I'm grumpy. I'm tired, I hurt all over, my stomach hurts, my chest hurts, my legs and feet hurt, my back is sore and, I have a mild headache...and, I have to work all day, then go to the grocery store, to get some items that weren't available at the grocery store I went to, last night. I'm very grumpy.
And, I have to spend that whole entire day, talking to Americans who are better off standing in a barn somewhere poo'ing on the floor, than actually trying to continue with this pretense that they are civilized, intelligent human beings. My long-standing theory, is that the majority of rude people are so ill-mannered, because they are too mentally lazy to be anything else...or, they were raised by livestock, take your pick.
h, wish I could be British. Don't get me wrong, love my country--just don't like it very well, of late. Folks here are getting more and more regressive and mentally lazy with every passing year. Basic manners have become passe.
You know, most Americans, don't even know how to properly answer a telephone anymore? It's true! Many--including children--answer, "Who is this?" or, when you ask for a specific person, say, "This is." This is what? That's just stupid..and lazy. (In case you don't know, the CORRECT--and polite--response is, "This is (she/he/name) speaking." Or, to shorten it, "This is she/he speaking." THAT is how one is SUPPOSED to answer a telephone! Is that so difficult? No.
Sadly, for many Americans, it's easer to do nothing--or the wrong thing--or rather, not to bother to learn to do things the right way, I should say, then to make that extra effort to have a little respect for yourself and others.
Then again, most Americans have gotten so lazy, as to not eve bother to look when they cross a parking lot (car park). Just sit in a grocery store or department store lot, some Saturday, and see for yourself---scary! These people walk around lots and inside the store like blinking automatons--don't look right, don't look left--just stare off into space like there's no life inside them.
We are an impatient lot, we are. Dont' even like to do a simple thing like wait our turn in the grocery check out or the bank line. We are a simple race, that likes things kept simple--thinking is discouraged, from the politicians in Washington D.C., down to small town elementary schools.
Abstract thinking is almost unheard of in the American educational system--and when I was growing up, in high school (9th grade), my only introduction to Shakespeare--was a class trip to a local movie theater, to see "Romeo and Juliet--who's opening scenes showed close ups of the male actor's cod-pieces (crotches). Oh, that was subtle. The kids all snickered. Good way to introduce Shakespere to a bunch of 15 year olds, ey?
I did not study Shakespeare, formally, until I was in my early 40's, in college .
I love the UK---their love of words, of thinking, the sense of humor. Americans have lost their true sense of humor---the days of Abbot and Costello's "Who's on First" routine, would be lost on many, now. Now, if it isn't crude or insulting, many Americans don't get it. Sad.
Shakespere came from Britain, bless him. They love the theater in Britian...here...eh. Theater is mostly only for the wealthy.
And, people here, they freak out over every little thing. My friends in the UK--really, some of the most relaxed people I've ever met--well, them and the Dutch. I mean, you know what some conservates are saying now? That there's a movement on to impeach Obama--which they can't do yet, because he hasn't been sworn into office! The flippin' morons...and oh, have you read the comments in the newspapers, both here and overseas? The neo-conservative far-right winger's are MAD. Both literally and figuratively....and, in total denial. They're still harping on that Obama is a terrororist...and a Muslim.
(Apparently, these "people" claim he put down once, about 25 or 30 years ago, that his religioun was "Islam." HELLO! 30 years ago, I was Catholic. 25 years ago, I was Presbyterian. Today, I'm an semi-athiest. People do change their religion, meat-heads...cripe, what a bunch of brainless jerks these right-wingers are)
That's why I don't like my country, anymore. No one thinks, no one cares, no one feels, anymore. It's literally become a case of "I've got mine, to hell with the rest of the world--incluiding my neighoburs, grannies, children and fluffy animals."
Oh, I know they're not all like that, and that folks in the UK, Netherlands and elsewhere, are probably like this, too, to some extent...but my country...it just seems to excell at selfishness and mindlessness. What other country in the world, regularly prints more than three quarters its daily newspapers--nationwide, to be read by people with a 12 to 14 year old reading level? Anywhere else? No, just the United States. Half the people here in Glens Falls, wouldn't even be able to get halfway through your typical London Times or Guardian front page article...and that's a fact. And, they are okay with that, because they are afraid of smart. Smart scares the pants right off millions of Americans...I don't mean highly intellectual, I mean just average, like Canadians, Europeans and such...we are way, way below Europe, both culturally and intellecturally. Your typical British lorry driver, till clerk, or chambermaid, could run rings around an American It's...embarrassing.
