More Stupidities

I really have to rename this the "Stupid Assholes Blog" and instead of posting regular posts just post something about something stupid someone or someones did today. Then again, if I were to do that I would be working so hard around the clock that I'd be in a hospital for cardiac exhaustion within a week. Easy.

What stupid thing did stupid assholes do today? Well, you see, there's this little thing they all get worked up about for absolutely no reason called the Olympics, see, when everyone could be out giving malaria pills to children in the Bantu rain forest, but nooooo, they have to build $19 billion stadiums that are used for two weeks and then lie rotting in the sun until they're torn down or used to host Monster-truck events.

But that just simply isn't a level of stupidity that satisfies them, apparently. About 40 years ago a bunch of young men went to an Olympic event to perform whatever it is these Olympians do, the poor saps, just expecting to have a good ol' time, win a couple of pieces of ribbon and medal and all go home patting each other on the back and then open a falafel shop.

But another group of stupid assholes, see, who are the stupidest kind this planet can produce, and Hot Damn it can produce some stupid people, went to the Olympics with the jolly old idea that they'd kill 11 people they didn't know just because they could.

And that's exactly what they did! They killed the falafel kids because there were a bunch of stupid Germans, see, who hadn't yet gotten over the stupidity of the Hitler regime (still haven't, as far as I'm concerned) who completely botched the rescue of the falafel guys and instead led them to their deaths trapped inside a helicopter where the second group of stupid guys  could just throw in a couple of grenades -- anything more complicated and they'd have fucked it all up, see?

And now, today, at the Stupid Olympics, the people in charge -- always the stupidest group of total microcephalic shrunken heads -- refused to hold a simple moment of silence for the dead falafel guys. Wouldn't have cost 'em much, these superbrains, to just say "Hey, stop the running, jumping, hurling and javelins up the asses and just hold still for one minute so we can remember a bunch of falafel guys who died forty years ago because they believed they could actually achieve something at these here Games for the Deaf, Dumb, Blind and Stupid."

Just for one fucking minute these fucking idiots could have just put everything on hold -- a simple "Yes" or a "No" was required by the superbrains -- but even with a fifty-fifty chance of being right they chose the wrong one!

It is a wonder I wake up every day and find myself alive. How on God's Green Earth has the human race survived to this point? It's the biggest mystery I've ever faced, far more mysterious than whether or not there is a God or is there a wall at the edge of the universe. Nope. Just how such a fucking losing dumbass species ever got to the top of the food chain.

That is a true and deep mystery.

Well, I'll hold a moment of silence for the falafel guys right here in this hotel room in Japan and maybe they'll hear it, wherever they are, the lucky bastards who no longer have to wake up every day to such blind stupidity.

Here's to your falafel shops that never were, guys! They would have kicked some ass.

Oddities

How odd that this blog, now that I'm in Japan, has the address .jp after it. How stupid, too.

In fact, I'm rapidly losing patience with humanity in general. I just have a couple of simple questions, which I'm sure you'll be only too happy to think about.

Number one, is as usual, always Number One: Why are people, as a rule, in general, individually or en masse, as small groups, as countries, as tribes, as families, as PEOPLE, so fucking stupid?

One continually, CONTINUALLY is bombarded about how remarkable the human brain is. Yes, indeed, it's true. In general, the human brain is a truly monumental creation of Creation, possibly the most supremely well-made, most complicated and truly miraculous object that has ever existed in what we like to call the universe, though what that might be might well be something completely different than what we like to call it.

But in so, so, so, so, many ways, the human brain is the ultimate expression, as far as anyone knows, of  the power of randomness to come together in such a remarkable and unique way as to be so astonishingly complex that even itself cannot comprehend how complex ITSELF is.

Therefore, I ask, plaintively, why are SO MANY PEOPLE, who are endowed with this incredible, awesome thing the creation of which dwarfs even the complexity of the entire universe as we understand it, SO FUCKING STUPID?

I'm so sorry, but in my 54 years of existence on planet earth, it has come to my attention that approximately 99.999999999 % of human beings are SO STUPID, so slow, so DUMB, so . . . the superlatives overwhelm me! I can't keep up! with how stupid we are as a species, individually or otherwise.

It is just as astonishing to me that we have even been able to get to this point of existence, if one counts the sheer uncountable deeds of stupidity that have generally marked the path of human progress to this point.

The chances AGAINST our getting this far are so numerous as to be be uncountable just by themselves.

So I'm just going to have to attribute it to just PLAIN DUMB LUCK. As my good friend Ironman points out, Schopenhauer called life "an unprofitable episode disturbing the blessed calm of nonexistence."

I for one am astonished to be here, in this sea of stupidity that I see surrounds me everywhere. I just got just plain FUCKING DUMB LUCKY, or just fucking plain DUMB UNLUCKY -- both are acceptable to me.

Here's a sample question as to the stupidity of people: Why has Apple turned around and become what Microsoft used to be? Here I am, trying to process a simple movie that I took with my camera not two hours ago, on my supposedly advanced laptop with the latest Apple OS, and what have they done? Taken the easiest-to-use piece of movie-editing software, iMovie, which five years ago was so simple and effective a gibbon could put in a "fade-in/fade-out" effect onto a simple movie so that it faded in at the beginning and faded out at the end SO DIFFICULT now that you need a degree in advanced filmmaking to perform.

How can Apple be SO FUCKING STUPID? It's because it's now become a consortium of the WORST MINDS that could all be assembled in one spot, so puffed-up with their own grandiosity that they just can no longer see past their eyebrows.

And so it goes. From the lowliest of the low to the finest minds that have ever existed, stupidity is one of the MOST CONSISTENT FACETS of humanity ever to be relied upon.

Take it from me -- that is NO JOKE.

The Space Shuttle: Whaaa . . .?

Remind me again what the Space Shuttle was all about. Remind me again what the International Space Station is all about. Remind me again why we had to send like, 150 men and women into space on incredibly risky missions, losing 17 of them in the process, (plus maybe countless others to overwork, stress, suicide, accidents).

What do we have to show for it? An already obsolete assembly of space junk orbiting the earth doing exactly . . . what? Can YOU name a single thing the Space Station is doing to benefit mankind RIGHT AT THIS MOMENT?

It isn't even half-completed and it's already a useless pile of junk. Remember Skylab? Mir? Didn't think so. Oh yeah, Velcro got invented! We got that from the space program, right? Nope. It was invented right here on earth. Advances in medicine!!! Yes, we know that mice can have sex upside-down.

Star Trek will always just be a television show. There'll never be a Mars mission and if there is they'll find a way to fuck it up. Twenty years of space shuttles and not even a T-shirt to show for it.

Getting Longer

Between posts. Can't seem to summon the energy, what with answering all the comments from all you nice folk out there. Who said blogs were dead? I'm beginning to feel this one is . . . no regular readers at all, it seems. Too bad, I was reading some of the old posts -- get a few beers in me and I could be funny as hell. I actually smoked some pot for the first time in many years yesterday and was reading back. Some of my old stuff was pretty hilarious, if I may say so myself. But no more beers for moi, so the urge to write doesn't come quite as arbitrarilily (is there an adverb-form for arbitrary? If there isn't, there should be) s it used to.

But blogs for the sake of blogs seem to have gone the way of the dodo, and I expect this one shall also.

Off to Japan for the millionth goddamn time on Thursday -- this time I have to actually stay two weeks, as my former wife has chosen to semi-kidnap my kid and won't let me take him out of Japan. Not a single thing I can do about it. So I have to stay at some dump in Nara and try to see him as much as she'll let me. He'll be 11 next month. It'll be the first birthday I won't have been present at.

But believe you me, my ex-wife will pay, in spades, for her insane behaviour. I'm a patient man and revenge will be mighty sweet when Taishi comes of age and moves permanently to Montreal. I'll try to make sure he never sees her sorry ass again for the rest of his life.

See, Flock, there ARE some things worth waiting for!

Finally! Someone Comes to Fix my TV

I've been waiting for almost two weeks with only one channel available on my TV -- as luck would have it, it's the Parliamentary Debate Channel -- but yesterday technicians finally came to take a look.

You can just see the repairmen there in the middle

It's a disgrace that it should have taken this long, but what're you gonna do. I'M going to look around for a new Cable provider, that's what I'M going to do, and I suggest you do the same!