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Go Absurd Number 14

Sponsors Message Not Enjoying Your Glorified Slavery? Go Absurd! Opening Absurdity Oh Mildred! You were born, weren’t you? I can’t tell I can tell nothing Quote of the Day “In many branches of eastern philosophy, the idea that there could be a singular precise description of reality, one that is objective and devoid of contradiction, is absurd” (Tim Dean) A Wise and Foolish Saying That Will Probably Never Be Said “To run is to truly walk” A Sometimes Cruel and Absurd World… A Man has had his penis cut off by his wife, after she tied him up and took a knife to his manhood. The severed penis was quickly put on ice so surgeons could attempt to reattach it. Chief Detective Jason Wank says there is no apparent motive at this stage   https://metro.co.uk/2019/09/11/wife-victoria-frabutt-tied-husband-cut-off-penis-10720938/ An Absurd Thought or A Thought From The Absurd? If the world wasn’t absurd it would be absurd... The Meaning...

Go Absurd Number 13

Sponsors Message Want to stick your middle finger up at the world while smiling? Yes?! Go Absurd! Opening Absurdity Now for a message of unhope – You need to… If only I hadn’t listened to Grandma John and his and her rendition of The Flight of The Go Snappy . Her hair was pink. His hair was of no colour. Give A Quote of the Day “Anyone who isn’t confused doesn’t really understand the situation.” (Edward R. Murrow) A Sometimes Cruel and Absurd World… An Australian teenager had her thumb amputated after a routine procedure went horribly wrong. After fracturing her thumb playing cricket she was sent to her local orthopaedic surgeon for a simple procedure. However, a tourniquet used to restrict blood flow during the operation was mistakenly left on and days later the teenager was in extreme agony; her thumb was dying. After the amputation her big toe was used to replace her thumb while a new big toe was created out of her hip bone. A flow on effe...

Go Absurd Number 12

Sponsors Message Sick and Frustrated with Modern Striving and its Banalities? Go Absurd! Opening Absurdity “Can you show me what you aren’t?” “That’s great when you show me who you aren’t!” Quote of the Day “The East has consulted flowers and renunciation. Our response? Machines and effort, and that galloping melancholy – the West’s last spasm.” (E.M. Cioran) An Absurd World… A father falls asleep on a train, his young daughter beside him. The father wakes up and she is missing. That was the scenario in 1997 for a very unlucky father and mother who were finally reunited recently with their missing daughter after 20 plus years without her. During those long years Yulia Gorina had been living with another family 500km away in Russia https://www.euronews.com/2019/09/05/woman-24-reunited-with-parents-more-than-two-decades-since-disappearing-on-a-train A Statistic That Probably Never Was or Will Ever Be… 80% of American men are circumcised and twice...

Go Absurd Number 11

Sponsors Message Hungry? Thirsty? Horny? Go Absurd! Opening Absurdity Bipartisan, buy parmesan, and grate the world into cheese before melting it on the castigated jury to contract a rare tropical disease off the coast of Ireland Quote of the Day “We can regard our life as a uselessly disturbing episode in the blissful repose of nothingness.” ( Arthur Schopenhauer ) An Absurd World… Warning, the following may be distressing to some viewers In July this year 2 German backpackers did the unthinkable on the steps of the Rialto Bridge in Venice… they made their own coffee on a travel cooker! Of course, for such a shocking crime, they were reported to the police by a passer-by and fined 950 Euros  "Venice must be respected and those impolite people who come here and do what they want must understand that. Thanks to the local police, they will be sanctioned and removed." (Venice Mayor, Luigi Brugnaro) https://www.bbc.com/news/world-euro...

Go Absurd Number 10

Sponsors Message Tired of life? Go Absurd! Opening Absurdity Never masturbate in long grass; it ruins your post-modern complexion If only the rocket scientist was a janitor… Poo Quote of the Day “The intelligent man finds almost everything ridiculous, the sensible man hardly anything.” (Johann Wolfgang von Goethe) An Absurd World… An Australian woman has taken her neighbours to the Supreme Court because of barbecue smells floating over to her backyard: “…all I can smell is fish…I can’t go out there.” She also complained about cigarette smoke and the sound of children playing basketball. “It’s been devastating, it’s been turmoil, it’s been unrest, I haven’t been able to sleep.” https://www.news.com.au/lifestyle/real-life/vegan-woman-demands-neighbour-stop-using-meat-on-barbecue-due-to-smell/news-story/722227ad0000e8cbf9ac8a0e8a554b95 Absurd Sign You Will Probably Never See…       ...

Go Absurd Number 9

Sponsors Message What to do when surrounded by absurdity? Go Absurd! Opening Absurdity About to orgasm? Fear not, it won’t last… The mango tree was ready for the inhabitants of every island in the world to juice themselves in the name of its glory by a fire in remote Canada beside a talking circus that emitted champagne and omitted to say anything. One woman wore blue shoes but they weren’t really blue. The man didn’t say that, he had a mango face instead Quote of the Day “How blessed with Absurdity are the artists who set fire to a beautiful work! Or the artists who could have made a beautiful work but deliberately made it ordinary! Or the great poets of Silence who, knowing they were capable of writing an absolutely perfect work, preferred to crown it with not ever writing it.” (Fernando Pessoa) A Sometimes Cruel and Absurd World… An Italian woman died earlier this year after receiving a nose job operation for her 21 st birthday. Complications occ...

Go Absurd Number 8

Sponsors Message Throw Absurdity back into the face of Absurdity! Go Absurd! Opening Absurdity “Throw it into the party juice”, all the mothers did not say, as they scampered up to fetch a pale of vinegar and water. But the Dad’s absconded from corporate reality and fetched it all instead. The horse was grey Quote of the Day “Accepting the absurdity of everything around us is one step, a necessary experience: it should not become a dead end. It arouses a revolt that can become fruitful”  (Albert Camus) An Absurd World… After spending more than 35 years in prison for stealing $50.75 from a bakery, Alvin Kennard, who was just 22 years old at the time of the robbery, is finally coming home. A previous minor crime combined with a hardline three strikes law in Alabama saw Kennard earn the life sentence. While others married, had children, ate ice-cream while strolling through a park, swam at the beach… Kennard was left in a cell for over 35 years to re...