One bad Apple

I find it somewhat amusing how quotes can work in more ways than one.

I don't feel like looking up the proper wording or source of the classic quote, but I am sure we can all say we have heard about a bad apple spoiling the whole barrel.

Now maybe you heard it about another kind of fruit, or another quantity. Frankly, I couldn't care less. Then again maybe I could. This really has no relevance whatsoever, so I digress.

I was trawling the depths of Facebook, looking for something to kill time tonight/this morning and I came across a group entitled "I bet I can find 15,000,000 People who Hate George Bush."

Being a person who enjoys a good debate, and knowing I would be able to find one in such a group, I made my way inside.

On the group's wall was a rather odd argument between a couple morons, one saying that Bush is a hero for punishing Saddam for the 9-11 attacks, and the other reveling in the other knucklehead's stupidity.

Between the two of them, I was getting rather irritated by their "writing style" as much as their back-and-forth of stupidity. Some grammatical and rhetorical errors can be expected of anyone, but some things just have no excuse. (i.e. writing I'll instead of ill, and hear for here... silly but irritating)

It was then that the whole "bad apple" quote popped into my head. To put it bluntly, I have nothing against Bush, and I decided to weigh in the conversation. I was even proud of my diplomacy. Ha.

"...i would first like to ask everyone to learn how to spell.seriously. your spellings and grammar are really frustrating to read. proofreading is fun! ha. i digress.
next, i would like to apologize for people ... who mean well but dont have a clue. all people who support Bush aren't like him. i promise."

I even learned something today, or at least found a conviction of mine solidified in that you shouldn't judge people in groups (Damn I feel like a morality book) because if you do you are, as one of the contestants in the pathetic argument put it, "wrongly guided."