Mahjong Mayhem

Idiot has been reading the news again. An international tribunal ruling about China’s claims to the South China Sea was made recently, so naturally butterball had to chime in.

Idiot: “HA HA HA! China is going to lose their islands! Time for the Philippines to send in their Death Squads!”

(Again with the death squads? /facepalm)

“China wants all the fish! When will it be enough??” Then he tells Hyena point blank that “China is serious about two things: getting food, and getting raw materials”.

I was fairly certain that Idiot’s knowledge of China was limited to news that happens to be near the sports section, plus anything he learned from the placemat at his favorite Chinese restaurant. (Year of the Pig? Just a wild guess…) Then he surprises me with some knowledge of Mahjong! I don’t know how to play Mahjong at all, so I’m slightly impressed to be honest.

Idiot: “Hey [hyena]! We should make our own Mahjong game that has food and minerals on the tiles instead of the regular stuff. Oooooh a Rung! No – a Chow! I got a Kong! That’s the best!”

(hours later…)

I take out my headphones later in the day, and Idiot is already fired up and in mid-rant. He’s explaining to one of his teammates that “There are times in the real world where saying ‘I told you so’ is totally justified!”. That sounds about right coming from him. But just moments later he says something that blows me away: “I’m the only supervisor here right now”.

(ME = STUNNED)

Are you kidding me? THIS MORON IS A SUPERVISOR? OF PEOPLE??? Un-be-fucking-lievable! I wouldn’t let this guy supervise the coat check at a nudist colony!

Old School Death Squads are funny

Idiot and Hyena start the morning with an argument about which character from Old School (movie from 2003) was the best. After some fierce debate, Idiot declares that Old Blue was the best. (Didn’t he die?) Hyena isn’t having it. Frank the Tank is the best. (I’m with Hyena on this one) They agree that if they were in the movie, those are the characters they would have played. (Why doesn’t anyone ever pick Mitch?)

Out of nowhere the topic changes to current events in the news. The Philippines just elected a new president who advocates for vigilantes and off-the-books killings by police. Naturally Idiot has to start spouting off about it…

Idiot: “Here come the Death Squads! HA! HA! HA! Philippines is screwed now!”

Normally this would just be regular annoying idiot-ranting like any other day of the week. Problem is this: Idiot’s teammate is a recent immigrant from the Philippines. I’m positive that she has family members currently living there. She’s sitting ten feet away when he’s saying this inconsiderate shit. I think, maybe he’ll let it go and move on to sports news or something… anything! But oh no… not today. Idiot read some political news and now he needs everyone to know how smart he is. He turns to his Filipino teammate and says: “So how about that new president? I hear he’s bringing back the Death Squads!”

(/facepalm)

Maybe Idiot didn’t read past the first paragraph of the news story. Perhaps he would have read that the Philippines was ruled by a murderous dictator as recently as 1986. Or maybe he did know and just didn’t give a fuck. Either way – dick move.

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