12-08-2004, 02:04 AM
There's this guy I work with and he and I have become rather friendly. He was nice to me from day one and has always helped me out especially when I was new to the industry. It's a pretty tight knit crew at work and a lot of the people there were friends before they worked there or all came over from the same companies before coming here, etc. We're always at eachothers places, we hang out after work, etc so it's a very friendly work atmosphere as well, we openly joke, curse, fuck around, etc.
We talk about a lot during the day as we're either doing paper work, filling shit out on our comps, etc cause we all sit pretty close to eachother. We talk about movies, sex, what we did, who we did, sometimes we even talk about work.
Today we talked about what movies we seen lately and Alexander came up, I saw it and so had this guy I am talking about. As a backstory, he's a really nice guy but his main concern is to make 6 figures, get drunk every night and get laid evey night, the end. He doesnt care about history, present, future outside his little area.
Now I got no problem with that, if you choose not to care thats your choice but don't be so proud of the fact you really know nothing and cant add to a conversation beyond "I had pussy last night and it was so sweet", which is fine ofcourse.
So this guy says "well how was alexander?" so I said how bad it was and the guy agreed with me and said he didnt like it cause of all the gay stuff, I said I didnt like it cause of how historically innacurate it was and how it just had no depth to the characters..... he looks at me like "yeah no one cares about the historical shit cause no one really knows that stuff"
It wasnt just that he said it but the fuckin attitude behind it. I said well thats been a large complaint not only of this film but most of Oliver Stones historical films such as Nixon and JFK, that he just basically makes up his own history. I get a look like i'm talkin chinese from him. I mean why even say anything? Did I call you a homophobe cause all you could talk about was the cock suckin in the film? I said my piece and you said yours, it wouldnt have been an issue.
He then says that if he polled everyone in the office, that most people wouldnt know much of Alexander, which is super cause to be honest I work with a majority of people who barely finished high school, its not really saying much taking a poll there.
This is just today, he always has to make an issue when someone talks about current events or history and anything "intelligent", I say it with quotes cause knowing whats goin on in the news isnt really showing intelligence per se but to him it is.
This is the same guy who told me "never discuss religion with me cause to me only my religion is right and I dont give a fuck about other peoples religions and anyone who believes in something different from my religion will burn in hell, so whats the point?"
The sad part was that he was dead serious and trying to have an intelligent debate with him is pointless because he just throws a fit and walks away.
It just pisses me the fuck off, just cause you cant add don't fuckin be so proud of not knowing.
We talk about a lot during the day as we're either doing paper work, filling shit out on our comps, etc cause we all sit pretty close to eachother. We talk about movies, sex, what we did, who we did, sometimes we even talk about work.
Today we talked about what movies we seen lately and Alexander came up, I saw it and so had this guy I am talking about. As a backstory, he's a really nice guy but his main concern is to make 6 figures, get drunk every night and get laid evey night, the end. He doesnt care about history, present, future outside his little area.
Now I got no problem with that, if you choose not to care thats your choice but don't be so proud of the fact you really know nothing and cant add to a conversation beyond "I had pussy last night and it was so sweet", which is fine ofcourse.
So this guy says "well how was alexander?" so I said how bad it was and the guy agreed with me and said he didnt like it cause of all the gay stuff, I said I didnt like it cause of how historically innacurate it was and how it just had no depth to the characters..... he looks at me like "yeah no one cares about the historical shit cause no one really knows that stuff"
It wasnt just that he said it but the fuckin attitude behind it. I said well thats been a large complaint not only of this film but most of Oliver Stones historical films such as Nixon and JFK, that he just basically makes up his own history. I get a look like i'm talkin chinese from him. I mean why even say anything? Did I call you a homophobe cause all you could talk about was the cock suckin in the film? I said my piece and you said yours, it wouldnt have been an issue.
He then says that if he polled everyone in the office, that most people wouldnt know much of Alexander, which is super cause to be honest I work with a majority of people who barely finished high school, its not really saying much taking a poll there.
This is just today, he always has to make an issue when someone talks about current events or history and anything "intelligent", I say it with quotes cause knowing whats goin on in the news isnt really showing intelligence per se but to him it is.
This is the same guy who told me "never discuss religion with me cause to me only my religion is right and I dont give a fuck about other peoples religions and anyone who believes in something different from my religion will burn in hell, so whats the point?"
The sad part was that he was dead serious and trying to have an intelligent debate with him is pointless because he just throws a fit and walks away.
It just pisses me the fuck off, just cause you cant add don't fuckin be so proud of not knowing.