1 (edited by Elisheva Free 2016-10-13 22:13:58)

Topic: Burrito Rage

For my fellow rant-lovers in need of a giggle. wink I was laughing so hard, there were tears.

https://medium.com/@luckyshirt/dear-guy … .bs8d579az

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Thanks for sharing. I enjoyed that a lot.

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Unroll, rotate 90 degrees, re-roll.  Granted, you shouldn't have to do it, but the situation shouldn't be beyond recovery.

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I really tried to like this rant about a poorly made burrito, but I just couldn't. And the only reason I mentioned that I didn't like it is to illustrate the point there is little humor in a stream of insults over a very tiny thing like the way your burrito is made. This was pretty hateful and left me wondering if the writer had an anger issue. While you want people to laugh at your humor you don't want them thinking you need therapy.

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I suggest you, Dagnee, read Mark Twain's short story Political Economy.  Rants are an old form of humor.

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dagnee wrote:

I really tried to like this rant about a poorly made burrito, but I just couldn't. And the only reason I mentioned that I didn't like it is to illustrate the point there is little humor in a stream of insults over a very tiny thing like the way your burrito is made. This was pretty hateful and left me wondering if the writer had an anger issue. While you want people to laugh at your humor you don't want them thinking you need therapy.

Even he writer says he's not really his angry at the end of the rant because its not that worth that much anger.  It's not meant to be taken a 'true' rant.

I did laugh.  I cried a little.  I then laughed.  Because even though we don't say, we've all been frustrated or upset when something simple, something we've looked forward to---is just wrong.  Endlessly wrong. Wrong in all the wrong ways.

And it's the fake 'overblown' anger that makes the author's point.   It's really dumb not to be able to make a burrito.  It's really dumb to get that angry about it.   Instead of getting angry--take the time to call something you love--as the author says at the end.

If he anger were real, I'd probably not like it nearly as much.  But as it is--it makes me laugh.

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From Bloom County wrote:

George Phblat's new film, 'Benji Saves the Universe,' has brought the word 'BAD' to new levels of badness. Bad acting. Bad effects. Bad everything. This film just oozed rottenness from every bad scene... Simply bad beyond all infinite dimensions of possible badness!

Well, maybe not that bad, but Lord, it wasn't good.

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Some great reveiw rants on Amazon. https://www.amazon.co.uk/gp/feature.htm … 1000799743

Love the upside-down picture and the invisible Bilbo Baggins

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Dill Carver wrote:

Some great reveiw rants on Amazon. https://www.amazon.co.uk/gp/feature.htm … 1000799743

Love the upside-down picture and the invisible Bilbo Baggins

Har! I love the reviews for Bic Pens for Women.

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I must say, I laughed until I cried. Wished it didn't have so many 'f' words, but hey, it was still cute. And I can identify! Sometimes Taco Bell could use a few pointers! I used to have a funny one about a chili cook off, but I haven't seen it in a while. And there's another one about a 'mature' woman trying to find a swim suit to fit her that almost sent me to the emergency room!

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TirzahLaughs wrote:
dagnee wrote:

I really tried to like this rant about a poorly made burrito, but I just couldn't. And the only reason I mentioned that I didn't like it is to illustrate the point there is little humor in a stream of insults over a very tiny thing like the way your burrito is made. This was pretty hateful and left me wondering if the writer had an anger issue. While you want people to laugh at your humor you don't want them thinking you need therapy.

Even he writer says he's not really his angry at the end of the rant because its not that worth that much anger.  It's not meant to be taken a 'true' rant.

I did laugh.  I cried a little.  I then laughed.  Because even though we don't say, we've all been frustrated or upset when something simple, something we've looked forward to---is just wrong.  Endlessly wrong. Wrong in all the wrong ways.

And it's the fake 'overblown' anger that makes the author's point.   It's really dumb not to be able to make a burrito.  It's really dumb to get that angry about it.   Instead of getting angry--take the time to call something you love--as the author says at the end.

If he anger were real, I'd probably not like it nearly as much.  But as it is--it makes me laugh.

Exactly. The rant is written purely as an abstract comedic piece and that is made obvious (it is even explained  within the piece towards the end). The 'creative rant' must be a genre within its own right by now. The whole thing is over-exaggerated, the anger purposely overblown and the irony double. Ironic about sloppy burrito construction and ironic about ranting and those who over-complain and explode over small beer. The irony might be triple too, when readers, devoid of humour believe it to be genuine customer services complaint and become outraged and offended at what is actually creative writing (fiction); and that is the bonus. Too funny!