Oh my freakin' god, why has every other writers block lately been something about vampires? Seriously, baseball playing vampires? Really? Just how Twilight obsessed is the LJ community anyway?

A while back I decided to start this list of things I love and things I hate. Mostly as a way to vent against stuff and pay omage to stuff I enjoy. Today I decided it was time I unleash my malice and affections contained in this list upon the world. I'll probably continue to add new stuff and post in the future.


Stuff that I hate

Hot Soup
You go to eat a bowl of delicious looking soup only to have the scalding concoction sear off your taste buds. You have to blow on every single bite to cool it off and even then you have to chew gingerly because it's still too hot. I always have to break out the ice cubes to downgrade from hot to warm.

Nuts in Baked Goods
Why are there so many people in the world who think that any baked good is exponentially better by putting nuts in friking everything!? This is the bane of my existence at every church potluck I go to. The desert looks awesome and then my heart sinks when I learn that nuts were baked into it. Seriously, why spoil a soft, moist, and smooth brownie by making it all crunchy and nutty? I'm convinced the only purpose of nuts in baked goods is to annoy me. LEAVE THE FREAKING NUTS OUT!!!! @$@$@$$#()_()@_)#()@qw@ ARRRRGGHGHHTHHH!!!!!!

Conspiracy Theorists
Oh noz! 9/11 was inside job!  The lunar landing was staged and fake! North American Union! Bilderberg! Rothchild! New world order! Bohemian grove! Haliburton! Skull and bones! Pearl Harbor was an inside job! Obama isn’t a natural born American citizen! The New Orleans levies were bombed by Bush because he hates black people! We invaded Iraq for oil! Swine flu was engineered and released by the new world order!
And the list goes on. I hate conspiracy theorists. Statistically if you believe in one of these conspiracy theories, you tend to believe in them all. I firmly believe it’s a form of psychological paranoia. Ever listen to these people? They’re not reasonable, rational, level headed people. You can just tell by the way they talk and behave that there are some bats in the belfry. In order to believe these things, one has to adopt a sort of reverse scientific method in which they state their belief as fact, throw out all of the overwhelming evidence against their belief and cling on to the most vague of details. The people who dream up these theories are there to profit off people’s paranoia and gullibility. See Alex Jones. 

Girls Using “Cute” to Describe EVERYTHING
To the younger generation of women, “cute” seems to be the equivalent to “cool”. An automobile that a man might describe as “kick ass” is described as “cute” by a woman. A really skanky/trashy looking outfit isn’t “slutty”, it’s “cute!”. Bah, stop using cute to describe things that simply aren’t! Puppies and kittens are cute. Hello Kitty is cute. Babies are cute. Do we know what cute is now? Good!

Girls leaving compliments on their friends’ online pictures that include the word “gorgeous!”
I think gorgeous is a little over used and often goes overboard these days. I always think of that scene in Beauty and the Beast where the village girls are ranting about Belle getting Gaston’s affection and the one all of a sudden just sighs “He’s gorgeous….” And they all go back to ogling Gaston.

People Who Don’t Put their Shopping Carts Back
Big personal pet peeve of mine that I inherited from my dad and working at the front of a department store for two years, I think. I’ll see people do the most retarded and careless things with their shopping carts when they’re finished. They’ll just abandon them in the self checkout lanes, right in front of the store exits, in their parking spaces, in the middle of the busy front walk ways in front of the cash registers. They just think they’re the only ones in the world and a carelessly discarded shopping cart isn’t in anybodies way. Seriously, take the extra minute and put them back where they belong!

Shaky Camera Cinematography
This technique was first made famous in the second and third Bourne movies, but it seems like it’s becoming more popular. It was prominently featured in Cloverfield and the most recent James Bond movie Quantum of Solace. It’s supposed to give the action a more realistic feel, but it just ticks me off since I can’t follow the action that’s taking place and it tends to give me a headache and occasionally sick. I HATE this shaky camera fad. Go back to tripods and fluid and smooth camera work so we know what the heck is going on! I’m not the only one. Look at this article on CNN, they’re actually recommending that people take anti vertigo medicine if they’re prone to sea sickness!
http://www.cnn.com/2008/HEALTH/01/24/movie.sickness/index.html

Sports
Something is wrong with me. I’m a red blooded conservative American man who doesn’t enjoy sports. Seriously, I’ve tried. Growing up I would force myself to watch football, basketball, and hockey games on TV and even played on the JV and V teams in high school but they never really held my interest like they seem to with most men, so I eventually just quit trying. I think I’m too much of a geek at heart and just not competitive enough for it to strike my fancy. Normally I would be at peace with sports if it left me alone and we just stayed out of each other’s worlds. But sports frequently invade my harmonious little life. I am an avid listener to AM radio and my favorite radio programs are often cut in favor of baseball games during the season. The only thing more boring than playing or watching baseball is listening to it on the radio. I hate sports. They just won’t stay out of my world.

The Kitchen and dining room Light
In our apartment the kitchen, living room, dining room, and my computer desk are all in one big room. It’s where I spend pretty much all of my time at home since the only other two rooms are the bedroom and bathroom/laundry room. I like dim lighting and hate bright lights. It makes me feel more comfortable and at home, so I only keep on our two floor lamps and never use the kitchen/dining lights because they’re so bright. But Sarah is just the opposite. She likes lots of bright lighting. Now the two floor lamps provide an adequate amount of light to do anything in the entire room, but Sarah can’t do anything in the kitchen without them for some reason. She’s always turning them both on and I HATE it! I usually turn them right off and then we have light wars.

Liberal Christians
Ok, I don’t hate them, but I seriously don’t get them. I don’t understand how one can claim to be a believer in the bible but stand on the side that is aggressively against pretty much everything the bible stands for. Liberalism, at its core, is based on secular humanist philosophy that is the polar opposite to Christianity.
I think in order to call yourself both liberal and Christian you have to forsake one for the other. I just don’t see how any Christian could say yes to that, with honesty.

Standing in Lines
I’ll do just about anything to avoid waiting in a long line. If I see there’s a really long line for something I’ll usually go do something else and come back later. Sometimes I get so miffed over a line being too long that I just won’t do whatever it is I was going to do. Life is too short to waste hours in a line being bored.

Organic / Natural Foods
It’s my belief and suspicion that the whole organic/natural hysteria is a scam. I probably wouldn’t mind people who want to throw their money away by buying organic foods from organic food stores, but this is one of those issues that cause people who follow it to get on a high horse over it, kind of like vegetarianism/veganism. They just love to obsess over it. What disappoints me even more is that it seems like conservative, Christian home schooling families are the ones who jump on this band wagon more than any other group. Stop wasting your money and acting like hippies! Dr Dave Hnida agrees with me.
http://cbs4denver.com/consumer/organic.food.nutrition.2.1111128.html

“Going Green” movement
Again, it’s my belief and suspicion that the trend to go green is another scam. Remember when NBC did the whole green week theme? What a lot of people don’t realize is that NBC is owned by General Electric who just so happens to be pushing green products more than any other company. Also, the talking heads who are out pushing the global warming agenda are the ones who don’t seem to believe that they should practice what they preach. When people like Al Gore say that we need to cut back on our energy consumption and make drastic changes in our lives but are out there flying all over in private jets and living in multi million dollar mansions, something tells me that we’re getting scammed. I could give you tons of quotes from these people that would make you agree, but I don't want to make this a super long post.

The Obama Birth Certificate Debate
I really believe this whole debate is one conspiracy theory on top of anther conspiracy. I believe it was created by a wise democrat trying to make conservatives look stupid. I’d say he succeeded. Remember the whole North American Union conspiracy that all the kooks were raving about back when Bush was in charge? What ever happened to that whole shadowy plan? It just seemed to vanish over night to make way for this craziness about Obama being born in Kenya and not being a natural born citizen. Lets get some things straight. Obama has shown us the birth certificate. Reporters have seen it/touched it and it has been verified to be authentic. There were birth announcements of Obama in the Hawiian newspapers back then. Last but not least, lets just assume Obama was born in Kenya. Nobody is denying that his mother is of American citizenship. Under US Nationality laws, a person is considered a natural born citizen of the US if just one parent is an American citizen, so Obama could have been born on Mars and still be considered a natural born citizen. I could go on about how it makes no sense that Obama’s mother would travel to Kenya to give birth, but it’s pointless in light of the evidence I already mentioned. So why are we still having this debate? All it does it make conservatives look like loons and kooks on the fringe. People who are pushing this are the lowest of the low and out to exploit people’s gullibility. 

Stuff I LOVE

JELLO Sugarless Chocolate Pudding
This is the greatest desert every made. I have a bowl of it with a few scoops of fat free Cool Whip every night after dinner. It’s so chocolatey, creamy, and delicious and it contains less than 100 calories. Stuff that tastes this good isn’t supposed to have less than 100 calories!

Rocky SV2 boots
I believe that boots are a soldier’s most important piece of equipment. If your feet aren’t pampered and well taken care of, you will be ineffective on the field of battle. Rocky boots are the most comfortable pair of boots I’ve ever owned by far. A lot of boots are heavy, uncomfortable, and tire your feet out after wearing them all day. Not these boots. I can wear mine all day and not feel a thing. It’s like wearing a tennis shoe.

Coca Cola
I’m a bit of a Coka Cola cultist. My dad got me hooked on Diet Coke at a very young age. In the evening I’d sit with him in his Laze Boy chair and we’d always share a can of Diet Coke. I remember this commercial that would play that advertized Diet Coke. It had Stevie Wonder singing some song and at the end he cracked open a can, took a drink, and said “Marvelous!” So we just started calling it Marvelous after that. Anyway, I’m hopelessly addicted to the swill now. I normally drink about three cans a day.

Astronaut Pens
Best pens I’ve ever owned. They’re $4 a piece and worth every penny. It writes over wet, dirty, or greasy paper, it’s unaffected by extreme weather, it writes upside down, and yes, it will write in outer space. I’m taking the packaging’s word for it since I haven’t had a chance to test the effects of zero gravity yet. The best thing about it is that it always writes and you never have to scribble at the side of the paper to get it to get the ink flowing. I hate that.

Stuff that Glows
I do love stuff that glows in the dark. Anything that glows in the dark is instantly cool to me. Luminous tape, sunglasses, footballs, those plastic stars you put up in your room, even non glowy stuff that glows when put under a black light. Makes me feel like I’m handling plutonium or something. I’ve also been known to five finger discount glow sticks that I find lying around at work just because I like having them.

Che Guevara T-shirts
While I wince when I see some ignorant punk throwing his support behind an extremely oppressive and deadly ideology responsible for killing over 100 million people world wide, I can’t help but smile knowing the baggling has done his part in working against his own evil ideology by spending $20+ dollars plus tax for a shirt that helps keeps “those imperialist corporate capitalist pigs” rich. I just love seeing the iconic image of Che used against his own own legacy. 

Fox News
They’ve got the best prime time programs, O’Reilly and Red Eye being my two favorites and they recently picked up Glenn Beck. It’s also, of course, one of the last bastions of news that isn’t shamelessly in the tank for the democrats and the left, which drives the Fox haters insane. Fox News blows the other cable news networks out of the water year after year, love it. Of course, people like to point to Fox news as the most biased media source, but these people have obviously never listened to NBC news, read the New York Times, Times magazine, or US Weekly (aka Obama weekly). All news sources are bias. Fox news just gets the most flack because it goes against the grain of the overwhelming liberal bias in the media.

Red Eye w/ Greg Gutfeld
Most hilarious late night show ever. If you're ever up around 11 or 12 some night with nothing to do, turn on Fox News to check this show out. You will not be disapointed if you're into late night comedy.

MY WIFE
Every favorites list should include your wife, because without your better half you'd be nothing but a dirt bag. I definitely would.