#7: People Who Use Other Beliefs to Support Their Own

You know why they are called your beliefs....BECAUSE THEY ARE YOUR BELIEFS! Quit trying to take what other people believe and try and make it support what you say and not actually be what the other person believes.

In certain cases where things are common beliefs, it is okay. However, the crazy guy who is now using some Mayan belief strtucture about the end of the world (which by the way he probably didn't even know about until the yahoo read a Yahoo News article) to support his own hair brained idea that the world is going to end, you have gone too far. Or the guy who suddenly believes every Nostradamus prediction would certainly be the truth now and that the town of York will be the start of the end, leave me alone.

FInally, this is my favorite. The guy who all of a sudden flips an argument using your own arguments to say that they agree with you, that guy is awful. If that was your argument in the first place, please make that your argument. Don;t switch up halfway through on the fear that you will be wrong. If this is what you believe, that is your right to hold that as your belief. Don't switch to pacify the rest of the world.

That is my issue. If you have valid arguments on an open ended question...keep them. Don't switch sides because other people tell you you are wrong, but don't use other people's arguments to prove yourself right and invalidate their points.

#6: Doomsday Movies

Could there be any more of an overplayed movie genre than the Doomsday, end of the world flick? We get it, it's fun to figure out a cool way for you to blow up some random supermodel actress. However, after the one hundredth and tenth supermodel actress to die, I don't cary anymore (and no I do not feel like Phil Collins, which we will get to in the next couple days in the blog).

This has become a top of mind issue of the things that make me angry in that Decmeber 21st, 2012 is the next day that the crazies in the world have predicted for things to end.

1. First off, stop telling me the world is coming to an end. If it ends, it ends. There's not anything any of us can do about it, so quit freaking out.
2. Secondly, the Mayans have predictions all the way into the 32nd century. Why would they have predictions into a century one thousand years in the future if they felt the world was going to end in two years.
3. Thridly, their calendar has ended in the past and guess what they did then...they put up a new one. It's kind of like New Year's Day for us. The old kitty calendar has run out of days...time to put the puppy calendar up except their calendar is much larger and chiseled into stones and things.
4. Finally, why in the world would any of the people designing this supposed ticking timebomb to doomsday calendar for more than two thousand years. THEY WOULDN"T BE ALIVE WHEN THEY NEEDED TO CHANGE TO THE NEW ONE!!!!

Leave me alone with all of this nonsense. I don't need an end of the world movie every two months to remind me that there are crazy people all over this world. Just let the non crazies live their lives without some dude in a rainbow wig and a sign telling me I am about to die (which I will get to that guy next).

#5: Ed Hardy

"It's not a brand, it's a lifestyle." You gotta be kidding me. It's a t-shirt. I have about forty of them at home. And guess what, not a single one of them has the logo of some no account brand that two years ago didn't mean anything to anyone but now has more meaning and cost attached to it than the cost of groceries for a family of four for a week.

Don't get me wrong. I am not simply picking on Ed Hardy. It is all of these t-shirt brands that have been brought to the forefront. Your Tapouts, Afflictions, and going way back - Member's Mark Jackets. Please define for me a purpose. In any case, people are spending more money than they have sense on a shirt that has no meaning whatsoever.

#4 Dancin' in the Streets

Is there any song in this world that deserves a cover less than this song. It is pretty much just shouting the same four or five lyrics over and over again until by the end of it a person never wants to dance again...ever. But, no this is the song that everyone in the world wants to cover.

There are more than 20 covers of this song since Martha and the Vandellas first released this in 1963. However, the most irrelevant cover of this song occured in 1985. That is when Mick Jagger and David Bowie decided to come together and make the most awkward and irrelevant of a cover I've ever heard.

In all of its awkward glory (awkward in that Mick Jagger and David Bowie are dirty dancing with each other which takes this cover to a whole new plane of awkwardness), here it is: Click Here!

#3: Twitter

I think this might be the mother of all useless tools. Why do people feel that their life is so important that the entire world needs to be updated when they are in the car or they are in the bathroom. Do you really think people care? Do you really think that this is the news that people are signing up to read?

Another thing...If you are going to Twitter, at least be creative. Don't copycat some celebrity's posts. Don't google search interesting Twitter discussions. Be creative. Throw up an idea of your own and if it's stupid, it's stupid. At least it was your own in the first place.

#2: People Who Complain About People Complaining

Really, people. Not only do I have to listen to someone go on to all ends about why their life is awful and why they feel the need to share it with me, but immediately after this person leaves someone else wants to complain about someone else's complaining.

I got it. It is awful to listen to someone complain. I can't stand it. You can't stand it. But why in the world do you now feel it's appropriate for you to complain about it. Are you listening to yourself at this point.

"Oh my god, could she complain about anything else?" Probably not, but here's the thing. YOU JUST DID EXACTLY WHAT THE OTHER PERSON WAS DOING.

Now I understand that the vast majority of people out there complain about something to someone and I will be glad to hear it, because as you can guess by the fact that I am blogging about things that make me angry, I have done some complaining myself. However, please do not feel it necessary to explain to me why it is that you think their complaining is much worse than yours. Please feel free to keep those thoughts in your head - there is no reason to share with the group because if you feel that the other person went too far, other people feel the same way without you telling us why.

Furthermore, I am aware of a little bit of an oxymoron here before anything gets said. I am complaining about other people complaining and in the grand scheme of things I am making myself angry. However, for the good of all, this needed to be said.

#1: Reality Television

What purpose does this serve in America? What does sitting around to find out if the Bachelor gives a rose to the pretty one or the ugly one? What does it matter if Rupert wins the new season of Survivor? Why should I care about whether this girl on "The Hills" hates that girl on "The Hills?"

I don't care. Please stop talking about it. Just think, if people had been smart and not cared about the naked guy on the first season of Survivor, we would not have to hear about Gosselins or Kardashians or Nicole Richie or Paris Hilton. These people would not dominate CNN. If we had not given these people television shows, we could actually turn on the news and find out what happened in North Korea or find out why the people in Iraq are not able to setup a government.

But no....we all looked to see what the naked guy was going to do and look what we have turned television into. MTV is no longer music television. That's right...reality television killed MUSIC Television. Try this...turn on MTV right now and there will probably be some sort of reality programming dominating the screen. Or better yet, try this. Go to Google Search, type in "Kate" or "Kim" and see what the top suggested result is. WE did this. WE created the monster. It is time to for US to turn the channel or better yet, turn the thing off.

What's that? You like finding out when the naked guy does something kooky and crazy. Well, keep it to yourself. I don't watch it...I don't wanna watch it...and I don't want to hear endless chatter about if that girl "totally deserved the rose more."

A Little About Me

Hi,

I'd like to start by introducing myself. I'm Cousin Jim and for those of you that don't know...I'm typically a very nice guy, but there are 10,000 things that make me angry about the world.

It's not that I dislike people, or situations, or I just have a general distaste for life. No, in the grand scheme of things, there are simply things in this world that make me wanna run up to the top of a building and scream as loud as I can. That's right. There are situations in this world that make me angry.

Don't get me wrong, I am not a violent person. I do my best to keep things under control. I take deep breaths, I get real quiet, and I try to let things roll off of my shoulders. However, there are just certain things in this world where I can no longer contain myself.

I'd like to think that in the grand scheme of things that the things that make me angry are very similar to other people. Things like the people who leave dog poop in the park, or the guy who is using a razor and eating a biscuit as he drives into work, or people who overuse the word"like" or when puppies come and lick you....(oh, that last one is just me I guess).

Well one of the good folks at Jack FM Knoxville told me I should start writing this stuff down so that there wouldn't be some sort of workplace explosion, so I will be bringing you a list of the 10,000 things that make me angry as they make me angry. So don't be surprised if you hear from me weekly, daily or maybe on those special days where the stars align - several times a day.

Please don't think this is going to be me making videos screaming into the camera and yelling about how this thing is awful or that "video game is the worst ever". No, this is to calm me down so I will simply be outlining what makes me angry and telling the world why. Therefore, I will be bringing you what makes me angry and letting you determine whether it's just Cousin Jim being angry again or if this is something that makes other people angry. As a matter of fact, I am tired of writing about me, so it's time for me to get on with the angry.