Politically Incorrect Thread About Pod People (Page 4 of 16)

Well now, that's just classic American country music right there.  Oh well, how bout this...

-Nice Vice Baby-
{To the tune of "Ice Ice Baby"}

Yo ... P-O-D ... Let's kick it!

Nice Vice Baby, Nice Vice Baby

All right stop get sedated and listen
Watch tv to see what you're missing
The ads grab ahold of you tightly
Repeating in your brain daily and nightly
Will they ever stop yo I don't know
Just turn on the tv and let em flow
To the extreme I watch the latest scandal
If not for the sound bites I wouldn't have a handle
Sleep ignore the situation that looms
Consume all the lies like poisionous mushrooms
Obey whatever your masters say
And if you see a Grey hey they're ok
Love it or leave it if you wanna play the game
You better fall in line or it could be a shame
If there was a problem let the gov solve it
Check out the tube while your dna devolves ya

Nice Vice Baby, Nice Vice Baby

  That's so funny.  Glad to know it's not just me then.   But how trippy is that, that it's now spread into the UK?!?!   A bit alarming. 

I've done it once, and only once.  (although I'd love to say something every time I hear it!)  But it was during the "confrontation" between myself and a coworker named Calla mentioned in this thread here:  http://forum.noblerealms.org/viewtopic.php?id=4045  at an old job back in Florida.  Calla had said something really weirdo nasty to me, with a smirk and a glint in her eye, for NO apparent reason...I truly had not said anything to her, it was a case of "picking a fight" basically, and targetting what seemed like an easy mark to her.  Then she breezed off back to her office.  Well, I'd had enough of her escalating b.s. and flipped out and chased her down the hall and confronted her in her office.  (not the reaction I'd do at this stage in my life, but, that was several years ago, what can I say.    ) 

Because I was confronting her, she affected a passive, neutral, detached mindset, trying to brush me off and play down what had just happened, doing this fake easy breezy nonchalant laugh and waving it all off.  I wasn't having it though and wasn't going to just drop it like it hadn't happened.   Again, she cut me off, dismissing me.......and made the mistake of throwing in a ".....Anyway Carissa, going forward......"

!!

I was like, NO.  She did NOT just dismiss me with "going forward"!!!!!!      And that's where I just got a little cuckoo, saying "GOING FORWARD???  GOING FORWARD????  Don't say that shit to me!"  Then I did this REALLY exaggerated mocking impersonation of her, saing "GOING FOOOOORRRRWARD...." and did it several times to really make my point.   My supervisor was there off to the side trying to play mediator and at that point she was trying not to laugh, trying to keep a straight face. 

Going forward my ass!    grrrrrr.   (the conclusion of the story is that no, I did not get in trouble for chasing her down,  yelling at her, and mocking her saying "going fooooooorrrrrrward....going fooooorrrrrrrrward..."  hehe) 

Anyway, I don't have those outbursts anymore.  I'm okay now.  The pills are helping immensely.   hehe  j/k

I will say this:  While the corporate catch phrase "buzz  word" filler lingo really stands out and is pretty obnoxious, I was just thinking about how many non-corporate catch phrases pepper our vocabulary, mine included.   This is probably related to memes?   Since making my initial post about the corporate filler lingo earlier today I've already started to pay attention to how many catch phrases or "cliches" my mind comes up with.   It's a lot!  More than we probably realize if we're not consciously paying attention.  Think back to when we're little kids....we don't ues catch phraess and tired same old-same old cliche analogies and euphanisms and all that.  We speak in a regular way.  Along the way though we pick things up and adopt them as our own, and they become "us."  But they're really not.

I propose the idea monitoring our speech, both verbal and internal dialogue, to see how many phrases and such we think or speak during the day.  It's actually kind of fun.  It's another way to cut that cord from the pod people herd.  (oh wait.....is "cutting the cord" one of those phrases?!?   haha  I think it is!)

Lyra!  Product Demonstrators! YES!  These are like meme propagators! 
Like repeater nodes.  Hear a catchy phrase and pass it on!  Be popular by saying
stuff that everybody else (on tv) does!

Gag me with a cruise missile.

"Works for me!"

"I hear ya!"

"Yo!"

"Whussup?"  (my blood pressure!)

"How are You?"---invented by telemarketing geniuses to put the person they call
off balance and feign concern.  Disgusting.

All podsters please report to gate six for inprocessing and delousing.

Yeah, that one irks me to no end.  I answer phones at my current temp job, and all day long I get this, but not necessarily from telemarketers.  It's from people working at the various financial companies and foundations that are calling my company.  "Hi, this is so-and-so from _____. (pause)  How are you?"

I really wish they wouldn't say that.  Because they truly don't care how I am and aren't looking for a genuine response.  It's just this thing tacked on to the end of the sentence that serves absolutely no purpose.  So then I'm forced to and comply with "I'm fine."  I hate doing it.  To me it feels like energy feeding.

As an aside, there's a recent multi-layered phenomenon happening ALL the time now.   The first part involves getting the phone call from whatever company - and not telemarketers either, mind you - where it's some kid in their early 20's, reading their greeting from a script (!!) talking through a big smile (you can hear when people are talking through a smile) and, doing it quite poorly, sounding stilted and fake, yet grinning, all at the same time.  I know that many of these soulless pod people companies want their employees using scripts wherever possible in the conversation to avoid spontaneous human dialogue which, God forbid, has the potential to become personal and real - translation: "unprofessional" - as well as "speaking with a large smile on your face," because they believe this is actually a GOOD thing.   But I'm sorry, it's fricking disturbing.   Somebody speaking in choppy, stilted, robotic scripted lingo...with a big grin on their face??  I mean, in days past, that would have been considered "village idiot."  No person of normal intelligence speaks that way.  So when those calls come in, right off the bat it's starting out on a negative note, and my face goes dark.   

Then, there's the second layer to it:   After the stilted grinning scripted greeting, "Hello, this is so-and-so from ______ calling on a recorded line...." they then stop.  Waiting.  Waiting.  Waiting for what though???  Why, they're waiting for me to exude an enthusiastic "HI!" right back at them.....but the thing is, I don't know them.   It's a kid I don't know and have never spoken to, grinning and reading very badly from a script, sounding like someone of low intelligence, so, why would I respond back like that?  I'm there to direct calls, so just say who you are and who you need to speak to is the way I look at it.    And I'm not a rude phone answerer either, I just have to clarify.  I have that total pleasant phone voice, speak very well and know my "verbiage."    But I'm "all business."  I'm not there to have enthusiastic superficial fluffy filler conversation with every single call that comes in.  And no kidding, I will sometimes get multiple calls like this a day.   Yesterday when this happened again, "Hi, this is so-and-so from ____ calling on a recorded line...." (silence....) I literally hung on the line, waiting for this girl to continue with her sentence and say what she needed/who she needs to speak with.   Silence.  Waiting.  Waiting.  Finally she did what they always do - "Hello?!?!"  I said "Hello?" back to her, and she laughed nervously.   eh heh heh heh....heh...Um.....this wasn't in the script!   I explained, "I was waiting for you to continue.  You just stopped talking."  She laughed nervously again, and finally got on with what she was calling about.

I've been answering phones for years, in multiple states, and I don't recall ever dealing with these things before, and certainly not to this extent.  It really is the spread of the "Pod People."  And it's being done artificially now, by implementing scripted responses into the works.  I HATE dealing with people reading from a script, from the greeting, to their responses and to the way they close the call....nowadays, so many companies are making people use scripts.  Pod People companies are implementing soulless Pod People tactics, to spread a Pod People way of being.   Very disturbing.

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=8KjSEnKmwSE

   Found this on you tube when doing a search for a good "Wasssaaaaaaaap!"  It's a Budweiser alien dog "wasssaaaaaap!" commercial done by Pixar I think.   Had to post it for you.    And it's quite fitting for Noble Realms too, actually....

z3n3rg---you are really on a poetic roll there dude!  I'm impressed!

lyra--whassssuuuup!
Ghod what mindless crap!
Started or at least memefied world wide by Arsenio Hall.
Whaddabunchacaca.

Yes Poffo.  Being in a workplace where the majority of coworkers are asleep does present
challenges.  But "hiding your light under a bushel" can be extremely frustrating.  Finding
one or two individuals that you can talk to or relate to can sometimes feel like a lifeline
to sanity in those situations.  Gossip is another bad habit that the pods and OP's like to
amuse themselves with, especially if you're different or weird, or if you give them the
impression that you think outside the box.  Oh my!  That's where smokescreens come in
handy to deflect their inquisitive probings.