Monday, October 25, 2010

Underinformed Opinions

People's sense of entitlement to sound off about anything they feel like has become so out of control.  Didn't your mother tell you not to talk about things you don't know anything about? I think it is a right to have an opinion and express it, but not if you're under qualified.

I don't presume to know how to fly a plane and don't argue with pilots as to the fastest route to Flagstaff, Arizona.  Especially if I think the pilot had one to many Glenlivet's and soda at the secret pilot airport cave.  Stop sitting on the plane running your mouth about the fact that because you've flown on planes so many times you can tell that the pilot is coming in too quickly and the landing won't be as smooth as your accustomed to.  Nobody gives a shit what you think and next time buy two seats so I don't hang myself from the no smoking sign in the bathroom from sitting next to your ridiculous ass.

We all have things we're good at, but you can't be good at everything.  I hate a "know it all."  I just want to punch them in their inaccurate and limited knowledge heads.  Stop trying to act like because you had carpal tunnel surgery you are now an expert on Neurology.  You weren't even awake during the procedure jackass.  That's like going to a clown college and asking the best and the brightest clowns if they are familiar with the opinions in Stephen Hawking's book The Large Scale Structure of Spacetime.  They're clowns and they know it.  They're good at making people laugh not mathematics and so unless one of them previously graduated from Cambridge majoring in Applied Physics they shouldn't be sounding off about quantum mechanics.

I also hate celebrities under the age of 20 telling me their opinions on politics.  First of all you haven't been on the planet long enough to have any opinions and your young and rich so shut the hell up!  Until you've sat in your college dorm room starving and scared to call your dad for more lunch money because you blew your wad on ecstasy, than don't tell me you have a clue about how the rest of us are going to survive.  We've been in the trenches.  There are life lessons you have not yet experienced.  We've all gone in to the 711 high after coming up with the plan for one of us to shoplift a bag of Cheetos and 6 pack of Strohs and leave IOU's in place of it, while the other one distracts the cashier with the old "can you give me directions" trick.  This makes us experts in poor budgeting and therefor can have opinions on government spending.  We've also been to 711 stock room jail to get our shoplifting tickets so we can now opine on National Security.  Got it?

If any of you celebrity idiots want to come out and say something intelligent about a problem we are facing in our nation, have at it, but it must go a little deeper than "I support Obama."  That's like saying, "I support Jimmy Choo".  You mean you gave entirely too much money to fall and bust your ass in a pair of 6 inch stilettos that the democrats want to outlaw in 16 states because people with no insurance keep coming into the emergency room with broken ankles.

So before you tell me how you're now an expert in martial arts because you watched the latest Jackie Chan flick, recorded yourself imitating the fight scenes and posted them on you tube ... learn how to read a book or I'm gonna kick your Cliff Clavin ass.  Who does that?!

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