Rant 86 - 26/3/12 Subject: The peasant wagon

Rant number 86

I am pretty sure that I may have cholera, and a little bit of leprosy probably some almost definitely some dysentery. 

Why? I hear you cry my friends. Have I been swimming in some filth infested plague pit? Have I been smearing myself with filth, have I been eating from a kebab shop. 

No. 

Far worse, I had to get the bus.

For years and years, I was forced to get the bus on a daily basis - which was fine. 

My immune system was tuned to the max. Comparatively speaking - I had a full on force field, an armed guard, turret guns, pill boxes, grenades, mustard gas and some other defences banned on several pages of the Geneva convention.

Now however, I mostly drive my own car- with my own germs and those of those I allow into my car. These I have a truce with - so my defences have lapsed a little. The little men in my body have gone for a pint - leaving only the simple minded ones to man the defences.

As such - when I ever I get on a bus, I feel like it may be my last journey ever.

You see, buses are not a nice or hygienic place to be. They tend to be plastic havens, full of people who don't cover their mouths when they cough, people who don't wash quite often enough and people who have no sense of personal space.

The one I got on today smelled a little bit of wee - which was nice, had curious stains on the window (inside) - which was nice and was generally just quite unpleasant.

Beyond this, my complaints with the bus continue. They are very expensive to use unless you use them very frequently. The timetables would make the average Mensa member scratch their heads (not that they stick to them anyway.) Mostly, the drivers communicate with you in monosyllables and the fellow bus riders hate you almost as much as you hate them!

Even the way buses looks is rubbish. The designs are so unimaginative - and the surroundings 

inside are not nice places to be. There's even one I've been in before with leather seats - I don't even want to think about the residue left on those.

Rant over.

Rant 63 - 03/3/12 Subject: People who are rude for no reason

Rant number 63


Those of you out there that know me well, can doubtless call me a lot of things. I can be loud, ostentatious, occasionally saucy, obtuse & myriad other things.

What I am not however is rude, simply because I was brought up properly and because I think that it is one of the least desirable human traits imaginable.

The rudeness of the general populous we are surrounded by is, in fact - one of the reasons I don't like to be out in public too often.

Rudeness is such a big thing and such a big problem, and it is genuinely exasperating. Its everywhere I go!

People on the roads behave like rude animalistic idiots, pushing in to gaps they have no right to be in, tailgating, using inappropriate hand signals (generally in response admittedly to another idiots bad behavior) and so many other little things.

People out and about use bad language in ear shot of children, smoke in your face, knock into you because they are not looking where they are going and generally behave like pillocks.

People on the phone talk to you with no respect, swearing, cajoling & insulting with no regard or empathy.

I just bloody hate it, when did it get OK to be rude?

Today for instance, I got on a bus from town. The bus was pretty full so I stood to the side - leaving the seats for those more in need. An elderly lady then got on - followed closely by two small boys.

The lady then let forth with a muttered (but not so muttered that it was not audible) tirade about pretty much everyone. The boys - who were doing nothing wrong were told 'behave, I'm only getting off at the next stop,' she then complained about how it was mayhem on account of it being a Saturday, followed by saying that us standing up shouldn't be allowed and that we should be forced to sit down.

I felt like telling her to behave herself - but I would have considered that to be rather rude.

Lovely old bird huh? I love(d) my grandparents (who regrettably now have all but one passed away,) and have a great respect for elderly persons. They however, all continued to be normal people - and never turned into rude old battle-axes. Age just isn't an excuse.

If I had my way, there would be a spot fine for rude behavior, empathy and respect are being lost in this modern world!

Rant over

Rant 21 - 21/1/12 Subject: Town on Saturday

Rant number 21


Today, as on many Saturdays, I went into town (in this case - the town my mother in law lives in, as opposed to my own.) Mostly I don't do this for love in any way shape or form. Mostly I just have to get some things that I cannot buy online or that I would prefer not to or that I need too quickly to wait for.

Whatever the case may be or the reason. One thing about all visits to town on a Saturday is that they are unmitigatedly unpleasant.

First of all, but by no means the least of my annoyances is the way that people walk.

Mostly people walk really really slowly, aimlessly wandering from place to place - stopping at shelves or in front of shop windows with no regard for blocked thoroughfares of any kind. Those who walk slow also love to walk as many abreast as possible on narrow pavements, in order to prevent overtaking by those with somewhere to go. They also enjoy staggering themselves across several lateral metres - for just the same reason.

Those that don't do this, seem hell bent at getting from A to B with no concern for those around them. They dodge and weave and push into everyone - because they are just that much more important than you. 


So people walk about annoyingly, So what? What else bugs me?

How rude people are to one another: I hold doors open for people, let people go before me in narrow corridors and try and be polite in general, I would appreciate the same from those around me. People don't seem very fussed about this though, wanting to stay within their own narrow groups and fucking off anyone outside it.

The way that people dress and hold themselves: Embarrassingly, the way that people dress and even wear there clothes has got sillier over the last few years. I don't want to see a boys trousers underneath his bottom - revealing a full arses worth of his pants. I've even seen a lads like this with his mum though - I mean - how can she not clip him round the ear and tell him to pull his pants up.
There is also endless kids in hoodies - showing us how cool they are. Idiots

Peoples language and demeanor: My language I know can be appalling (see this and previous rants.) It is not something indiscriminate however. In earshot of children for instance, or old people - I will always attempt to curb my language. Some people however, don't seem able to stop themselves or just don't care. I find this really upsetting - particularly as I think that its the latter.
The other things I hate, are spitting and dropping litter. Its just nasty and makes a bad situation worse.

I have no choice but to go in to town for the reasons above. But its never going to be enjoyable.

Rant over.