Weekly Rant # 3

DO YOU KNOW WHAT I AM SICK AND TIRED OF??? The new wussification of this great country. This has been something that has been bugging me for a while, and now its time to air my grievances.  This rant is going to be a bit different, I am going to make a list of things that have pissed me off and rant from there.  Enjoy!

1)  You do not need to use hand sanitizer every 35 seconds.  This is getting WAY out of hand.  Since when did Americans become so afraid of scary germs?  Guess what there are no more germs now than there were 100 years ago.  Do you know what our ancestors used to fight germs?  Their fucking immune system!  Everyone wonders why people get so sick, they have no natural immune system any more.  Every chance they get, they cover their hands in that smelly gooey shit and make themselves weaker.  I never EVER use Purell and I rarely get sick.  Oh yeah guess what against things like the Flu and Strep Throat, hand sanitizer is worthless because they are viruses.  Stop using that shit ASAP and get tougher.

2)  On the same line as hand sanitizer, we have to stop over medicating ourselves against every little sniffle we get.  I saw a commercial where a child was playing on a playground and started to sneeze.  His mother pulls out a shot glass-like container of allergy medicine and gives it to him.  REALLY?  If a kid ever did that when I was growing up he would have gotten his ass kicked for being a total dweeb.  When I was a kid, I was very allergic to cats, so what did my mom do?  She got two cats!  Guess what, I am no longer allergic!  Again, let your body's natural defense take on the weaker stuff and leave medicine to tackle the bigger boys like Hep C and Ebola.

3)  Helmets.  I am so sick of helmets.  About a year ago I was driving, and I passed a house where the kids were playing in the front yard (which you rarely see these days), and I saw a young lady on a pogo stick.  It would have been nice to see this if she wasn't wearing a helmet, knee pads, and wrist guards.  Seriously what is the worst that could have happened to her?  Falling off a pogo stick has the same level of danger as standing on the ground, jumping, and not landing properly.  I understand that sometimes helmets can save lives and should be worn, but riding a bike down your neighborhood is not one of them; playing soccer is not one of them; and surely jumping on a pogo stick is not fucking one of them.  Now I hear that they want NFL and NCAA officials to wear helmets during game time.  No, that is where I draw the line.  They are already fat and out of shape and now they have to wear helmets as well?  Thats just sad.

The main point of this rant is to explain that in life you are going to get sick, and you are going to get ouchies, owies, and boo boos.  Parents need to understand that by sheltering their kids from the harsh realities of life, their special little guy or girl is not going to be well equipped to face the real world.  In real life there is not trophy for 8th place, there are no helmets that can help protect you from the emotional blows that you are going to face.  America needs to snap back to the days before there was sensitivity training and crisis counseling and toughen the fuck up, BECAUSE I'M SICK OF IT!!!