Still no followers, no comments. Either the bloggers of the world are too timid to involve themselves with someone as bitter as me, or there are sinister software guardians making sure the world cannot be infected by my Cassandroid viewpoint.
I've followed the advice of the ignorant well-meaning. It doesn't work. My blog is a model of sense, insight, and spot-on grammar. I challenge anyone to disagree.
I have decided that I will try following someone else's blog - I will try to find someone who isn't spewing too much offensive, upbeat nonsense. Let's see if that breaks through the glass ceiling!
Sunday, 6 June 2010
Saturday, 5 June 2010
The Fist of Chaos
I have posted previously my utter disinterest in the World Cup; my view of it as a totally pointless activity.
I maintain that view. But someone close to me has recently been in contact gushing over it; and because of my love for them I have to be interested in the different teams taking part, their comparative strengths and weaknesses, discussions on the stadiums to be used, the individual players ... and so on.
So my worldview is mockingly proven to be a true one: chaos rules everything.
I maintain that view. But someone close to me has recently been in contact gushing over it; and because of my love for them I have to be interested in the different teams taking part, their comparative strengths and weaknesses, discussions on the stadiums to be used, the individual players ... and so on.
So my worldview is mockingly proven to be a true one: chaos rules everything.
Tuesday, 1 June 2010
Five 'Important World Events' I Don't Give A Damn About
My homeland is a dull place; the last newsworthy event was the visit of the QE2. Wow. I didn't care about that event taking place, and have no reason to suppose the rest of the world does, or did.
Happily there is the Internet. (Or is it the World Wide Web? One was invented by the American Military, the other by the British. Answers, please.) This is a fantastic medium that allows video calls, during which you can either look at the camera and therefore not see the person you are videocalling, or you can look at the person you are calling and then, because of the angle that the camera has on you, you will look as if you are staring off into space and have no interest in the conversation you are having.
It also allows you to view and download porn, which is great unless you go for something illegal and get yourself arrested, or your other half finds out and accuses you of infidelity, lack of interest, moral decay and responsibility for the downfall of civilisation. And it's not much fun having a sticky keyboard. Ooh! Ooh! Ooh!
And then, of course - getting back to the subject that more or less started this post off - you can check out the news in other countries ... !
1. The New York Times carries stories about the Israeli raid on the Gaza Strip convoy, and the condemnation of the dirty deed by the UN security council.
Why anyone would care about this is beyond me. Did the terrorists - sorry, activists - really think Israel would impose a blockade for several years and then just let a bunch of ships waltz on in? Does anyone think America is going to actually take action to force the Israelis to do, or stop doing, anything? Does a bear shit in the woods? Is America wholly in Israel's pocket? Oh, yes!
2. Al-Quaida's number 3 is dead, apparently.
Um. I don't know exactly what threat Al-Quaida is supposed to be to anyone in the West, or anywhere else, for that matter. I don't believe 9-11 was evidence of any great planned and organised terrorist effort, terrible though those events were. It was a few guys getting on planes carrying paper knives, in the days when the airports were too stupid to realise the potential threat. Now the airports do, and governments around the world can conjure 'The War On Terror' to justify all sorts of things: infringements on personal liberty, increased war budgets, invading Afghanistan, take your pick. Once the Iron Curtain fell the powers-that-be must have been panicking - how could they justify their arms budgets? Good old War On Terror! My advice to governments: remember how much you need there to be a global boogeyman. Take your time killing off Al-Quaida, and don't try too hard to win the war in Afghanistan. Oh, wait, you're not.
3. The World Cup
Words fail me at the utter pointlessness of this. They do fail me, really.
4. The Duchess of York says: 'I was drunk, that's why I tried to get half a million for a Royal introduction'.
Right! Right. See, I do the same thing; every time I have too much to drink, I ring up the News of the World and try to convince them I can set them up with royalty for half a million dollars. Funny, it never works for me. But then, I'm not a corrupt ex-Royal.
5. British PM names civil service 'fat cats'.
Now, here's a good one. David Cameron, leader of the Con-Dem Coalition in Britain, makes his government 'transparent' by naming and shaming the secret civil servants who earn - rather, who get paid - twice as much as he does. I guess the thinking is that we'll think of him as a good guy, since he's showing up the bad guys.
That he's in power for five years and can do what he likes without any control from those who voted him in is forgotten by the moron voters who put him there. That Parliament is the supreme law-making body in Britain, and could change things to oust the overpaid civillies, is not even touched upon. And I love the changes that Clegg is proposing; we'll give 'power to the people' - but it'll take at least a year. Yeah, Nick! We love you!
So: there it is. The world events that are getting populations hot under the collar. Kill me now, before the boredom does.
Happily there is the Internet. (Or is it the World Wide Web? One was invented by the American Military, the other by the British. Answers, please.) This is a fantastic medium that allows video calls, during which you can either look at the camera and therefore not see the person you are videocalling, or you can look at the person you are calling and then, because of the angle that the camera has on you, you will look as if you are staring off into space and have no interest in the conversation you are having.
It also allows you to view and download porn, which is great unless you go for something illegal and get yourself arrested, or your other half finds out and accuses you of infidelity, lack of interest, moral decay and responsibility for the downfall of civilisation. And it's not much fun having a sticky keyboard. Ooh! Ooh! Ooh!
And then, of course - getting back to the subject that more or less started this post off - you can check out the news in other countries ... !
1. The New York Times carries stories about the Israeli raid on the Gaza Strip convoy, and the condemnation of the dirty deed by the UN security council.
Why anyone would care about this is beyond me. Did the terrorists - sorry, activists - really think Israel would impose a blockade for several years and then just let a bunch of ships waltz on in? Does anyone think America is going to actually take action to force the Israelis to do, or stop doing, anything? Does a bear shit in the woods? Is America wholly in Israel's pocket? Oh, yes!
2. Al-Quaida's number 3 is dead, apparently.
Um. I don't know exactly what threat Al-Quaida is supposed to be to anyone in the West, or anywhere else, for that matter. I don't believe 9-11 was evidence of any great planned and organised terrorist effort, terrible though those events were. It was a few guys getting on planes carrying paper knives, in the days when the airports were too stupid to realise the potential threat. Now the airports do, and governments around the world can conjure 'The War On Terror' to justify all sorts of things: infringements on personal liberty, increased war budgets, invading Afghanistan, take your pick. Once the Iron Curtain fell the powers-that-be must have been panicking - how could they justify their arms budgets? Good old War On Terror! My advice to governments: remember how much you need there to be a global boogeyman. Take your time killing off Al-Quaida, and don't try too hard to win the war in Afghanistan. Oh, wait, you're not.
3. The World Cup
Words fail me at the utter pointlessness of this. They do fail me, really.
4. The Duchess of York says: 'I was drunk, that's why I tried to get half a million for a Royal introduction'.
Right! Right. See, I do the same thing; every time I have too much to drink, I ring up the News of the World and try to convince them I can set them up with royalty for half a million dollars. Funny, it never works for me. But then, I'm not a corrupt ex-Royal.
5. British PM names civil service 'fat cats'.
Now, here's a good one. David Cameron, leader of the Con-Dem Coalition in Britain, makes his government 'transparent' by naming and shaming the secret civil servants who earn - rather, who get paid - twice as much as he does. I guess the thinking is that we'll think of him as a good guy, since he's showing up the bad guys.
That he's in power for five years and can do what he likes without any control from those who voted him in is forgotten by the moron voters who put him there. That Parliament is the supreme law-making body in Britain, and could change things to oust the overpaid civillies, is not even touched upon. And I love the changes that Clegg is proposing; we'll give 'power to the people' - but it'll take at least a year. Yeah, Nick! We love you!
So: there it is. The world events that are getting populations hot under the collar. Kill me now, before the boredom does.
Self-Important Idiots
I have just looked at a reply posted by someone called The Social Drunk (at least he's honest), answering a question about making your blog more popular. TSD criticises the person's spelling and grammar, referring to it as 'writting'.
Enough said, or are some of you illiterates wondering what I'm on about?
Enough said, or are some of you illiterates wondering what I'm on about?
Friday, 28 May 2010
Endless Dross
I sometimes wonder if my posts are somehow attracting the nicey-nicies' blogs. I mean, really; all I can ever find are nice, humdrum morons.
Are you all so pleased with this meaningless world you live in? Do you want to achieve nothing in your lives except pay your bills, copulate, procreate, and die?
Don't you get it yet? There is nothing new. I am dazed with boredom by adverts for 'great new artists', excreting musical offerings that are poor copies of the best of the Sixties and Seventies. Everything original that was worth doing seems to have been done then; everything since is monotonous, soulless, or plagiarized.
CD, DVD, MP3 ... we have perfect memories, guys. Everything that's ever been done is there for us to see and hear. Can we do nothing except recombine all the old stuff? What is the point?
Are you all so pleased with this meaningless world you live in? Do you want to achieve nothing in your lives except pay your bills, copulate, procreate, and die?
Don't you get it yet? There is nothing new. I am dazed with boredom by adverts for 'great new artists', excreting musical offerings that are poor copies of the best of the Sixties and Seventies. Everything original that was worth doing seems to have been done then; everything since is monotonous, soulless, or plagiarized.
CD, DVD, MP3 ... we have perfect memories, guys. Everything that's ever been done is there for us to see and hear. Can we do nothing except recombine all the old stuff? What is the point?
Wednesday, 26 May 2010
When You Think You're About To Hit Bottom, They Lower It
Yeah, well ... just had a go on 'next blog' again ... if anything, the drivel is getting worse. Happy little stories of irrelevant people's lives, set down so their children can appreciate their parent's mediocrity. Celebrating a child's first steps - well, at least they can pretend they've achieved something in their pointless little life. And recipes for tomato dip, for God's sake.
The worst thing about seeing the world as it really is - hopeless, Godless, meaningless - is the clarity of vision it gives you. The world always looks better when you can't see it too well.
The worst thing about seeing the world as it really is - hopeless, Godless, meaningless - is the clarity of vision it gives you. The world always looks better when you can't see it too well.
Nothing New Under The Sun
When I have posted something immortal on my blog, I usually hit the 'next blog' button to see if anything will turn up that can interest me for more than half a second. What a waste of effort; the drivel I turn up usually doesn't even hold my attention for half a second.
Somebody told me about a Polish guy called Stanislaw Lem who wrote at least one science-fiction story describing the wealth of dross made available by connecting computers together. This was at least twenty years before the World Wide Web was invented.
Would be so nice if you blogheads could at least try to be original.
Somebody told me about a Polish guy called Stanislaw Lem who wrote at least one science-fiction story describing the wealth of dross made available by connecting computers together. This was at least twenty years before the World Wide Web was invented.
Would be so nice if you blogheads could at least try to be original.
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