I Don’t Mean to Be Rude, But…………
Help Me Understand Communication
Hmmmm. What do you think when someone comes up to you and says, “I don’t mean to be rude, but……….”
What they really mean is, “I’m gonna be really rude to this guy, but I don’t want to take credit for being rude…..Maybe if I say I really don’t mean it, the dummy will believe me!”
Or another of my favorites is, “I don’t mean to be picky, but………..” Well….you can fill in the rest of the statement. When you hear it, you know that there will be some serious nit-picking in your future.
Maybe you’ve heard, “I don’t mean to be nosey, but…………..” Wow. You can just imagine what kind of statement or question will follow that line.
You see, day after day people want to be rude, picky, nosey, etc., etc., but they want to get credit for being not-rude, not-picky, and not-nosey. It’s really amazing. Wouldn’t it be refreshing for someone to say, “Look, I mean to be rude to you, and here’s what I have to say….?” That would be awesome! Or someone saying, “Look, I’m really picky and I want to impose my high standards and attention to detail on you….Is that all right?” Or maybe they could say, “hey, give me some private details of your life because I’m really nosey and I just want something to tell everybody later on.”
Honesty. Could we stand it? But really, how many of us truly believe the person that starts with “I don’t mean to be…..?” My guess is there ain’t that many of us that will let a rude person be rude and then give that person credit for not really wanting to be rude to us. So if none of us really believe the line, why do we use it over and over? Why not just be honest and claim our rudeness, pickiness, and noseyness (is that a word?)?
Oh well, I don’t mean to cut this conversation short…..but….
Dishonestly Yours,
Blawgerman
Sunday, August 31, 2008
Thursday, August 21, 2008
You're In Good Hands with Mobil!
National Security? You’re In Good Hands with Mobil!
Ok. We need to open up Alaska and the ocean around America to more drilling for oil. Why? Well, national security, of course.
Duh. I should have known. National security it is. But.....how does drilling for oil in Alaska and the oceans help our national security? I’m not quite sure I understand.
The story kinda goes like this. The Middle East, Russia, and Venezuela have all the oil. We need our own oil so we don’t have to buy it from them. The bad guys are the reason that oil prices have hit the roof. Our own oil = our national security. Pretty simple, right?
NOT!
If I understand the plan of the powers that be, the idea is that we need to open up new reserves of oil here in America so we don’t have to depend on OPEC and the other bad guys that have all the oil. How are we going to do it? Is America going to drill for oil? Well.......not exactly. It seems that the only players drilling for oil will be the Shells and Mobils of the world.
These are the same guys who have made record profits in the oil bonanza that we are currently experiencing. These guys are not American corporations anymore. They are international conglomerates with interests all over the world. Their primary concern is not America. In fact, they have been the ones milking America and causing our "National Security" crisis. Our response? Open up more drilling for them!!!
Maybe I’m just a simple guy, but it seems really stupid to me to trust our National Security to the guys that have put their own greed and corporate interests ahead of the well-being of our country. Is it just me, or is it pretty obvious that if Mobil and Shell and the others open up more drilling here in the US, they will be getting yet another boost in profits. They won’t have to pay to bring the petroleum to the US, it’ll be here already. The actual oil won’t belong to America, it will belong to Shell and Mobil.
But I may be just too cynical. I should close my eyes, click my heels together three times, and chant, "there’s no place like Shell.....there’s no place like Shell." I don’t think that would be any worse than the dreamland our politicians are living in if they really think that the big oil companies are on-board with our National Security interests.
Well, I think I see Kansas, Toto.
Happily Ever After,
Blawgerman
Ok. We need to open up Alaska and the ocean around America to more drilling for oil. Why? Well, national security, of course.
Duh. I should have known. National security it is. But.....how does drilling for oil in Alaska and the oceans help our national security? I’m not quite sure I understand.
The story kinda goes like this. The Middle East, Russia, and Venezuela have all the oil. We need our own oil so we don’t have to buy it from them. The bad guys are the reason that oil prices have hit the roof. Our own oil = our national security. Pretty simple, right?
NOT!
If I understand the plan of the powers that be, the idea is that we need to open up new reserves of oil here in America so we don’t have to depend on OPEC and the other bad guys that have all the oil. How are we going to do it? Is America going to drill for oil? Well.......not exactly. It seems that the only players drilling for oil will be the Shells and Mobils of the world.
These are the same guys who have made record profits in the oil bonanza that we are currently experiencing. These guys are not American corporations anymore. They are international conglomerates with interests all over the world. Their primary concern is not America. In fact, they have been the ones milking America and causing our "National Security" crisis. Our response? Open up more drilling for them!!!
Maybe I’m just a simple guy, but it seems really stupid to me to trust our National Security to the guys that have put their own greed and corporate interests ahead of the well-being of our country. Is it just me, or is it pretty obvious that if Mobil and Shell and the others open up more drilling here in the US, they will be getting yet another boost in profits. They won’t have to pay to bring the petroleum to the US, it’ll be here already. The actual oil won’t belong to America, it will belong to Shell and Mobil.
But I may be just too cynical. I should close my eyes, click my heels together three times, and chant, "there’s no place like Shell.....there’s no place like Shell." I don’t think that would be any worse than the dreamland our politicians are living in if they really think that the big oil companies are on-board with our National Security interests.
Well, I think I see Kansas, Toto.
Happily Ever After,
Blawgerman
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