She Should “Just Be Able To Have” Things
Via Mr Muldoon in the comments, umbrage is detected:
I've been saying it forever: they're upset that they've been asked to participate in their own survival. No clearer distillation of the worldview than here. https://t.co/QRawwks7eU
— wanye (@wanyeburkett) November 13, 2023
As this chap quips in reply,
And this one,
Update, via the comments:
Rafi adds,
Well, addressing the matter earlier might have spared our unhappy madam a lot of pierced and tattooed grumpiness.
There is, of course, plenty of scope for grumbling about the seemingly endless range of things that can be taxed. And existential angst – or existential pouting – can be difficult to avoid, the human condition being what it is. See the aforementioned “bug reports to God.” But the emotional assumption that Things Should Just Be There For Me, Forever, In Unlimited Quantities™ is, I think, something best addressed before one’s children venture out into the world.
Children who, as adults, may then make TikTok videos of themselves bemoaning the fact that they aren’t simply being given a free house, and free food, and a free car, and free petrol for the free car. Children who, as adults, may then seem genuinely bewildered by the prospect of being responsible for the feeding and clothing of any children that they, in turn, might have.
Another thing occurs to me. If pretty much everything you need, or want, should just somehow be there anyway, on an indefinite basis, via some oddly unarticulated rearrangement of the universe, then it’s not obvious how gratitude might fit into such a mindset.
Also, open thread.
Aelfheld, re “Pulitzer” and the thread regarding not believing everything before reporting it…
I was vastly irritated today to hear the reporting on NPR about the Israeli claims about Hamas military facilities being found under hospitals.
Every other sentence was some variation on “unable to independently verify”. And casualty reports from the Hamas Health Ministry” were quoted without reservation.
You bastards, I heard every word of your panting reportage about the 500 dead in the hospital attacked by IDF. Zero, I mean ZERO reluctance to reprint Hamas press releases.
GFY, NPR.
then I’d have to install TikTok, and it’s just so much bloody work
Well, you did say you were looking a replacement for Hades’ Star.
From the comments under the clearly male purple headed freak video:
The doctor does not have time to play make believe with these people.
My two favourite fictional characters are Scrubs‘ Dr. Cox and the doctor from The Hangover. There is a certain cathartic satisfaction in watching an acknowledged master of their field say “I’m right, you’re wrong, and I’m not going to waste my time explaining it to you.”
She wants to sit up on the veranda and sip mint juleps while others do the work for her. The mere thought of her doing work gives her the vapors. Fiddle-dee-dee!
“I do not push anything on my students.” I actually laughed.
Again, the dissonance must be quite something. The pretence – in this case, of not being an unhinged indoctrinator – jars somewhat with the list of things with which he boasts of indoctrinating children, practically in the same breath. And of course the agitated, rather gleeful contempt for any parent who may have reservations.
I mean, seriously, you wouldn’t want to be in that head.
And it would not, I think, be wise to allow Mr Domenic, or anyone like him, to have any prolonged influence or authority over one’s children. Say, for several hours a day, every day, for years.
Yet here we are.
Still am, by the way. Game suggestions welcome.
I think this young lady should pursue a career as a “droll female comedian.” She’s funny, whether she knows it or not.
I lost a lot of faith in that show when they softened his character up, and that of the head administrator. I often wonder if the writers/producers were told to do that or if they just felt that they were running out of ideas. That show was great but to me it was the hardness of those two characters that really sold the humor. And the message. I see Braff and Faison doing commercials together again.
They all want to be Teletubbies! On of the most vile programs ever shown on television.
I just discovered a TV show from 2016 called Stan Against Evil with him in it. It’s worth a look but not watchable twice.
“I didn’t ask to be born”. I guess that’s why state-assisted suicide is now provided for free!