Quite a few, but the common thread they have is that they tend to be conversations with narrow-minded people who are often stuck in an era no later than 30 years ago, and utterly incapable of seeing reality or their own hypocrisy.
Among the more recent such things that have irked me:
- You cannot work your way through college any more; tuitions are too high, and incomes have dropped. For that matter, unless you are a full-on doctor or lawyer, it’s nearly impossible to even live on a single-income at all unless you like park benches and eating from dumpsters.
- We are not the land of opportunity or land of plenty we once were. Hard-working people can fall behind or at least not become wildly successful, and it’s not because we are all lazy! So take your “The non-rich are lazy” attitude, wrap it in barbed wire, smother it in Tabasco, and shove it up your fucking ass sideways with a right-hand spiraling motion!
- Smartphones are for more than just turning people into bad drivers and zombies. But if you’re willing to buy separate portable stereos, video cameras, GPS units, and computers, and carry them all around with you (easy to do since all those combined cost more than a smartphone) then fine. And if you don’t need/want all that, don’t belittle those do!
- The only real differences between Obamacare and Romneycare are which party started it and how may states it affected. If it was good enough for Massachusetts when a republican signed it into law, it’s good enough for America when a Democrat does the signing. If not, then why did you choose someone you believe to have committed un-American anti-Capitalist acts to be your presidential nominee in 2012?