Things That Piss Me Off

Christians — full of hate and evil

Fred Ermlich
The Bad Influence
4 min readDec 26, 2020

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By Jindřich Nosek (NoJin) — Own work, CC BY 3.0, https://commons.wikimedia.org/w/index.php?curid=29150074
  • Nudity Taboo — people draping woven fibers over themselves thinking they’re hiding something — it’s damn childish
  • People Terrified by Death — what? They didn’t get the memo? Our origins and end are immutable — why fight the obvious? Waste of oxygen these folks and hope they die
  • Schoolteachers — working hard to create a generation as stupid as they are
  • Cops — previously the neighborhood bullies now living a wet dream
  • Paperwork — a ploy by government to keep you too busy to get the revolution started or simply put food on the table
  • Smartphones — we’d like you to carry around these tracking and spying devices everywhere you go. Make sure the cameras can also see the people around you
  • ATMs — the government thinks it’s perfectly fine to use folding money — as long as it comes from an ATM so we can follow your trail. You could be a terrorist or revolutionary after all
  • Religion — Santa Claus: we only told you he was real to brighten your childhood. Easter Bunny: same as Santa. God: oh, he’s real and you’re going to Hell for talking like this
  • Doctors and Scientists wearing white coats — extremely insecure people you’d best not trust. The ones you can trust look just like you or me, and don’t hang a “Dr.” in front of their names
  • Politicians — power-hungry narcissists who know what you want and need far better than you do. All they ask for their services is your obeisance
  • Animal Lovers — you couldn’t find a more stupid trait in the human race. We are carnivores. Our teeth and anthropology have proved that. Animals eat plants and animals eat animals and we are animals. I ate your little fi-fi last night
  • Medium — the blog: no comment
  • Bull Dykes — angry and mean, why can’t they be more gay?
Bull Dykes . . . By Elvert Barnes from Baltimore, Maryland, USA — 49.Before.DykeMarch.NYC.29June2019, CC BY-SA 2.0, https://commons.wikimedia.org/w/index.php?curid=80501544
  • Online Photo Sites — so vanilla white, so PC. You put in “fuck you” and get pictures of “thank you.” thank you, fuckers
  • Denial — civilized people are so much distanced from nature that they lie to themselves and each other about reality itself. In a way, a big way, this entire list is about denial
  • Covid-19 Alerts — about a virus killing some people on a doomed and vastly overpopulated planet — eek! Mother nature doing the natural thing and people are freaking. covid’s just another bug in an endless lineup of bugs
  • People who ignore history — AOC comes to mind. a population which no longer reads books or pays attention to history = a dumb as bricks population
  • Magical Thinking — you see, or actually you don’t, that the universe doesn’t give a rat’s ass what you think, do, say, or feel
  • Heaven — where you die then float on a cloud twiddling your thumbs for billions of years
  • Hell — same as heaven but suddenly you have no thumbs
  • Racism — it’s hateful and ignorant. We’re called the human race for a reason. we’re more alike than different but have trouble seeing the sameness . that’s ironic because we’re a very visual species
  • Money — pieces of paper worth killing for. money replaced barter years ago
  • Houses, Apartments, Cities — barriers between people and the real world of nature and wisdom
  • Stupidity — natural stupidity is one thing. pride in your stupidity is another. stupid
  • Neckties — you should trust me because look here you could strangle me and that’s why I wear a tie . . . (say what?)
  • Republicans — self explanatory for most Americans
  • Cars — so that increasingly obese and physically unfit people can plunder what’s left of the environment rather than walk. while walking was the miracle of the human race and allowed us to follow the animals we ate while living in a state of nature
  • Icons — substitutes for poems or stories or people we admire. icons are contractions, trivial and trite
ICONS for emotions . . . Fair use, https://en.wikipedia.org/w/index.php?curid=3059701

Basta! For now anyway. I reserve the right to add to my list. First I’ll need to read more novels and articles on Medium to see what else pisses me off.

  • Being Pissed Off — you know, that actually does piss me off — to be pissed off. how about a list of what doesn’t piss me off? like . . . I dunno — molecules maybe. galaxies. The Bad Influence

FRED

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Fred Ermlich
The Bad Influence

Living in rural Panamá — non-extractive, non-capitalistic. Expat USA. Scientist, writer, researcher, teacher. STEM mentor +languages. Gargoylplex@protonmail.com