on your posts any day - each of you - and I expect the same...it's called keeping each other sharp. But, I'll hate on my coworkers without feeling like I'm brining down the standards of our blog. Let's get real. We blog.
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