Posts tagged people are stupid

A couple spelling-related things have circulated my office today:

• 10 Words You Need to Stop Misspelling
• Learn to Fucking Spell

Both seemed more than share-worthy. (Granted, I’m a spelling/grammar/syntax geek; so much so that I once broke up with a guy for spelling it “tomarrow.” Well, combined with the fact that he posted John Mayer lyrics on my Facebook wall. Ew.)

We realized today that our office phones are afflicted with the Y2K bug. The date on the phones’ digital display shows up as Tuesday, October 16 (instead of Friday) — which would be correct if it were 1909.

Funny.

In the news today is the story of a Louisianan interracial couple who was denied a marriage license on the basis of the justice of the peace’s “concern for any children the couple might have.” Read the AP article on Freep.com here.

From the article:

“I’m not a racist. I just don’t believe in mixing the races that way,” [justice of the peace in Tangipahoa Parish, Keith] Bardwell told the Associated Press on Thursday. “I have piles and piles of black friends. They come to my home, I marry them, they use my bathroom. I treat them just like everyone else.”

Not funny.

A notorious close talker at my work called to say he’d be in late today because he was up all night sick. The announcement was met by a collective office groan with the certainty that anyone he close-range talked to/breathed on would end up getting sick too.

The biggest problem with close talkers is that they don’t know they do it. Or maybe they do and they don’t realize it’s bad.

Announcement: It’s bad.

The first step is admitting you have a problem. Everyone knows that. I think that makes it our duty to society to inform offenders when they invade our personal space, so that they’ll realize it’s an issue and ultimately stop doing it.

Please do your part. Determine whether or not you are a close talker. If you are, stop. If you are not, then please inform those who are of their offense.

You’ll be doing the rest of the world a favor.

I was watching “Top Chef” (which I really like, even though I’ve always sworn to hate reality shows until the day I died) last night, and all the Bravo commercials for “Real Housewives of Wherever” made me embarrassed to be a girl. These housewives are celebrated figures deserving of their own show and of an audience — for what reason? Because they’re married to rich men? What an accomplishment. And women in general should be ashamed of themselves for creating the viewer market for that kind of garbage. Am I missing something here? Positively nauseating.