In Bad Taste

~ Gottfried

Bad taste is simply saying the truth before it should be said. I think it’s funny that people who treat you like carpet get offended when you finally do the same to them. My boss told me to start every presentation with a joke. The first slide was my paycheck. Nobody laughed, out loud that is. 

The good thing about bad taste is that you don’t know you have it. The discovery of the good taste of bad taste can be very liberating. After spending years hating on the a particular genre of music, I have seen the light. Heavy metal, Reggae and Trance form the Holy grail of music genres. 

Genius creates and taste preserves. Bad taste makes the day go by faster. Bad taste creates many more millionaires than good taste. The streaming era and TikTok influencers show exactly how this works. You’re doing something right with disruptive content when the hate for your channel is almost palpable. 

To understand bad taste one must have good taste. Bad taste is real taste, of course, and good taste is the residue of someone else’s privilege.  A little bad taste is like a nice splash of paprika. We all need a splash of bad taste. It’s hearty, it’s healthy, it’s physical. I think we could use more of it. No taste is what I’m against. 

Good taste is always bad. You can only be as good as your taste. People wince when something is in bad taste. They laugh when it’s funny. If it’s too dirty or wrong, they won’t laugh. But if it’s a big, dirty, smart, funny laugh, they love it. Every time my wife gets mad, I remind her of her great taste in men. 

The fact that you don’t find me amazing does not reflect poorly on me, it just means you have bad taste. Most of the bad taste I’ve been accused of has been generic bad taste. It’s been making fun of an idea as opposed to a person. You will never understand the damage you did to someone until the same thing is done to you. 

That’s why I’m here. 

©️ Gottfried. All rights reserved

36 thoughts on “In Bad Taste”

  2. Oh Dear Lord ‘Bad Taste’ The Horror oF iT All Just Another

    ‘Day iN A Life’ When Mr Gottfried’s ToPic at ‘Hand’ Fits in

    Perfect

    Enough
    Synchronicity
    For a Never Ending
    Story it Seems Yes the

    Horror oF iT All So Dammed Tired

    So Little Sleep Last Week At Church

    Walking Up to the Communion Place

    To Consume That Wafer of Bread that

    Catholic Priests Literally Believe they

    Have the Ability to Change into

    The Body of the Jesus

    Dude Yes For Real

    True 70 Percent of
    Catholics Only See it as
    Metaphor Yet a Truly Very
    Special Sugar Pill it Comes to

    Be for Healing For the 30 Percent that
    Do As Story iS A VEry Powerful Placebo Bringing Effect For Real For Those Who Believe

    So the Scientist in me Must Honor The Belief of Those 30 Percent Who Do…

    Oh Dear Lord So Tired Again Last Week i Started to Stick my Tongue out to

    Receive ‘Jesus’
    To Consume While
    Holding My Hands Out too

    True it Kinda confused the Priest
    Yet We made it Work Enough to Keep

    Jesus from Hitting the Floor Man i’ve Only
    Been Getting 3 Naps a Day Lately That’s Great
    For 3 Mornings of Creativity Yet Sleep Walking at
    Church After that 3rd Nap At Night True We Used to

    Always Consume ‘Jesus’ The Wafer By Tongue Before
    Covid-19 Yet Sanitation Concerns Moved Him Down to Our Hands

    Muscle Memory Got Confused With a Lack of Sleep So Today in Particularly

    Bad Taste Oops i did it Again And This Go Around Oh the Bad Taste Jesus the

    Wafer
    Slipped
    Through my
    Hands and Fell on the Floor

    First i Thought of the ‘3 Second Rule’

    And Sure Enough the Priest Scooped him
    Up and Consumed Him Off the Floor Meanwhile

    Giving me Another Fresh Serving of the Jesus Dude Wafer Indeed…

    By Tongue That Go Around

    Told Him i Was Sorry
    As i Really Don’t Like
    iNterfering With the Sacred
    Routine of Others So many Different
    Ones all around the World Which Brings

    me to the Second Case of Bad Taste Today

    Eating at the Food Court in the Mall With my SHades
    On all Mysterious as Usual hehe Two ‘Good Ole Boys’

    Mocking a Muslim Women in Her Traditional Attire Bowing

    And Praying as Such Mocking the Way They Pray to Allah

    And True Folks Have Said my Wife Looks a Bit Arabic Herself

    They Were Looking Over at Her so i Got up Slowly at Walked

    Directly at them

    And In Their Local

    Twang i Reached Out And

    Gave them a Very FIRM HANDSHAKE

    (BONECRUSHER hehe as They Say)

    And Said How Are You Guys Doing Today

    Went over to the Hand Cleaning Station

    And Merrily Went Back to the Dinner Table

    And Yep They Turned Their Cheeks the Other Way…

    Hehe Anyway

    Somedays We Do
    Stuff in Bad Taste
    And Help Folks Along

    With Their Bad Tastes too

    Such is the Surf of Life Waves

    Up and Down
    Yet Water

    Ocean whole

    SaMe We aRe ALL iN
    This GaMe of Life Together So

    LET’S PLAY!

    iN BAD AND
    GOOD TASTE TOO With SMiles…

    Truth be told i Sort of Felt Like it Was in
    Bad Taste Mixing Politics and Voting With
    Separation of Church And State for the Second
    Week in a Row By the Head Priest Yet i Swear on A Stack

    of Bibles as High as the one i Create As “SonG oF mY SoUL”

    Yep all 13.3 MiLLioN Words in 133 Months ALong with
    20,616 MiLes of Public Dance Too With More to Go at
    Walmart After i Finish Writing this on Laptop at Whatbuger

    Nope i Wasn’t Suggesting

    He Dropped the Ball

    When Jesus Hit the Floor Though

    It Was Almost Like Someone Moved my Hand

    (Muscle Memory Can Be Unruly Like that hehe)

    Play the ‘Twilight Zone Music’ Now With SMiLes..:)

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      1. “Taste of smiles”

        Ah Yes Mr Gottfried
        Sunshine on my Shoulders

        Sunny Shadowing All the

        Way around

        the World

        Until the Moon
        Shines Full Yes

        All the Year Around

        And i Don’t Even Drink
        or Smoke Finding the Essence

        of Sugar Pills So Deep Within

        SMiLes
        Do BRinG
        For NoW at Least..:)

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