Ten Things I No Longer Need To Hear
The title pretty much explains it all. Here are ten things I no longer need to hear.
1. LOL. Just stop with the LOL. You and I both know your face has the same bored expression it had before you read that sentence. Your mom now says LOL in text messages, so it's way beyond the point of being cool to say.
2. Complaining about people breastfeeding in public. Seriously, how is that still a thing? If it isn't your boob, don't look at it. If you don't like not looking at it, too bad. See also: it's not your boob.
3. Kardashian anything. I DON'T CARE.
4. Fake British accents. Thank goodness Madonna ditched hers because I can't handle them.
5. "Nadya Suleman needs to get a job." You guys, really? REALLY? Why do people say that? There are two issues here. The first is a simple math problem. She has 14 kids. Let's say she gets one hell of a great deal on daycare and only pays $800 per month per kid. She would need to make $11,200 per month JUST TO COVER DAYCARE. There are jobs that pay that much, but unless she gets an advanced degree or terribly lucky, those jobs pretty much require taking off your clothes.
The second issue is that I wonder when it became OK to say that a particular woman shouldn't have the right to choose to stay home with her kids. I have plenty of friends who don't work who are dealing with crazy tight budgets and/or who receive public assistance. It has never once occurred to me to tell one of them to get a job. They made a choice and it's a perfectly reasonable choice.
(Don't start with the "she should have thought about how she would pay for everything before she had kids." It's a moot point now. The kids are here. It's done. Besides, wealth has never been a prerequisite for being a parent and it shouldn't be one now.) (Really, the dumbass who implanted all of those embryos should have to pay child support.)
6. "Why?" I would like to ban that one-word question from the English language, please and thank you. The answer is BECAUSE I SAID SO JUST SHOOSH, CHILD. It always will be.
7. "There's a tick on Penny." OK, so I'm the one who keeps saying it. Three times in two weeks, thank you very much. I'D LIKE TO NEVER SAY IT AGAIN.
8. Jay Leno's voice. I can't for the life of me figure out how he's still a thing.
9. Political ads. Need I say more?
10. Anything that has to do with THAT Time cover. I'm over it. Can we please move on?
Wednesday, May 30, 2012
Reader Comments (9)
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We're going to have to agree to disagree that it's okay to use public assistance while choosing to be stay at home parent. I get that there are people out there that can't work or can't find work. Been there. But if someone is choosing to not work, not look for a job, AND is using public assistance I will never be okay with that. I know too many people who abuse the system. I'm sorry to anyone I've offended, but if you're able to work and you can't really afford not to work, then I shouldn't have to support you while supporting my own family.
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Why?
1. LOL. - Agreed. The overuse of this word is super annoying. I also don't like when people include it before punctuation. Example: "Hey, did you see that Time magazine cover lol?" Is "lol" really part of that sentence? No, it's not. But don't even get me started on people's grammar/spelling/punctuation. stab
2. Complaining about people breastfeeding in public. - I honestly don't hear a lot about this but as a woman who will most likely breastfeed when I do have kids, just cover up ladies. I know, motherhood is a beautiful thing and yadda yadda yadda... drape a towel over your chest so your boob isn't hanging out and call it a day. Whipping the tit out in the middle of a mall WILL cause a scene regardless of how much you think it shouldn't. Fact of life.
3. Kardashian anything. - THIS.
4. Fake British accents. - Is this still a thing?
5. "Nadya Suleman needs to get a job." - Nadya Suleman just needs to disappear. Take your 14 kids and your fake lips and your crazypants and GO AWAY. As far as using public assistance and not working when you have kids, I would be completely against this if daycare wasn't so flippin expensive. For a lot of people, having someone else watch your kids while you work basically cancels out your paycheck, so why bother? Makes sense to me. I wouldn't take that route, but I understand why others might.
6. "Why?" - Ahhh kids.
7. "There's a tick on Penny." - Gah! I hope not!
8. Jay Leno's voice. - Agreed. He is the opposite of funny.
9. Political ads. - Yup. Nothing but mudslinging propaganda that makes me headdesk more than anything else during my entire day.
10. Anything that has to do with THAT Time cover. - That Time cover WAS a little over the top. But it was weeks ago. Shush.
YES. I agree with everything. Ok, I don't know much about the Penny tick thing, but I'll go with you on that one. Can I also add Lindsay Lohan ANYTHING? Thank gawd Spencer Pratt and Heidi Montag have pretty much dropped off the face of the earth. WHY DOES THE MEDIA GIVE ANY OF THESE FOOLS TIME?!
so much great stuff in here, but i can't get past how phenomenal that photo is. love, love, love.
My #1? How awesome "50 Shades of Grey" is. Every time I hear someone say that I wanna stab myself in the eye with a fork.