It is so rare for me to swear on my blog but this article just roiled me to no end.
Able, but not Willing
From the story:
"Michelle Bailey, a slender, apparently healthy 22-year-old, used a scooter to get around a recent pool tournament at the Riviera hotel-casino. ''Four-inch heels,'' she explained with a laugh, pointing to her lipstick-red pumps"
and
"'It was all the walking,' 27-year-old Simon Lezama said on his red Merits Pioneer 3. Lezama, a trim and fit-looking restaurant manager from Odessa, Texas, rented it on day three of his five-day vacation, 'and now I can drink and drive, be responsible and save my feet.'"
So, you are too frickin' lazy to walk a few miles? Heels are uncomfortable? Too bad. It's too difficult to bar-hop in Vegas and walk from casino to casino? When it's said that people like America but not Americans, this is why. Our society's progressive and indulgent trend towards "if it can be done, why not do it?" and the erosion of morals, values, and ethics is the cause. No wonder companies send work overseas. It's not to save money on labor, it's because of sloth-butt people like this.
On a weekend where we honor our fallen soldiers, sailors, and marines, I have to open my paper and read this garbage. Those who have given all must be turning in their graves and be absolutely livid at how we have devolved as a society and at the sloth of some people who are obviously uneducated, lazy, thankless, and egocentric sycophants with no moral ground.
Jeez, calm down. There are many worse things in the world to be outraged about than people using scooters. I mean, he WAS on vacation. As a matter of fact it looks like he's a restaurant manager so he (in all likelihood) works pretty darn hard.
The good news, is that nobody (right- or left- wing) is trying to make usage of these scooters mandatory. So you are still free not to use them if you don't want to. So far.....
Having never head the misfortune of walking in four-inch heels, I asked my mother about it:
"Hey, mom, how much does it hurt to walk in four-inch heels?"
"A lot."
"On a scale of one to ten?"
"Walking around all day in them?"
"Yeah."
"Eight."
Indeed, wearing painful high heels is a more valid thing to criticize than using a scooter to get around. And gambling. Those are two of the most daft habits I know. All I'm saying is that you'd have to walk a mile in her shoes--literally--before judging something so incredibly trivial.
For all those reasons and many more, my namesake Diogenes is turning in his grave today, and every day!
When it's said that people like America but not Americans, this is why.
I talk with foreigners on a regular basis, and---believe me---that's not why.
Our society's progressive and indulgent trend towards "if it can be done, why not do it?" and the erosion of morals, values, and ethics is the cause.
*chuckles* God forbid I use a garbage collector today, rather than using the inefficient, tedious, and error-prone explicit heap deallocation method of Real Men(tm). And God forbid I use indulgent and human-readable YAML rather than XML, or, even better, some hand-coded binary format.
Jeez, calm down. There are many worse things in the world to be outraged about than people using scooters. I mean, he WAS on vacation. As a matter of fact it looks like he's a restaurant manager so he (in all likelihood) works pretty darn hard.
It's called 'wallowing in fake outrage' for a reason.
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