{"id":795,"date":"2008-05-16T10:31:00","date_gmt":"2008-05-16T10:31:00","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/theothersideofeverything.com\/flip\/2008\/05\/listen-shut-the-fuck-up\/"},"modified":"2008-05-16T10:31:00","modified_gmt":"2008-05-16T10:31:00","slug":"listen-shut-the-fuck-up","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/theothersideofeverything.com\/flip\/2008\/05\/listen-shut-the-fuck-up\/","title":{"rendered":"Listen: Shut The Fuck Up!"},"content":{"rendered":"

“I really hate it when…”<\/font><\/p>\n

How many times have you said that recently? “I really hate it when… ” I’ve been noticing that it’s a thought-pattern that increases with stress. I really hate it when I get that stressed that I start sentences with those five words. I really hate it when I start to feel that it really isn’t worth bothering to be positive, and I really hate it when people listen to me loudly, vigorously hating things – anyone would think I was an aggressive, neurotic, abusive, resentful person all the time, instead of just on the odd occasion when it really is necessary.<\/p>\n

It’s not just me, it’s other people. I really hate it when I think I know what people are thinking and it isn’t very nice stuff about me. I hate it even more when I am proved right, but know that they are still very, very wrong. Because, I’m a nice person! A really nice person! I’m the kind of person anyone would want to hang out with, generous, kind, affable, witty, inclusive… the long list of attributes precious beads on a string I hang around my neck like a noose of social kindness.<\/p>\n

I really, really hate it when people can’t see past their own aggressive, neurotic, abusive, resentful traits and look bang smack at mine. I want to say to them: Listen: Shut the fuck up with your accusations that you haven’t made but I know that you are thinking! Shut THE FUCK UP with your snide insinuations of superiority! Sometimes I walk away from these situations. Other times I sigh, and reply condescendingly, but even then the amount that escapes is miniscule, tiny. I really hate it when that happens.<\/p>\n

I really hate it when I hear myself being nice, warm, and smooth to some eager capitalist, when what I’m really thinking is, what a wanker. I bet they pick their nose, I bet they cheat their expenses. I bet they cheat on their partner and lie to their friends and think that’s big. I bet they masturbate and then (like 25% of the population) don’t wash their hands and then they fucking shake mine and smile a big, cheesy smile.<\/i> And I’m supposed to smile back at them and their teeth, and not think of the microscopic traces of their genital DNA which now attach to my palms. I really hate that I’m supposed not to shudder when I think of this. I really hate suppressing a shudder when a shudder will at least rescue me from the urge to vomit my breakfast all over their suit.<\/p>\n

But most of all, I really hate it when all I can think about is my own petty responses when there are so many more serious things to think about like the end of life as we know it.<\/a><\/p>\n

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“I really hate it when…” How many times have you said that recently? “I really hate it when… ” I’ve been noticing that it’s a thought-pattern that increases with stress. I really hate it when I get that stressed that I start sentences with those five words. I really hate it when I start to […]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":126,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[],"tags":[21,216],"class_list":["post-795","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","tag-ecopocalypse","tag-listen"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/theothersideofeverything.com\/flip\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/795","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/theothersideofeverything.com\/flip\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/theothersideofeverything.com\/flip\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/theothersideofeverything.com\/flip\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/126"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/theothersideofeverything.com\/flip\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=795"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/theothersideofeverything.com\/flip\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/795\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/theothersideofeverything.com\/flip\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=795"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/theothersideofeverything.com\/flip\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=795"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/theothersideofeverything.com\/flip\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=795"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}