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You have finally landed on the one page on this entire site (and on the entire internet for that matter) that is purely without bullshit... my soapbox page. There are a lot of times during our show that, whether it's because of time constraints and other obligations, I don't always get to address some issues that I feel don't get the attention they deserve. There are even more times when I just don't feel like waiting until the show the next day to get some things off my chest. Thus, I have started the "Rob's Soapbox" page. If you have clicked on this page looking for someone to coddle your fragile sense of self-esteem, or tell you what you want to hear or to reinforce your outdated world view, then exit this page right now and go somewhere else. If you are in search of the last forum for reason and common sense left in the world, then sit back, relax, and enjoy. I make only one promise with this soapbox page... if you read long enough and often enough, you will eventually be offended. So here's my latest soapbox. Listen up, 'cause you just might learn something... |
August 3 , 2003
The Asinine Things You People Say... Part 17
I have started referring to my "favorite" (insert sarcasm here) phone calls into the show as "Hall of Fame" calls. Anytime I see on my computer screen that someone is ready to make a complete ass of themselves by making a comment we have addressed 1,000 times before, I now use that term.
Over the next few weeks, months, Hell maybe years, I will document them all for you in this forum. Week number seventeen's entry is "If you say otherwise, I'm going to kick your ass."
I love people who threaten physical violence as a retort to you disagreeing with them. Very civil.
We were recently discussing on-air my belief that a variety of things that we have labeled diseases in this country are made-up. I mentioned ADD, ADHD, Lactose Intolerance, and Carpal Tunnel Syndrome. We can discuss some other time why these things are all fake, for now let's focus on one particular idiot who phoned in.
He believed he has Carpal Tunnel. He began to explain why, and then he said, "Carpal Tunnel is real, Rob, and if you say otherwise I'm going to come down there and kick your ass."
Oh, ok, then I change my mind. I mean really, do people still think like this? This is nothing more than this continuing trend in America that it's ok to have an opinion, as long as it agrees with what everyone else thinks.
There are times for physical violence. Someone having a different opinion than you is not one of them.
As always, I like to analyze the defects a person must have to make such an idiotic statement, so let's do that. If you really believe that you have Carpal Tunnel, than why do you care what I think? Conversely, if you agree with my logic that I gave out as to why I think it's simply a fancy name we've given to a simple problem to make people feel better, than why are you getting mad at me? Get made at your doctor or society in general.
The answer, like always is obvious. Yet again, the self-esteem deficit in America is overwhelming. This caller simply refuses to believe that what I'm saying may be true, because if it is, he's being called out as weak. You see, I believe Carpal Tunnel is a fancy name we give to people who need to have specific muscles and/or tendons in their forearms strengthened. That's it.
People who work with their wrists, hands and forearm all day need to take care to do specific exercises to strengthen those parts of their arms. End of diagnosis. But, to make everyone feel better, and to alleviate the world of personal responsibility, we come up with a fancy name and call it a disease. What I was doing was giving the caller a big, tall glass of reality and he wasn't ready to suck it down, so he decided to threaten me.
Truth is, he probably wouldn't be able to do much damage with his obviously weakened arms…
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