Pet Peeves
* Bumper stickers that read "got Jesus?" in imitation of the "got milk?" ads, and T-shirts that ape the "J. Crew" logo by advertising "J. Christ." I know these people mean well, but come on, God is not a brand name. Hasn't our religious vocabulary become pretty impoverished when we envision Jesus competing for J. Crew's market share? Time to invoke Max Von Sydow in Hannah and Her Sisters: "If Jesus came back to earth, and saw what was going on in his name, he'd never stop throwing up."
*Clerks and cashiers who can't make change without a computer -- it always gives me an unpleasant whiff of the end of Western civilization.
*Rock stars who make millions peddling their trash to "bourgeois pigs" and wear Che Guevara T-shirts to their two-hundred-dollar-a-ticket concerts.
*People who misuse the word "literally," as in "It was literally raining cats and dogs." (Okay, I'm confessing my snobbish tendencies, but we're all entitled to a little harmless grammar and usage snobbery every now and then, aren't we?)
*Movies that include gratuitous "evil Republican" jokes; every time it happens, I can hear the movie's producer saying, "Suck-ahhhh! We not only managed to get you to pay for our mediocre product, but we threw in some banal political commentary at your expense." I suppose I have only myself to blame for this one.
*Movies in which the protagonist has a chance to kill the super-evil, obviously psychopathic villain and instead only maims him and runs. Every time something like this happens in a movie, I think "What are you doing, you idiot? That guy's not dead! You've got to set him on fire or drop a bomb on him, and even then you can't be sure." I mean, don't these characters ever watch movies like the ones they're in? I exempt Jamie Lee Curtis and Halloween from this category, because she couldn't have been expected to realize Michael Myers was the bogey man.
*Clerks and cashiers who can't make change without a computer -- it always gives me an unpleasant whiff of the end of Western civilization.
*Rock stars who make millions peddling their trash to "bourgeois pigs" and wear Che Guevara T-shirts to their two-hundred-dollar-a-ticket concerts.
*People who misuse the word "literally," as in "It was literally raining cats and dogs." (Okay, I'm confessing my snobbish tendencies, but we're all entitled to a little harmless grammar and usage snobbery every now and then, aren't we?)
*Movies that include gratuitous "evil Republican" jokes; every time it happens, I can hear the movie's producer saying, "Suck-ahhhh! We not only managed to get you to pay for our mediocre product, but we threw in some banal political commentary at your expense." I suppose I have only myself to blame for this one.
*Movies in which the protagonist has a chance to kill the super-evil, obviously psychopathic villain and instead only maims him and runs. Every time something like this happens in a movie, I think "What are you doing, you idiot? That guy's not dead! You've got to set him on fire or drop a bomb on him, and even then you can't be sure." I mean, don't these characters ever watch movies like the ones they're in? I exempt Jamie Lee Curtis and Halloween from this category, because she couldn't have been expected to realize Michael Myers was the bogey man.
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