Back From the Hiatus

Posted by Reid at 10:40 p.m.

It’s been over a month of lying low and not posting, and I’m back. Most people probably don’t care…hell, I don’t even care that I am back; it’s just something to do.

Did you know there was a Tsunami in Indonesia? I didn’t…until my mom told me. Where the FUCK is the news on this? Even the headlines on BBC have this tucked away where it didn’t jump out at me. 530 people are known to be dead, thousands needing aid. Funny, I didn’t hear it on the news tonight. It was over shadowed by some pathetic “Canadians” complaining about the conditions on a boat and how the washrooms weren’t clean. Hey, fucker, I bet your clan made it worse than it was. Would you rather be blown up? Shut the FUCK up. Are you paying for it? Shut the FUCK up. You can’t have been that harmed because you are bitching about it. I don’t even understand half the shit you are complaining about. Shut the FUCK up.

“Everybody was vomiting on everybody,” said Nohra. “It was very miserable. The kids were scared, screaming, panicking.”

SHUT THE FUCK UP. It’s not my fault that you can’t hold your vomit. I’m not surprised your kids were scared and that it was crowded. To provide these amenities to you, we would have had to have an increased staff and helped evacuate less people. Is your comfort more important than someone else’s life? You might think so, but either way, you know what I am going to say. Shut the fuck up. But wait, there is more.

“Those left behind in Lebanon after the first ship left Thursday vented their frustrations at what they described as a slow and disorganized evacuation.”

Yep, your choice to head back to Lebanon, why are we responsible to save you? It was a rushed effort, and yes it probably was disorganized. How come you didn’t have a flight booked out? Weren’t planning ahead? Shut the fuck up

Then there is this comment:

“I used to say I’m Lebanese and Canadian and proud of it,” said Zeinab Farhat, 46, of Fort McMurray, Alta. “But now, I’m not proud. When I see the children suffering in the sun, waiting here. I look at the kids and I can’t believe it.”

What a fucking pecker. At first, I thought he was no longer proud to be Lebanese, but reading in context he is actually not proud to be Canadian. Why is he waiting in line to be let back into Canada? Fuck you dude, you can stay there you un-grateful bitch. I bet you’re the kind of person that will quit a job with no notice because you will get a dollar extra somewhere else. You’re the type of fucker that makes this world worse because you only think of yourself. It’s sad that people are this way, but it is even sadder that they put up a big enough fuss to make the news. They need to learn to shut the FUCK up and be grateful for what they are getting. Unfortunately, there are many people from Canada that are the same way.

Canada is one of the best countries in the world, we are really spoiled here. Some people are spoiled rotten to the point of being bad people. We have a lot of amazing people in this country right now, and we have a lot of shit. All countries have their share of good and bad, but honestly, the stuff these people are complaining about is just ridiculous.

Now an extreme leap…I think this lack of gratefulness stems from shitty holiday selection. Odd, eh? Consider, however, that most people think that being well traveled makes your opinion more “worldly” and more “proper”. People all want to be “cultured” and sophisticated. How much culture are they getting from a resort in Mexico? Or staying in Sydney, Australia? Yep, going to places where life is easier than here or similar to here really “cultures” you. So many people think Australia is such a great vacation spot, but then when asked where they went, it was all the major cities. Do you sail? No. Do you windsurf? No. What did you do? Toured around, saw the sites.

Ahh, yes, the sites. Would you consider seeing the sights in Edmonton a valuable, culturing experience? I sure wouldn’t, nor would I consider seeing the white beach of a resort. Want to get a real traveling experience? How about heading to one of the opium fields in Thailand, or the rice patties in China? Go see what life is really like in the country that you are claiming to have seen. People bitch about going on boring tours and just wanting to go back to the resort. What a waste of a holiday. The tours are the one part where you could learn about the history behind the people. A part where you could learn about why people do things they do. That’s what you travel for. Not to kick your feet up in the sunshine to have a drink. That’s a party, and that’s a LOT of money for a week of partying.

I don’t need to tell you where your money should go, we have fuckers like Bono (U2) to do that, and people like that piss me off. I am just saying, don’t tell me how cultured you are if all you did while in a foreign country was shop. Don’t tell me that you’ve seen the suffering in the world until you see someone brushing their teeth in the same river that someone just took a shit in upstream, and the boat you’re in is leaking gas into. Plus someone was washing their clothes in it with detergent too. Don’t forget the colour either – shit brown. And most of all, don’t complain about the way you are being treated by one of the best countries in the world, who is willing to help you out.

Obviously, the you is not directed at anyone reading this…but a good number of people here in Canada think they are better than everyone else and need to be treated as such. I wish people like this would just go away and we could all put a smile on our face and get down to what’s really important. What’s really important in life? The hell if I know...I’m as fucked up as the rest.

(Quotes from CBC)