It’s that time of the week again. Let’s get those grievances off our chests.
Rubber Rooster
I hate fireworks.
Let me be clear, I love firework displays. I love firework shows put on by a crew, with a schedule, and a definite end.
What I hate are drunks with no respect for work schedules, babies, animals, or veterans. I hate fireworks that randomly go off every night for a week around either Independence Day, New Year, or a random day for no reason. Now, I will concede that there is no more appropriate way to celebrate our Nation’s independence than by getting drunk and blowing shit up; where it is very likely someone will blow off a finger, hand, or just plain kill themselves.
But, I hate when you can’t even drive down a street cause you’re waiting for everyone to clear out of the road and for the fireworks to stop popping. I hate that there is such a thing available to the general public when its only purpose is to be loud. And I hate when people fire them off as late (or early rather) as 3am.
Living in the South, I understand this may not be a popular criticism. We’ve all been assholes at some point in our lives for the sake of fun, laziness, personal gain, or plain ignorance. We’re only human. I’m in no way calling for a ban on fireworks. I’m only asking for human decency and consideration when you live in a neighborhood or apartment complex. Because when I have work early in the morning and I’m woken up at 1am by random fireworks on July 5th, you bet yer ass my grumpy self is praying for an exploding finger.
(Chris Remboldt seconds this complaint – Instagram: @exoverseproducts)
Stoney Keeley (@StoneyKeeley)
I know I’m going to be 100% in the minority on this one, but part of being honest with our audience is being completely transparent. I have something I need to get off my chest – this frustration over unnecessary Facebook notifications is absurd. It’s such a prominent stance, too. Time after time, we see statuses about how annoying game requests are, and how nobody wants to go to your events, and so on and so forth.
How hard is it to click the little icon, see that it’s not really an important notification, and click out of it? It takes two seconds. It definitely takes longer to stop, write a status about Farmville requests that isn’t going to stop anyone who plays Farmville from sending you Farmville requests
Are you saying that those two seconds of your life are so busy and important that the source of the notification has kept you from accomplishing something revelatory and life-changing?
I’m a writer. I’m in what feels like a hundred writing groups – football, wrestling, hockey, movies, general writing groups. I get notifications ALL THE TIME….
“______ has posted in the group ______.”
“______ has invited you to like their page ______.”
“______ has invited you to an event ______.”
(Weirdly enough, I never really got that many game requests)
If I don’t log in for a couple of days, I will legitimately have around 100 notifications to go through. But, I don’t bitch about it. I sit down, scroll through each one, if it’s noteworthy I comment/like/share, if it’s not, I just skip over it.
That’s what fucking Facebook is.
SoBro Bill said such notifications annoyed him. So, SoBro Bill quit getting on Facebook all the time. Be like SoBro Bill. It’s that easy.
Again, I admit – this is a “me” thing. I’ve only told two…maybe three people about this because I know most people aren’t going to side with me. But, damn – Big Natural gotta let it out.
Whew – that felt good. Remember, to submit your own Thursday Rant, hit us up on Facebook or on Twitter @SoBrosNetwork. See you next Thursday.
