I had a guy come up to me after the meeting I led last night and tell me that I am not accomplishing enough. I need to do more, he said! It’s not enough to just educate! I need to make change happen in other ways!
“I agree but I am doing this all alone and I need help.”
“Why don’t you join me and we can implement change together?” I said.
“No, sorry. I am too busy”
Isn’t that hysterical? I love people like that. I run into them all the time. They just love to tell you that you’re not doing enough or not doing whatever right but they won’t lift a finger to help. I wonder if there is a word to describe them? Non-actionable critics? Critical do-nothings? Stupid jerk heads?
I think it’s the same (or very similar) personality quirk that makes people go to blogs and write invalidating, weird, argumentative comments. If we were to remove it from cyberspace and place it into a real world setting, it would be like a person coming to your house and taking a huge stinky dump on your front doorstep. No one has yet taken a dump in my living room (not including Bobo, but he’s a dog so he doesn’t count) but I have cleaned up many stinky dumps from my comments section. I don’t get it. I don’t understand it.
Here’s an old pic of Bo looking guilty…
It’s been one week since I loaded ole Donnaville with advertisements. In that one week period, I made $5.73. I was about to say that I saw my readership plunge but I just remembered Dustbury linked to me on the 21st and that always gives me a little traffic lift and that’s the reason why it looks like it plunged… it just went back to normal.

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I’m glad (but also sad) to see I’m not alone in having to deal with the Critical Do-Nothings. (And with their kin, the “Hey I have a great idea that would SAVE THE WORLD…now you go and do it for me while I wait for the glory” types).
I’ve almost quit one of the bits of volunteer work I do over a particular person who’s happy to tell me every tiny thing they disapprove of, yet cannot be bothered to help or even donate a few bucks to the cause.