Breaking Bad Toy vs. Uptight Woman

A woman somewhere saw a Breaking Bad toy in Toys R Us. The toys accessory was meth. The toy is made for people over the age of 15 and up. This woman is so offended, she has started a petition to get the store to remove the toy from the shelves.

This is just fucking stupid.

It’s ridiculous that this woman is so offended by a toy she wants it removed. Why? In the same aisle are figures of Freddy Kruger of Nightmare on Elm Street. It comes with a razor glove just like in the movie. There’s also Jason Voorhies from Friday the 13^th. It comes with a hockey mask and machete. Why is she not offended by serial killers who kill teenagers who are fucking? Is it just the drugs the woman is offended by? I mean, seriously. Why is this woman offended by a toy?

There are people who are offended by Barbie dolls. They think that it makes little girls anorexic, gives them an unrealistic body expectation.

Some people are offended by army men or toy guns because VIOLENCE! Do they start petitions? Nope.

Was she offended by Grand Theft Auto 4? The game has you selling drugs, running over people, and killing hookers. Where was her outrage? Would a petition be able to force Toys R Us to remove the game that made more money than many hollywood blockbusters? Or would the store say "fuck off" because people were lining up to get the game? The toy probably didn't sell a huge number of units. The store probably figured it's easier to remove the offending figure than to fight the stupid, uptight lady. 

Does this woman sit in a movie she hates and watch the whole thing and complain about it? That’s fucking stupid. If something offends you, leave. But don’t try to have the movie theater stop playing the movie. There are people who enjoy that form of entertainment. Just like there are people who want to collect the toy.

Basically, don’t like the toy, FUCKING, DON’T BUY IT.

The petition had 8000 signatures. Yeah, out of a country with 330,000,000 people, 8000 isn’t even .000008% of the populace. So a teeny tiny percentage of the uptight populace removes a toy instead of going to a different aisle to shop.  Toys R Us capitulated and is removing the toy from the shelves. So your morality wins, you intolerant person.  I bet she’s a conservative who home schools her kids.  

The thing I find weird, when the show was finishing it's run, the media went nuts with its acclaim of the show and the actors. But now, it's a pariah because of a toy. 

 If stores removed things which piss people off, there would hardly be anything on the shelves. Someone is bound to be pissed f by something that a sane person would not think of being pissed off by.

Politics 2014

Politics are getting really mean. Or maybe has always been mean.

 All the ads on TV before the November election are very mean. They don’t say much. They basically say their opponent sucks, or is liberal. In Arizona the worst thing you can say, apparently, is that your opponent is LIBERAL. And that a Democrat voted with Obama and his agenda.

The thing that makes no sense, it’s a Democrat voting with a Democratic president. All the GOP voted lockstep with George Bush. Isn’t that what you would expect? The person in the same party, who believes the same as the president, would vote for the things that president wants to do?  It’s common sense. And the candidates are running away from it. They are not embracing the ACA. It has gotten 10 million people health coverage. If the GOP crossed the street successfully, you heard about it on the news, “Yup, didn’t get run over while crossing the street!”

There’s  someone, who is not a candidate for anything,  putting  up  signs all over Scottsdale, AZ. “Want more bars and drunks? Re-elect So & so.”  Or, “Want Light Rail in Scottsdale? Vote So & so”

Um, what elected office is in charge of bars and drunks? I don’t know. Do you? And what is wrong with light rail? It might be a bit expensive to do, but there’s a lot of cities with light rail. San  Diego. Tucson. San Francisco. Why is transportation bad? I don’t get their reasoning and they didn’t explain why it’s bad.

What I do wonder about in politics is why politicians don’t get called out by the talking heads on TV who are interviewing them. When a politician says something that is blatantly false, why doesn’t the interviewer say, “No, that’s wrong.” And then bring out the truth? I end up screaming at the TV like Chuck Todd should be able to fucking hear me. It would be fascinating if they pressed the politician for the truth. How would they justify their positions?

I just want to vote. And then mourn the GOP taking the senate. They would do nothing useful except send crazy fucking bills to the president to sign. He will spend 2 years vetoing all the crazy. But the GOP doesn’t realize that the voters will remember and take vengeance on them and they will lose big in 2016.

Random Thoughts

Haven't had much to say lately. Don't know why. Or what I had to say I didn't feel like blogging.

I've been looking at peoples tattoos. I think I figured out a very weird thing about them that if I got tattoos would make me crazy. I would want them to be symetrical. The people I see with tattoos on their bodies have sort of a haphazard placement of the artwork in whatever space the shape could fit. I think I'd need for the tattoos to be balanced and symetrical. If I got one thing on my right arm I'd have to get the exact thing on my left arm in the same place. Which is weird.

I also need my Yoga mat to be equally under my body when laying down doing yoga. Otherwise I have no Zen.

I bought a new car. When I was looking for a car I found the process kind of annoying. They are trained to not let you get away without making a sale. I got the information I needed and then left the dealership. To prove to them I could totally walk away from any deal. It took me a long time for them to come up with a deal for me. Fucking give me numbers. Is the process supposed to take so long you buy a fucking car just so you can leave and go home? Man, that was an ordeal.

To give them my old car, 2001 Mitsubishi Eclipse, 195,021 miles, I had to clean it out of all my stuff. No joke, it took an hour and 15 minutes. I had so many bits of paper and things that it took a long time. I had a flashlight to see under the seats. I only found one petrified french fry. Who knows what year that was from. But there was paper from 2006 in the glove box. After I cleaned out the car I washed him and vacuumed him. Then put in a little gas. I loved the car but there were imminent things which would need to be repaired to make him function longer and it didn't make sense to pour a lot of money into the 13 year old car.

It's been hot as fuck this month. I don't recall it being this bad in prior years. Tell me climate change ain't real. And tell that to the walruses and polar bears who are treading water in the arctic.

I'll do more later.