Go Absurd

Quote of the Day “The infliction of cruelty with a good conscience is a delight to moralists. That is why they invented Hell.” (Bertrand Russell) Sponsor’s Message There’s Nothing Here, You Need A New Sponsor Another Quote… “Life is but a series of misunderstandings” (Denis Diderot, Jacques the Fatalist ) In The News… Recent Headline from The Sun … RACE ROW  White model Martina Big who identifies as black slams white people for ‘exploiting’ the black community https://www.thesun.co.uk/news/11944725/white-martina-big-identifies-black-slams-white-people/ A Wise and Foolish Saying That Will Probably Never Be Said Three in the hand is worth one in the mouth Book Title You Will Probably Never See… Swapping Love for love: A Medieval Discourse with Wings The Meaning of Life? Life Said No One, Probably Ever…. “The sun looks better when you drink rum and come…over the hills and far away.” A Statistic That Probab...

Quote of the Day “We are all of us in error, the humourists excepted. They alone have discerned, as though in jest, the inanity of all that is serious and even of all that is frivolous.” (E.M. Cioran) Sponsor’s Message “Overrated” “Waste of Space” “Pointless” Are just some of the things that have been whispered to the Sponsor who isn’t a Sponsor Another Excuse For A Quote… “A cup of coffee, a bit of tobacco whose aroma passes through me when I smoke it, my eyes half shut in a half-dark room – this, and my dreams, are all I want from life.” (Fernando Pessoa, The Book of Disquiet ) A Wise and Foolish Saying That Will Probably Never Be Said To not think is to think (you are thinking) Book Title You Will Probably Never See… Doth Cum Often? A Possibly Wise, Possibly Foolish Question… If there was no ocean, would there be an ocean? The Meaning of Life? Not found in words   Said No One, Probably Ever…. “Nice buck...

Quote of the Day “There ain’t no answer. There ain’t gonna be any answer. There never has been an answer. That’s the answer. (Gertrude Stein) Sponsor’s Message “I have always been attracted by lost causes, by individuals without a hope of success, whose follies I have espoused until I suffer from them almost as much as they do.” (E.M. Cioran) An Absurd World… A Belgian man has become increasingly anxious and sleep deprived over the last 9 years because he has been getting pizzas delivered to his door that he never ordered. This can occur at all hours, even 2am, and each time he has to turn them away. On one day, in January 2019, 10 different delivery men showed up at his door, one having 14 pizzas to give to him, which of course he refused. “I cannot sleep anymore. I start shaking every time I hear a scooter on the street. I dread that someone will come to drop off hot pizzas yet another time” https://www.brusselstimes.com/all-news/belgium-all-news...

Quote of the Day “…to exist is always stupid and banal.” (Fernando Pessoa) Sponsor’s Message Brought to you by the quoter of the day himself, let’s hear it for Fernando Pessoa!:   “…I hate what’s useful” Opening Absurdity No need to open what has already been let out many many many years ago, at the start of civilisation (and many would argue, well before…) The train has ears on a panda yo yo lar lar, stream of consciousness yadayadayada. Poo. “did you see it? What, now I’m answering my own question?”   Well, no, pop tarts An Absurd World… A 30-year old American woman has taken a hot pink sex toy to a Home Depot store to get it scanned to make a paint in the same colour to use in the adult shop she manages https://www.mirror.co.uk/news/weird-news/mum-takes-giant-sex-toy-22142790 A Wise and Foolish Saying That Will Probably Never Be Said… You’re one peanut short of an apple Book Title You Will Probably Never See… How ...